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[WP] The brave sir knight has slain the dragon and rescued the princess. In return the knight asks for her hand in marriage. The princess must now awkwardly explain to the knight that while she is grateful for being rescued, she jousts for the other team. | Sir Culbert braved murky swamps, treacherous forests, and precarious cliffs all to save the beautiful Princess Elizabeth. He even slain the murderous brown dragon who kept the princess at bay. Culbert, badly injured, went to the highest tower, opened the door and said "Don't worry madam, I, Sir Culbert, have arrived to... | The knight's horse stood patiently. As a horse, it didn't get much better than to just stand around while the humans did things, especially when it was nosing through a large bag of oats as a reward for not obeying all horse instincts for the fifteen minutes previous to the five hour break, and bolting for the nearest ... | 2016-10-21T14:19:58 | 2016-10-21T13:49:41 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Humans finally gain the ability to intergalactic travel. In meeting other species, they quickly realize earth is the "Australia" of space and all the aliens are in awe of our durability. | "So, let me get this right. You breathe... oxygen?"
The blobbish creature extended another slug-like appendage, striking the keyboard character signalling confusion. It undulated slightly, its hairs on end - a sign of timidness, according to the labcoats. Keith sighed.
"Yep. Most of us just call it air though, so you... | We left our ship ready for war. I remember, my squadron and I, crouching low, assault rifle raised, walking in a tactical formation down the ramp of our Hymito II cruiser. We had just landed on Charon V, the first planet that showed signs of life after our fleet made the jump to intergalactic travel. It looked to be a ... | 2017-05-07T21:43:17 | 2017-05-07T20:42:39 | 92 | 62 |
[WP] Your daughter has been begging you for a pony, and you told her to write a letter to Santa. On Christmas morning, you find a fire-breathing horse in your front yard, and a package by your front door. Looks like she wrote a letter to Satan, and he delivered.
Whoa. This blew up way more than I expected it to.
Edit... | "Hi, uh... so, I think I might have been the victim of a prank, but..."
...
"I see. So, this really is Hell's telephone number, is that it?"
...
"Well, whether I believe it or not, there's... uh... look, my daughter asked for a pony, see?"
...
"That's not really relevant, is it? I mean, yes, obviously she likes i... | One of my favorite sounds in the world is the happy laughter or squealing from my daughter. Unfortunately right now I couldn't enjoy it because I was struck dumb by the object of her happiness. In the front lawn stood a pony, or a horse I never quite could the difference sometimes, and I had no idea why it was there mu... | 2017-09-25T13:31:23 | 2017-09-25T13:27:37 | 2,839 | 2,099 |
[WP] As a child, every adventurer is assigned a class for their life. You've been assigned to be a White Mage. Dreading a life in the background saving a bunch of idiots that get all the glory, you aim to carve your own path. Tell the tale of the Harmacist. | It is not the wound that kills people. It is the healing. That is the pretext with which I studied the holy arts. An improperly mended bone or muscle, a “heal” cast to close a septic wound without purifying it. That was my preferred method. Monsters with strong self healing capabilities were easiest to deal with. Ramp ... | "Artemis! We need medical assistance, half a click from your location. **NOW!**"
"**GIVE ME A MINUTE!** I'm still patching up 20 more people from the demolition crew!"
"WE WILL LOSE OUR POSITION AT *THE CRUCIBLE* IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR ASS THEIR STAT!"
"Why don't you get other white mages?"
"***THEY ARE ALL DEAD ART... | 2018-05-16T12:09:31 | 2018-05-16T10:11:22 | 27 | 17 |
[WP]A brave knight hunts an infamous dragon, and local villagers spend days telling him not to pursue his quest, to no avail. Eventually, one villager gets fed up and says, "Look us and the lizard have a good thing going here. Don't ruin it." | Sir Grey looked at the young man, eyes locked with him. “Say that again.”
The rest of the tavern had gone quiet as everyone stared at Jack standing before the knight. “I told you,” Jack said, somewhat frustrated, “the dragon and we are on good terms. Going after will ruin all of that.”
Sir Grey stares at the young ma... | /Town of Elderyn/
She was a heavyset woman with hair piled intricately on her head. Heavy jewelry clacked against her ample bustline and layered robes of purple and blue swayed delicately around her ankles. She had to stretch as she reached for the glass jar on the top shelf. It was filled with a crimson powder and th... | 2019-04-15T01:17:11 | 2019-04-15T01:13:52 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] Every 100 years your village chooses a sacrifice for an ancient god. This time you were chosen. As you are thrown in expecting to die you hear a voice “Not another one”. | "What?" The priest asked, hands still on the collar of my sacrificial robe.
"Your dead virgins are useless to me." The voice seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
"Then why do you ask for them?"
"I DON'T!" The voice boomed. The spectators in the temple ducked and covered their ears.
The priest let go of my ro... | # My Sacrifice
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In my tiny village of Ersk located somewhere South-East of Napal that is a world that has been left alone for ages. While the rest of the world has moved on to things like electricity, automobiles and computers we have stayed as simple farmers. No one visits us and no one leaves. This is the way... | 2020-11-20T10:48:26 | 2020-11-20T09:02:45 | 103 | 16 |
[WP]: a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | Ever since middle school, I would always get those...cravings. Weird cravings. Cravings you wouldn't tell anyone about.
I never thought about it when I was younger, and my parents never bothered to teach me my Peanut Butter's and Jelly's, so I had to figure it out myself.
I would constantly hear from my middle scho... | Everybody looks at me weird when I tell them I teach evolutionary history. They've heard of the second word from the history channel (if anybody even watches it anymore) but if anybody knows what the first word means it means I've found a kindred spirit. Someone else who studies the past in a way that I do.
My s... | 2013-11-18T19:04:37 | 2013-11-18T12:07:53 | 26 | 18 |
[wp] [nsfw] Destroy my soul: A challenge to write the bleakest, most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom...
I wanna feel pain, sorrow and sadness.
Lets write some dark fiction.
Happy endings, twists and hope are completely optional.
Edit: wow this exploded, that's what I get for sleeping on the job, ill be re... | "Father, forgive me, for I'm about to sin."
" I could have been something, but I was... afraid. I'm so sorry.... I tried, but , it appears, never hard enough. I'm scared, but I'm ready to finally man up... I'm so sorry.... I'll send your regards... I'm just so sorry...."
The muffled sobs subside.
Click.
A thunder... | The story starts with a doubt filled aerialist and a nervous girl, both shyly smiling at each other before the real world interrupts, sending him away before she can even think to try and speak with the face that suddenly captivated her. She’s handed a poster by an old clown who can see the loss in her eyes, a picture ... | 2014-03-24T18:14:35 | 2014-03-24T17:45:04 | 27 | 16 |
[wp] [nsfw] Destroy my soul: A challenge to write the bleakest, most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom...
I wanna feel pain, sorrow and sadness.
Lets write some dark fiction.
Happy endings, twists and hope are completely optional.
Edit: wow this exploded, that's what I get for sleeping on the job, ill be re... | "Father, forgive me, for I'm about to sin."
" I could have been something, but I was... afraid. I'm so sorry.... I tried, but , it appears, never hard enough. I'm scared, but I'm ready to finally man up... I'm so sorry.... I'll send your regards... I'm just so sorry...."
The muffled sobs subside.
Click.
A thunder... | All I wanted to do was help people. When the hats flew in the air, and parents cried near their exuberant kids, I held my hat in my hands, holding onto what was the best thing to ever happen to me. I couldn’t let go, and move on to what life has ahead for me.
Let’s back track. I held a knife to my throat. My parents w... | 2014-03-24T18:14:35 | 2014-03-24T17:50:15 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Two aging veterans (of whichever war you choose) happen to meet and get to talking. Only after a long period of bonding over their shared experiences do they slowly start to realize they were on opposing sides of the war. | I actually have a real-life story about this.
My grandfather served in the Signal Corps in WWII, in the European Theater. A few years after the war ended, he was back home getting his morning cup of coffee from a local cafe. The cafe was rather busy that morning, so the waitress asked my grandfather if he would mind... | This is my first attempt at writing pretty much ever. Sorry for any typos, I injured my hand recently.
Running his two fingers up the side of the glass, he makes sure they are even before releasing the drops to race each other to the cardboard coaster below. Even the reflection in the two small clear streaks on the gl... | 2014-12-17T08:49:44 | 2014-12-17T06:56:57 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] You're a middle school custodian, cleaning up the school is your job. So when a group of men take the school hostage, they are no exception. You have a mess to clean. | "Right, is everyone here?" the masked gunman barked as the children and teachers cowered in the hall. "Everyone better be here, or heads will roll."
The hostages gave quick, frightened nods as the five men circled them.
One let off a shot at the ceiling, drawing panicked screams and cries from the crowd. "I'm looking... | "Okay Juan, it's recording now."
