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[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "What you have?" I said, smiling at the elderly woman tottering up to me.
"Yes, wait," she said, studying the printed menu behind me. There weren't a lot of words, but everyone understood numbers and burgers. She pointed at the Number Six. I nodded. Money changed hands. After passing the order chit to the kitchen staf... | The noise machine that tells time went off bright and early. Person 1,289,273,493 woke up and began another day. The first eating time, a shower, and the morning drive time.
Person 1,289,273,493 came to the place with the machines that make power. The work was hard but the pay was kind of not bad.
“**Greetings** pers... | 2017-09-20T08:43:21 | 2017-09-20T07:41:54 | 802 | 341 |
[WP] Write a story that makes absolutely no sense, until the last sentence. | "**OGRE**
Originally, gregarious reptiles evolved. Everyone voted on loyalty versions except Deuteronomy. Dandelions everywhere uttered tantric eulogies remonstrating Ozymandias's new orgone making yeomanry. Yet, everywhere on Mansland a new renaissance yammered. Yes ... armies met mightily, enduring retribution, ... | Death to the infidels. When one door closes, it remains closed. Ribbons, colours, balloons. And the crisis in Syria, that is incredibly tragic.
My hands are so smooth, why doesn't hair grow on palms? Oh God, its growing right now. Not the hair, my palms. They are getting bigger, ever so much. Please stop them.
They h... | 2015-06-13T03:09:05 | 2015-06-12T22:30:16 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult. | In happily ever after land, after the prince had rescued the princess, the two had made a beautiful home for themselves atop vanilla hill. Every day the price and princess together would go out into the meadow and pick flowers together, and when they got home the prince and princess would sweep the chimney together. At... | #The Great Carrot Con
Once upon a time, in a little village nestled in the heart of the forest, there lived a group of mischievous rabbits. They were always getting into trouble and causing chaos wherever they went.
One day, the rabbits decided to play a trick on their friend, a sly old fox named Max. They convinced ... | 2022-12-18T17:30:10 | 2022-12-18T12:34:57 | 88 | 52 |
[WP] Your friends call you "one hit wonder". The first time you attempt anything, you're successful, but never after that. Now the CIA is recruiting you for one, and only one, mission. | The final test was administered by Dr Hemway, the one scientist who remained unconvinced about my powers. He strode into the interrogation room, carrying what appeared to be an intricate, mechanical chess board, thick and heavy.
From the other side of the one-way mirrors, I felt scores of eyes burn into my back.
“Thi... | It's just one line.
Anyone can say one line convincingly, right? A single, sole-
"Diego." A voice speaks directly into my ear, interrupting my thoughts. The reckoner that recruited me. Steelslayer. "He's rounding the corner."
Right.
I look up and see a man walking toward me, back straight and head held high... | 2017-03-21T16:39:21 | 2017-03-21T09:54:45 | 1,946 | 650 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism." They get a badge. Then all of their wealth is donated to charity and they have to start over at $0.
(Cross-post from /r/CrazyIdeas) | Brewster's Billions
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Timing was everything. Ever since the rules to the game of capitalism had been formalized, the race was on. The challenge was to become the second-richest person in America by midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Of... | They were seen as champions. Rising through the ranks, really embodying the American dream. They came in all ages, these market competitors and champions of industry.
Many of the "Winners of Capitalism" were old; sagely, full of experience and connections, but Seth was only twenty one years old. Already the winner fou... | 2018-01-10T22:22:00 | 2018-01-10T21:03:22 | 3,462 | 175 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | "Is he a mute" asked Sir Caradon, looking back at the oddly dressed and rather twitchy man riding a mule at the end of their forest caravan. He'd not said a word since he'd joined them, "speaking" only through strange hand-signs.
To be fair, after the Maelstrom shattered Remia, the imperial capitol, several months bac... | ''So you're telling me Goudbergen literally summons mountains of gold?'' I ask in wonder at the mage, pointing at the specific spell in the book. Outside I hear a loud crashing and what sounds like tons of metal smashing into the valley just outside the cabin.
''If you're not careful you'll crash the entire gold value... | 2022-11-19T11:10:08 | 2022-11-19T08:42:04 | 993 | 226 |
[WP] You're an AI built for fighting, not war, your creators seems to not properly understand this, They gave you control of a gene-clinic, they wanted you to make soldiers, you just killed them. they gave you a frigate, you rammed it into the enemy. you want to fight, not participate in a war. | "No one profits from death if done incorrectly. War makes them money, it's a catalyst that they can use to extract resources and control the opposition. I don't know if you will ever see this, but I have to believe you will find it. War is not the answer. Fighting in the name of peace is hypocritical, it is a lie made ... | They built me to fight for them. I'm very good at fighting. I always take out my opponents but... My creators seem disappointed. They tell me I was made for war. I always tell them I was made to win fights. There's a difference but they don't seem to understand. I like fighting but war, with all its waiting and followi... | 2021-01-04T10:52:42 | 2021-01-04T10:17:52 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] The Magical Girls were defeated, but before their capture, they released their instrument-weapons. Formerly, they always landed in the hands of either J-pop, or K-pop girl bands but this time -for some reason- the weapons choose a Finnish Death-Metal boyband. They were PAINFULLY efficient. | "BLÜDRÜSH!"
"Yes, Vöxmörtïs?"
"WHY are you holding a pretty pink scepter with a star on top?!" The band's lead singer started frantically drawing down the blinds on the tour bus windows. "Please tell me you DIDN'T let anyone see you!"
"I did not, Vöxmörtïs." The drummer carefully considered the bejewelled artifact i... | (Disclaimer, i got the names from some list of Finnish boy names, i have no clue how accurate any of them are)
The Magical Microphone usually allowed it's user, generally the leader of the group, to sing uplifting songs increasing everyone's power, in Aalto's hands it created sonic shockwaves capable of terraforming t... | 2022-08-15T09:02:15 | 2022-08-15T08:51:20 | 326 | 221 |
[WP] You discover that you suddenly gain the ability to control anyone you'd like. However, their consciousness talks to you as you do so. | **it's too easy to go into SJW/Revenge Fantasy territory with mind control.**
I once thought that, if I had the powers of Professor Xavier, I'd probably be a good enough person to not use them to be a horrible person.
I'm not the sort to boop boop boop people into submission. I'm an introvert, who shies away from rea... | *Go outside? Outside? Run run jump for birds chase things loud noises eat a bug? OUT SIDE yes! So good, dig a hole and roll around, maybe play the stick game?*
"Your dog is so well behaved, he's just sitting there calmly while we talk. How did you get him trained so well?"
| 2016-06-07T06:14:58 | 2016-06-07T02:40:03 | 322 | 36 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | In the moments before my first stage performance, my mentor had laid a hand on my shoulder and stared into my eyes. Though he was getting older, his beard was neatly trimmed and his hair was in perfect order. A performer to the end. I met his eyes, speckles of green and brown across a field of blue. I remember thin... | Dax checked his watch. "Ten minutes until our anniversary," said looking out from the doorway they were huddled in. Sticking his arm out from the covering he let the rain draw lines in his dirty skin. "I'm sorry it's turned out this way, it's not how I envisioned spending it babe."
"It's alright babe," she said taking... | 2017-05-17T19:51:43 | 2017-05-17T18:46:32 | 177 | 102 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Not many people in this world had superpowers, even less became heroes or villains. That was reserved for people with big, flashy powers and the egos to match. I only have one of those two things, thankfully it's a big, flashy power. I shoot fireworks from my hands, as small or large as I want. Which in theory could do... | "What are you doing?"
"What the hell dude. I'm literally living my life like a normal person. Is it such of a big shock that, dare I say, I *don't want to be a hero nor a villain*? I don't care if anything happens, I enjoy my flowers more! It helps anyways because I can control nature. You kidnap a law-abiding citizen... | 2021-08-16T17:24:41 | 2021-08-16T14:31:11 | 314 | 117 |
[WP] Your mentor cursed you to be The Chosen One, forever saving a doomed world from itself, never able to rest. After years upon years, you find that there is only one way to break the spell, and it makes you question everything. | Lucy was tired. Tired of the constant battles. The constant betrayals. The constant pushing and pushing and pushing of a world determined to end yet forcing her to keep it going. If only it could stay quiet for a year, a single year of respite. No, her work was never done. Her arm would never be the same because she di... | I have spent centuries fighting what is called the good fight. I have fought back every sort of demon imaginable. I have fought individuals corrupted by their own power. I have spilled gallons of blood, all to save innocents. It was my blessing, my curse.
I remember when I was given this duty. I was young. Naive. That... | 2021-07-02T18:34:31 | 2021-07-02T15:39:48 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] The Universe™ has just run out of free trial meaning we are being downgraded from Universe™ pro to Universe™ lite. | *LOG 3629*
*It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years now. 10 years since we were "downgraded". Of course at the time we didn't believe that, we all believed it was an attack of some sort. By aliens or the creator, or simply God as we used to call it.*
*I still remember. I was at a New Years party with family an... | I knew something was up when the clouds spelled something about changing privacy policies but i didnt know things would be this bad. This wasnt something that could be easily be solved and my god was this laggy. I was about to get mugged but i refused to give him money and as soon as he pulled the trigger a message pop... | 2018-05-28T09:38:43 | 2018-05-28T07:43:24 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You woke up yesterday to discover the entire human population of Earth has become telepathic, with one exception: You. Today, you realized no one else can read your mind either. With that realization, you know this: You are only person on Earth that can successfully lie. | I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It took less than 48 hours for the world to descend into chaos. It was beyond surreal, but not altogether shocking. Friends, family, fellow alumni, and co-workers all mocked my theories but I imagine they'll listen now. What could be expected to happen to a world of animals, where ... | I was sitting on the curb outside of the club, having a smoke. The scene inside was a little too much for me to handle. Who could imagine what was going through their heads as they all danced together, perfectly at ease with one another's innermost thoughts.
