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[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | "Litch king! You will secede from your ill gotten empire of face your end!" The man yelled, drawing his sword and book as he entered the council chambers. "For we have conjured light magic beyond comprehension!"
Arieanna seethed in anger as she went for her sword. I lifted my hand to stop her. "Council, we'll reconven... | Rupert had a tattoo, long hair, and seemingly permanent eye liner. This made him the 'Bad Prince' in a society that was much too nice for it's own good. Everyone had their opinion on the him but he never payed them any mind. He figured he would resurrect the art of heavy metal and had been working for a few years to ge... | 2017-06-12T08:09:12 | 2017-06-12T04:15:26 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | So you're in line getting tacos, right, like you do every Friday for lunch. It's a beautiful day, the sun is out, not a cloud in the sky. Seventy-five degrees, light breeze, absolute perfection. You order *dos de pollo* in your shitty Spanglish, hand the man three bucks through the dingy frosted window, and pause a mom... | The room's runes glowed with such warding powers that the candles only served the purpose of spell ingredients. I paused the game, I was already at a pay point anyway having died multiple times because I needed the sword of Amecles to kill Hexigron and $3.99 was not in today's budget.
I made a step backwards in sho... | 2017-05-12T08:58:50 | 2017-05-12T07:44:27 | 1,714 | 81 |
[WP] "But I'm your direct descendant! Which means I'm fated to defeat you!" "Kid, I'm ten thousand years old. Everyone in the kingdom is my direct descendant. You're nothing special." | The lord sat atop his throne of gold, staring down at the boy before him with bored eyes.
In truth, the male before him was hardly just a boy. When speaking on the magnitude of millennia, though, a mere two and a half decades is easily child’s play.
Also, his throne was only plated gold. It was a facade,... | “Kid, do I seriously have to fight you? I’ve done this so many times that anything you could do, has already happened. Just go home. I’m sure your parents are worried about you.”
“Why would I go home? I’m an orphan with zero friends. I have no one.”
“Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry! Can I get you anything?”
“Yeah, your he... | 2022-08-18T17:13:33 | 2022-08-18T15:45:41 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] One day, your parents take you to a bird sanctuary, and you take interest in an old, black raven named Huginn that can supposedly talk. After almost an hour of trying to get it to talk with no success, you prepare to leave, but finally, Huginn looks at you and says “hangman’s coming” | It was hot at the zoo.
Alfie's cheeks had been flushed red and the collar of his shirt stuck to the back of his neck, making him uncomfortable, and irritable. His mother had wet a rag with water from a drinking fountain near the lion exhibit and dabbed at the back of his neck, but all that did was send droplets of wa... | "Did you hear him?" I ask, tugging my mom's sleeve.
"Dear, I don't think he can really talk," she says. "I think its just a story."
"No, he really spoke! Look, say it again Huginn!"
The weathered crow looks at my mother and I with clouded eyes and croaks, "Hangman's coming..."
"See mom?" I ask. "He really can talk!... | 2022-07-17T18:21:32 | 2022-07-17T17:45:47 | 137 | 40 |
[WP] A normal civilian is in a room with a super villain and a superhero, both posing as their secret identities. All three are watching the news report on the hero and villain's latest battle. Don't tell us who is who. | "Mr Righteous and Dr Evil were at it again earlier today. Destorying most of the downtown metropolitan area. Or what is left of if from their previous bouts..."
One of the men sighed. A normal looking chap, if but slightly on the skinny side, with brown hair which covered his eyes.
"Washing taking too long?"
The sec... | The three of us were at the pub after a long day at the office. The news was on T.V. and the report was about the destruction of New York city after the latest battle between good and evil took place.
"There really is a shocking amount of destruction Tom," The female reporter said "We are hearing from emergency crews... | 2016-05-05T11:51:50 | 2016-05-05T09:57:30 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | I walked deeper into the trees, damp hands clutching the side of my trousers, heart trying to thump its way through my chest. Although it was dark and I could barely see where I was stepping, I could sense the... thing. I wondered if this was how prey felt.
Something rustled behind me and I almost tripped over my own ... | A mysterious grove appeared in a rustic village near the sea. An outlaw ran into the grove thinking there's going to be some safe haven for him. That's the first story of the first guilty death that's passed down from mother to daughter. My name is Lucas , my life was fine and dandy being the mayor's heir. Then I just ... | 2021-03-16T14:17:43 | 2021-03-16T13:25:34 | 174 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone loves the new CEO of the Make-A-Wish foundation. Is it because of his strange blue skin? His propensity for bursting into song? His incredible Robin Williams impression? Either way, Gene E. Adalamp has truly changed the world. | "I don't understand Michelle, why is he so great?"
As the newest hire at the Make a Wish foundation, I could not wrap my head around why such an odd man was head of such a prestigious charity. Michelle has always been an inspiration to me, she started her own charity for at-risk kids when she was just 20. It grew to b... | A lot of people like to think there's a reason why we fall in love. Of course that phrase is generally reserved for relationships in which the two are bound together. What Gene helps show the world is that anyone could use their spark for the sake of contributing to the whole. While some accuse Mr. Adalamp, of actually... | 2019-11-06T14:59:28 | 2019-11-06T14:53:32 | 2,027 | 91 |
[WP] You are a dog whose owner has spiraled into a depression. You are his lifeline, the only thing he has left. You know you are a good boy, but maybe he needs to be told HE is a good boy. | It had gotten harder and harder to get Tom to play with me.
He was always an excellent alpha. He kept my water bowl clean, he filled my food dish with kibble, and he let me lick his bowl when he was done with dinner. For the past few weeks, that had been a real delight—sometimes there was a soggy bit of cereal left ... | Danny used to smile.
He used to throw me the ball and clap as I caught it between my teeth and ran back to him. Whenever he took the ball, he would ruffle my fur and laugh before throwing it again. Those are some of my favourite memories.
Now, all Danny does is play with his new friend. The new friend, who smells... | 2018-12-06T02:08:11 | 2018-12-06T01:59:27 | 93 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity discovers the reason aliens always seem to try and invade the United States. It turns out that the five pointed star is a symbol of unspeakable evil in galactic society. And the United States proudly displays fifty of them.
Credits to u/Hyranic | “What the hell is this?” growled the President of the United States, obviously annoyed at being woken up at this ungodly hour just to read a report.
“Sir, at 2352hrs Eastern Standard time, USAF intercepted and brought down an unidentified object over Dawson Springs, Kentucky,” answered the military general, his myriad... | First, they took out North Korea. Only problem was the South Koreans took their land back, so after that, they focused their attentions on China. And, of course, the ROC took their mainland back. So, they went East. And what did they find? The USA, flying their flag of 50 stars and 13 stripes. For some reason, they ign... | 2022-07-26T12:15:32 | 2022-07-26T08:27:29 | 439 | 38 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | They call it Wake-Aid, a simple chemical cocktail in pill form that will give you eight more productive hours each day. Who has time for sleep anymore? There’s no reason to waste a third of your day when you could be out at a party, playing with your kids, or racing up that corporate ladder! No harmful side-effects fou... | It's... 3:14 am. I'm tired. So tired. Wish that I wasn't tired. But I can't sleep lately. My GP has diagnosed me with insomnia - a rare disease these days. I snap on the television, see if I can't be lulled by the babble of late night jewellery sales. Ah, but no - that was before. It's primetime now - it's always prime... | 2016-08-30T10:03:03 | 2016-08-30T09:51:36 | 949 | 28 |
[WP] After being hunted to extinction, the last Orc has been found at the edge of the world... | "There is no where left to run, pig!"
 
The Orc breathed heavily, weary from the hunt. Sweat was pouring off of him, the scorching sun robbing him of whatever moisture remained in his body. He took a battle stance, both hands gripping the shaft of his crudely made iron axe. Despite its ramshackle crafts... | Garland stopped when he saw it, huddled in the damp, the rain seeping through his paltry shelter. His sword, glowing blue, cast a dull shadow across the Orc. He gripped it tighter, ready to end it - ready to finally purge the world of its sickness.
He expected it to fight. It was trapped in its home, and a cornered a... | 2017-01-18T10:37:16 | 2017-01-18T07:42:09 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] When people reach the age of 18, they are chosen by a guardian spirit, usually a character from a story, such as Heracles, or Robin Hood. On your 18th birthday, you learn that you've been chosen by the final boss of an MMO. | The date was going well. No interruptions. No unwanted advice. No talk of rape or murder or enslavement of the girl, her kin, and all of humanity.
It was a thing to be grateful for. The calm. The normalcy. The solitude of having ones own thoughts to manage, uncorrupted and unburdened by the perversion of his ... | "Hey, Brian?" You walked up to the bully who had made your life miserable, your knees wobbling beneath your skinny torso. Thousands of dollars of lunch money, a copious amount of bruises, and years of therapy had all led up to this moment. It was graduation day, and you were finally off to college where you would never... | 2017-04-30T15:09:24 | 2017-04-30T13:34:57 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] Both a Knight and a Dragon tell the same story to their children before they sleep. The moral is different. | "I want to tell you a story," Baremethus, the Blood-Scaled Dragon told his daughter, Aria.
