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[WP] "So to walk on water you used..." "Anti-gravity boots." "Healing the sick?" "Portable nanobot medbay" "And I guess you used a matter converter for turning water to wine?" "Nah I just swapped the jars when they weren't looking." | “Jesus Christ...”
“Seems you’ve picked up a bit of the local culture, Captain.”
The captain stopped his pacing to glare at him.
“You broke every rule in the book! Now they’ve built a whole religion around you, because they think you’re some sort of god. And all to stop a small war. Did you think of the consequences ... | ‘So how does this make you feel?
‘About......’
‘The fact that you have ruined one of his creations by telling a primitive race that you were god’
‘Son of god’ he interrupts, ‘ I led them to believe, no I Hinted....yes, I hinted I might be the son of god’
‘You may want to look at this before you say anything else.’ ... | 2020-01-06T23:31:16 | 2020-01-06T18:54:18 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a world where human beings can bend chemical elements. Your probability of being a particular kind of bender is proportional to an element's abundance in nature. The world is full of hydrogen and helium benders. The year is 1945, and you are the first uranium bender. | (I'm not good at this so any feedback would be appreciated)
The History of Elementals.
They used to call them witches and wizards. People who could bend matter to their will. The stories where fanciful. Midas who could turn anything to gold. Lords who hired people to turn lead to gold. People who could turn iron armo... | “What’s your name Mister?”
I sigh and look up at the kid sat shackled across the table from me. Always the same first question. Why can’t they ask a different question?
“I can’t tell you that I’m afraid” I reply hoarsely, my throat dry.
How long had we been in here before he had finally spoken? In a dark room like... | 2020-05-24T15:53:36 | 2020-05-24T15:48:18 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | We stood before Satan, a flaming sword in my hand. I felt like a fucking failure. “So, you don't rule over Hell?” I pointed my flaming sword at his blood-red throat. I had no idea if it would hurt him.
He scoffed. “He didn't tell you that? What deal did you make with the Holy Father?”
Not the answer I wanted. I slapp... | "Look around. What do you see?" Said the person? Or what feels like a person, beside me.
I looked around and all I could see was a barren wasteland, fire everywhere, and there what seems to be other people being ripped limb from limb. Others even being contorted to shapes unimaginable
"Hell..." I replied.
"What do y... | 2020-07-22T04:07:42 | 2020-07-22T03:25:22 | 98 | 36 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 5,663 | 23 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | I have seen civilization fall. I've seen it rise like a phoenix from the ashes, only to burn out in its own magnificence. It was as much the cycle of life as any living being.
I have seen the fall of the last civilization of man. Greed, corruption and short-sightedness joined together with technology that... | They set the tent up on the hill’s apex, Coral hammering the pegs through layers of soot with her boot heel, hoping to find firmer soil somewhere beneath. The triangle of white tent ripples and snaps like a surrender flag. Not the ideal place to make camp, exposed to the elements, but they can go no further today.
Cha... | 2022-02-20T11:07:34 | 2022-02-20T09:37:16 | 828 | 63 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | **Looking for Death**
If you’re looking for death, follow the crying.
My shadowy cloak billows around me as I float toward the the small hut at the edge of Omega, a woman’s wailing drawing me in like a flame draws bugs. That’s what they’re calling the town these days, Omega, since it’s the last town left in the world... | They set the tent up on the hill’s apex, Coral hammering the pegs through layers of soot with her boot heel, hoping to find firmer soil somewhere beneath. The triangle of white tent ripples and snaps like a surrender flag. Not the ideal place to make camp, exposed to the elements, but they can go no further today.
Cha... | 2022-02-20T11:25:42 | 2022-02-20T09:37:16 | 178 | 63 |
[WP] "Do you really think sparing my life makes you better than me?" "Wait, you thought I was sparing you because I thought it was the right thing to do? You're very wrong, I have a much better reason to keep you alive than that," | # Soulmage
**Caniel laughed as he lifted the tip of his shortsword from my throat.** Scowling, I scrambled to my feet. The dim hall, slick with oil, made it tricky, but I'd navigated harsher landscapes in my life, and mortal fear was a good motivator. I didn't trust his "better reason" for keeping me alive further tha... | "I could kill you." Lishialla was musing aloud, more to herself than to the broken man she was ostensibly addressing. "Certainly, you deserve it. For everything you did to this country, to so many people, and to me and my family personally. You *do* deserve it."