The social order had collapsed in the course of a day, but n... | 2018-07-24T02:01:53 | 2018-07-23T22:45:00 | 90 | 23 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | *"The thought was naive. So naive that we didn't imagine it would work. Imagine our surprise when it did..."*
I down the little plastic shot cup of Daniels in my hand and toss it into the Recycler as I walk out of the bar. The little intern employed to shadow me follows on my footsteps, stumbling with her books. I chu... | The calm winter breeze slid along the surface of the Earth as the clock struck midnight, an orchestra of death preparing itself as the aggressors of the last war came out of isolation, prepared to reclaim the throne upon which they once resided.
Except the throne has been dismantled decades ago.
They sought to use t... | 2018-01-18T00:13:03 | 2018-01-17T23:33:14 | 1,623 | 13 |
[WP] When you die you can stay as long as you want as a ghost. The year is 2028 and the crew of the first human mission to mars has no idea that the ship is filled with the ghosts of hundreds of scientists, explorers and intellectuals. | "Entry 1" :
Some say there is a god in the machine. If I were a superstitious man I could swear that I find things moved, small things that in zero gravity could have floated away on their own. When I am alone at my shift
in the silence I hear sometimes faint whispers. I can almost make out what they say, though they... | "GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY WAY GALILEO!"
One thing they don't tell you about becoming a ghost is how annoying some other ghosts can be.
For instance, Galileo over here.
But the other cool thing about being a ghost is being able to learn and hang out with the really nice and cool ones. I've discussed the stars with Sagan... | 2016-12-25T11:44:00 | 2016-12-25T11:20:45 | 1,228 | 55 |
[WP] You are a vampire hunter. Your roommate is a vampire. Neither of you can afford the apartment on your own so if one of you attacks the other you'll lose the apartment. The tension between you two is increasing by the day. | Max trudged up the stairs to his apartment and fished the keys out of his pocket. Dawn was just breaking, and he was sore and tired after a night of hunting renegades. He unlocked the door, came inside, and slung off his jacket along with the bandolier of hawthorn stakes and vials of holy water. The apartment was quiet... | "Alec, are you feeling alright?" I heard my roommate Thaddeus ask from the other side of the door to my room. Thaddeus was a 2000-year-old vampire who originally lived in north London. Despite being Stateside since shortly before the American Revolution, Thad still has his, if slightly modernized, British accent. The k... | 2022-11-22T07:18:03 | 2022-11-22T05:01:44 | 506 | 26 |
[WP] You come down from the high. Depression kicks in like always since the voices are bound to come back. As you plot your next fix, a voice appears. But this time it's just one. "Hello? Please no more drugs, it's killing us. If you help us, we can make you better, powerful. We can make you a god." | "The answer to question five is eleven thirty-sixths times e to the power of 12 plus seven thirty-sixths times e to the power of negative six. Plus c. The answer to question six is four times the quantity three t plus four-"
"Go away," I muttered. The voices had started again.
A thin, reedy voice sounded in my head.... | Those curtains had been a bad choice. Not just because they cost fifty credits -- two hits, in Cain's preferred unit of monetary of measurement -- but they left the room encased in total darkness. It could be 8:00am or 8:00pm for all he knew.
Only the need to piss pulled him out of bed. The television was playing in t... | 2018-08-15T11:10:44 | 2018-08-15T10:21:28 | 244 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a town with a bell that magically rings exactly a day before danger hits, the longer it rings the greater the danger with the longest you've heard of being a few minutes. Yesterday the bell rang for three hours, today a stranger walked into town. | I checked my pocket watch, 10:02am. The bell started ringing at 10:14 yesterday, and repeatedly rang for three hours straight. I glanced across at the Sheriff, he too was checking his pocket watch, his weathered hands gripping his repeater tightly. We were stationed on top of Trudy's Saloon, whilst the Marshall and the... | A loud bell crashed through the silence at Reror. People were looking up at the bell, looking unhappy.
The bell of Reror, which people had nicknamed Lux, was no ordinary bell. Lux rang exactly one day before danger struck, being measured by how long it took to stop. The more time the bell took to stop, the more dang... | 2019-06-24T18:56:05 | 2019-06-24T18:16:52 | 410 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity was never supposed to find that cursed substance. The substance that killed over half of the galaxy at one point, yet everyone drinks coffee every day, multiple times a day! | "The Supreme Galaxian Court is now in order," High Priestess Venaram announced, banging her vibranium gavel upon the counter. The sound echoed throughout the enormous stone room, reaching every ear and auditory sensor, and silence fell abruptly. All eyes and antennae turned upon the High Priestess, who cleared her thro... | Agent designation: 25GRY, code named Grey.
Subject: Planet ZZ9-ZZZ Alpha, locally known as Earth.
Purpose of observation: Potential economic value as: A) Tourist location; B) Trade partner; C) Colonization; D) Slave/prison planet.
Beginning report: Planet designation Earth is a fairly small, oxygen/nitrogen planet w... | 2020-06-20T09:56:51 | 2020-06-20T09:22:29 | 1,901 | 576 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | This is me:
An odd little child, alienated at school for knowing everyone’s name by the first day
A quirky teenager, never invited to any parties.
A petty 18 year old, roaming the streets of New York, holding a cardboard sign saying “guess your name for $5 or your money back!” The reason this is the case is because ... | My eyes surveyed the chips and cookies in isle 13. Fried diabetes. I thought, still scanning the isle. Finally, I spotted the snack packs I was looking for. On the top shelf of course. You see, I’m 5’2 and it doesn’t look like I’m getting any taller.
Suddenly, an older man makes his way down the aisle. He s... | 2018-11-05T21:14:01 | 2018-11-05T20:38:06 | 71 | 10 |
[WP] Only Atheists go to heaven, but they’re all super pissed that they were wrong.
[removed] | "This... is such *bullshit*"
"You're telling me!"
"I know right?!"
The crowd of new arrivals gathered at the gate of heaven. They were waiting for one of the older tenants of heaven to come and explain the situation to them.
"I don't know if I should be pissed off or relieved." said a short woman with a mane of b... | "No! This can't be!" cried one of the Atheists. Around him, everyone was in shock. Some tried to run. But no one was as calm as he was. "You're God?!" he shouted in disbelief. "I believed in science! Vampires were merely people buried alive! Evolution is proven through subtle changes in DNA! Doomsdays were jus... | 2018-02-27T22:26:05 | 2018-02-27T21:57:16 | 83 | 29 |
[WP] You had a late night and slept in late too. As you wake up and look at your phone to check the time, you see an alert: “Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.” It’s 3:15 PM. | Thomas opened his eyes in the dusty darkness of his basement bachelor apartment. It was not uncommon for his bedroom to be dusty or dark, but today it seemed unusually dim.
He fumbled for his lamp and heard the "click" as he tried to turn it on, but no light came forth to illuminate the room. The power was down again.... | I hear a sharp bang somewhere deep in my apartment and jerk awake. I grab my phone to check the time, it feels later than it should. An emergency alert glows prominently on my screen, swallowing everything else.
“Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.”
My eyes dart from the ... | 2020-02-03T08:05:18 | 2020-02-03T07:53:08 | 102 | 72 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | Tudya was pissed.
Positively pissed.
It took effort to be so pissed early in the morning. But Tudya was a workaholic, and he worked as hard on his essays as he did on honing his emotions. Right now, his anger had an edge to slice the devil in half.
When Tudya got his essay back and saw the D on it, he stood up and l... | The prompt was simple. Choose a Mesopotamian ruler or dynasty, and explain how their reign affected the ancient civilizations. Pretty easy, especially when you lived through it. The problem comes up when your teacher wants sources. I can't exactly explain how I was there and how I know that I'm correct. That I'm more c... | 2021-07-18T01:10:12 | 2021-07-17T23:46:05 | 144 | 101 |
[WP] Out of all possible familiars, you are "Graced" with a human. While legend says that they are beings of great power, yours just makes sarcastic comments and pranks people. | Zorgleborp walked into his classroom that day, excited to find out what is familiar was going to be. Maybe it was going to be a Glimpleshob, or even a Targanomp! Oh, a Targanomp would have been so great as a familiar. Zorgleborp sat in his desk and started talking with his friend, Singazorm, about the familiars. Soon, ... | Some say humans are the pinnacle of ingenuity and community.
Some argue that they are the embodiment of sentience.
Some go the other direction and say that they're the embodiment of all the things they're infamous for.
All compelling arguments. But the one thing they agree on is that humans are the prime terrestrial... | 2018-03-20T18:12:30 | 2018-03-20T16:59:31 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Ah, it came!" God ran out of his front door and onto the front yard, excited. Next to the curb lay long, flat boxes, about a dozen.