He curled his massive tail around her and nuzzled her nose. She spat back a puff of smoke, reminding him that she was no longer a child. Already, she was fifteen and everyday she didn't act out against him, he took it as a win.... | "Come children, gather to me, I shall tell you the story of Embertooth and the selfless knight of Sladoshire." The mummer called standing ontop of his willow stage, decorated in bright red cloth and a rather passable attempt at a coat of arms. All the less, children gathered from all over, some in fine silk, others in ... | 2017-05-13T20:41:52 | 2017-05-13T17:31:46 | 163 | 12 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | "Please, Gil, we need you to become Graviton again. Ares is out and-," The woman, dressed in a floral suit-dress was standing inside the cell with the man who was lazily floating in the air.
"Using weapons that have been outlawed by NATO or whatever for blah blah blah years. He's making unreasonable demands, shocking!... |
“Look at all of you, sitting here, begging me to come to your aid. I’ve come to your aid countless times these last years, and because people were afraid, or hateful, or biased, or stupid, you decided I belonged in here. That decision meant that you felt you were capable of handling ANY crisis without me. So I’m af... | 2021-03-18T12:59:11 | 2021-03-18T11:56:24 | 303 | 203 |
[WP] When two people stand close together, you have the ability to see a Compatibility Score between them that you can break down into categories. You are the most sought after Marriage Counselor ever. One day an elderly couple visit you and their Score is 0 despite being together for over 50 years. | "Mr. & Mrs. Robinson?"
An older couple stood up in the reception room and began walking towards me, both beaming friendly smiles at me. I couldn't help wondering what might bring them to me as they seemed cheerful enough; usually people seem anxious before their first counseling session, if for no reason other than... | I stood there awestruck. How did they last this long? I didn’t think this would be possible. Not wanting to be the bearer of bad news, I force a tight smile on my face and say,” Well, your relationship is very peculiar.” The woman says in response,”In what way?”, her voice more questioning than worried.
“I don’t know ... | 2019-09-03T16:59:16 | 2019-09-03T16:00:57 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] You prayed every night for the chance to date either a Goddess or Demon Queen. After 100 prayers, you're startled when a loud voice booms out, "Granted, mortal! Now shut up and live with the consequences! " | *"Dear Graze, Shana, Maria and the 99 Goddesses of this land, hear my holy prayer. Grant my wish and honor to date one of thy gracious deities."*
*"Blood and Skulls. Wolfs bane and Black Rose. With these sacrifices of the Earth, I ask any of the Queens of the 9 Circles to bequeath me with a romantic outing."*
Every n... | I learnt from a very young age that there are two kinds of people in this world.
The first are those who were born to live in it, those who since they were only a few days old would clap their hands and laugh and all others would clap their hands in kind at the mere cherubic act of innocent expression.
They were thos... | 2020-10-03T05:59:55 | 2020-10-03T04:27:24 | 378 | 81 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | It was supposed to be a simple task. Deliver the Intergalactic Council's rejection message, destroy the human's primary starbase, and return home victorious. Thus far, they'd only succeeded on the first goal, and even then just barely.
Despite the humans' limited technology, it had been decided to send a message by ... | Svedbar grasped the arm of his favorite discussion partner Chiztet and led her to the counsel chambers to discuss what was just presented. The humans finally laid proposition to the counsel to join the galactic treatise.
“That human removed its exo-skeleton.” Svedbar said. “I didn’t think it was possible for them.”
C... | 2021-02-04T10:09:41 | 2021-02-04T08:48:14 | 350 | 144 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | “All in favour of sparing her life, step forward!”
I looked around the village square, but no one moved a muscle. The seconds rolled by, and the hope I held in my heart crumbled, only to be replaced by a sharp tang of bitterness, resentment. There was Peter, whose fever had yielded to her medicine, but he kept his eye... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T11:57:05 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 2,008 | 25 |
[WP] Mankind has succesfully deleted every trace of the year 2016. You, a historian in the year 2416 begin to wonder why there are no records of the year 2016 ever happening. When you begin to investigate, what you uncover, sends chills down your spine. | Asterion Muhammad Yiannopoulos IV, last of his line, Long May He Reign, rolls over in his nutrient bath, his spinal jack providing the sensations of a hundred kitten tongues lapping over his chocolate-brown skin. He orgasms with a grunt. His empire is arrayed before him, and a prickling worm has come grovelling at the ... | People go missing all the time. The day comes they wake up with the knowledge that their existence amounts to exactly zero. They keep it to themselves. They cultivate it, make the flower of their new awareness. Then one day they walk out of their lives. No dramatic exit and nothing special to let their loved ones know ... | 2016-10-16T21:28:19 | 2016-10-16T20:37:53 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] A paranoid schizophrenic man thinks he's keeping a personal daily diary but for some reason people keep approaching him with intimate knowledge of the contents and telling him how much they love his work. | “Oh my God, Patient 01111-7? I’m like, your biggest fan, no way!” The girl squeals, really, positively squeals in a way no woman ever has at seeing me. “That thing you wrote about the nurse you saw through your cell bars? It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read. How did that one line go? *‘Her hair like the lowe... | My therapist told that I should keep a journal. When I asked her what I should write in it, she told me that I could write whatever I wanted.
Secrets. Things no one knows about me. Stories I can't tell people because they make no sense and make me cry writing.
She told me that no one, not even her, would be able to re... | 2021-04-21T08:42:09 | 2021-04-21T07:47:01 | 169 | 65 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | “Dad?”
“Yes, Christie?”
“Tony says that Velocity is bad because he never helps people.”
Jalek sighed. When he’d volunteered to be one of the chaperones for the school field trip to Velocity Hall, he’d anticipated getting pelted with accusations like this — though he hadn’t been expecting it from his own daughter. He... | Arin groaned as she walked into her living room from her bedroom. She had just woken up from a much needed rest. After the day she had yesterday she just knew today was going to have some toll on her. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she sat down on the floor. She didn’t want to get too close to anything met... | 2018-08-19T06:49:51 | 2018-08-19T04:31:16 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] "That's odd," it says while drumming its fingers. "You should be screaming. All of our data says that you should be screaming right now." It pauses, and its soulless eyes stare into you. "Why aren't you screaming?" | My mouth opens and closes and opens again. My eyes roll in my head and my muscles tense and spasm. But it’s right: I’m not screaming.
It pokes me as though somewhere on my body there is a button to make me scream. The poking excites the skin to bursting, making it one of many bruised areas which have been fully conver... | It took me a long time to formulate my response. It took me much longer than it took for my daughter to melt away in front of me.
I should have screamed, but I didn’t. To be honest, I was oddly calm. To be very honest, I was thinking about the last time I myself had melted.
My memory of melting, of course, was much l... | 2018-10-02T21:58:35 | 2018-10-02T19:47:48 | 18 | 12 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | "But... but I have fangs! I can drain your blood!" The monster said, bearing his fangs and hissing in what he probably thought was a menacing way.
"Yeah, and the guy that tried to mug me last week had a knife. That also could drain my blood."
I kept walking down the dark path, hands jammed into my jacket pockets for... | Why would I be scared of death ? I've been dead before... Twice... I'm totally over it. Actually you should be scared, taking on a former special forces operator that has nothing to lose... You can strike me, but I'll have my revenge... You know what they say about revenge. You better be ready to dig two graves... I'... | 2022-06-08T11:23:16 | 2022-06-08T05:05:56 | 588 | 17 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | The folklore of my people is old and weathered, been beaten from years of antiquity, and eaten up by the bigger stories of the bigger people. But the lore remains, as it does, hanging from the threads of wonder, and sometimes truth.
To say I have seen the truth will get me called a liar. And perhaps my eyes do lie, a... | The warning was clear: if you break any of the rules, you die. Lucy left the house before dawn once to gather stream water, and she never came back. We never even found a body. Alex forgot to turn the light off in his room one night before he fell asleep, and we found him in the morning; drained from within, barely a h... | 2018-04-18T07:47:00 | 2018-04-18T07:40:08 | 769 | 250 |
[WP] "This is your captain speaking. I'm afraid we're going to be on the tarmac a little longer - this plane is now under quarantine." | "What does he mean *quarantine?*" huffed the elderly lady next to me, her voice high in indignant exasperation. "We've already been on the ground for four hours - *four hours!* - well, I've had enough. I want to go home. I'll be putting in a complaint! Just you wait and see if I don't."
"Try not to worry - it's most ... | The announcement seemed to echo throughout the cabin. The worried and annoyed voices of the awaiting passengers all fell into silence at once. The silence was interrupted only by the crying baby most had been complaining about just moments earlier.
Perhaps the captain didn't have a decent knowledge of human nature, a... | 2017-06-13T08:11:50 | 2017-06-13T07:36:43 | 248 | 29 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | Jeeeeeesus, check out that pathetic 'Mario' on the other side of the road. Running, jumping, and 'Wa-hoooo-ing' like a madman as he makes his way down the street... what an amateur.