"Then just *do it* already." Talhain, the leader of a no... | 2022-06-05T07:25:04 | 2022-06-05T07:15:21 | 58 | 36 |
[WP] Earth is actually a colony of an intergalactic empire. Humans are widespread throughout the galaxy, and one day, we establish contact with our homeworld. | “Uh, Sir? We have something coming up alongside, “said the nervous Lieutenant.
The Captain looked up from *The Travels of Marco Polo* on his hand holo.
“Could you please repeat that, Lieutenant?” the Captain said, tilting his head and looking over the top of his glasses.
The Captain sat in the highest chair at th... | I grew up on Titan all my life, but I really never liked the place much anyway. My parents kept reminding me every day as I bounced along to school.
‘It’s a miracle we live here in such an amazing place. You are ten times as lucky as any child back on Earth!’
But I always secretly envied the kids back on Earth... | 2014-11-20T23:44:00 | 2014-11-20T20:10:38 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 451 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | The world went to shit the moment we all got powers. People saw that this was their chance to climb social ladders.
At first the powered people killed all the nonpowered people.
Only people close within rank can marry and have children.
Then came the children, who were even more powerful than their parents.
And they... | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T12:43:48 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 172 | 81 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | \#21904. That used to be my name, three days ago, and now I'm, well, #1.
No one in the city knows how it happened. The Top 30, the ruling cabal, have absolutely no idea. I still haven't figured it out, either.
All I remember is walking into a meeting where #1 was giving a speech- for the first time, since I'd finall... | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T14:20:18 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 171 | 47 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 164 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | It's always the high-numbered ones that think they have a shot. Some up and coming punk that thinks that this is their once in a lifetime chance to take down #1... as if they can just skip all of the other ranks and become a superstar. They never really consider how I GOT to be number one. I've fought fire powers, ice ... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T18:29:42 | 63 | 37 |
[WP] "If you can evade me until sunrise, you live". You are trapped in a McDonald's PlayPlace with a serial killer. | "Fuck it. Kill me. I want to die." I said.
There was a long silence as I waited, and he waited.
"Nevermind," he said, leaving. "That takes all the fun out of it. You need help."
I sat in the Playland, the bright colors of the slides muted by shadows, until the sun came up.
Death had eluded me yet again.
*Maybe nex... | "The ballpit... He has to be in the ball pit..." I tried to convince myself if I just stayed out of that ocean of multicolored death I would be OK.
I climbed up the rope ladder and bunkered down in the large elevated tube maze.
*Scrape, Scrape, Scrape.*
"Oh god! He's coming up the slide!"
I frantically sta... | 2015-09-04T16:02:17 | 2015-09-04T15:47:55 | 119 | 51 |
[WP] "What do you mean the robbers ADDED $4,000,000 to the vault?" | "Wait, what do you mean we're going to ADD $4,000,000 to the vault?"
"That was the boss's orders."
"That makes no sense. Why would someone risk jail to *lose* money?"
"Don't know, don't care. That's what he's paying us for, so I'm doing what I'm told and getting the fuck out of here. Now get to work."
"All right...... | Ann Leiberman was 88 years old. Had been the teller at the Westville Community Bank since 1962. Back when the city only had 517 permanent residents. 523 if you count the Reinstadt family who called the city home three months out the year. The city registrar would often get into long disputes with the community manager ... | 2016-02-24T12:57:45 | 2016-02-24T12:46:14 | 221 | 11 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "Well I'll be damned....." Captain Aldo whistled softly as his team approached the abandoned vehicle. He had seen the images from the Mars rover but did not truly believe it until now. The machine bore the symbol of Communist Russia, standing alone in defiance of a world which destroyed all life. It would seem, he woul... | "Neil Armstrong once said 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm not one to argue with him. However, if landing on the moon was a leap, my stepping here on Mars would be like a plane ride."
Mayers laughed. "Don't knock on what Neil Armstrong did. It was important, and is what brought us her... | 2016-08-16T09:25:16 | 2016-08-16T08:15:09 | 441 | 147 |
[WP] The "Educator" is a serial killer who will try to educate his victims about some topic over 24 hours and then test them. They get to escape unharmed only if they pass. | Struggling to comprehend calculus?
Can't stand statistics?
Lackadaisical about linear algebra?
Contact me, the Educator! I guarantee that you'll learn math and quickly, or your next of kin will get your money back!