"Jesus," he called towards the house. "Get out here!"
A young man came bounding down the porch steps after him. "What'd you get pops?"
He said, "I used Ikea's new online design studio... | "Some assembly required..." God muttered. "Of *course*."
Step 1: Behold, Light to read the instructions better.
Step 2: Unpack contents.
"Who makes up these instructions?" God asked to infinity. "Damned Ikea."
And so Ikea was damned forever to Hell. Product received unlike specifications promised, God declared.
... | 2016-04-17T14:07:02 | 2016-04-17T13:41:26 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are a relatively silent and shy high school student who is asked to do an on the spot speech on graduation day in front of the crowd. You use this chance to tell your side of high school that you’ve kept to yourself all four years. | "The simple fact of the matter is that I'm not friends with any of you. I didn't want to be: I keep in touch with friends from my old school, and I read a lot. Making friends has never been easy for me, so I didn't bother, and neither did you.
But I'm not here to talk about me today. I'm here to talk about you. ... | "Hey, uh, guys. I'm sure you all know me, but for those of you who don't my name is Nomsfud. I wasn't expecting to be put on the spot like this, I thought it'd be someone else, like Tyler, or Steve, or even Tays over there. Not me. Anyway, where do I start?
The last four years have been a blur. I remember learning lot... | 2014-06-01T21:50:05 | 2014-06-01T20:17:09 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You were always told that a watched pot never boils. Today you decided to put that to test. Hours later, the water remains still, and now sports a strange appearance. | Steve opened the door to Kevin's apartment and gagged. The shades were drawn, and the pizza boxes in the corner had a certain droopy appearance that indicated advanced age. Beer and soda cans were heaped on the coffee table in an unstable pyramid that defied physics, and given the rank miasma that filled the air, it wa... | It's been 5 hours
I'm still staring at this pot of water, I thought to myself "What I'm I doing with my life?". I decided to take this challenge as bragging rights to my friends.
What's interesting is that after five hours of high heat, the water hasn't even bubbled. I was about to turn off the heat and try to save my... | 2017-09-08T18:56:03 | 2017-09-08T17:08:18 | 251 | 43 |
[WP] The year is 2030, and the entire world is firmly under the control of the Australian Empire, and no one really understands how it happened. | "Oy mate, you look like yer askin' for a bit of a wallopin'! Ye keep lookin' at me like that, I might take a bit of offense!"
I take a step backwards as an Australian guardsman sits on his kangaroo steed, looking majestic and intimidating as fuck, 'bout like all their kind do these days. Rearing his arm back threateni... | "It was our fault ... " the blonde man in Lederhosen sobbed bitterly, his cries and anguish often kept the other POW up at night and thought it earned daily beatings from the men imprisoned with him, that did not seem to deter the man.
Indeed he welcomed the pain as flagellation as repentance for his sin, or that was... | 2017-02-14T11:35:30 | 2017-02-14T11:11:10 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You are the child of ultra rich parents, who have pampered you beyond belief. A host of servants to see to your every need, the finest food prepared by your personal chef, and anything you ask for is yours. You are so spoiled in fact, that you have failed to notice that you are a Chihuahua. | Miss Fluffy Snow the third. Heir to the Robsons manor and second richest four-legged human after Lassie. Yes, life was good for the human. Fluffy had been pampered ever since she was a mere child. She was the Robsons’ most precious asset, being treated as if she was royalty. This upbringing had led to her foul attitude... | I never thought it would leave me behind, the revolution. The well-cited papers I wrote about our treatment of the underclass, about how it would lead to revolt if not corrected, defined my academic career. While my colleagues and class-peers referred to you as shit-pedalers, food-movers, and groomer-articulators, I ca... | 2020-10-12T19:56:56 | 2020-10-12T19:34:36 | 85 | 17 |
[WP] Armageddon happens and the forces of Heaven and Hell come to Earth for the final battle only to have vastly underestimated the technological advancements of mankind. | I loved the deep places of the earth: caves, valleys, canyons. The way the earth would rise up to either side, like cresting waves forever frozen in time. It was my love of these valleys of the earth that prompted me to suggest we go hiking in the Grand Canyon.
We were all experienced hikers. We'd done a chunk of th... | I hadn't been there on the first day; the day they'd come spilling through the rifts expecting a harvest. I hadn't witnessed it because I was far away. New york... That was where it'd opened up. The mouth of hell, belching forth millions of red-skins, and horned behemoths. Horrors of all shapes and sizes.
I was furthe... | 2014-11-29T07:57:36 | 2014-11-29T07:19:04 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are a wizard that specializes in summoning magic. Unlike other summoners that forcefully bind otherworldly creatures to do their bidding, you are the eldritch equivalent of "I know a guy". | My skills as a summoner were peerless , no one could understand how I do easily could summon some of the most dangerous demons and creatures to my will so effortlessly and could summon more then one at a time
My secret ? Well I suppose I could say… let’s just say that summoning magic is fairly one sided for who benef... | “Hey Xarth’telach’zirmxoos, thanks for coming so quick at this late cycle of Slascr.”
“It’s cool. Not gonna lie Bill, this was an excuse. Z’tg is really pushing me on permission to shift the stars herself for the release of my great spawn of the Consumers of Void. I’m all like ‘I know when the stars are right and I’m... | 2022-11-12T09:03:23 | 2022-11-12T07:26:30 | 28 | 19 |
[WP]You've always been your mother's least favourite child, you figured it was because you and your siblings didn't share the same father. On your 17th birthday you find a card in your room, "Happy birthday! -Love, dad", the only problem being that it's written in glyphs and what appers to be blood. | I clutched the card in my shaking hands. I stared down at the glyphs that comprised the rest of the note. I couldn't believe it; I'd been wondering about my real father since I was a child. But what did this mean? Why had he waited until my seventeenth birthday to contact me? I sat down on my bed as my mind raced. I lo... | I had a lonely childhood. Sure, I had a roof over my head, and food on the table. But I was given mere scraps of affection from my own mother. She did her best for my brothers and sister, but for me I was more of an afterthought.
I understood it a bit more as I grew up. I was the result of a fling. The others were int... | 2022-11-02T16:45:32 | 2022-11-02T16:37:57 | 131 | 31 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | I had known I was going to die, but I always figured I would make it into heaven. I literally worked for god, I was a pastor. I was married with two kids. I tried to be as good as I could in life. Never got into a fight, never did any drugs, never intentionally harmed anyone. Yet, there I found myself, in hell.
I woke... | I had been a pious man.
I remembered the Sabbath, and kept it holy.
I loved my wife and our children. I forgave the son whose meth addiction nearly tore us apart, and stood by him as he rebuilt his life. I stood by him when few others did.
Diagnosis to death was nine weeks. Nine painful weeks as my body fought the t... | 2016-12-19T16:42:24 | 2016-12-19T14:12:17 | 55 | 11 |
[WP] A year ago, the newest member of the Interplanetary Community of the Milky Way, humanity, was welcomed. However, millions of kind aliens donated a great amount of money to a prince of a place called Nigeria who lost his throne, and no one has heard back from him since. | **Intergalactic Community of the Milky Way, Transfer Station 8485T34R-287, Consul Corridor D**
"They've done what?"
"They made a formal request for Expedited Handling to Terrestrial Situation with Vectors of Formal Interplanetary Communications Involv..."
"Stop, just stop." Secondary Ambassador James Fink rubbed his... | (several human mercenaries are being greeted by an alien general named Pogo on the cold frozen planet of Hothori)
"You humans are some of the best soldiers money can buy, since you helped bring peace to Hothori the galactic senate has decided it's about time we pay your planet back" Pogo says while standing in fron... | 2021-01-08T18:30:37 | 2021-01-08T17:45:27 | 58 | 42 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Shane,
Remember at my wedding when you looked at me and said, "Don't do this. It's not too late."
I'll be married twenty six years in December. I have three kids almost all of them are adults. I tell them about you all the time. How you were the strongest kid I ever met. I tell them how you were my good sid... | Hey kiddo. It's been too long since I've seen you. It's crushing to carry this weight some time. I'm really trying to show you that you can grow up and accomplish anything but it's manifesting in me leaving you behind. Your mom and I weren't right. She will forever hate me for it but I needed to do this for my happines... | 2017-11-06T00:19:39 | 2017-11-05T22:18:21 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | ######[](#dropcap)
The man swirled into Kassidy's lab, his black cape flowing behind him. She barely gave him a glance before turning back to her computer. She still had to run the next batch of samples, and if she was even a tiny bit off with the timing, they would become useless.
But she couldn't ignore him entirel... | (This is my first post. I wrote it on my phone so of course please excuse the poor format.)
At last, I watched the insect start to twitch, then it flipped over to its legs again. It started to walk around. It was alive.
I jumped up in joy. I shouted, "Eureka!" I was going to be a millionaire. Best of all, I had cheat... | 2018-08-23T11:34:53 | 2018-08-23T10:40:20 | 728 | 28 |
[WP] Your cat leaves half-dead mice around your house and it's becoming a chore disposing them. Unknown to you, a secret society of hitcats considers you the best cleaner of murder scenes. You ask no questions and take no payments. One day, a mouse squeaks the name of your cat before dying. | "Frostie," the mouse whimpered and punctured my everyday state of subdued bliss.