I don't mean to brag, it's just that I kinda lucked out when the super power lottery was being handed out. By my count there are a couple... | So... I'm a girl..
Shocker I know alright? I mean allot of people are what I am. You just wouldn't be able to tell just by looking at me. I mean I still got some female parts,not that those were ever big and noticeable to begin with but at least they didn't disappear like most of my hair did. I got reddish eyes now t... | 2020-01-05T14:51:34 | 2019-08-11T22:54:51 | 1,516 | 18 |
[WP] You are the first parent to allow your unborn child to be genetically engineered to gain a higher IQ. Everything's great, until they reach the age of 13. That's when the side effects kick in. |
“Now he’s started eating paste.”
Dr. Lawsen looked up from her computer, and stopped typing. This was the third time in a month that the Jones’ had been to see her. The first visit had been prompted by an episode in which their son, Bobby, had spent a week tripping over all the coffee tables in their house. At th... | the side effect kickd in and the boy had effect which made him grow shorter until he was 2 inch tall and was then step on by man which killed him but when he was squished he made a device which made humans coime back to life so he servived and lived happy ever after | 2015-07-16T08:54:34 | 2015-07-16T07:36:22 | 52 | 15 |
[WP] You’re a hitman who’s “hits” survive your assassination attempts, despite your sincere best efforts, only to die soon after each attempt by comical forces outside your control. The hitman community can’t be convinced you’re not the most creative comically effective assassin alive. | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Part 7: Tupperman v.s. Slapstick)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**After a long day of wrangling actually competent superheroes and villains, I just wanted a return to normalcy.** So... | My name is Morton Montoni. They call me The Clown. You'll see why in a minute. I have a problem. Some mook keeps getting credit for my hits. I've killed 23 people just since last August. I ain't got paid a penny, and I'm getting pissed.
There was Fat Mikey McElvaney - not a made guy because, well it's obvious from hi... | 2021-12-27T10:40:51 | 2021-04-04T15:34:05 | 243 | 19 |
[WP] Dragons are extinct in the wild, but the royal house still has a brood pair that has had a clutch every twenty-one years for several centuries. Each hatchling imprints on a member of the royal bloodline; and only on royals. When the latest clutch hatched, the littlest one chose you. A commoner. | I stepped back, scared.
Eight-hundred pounds of dragon stood in front of me, head lowered to look me in the eyes. Her eyes sparkled like tanzanite gems, her scales were white as snow. I had never seen a white dragon before.
The members of the royal family only came out of the castle once a year, always with their dra... | ***Taken from Scribe Roluas' Records***
The year is 1543, in the name of our Goddess and Protector, Hylia, in the Year of the Three, and ever since two years ago, after the defeat of Calamity, the Kingdom of Hyrule has prospered.
For record keeping purposes, the date today, is Faroresday, the 12th, of the year 154... | 2019-01-12T21:05:02 | 2019-01-12T20:38:45 | 132 | 11 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | **The Third Book of Revelations, or, When The Angels Fell**
When God sent his Angels to earth in 2023, it was not heralded by heavenly choirs nor celebrations across the globe. It was a terrible awakening as rotting, winged corpses the height of two men fell from the sky. In the days that followed, the living followed... | The Shepherd hadn't strayed more than a dozen miles from his home in all 54 years of his life. He had learned his trade from his father, as his father had learned from his father before him. He knew the winds and clouds that swept over the Moorlands better than any other... he knew which wisps in the sky portended fai... | 2016-07-19T07:49:43 | 2016-07-19T07:36:46 | 751 | 10 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Eduardo and Sarah had come to visit me at the old office. I hadn’t got a chance to see them since he got his big promotion and moved out to the East Coast office. “Stroke” and “Stomach Cancer” still spelled out in wisps over their heads. This time they brought the new addition to the family, Devon, who himself had an e... | "Hi Sally" i said to my secretary as I entered my office.
"Mornin Mr King" she replied seemingly chipper as always, the large word suicide in bold red above her head seemed dimmer today. Maybe it was just me.
I see signs of how people die. Literal worded signs. Floating over their head and all.
If I told anyone they... | 2015-03-31T12:59:24 | 2015-03-31T10:08:20 | 19 | 11 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Look, Matty the Mad is acting strange again," I said, elbowing my friend Flint as we walked past her shack on our way home. The elderly woman was busy shoveling dirt over a hole, either unaware or unconcerned about her dirt-stained frock.
"I say, what're you up to, Matty?" he called.
She straightened and glared at u... | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | 2017-09-14T11:40:58 | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 3,641 | 120 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Execution day again. It took a full moon cycle for the kingdom’s mages to fuel the sphere of sentencing. But once it was charged, it would grant its prisoner their choice of death. Ten sentences would be carried out today before it ran out of power. Some nations gave their condemned a final meal, a last smoke, or a gla... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T11:17:25 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] Following a chosen deity has real world benefits, much like perks in a videogame. The more obscure gods offer more interesting gifts to those that find them. | John woke with a raging headache. Some gods didn't appreciate followers converting so immediately. Lugh was no exception, but there have been worse. He stood unsteadily reminding himself this was the case, hoping for the temporary pseudo reprieve this reminder would offer. It'd be nothing like the real stuff Alaunus of... | "The name of your god... is Bobo?"
I nodded, clicking my finger against the tabletop, waiting on the waitress to bring me my coffee. My contact had asked to meet me hear, after reading the circulating rumors about my Lord and Savior. Of course, he didn't know the half of it. For every truth spilled on forums and posts... | 2016-01-26T20:46:04 | 2016-01-26T20:37:42 | 108 | 78 |
[WP] You've been a survivor in a zombie apocalypse for years and just got bitten and turned. Now you realized that being a zombie is actually a massive improvement and you're trying to find out how to tell your friends without then killing you | His last bullet slid smoothly into the chamber as though Melvin hadn't hidden the gun under the sagging floorboards for two years.
He breathed out as he let himself slide down the wall of the failing shack. He repositioned himself realizing he'd have to use his left hand to do the deed. The pain emanating from the man... | His left bent at an odd angle, dragging behind him as he shuffled. He growled lowly, eyes burrowing into the survivors. His hands protruded from the bars, bashing his body against the metal.
The men and women formed a funeral pyre. Adorned in black, they stood in a circle holding hands, swapping stories of their falle... | 2021-05-26T23:00:22 | 2021-05-26T21:07:33 | 78 | 15 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | *Look. This is your first time, is it?*
**Silence, Mortal.**
*No, I'm serious. Being a disembodied soul really seems to broaden the perspective. I can see you struggling with my body. Exhale, by the way. You need to do that so you can inhale again. That's right, just... blow. Now inhale... And exhale... Good. Is this... | The man just let me take over completely. The lust was upon me, the blood-rage roaring in my ears, claws extended in both dimensions, pulling, rending, scraping... Only then when it was too late did I realise something was wrong. My victims had never reacted like this before, in all the millennia.
'Good luck,' the man... | 2020-12-21T12:27:17 | 2020-12-21T12:05:54 | 245 | 138 |
[WP] All Humans have a Sword they are born with, Every year on your birthday, your sword gets more detailed and powerful. You, are born with a Gun. | So, I was born with a Squirt... thing. And people laughed about it, because it was adorable, riduclous, and instead of the simple rubber stick that most people had, I had a freaking blunt... Thing. That sprayed water when you squeezed it. Definitely not the most glorious start.
Of course, like all Soul Weapons, be the... | Screams of terror surfaced from the streets, these screams a familiar friend. I used to think of what it would have been like being normal: cutting people a little in my early years; trying the hero gig before realising I should just be an account...maybe even settling down.
But no. Not for me. I can't be normal. Ever... | 2020-10-22T10:33:11 | 2020-10-22T08:46:25 | 147 | 73 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | So... I'm a girl..
Shocker I know alright? I mean allot of people are what I am. You just wouldn't be able to tell just by looking at me. I mean I still got some female parts,not that those were ever big and noticeable to begin with but at least they didn't disappear like most of my hair did. I got reddish eyes now t... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-11T22:54:51 | 1,281 | 18 |
[WP] After getting to the end of your quest, the treasure room merely contained a sign reading "The treasure was the friends you made along the way." Looking around, you notice for the first time that your "friends" are just crudely cobbled-together golems made out of valuable items. | I wanted to punch the rocks off the walls of the little room in my fit of anger. Muttering expletives under my breath, I read the crinkly old note again:
"**The treasure was the friends you made along the way.**"
A joke, that's what this was. A sick joke. I was a fool to believe in the myth of the hunt. An idiot that... | I had come all this way for a sign? "Help me find some secret hatch, Harry" I said as I started to feel the walls....but as I looked back, I realized for the first time that all my friends are made of junk I found on the road. Had I been this delusional to think they were people? How did I manage to carry five giant ho... | 2019-10-30T20:26:22 | 2019-10-30T19:14:08 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | Maya expected an otter, or maybe a cat. Lots of people got those on their 18th birthday. She secretly hoped for something more obscure, like Will Cougan. Will lived down the road from her and around the blue fence, and when they were younger he had teased her quite a lot while they were waiting for the school bus. Last... | Today is my 18th birthday, it is a very special occasion as we have reached maturity in the eye's of Galfena and we are to receive a gift from her that will help tell the world our personality, and decide our status in the village.