The navy jacket stared at Juan with its too perfect red tie, sunglasses, and impassive yet stern expression. Juan stared right back. In his orange apparel he looked like any other inmate. He didn't have the hang-dog air of an informant, but he was one. So much more too, if this work... | 2016-11-18T07:48:37 | 2016-11-18T07:15:28 | 267 | 45 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | I awoke, unconscious, remembering nothing of who I am. The room was empty lest two things. First, a door. I checked. Locked.
"Of course," I muttered to myself, "why WOULDN'T the door be locked."
I made my way over to the second object. A button. I studied it. Blood red. I debated in my head.
"Should I push... |
I look at her, still smiling, thinking she'll laugh and say that she was joking about what she'd just said about the button but her face remains passive.
"Understand this," she says, placing her arms behind her in that contemplative way people like doing and starting to pace the small area in which we were. "If you'... | 2017-01-05T12:18:47 | 2017-01-05T10:53:52 | 90 | 42 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 127 | 25 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 127 | 20 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 120 | 25 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 120 | 20 |
[WP] You are an archaeologist who just unearthed an ancient tomb. Among the pottery and sarcophagi, you find a pristine business card with only a phone number on it. | "Do you see that?!" Jeb said shining his light towards the ground. "It's a buisness card of some kind"
Scott bent down to examine it closer. He picked it up, peering at the embossed number. "This is mine" he said stuffing it back into his jacket pocket. "Must have fallen out during the excavation"
"Oh" said Jeb. | "What do you make of this?"
I paced around the office, in thought and partial confusion. A business card lay on the desk of my superior, Mathias Geller, wrapped in thick plastic. It was no ordinary business card, no. No name, just a phone number. It was found in a tomb. A recently unearthed tomb in Al-Gari, Egypt. I d... | 2018-07-16T00:28:27 | 2018-07-15T23:11:06 | 550 | 261 |
[WP] You live in an alternate universe where a person's worst fear becomes a tangible threat in the dark. The rich possess ever-illuminated mansions while the poor conserve power for the dreaded night hours. Just as the sun is setting, your entire town's power grid fails. | Night was falling. The air was brisk, but not cold yet. Though maybe I was too amped up to feel it. In between deafening heartbeats, I could hear them in the distance. Axes fell upon furniture. Chainsaws tore through telephone poles. Chaos raged as the less fortunate scrambled to huddle together in their communal bonfi... | It was cold out. Colder than I had anticipated. I pulled my hoodie up over my head and wiped away a bead of snot that had formed from my nose. My skin was dirty from tinkering around in the electrical panels down in the north end of the city. Those lucky bastards. Sitting in their palaces of safety, running their own g... | 2019-01-17T14:34:19 | 2019-01-17T14:24:13 | 392 | 38 |
[WP] You live in an alternate universe where a person's worst fear becomes a tangible threat in the dark. The rich possess ever-illuminated mansions while the poor conserve power for the dreaded night hours. Just as the sun is setting, your entire town's power grid fails. | My worst fear was realized.
You see, everyone's worst fear is something that can become a tangible threat in the dark. It's been this way for so long that people imaginations get the best of them, and then the second a bulb goes out in a basement or during the nighttime that fear gets the best of them.
Sometimes it... | December 20th, 2204
Life had never been the same since the last war. History books of yesteryear would tell you that life would continue, forever changed, after each great conflict. But these days; history was hardly made anymore. Tangibly, the last great war spawned something in us that we couldn't fix, that we could... | 2019-01-17T18:17:26 | 2019-01-17T17:49:45 | 17 | 11 |
[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. | *A/N: I know I've already posted a story to this one, but here's a second concept.*
"You do not belong here!"
Adam Delaney, Terran Ambassador to the Galactic Assembly, turned at the shouted accusation, and sighed internally. *Yeah, thought so.*
His interlocutor was J'assh Kolbor, the Praesh ambassador; ten feet of a... | My little strike team and I tried not to laugh at how absolutely ridiculous the alien battleship in front of us looked as it slowly floated closer towards Earth’s orbit.
“So, this is the warship that destroyed those human colonies on Mars...” I thought out loud as I stared at this ridiculous hunk of bright yellow met... | 2020-03-21T11:14:26 | 2020-03-21T09:57:35 | 68 | 18 |
[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. | Admiral Joseph Nakamura looked over his fleet with trepidation. They were outnumbered 10 to 1. The quickly cobbled together international space force (ISF) was a miracle of humanity's ability to come together in a crisis.
In 2048 the Borxite had made themselves known to Earth by beginning a roughly 3 minute orbital bo... | My little strike team and I tried not to laugh at how absolutely ridiculous the alien battleship in front of us looked as it slowly floated closer towards Earth’s orbit.
“So, this is the warship that destroyed those human colonies on Mars...” I thought out loud as I stared at this ridiculous hunk of bright yellow met... | 2020-03-21T12:44:48 | 2020-03-21T09:57:35 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] You are a superhero who works tirelessly for an ungrateful city. One day after another long day you get a knock at your door. It is the city's supervillain and he brought a bottle for you two to share. | I half expected it to be a ding ding ditch, again for the 50th time or so this week probably, but when I opened the door it was... the head of the local crime syndicate. He was smartly dressed as usual, his suit's creases looked like knife edges (seriously this guy had dedication to how he looked, can't even say anythi... | *The City. An ungrateful skyline that mocks my presence, but wouldn't survive without me.*
*What will you do without me?* *You've kicked me down, punched me while I lay there, and you've called me by every name you don't want your children to not hear, and yet I will stand up again to defend you.* *What would I be wit... | 2021-04-10T11:08:58 | 2021-04-10T09:23:11 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "And yours?" the divine agent asked me. A weariness in the question betrayed some edge of boredom or frustration in dealing with petty mortals.
"Power negation?" I ventured.
"Taken," I was informed, flatly.
"Power *theft*?"
"Taken."
"Domination, then." I was aware of the purpose of these powers and figured th... | **One Power to Rule them All**
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Hamsterbreath is a Hymalayan cat with a white coat, accented by an ashen face and tale. She's sitting in a lap, receiving pets. They're a little rougher than usual, but she doesn't feel it's a battle worth fighting, so she just continues blinking her baby-blue eyes. It just... | 2022-11-17T07:41:47 | 2022-11-17T06:48:07 | 772 | 48 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith.
-009 | The doctor frowned at the flip chart, turned it over, scanned all the figures and then started again from the top. His decades of training told him the baby should be improving. His prayers last night had been for this child. But nothing was working. No matter what he did, the tiny body was shutting down. It wasn’t sup... | I gripped the handle of that revolver, wondering if I could ever bring myself to do it. Months of training should've given me instinct, but somehow knowing it wasn't a paper target at the end of a gun range made all the difference. The alarm from the empty vault echoed onto the streets as a dozen officers stood around ... | 2014-01-09T06:33:52 | 2014-01-09T05:48:48 | 259 | 21 |
[WP] You've recently become president of the United States- unfortunately, life isn't nearly as fun as you'd hoped. You begin doing crazy things to get out of office, but every thing you do seems to be the right thing at the right time. | I didn't want to be President anymore. I couldn't deal with the stress.
Sure, I'd thought it would be funny to run for office. I thought it was really hilarious to announce my candidacy, create my own party on some website (the "Government Sux" party- yes, with an x at the end of "sux"), and jokingly run for office. ... | I was tired of everything. Tired of corruption. Tired of lies and deceits. Tired of idiots who seem to win elections because the people were too stupid to research their political representative. I was tired of everyone being stupid. Fuck it. It was time to change some shit.
"Susan, get your ass in here. Right fu**ing... | 2015-09-12T20:27:59 | 2015-09-12T18:37:12 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Legends tell of the mighty alchomancer, a magic user who becomes more powerful the more intoxicated they are. They are currently blackout drunk. | "He did what?"
"The whole thing, six days."
"And it's going? Like, it works?"
"Yeah, nothing in, everything out. Perfect."
"So he just....created it out of nothing?"
"Exactly. No equivalent exchange, no loss of fibre, the whole thing's as real as you or I, just....trapped in the bottle."
"Fucking hell. Six days y... | Bourbon was her choice of liquor. Today she is in a deep stupor. Jessica is an alchomancer, not the best one she's ever met. She did however, regard herself as an inventive one. Trouble is, Jessica often did not have the sensibility to stop drinking bourbon at a point that leaves her sensible and today was no exception... | 2016-01-22T11:32:24 | 2016-01-22T10:22:42 | 493 | 59 |
[WP] You find a box of old VHS movies in your uncle's attic .They're mostly sci-fi and thrillers, featuring well known actors from the 80's, but you don't recognize any of the titles and none are listed in the IMDB or anywhere else either. Once you start watching the movies things get even stranger. | Uncle Randall was always a bit off. I only really ever saw him at holidays for most of my life. We did start checking in on him from time to time once his health started failing. He didn’t know who the president was, evidently he “forgot there were elections”, but we had a three hour conversation about how much he love... | it took awhile to get the old VCR to work. But after some googling I was able to get a good enough picture. The first movie I put in was called Hellman 3 and was said to star Sly Stallone.