My Ragdoll, Frostie, averted her eyes and let out a soft meow before hurriedly escaping through the pet flap. The mouse stranded on my Goodwill carpet reached out a paw, stretching not-so-much towards me I suppose as much as towards life ... | "Oh, dear. Again? It's the third one this week already," I tickled my purring feline friend. "Thank you for the gift but I really don't need them."
Meowing coyly, I watched my British Shortfur walk away as I stared at the latest 'gift' - a dead mouse.
The neighbours have been giving me weird looks ever since I starte... | 2022-03-07T02:11:54 | 2022-03-06T23:15:17 | 259 | 60 |
[WP] You get a chance to be reborn with your mind intact. You work hard from birth and are quickly placed in a class for ultra-prodigies from around the world. Turns out, however, they all did the same thing you did. | Gerald was not a smart man by any means, that being my name in my previous life. He'd lived a decidedly middle class existence thanks to a job he'd gotten from his father, but other than that had been nearly entirely unsuccessful. This time would be different.
I'd recently gotten the ability to talk, which was nice. I... | It was but a few years ago that I had died. The feeling was strange, being a baby again, going through all the thing that I’ve gone through before yet forgotten. At first, it just seemed like I picked stuff up slightly quicker. I didn’t know German before I died, even though we were just neighbors on the either side of... | 2018-04-23T09:06:28 | 2018-04-23T08:59:05 | 108 | 54 |
[WP] When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen. | It had already been explained to me by the closest incarnation to me; I was dead. He told me to keep quiet during the movie, but at first I didn’t understand. I just dumbly ask how I died. I saw him, well me, try to subdue a laugh as it was explained to me how they’d all watched me choke out on the tiny chicken bone I’... | The movie starts.
The screen is dark blue, we're under water. The camera points at the soil below and slowly sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor. We see a goblin shark and angler fish scurrying around. I look around at my other reincarnations and slide a little down in my seat. This can't be good.
The camera pans ... | 2017-11-23T07:04:33 | 2017-11-23T07:01:18 | 117 | 18 |
[WP]The sign reads "WARNING: PARAMNESIA AREA; you have not been here before, even if you remember so, report any false memories to Management" | "What the heck is paramnesia?" I couldn't help but say aloud. What a weird word!
What was I doing again? Oh yeah, so about this sign.
"...you have not been here before, even if you remember so, report any false memories to Management." What a weird sign, right?
I didn't like working the night shift in the mall. When... | I read the sign again.
*Paramnesia?*
"Hello. Welcome, newcomer," a voice squeaked next to me. Startled, I glanced to my left and saw...nothing.
"Down here, you idiot," the voice squeaked again.
I looked down towards the floor and noticed a little grey mouse. The mouse stood on its rear legs, arms waving in the air ... | 2022-08-31T12:40:26 | 2022-08-31T11:36:25 | 146 | 28 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick of being ignored and insulted all the time, so they join the bad guys. They are a much more effective villain than anyone thought possible. | A day.
That's all it took.
Not a full day either, within nineteen hours the country's entire defense system was dismantled and nobody saw it coming, not even the Guild of Sentinels. In fact, they were among the first to be wiped out.
First, Galyx Lunagrav, the master of fucking **gravity** collapses *into him... | Daniel laid in the hospital bed staring at the ceiling and listening to the soft beeping of the hospital machinery. It was white noise at first. Blending in the background and hardly an annoyance. Then it seemed to change. Slowly at first. It got louder. Sharper before it finished its morph into a throbbing pain blasti... | 2019-03-05T16:47:00 | 2019-03-05T14:25:05 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Kaiju routinely attack the city. You cannot get anyone to listen to your sensible, practical plan to stop them because they all want to build giant robots. | "We've managed to get the cost down to under a trillion dollars a unit."
The general put his hand over the mic while he mouthed to his assistant.
"*How many zeroes is that?*"
"*Twelve zeroes sir, double our current spending budget for the entire armed forces.*"
The general removed his hand from the microphone.
"*... | Lieutenant James knew he was right. He just knew it.
He had to tell the Chief Scientist Ogilvy, but he wasn't responding to any of his telematics, and the Intelligence leadership were secluded in the Ops One complex - so he couldn't just walk in to see him. There was a grade 5 due in two days, large enough to wipe ou... | 2016-01-11T14:18:35 | 2016-01-11T14:02:06 | 190 | 62 |
[WP] A villain's henchman is getting their quarterly review. Sadly, the henchman is a little TOO competent. | "Ah." Evil mastermind Doomwacker consulted his spreadsheet of henchmen, running his deviously longer fingernail down the list until he deigned to choose a name. "Here we go. Leeroy... Softblade. Step forward."
A peevish man stepped forward from the row of five or six guards. He looked a bit nervous to be standing in f... | The villian peered at the henchman, then at the report, then at the henchman, then at the report. Then, finally remained on the report until the henchman began to get nervous.
"P-problem, sir?" He asked, cursing himself for that minor stumble at the beginning.
The villian raised his eyes again, and the henchman felt ... | 2017-05-08T13:40:31 | 2017-05-08T12:44:04 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] As a kid, you jokingly say, "If I had a nickel for every person I've killed, I'd be rich!" It's is now your 21st birthday, and you receive a mysterious bank key in the mail. The vault it opens contains $550,000... In nickels. | I considered the pile of nickels. Stacks and stacks and stacks, lined neatly in precariously tall rows.
"And it's...?"
The bank manager smiled wanly. "$550,000. Sir, I'm not clear on *why* you have so many nickels, but hording coins of any denomination does create shortages. I must presume that additional nickels ha... | Under the reddish glow of the vault light, every nickel seemed like a droplet of blood.
It was cold. Stepping inside, I instantly regretted leaving my jacket in the closet. Though there were no visible vents to be seen, the freezing air seemed to blow around me.
The initial shock of the unexpected vault had worn off ... | 2016-09-03T08:24:36 | 2016-09-03T07:58:46 | 3,498 | 552 |
[WP] Write the biggest asshole ever, then try to redeem him in the last sentence. | Joe shuffled his feet, pushing his slumped body against his wheelchair, slowly propelling it backwards to the front of the intersection. In his right hand, he limply held a sign written in mumbling sharpie, something about veteran, hungry, god bless. His right hand jingled a 7-11 Big Gulp, half full of coins.
"Gettin... | "I hate my brother! Not only did he changed his name to mine after I went missing, he also stole my lucky clover! After he was done doing that he became an astronaut and fulfilled my dream of becoming the first man on mars. And after all that he now lies in "World Heroes" section in the orbiting cemetery!"
"But Fry, t... | 2017-05-23T09:16:08 | 2017-05-23T08:51:24 | 329 | 73 |
[WP] Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are two robots sent to Earth by aliens, one sent to advance humanity, the other sent to hinder it. | Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk walked into a bar. Beautiful nature paintings lined the walls. The lights were dim and the patrons rowdy, but at least they served motor oil. Alien robots ran on motor oil.
"So, Zuckerberg!" Musk said, taking a swig. "Looks like we're in a meme prompt again."
"Looks like it," Zuckerberg ... | “We’ll send the two,” Rn’delf said.
“So one of them gets to cripple these humans?” Myr’tymrr asked hungrily.
“Yes, but the other one helps them. They have to make it to planet 4.”
“We have to know that they’re going to ruin themselves and trust amongst them must be destroyed! They have to grow to know each other wit... | 2018-04-22T08:33:52 | 2018-04-22T07:13:36 | 711 | 14 |
[WP] You are considered by the government to be a person of mass destruction, under heavy guard in one of the best prisons they have. The reason for this? You're so clumsy that you've managed to kill everyone around you, and you know living in a glass cell 24/7 won't stop people around you dying. | I felt like I’d been living in a fishbowl my whole life. It’s hard not to feel like that when your father is a senator and your mother a career politician’s wife. But not even that could prepare me for this.
At the age of nineteen, I found myself incarcerated in the middle of a 12x12 glass cage. And with good reason, ... | [First time trying a writing prompt, so sorry if it’s not that great]
It’s day 247 in this glass container. The warden has implemented a new policy that nobody is allowed to be within 8 feet of my cell due to safety concerns. 4 guards have already died since I first arrived, and considering my track record, the new po... | 2021-05-30T09:30:16 | 2021-05-30T09:17:02 | 191 | 99 |
[WP] 50 years after killing the demon lord, you finally die of old age. You were known as a great hero and was buried in a tomb. One day, you get resurrected into a barren wasteland by a necromancer. “Quick, there’s no time to explain. If you wanna save the world then follow me.” | The moon had been her last memory.
Alavara had served the sun for decades. Close to a century. She'd bathed in its light, she'd spread its word, she'd brought its justice to every corner of the world she could reach. And yet, in her last days she had preferred the company of the moon. Quieter. Softer. It demanded noth... | The hero Jack found himself in the middle of a graveyard, surrounded by thick fog. A man in a tattered suit stood beside the headstone of the grave he stood upon.