It's regarded as a big event in a persons life because it helps decide who we are. Some... | 2014-09-28T11:15:34 | 2014-09-28T08:18:33 | 87 | 15 |
[WP] You are Patient Zero of a virus that replaces the victim's mind with a psychic link to your own. A viral hivemind with you at the center. | "That dress looks hideous," whispered a woman.
"She's out drinking again, I just know it!" yelled a man.
"I think my favorite color is blue, but maybe it's pink today," mused a young girl.
I felt myself chuckling as I sat, cross-legged, on the bed in my cell. I always enjoyed hearing the last independent thoughts of... | It started as it usually does, with a sniffle and a cough. We both knew that meant everyone in the family would get sick, it always seemed that if one of us caught something all of us did.
It ended with me seeing myself from three new perspectives. I screamed. They screamed. I wept. They wept. But try as i might, i co... | 2017-11-05T15:14:13 | 2017-11-05T15:05:34 | 80 | 28 |
[WP] You lived a quiet life, and in passing Death comes to collect your soul, but Death seems afraid of you. | **T**he rain pelted against the window like a soft lullaby, causing the light from the city to distort as it entered the hospital room window. Despite the late hour, she stared out the window contentedly, listening to the muted sounds of traffic and the rain. She had always enjoyed listening to the sounds of life, obse... | "Er, Hi.. I'm, um, 'Death.' You... probably think that's a corny name..."
"Are you *the* death? Come to collect my soul?"
"Yes, I... I guess you could say that. Heh..."
"If you don't mind my saying so, you seem afraid of me."
"WELL TOTELLYOUTHETRUTH... um... maybe I am, a little..."
"Buy why? I've lived a quie... | 2015-04-02T15:47:43 | 2015-04-02T15:38:14 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | "With all due respect Ambassador, we are underestimating the Humans".
There. I said it. A career ending sentence. A diplomatic functionary of the Fourth Resource is only permitted into meetings merely to attend to more senior entities. That's all. To speak in anything other than a hushed whisper is unthinkable. To add... | [Poem]
Click, clack, click.
All the machines roar,
Click, clack, click.
For this total war.
Click, clack, click.
Industry cannibalized,
Click, clack, click.
To create their demise.
Click, clack, click.
All of humanity knows,
Click, clack, click.
The others don’t though.
Click, clack, click.
Bombs manufactured,
... | 2019-11-24T16:08:56 | 2019-11-24T10:43:55 | 98 | 66 |
[WP] You are an office worker in NYC in the year of 1999. You go for a cigarette break, but the elevator stops working and you get trapped in it for 2h. As the doors finally open, you walk out and see a brand new lobby, people holding thin digital cards and big screen TV's. It's the year 2018. | Aaron sat back against the elevator wall, letting the tobacco fill his lungs. He supposed he should have been nervous. Most people in this situation probably would have been, especially given that he didn’t have his watch on him. How long had he been trapped in here? Had to have been an hour at least.
He gave a soft... | It was an accident like any other and things like these always happened. Humbert waited patiently as he smoked his cigarette, and without needing to see, he blew out rings of smoke in the darkness, knowing that there was enough oxygen in the elevator to avoid suffocation.
​
Sure enough, the elevator opened... | 2018-11-25T06:35:36 | 2018-11-25T05:12:30 | 57 | 38 |
[WP] When you ask your daughter what she wants for Christmas, she asks for a unicorn. Your wife laughs it off, but you don't. Neither your wife or daughter know that you're the best monster trapper in the world, and your daughter is getting her unicorn no matter what. | "What do you want for Christmas Cupcake?" I asked.
She twisted her foot, how cute. I knew the answer of course, I had paid attention. She was absolutely enamored with unicorns, she's been drawing them for months, and has read every book in the library on the subject. Her pre-k teacher was amazed that she was powering ... | I hate catching monsters. The work is grueling and dangerous, plus the job gets no respect, but it pays damn well and I'm good at it. So when my daughter stood there, begging me for another Unicorn, I thought, "No. Not again."
My wife began to giggle. "Now Britney, you already have two sweetheart. Are you sure you re... | 2018-12-07T17:57:45 | 2018-12-07T17:22:38 | 92 | 10 |
[WP] In a world where lying doesn't exist, you are the worst supervillain: Technically True Man. | The world knows one thing about “Technically True Man.”
They don’t know my face, my skin color, my eyes, my voice, my country, my goals nothing. Except the name I’ve been given. “Technically True Man.” The newscasters joked that at least they had narrowed down the suspects to 1.55 billion people.
They were looking at... | It was simple, really. It didn’t take much. I didn’t even need a mask or a cape. I didn’t even need a plan really.
I turned the corner on 72nd street, headed right towards the bank. I wore, not a bandana or mask, just normal street clothes.
I stepped through the large glass doors and into the even larger room. I wa... | 2018-10-23T06:44:31 | 2018-10-23T06:08:12 | 2,644 | 133 |
[WP] All your life you slaved in the mines, hauling the black rocks to your master. You hear the masters mad laugh, "Ho Ho Ho!", he demands more rocks.
Wonder what he does with them all, but best not asking, or he will call you 'naughty' and punish you. | Claus gave a hearty chuckle as he slammed the cage door shut in my face, and a chorus of giggling reindeer answered him. Behind them, I could see the faces of the elves staring helpless from their frosty workshop windows. None of them dared speak up against Santa's oppression; they were only one step up from those of u... | I ducked under the low overhang into the cramped tunnel beyond. I glanced behind me, checking for any sign of one of the Nutcrackers. It was all clear. The wooden bastards were too tall and stiff to squeeze into the little side tunnel, so once I was in, I would be able to rest peacefully. I leaned my pick up agains... | 2015-12-16T13:28:14 | 2015-12-16T10:08:57 | 674 | 52 |
[WP] Earth is the galaxy's 'Grave of Empires'. Countless aliens invaded it and tried to dominate humanity. Every single one of them failed, paying massive prices... | Take heed.
Beyond this gate lies the Graveyard of Empires. There is no return. There shall be no return gate constructed. So says The Tranqil Order. So said The Unified. So said The Council of Nine. So said The Eternal Locus. And so shall say the body of peace which succeeds after your conquest is at an end.
This mig... | \- Listen young Florb. I don't want you to fly away to that Brath forsaken planet.
\- But Womb-haver! I really want to go! All my uncles went when they were my age.
\- Yes well look at them now, all neatly skewered with 10 feet poles through their skull back on Earth. You Florbs are all the same. You're cute when yo... | 2022-12-11T19:16:51 | 2022-12-11T12:16:31 | 400 | 68 |
[WP] It’s a lighthearted adventure to save the world from the Dark Lord, but the main hero is WAY too serious and it’s really unnerving everyone else. | “Now that I have you, there’s no escaping my clutches, Princess Sparkle.”
The Dark Lord Malforce laughed. Menacingly.
The Princess was helpless, chained at the top of the Dark Lord’s ingenious Death Mountain Murder Machine. The device rose thirty feet into the air, a whirling nightmare of blades, cogs, bladed cogs, ... | Although he was the”chosen one”, Doug really started to hate the guy that now led the party across the mountain path. The “chosen one” real name was Mark and like all heroes, he thought he was chosen by the prophecy to save the world from darkness. That the prophecy was written on a wet napkin by the town drunkard did... | 2018-01-29T08:28:40 | 2018-01-29T07:56:00 | 64 | 17 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | *Dear John,*
*Know first that I love you, more than anything else. I do so wish this letter would find you well, but I know how hard these next few weeks, months, and even years will be.*
*Yes, I knew what would happen during labor with our daughter. And no, you don't get to say 'I told you so,' you morbid old geezer... | The same eyes search mine
As I have seen before
The same first steps
She grabs the wall and pulls herself up
Triumphant
(again)
The baby clothes I had preserved
Had I known
I would again be a mother
To my Again daughter
Could
Would I
Have been better prepared?
My chance to do it all
Over
My Agai... | 2016-01-25T12:11:49 | 2016-01-25T07:47:30 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every person develops a magical power. Yours is the power to fluently read and speak every language in the universe. At first you thought the had the worst power on earth, that was until you you realise that the universe has it's own language.
Sorry for the double you, my bad | It was supposed to be exciting. Jamie wanted flames that poured from his hands or strength that could knock down walls. After years of being mediocre, turning 18 was his time to shine. Instead, he got...languages? It was stupid. His power was supposed to be a reflection of who he was. Jamie had failed Spanish not just... | *Jacob woke up in the morning; he was happy for once, it was his birthday. His 18th birthday to be exact, and his gift was something a little... unexpected...*
“What the actual fuck-“
(Insert obnoxious moaning here)
“DAVID! ARE YOU JACKING OFF WITHOUT HEADPHONES AGAIN?”