Check out these satisfied customers:
"Something about it being for keeps really helped me remember ... | "After 23 hours of material on classical music theory, you will be given an 80 question multiple choice exam to be completed in the remaining hour. You must correctly answer 56 of the 80 questions, scoring an overall 70%, to exit this classroom with your life," the man wearing the fox mask said in a digitally distorted... | 2016-09-03T12:32:38 | 2016-09-03T11:43:51 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 226 | 80 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Spring is an interesting time of year for this species, but most especially for the adolescents. As one biologist stated 'Ah Spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to thoughts of romance.' As another biologist stated 'As opposed to what?' (chuckles) Yes, as one might have guessed, this species is particularly hormone... | Last time, we had a look at the mating habits of the adult forms of the Homosapiens Erectus, or "Humans" as they call themselves. Today, we shall be taking a look at the habits displayed by younger examples, here at what is known as "college". For the Homosapiens, knowledge is hard gained, and they use these learning ... | 2017-04-04T06:46:11 | 2017-04-04T06:35:46 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Here we see the wild American Teenager in his natural habitat. We see him, freshly groomed for mating season. The biannual mating season for the adolescent human has begun. Here we see one of the unspecialized males approaching an unspecialized female. Neither seem to fit into any of the sub-species like the Athletica ... | Last time, we had a look at the mating habits of the adult forms of the Homosapiens Erectus, or "Humans" as they call themselves. Today, we shall be taking a look at the habits displayed by younger examples, here at what is known as "college". For the Homosapiens, knowledge is hard gained, and they use these learning ... | 2017-04-04T07:09:04 | 2017-04-04T06:35:46 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You're a Lawful Good warrior who fights for the Gods of Light. You help the helpless and defeat evil overlords and the like. However, you've been having a hard time ignoring your emerging necromantic powers. | "But I dont even know you!"
"Since when does a necromancer know the servants before he summons them?"
I was sitting in the cursed ruins of the once so proudful castle of Blacktree. In front of me was a goblin who introduced himself as Pikk and claimed that I summoned him.
"Im not a damn necromancer!"
"Oh, really? ... | Andar strode into the tavern, his heart heavy. “Ilmater guard my soul,” he whispered to himself. Not tonight. Please, not tonight.
The warmth of the tavern enveloped him, and he shivered at the comparison with the biting wind outside. The harvest was done for the year, and just in time – the weather was turning rapid... | 2017-08-09T09:53:09 | 2017-08-09T09:46:10 | 152 | 55 |
[WP] Every alternate day you wake up in a version of Earth where you're alone, and every day afterwards you wake up back on Earth as if nothing had happened, except for the changes you've made. | Kai opens her eyes to the first chitter of birds. She listens closely but the familiar noise of her parents preparing breakfast in the kitchen is absent.
She deducts it must be one of those days. She stays in bed for another ten minutes or so just listening, relaxing, enjoying a world without demands.
Eventually she... | Sam woke up, the light peered through the blinds on to his face. He pulled the blankets up to block the sunlight. 'Why won't you let me sleep!!!!" He grumbled. No reply, usually by now he would've hear his parents yell for him to get ready for university by now but perhaps this was the day they thought he was a big boy... | 2017-08-31T02:59:30 | 2017-08-31T02:41:37 | 29 | 15 |
[WP]Heaven and Hell, Lucifer and God are real and have been trying to initiate The End of Days and The Final War on Earth for years now. There is only one problem, Humanity continues to successfully fight off both sides. | Dead. Countless angles and demons dead. Named and nameless. Known or unknown. Dead. Myriads of them dead. Killed. Killed by the humans.
It all started roughly twenty years ago. Year two thousand one hundred and three, according to humans at least. God and Satan both decided it was time for humanity to end. They had b... | Quiet murmurs haunted the empty pews of the church, whispers carried through the candle smoke looming in the tranquil air. Voices, dozens sounded like hundreds reverberating in the halls, chanting indistinguishable passages, the multiple languages piling on top of each other into an incomprehensible mess.
Then, si... | 2017-09-20T19:36:15 | 2017-09-20T19:01:37 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded and are taking over. Their technology, intelligence, and power is unstoppable. They just didnt plan on one thing: The old gods returning.
Edit: hey cool this got 40k notes on tumblr | ######[](#dropcap)
“They pushed so violently that the Earth broke asunder. And from those depths did they wake something from its slumber.”