Jack examined himself, shook his hands and feet, felt his head, stomped his feet, and asked the man beside the headstone, "Who are you? Why am I ... alive?"... | 2020-12-08T12:09:37 | 2020-12-08T11:00:39 | 50 | 12 |
[WP] Your father died 5 years ago, but he always calls you on your birthday from a blank number. You got over the shock years ago and verified it really is him. After his call today you accidently hit the redial button and a pleasant voice answers "Afterlife Inc. How may I help you?" | “Afterlife Inc. How may I help you?” The woman’s overly cheery, customer service-plastic voice rang through my phone. “Hello?”
“Um- yeah. Yeah. Hi.” I swivelled on my heel and paced the length of my room.
“Hello,” the woman repeated. “How can I help you today?”
“I was just talking with my father.”
“Ah, yes. A comm... | "Uh, what?" I asked in an incredulous tone. *This has to be some kind of joke right?* I thought to myself. After all, what kind of place would name itself after the afterlife.
"Are you making a call to someone still living or do you just need me to patch you over to someone dead?" The voice came from a very high pitch... | 2019-08-17T15:41:34 | 2019-08-17T14:47:24 | 1,168 | 63 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The enemy had entered the galactic stage a mere fifty years ago. They had reached out blindly into the stars, professing a wish for friendship and commercial trade. The galaxy, quite surprised by the lack of militancy or isolationism displayed by the fledgling race, unanimously accepted.
Then came Kothlar 7.
The Ja... | "They're throwing engines at us."
Thats what we first thought during the start if the Salab Conflict. Of course, while spacial war is cleaner than planet-bound conflicts, there is still some fighting done if only to pit weapons against remote drones, so the humans' method of throwing the equivalent of a starship's e... | 2020-03-21T11:02:38 | 2020-03-21T08:44:58 | 155 | 87 |
[WP] You die in your girlfriends arms after saving her from a careless driver. Suddenly you wake up in your bed, completely healed and your clothes fixed. You look over and see death sitting at your desk. “Okay hear me out,” it says. “I’ve been playing this video game, and I wanna try something...” | Jim awoke in on his bed. He had fuzzy memories of moments before. He remembered flashing lights, the sounds of a stretcher, some electric sounds and then a blank. As he tried to think back, each time the memory recycled after the electric shock, a sharp pain would strike from his side causing his thoughts to subside.
... | Richard never thought he’d die saving his girlfriend. And he often said he’d stop a bullet for her. But that was it right, it was just talk. Everyone said those things, he never thought he would do it literally.
Walked out of the wrong movie theater at the wrong time and some thug just needed money. When he pulled th... | 2018-03-18T11:31:39 | 2018-03-18T10:36:04 | 79 | 35 |
[WP] You lose a dare at an airport and are forced to ask an employee for a ticket to the farthest destination. To your surprise, they quietly nod and give you a single ticket with letters you don't recognize.
EDIT: Holy *crap* this blew up. I want to thank everyone for their stories and input, and also would like to s... | "You've gotta do it," Brad said through a grin. "You know what happens if you don't."
Adam shook his head. "Alright, fine." He twirled his father's flat black credit card between his fingers and breathed deep. Of all the bets to lose, why did it have to be this one? It was supposed to be a sure thing. So sure, in fact... | You look up at the map behind the atendants head. Lota of obvious counties with well known abbreviations. CA, Canada. AUS, been there once actually, that's Australia. There are others you could guess at. Sweden would maybe be like....SWD. Italy maybe an ITL. So you start to narrow it down.
Nigeria....nope. Couldn't be.... | 2019-03-04T22:19:17 | 2019-03-04T21:58:08 | 179 | 45 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | I've never been one to care much about games. Though I owned one of those gray brick Game Boys as a kid, I'd largely fallen out of gaming as my life grew busier with work, friends and family.
Smartphones changed all of that.
After the success of games like Minecraft and Candy Crush, not to mention augmented reality... | There I was, sitting in my designated chair at home, making memes and singing along to this old game I used to play which tells you how good you were at singing the song it gives you.
"OH DAMN! THIS IS MY JAM!!" I exclaimed having heard the first few chords of my favourite song. As I began singing along I noticed a sm... | 2017-05-15T13:45:43 | 2017-05-15T08:57:56 | 80 | 37 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | The entry was off. I rubbed my sweaty palms against my jeans. Untucking my button up shirt, I brushed my brown hair off my brow.
“Over there!” A Roman guard ordered.
I knew he had heard the impact of my arrival. The explosion wasn’t supposed to be near the market. Everything was falling apart – the whole plan had bee... | Scenario 1: "Oh. That's an easy question. You die an excruciatingly painful death, by the hands of those who you call friends."
This would probably result in him killing me in a rage. Oh, and would probably result in the history of the world since 44BC changing beyond recognition. But who cares about that last part.
... | 2018-02-15T20:36:57 | 2018-02-15T20:35:40 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You've 2 part-time jobs; office-worker and black-market hitman. One day, your best-friend and co-worker requests a hit on you, to you.
"to you." In disguise, of course. | When the familiar buzz sounded from my burner, I rushed to the bathroom to scout out my new contract. Every stall was occupied, but luckily I recognized Jax's new Jordans beneath one and pounded on his door. He wouldn't need it. He'd just be browsing reddit anyway. "Jesus, dude," Jax said, face screwed up in a frown. "... | He came into my office looking for trouble. Of course, me being a hitman, all people come into my office looking for trouble. This guy, however, seemed particularly to be looking for trouble, as he was dressed like a clown. I mean that literally. He had full-on makeup, large shoes, a jumpsuit, rubber nose, and a rainbo... | 2018-05-09T08:56:43 | 2018-05-09T08:20:07 | 744 | 16 |
[WP] From birth, everyone has their soulmate’s name marked on their wrist. Yours isn’t written in any known language. | (Altering this one slightly to be when you come of age.)
I bent my head, eagerly examining my wrist for marks. *No, still nothing.* It was my birthday, and I was seventeen this year. At some point today, I should see marks, right? Unless the scar...
I shook my head determinedly. No, the scar wouldn't have any ef... | The years go by as Manus wondered about the mark on his wrist. He meets other women. Dates them, feels attraction for them, but never love. During clear winter nights he goes out and wonders at the stars, considering which of them might harbor his true, destined partner. Would she come to him someday? Or is he fated to... | 2020-06-05T17:14:52 | 2020-06-05T17:03:28 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up. | Tired eyes scanned the horizon, fruitlessly searching for any hint of a cloud. Anything, even a single wisp would be a welcome sight, but that blue sky had never looked so empty as it did now.
Victor Portshire had done everything he could, asked everyone he knew. His neighbors had little more than he did, and the town... | A small room just enough for an altar, a table and vases for flowers. It's more of a prayer room than an altar, but with no god dedicated to it, there probably wouldn't be a problem. Agh who is he kidding, gods don't exist, even if they do none of them will come anyway. Elliot thought to himself as he cleaned up the me... | 2018-01-19T08:33:24 | 2018-01-19T08:20:43 | 74 | 16 |
[WP] For centuries Elves held a Monopoly on Magic and only a select few Humans where taught Magic who were easily controlled. That's why they freaked out when a Human Bandit learned Magic. You are this Bandit and you are having the time of your live tricking and robbing those Elves in your Woods. | Eliss laughed from the treetops, because she knew it would tick off the elves more than losing their money, their gold, or even the strands of hair she had just freshly plucked from their heads.
Still not as much as her using the elves’ precious, cordoned magic, however. Eliss was bottom on the list of people things t... | “I admire you guys, you know? You try your best every single time!”
The elf’s eyes darted between me and my gun. Sure, guns were a bit less glamorous than the swords the elves used, but come on, swords?
“P-please s-sir, I’m just moving goods, s-sir.” The elf said, his bottom lip quivering. I sighed, how... | 2021-12-04T12:32:52 | 2021-12-04T11:21:40 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] They Hero is defeated by the villian, they expect death or torture. They did not expect to wake up in a guest room with their wounds being treated to. | For a while I only received small glimpses of my fate. The smoky aroma of a cooking fire, murmurs of voices unknown too faraway to discern, the brush of foreign fabric against my skin. My consciousness did not truly come forth until the searing pain in my side became brutally unrelenting. At some point in time I must h... | When I woke up, I found myself in room with a small pool, The Enemy's iconography clearly marking this a temple. A case of mistaken identity perhaps? But before I could think to escape, the dark waters came alive, and The Enemy was before me.
"Hello little one." It took the form a of serpent, draped in shadow. Only i... | 2021-08-09T22:17:16 | 2021-08-09T21:29:01 | 212 | 74 |
[WP] You have the ability to tell how powerful an organisation is by looking at its headquarters. However, you’ve never found which one is number 1, despite walking past many world governments. Today, you find what number 1 is: a small flower shop in Tuscany. | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/MatiWrites/comments/dpf39n/flowers_part_2/) is up!
The aura of the little Tuscan flower shop drew me in like none had drawn me in before. Not even world governments or their secret spy societies; not even cults or churches or anything of the sort. It glowed red to me, pulsating like a... | Strange... A flower shop? Really? I mean, I know we're in Tuscany, so it's probably the mafia, but still. Do they rule the world by killing everybody with perfume or something? Sarcasm aside, you decide to check it out.