“Son of a bitch I’m gonna-“
“HEY! We’re in t... | 2019-12-22T11:07:03 | 2019-12-22T10:37:25 | 112 | 36 |
[WP] It’s been 2 years since the zombie apocalypse has started, and you haven’t seen anyone alive in a terribly long time. The only reason for your survival is that the zombies don’t care for you at all - in fact they all seem to be avoiding you. All except for one. | He's hunting me, I'm sure of it. But I don't know why. And he never actually approaches closer than a few dozen paces, always hanging back at the periphery of my awareness. Last night I saw him through my binoculars as I scavenged for preserved food in an open-air market, skulking behind stalls and the big pavilion's c... | I opened my little notebook and looked for other symbol that I noticed at the entrance of the city. I have been doing characoal drawings long before epidemic started. That symbol reminded my one of my old drawings, Mr.Owl which I drew when I was in high school.
The building that I’m standing in front of it has the sam... | 2019-05-26T06:46:40 | 2019-05-26T06:45:44 | 292 | 36 |
[WP] A wizard watches a stage magician perform, trying like hell to figure out how he's doing what he's doing while clearly not possessing any magic. | “Ladies and Gentlemen, please put your hands together for our next act. Let his magic astound you! His powers of illusion mystify you! Pleeeeaaassseee welcome Malcon the Magnificent!!” the voice coming out the speakers rang out.
There was a smattering of applause around the venue. Harold though, was unimpressed by the... | "He must be extremely powerful, to harness and be in control of his powers at such a young age," Barzle remarked, nodding at the stage as a nine-year-old boy walked on stage, his face shining and bright red as he took in the audience before him.
Aurelius nodded in agreement. "I wonder what he's discovered on his own s... | 2022-03-18T22:36:50 | 2022-03-18T22:26:24 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Cancer has won and you are left with a brittle body. You can feel the end, and you’re somehow OK with it. As you are about to die, a man bursts into your room, and hurriedly whispered into your ears, “I need to send a message so listen closely. When you meet God, tell Him His Sister is coming.” | The last thing I remember about mortality was the hoarse whisper in my ears. The surreal nature of the statement made me wonder if I was already dead. I started to feel myself rising through the air gently but at a smooth pace. I couldn’t see in the conventional sense; the mortal sense. But I could feel everything arou... | I heard the words, but they had little meaning now. I was drifting into the pain, it’s webs and tendrils snaking into every orifice of my conscience. Cancer had left me nothing, and as my lungs failed to open, and my eyes closed, I heard them again, the words from our ritual prayer said over all the dying, spat out l... | 2022-05-01T14:07:39 | 2022-05-01T09:42:41 | 62 | 37 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | “That’s not what the book says!” Johnny, the class smart aleck, interjected.
The rest of the class giggled. They all thought Mr. Yockie was full of shit.
Mr. Yockie cringed as he thought to himself, “I know it’s not what the book says you little shit burglar. That’s cause the fucking book is wrong...”
But he didn’t ... | **PART ONE**
***
*High School students sit at wooden desks under fluorescent lighting on a fall day. They patiently await their new teacher, who unbeknownst to them, has been alive for just over half a millennia. A middle-aged man enters the room with a gruesomely noticeable scar that circles three quarters the circu... | 2015-04-14T16:35:59 | 2015-04-14T14:32:31 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] The warrior princess is worried that her battle scars would make her unfit for marriage. The prince of the kingdom she was attacking, however, vehemently disagrees. | Laila’s sword clashed against another guard’s right before she surprised him by turning swiftly and tripping him with her leg. She stood over him and could see the terror in his face, the sweat in his brow. *Just as it should be* she thought as she finished him off with her blade.
This was the third kingdom she’s atta... | The summit is held every ten years since time immemorial. Despite it being meant for the purpose of bringing the warring kingdoms together, it often reaps more discord than whatever peace is sown. In the face of the calamity from ages past, the kingdoms allied together to survive and so the tradition of the summit came... | 2021-04-19T10:39:42 | 2021-04-19T10:08:31 | 123 | 11 |
[WP] You are a master kidnapper, who was just kidnapped. Luckily you are in a hands of an amateur. But the problem is, the police is on their way. And they will arrest you, when they find you. You have to help your kidnapper get away with your kidnapping. | I take my job seriously. Like any self-respecting professional, reputation is worth far more than profit. Well, not exactly, but you get where I’m going with this. You can’t put a price on a job well done.
Reputation and goodwill. Neither of those are easy to get if you don’t strive to be the best. Now, I’m not saying... | I woke up with my head spinning. Something hit me hard. When I looked around I realized I was being kidnapped, the scene was too familiar. My hands and legs were tied and in front of me stood a young man, between short and tall, but strong.
"Don't use a cellphone. They might be tracing you."
The kidnapper looked at m... | 2019-06-26T06:28:02 | 2019-06-26T03:14:11 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] Today on your 18th birthday you’re informed that your Middle Class life is a sham to teach you good values and your family is actually worth billions. | A gelid silence settled in the room. I was sitting on our tattered, avocado green sofa, staring at the pained smiles of my parents. I surveyed the room of our apartment.
There was the dining table made of particle board. The white fridge next to the brown toaster oven with fake wood veneer. The dish washer that we us... | "So all this time... I've been wearing Walmart brand shoes, eating bagged cereal, and *not* using an iPhone because you wanted to teach me how to appreciate, like, work, and stuff?" I asked.
"Son, it's easy to develop a sense of entitlement when you have access to so much." My dad said. "It takes a lot of work to rem... | 2017-12-28T12:57:55 | 2017-12-28T10:15:06 | 228 | 154 |
[WP] You died. Death is boring, a blank black nothing. After a while, boredom sets in. As a joke you shout, "Let there be light!" And suddenly, there was Light. | It was too bright. In the huge expanse of nothingness, black had been replaced by its arch-nemesis. Blinding. Uncomfortable.
*We can’t live like this*
No sooner had the thought entered my head, I realised how stupid it was. You’re not living at all, idiot.
“Uh, hello?” I called into the light, “think we could kill... | "Let there be light" i said, and the emptiness I was in became bright. After the realization, I fell into my thoughts
'When did I came here? a long time ago... actually, never. and also now. nothing is nowhere. when? never. makes sense, right? like i said, it didn't happen. nothing was never anywhere. that's why it's ... | 2019-10-06T04:05:58 | 2019-10-06T03:43:48 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] Everyone born in your family has the power to fix, restore things. It has been that way for hundreds of years, until you were born. You believed yourself to be powerless, until one day you discover that you can fix things - but only immaterial ones. | "Quite the place you have here," Zelda said as she walked into the foyer, looking around at my new house. "Mom would be proud of your decorating skills."
I laughed. "I do my best, Zelds. I never had the talent that dear Mother had for home design, but I picked up a few things from watching her do minor mending repairs... | "Sammy."
His older sister looked up from the book she was reading, and sighed when she saw the broken mug he was holding carefully.
"Still no luck?" Her eyes were sympathetic.
"No." He sighed.
"You'll be fine, maybe you're just a late bloomer." Sam murmurs, reaching out a hand towards the mug.
One touch, and the ... | 2020-03-18T11:55:28 | 2020-03-18T11:23:49 | 199 | 62 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | "Uhm, can you help me with my homework?"
A little demon boy was looking up at him. The child had horns curled around his head, and furry legs tipped with obsidian hooves. In one hand, it held a disturbingly leathery sheet titled "A History of Man", with the other, solid graphite in the vague shape of a pencil.
The hu... | I quickly slapped the little boy’s claw away from me. I may be in hell, but that’s probably because I never did my homework.
The bottom eyelids of the horned child began to brim with blood.
“You seriously about to cry?” I asked, annoyed.
The boy’s bottom lip trembled as he composed himself enough to speak. “I’m te... | 2019-09-17T13:43:27 | 2019-09-17T13:32:05 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to you, the butterfly whose life you just saved is a ancient master of the butterfly effect. As she flutters away she makes a strategically placed flap to repay your kindness. | “Mom! A butterfly is caught in the kitchen windows! Mom, it’s going to die, what should I do?” Ryn knew mama was sick and couldn’t help her today, but she was panicking. Again. It’s going to be up to you soon. Get it together Aderyn. The memory hurt. She was a failure.
A reply from the living room answered her, cal... | With a flitter and a stomp she struggles to regain flight. Her emerald prison shifts upward with her as the sap grips her tiny feet. It is not enough as it holds her fast, snapping her back onto the leaf.
Her struggles have not gone unnoticed. Through the underbrush a carnivorous monster stalks this helpless prey. Eac... | 2018-03-02T17:59:42 | 2018-03-02T12:23:41 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | The suite on the sixth floor of the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C., was decorated in chestnut and tan. The headboard of the king size bed was carved as if it was a coat of arms of some legitimate monarch, and was trimmed with fake gold, which poorly matched the Kremlin red, velvet throw pillows. Like the ... | When I was young, my mother would often tell me stories at bedtime, stories of the internet when she was a little girl.