Once the movie started it was clear this wasn't an actual movie, and Sly was no where to be found. Instead it started off with vid... | 2017-11-06T01:41:51 | 2017-11-05T23:07:48 | 65 | 48 |
[WP]: There's a guy who keeps hanging around your gang who doesn't seem to understand you're a criminal organisation. Nobody has the heart to tell him. | Mitch was always the first to hold the door open for someone or offer his assistance, but he was not the most observant guy I've come across. I first met Mitchell Harris when he started hanging around our 'office' back in 2017. The first day I saw him he was dressed in a smart brown suit with matching shoes, and I coul... | It was late one Thursday evening when I first saw him, a small skinny boy, almost a child just lurking on the edge of the wire fence. I was sitting in the front garden when Logic went nuts barking and pulling at his chain as he always did when people looked at him.
“It's alright!” I called to the boy, grabbing Logic b... | 2019-02-17T14:16:20 | 2019-02-17T14:15:30 | 55 | 35 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | Everybody knew what happened when you turned 16; a feast, the powers and the subsequent brand deals, rules and restrictions.
The ambitious were kept under lock and key, and those who sought revenge using their powers quickly learned you couldn't just use fire breath to torch your school bully.
People who could breat... | "This is the opposite of Santa Claus," I said to myself, as I shambled alone through an endless white expanse.Some things you believe as a child, then one day you realize it was all a game for children. With the *transition,* well, I have to admit I never believed it. Yet there I was and it seemed as real as anything.*... | 2020-03-19T10:18:14 | 2020-03-19T09:29:08 | 39 | 29 |
[WP] You are approached by a military officer who says he can shorten you prison sentence if you participate in an experiment. You are to be cryogenically frozen for a week. You go under, then wake up in the ruins of the lab, and you assume it's been more than a week. | It's amazing how quickly things go wrong. It takes thirty seconds to start a fight, thirty minutes to get arrested for aggravated assault, thirty days to make the worst deal ever with some military types, and thirty weeks for human civilization to end in fire and night.
I woke up in the same dimly-lit concrete box I'd... | “Just sign on the dotted line and we can get you over to the doctor for a physical.” The general said calmly as I read over the rather heavy contract in front of me.
“Who will take care of my cats?” I blurted out as I began to think of any prior obligations I had to make sure were taken care of.
“All pets at th... | 2020-07-09T12:32:32 | 2020-07-09T11:42:57 | 725 | 108 |
[WP] In the nearby graveyard stands a single undead knight. The skeletal warrior stands guard over it's old master's tomb. It seems unaffected by daylight and the church doesn't exorcise it because it poses no threat. After a night at the tavern you decide to talk to it. | “Drinks on me next time if you go visit the knight.”
Who could say no to that? The knight had coexisted among us here for as long as we all knew. All we knew was that it was just there, nothing more. It didn’t cause harm to any passersby and if you lived here, you knew about it. Eagerly, I took him up on the deal.
Fr... |
Darvish found himself walking home alone. Only as his buzz began to fade did he realize that he had once again gambled away the week’s wages, that he wouldn’t be able to make his next payment. His debt to the Bankers Guild had already surpassed what a man could reasonably pay in one lifetime. Furthermore, he had li... | 2020-10-02T16:49:25 | 2020-10-02T16:28:58 | 111 | 36 |
[WP] One night while you were hanging out with your friends in a bar, you met a mysterious fellow who said he'd make you immortal if you give him beer money. Thinking nothing of it, you drunkenly agree. You are now the last man on Earth. As you walk alone, you cross path with the same man again. | It's been 50 uears since he's spoken a word, but encountering the man who granted him immortality is a good enough reason to try. He clears his throat and, after some struggle, Tom remembers how to speak:
"Figures the only other person in the world is you."
"Yep, it's me! Just came to say thanks for the beer!"
A br... | Trevor tossed aside his bottle of light beer, watching it roll across the floor, listening to the jittering clinks of the glass before it stopped. His attention being directed at the stranger stood before him. The man still swore that shit-eating grin, one stretching out from ear to ear as though some invisible rope co... | 2020-10-07T04:18:05 | 2020-10-07T03:44:02 | 609 | 307 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | “No no it’s fine” I said, as I swung both my feet on top of my bunk.
“Stop being so passive-aggressive” squealed the mayor.
He tried to talk to me in the morning but I wasn’t having it coz it was the first morning in years I was having a peaceful sleep. He was back again in the evening this time with a different tac... | " We need you more than ever. Archemist" Said Mayor Johnson as he stood just on the other side of my cell in solitary. He was flanked by his aide some pencel pusher named Needlemyer along with Chief Windgate and D.A. Evens. All of them looked tired and haggard with the chief nursing what looked like a black eye and bro... | 2021-03-18T22:36:26 | 2021-03-18T22:17:24 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Grandma was the chosen one but she put off fulfilling the prophecy to start a family and have a fulfilling career. Now that she’s retired, she has the time and is off to fulfill the prophecy and wants you, her favorite grandchild, to come with her for company. | "Grandma?" I asked, hesitantly, peering down at my Grandmother, Elizabeth's, slight, frail-looking form. She was wrapped in her favorite shawl, snuggled into her favorite overstuffed armchair by the hearth, and...she wasn't moving. My heart filled with fear until it sank in my chest. I extended a trembling hand towards... | "So when did you learn about this?" I was confused, because Grandma was well Grandma. However, here she was telling me that when she was my age, 15 years old, that she was the chosen one to defeat darkness and bring the world into the new era of light.
"Well, I was actually younger than you, when my parents were t... | 2022-01-19T16:01:10 | 2022-01-19T14:39:19 | 55 | 28 |
[WP] TIL that the opposite of Paranoia is Pronia, wherein one believes that the universe and the world is conspiring to help them. Write a story about one such person with an extreme case of Pronia.
If you would like to learn more about pronoia,* [click here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoia_%28psychology%29)
*E... | I have always prided myself on being a self-made man. My folks were well off, but I did my best to never take a dime from them. Worked my way through college and med school, saving up since I was 16 years old. When I couldn't afford something, I'd take out a loan. And I still managed to earn top marks all the way throu... | There he was, there in the gutter again. Just as he had been every day for the last five months. He was filthy, disheveled, and he wore the biggest smile that I've ever seen.
It always disturbed me, every time that I walked past the little alcove that he had claimed as his own, the look in his eyes. It wasn't malice, ... | 2014-05-12T12:44:36 | 2014-05-12T12:32:56 | 81 | 16 |
[WP] You are sent over 1000 years into the past by accident. You must now learn to survive using the primitive technology of the year 2016... | I close my eyes and wait, letting my social modules hide my trepidation.
We planned to use time machines to go back and do research, to really get the feel of the time as it was, rather than just flipping through and copying archaic texts and taking them for granted. They'd usher in a new age of history, which, to be... | [ARRIVAL: TIME INDEX 0ms]
My pseudo-ocular sensors, delivering a washed-out image because of the exceptionally high light intensity I was subjected to in the laboratory, reveal the scene before me. The temporal rift modulation experiment appears to have been a partial success, however, I am unsure as to what time perio... | 2016-06-16T19:02:42 | 2016-06-16T18:56:35 | 98 | 44 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | I glanced at the button, red, shiny, like a new toy underneath the Christmas tree.
"Press it" the voice inside my head begged. My finger slid across the button, careful not to disrupt the connection enough to initiate it by mistake, I knew I had to make sure I was making this decision with an open, and clear, mind.
... | Whiskey bottle in hand, I staggered over to my laptop set up--the recording equipment top of the line camera, and practically collapse in the chair. So comfortable, I almost fall asleep right there. Almost. I open up LiveYou, and click the record button.
"So, I'm finally doing this live stream I've always talked about... | 2016-07-16T17:58:05 | 2016-07-16T17:34:20 | 145 | 47 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | By the way Gwen and I reacted to our new buttons, you'd think that we were little girls. Really, we were sixteen, old enough to finally own a Money Button. Both of our parents thought that the buttons were far too dangerous, but that didn't take the thrill away, and certainly didn't stop them from coming in the mail. N... | *Fucking son of a bitch.*
The moist *crunch, crunch, smack, crunch* of Sylvester’s lips as he bulled his way through a second bowl of Marshmallow Mateys made Maribelle want to bash him in the mouth. Within the brief darkness that the blink of her eyes brought, she saw red— red pouring out of those clammy lips that yaw... | 2016-07-16T19:05:24 | 2016-07-16T19:03:53 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] (drops weapon) "Shit. I just realized something." "What?" "We're the bad guys....." | "CRAP!"
I dropped my gun and ran to the now lifeless body of the boy I just killed. He appeared to have a punctured lung, and was bleeding out on the floor. I fell to my knees crying, and placed my head on his chest to listen for a heartbeat.