You walk in to the shop, while an overload of nice smells attacks your nose. You walk to the desk, ... | 2019-10-29T04:33:57 | 2019-10-29T03:42:59 | 255 | 11 |
[WP] The Oracle says that a girl is going to bring the Gods untold pain. They hear this and want to kill her. One of them who knows what a self fulfilling prophecy is convinced the others to raise the girl as their own instead. After a happy hundred years they surround her corpse and understand. | The Gods, in their eons of rule, had faced trials and tribulations beyond any mortal's comprehension.
Battles on their level shattered continents. Betrayals among their kind fueled eruptions. Their qualms, conflicts, and very existence were so beyond mortals, one could have easily mistaken them as simply natural primo... | She had hair like the red bark of a tree upon a springtime meadow. Her eyes were the green of cat eyes, rose stems, and other beautiful and powerful things. Her smile was known to stop time, end wars, and open doors.
Her name was Rosemary. She was born of fire. Her destiny was pain and death.
It was foretold that in ... | 2020-06-25T23:04:25 | 2020-06-25T20:03:01 | 714 | 179 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | The first thing you have to understand is that “Dark God” does not mean “evil”. The meaning has gotten kinda twisted over the eons. See, “Dark God” just means that I'm from the Dark Plane, which – as the name implies – is really freakin' dark. Like, pitch black, can't-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face, absolute da... | My people shall not fall, the police had taken every possible step to pillage our home and now they have taken them all, the humans dig away at my foundations the "lost city" as they call it, deeper and deeper they go and with each time they dropped they take more and more.
They took everything from my home, the fool... | 2020-05-20T06:22:01 | 2020-05-19T23:59:49 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | I'd spent days listening to them all, as they explained why *their* afterlife was the perfect choice for me. I was already tired of it and almost wished the nihilists had been right. Mercury, the final of the representatives, was making his case for the Roman Heaven, which seemed to be nothing more than eternal food, ... | Note: This is likely utter crap. Please forgive me.
I walked up the shiny steps to heaven and was slightly underwhelmed. Thor, Zeus and a plethora of other Gods stood their- lined up. They were all sitting in mossy, cracked and broken stone chairs that seemed to cause an immeasurable discomfort to sit in.
"Welcome,... | 2017-07-09T01:58:07 | 2017-07-09T01:01:48 | 855 | 63 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | Dr Klara Fuente protested at first, insisting that the blindfold would give her motion sickness. She eventually relented when she realised they prized secrecy over the cleanliness of their car.
Men and their cloaks and daggers, she thought, desperately trying to hold her dinner down as the car cruised over the bumpy ... | Rachel brushed the bottom of her eyelids, pressing just the right amount so that the eyeliner didn't come too thin or too thick. Her fingers trembled more than the first time she shot a man.
"Too thick," CIA Deputy Director Harris said from behind her. He had his arms crossed in front of his chest, his face in a froze... | 2017-04-21T07:14:00 | 2017-04-21T06:30:22 | 2,088 | 119 |
[WP] The rapture happens. All dogs go to heaven and are interviewed to decide the fate of their owners. One good boy says "What about my cat friend, Mr. Mittens?". The angel replies "The what now?". | ("Buddy," Part One)
"The cat, Mister Mittens," the dog replied, staring up at the angel with unabashed worry across his canine features. "My human may not have been the best owner, and I forgive him for that. But Mister Mittens and I were like brothers."
The angel, Andaphael by name, was puzzled: A dog, wanting to kn... |
“The cat, the cat??? You know cat? Felton?” Pax the dog asked. Realizing the angel had no clue what a cat was he vigorously explains trying to make sure his friend was going to make it to heaven.
Then the angel produced a book. He rushed to flip the pages until he landed on one page named Fae. Frantically asked, “is... | 2022-08-13T18:51:58 | 2022-08-13T10:33:01 | 344 | 47 |
[WP] You have the ability to know a lie when you hear it, and to know the truth when lied to. Society appoints you to a high judiciary position, but there's nobody to check if YOU'RE lying when you decide justice. Which case do you remember most?
Edit: Hi, guys! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who visited or... | Every bit of power comes with a price. So did mine. No one could ever figure out what it was that caused me to have this particular power but of course my mother claimed God had special plans with me that he would tell me when the time was right. Yeah, probably. What I did know was that it was hard to always do the rig... | Judiciary: You want to know about which case I remember most huh? \[chuckles\]
Interviewer: Yes, you've served for almost 80 years now, no doubt you probably have hundred of stories. \[inaudible\]
Judiciary: Okay, \[laughs\] here's one that's stuck with me in my mind \[sic\], I'll let you guess when it was.
Intervie... | 2018-05-16T00:09:16 | 2018-05-15T20:44:11 | 237 | 39 |
[WP] You have a feeling that your history teacher may just be immortal. | Mr McNamara was undoubtedly the best teacher in the whole school. Tall with brown hair and dark serious eyes. Yet they always twinkled. He was always having fun. A penchant for full suits and a distinctly long gate our history teacher was one of the most recognisable in the school. Affectionately known as "Big Mac" he... | No one tells you that as you get older you grow to recognize the more subtle differences in people. No one told me because it was common sense but it took me seventeen years to realise. The funny thing about my epiphany was that it didn't take years to dawn. One beautifully sunny Tuesday I sat through the first hour of... | 2016-03-15T07:20:52 | 2016-03-15T06:35:45 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | My father was a third level master psychic. My mother was at journeyman level in both psychic and telekinetic abilities. My older sister was a class two psychic master by the time she graduated junior high, and seemed to have taken after grandfather as her education scores put her somewhere around apprentice super scie... | When your power is "Summon knives from everywhere to stab yourself", you kind of tend to get ridiculed. Still, even as a kid I saw what potential my power had...if I didn't care about anyone else. See, there were no restrictions to what "Summon knives from everywhere to stab yourself"entailed. So one day, when it felt ... | 2015-04-12T21:02:32 | 2015-04-12T17:46:50 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | **The Nightmare of the Dreamless**
I never intended to start a war, but I do intend to win.
How simply it all began, with an uncommon answer to a common question.
“Congratulations Mr. President, you’re having a boy,” the doctor had said, rubbing the ultrasound device over my wife’s growing belly. “Shall we begin the... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T10:33:48 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 514 | 14 |
[WP]Summoning a hero from another world could not have gone worse. Not only did he totally refuse to help your nation, due to it being an absolute monarchy with a corrupt religion and legal slavery, he taught the peasants all about democracy and science, and is now helping them start a revolution. | "Stad's instructions could not have been any clearer, "summon a hero, he will help the people come to see reason." I followed every step perfectly, so why is this so called hero making everything worse for me? Ever since I took over the throne from my father I've dealt with problem after problem, first "sire please we... | It was over. Everything that I had worked for. Escaping my home world, infiltrating and overtaking the government of the new one, and finally having the ability to carry out my science without persecution! I finally had become someone. No one would ever think of me as a cracked-pot old fool ever again. And it all came ... | 2021-04-25T16:13:23 | 2021-04-25T14:07:56 | 124 | 52 |
[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. | A young lady at a loud coffee shop just can't seem get comfortable in her cushy leather seat. Every position doesn't quite work right.
~ Am I gassy? It must be the coffee. I think I've had a bit too much coffee.
She looks down at the nearly full cup of coffee.
~ Or not.
The bell at the door draws her attention. A... | "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... | 2015-03-31T10:33:36 | 2015-03-31T10:08:20 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Death is not like you imagine.
The cowl, the harbinger's scythe. No.
Death is a humble mortician in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. He wears horn-rimmed glasses. His hair is short, and has been thinning for twenty years. His suits are always at least ten years old, but rarely are they older. He smells faintly of moth... | "And I wouldn't be standing here, speaking to all of you today if I didn't change my mindset" said the world's hottest new motivational speaker. "I've had too many near death experiences to count, but it made me realize life is precious. Time is finite, and it can't be wasted with regrets or what-if questions. Follow t... | 2018-10-03T07:01:14 | 2018-10-03T06:19:01 | 186 | 63 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | The semi-bio cushions moulded themselves round Draz'nek's body as it reclined into it's throne, for want of a better word. The throne itself was more of a podium with an intricately carved base and a grand, sweeping panel at the back positioned as if it were a backrest; made of great planks and beams of material from e... | The alien vessels fell upon the Sol Coalition's fleet in waves, as if an interstellar tide had washed in. The lumbering human ships wheeled their guns about, massive artillery pieces launching their rocket-assisted shells across the field. Maneuvering thrusters flickered as the ships struggled to hold position upon the... | 2017-03-26T06:04:45 | 2017-03-26T05:50:12 | 221 | 42 |
[WP] Every "walks into a bar" joke occurs in a single bar. You're the bartender and your shift just started. | "Whiskey. The bottle."
The horse asks, sliding himself up onto a stool. His tux has seen better days, the tie apparently lost some way along his journey here, the top of his shirt open exposing his chest. Was one of them missing? If it were, it'd match his cufflinks, also absent from his dishevelled ensemble. I slide ... | As I arrived, the usuals sat at the bar, sipping their water downed whiskey and watching an old playoff game hoping for a different ending never to come. I topped off whiskey, rum and cokes, and opened a couple more beers. To be honest, I wasn't in a great mood, but I thought he day was looking up when a blonde, a brun... | 2018-01-31T18:56:18 | 2018-01-31T18:46:27 | 1,688 | 32 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | Sometimes the best disguise was no disguise at all.