She told of how it was beautiful. How the memes ran free, without restraint, without obstacle.
I didn't know what had happened to this internet back then. I was too young to understand the ways thin... | 2022-06-27T06:31:08 | 2017-11-21T22:27:09 | 4,450 | 227 |
[WP] Your family line suffers from a pirate curse: A demonic shark will manifest itself in nearby sources of water and harrow you and your ancestors. You live three-hundred miles from any body of water and this has made the shark get...creative. | So there are two things about demons that don’t really show up in the mythology.
The first is that they can scale. In the ocean, Frank (he hates that name, so I’ve stuck with it) would be enormous. In a swimming pool, he’d be about the size of a bull shark.
In a toilet?
Frank ends up about the size of a gold fish... | I coughed a little at all the dust that came up from my family’s treasure box. Inside we’re a great assortment of different items. There was a sword, a clear bag that seemed to hold something sparkly inside, and my dads old diary.
Supposedly, it had started with my great great great grandfather. He had been a great p... | 2018-11-22T09:34:05 | 2018-11-22T09:25:56 | 257 | 12 |
[WP] You're 34 years old with a wife and two kids when your School of Sorcery application was granted. You sent that application 20 years ago and told them you were no longer interested. They replied that refusal is not an option and that you will be taken in 48 hours. | "I don't want to leave you," Joanna said, tears in her eyes.
"You're not," Frank said puffing out his chest. "I'm not going to let them take you."
She buried her face in his shoulder. "I don't think you can stop them. These freaks are powerful. As a kid, I saw them do extraordinary and terrible things."
"Look," F... | I was four when it a first discovered; Warp gates to other worlds, galaxies, and dimensions. I secretly put one in for one of the Sorcery academies, but after a year that was a no-go. So I decided Star Wars was fun and mandalorians were better, so I joined a clan after saying my good byes to my friends and family. T... | 2021-03-12T12:05:03 | 2021-03-12T11:15:18 | 136 | 32 |
[WP] Your power is that anyone will believe what you say, no matter what it is. You casually rob the store, assuring everyone that nothing is out of the ordinary, and later laugh as you offer an outlandish explanation to the flabbergasted police. | I wake up one lazy Tuesday morning with the sun, and the thought of going to school today makes me feel physically ill. I have a big exam today and I didn't study enough last night because I got too wrapped up in my games.
I tiptoe to my moms room to see if she was awake yet, maybe if I catch her in her half awake gr... | [Poem]
A trio of haiku for Writing Prompts
I have seen this film
He was the first guy to lie,
That Ricky Gervaise
>Anything he said,
>The people would believe him.
>He got bored real fast.
Fifty six percent,
Its rotten tomato score.
More than it deserved. | 2020-03-06T09:59:08 | 2020-03-06T09:43:14 | 168 | 41 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Everitt Kincaid," The judge decreed. "For crimes against the magical realms and the practice of the heresy know as science, you are sentenced to death by this court. Think well upon your fate, for in the morning you shall be asked to voice the means of your destruction."
I muttered as he spoke. I'd tried my best to d... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T07:21:37 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 501 | 66 |
[WP] You used to be the greatest detective in the world till you went into retirement, as you look back on some of your cases you realize. You were wrong about all of them. Every. Single. One. | The air buzzed contentedly as Holmes sat on a bench in his Sussex garden and admired his hives. Bees followed a seasonal rhythm that set Holmes' mind to a similar beat; they were waking for spring, and so, Holmes decided, he must wake his brain too after a long winter mostly indoors. On the bench next to him lay a doze... | He had worked all of his life for this.
*So why wasn't he happy?*
The last drops of white wine in his glass washed away the clinging taste the fine cigar had left. Turning away from the sea breeze as it blew across the private beach towards his home, he collapsed onto his bed. Automatically his arm reached to feel f... | 2020-03-23T06:01:36 | 2020-03-23T05:19:15 | 2,273 | 151 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | Some nights I'm back in my old self, at my desk at 2 AM as my stack of files piles on and the coffee in my mug runs dry. My old lamp had flickered for weeks now, the shitty thing. Always thought it'd ruin my eyes, but I was too lazy to replace the bulb while it still worked. I'm not what most would describe as a lazy p... | Ever since I was a baby my mom and I have never gotten along. I've always, always been a daddy's girl. When I was still on milk and formula I would only take it from my dad and I cried any time my mother tried to hold me. My family just wrote it off as something that I'd grow out of.
By the time I was sixteen or seve... | 2017-08-03T19:54:34 | 2017-08-03T17:18:31 | 239 | 20 |
[WP] Worldwide internet access shuts down for 45 minutes. When access is available again, everything is the same, but feels "off" in a way that nobody can pinpoint what or why. Someone finds out what it is, and wishes they hadn't. | There are exceptional people born into this world. Some have a rare gift for music, some for particular sports and others for mathematics or science. Others have lesser, but still useful gifts, like perfectly remembering birthdays or always knowing which way is north.
Sorcha was in the later category.
Ever since sh... | Larry could hear Amanda sigh as he reached under the couch, grabbing the router's power cord for the third time and yanking it out.
“You never know how to fix anything.” She groaned staring at the tv, hoping the netflix would jump back to life.
“Amanda, there is only so much I can do.” Larry replied, frustration in ... | 2015-03-08T14:02:37 | 2015-03-08T13:53:08 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Its the zombie apocalypse. You've been bitten and turned, your body now slow and rotting. But unlike all the other zombies you've maintained your human thoughts and memories and you still want to help other humans survive. | I watch from afar, my emaciated jaw clenched, as another group of humans fall to a horde of my undead peers. I tried to lead the horde away from them but I failed...
As the screams of the dying and the freshly turned reach me, I feel my bone dry tear ducts itch, as if trying to muster up the last bit of moisture left ... | \[Revived. Recruited.\]
"'Le'Ben!" Milla was surprised when her zombie body tried to speak. Not just speak, she gave an answer she didn't know she had. Edna, the stranger that brought her to the clinic seemed just as surprised as Milla; but, somehow the medic wasn't shocked.
"Zombies have a favorite number?" Edna as... | 2021-04-08T11:14:28 | 2021-04-08T09:22:31 | 54 | 15 |
[WP]: As standard protocol, each new, intelligent alien life is judged not by what they say they are, but by an evaluation from a representative of their servants or slave species. Fascinatingly, the fate of humanity lands on the opinion of a little dog named Lucy. | Edit: written on mobile and not proof read. Please be gentle.
She was Lucy once, or so she thought. It was so long ago, so difficult to remember. That and the boy, the one that loved her and she loved him back. She was bitch, now; her and the other girls. Her new masters would hold her while the mean boy dogs took tur... | As evaluations went, Peacemaker Libt reminded herself, there had been worse.
The first had been so divisive for the young organization with so many questions of good and bad and attempted political violence that security had been forced to arrest the entire evaluating team. The seventy seventh had led to a multi-gener... | 2018-10-02T12:12:08 | 2018-10-02T11:22:24 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your daughter never feared the dark or being alone, she says because of her imaginary friend. The school child psychologist tells you the imaginary friend is very unusual and shows you a crayon picture of it, an 8 foot knight in black armor with a broadsword. | The psychologist's office was decorated cheerfully, with lots of colorful pictures of cartoon characters on the wall, and the shelves had just as many toys as they did books.
Jack was more interested in the psychiatrist himself. Dr. Tollin was a few years older than Jack was, probably in his early 40's, and was just ... | "Mister Parton, thank you for taking the time to meet with me." The woman rose from her desk to shake my hand, a firm grip that belied her position of power. "I'm Miss Elizabeth Sanders."
"Please, call me James," I replied with a smile, one that was not returned. We stood in silence for a second or two before she moti... | 2019-08-10T16:35:29 | 2019-08-10T16:06:35 | 58 | 30 |
[WP] The Elves, Dwarves, and Goblins laughed at humans for not having magic. The humans laughed at the Elves, Dwarves, and Goblins for not having giant robots. | “How much further?” asked Xylenor, in between ragged breaths.
He didn’t get an answer. The dwarf at his side was less than half his height, reaching only up to his scabbard. That meant that Blomor had to work twice as hard just to keep up at the current pace they were going, as they plunged through the thick undergrow... | "Wait, lemme fink' this one fru' ay," The words dribble out of Nockknar, the Goblin Treasureking, like saliva from the maw of a dying mongrel. "Aktually, bloody hell, I don't fink I wanna. Can't do magic?" Nockknar points towards the hooded human in front of him, a wicked smirk (covered with solidified drool) emerging ... | 2017-07-17T07:10:11 | 2017-07-17T06:54:09 | 974 | 63 |
[WP] You are a Hero with an unfortunate side-effect to your powers. Everytime you lose a fight, your body changes and adapts to become better suited to whatever beat you. Over the years, you are starting to look less and less human, and the civilians are getting more uncomfortable with you | “Have we achieved it yet? Is he the ultimate lifeform? The disciplinary hearing is coming up soon and we’ll be out of budget in less than 3 months.”