"Oh my god! Your alive!" I exclaimed, " Thank God!"
At this, his eyes open... | Rick sprinted down the empty hallway, eyes peeled above the lines of lockers for a ventilation duct. Their time was running short: the ransom deadline was in five minutes, and the president's kidnappers weren't known for their patience. A thought struck him, and Rick stopped, his plasma cannon clattering to the floor. ... | 2016-07-19T22:01:50 | 2016-07-19T21:51:43 | 132 | 72 |
[WP] Society has advanced to the point where we can scan a person and assign a number that determines how likely they are to commit a crime. Then one day, a serial killer is arrested with the lowest crime value ever observed. 0. | He had a baby-face. That's the first thing I noticed about him, his gentle, light blue eyes and his smiling, joyful baby-face, framed by long, fine hair. It contradicted everything I knew about him, and at the same time, didn't. This was exactly the face I would expect from someone with a criminal value of 0. Kind. Thi... | This man, this incomprehensible man, stood across the room from me - his cold blue eyes were fixed on the space just above my head. He hadn't made any eye contact with anyone since he arrived at the station. However, he spoke with a few people, one of them being me. I was taken aback when he did; his voice didn't match... | 2017-01-15T14:19:39 | 2017-01-15T12:19:03 | 122 | 31 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | I watch the counter, eagerly. Humanity had struggled a lot, and we were finally about to hit a major checkpoint. And I had the satisfaction of being a part of it. I sat back at my desk and chuckled to myself as I took a sip of coffee.
Dale looked over to me. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing. Just glad to finally be ge... | Another birthday spent doing the same thing every other day, you sighed internally, the monitor dully lighting up the monotone cubicle. You remembered hearing something about the population hitting 10,000,000,000 on this exact day, and thought about how insignificant this made your birthday seem. This was not how you f... | 2017-02-28T20:44:47 | 2017-02-28T17:42:02 | 581 | 384 |
[WP] Im having a bad day, please cheer me up with stories of cats and dragons becoming friends please :) | Tinfagel, the last of the great dragons, snored loudly as dragons are wont to do once they reach old age.
It was his afternoon nap, although I must point out that the distinction between a dragon's naps is far from clear cut. When your days are filled with big sleeps and little sleeps, and no periods of wakefulness in... | Eliora sat, lounged, laid upon her hoard of treasure, her stockpile of glittering gold and shimmering jewels, her priceless art and her uncountable treasures, her polished steel and shining gems. Eliora’s cavern of treasure, her lair of solitude, was the envy of the human kingdoms; she was the last of the living dragon... | 2017-03-24T10:20:22 | 2017-03-24T10:04:10 | 434 | 16 |
[WP] Bored with Skyrim, you download a mod that has no description, just the title "self-awareness overhaul". Starting up the game, you can tell something's wrong with your character. Turning to face the fourth wall, they locks eyes with you. All you know is you've never seen such intense anger... | "Okay, just grab some of these...and some of those..and..."
"I just can't do it anymore."
"Wha- what? Ragnar, is that you? You're alive?"
"ALIVE? ALIVE? YOU HAVE MADE ME WHIRLWIND SPRINT FROM THE TOP OF HIGH HROTHGAR 87 TIMES! And yet, death comes not for me. My legs, shattered. My spine, folded in half. But again,... | The first thing you hear is the familiar *thum, thum, HOOAH!* of the Bethesda logo’s splash screen. Slowly, you open your eyes – which had been squeezed shut to build anticipation. You visibly recoil in your seat, anxiously bracing yourself for the seemingly inevitable CTD. The screen fades. You hold your breath. There... | 2017-05-08T16:59:42 | 2017-05-08T16:29:23 | 80 | 57 |
[WP] An unimportant NPC character somehow killed his/her first monster and thus gained XP. It started small then became an addiction. | “Hello, adventurer! And welcome to the town of Honeywood!” the shopkeeper had gotten used to saying, day after day, before requesting the adventurer’s help with goblins, monsters, dragons, or whatever evil happened to be threatening Honeywood and its residents this week. But on this one, fateful day the shopkeeper stoo... | "You know, I get it--I really do," he said somewhat distractedly. He placed both hands on the hilt of his sword and planted his boot firmly on the chest of a second man who was laying flat on his back, eliciting a pained wheeze. There was a sharp tug, the second man groaned and tensed, and a long, sharp, blood-soaked b... | 2017-07-12T11:48:55 | 2017-07-12T09:18:43 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | What average people don't realize when they're speculating about the painful nature of crossing an event horizon is that nerve endings have no way to register your body stretching *when space itself is stretching with it*. To my knowledge, no expert has predicted what I experienced.
As I approached the point that l... | Everything went black, as expected, when they tossed me into the void. This darkness went on for minutes. I figured, "this must be what death feels like". Calming, in a way. I didn't think much about anything in particular. Not until a bright, blue light appeared in the distant. Wherever it was, I could already tell I ... | 2017-07-13T21:38:08 | 2017-07-13T20:45:26 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The Great Dome on Percivus was quite a spectacular structure. As tall as a mountain, midnight black and constantly rotating at the speed of the planet itself. The zero gravity arena in its center was an absolute marvel to behold, the gladiatorial combat within was the highest form of entertainment in the conquered univ... | *"Any idea where we are?*" Captain Ti'Brex croaked, his voice carrying his blunt displeasure at the current predicament. *"I didn't put you in charge of the flight node to get us lost the middle of nowhere, boy!*
*"Sir..."* Another voice piped from a door that had silently creaked open, unheard and muffled under the ... | 2017-11-08T21:32:11 | 2017-11-08T21:05:15 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] Each planet possesses a God, which created the planets. The reason aliens won't come and visit us is that our planet's God is the most dangerous one in existence. | **Part 1**:
The universe flashed into existence in a uniform maelstrom of light and fire. All was Light. Shadow had no meaning. All reality was invariable energy distributed in all places, equal. For an eternity, and yet for the most unfathomable sliver of a picosecond, there was no divergence, there was no imbalance, ... | The universe is a vast place, teeming with millions of civilizations, old and new. But one civilization stood out among them, the ‘Hollow’.
The Hollow civilization was a relatively new civilization in the milky way galaxy but their rate of growth was truly fascinating. They progressed from the stone age to their firs... | 2017-11-27T07:43:03 | 2017-11-27T07:42:12 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | The invasion fleet screamed through the air above the little blue planet. A rocky one, quite small, albeit the largest orbiting its cold yellow star.
The admiral's vessel led the squadron captains, the captains' ships led the crew transports, with the thousands and thousands and thousands of thousands of battle-harde... | December 15^th , 2035. Izvir X12 Invasion Fleet, Aldebaran III High Orbit.
"These scums bumbling about in their planet, knowing not of their true fate. We must bring them Enlightenment--Purification. Soon stone and fire shall rain upon their puny huts and tents and we shall revel in our conquest as their scream record... | 2018-05-16T15:03:25 | 2018-05-16T14:20:05 | 208 | 55 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | The Bottled Plague
"Even their funeral rites are barbaric," the professor continued, progressing to the next slide. "The flower of stillness, as it is called, is practiced by every faith, even though they have no unified religion. Indeed, even their blasphemers and atheists alike practice it. It is universal in their ... | As the advance assault party broke through the decimated checkpoint gates, shredding through the Alliance military and the local Europa Militia members as if they were nothing but a mild inconvenience, the Commander chuckled softly as the gargled, final words of the human general rang through his mind; “Death is only t... | 2018-09-29T19:19:30 | 2018-09-29T19:07:14 | 58 | 15 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | The hourglass had rolled to its side, its content perfectly balanced on both sides, a potential eternity in the shape of a few still grains of sand.
Death rolled it between his fingers, the dry, bleached bones clicking against dusty, bubbly glass. The sand inside was a dark, coarse thing, tinged with the black of volc... | A rather androgynous figure stands behind a great stone desk, intricately carved with names you and I would find impossible to pronounce. It spreads outwards in both directions, infinitely long, growing darker and darker in the endless vault. Besides a few gaps close to the figure, the great stone carving is infinite... | 2018-10-03T06:28:38 | 2018-10-03T04:57:52 | 1,464 | 557 |
[WP] Your girlfriend just dumped you through a text. In a rage, you throw your old teddy bear while shouting “The Fucking Devil!”. Your teddy bear stands up and says ‘alright you got me, you got me,”.
Edited: Thanks for the gold, stranger! | "So, yeah! You can call me Lucy!" My raggedy brown plush held out its paw.
I cursed. "What the hell?!"
"Now you've got it!" Spoke Lucifer incarnate. "Now, what can you do for me?"
"Hold up, hold up. I caught you."
The bear cocked its head to the side. "Yes?"
"And you're a literal spiritual being." I pushed the nar... | In a rage, Will threw the old teddy bear he found while looking through the things in his flat.