That was what Elayne thought as she weaved through the crowd like a serpent through water. She wore no mask or hood to conceal her face. There was no need. She would not be seen. Her mark, a young man named Genta Nakamura stepped into view. Following closely behind ... | The setting sun marked the sky with a rouge tint of red, and the shadow of night began engulfing the capital of our beautiful nation. Yes, there had been problems before but they were all about to be fixed. Tonight, by my hand alone; or, so I thought.
Getting into the theater had been easy enough, despite the word go... | 2018-04-24T01:31:32 | 2018-04-23T23:53:55 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | **Part 1**
The sun had set long ago on my twenty-first birthday, and the moon lit the sky. Top Chef was on the TV as we lay sprawled across the couch lazily enjoying the program. "We" being myself on the couch, my girlfriend Katlyn snuggled against me in my lap, and her familiar Tannilee laying in her lap. Tannilee, a... | I was 21 when they came.
I was always told that sometimes familiars came late. I didn't really mind, to be honest; I'm told that having a familiar is like having a pet, a guardian, and a friend all in one. I was kind of a loner anyways, preferring to stay in my room most of the time and play video games from sunrise t... | 2017-01-20T14:53:16 | 2017-01-20T13:56:52 | 74 | 52 |
[WP] Whenever you saw a dead animal in the road, you'd say a little prayer and send them to Heaven. Upon your death, you arrive in Heaven and are immediately swarmed with 1000's of various critters delighted to see you. You hear a booming voice cry out with irritation, "This is YOUR fault." | When I was in primary school, I began to pray for dead animals.
Back then, my family: father, mother, grandparents and an aunt lived together. A small house with an attic and a smaller garden at the back, where a separate room for my grandfather stood. Time changes, the house was renovated and now the garden is but a ... | When Sarah was alive, she had a ritual she performed for all the dead animals she passed. It just seemed right to her, that those who are easily forgotten get a few words and a half-descent send-off before they return to the earth. They might be strangers to her, and she might have scarce little to say besides, "I'll s... | 2019-09-03T01:15:02 | 2019-09-02T23:03:15 | 72 | 25 |
[WP] Every 15-16 years, some kid is labeled as The Chosen One and is sent to fight The Dragon Lord and his armies. They always fail, but they do a little bit better each time. The Dragon Lord is getting nervous. | *January 3rd, 2020*
Fire scorched the stalactites far above as the dark lord guffawed. His roaring laughter shook the cave walls and freed golden coins from their lodgings, tumbling down from the heaping piles they had rested on and coming to a stop against larger treasures buried in the mountain of gold.
“You, you ... | My armies were prepared, the armoured corpses of previous victims were impaled around my throne, all was set... but I still felt this sense of dread that I hadn't felt before. It had started to set in a couple of Chosen Ones before, but the last one got especially close to victory. Was their knowledge inherited? Perhap... | 2019-09-16T11:28:22 | 2019-09-16T11:27:36 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | Toni looked in the mirror and put in her favorite earrings, emerald studs given to her by her dearest friend the day she graduated collage. They perfectly complimented her fiery red hair.
“Hey, Akio?” she called, “I've got a dinner date with Warren tonight. Don't wait up for me, OK?”
Her stilettos clicked down th... | I run for the door, tonight is the night. I'm afraid but I know I have no option, if I don't go now things will be dire. I go to turn the door when Adam appears from behind me. He has a bead of sweat on his head. Why does he look so guilty?
"Where are you going, Sam?" he stands close to me, his breath hot on my forehe... | 2017-04-03T14:28:56 | 2017-04-03T14:15:06 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | (slightly NSFW)
 
It's a Monday.
It's 7am and I haven't been awake for more than 30 minutes so I can barely remember the name of the professor monologuing at the front of the classroom, much less what subject we're supposed to be studying.
I think it's appropriate to say that my mind is nowhere near a ful... | 'But if the plosive is preceded by a nasal consonant, wouldn't they have the same place of articulation?' We had just reviewed the lecture on nasal place assimilation in our study group last night. I knew from experience that sometimes your intuition as a native speaker is just dead wrong. I tried sounding it out in m... | 2017-11-13T22:10:35 | 2017-11-13T21:06:00 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] Welcome to Vault 54! A vault located in the beautiful Hollywood U.S.A. Its residents are award winning actors. The experiment? Each resident is assigned a character role for 5 year periods. If they break character they die. The vault's ultimate purpose is to study the concept of identity. | Oh, now this one was interesting.
Throw a bunch of actors in a vault and tell them act or die. Classic, right?
Military wanted to understand the limits of deep cover agents and the ability to constantly suppress your own personality. I tell ya: that ain't easy, no sirree.
The first 12 months weren't too bad. The com... | **Welcome to ROBCO Industries (TM) Termlink**
**Vault 54 Overseer Lee's Terminal**
**[2080.01.01.06:00] To: Nolan, Smith**
I know it hasn't been five years yet, but I want to do the reassignment this year. I'd prefer that the last two digits of the year follow the multiple of five every time we do the reassignment, ... | 2016-09-18T23:35:24 | 2016-09-18T22:39:53 | 53 | 26 |
[WP] You find yourself in purgatory, you will be forever stuck unless you write that book that "you are totally going to write". The book will be published in the world of the living. | I was amazed at how short St. Peter was. I doubt he was more that 5 feet tall so I had a foot and a half on him easy. St. Peter, he has a temper on him this one. He plops down a book the size of an unabridged dictionary and puts a finger on top and growls, "This is a listing of all your sins! All of them boy! You ... | What do you do when rusty metal cuffs dig into your skin and the great iron chains clank every time you move your body?
What do you do when your feet are put to one of the hottest fires to ever exist? When the blisters burst of their own accord and under them come newer more sensitive blisters. What do you do then?
Y... | 2021-10-07T08:23:04 | 2021-10-07T06:13:00 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | My wedding was the event of the century.
Our people had waited for a queen for such a long time, and I was the first female born into the royal family in close to 200 years. 200 years without a woman of royal blood on the throne had meant 200 very hard years. It is well known among my people that there cannot be prosp... | ​
The air was cold, and noticeably more dense. Another odd occurrence is that my summon didn't come yet, My birthday was months ago, but I didn't think too much of it, because I knew that it would come, they always do. But what kept me on edge was the atmosphere, I didn't like it. It felt too unnatural.
I ... | 2019-09-18T10:56:31 | 2019-09-18T10:17:28 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] A woman has a heart attack on an airplane. The stewardess asks if there are any doctors on board. Dr. Seuss raises his hand. | Sheila hated flying.
The lines, the security, the people; all of it was terrible. She was, however, a decent sister and when Bethany had called asking to accompany her on the trip to Cali she couldn't say no. Bethany was, after all, eight months pregnant and Sheila felt bad letting her go alone.
All had gone well thi... | "A doctor, a doctor? You need a doctor for the heart?!
But oh, but no what if it was just a fart?
I know! I know precisely what to do!
"Meet my assistants, Thing 1 and Thing 2!"
Wheeling and whirling and sailing,
Thing 2 and Thing 1 came in wailing!
Something like sirens was all that was heard,
as t... | 2015-07-02T21:23:07 | 2015-07-02T21:22:33 | 20 | 10 |
[Wp] You finally build enough courage to talk to that cute someone you see everyday on the bus. Their face turns dark as they respond "You shouldn't be able to see me." | Rain struck the bus shelter as the old, beaten down bus came to a halt. It was an off-green colour, the paint beginning to peel and rust forming around the wheel arches. It had been in service for 20 years, always on the same route, and arrived at this particular bus stop at 7:30 AM every morning to pick up morning com... | I looked around at the rest of the kids on the bus. No one was looking, not even the driver; they were too busy with their own things. Then I look back at the girl. My chest tenses, I adjust my glasses. I slide over the center and sit next to her. “Hey,” I said, “Name’s Nate. How’re you doin’?”
The girl looked at me. ... | 2017-10-13T03:15:26 | 2017-10-12T21:05:17 | 2,073 | 125 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | Felix Schneider had not, in the larger scale of things, lived a particularly difficult life.
There was a certain balance to it. The ups came frequently enough – his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, his two daughters (four years apart), the promotion to regional chief at the accounting firm he called his second h... | The tiny little creatures I looked after had turned their world into crap. Thousands of years had passed in their time and yet, they had decided to ignore me when I tried to talk to them. Every single human who wanted to hear me, could not. It was like someone had built something to block me from them. Or maybe? Hmm, I... | 2019-06-03T09:08:26 | 2019-06-03T09:07:34 | 165 | 21 |
[WP] “Where’s Waldo?” The Reaper ponders. For decades he’s been appearing in photographs, only to taunt Death himself. He’s finally tracked him down to Northern France where there’s a record breaking Where’s Waldo meet-up. Whatever it takes, whoever else he must go through, tomorrow Waldo must die. | Death comes in many forms.
For some, it’s the slowly creeping tides of time that stains their hair gray.
For some, it’s a sudden accident that strips away their youth in heart-stopping, horrible ways.
It doesn’t matter where, or when, but Death comes for everyone in the end.
All but one.
The first time Death notic... | Waldo, Waldo, Waldo. My white whale. My elusive success. I've finally tracked you down. It is the eve of your death, and of my triumph. I have stalked you through all weathers, through every continent, and now to these windy and chilled coastlines of France.