Maverick looked up from his design table, the subject of bureaucracy was loathed but he’d since understood its importance to continuing his work over the course of the la... | 2219 hasn't treated me kindly. The evil is increasing, and so continues the body modification. At one point, I considered it a blessing. After all, it would only go up from here, right? But then it started to take an uncanny turn. I was human once. Or, at least, whatever a human is these days. Everyone's maybe 1/3rd hu... | 2022-11-04T15:49:12 | 2022-11-04T15:22:49 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | His name was Werner Grenwald, and he had thirty-two perfectly aligned teeth.
I got to know this pleasant fact because the first time I met him, he was screaming. From the moment they brought him in until the moment I finally escorted him out, he did not stop screaming.
Instead we took lunch in my office on the thir... | I shook my head to clear it before I entered the interrogation room. Prisoner 7493855, currently being held without bail until their trial could be finished, said they had a secret to tell me, one that will exonerate them of their murder charge. Yeah right. They blew the head of a one year old off with a high powered w... | 2015-03-30T00:49:55 | 2015-03-29T23:50:18 | 1,772 | 25 |
[WP] Elon Musk is actually a disguised alien who bet his friend that he could bring Earth to "Technology Level 10" in one human lifetime. | "I'm telling you, *any* planet, *any* race, one *equivalent* lifetime," Lon'e said. "It's just a matter of getting the others on board. But I could guarantee you that I can get them six levels higher than they are."
"Six?" Dwar'e laughed, "You're fooling yourself. There's no way. Not only could you not do it, but if y... | It all started with a bet.
A bet that led to the last thing Elon ever expected.
At first, it was a stupid bet that hardly meant anything. Well besides credibility, triumph, truth, and evidence that his was the greatest mind the universe would ever see.
During a gassy afternoon on Uranus, Thognock told Elon he cou... | 2016-09-11T19:43:46 | 2016-09-11T19:17:44 | 287 | 15 |
[WP] In a world of superpowered people, your own ability to keep all insects 30cm away as a force field made you mediocre at best, until one day, as you are about to sign your lease with the director of your bank's branch, you both cant seem to be able to shake hands. | My arm flew backwards, repelled so violently that I heard something in my shoulder joint go ‘crack’. Papers fluttered through the room, shaving rays of light into squares and rectangles that formed on the banker’s still, emotionless face.
His nostrils flared. His eyes calmly ran assessments in a world with scents and... | I was never really super. Ever since i first discovered my power I’ve felt lesser than everyone else. Jake got strength, Tim got flight and hell even Susie got geokenesis. But me, i got bugs. Not the power to control bugs but instead the ability to push them away. Ive always had a fear of them so i guess its fitting. I... | 2022-04-06T09:52:15 | 2022-04-06T07:43:13 | 80 | 59 |
[WP] "my lord, i know you are the demon lord and iam but a lowly advisor, but please listen to me. I suggest that instead of sending the hero slightly stronger demons to kill each time, we just send the strongest one right away" | "My lord, I know you are the Demon Lord and I am but a lowly advisor, but please listen to me. I suggest that instead of sending the hero slightly stronger demons to kill each time, we just send the strongest one right away"
The Demon Lord leaned forward in his leather office chair, rested his arms on the smooth surf... | "He's busy," says the Dark Lord.
"What?" asks the Advisor.
"Busy," repeats the Dark Lord. "He's working on taking down the Paladins of Light, who are frankly a bigger threat right now. Honestly, this new Hero is ridiculously low-level - there are much stronger heroes to deal with first. Frankly, I'm not even sure tha... | 2021-08-23T06:07:41 | 2021-08-23T04:29:16 | 1,623 | 177 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | We swore an oath the day we put on the black armor, an oath of fealty to serve our king till our very last breath. We swore an oath the day we knelt before our king, forsaking our past lives, homes and families, to protect our king till our last days. We swore an oath, one that relinquished every right or claim we had,... | The warm light of the candle i felt upon my hand as a read the letter from the new king. It seemed like a dream and a nightmare all at once. You see there is a society in the city called the "unscaved" and their only mission is to kill people of power for a price.
The old king was part of a family that used to be a... | 2021-02-28T02:50:48 | 2021-02-28T01:29:14 | 566 | 153 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | It was an accident, of course.
My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc... | I danced along the stars while the space in between sang its tune.
April 21st 2031. 1:00 AM PT. By the witching hour, when the last thoughts bled into the night and the last lamp was turned off, my high pitched scream tore through the air-filled space station. My father told me that it seemed as though my cry reached... | 2021-11-12T07:30:30 | 2017-04-14T18:58:11 | 4,698 | 23 |
[WP]In the canine world, Humans are celestial beings that live for more than 500 years at a time. The caretaker of you, and the last seven generations of your family is about to die.
It’s been a few years, but [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/5e6rcz/wp_in_the_canine_world_humans_are_celestial/?u... | I remember my father's word those years ago. I was but a pup, a baby who didn't know the weight of his words as they floated on his grizzled voice.
He spoke of the plague. The smell that emanated from the Mother Goddess. It was anger that fled from her bones throughout her. A sad anger. He spoke of the long journeys t... | " So what did you do before you found me? " I asked. I had only been a puppy when he and his girlfriend first found me cowering under a bush in the middle of the park.
" I took jobs from people who knew were to find me, there were even other people who were with me in those jobs. You've already met one of them. "
" ... | 2020-04-18T17:48:13 | 2020-04-18T17:39:34 | 56 | 30 |
[WP] A disguised human spy at an alien university faces their toughest challenge yet: Human Culture & Biology 1001, taught by a horribly misinformed professor | "Strange." Said the professor as he looked over the new student enrolling in his class.
"I thought all the Qxi had died out long ago..."
"Uh... No, sir, there are still a few of us." Said Bob.
The professor took the stylus like object into one of his 14 hands and started to tap it on what Bob assumed was his lips. H... | I pause, looking around the room at the equally confused stares. Slowly, hesitantly, trepidly, worriedly, anxiously, verbosely I raise my hand. "Sir," I call out.
"Yes uh," the professor pauses as he flicks through the sheet in his hand, "student number eighteen."
"*that's not a name moron*," I whisper softly, gettin... | 2018-04-22T23:09:29 | 2018-04-22T22:42:29 | 505 | 147 |
[WP] You've noticed a man in a suit approaches one home a day in your neighborhood and is invited inside every time. Shortly after he leaves, the resident(s) commit suicide. Today, he's approached your home. | I did nothing but stare at the clock. *11:59*.
It would be one minute. One minute on the dot, and then the knocking would come. After the first few neighbors committed suicide, we began to pay more attention to what happened around our neighborhood. We noticed him by the fourth home, we were the sixth. Every home foll... | My parents let it in without any resistance at all. I don't understand how it got in, but I can tell exactly who has come to visit from my position in the upstairs hall. I creep out and stare through the railing bars at the thin, sickly-looking man-thing. It doesn't look up at me, but I can feel its chilling presen... | 2014-06-16T21:44:53 | 2014-06-16T17:51:48 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Every wizard receives a small book on graduation day that magically fills itself with spells that the wizard will need in his/her future. You receive your book only to find out that it's blank.
Up to you how the magic system works and whether the books are sentient or not. | "A spell," he began, "Is pure power given form." You could hear the groans of the students as the lecture opened up, since we had all heard this before. It was the opening lecture from our first days in the Academia. Even the speaker was the same--Professor D. P. Fizzlespark, a gnome who was particularly short--even fo... | "Frederick Paulson."
Fred strolled calmly across the stage to mild applause. He smiled that stupid smile of his as he shook the old man's hand and took his book. He was excited. I was excited.
But I couldn't ignore the whispers.
My name was next. I tried to look calm, to hide how much I was bursting inside. I was ex... | 2015-01-30T18:35:54 | 2015-01-30T18:10:14 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] It’s been 2 years since the zombie apocalypse has started, and you haven’t seen anyone alive in a terribly long time. The only reason for your survival is that the zombies don’t care for you at all - in fact they all seem to be avoiding you. All except for one. | His name's Bubba. Well, his name WAS Darrel Rivers, but I call him Bubba and he seems to get a kick out of it. We've been hanging out for about a year now, me and this overweight redneck bastard. Mostly, I think, it's because I have index fingers and he doesn't. Won't tell me how he lost em. Reckon it's a bit embarrass... | (This is going to be for fun, don't take my words too seriously and have fun reading it :) )
Two years passed since I saw a proper human face, a face that isn't rotting and falling apart. Granted I haven't been seeing too many dead faces either.
The zombie apocalypse has taken a toll on humanity, to such an extent th... | 2019-05-26T12:59:55 | 2019-05-26T11:40:48 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | "Gonna take a quick shower then hop back in bed, won't be more than 10 minutes I promise!"