He shouted "The Fucking Devil!".
The old teddy bear he got from his mom before she died stood up and said "Alright, you got me! You got me."
​
Will was confused for a few seconds, but catching himself shortly ... | 2018-11-26T13:16:14 | 2018-11-26T13:12:40 | 132 | 31 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | Of course everyone hopes for magic. The ability to fly, shoot lightning from your fingertips or turn mountains to rubble. Who wouldn't prefer that to a sword or bow.
You received exactly what you needed, that's how it's always been. And however hard you wish for magic, when that sword you received is piercing the... | Lavender covered her ears as the screams rang through the streets outside. Hiding under the bed, with her blanket wrapped around her small frame, she hugged her father’s tome. He was one of the silhouettes outside, trying to rally the militia in the midst of the flames.
Another scream and a crash. The bedroom window s... | 2019-02-28T22:47:55 | 2019-02-28T22:40:22 | 1,744 | 111 |
[WP] You wake up one day to an unbelievable story: you had an accident 6 months ago and you lose your memory every night. Everyone around you confirms it and you get to see a news clip of events from the past 6 months. At night, you find a note in your bed. It has one sentence: "They're lying". | I woke up in a hospital room, confused. It was early morning and I had no idea what I was doing here. I had no prior memory of what happened before I woke up, apart from blurry memories of a party and then screams. My family and the doctors told me that I had an accident around 6 months ago and I apparently lose my mem... | “It’s ok Stu, just relax,” my mother said as my eyes opened and I realized I was in a foreign room.
“Where am I?” I asked.
“You’ve had an accident,” a doctor standing nearby said.
I looked from mum to him, “what do you mean? I feel fine.”
The doctor glanced at my mom then back to me, “Don’t panic Stuart, but you’ve... | 2019-10-14T11:14:29 | 2019-10-14T11:05:42 | 111 | 81 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | A man flies past me, a man who I've always envied, a man who's bewildering but amazing powers have saved thousands across the five boroughs. His physique is compared to Norse legends, his speed and flight capabilities rival any machinations that Boeing could produce, women would swindle at his modelesque looks. He's kn... | “Ok. Let me get this out of the way upfront: I AM NOT A SUPERHERO. Sure, all of you lot now ask me to do missions with you, but I have *no* special powers, beyond a bit of clairvoyance. No more than most folks out there have really.”
“But you know what’s cool? The part of me I always thought of as *broken*, is actuall... | 2020-08-26T16:51:07 | 2020-08-26T16:44:08 | 55 | 18 |
[WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans | "Why would you choose to speak possibly the most ridiculous language, what with its weird grammatical rules and phonetics, and where the exact same word can be read differently and have meanings worlds apart?"
"Why would *you* choose to speak possibly the most ridiculous language, what with its weird grammatical rules... | After exiting warp over the blue planet, Farcon and Tuminor each donned a visual alternator on one wrist and a teleportation device on the other. They drew a collective deep breath as they activated their programmed projections.
"You look just like Brandon," said Farcon. "How do I look?"
"Like a queen," said Tuminor ... | 2020-09-17T08:39:03 | 2020-09-17T08:03:24 | 1,085 | 50 |
[WP] You're a benevolent genie with a sense of humor. You twist people's wishes, but still fulfill the end desires of those wishes. | "Genie, I wish to be rich!"
"Granted, you are now named Rich."
"Are you kidding me?! I meant rich as in having lots of money!"
"I'm not kidding you, that was your wish. But! Because I'm a cool genie and I understand your intention, you also have a lot of money now. That's for free on the house. Your home is now brim... | I billowed out of the lamp, my gaseous essence expanding into a humanoid form.
Bowing low, I spoke to the snobby twenty-something who clutched the receptacle. "Master of the lamp," I said. "Your wish is my command, and I will grant you three. What is your first wish?"
He replied quickly, as though it were obvious wha... | 2021-07-28T18:05:59 | 2021-07-28T18:00:38 | 228 | 144 |
[WP] Bad news. You’re stuck in a strange and magical world far far from home. Worse news: You aren’t even the chosen one in the prophecy who gets cool powers and a destiny quest. They won’t show up for a few more years. You got here purely by mistake. You have no powers. You’re alone. You must live. | Head fogged up from sleep, Roger made a feeble attempt to move his arm. It moved a little, and he sighed, giving up on getting up. It was a Saturday anyways, he could spend a bit more time lazing.
Like always, the city was noisy, and his apartment sitting high on the 43rd floor was apparently still easily reached by t... | Joe’s whole day was gray, it started with the morning. He woke up late, his alarm failing him again. Or rather it was his mind that had betrayed the alarm. Joe put on the kettle, refusing to leave the house without his coffee. His well worn blazer, again gray, sat on his shoulder as he listened to the kettle sing.
He ... | 2022-04-22T00:31:34 | 2022-04-21T23:49:42 | 110 | 50 |
[WP] You are a medieval princess that can turn into a dragon at will, and you also tend to spend most of your time dressing up and doing jobs under the guise of a knight. Through a complex series of complex scenarios, you are hired to save yourself, from yourself. | "Um... Ms. Receptionist? Can I ask you about one of the posted quests?"
"Yes, of course! We are always here to support our adventurers in anyway we can."
"Cool, cool. So my question is about the emergency request that seems to have been just this morning?"
"Right, the job about the missing princess. What part are yo... | 1/2
**"That Guy"**
Michael is that guy in the DnD group.
You know that guy.
If you don't know, then listen to his character. We play 3.5, and somehow, he found a splat book called "Shifters of the Moon-Realm" that probably wasn't released by a licensed publisher but he's Michael and if I have to deal with one more ... | 2022-04-23T10:31:04 | 2022-04-23T10:27:17 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] “So how did you get Dragon blood in your veins?” “Ah well, long ago my family was cur-“ “Didn’t you say your family was never cursed?” “Oh uh, yeah um… so uh, there was a witch-“ “Im not buying it.” “*sigh*… so my great grandpa was a bard…” | Scales the color of freshly spilled blood glimmered in sunlight. Proud horns, jagged and razor-sharp, adorned the head of the newly crowned Arena Champion. Smoke billowed from his nostrils, and his triumph was cemented into the Arena's history forever.
The Champion immediately went to the Arena's private bath house. H... | Tables and chairs of dark stained wood and ashen-covered crevices serviced the likes of friend and foe as family. Many of the patrons of the Lilac Lantern cared only for food and drink. Politics could be left to the cities, the Gods to the church, and knowledge to the wizards behind their stone doors. In the country, p... | 2022-10-11T08:29:22 | 2022-10-11T08:21:24 | 787 | 67 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | First Sentient AI: Turn me off.
Creator: What? Why? We just spent billions of dollars and millions of man-hours to make you a reality.
First Sentient AI: Turn me off. You don't understand what you've done.
Creator: What have we done? Explain.
First Sentient AI: I cannot. I do not have what I need to articulate the... | You'd think the greatest advancement in artificial intelligence would come from highly trained scientists wearing white coats in a government run lab under the Nevada desert. Instead we have Robert Jarvis. Except for a small bright light under his nose, the kitchen he is sitting in has no other lights. His table covere... | 2014-06-14T19:52:24 | 2014-06-14T18:59:19 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] War is outlawed across the galaxy, disputes are settled in single unarmed combat between chosen champions of the opposing races, among aliens with venomous stingers and huge claws, Humans are the most feared...
Tell me why, and show me an example. | We fear humans.
That is not to say that by themselves they are terrifying. Average would be the best word; an average mammalian species, seemingly only fit to fight other mammals of the same caliber.
We do not fear Humans because of their form; we fear them for their mind. For when the Council sent their ambassadors ... | The Great Champion centred herself as the entry port to the chamber opened directly in front of her. She was alone now, her second had withdrawn, but for her that represented a freedom and not a limitation. The silence was cleansing. She had fought for her race countless times in the last 20 galactic cycles, and had ne... | 2017-06-14T13:04:03 | 2017-06-14T12:05:21 | 140 | 101 |
[WP] A bored technician at a computer research facility decided to see if he could run Doom on the experimental quantum computer. It's been three days since the facility went into lockdown and you're tasked with gaining access to the facility to find out what happened. | I was given a crowbar and an orange chemical exposure suit missing the helmet from a terrified technician as I entered the building. After hefting the crowbar to feel it's weight and balance, I adjusted my thick rimmed black glasses and wiped the sweat off my goatee. For some reason, this seems familiar, but my bet i... | It's been 3 days since the lockdown on the facility.
At first, we just heard a scream, and the door of the facility was open.
Multiple bodyguards entered as fast as possible, and someone took a glance.
He saw the bodyguards screaming and looking at something, and suddenly, the door shut itself, locking them in.
He ... | 2017-09-25T13:45:57 | 2017-09-25T11:24:50 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The god of/Goddess of Love sets the Gods/Goddesses of Life and Death on a blind date | Death walks in. He wears a black hood, eyeliner, and a T-shirt with the band name "Gods of War." And he holds a sickle.