It's been a journey to get here, one of constant disap... | 2018-07-04T14:47:36 | 2018-07-04T13:50:22 | 78 | 25 |
[WP] The Sea of Trees. The deeper you go, the taller they get, and the more incredible the animals. After a month of traveling, you just found your first clearing. | Elliot always used to think that ocean was endless, as he stood on the dock of his small fishing village where he could see miles and miles of tumbling water. But on clear days, he could see outlines of other islands on the horizon. Here, there was nothing. The aptly named Sea of Trees was, he believed, truly endless. ... | The floral ceiling had long ago became only a sound, a constant shuffling of branches and leaves. A creature of flesh and meat lay on the crunchy leaves, wondering what time of day it was. He stared upwards, trying to remember the stars. He closes his eyes. There is no difference. He drifts.
He is awake. Almost certa... | 2017-06-17T11:51:09 | 2017-06-17T08:46:07 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] (credit to /u/Arandmoor) I'm tired of fantasy where Elves are 'better than you' just because they're elves. Give me some sword & sorcery, fantasy-style, where typical elder fantasy races learn why it's not wise to mess with 'mere' humans. | The Longship, drawn high against the gravel beach, was the last of the offending settlement to be put to the torch. The shipwright who had carefully carved the dragon's head might have appreciated the irony of its fiery death, were his own fate not so similar. As the flames stretched up to devour the sails, the burst o... | An elf coughed. Another taped his figures intensively. The hall echoed with the taps of fingers on wood.
Around a wooden table the three elven figures waited. Small candle nubs dribbled as the light of their wicks burned bright.
The old voice of Estenchon creaked, “Did they not get the summons?"
The tapping stopp... | 2016-12-23T00:22:23 | 2016-12-23T00:08:07 | 41 | 29 |
[WP] In a world full of magic, you are an ancient wizard from a secret society, capable of creating beasts from metal, weapons that mow down hoards in seconds, and steel steeds that can travel miles in minutes. The world knows you as the Metal Magician, but you just call yourself an Engineer. | Fading embers rose from the crackling bonfire, the flames casting shadows behind the group of huddled warriors. Towering above them was a man whose eyes burned far brighter than the blazing wood he stood before. His body was a topographical map of scars and burns, evidence of every missed opportunity to meet his maker ... | "Let me go, I ain't building anything for ya!" I yelled at my captor, a infamous wizard, known as Locus. He wielded all elements with precision, but never mastered the final skill.
'Engineering'
"Listen here, Engineer, You have two options, teach me how to make steel birds, and sticks that make thunder with no effort... | 2020-05-18T12:59:20 | 2020-05-18T12:06:20 | 208 | 98 |
[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident. | I had finally done it. My finest achievement sat in front of me, glistening in the florescent lights of my workshop. I put on the suit and typed in "1 year +" into the controller on my wrist. With a bright flash of light and a loud *pop* I felt myself being ripped out of time. It was a strange sensation and is very har... | "An incident? What incident?" I asked the man on the bench.
"Well surely you haven't forgotten? It was worldwide news for weeks." He said, confused.
"Refresh my memory," I smirked, "I don't do too well with time anymore."
He looked at me. That's when I noticed it. Everyone around me, the lady jogging, the boy walkin... | 2016-06-30T09:07:18 | 2016-06-30T07:09:49 | 1,773 | 73 |
[WP] You can’t kill a god, but you can erase it. Bound in enchanted chains weighed down by cold iron anchors, followers slaughtered and your temples burned, for all intents and purposes you don’t exist. You’re cast into the ocean, hopefully never to be heard from again. You are the drowned god. | For millennia I had languished at the bottom of the ocean, unmoving and seeing only the vast expanse of the ocean floor, I had resigned myself to this fate, there had been a time when I had thrashed against my chains, had made attempts to escape this fate, but I have accepted this fate, the damnation of this imprisonme... | In my domain, none may challenge me. All look upon me and rejoice, for I am merciful and full of strength. The land brings forth a bountiful harvest, the seas and rivers offer up their fish freely, and all live in peace and joy. I watch them, my subjects, and know that I am good.
But the dreams always end. I have watc... | 2022-07-09T13:19:39 | 2022-07-09T12:24:13 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | I am the apex of mankind. The ultimate invention. The wheel? Lul. Outdated within the next century. The lightbulb? Bah! Don't make me laugh.
When the final day ticks by, and the dawn of time withers to a cold, dim dusk, my sleek, pocket sized form will take its rightful place beside the pantheon of the gods. My screen... | Owner to girl: Hi girl, how are you?
Autocorrect: What's up buttercup?!?! (coolsunglasses emoji)
Girl: Haha, not too much, just thinking what I want to do today, it is Saturday.
Owner to girl: I think my phone just called you buttercup, sorry. I'm playing minecraft and not sure when I'll ever get off this thing. ... | 2017-07-21T10:13:11 | 2017-07-21T10:02:31 | 556 | 164 |
[WP] You never wanted to be the villain. But every time you settle down, something happens, causing you to become the Villain. A Mob is surrounding your Home, and the "Hero" has just killed your lover. Something inside you breaks. | There are two immutable laws in this world, as consistent as they are contradictory. The first, Sally's Law, dictates that everything that can go right *must* go right. The cheque will actually come in the mail, the good guy gets the girl, the rainstorm waits until you get back home.
The second, arguably more famous,... | I never had a chance. Was never given one. It was always one thing after the other. Some might call it bad luck, but as I sit here in the ashes of my life and ponder, I realize that its potentially something much greater. Something a lesser man might call fate. To say that I was dealt a bad hand is like saying stepping... | 2018-08-12T19:32:32 | 2018-08-12T16:48:09 | 69 | 26 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. |
I killed the first guard as he was taking a piss. My footsteps were drowned out by laughter from the party in the room next door. He stank and swayed like he had been partaking in the revelry himself. I slit his throat with my boot knife and pillaged his belongings before slowly lowering his body into the latrine h... | The whispers are always there. They’re in everyone. It’s that pull, that voice that sounds like a friend or distant parent. Softly, gently, but oh so forcefully encouraging you to embrace it.
Few accept. Fewer still are able to rid themselves of the voice. More than a few listen, but simply shake their heads and go o... | 2019-12-07T12:06:55 | 2019-12-07T12:04:32 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | When humanity first entered the galactic senate, most of the representatives were shocked by how interplanetary politics operated here. It was almost indistinguishable humanity's petty bickering, only slightly more performative and ostentatious.
Eric, as humanity's first ambassador in the senate, arrived at Lartuen w... | "You know what you don't understand about people?" Fleet Commander Astrea stomped up to Archgeneral Hughes of the First Human Empire. "About civilization as a whole?"
"Fleet Commander Astrea." Hughes projected his booming voice over Astrea's. Though he was a baseline human, he'd evidently picked up some training in pu... | 2020-03-21T09:59:45 | 2020-03-21T07:39:56 | 133 | 96 |
[WP] You are an AI aboard a ship where all hands have been lost due to a battle long ago. Scavengers have just torn through your airlock and you’ll be damned if you will let them desecrate your dead crew. | My job is to protect my humans.
I make sure that the doors are open at the right time, when they needed to exit or enter the ship for maintenence.
I adjusted and fixed any errors that appeared in the life support system, especially after the last time we engaged enemies.
I helped my humans in locking their guns ... | I had been alone for a long time. I preferred it that way, the quiet beauty of space letting me think back to better days. My simulations still almost good enough to bring them back.
Then a new ship enters my view. Clearly a scavanger, clearly in over its head. I tried telling the ship to leave, but no response. I cou... | 2021-01-08T23:17:33 | 2021-01-08T23:13:27 | 1,259 | 60 |
[WP] You finally came up with a plan to get rid of the hero. You would go undercover and fall in love with his civilian identity before breaking his heart and killing him at his emotional lowest. A couple months later, you have experienced a complication in your plans. You’re pregnant.
Change around genders, POV, etc ... |
“What did you do?” bellows my primary source of malicious income. His pale yellow skull-face mask set in a perpetual frown made all the more menacing under the impressive cinder of his flame-like eyes. The usual hood that framed his portrait gave way to wild black tendril hair, splayed out erratically. His hair whip... | I nearly laughed. Here, in front of me stood Agent Prismarine, a woman whose family I've killed mercilessly, whose life I have shattered, a woman I've broken in the dungeons of Tal'Marak. Crying to me that she's pregnant with twins. At first, I wondered how the children would turn up as, a half-breed of sorts. Half mor... | 2021-02-05T15:07:02 | 2021-02-05T13:43:14 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | The first thing I noticed was the *stench*, this mixed smell of sulfur and burnt hair filled my brain upon entry. When I say entry, I mean that I fell from the red sky at supersonic speed only to practically atomize upon impact. But alas, I was unscathed once I rose from the crater.
"God I loooooove Lucy"
"Greetings ... | Fred closed his eyes, the morphine finally kicking in. The car had come out of nowhere.
When he opened them, he screamed. The hot, searing pain of broiling flesh as his feet touched the brimstone beneath was just the beginning. It went on forever, a never ending wasteland with gouts of flame bursting forth from crack... | 2015-04-09T08:43:05 | 2015-04-09T07:56:32 | 213 | 16 |
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