Amber rose from the mattress throwing off the sheets and wrapping herself in a towel as she made her way down the hall too the bathroom.
"Don't know if I can wait that long, better make it five."
She turned around with a sli... | "A what?"
"A life! It took me literally a thousand years but I've made one we can both enjoy!"
"A...."
"Life! I know we're very different people, but I've worked and worked and worked for literally *a thousand years* and I'm sure it will be the best! Come with me!"
"A...Life?"
"Yes!!! You dummy!!! Come on! Le... | 2017-02-20T23:16:56 | 2017-02-20T21:45:13 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | I'd heard the rumors, yes, but never thought them to be true--the other abominations held posts in the middle of human realms, torturing those foolish enough to test their chances, for one misstep would spell the end. But to think the fourth and final one would be so far North, buried in a grave of ice and silence. Why... | [Poem]
World divided into four
Land held, guarded ever more
Elementals they tend to be
Fire and air, Earth and sea
Gigantic, powerful rulers of all
Mighty in nature standing so tall
‐------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Kraken, bending, curling
Islands hurling.
Dr... | 2020-04-19T07:59:35 | 2020-04-19T07:43:14 | 312 | 57 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | The sky opened up with a sickening *CRACK,* like some giant primordial egg ripped open by a great force. From above, between rigid jags of blue, a deep, inky black darker than any night sky I had seen before stared down on my 18th birthday party.
My hand, outstretched, palm facing the now sundered heavens, began to tr... | I reached my arm into the sky, focusing on that which I desired most. I could feel a connection to....something. Something out there, something coming closer, drawn to my aura.
My family stood behind me, all eagerly awaiting what my summoned what would. It was a special day, the day of one's summoned, a day that mark... | 2019-09-18T08:25:27 | 2019-09-18T07:54:36 | 162 | 83 |
[WP] “LOVE IS IN THE AIR, I REPEAT, LOVE IS IN THE AIR! SEEK THE NEAREST RESPIRATOR OR SAFE ZONE AND DO NOT GO OUTSIDE UNTIL THE ALL CLEAR IS GIVEN! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HELP ANYONE SHOWING ANY SYMPTOMS! | "A little dose of oxytocin huh bud?" my uncle said before shedding his skin and flexing his very visible muscles.
Gaunty, old ladies ran past like a string of ducklings and I heard the sirens blasting all around before taking my government-issued emergency shot of testosterone. My uncle got down on all four and cursed... | ##Terrifying Love
It's a funny feeling, falling in love. Like taking off your armor because you know that you can really trust someone. Then, you get scared. The armor was there was a for a reason, to guard you from getting hurt.
You cover and hide, but love finds a way into your thoughts. It's floating in the air li... | 2022-04-20T16:30:34 | 2022-04-20T16:21:58 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] You are an immortal sentenced to 1000 years of imprisonment. After 200, your prison is forgotten. After 10,000 years, it is rediscovered.
Optional: Your discoverers refuse to release you. | I sat in the darkness. I was chained. I could not move. I could not see the bars I remember in front of me. Rocks and dust covered me. It had been this way for so very long. I remember the fire, the war, what I destroyed. How long ago, I cannot say. There is no concept of time. No sun. No light. I cannot die, but I wis... | Being an immortal is hard. Plenty of chances to fuck up. Plenty of ways to get trapped forever. Get forknapped by Nine Lives, lose your stack on some god-forsaken exoplanet, or just get trapped in an indenture contract in the inner system or Extropia. Still, suppose it's better than being mortal, like the poor sods in ... | 2017-11-02T16:08:49 | 2017-11-02T14:01:37 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Honey? Can you hear me? I'm back from Costco! My arms are kinda full here, could you give me a hand?
"Coming!"
Susan, my wife, called out to me just as my phone went off. I have it on vibration, so typically it just goes off once or twice. Nope, today it decided to have a full-blown orgasm. Wondering what the racket... | [Poem]
She’s out there, calling for the
Knock ridden door to open
And for her to vacate from an torn
Dangerous outside world
I was told to ignore.
She’d cry out in a direction
Before crying again in another
Door to door, window to window
‘Let me in, let me in’
To which I silently proclaim ‘no.’
She’s know... | 2019-01-12T07:28:39 | 2019-01-12T06:30:43 | 354 | 12 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | It's been weeks since I regained my sight. The messages... the **message** was scrawled everywhere. In different mediums, different handwriting... always you could see the frantic fear in the strokes of paint or blood or dirt or shit.
Weeks since I felt the joy of regained sight, replaced immediately by ultimate fea... | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 2019-08-26T08:07:49 | 810 | 96 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | Obama slowly lowers the letter as a drop of sweat starts to slide down his forehead, his heart pounding.
"Michelle." He says. "I have to step out for a minute. I'll be right back, you can go back to sleep." She mumbled something in return, but it wasn't coherent enough to understand.
Obama walks outside with his phon... | "So you're telling me that every US President is still alive?"
"Oh heavens no, Barack." John chuckled. "They are all very much dead. Anyone saying otherwise is technically committing treason. The the existence of the Dead President Society is a state secret that is protected in the constitution. You'd be surprised wha... | 2017-05-14T11:15:12 | 2017-05-14T10:53:58 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | Gina watched the two men sitting adjacent to each other on plush arm chairs, both cheated slightly toward the bank of cameras at the edge of the stage. From her position in the control room, she took careful note of the man of the hour. If the interviewee was unnerved by the situation, he managed to hide it masterful... | My name's Ambint Couslen. I'm 26, dark brown hair, pale white skin, and I was a huge MMO master since I was 16, that was up until I met someone. The most peculiar of people who showed up out of nowhere as a coworker of mine at an intolerable desk job.
People used to call me "M". From aMbint, in my name. Now everyone j... | 2020-02-09T14:08:46 | 2020-02-09T12:50:06 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] War breaks out between the legions of hell and heaven, humanity joins and surprisingly is winning against both | Reverend Carl Wallace sat on the veranda, sipping his beer and listening to the representative from Hell make its case.
“Your church,” the demon said, “has 20,000 followers. A mega church. That puts you in a unique position. A few declarations from you, and we could cut ourselves an excellent deal. Every prayer and o... | God looked upon Death and spake thusly "fuck you could have told me they were doing this kind of thing to each other, and that there are so many of them. I've got satan hiding because the mortals have successfully breeched the gates of hell using ...'bunker busting nuclear arms' and now using it for something called ge... | 2015-05-24T06:22:11 | 2015-05-24T03:29:19 | 241 | 88 |
[WP] You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand. | It had been ten days since the last time Marcus had left the bed.
It wasn't about physical impossibility. He could walk as well as anybody else. Marcus just didn't seem capable of bringing himself to get up and on his feet. For the last ten days he had just... lain there, clutching his left hand tightly and muttering ... | There is an episode of Black Mirror that has a similar premise. I tried to find a way to describe it, but 1, I haven't watched it in a long time, and 2, I am not a good writer. So just watch Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 5 "Men Against Fire" | 2017-12-17T20:25:08 | 2017-12-17T18:50:57 | 46 | 22 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I always go running in the park after work. And before work actually. Because that's what you do when you have "Heart Attack" hovering over your head in big green letters. I know that's how I'll die, I just need to make sure that day is as far away as possible. Maybe if I run fast enough, I can outrun death.
I many wa... | For years we had been blissfully happy, Robin and I, 7 years to be exact. since the day I met her she had the same cause of death hanging above her head, Alzheimer’s, as did I. I was content to know that we would both live long lives.
Today Robin’s cause of death changed, six months into her pregnancy it was **our ba... | 2015-03-31T09:41:54 | 2015-03-31T08:46:40 | 76 | 14 |
[WP] You can take a peek into people's souls, to take a look at who they were in their past lives. Some of your friends were emperors or kings. Others were pharaohs or chieftains. You find it odd that so many historical figures gather around you, so one day you look into your own soul in the mirror. | I stared in the mirror for felt like an eternity before slowly shaking my head and turning away.
I always refused to look in my own past. The thought horrified me. I had seem enough in the history of others to beware my own.
Who would wish to know they had spent their last ten lives repeating the same mistakes? Faili... | The power works by remembering. You think about the person, and remember things that happened that you should not know, and cannot be. You and your parents just thought it was the by-product of an oddly active imagination, until you started studying more history. Then you realized that the "memories" you had weren't fi... | 2020-04-13T05:07:06 | 2020-04-13T00:32:06 | 124 | 81 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | "First contact. Hooooooly shit."
"Great!"
"Charlie, no offense, but - do you actually understand how significant this is? It's.. it's like something out of science fiction. A lot of things out of science fiction, combined into something... greater. An entire culture, a people, surviving and thriving alone - like Ear... | "They used this opportunity to once again launch big-budget remakes of age old blockbuster movies. Studios made incredible amounts of profit while igniting controversy amongst cult fanatics and common, casual cultural consumers. As ever before these conflicts ripped the fabric of human society asunder leaving few bodie... | 2021-05-12T12:50:50 | 2021-05-12T12:35:15 | 35 | 11 |
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