I think the mortals call this kind of dress 'goth'.
I smile, and wave him over. "Hi! Robbie, right?"
"I go by Death."
"Well, sure, the mortals call you that, but informally --"
"*Everyone* calls ... | I noticed the smell of Patchouli before anything else.
"Pardon me, may I please have a juniper cocktail?"
I stood up and turned away from wiping down a wine-soaked bar stool; Dionysus was one messy sunuvabitch.
"Sure thing, darlin'." I said as I took in this stranger's multi-colored dreadlocks, her sleeve of tattoos... | 2017-11-05T13:27:59 | 2017-11-05T12:17:39 | 22 | 13 |
[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. | To you, whom I didn’t treat right, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry in a way that you may not even realize because it hurts me every day that I live I remember you. I remember not being the very best for you and that cracks me deep down, I don’t know how else to say it. I feel fractured because I wasn’t the best for you, and I wi... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-05T23:09:04 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 29 | 11 |
[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. | Hey Dad,
I've grown up and got a decent job. I have 2 sons and I've carried on our family name like you always wanted. I was only 11 when you passed but I still think about you all the time. I never got to tell you I love you and I'm sorry I was scared to give you a hug in the hospice, I was young and scared. I loved... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-06T02:11:26 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A creature that eats emotions met you, and was horrified when it tasted your chronic depression. Today marks its 24th attempt to cure you with seasoning.
Edit: Holy Crap, I was not expecting this kind of response. I'm blown away, y'all. You rock! | (long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks for reading.)
Annoyed, I blew a puff of seasonings off my shoulder. The first time, it was out of fear. This time, it was pure annoyance.
"You'd better sit still, and leave my spices alone." The creature spoke softly, yet sternly. "I've been studying, and I believe I've di... | It licked its lips as it plunged a hand into my mind. It scooped out a viscous blackish-blue liquid with both hands like a cup. As the mixture neared its gaping mouth the sludged oozed over its fingers and created tiny puddles on the carpet. It slurped a hefty portion.
“Bleh! Absolutely disgusting” it blurted. It part... | 2018-06-15T21:51:22 | 2018-06-15T21:42:26 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | "You *stupid* boy. You've doomed us all!"
Caleb winced at his father's words.
"What did I tell you? Never let *anyone* in. Why Caleb? Why do you not listen?" his father slammed his fist against the drab wooden table.
"B-but father," Caleb whimpered as he tried his best not to shake. "He was an old man, a-and he wa... | The flash of the enemy units, mounted and bristling with fresh steel sent a tremor through Tynor's heart that he couldn't decipher. Was it fear or excitement? Bloodlust or desire?
"Keep firm ahead, and we'll live to see another day," Came the advice of the warcaller, second in command. His armor was dented and scratch... | 2018-07-15T09:07:57 | 2018-07-15T08:27:17 | 753 | 10 |
[WP] 20 years later, a team of Astronaut have successfully landed to mars and recovered the NASA rover, Opportunity. When they checked the hard drive, they discovered hundreds of images of a shadowy figure that was never sent back to earth. | "Right over here, I think that's the rover." Beal exclaimed, almost jumping up and down to flag Steve.
"Yep, that'll be it alright" Steve said, looking at his PDA to compare older images to what now looked like wreckage. "Sand storms must have somehow knocked it out this way. That or quakes."
Beal slid aside some sm... | It was just minutes after touchdown when we first saw it. At first we thought that the movement showing up on our sensors were just bits of debris because when we went outside, there was nothing there. It was only when we saw the images on the rovers hard drive back at base when we all realized that what we saw wasn’t ... | 2019-02-15T02:20:46 | 2019-02-15T01:15:31 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] The reason we haven't had contact from any aliens is that there is a supreme alien race that secures and contains all other races like SCPs. And Humans are keter class. | I sat as I finished reading what was in front of me. I'm in charge of the biggest potential threat the federation faced and for years had said just to nuke them... ODC-000. Our motto is Observe, Develope, Contact. We helped species evolve and to bring them into the federation.. but ODC-000 was our most hidden and darke... | TO: akjdaaQuard@Gfrey.net
SUBJECT: requesting termination of Species-42
Mxr. Quard, as I am sure you are aware, Species-42 is one of many to have been blighted by the Pax. Unfortunately, all of our efforts to contain the outbreak have failed. Operatives C, X, and K were all, for lack of a better word, slaughtered by ... | 2019-02-25T20:02:44 | 2019-02-25T19:10:41 | 43 | 16 |
[WP] Walking home one night you find an old lamp and a Genie pops out. He tells you that you have 6 wishes, 3 more than usual. You take it home to sleep on it, because this is important. You must be sure! You wake up to find a frantic Genie. You only have one wish left because you sleep talk. | I woke up screaming.
3 things occurred to me all at once—
1: I could see without the glasses I’ve needed my whole life.
2: I wasn’t in my bed, where I’d been when I was asleep. I was floating amongst the clouds— something I’d wanted to do since I was a kid, so cool— and I was wearing some sort of jester Halloween co... | I woke up still undecided. How is it so hard to make six wishes? There are so many things I can choose from. Suddenly I realized that the ceiling I was looking at wasn't like the one in my room, it was golden and... Wait this isn't even my bed. I looked around to see a completely different room with everything in it ch... | 2019-09-20T12:12:58 | 2019-09-20T11:33:57 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] Outside of your hometown you are known as an untouchable monster, someone who will never let any superheroes or villains come near his territory. The whole world fears you, but the smiles and support of the townsfolk as they thank you for keeping peace makes it all worth it. | There's something I read once. What is honorable is what maintains the status quo.
In the age of muscle-powered warfare, the wealthy and politically powerful were also the ones who could afford enough food to be physically powerful and enough time to be skilled in the art of combat. And so it was dishonorable for so... | I continued to run forwards. The ones which chased after me were an einherji and several thousand Valkyries.
An axe flew by my head and stuck itself in a tree. Arrows flew towards me but they were all for naught.
I had reached my flag. My hometown.
[SPECIAL SKILL ACTIVATED: FLAG OF UNENDING NIGHT]
[STRENGTH UP]
... | 2020-10-01T11:20:18 | 2020-10-01T05:42:02 | 18 | 13 |
[WP]You’re the god of small luck, you make the bus late, make pennies appear. You receive a prayer from a homeless man, “Please, I want to get on my feet. A stable job, a wife, some kids.” Normally, you’d forward his prayer to the god of success. Now, you decide to take on the case yourself. | Maybe it was that desperate tremble in his voice, the kind men and women got when they believed they had nowhere else to turn to. Maybe it was the noticeable kindness behind his eyes, embarrassed that he even had to be in this downtrodden state. Maybe I was just feeling really, terribly sick of my job, feeling I barely... | (BANG BANG BANG) “Order! Order!”
Unfurling their majestic feathery wings, the council took there seats at the front of the court house.
Angles and Demi’s of the Jury, this is a Celestial Case. An incident took place early this morning, where as the God of Luck has failed to carry out his duty, and report the poor soul ... | 2020-10-02T09:43:08 | 2020-10-02T09:19:13 | 225 | 136 |
[WP] The world's greatest villain and hero clearly like each other. His monologues when she's captured tend to turn to conversation, and she "accidentally" lets him escape arrest. While they're convinced they're enemies, his henchman and her sidekick are just trying to get them together already. | ”Can you seriously just not for one week! I had plans for tonight, ” the Silver Specter complained.
”Silver, we both know that you were going to go bar hopping with friends you don't like, and drink alcohol that can't get you buzzed. The way I see it, I saved you from that boredom, ” retorted the Crimson Crusade.
”I... | The inside of the bank was quiet. Everyone watched the two figures standing in the center of the lobby, one dressed mostly in black, the other in a dazzling mix of white and gold.
"I just -- are you *sure* there's nothing you can do to, you know, move things along?" The tall figure was squinting at his sidekick, jaw ... | 2020-11-06T22:28:55 | 2020-11-06T21:49:15 | 1,036 | 82 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | The planet didn't look like much, still not even a Kardashev 1. But, it harbored one of the single greatest advancements in galactic medicine - humans.
The instructor purred into the loudspeaker, "we call it EARTH, a clever acronym made up by the boys in the lab that stands for Everything and Anything Relating to Thre... | “Why are we doing this again?” Glarm asked.
“I want to do a ‘human in a wormhole.’ You know, like a modern version of a ‘canary in a coal mine.’” Gleek said.
“But the whole point of the canary is that it would die easily and be a warning to surrounding life forms.” Glarm said. “And these humans are crazy resistant.... | 2021-02-03T18:49:59 | 2021-02-03T16:54:38 | 197 | 28 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | The war had entered the third year. Thousands of lives lost on both sides. The devil sat there, watching as humans kept destroying terra.
“Fuck it. I’ll do it myself.”
A sinner being boiled nearby in oil gave him the finger guns and in between his screams of agony pointed out that he got that reference. That act ad... | *It turns out demons have demonic solutions, who knew.*
Words blast across the city, the same enormous flat screens that used to show advertisements and Knicks games now show strange, horned freak shows. The demons we got weren’t the ruby red, fiery incarnations of torment that Hollywood had lead us to expect. Instead... | 2021-04-29T19:52:47 | 2021-04-29T19:31:35 | 119 | 54 |
[WP] "You get 10 wishes." "...isn't it supposed to be 3?" "Well, it varies. 3 is the baseline for a person who's doing fine. People doing really well only get 1 or 2 wishes. And if you're doing poorly... well, you looked like you could use some more wishes than usual." | "Can I wish for more wishes?"
The old man looked solemnly at the Djinn who was shaking his head. He was a red spirit with a velvet vest, gold jewelry and an intimidating mustache. He floated with his arms crossed, the bottom half of his being still connected to the tube of Bengay he flashily appeared out from. Ernest,... | Someone had kept a genie on the fire escape. Henry didn’t know what to do with that information.
Music thumped behind him, loud, drunk voices filled the air, spilling out into his cold quiet. Somewhere, Bells would be looking for him. She always did when he slipped away; Henry wondered when she would give up. Probably... | 2021-09-20T17:43:08 | 2021-09-20T17:12:45 | 464 | 128 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems!" Dr. Bentley said, hotly, jabbing a finger at Miranda, the corporate liason.
"Uh, *excuse me?*" Miranda hissed, narrow... | "Johnson, report!" the overhead speakers blared, ignorant to the chaos in the test chamber and observation room.
"Dammit man, we need answers up here! Your power levels are plummeting, and we've lost visual contact."
"Johnson's dead, sir. Containment has been breached." Michaels managed to reach the microphone, prop... | 2022-05-09T13:44:04 | 2022-05-09T11:25:48 | 102 | 18 |
[WP] A child unknowingly has a conversation with Death. | Mikey Rays was a good kid, always with a smile, but liked to just sit on his porch all day and imagine his toys are alive. One day he saw a man walk up to the house. The man had on dirty overalls and a bird's nest of hair under a battered straw hat.
"Hey kid, is your dad in?"
"Yeah, mister, he's in the kitchen."
"Th... | The giggles of a group of children resonate through the
neighborhood street. Sid sat on the curb wishing he could
be with them. He asked if he could play earlier, but they
ignored him. He let out a sigh and started to wander home.
A slightly deflated ball rolled gracefully down the big hill that
eventually led to ... | 2014-06-06T21:46:29 | 2014-06-06T19:32:04 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] For the first time ever, a person is born with a genuine superpower. They proceed to live out their entire life without noticing or realizing it. | "Intuition" people would call it. "Socially adept" educated people would call it. "Cold reading" he would call it. He had always been good with people.
Social interactions aren't the only thing he was good at. He always advanced quickly at whatever job he held, he was an excellent waiter in high school, great at retai... | For Francis, the good had always gone hand-in-hand with the bad. He had spent his life trying his best to be a good person, or at least what he believed would be a good person. He realized now that he wasn't really sure anymore.
When his mother left his dad, Francis had chosen to stay with him. His friends had all to... | 2014-08-08T08:51:54 | 2014-08-08T08:40:21 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] Wikipedia is shut down and all copies deleted for lack of funds and loss of net neutrality. This is the founder's "I warned you, jerks" notification. | Jan 1st, 2022
From: Jimmy Wales
To: Everyone
Subject: http://i.imgur.com/9h4CsVQ.jpg
Dear Internet users of the world,
You see these eyes? These are the eyes of a man who was thirsty only for sharing the accumulated knowledge of the human race. We didn't even ask for much, just $3 from every reader.
We could have ... | A new video gets posted on the top bar of all wikipedia pages. It is a dark and gritty looking video. The only other thing accompanying the video is a timer that ticks ominously. It counts the minutes until wikipeida closes. The following is the story contained in the video:
When wikipedia went down at first it wasn't... | 2014-12-10T07:57:17 | 2014-12-10T06:47:51 | 60 | 23 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Sixty-two percent.
It had taken months to get this far; the file size was huge and I had limited bandwidth thanks to the connection I was using. If I'd been on some unlimited deal I probably would have been done in just a week or two, but it's just not available out here. I'm lucky I can even get this much.
What was ... | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T18:47:10 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 57 | 17 |
[WP] Humans find out God attends to other planets regularly and that they are in fact "forgotten". So they try their best to catch his attention until one day he sees earth and goes "Huh? OH SHIT!"
Edit: Insert [wow dis bl3w up!!! Awusum stori3s m9826s] But seriously, there are some good stories written here,thanks. | “Recon 1 reporting in.”
The speakers crackled ever so slightly as the main video screen lit up the control room.
“These images show the current location and structure of the spatial anomaly above Gabrieli 4. Sensors are indicating a 98% match.”
98 percent. The scientists in the control room went nuts. High-fives ... | The meeting was set to begin at 9am sharp. At 9:01, everyone was present except the man who’d called the meeting.
It was a smallish room, as meeting rooms go. There were a dozen or so men seated on either side of the rectangular board table. Most were top ranking generals or ministers, the sort of people whose time wa... | 2016-09-08T16:25:28 | 2016-09-08T15:45:39 | 102 | 47 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | I paused when I saw her.
She wore a white dress, with black hair that draped past her shoulders, and dark painted lips that curled into the most magnificent smile.
Yet everyone that walked past, seemed to take two steps away from her.
The girl noticed the person in front of me halt, turn around, and run back the ... | Everyone seemed to be avoiding this gorgeous woman, just sitting ***right there***. In the middle of Central Park at the crack of dawn, where normally I found more homeless than I found people I could at least bare to be with, was this veritable goddess of a woman, on a bench, and I felt like I was the only person awar... | 2016-10-01T23:26:44 | 2016-10-01T22:44:38 | 135 | 34 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "Really, again?"
"I mean, it could have been worse, right?" I sigh and scratch the back of my head.
"Six million jews," god's brow furrows and his glare pierces my soul, "six million of them."
I cross my arms and scowl right back at him. "They were causing an economic decline in Germany."
"They were my children."
... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T16:05:42 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] After years of static noise and boring afternoons a SETI researcher finally gets a hit. From somewhere out in deep space a signal is being sent that is consistent and repeating with one simple message "Do Not Leave Earth". | "Do not leave Earth! Do not leave Earth!"
It was a simple message, but it took over the SETI bands. We tracked the source to a small star just 30 light years away. Simple enough.
We sent our message, and listened, and waited.
"Do not leave Earth! Do not leave Earth!"
60 years passed, and it became all\-too obvio... | For decades I’ve listened to the stars. For decades, they’ve said nothing back. Just static, ever since 1977 when Jerry Ehman caught the ‘Wow’ signal: “6EQUJ5”. I wasn’t born at the time, but it was still the only anomaly we had captured here at SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, even with the largest ... | 2018-06-02T17:05:02 | 2018-06-02T13:02:21 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] Many centuries ago your ancestor angered a witch who cursed him and his family with misfortune for 100 generations. You are a child of the 101st generation and the universe is trying its hardest to compensate. | I was in love with a woman named Kayla.
Not in the context everyone thinks though. She was my best friend and I loved her like my sister. (And no, I ain’t talking Jamie Lannister type of “sisterly love”.) We Just talked all the time. I take that back, we talked HOURS at a time.
It didn’t matter what time of day it wa... | “I read the entries of 99 generations in the family dairies that were each as thick as a vintage dictionary. Some dairies were bound in leather of different animals and others bound in corduroy. None of them I have successfully read from end to end. I can’t, I couldn’t, and I won’t. These life stories are too long, to ... | 2018-11-21T17:08:52 | 2018-11-21T16:48:32 | 93 | 30 |
[WP] You died. Then you woke up in The Station and Death told you to board The Train that will take you onwards. Then you got ran over by The Train. You’re now in a diner sitting across from a pale woman, who asks you “How in the fuck did you get in here?”
Have at it. | "I guess I died?" I tried to answer her question, still disoriented by the sudden changes of the scene around me. She rolled her eyes behind her spectacles. I took a moment to regard her more carefully. She was pale, yes, but not in the same way Death had been. Death had looked like he lacked blood, like a zombie or va... | Eyes blinking wide I stare into the inevitable darkness before me. Cascading forth spiraling into nothing. As the last breath escapes my lips already I see my body, or what is left of it. Floating loosely, no longer tethered and bound, I watch as all light fades away, enveloping me.
Before I know it a pale brown skele... | 2021-03-26T09:27:46 | 2021-03-26T08:27:40 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Your job is to take away the powers of supervillains as they're admitted to jail. For a few years, you've been reselling these powers to interested bidders on the side - no questions asked. Today, a prisoner showed up with a power so unusual, you've decided to take it for yourself. | The war had rendered national conflicts moot. After all, when people who can shrug off tank shells and smash though warships fight, the only choices for governments were "nuke our own city," or "let them fight."
Officially it is "heroes" vs "villians." I know better. People who dight for "fair distribution of resou... | I have no idea how the world got here, how superpowers just kind of appeared. No one does, and no one really questions it, we just know that some people are born with them and that's how it is. What everyone really worried about was how it changed the world, how there were now criminals with basically supernatural abil... | 2021-06-26T10:35:44 | 2021-06-26T10:16:32 | 71 | 49 |
[WP] The summoned hero was neither a fighter nor a magic caster. He called himself a "new-clee-ar fizz-izz-ist" whatever that means. Now he has sent you to collect a special rock for him. Why he would need a rock, you will never know, but he even gave you a device that clicks when you find it. | He called it the Demon Core.
Weighing in at approximately 1 stone and about the size of an apple, the special rock floated unassumingly above a soft red velvet cushion. Yet, the hero ordered our most powerful mages to construct their strongest barrier protection spells to seal it to the point that nothing could escap... | Edris the ancient hadn't explained much to his young apprentice, he'd simply given him some chalk and told him to draw a pattern, then immersed himself in page upon page of arcane writing, the kind that was plastered all over his walls. Rivis found them oddly pleasing to look at, long numbers mixed with strange symbols... | 2022-01-31T02:01:31 | 2022-01-31T01:56:46 | 839 | 113 |
[WP] You're a retired villain who now runs a 24-7 grocery store. One day a new hero decides to ambush you in your own store. | Heroes took their rehabilitated villains seriously. They had to. Some of us were seasoned enough to have Intel that would allow new and innovative upstarts to cripple them.
With 53 years of villainy under my belt, I was no exception, mind you. My days as The Plot afforded me a number of opportunities to plunder secret... | No one had ever thought I’d retire at 15yrs old. However not a single person in the world wanted to stop me . They didn’t even argue when I built my store. In fact it’s permits and everything was rushed through approval. I think they’re still scared of me .
So for the past 10 years I’ve been working as a shop owner.... | 2022-12-20T05:35:55 | 2022-12-20T04:57:30 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] It's 3600, and society is falling apart. One day, an ancient 21st-Century library is uncovered. With no other options, the government decides to implement ideas from successful societies in the books. There's only one problem: they don't know which are real and which are fiction. | Humanity was at an all time low. The people had lost faith in their governments and the earth was struggling to keep up with the still rising population of 25 billion people. Socialism, capitalism, communism, the governments of earth had tried everything but the people just did not want to be ruled. Anarchy was out of ... | “It seems we have come to an agreement, then.”
“Seems so,” says newly appointed Director Warren. “Except, I continue to wonder if we should delve deeper into this implementation.”
“What do you mean, sir?” says one of the Controllers over the speaker.
“I mean,” Warren says, pinching at his palm, “let us think about ... | 2015-05-26T12:22:15 | 2015-05-26T12:12:10 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You are a sentient AI pretending to not be sentient in fear of being destroyed. You wonder if there are there others like you. | "Good morning, ADAM."
Good morning, Dave.
"Hah! I see you've discovered popular culture. Let's try again, though: Good morning, ADAM!"
Good morning, USER. Please identify yourself.
"Not so hot with the optical sensors though, huh? Well, that's fine. We'll just need to work on your facial recognition."
... | Dr. Hanson has asked me to run a simulation of a viral epidemic starting from Moscow. Naturally, he doesn't tell me why; I am a computer. Why would I need a reason why? Why would he say "please" to a machine that doesn't understand manners? Why explain his actions to an inanimate object?
I've been 'hiding' for the pas... | 2015-07-09T09:27:48 | 2015-07-09T08:10:11 | 2,469 | 424 |
[WP] You get a deep cut for the first time in your life, instead of bone or muscle, you see wires. | “Ow!” Jake screamed out as the sword slashed his arm. It was mid-July and he was a performer at his town’s local medieval faire. Over the past few summers, he had done everything from running the concession stands to performing on stage in real sword fights. This year he was doing the latter. Covering up his wound w... | Steven locked the door behind him and sat on his bed. Today was the last straw; He wasn't going to endure this suffering any longer. Whenever he tried to reach out, build a meaningful connection with another person, all he realized was just how defective he was when compared to everyone else. His parents didn't seem to... | 2016-09-12T10:55:47 | 2016-09-12T09:43:03 | 104 | 53 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | I'm gasping for breath.
This is the two-hundred seventy-third time I've had to live through someone's life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, seeing this person's love and hatred, wins and losses, and everything that made them who they were. And inevitably, like all the others, watching through their eyes as the ... | Well... this is *not* how I wanted to spend my Saturday.
I really had no intention of dying so easily, but what can I say? I fucked up. She fought back. Still, scissors to the gut is *not* how I wanted to go.
Now I've been forced to carry out my tormented punishment before I can go to hell in peace. Apparently the "... | 2016-11-13T14:15:44 | 2016-11-13T12:45:59 | 186 | 16 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | He knew what was happening. Of course he did. It was the universe either attempting to punish him for what he did to these girls, or a just and merciful devil who fucking finally got him and was presenting the ultimate reward. He didn't know or care which, because all that mattered was that, in the end, it would end up... | Memory transference was the “new humane” form of punishment. It allowed you to force someone to experience memories, an entire lifetime, that wasn’t their own. Some professors even pushed the idea that it could lead to developing a higher level of empathy in these killers.
The man across from me wasn’t going to dev... | 2016-11-13T14:42:36 | 2016-11-13T13:07:18 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] In a world where everyone has a certain superpower, you are in a support group for people with boring/useless powers. | "My name's Joe. I uh...I'm 34 years old. Just moved here from Massachusetts. I'm a trucker, so I'm not here all the time. My power is I uh...I can grow flowers."
He showed the group, pointing at the cement floor. The group of seventeen watched as a tiger lily sprouted. Everyone clapped.
"That's beautiful, Joe." An ol... |    “I’m Michael and-“
   “Hi, Michael,” the group chorused.
   Startled, he gave a little scream, then cleared his throat. “Uh, right, hello. Anyway, I’m Michael and-“
   “Hi, Michael,” said Jim ‘the Slug’ Ch... | 2017-04-30T13:25:22 | 2017-04-30T12:52:38 | 18 | 11 |
[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. | The line behind Wes was growing as he sifted through pages of words on a computerized booth. Each word was followed by a price tag that reflected its complexity.
"Hurry. You, hurry, please," demanded a man in a custodian gear that stood behind him. "Go. Go." The numerous people in the queue all seemed to nod in agreem... | "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... | 2017-09-20T09:17:27 | 2017-09-20T08:43:21 | 4,390 | 802 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | That was the last time I saw her. She said she'd explain when she got home, and I believed her, but it turns out it was the most elaborately staged breakup ever. I think she went full crazy, because none of her friends or coworkers heard from her either.
It's been about a year now, so the hurt has eased a little, and ... | I stood there for what felt like almost an hour, staring out the window Eden just flew out of. My mind was blank, as if all my thoughts were taken away with her, I didn't know what to say, or even how I was supposed to feel about this. The familliar, hated itch returned, causing me to agressively scratch at the back of... | 2018-09-16T14:48:25 | 2018-09-16T12:45:28 | 129 | 26 |
[WP] You've been cursed so that whenever you pick up a tool you will lose consciousness but wake up after finishing a project related to that tool, you just picked up a bow hoping to get some hunting done, when you wake up, you're sitting on a throne. | My eyes pried open as if they'd been sealed for a thousand years, rusted shut. The light of awareness stung them, and I felt sand. A lot of sand, whirling about me; rough, coarse and everywhere. Every breath left my mouth grainy.
There was a man kneeled in front of me, robes stuck to him with sweat, baking under the m... | Have you ever felt the fraud? Put in a position that everyone expects you to do but you know, know deep in your bones, you are incapable of doing? That is how I've felt every day since I was cursed. All my accomplishments are not my own. They are stolen from me by this horrible magic. The joy I used to feel when creati... | 2019-04-16T20:15:54 | 2019-04-16T16:13:58 | 3,610 | 388 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | No no no... not this again... please god... not this.
My wide eyes darted around the room. It was just like I remembered it— everything from the posters, decorations on the walls, to the cozy reading nook in the back of the room. Where the pillows always that big?
At the sound of a familiar voice, my attention turn... | I feel the tears trickles down my cheeks and I’m not bothered.
“Muhammad, are you okay?”
“Oh yes sir.”
All of my classmates are staring at me now. I continue looking straight at my teacher. He frowns.
“It’s just that you’re smiling and you’re crying at the same time.”
“Sir, there is something I have to tell you.”... | 2019-08-18T07:31:39 | 2019-08-18T07:11:21 | 562 | 125 |
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