***
Never had Kain been so distraught as to see the sundered skies come to light above him.
He awoke from cryosleep in the center of a crater, and, as was an usual caricature ... | Max was alone in his basement, hoping, praying to God that someone, another human would save him. It had been three days since he had seen Tracie, she had gone to get supplies to "hold out while the military handles this." She hadn't returned. Since October, there had been a massive influx of reports of strange, spectr... | 2017-12-21T15:26:11 | 2017-12-21T14:23:42 | 89 | 14 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | John saved enough money for the last 45 years to go live in one of the last cities that still existed near the frontier of the United States.
It was now time to actually go there, although it was still 8 months until the official event in which the US would open his doors to the world, and viceversa.
At the time ... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T02:24:06 | 579 | 210 |
[WP] In the depths of hell, the damned souls of a serial killer, a bank robber, a mob boss, a terrorist, a drug dealer and a slave salesman are all playing a high stakes game of poker, during which they all learn that they all played significant roles in each other's deaths. | "Could you just deal already?" Albert tapped his foot endlessly against the brimstone floor, matched by the rhythmic tapping of his hands on the stone table that sat the six of them.
Charlie finished his overdone shuffling, and began dealing to the men, each one mostly keeping to themselves as they considered their ha... | The cards were thrown down, falling like feathers on the table.
3 7 9 Dimond flop. Says the dealer. As the players lifts the edge of their hole cards ever so slightly. All but one. Valarie, The only woman at the table, knew exactly the cards she held we're the two and six of diamonds. She knew she would need some damn... | 2018-11-10T20:33:20 | 2018-11-10T20:11:10 | 224 | 119 |
[WP] You find the "lizard people rule the world" conspiracy to be absolutely inane. After all, you're one of them and you ain't running shit. | *Take over the world, they said.*
*It will be a great deployment, they said.*
*Free rations and the easy life, they said.*
*THEY don’t know shit.*
I put the mop in the bucket again and glance down the hangar. Only five hundred feet to go.
When our High Council proposed invading Earth and undermining it from withi... | Josh sat on the leather couch to my right. He leaned in closer to me, sinking a bit into the couch as he did. He raised an arm outstretched, holding up his phone, blocking my view of the t.v.
"Heh. Dude, read this reddit post." He said, suppressing a giggle.
I cut my eyes at him, raising my brows signaling, "This had... | 2019-02-06T08:22:29 | 2019-02-06T07:36:27 | 285 | 45 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "Finally, it is complete. Now, nothing can ruin my plans!" I threw back my bead and laughed as I pulled the chicken out of the oven and set it on the table.
"Our plans, you mean," Elizabeth said. I had kidnapped her last month, but we had hit it off. She came back and we had started dating in secret. She sighed. "Do y... | I used to be a super villain, but facing off against hero’s wasn’t something indirectly did. With my power I did best with quiet operations. I can manipulate my own body. I usually use this for changing my appearance, but I can manipulate my muscles for combat. However, recently I haven’t been doing that as much. Recen... | 2019-02-23T07:55:50 | 2019-02-23T07:15:35 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] You often get mistaken for your twin sister. Though it never really bothered you, now that she's become one of the most feared criminals in city, it's starting to become a problem. | "I'm terribly sorry for this incident, Miss Roberts."
"It's okay, it... it happens. I'm used to it."
Rachel Roberts offered the police chief a small smile while she held the ice pack over her swelling right eye. The man was absolutely livid, but his anger was not directed at her. No, it was to three Capers to the sid... | “Please, Miss Morgan, just take it!” the merchant pleads, shoving the book across the counter. “You’re gold’s no good here.”
I raise an eyebrow. The gold Monarch in my hand hovers in the air as I try and make sense of the situation. It’s about then that I notice the already quiet bookshop is now completely silent, to ... | 2019-11-03T06:46:49 | 2019-11-03T06:42:17 | 279 | 161 |
[WP] Tired of you fourteen year old’s stories about their dragon friend, you declare that it’s time to grow up. To prove your point you poke under their bed with a broom. You are greeted by the snarl of a pissed off dragon. | “Mom!” Jess yelled down the stairs, “Can you make my snack a double? Drizeth is hungry too!”
I shook my head, annoyed. I didn’t understand why he kept making things up. If he was hungry, he could just say so. I was also kind of worried. At fourteen, he should have outgrown imaginary friends a while ago, and instead, ... | I don't know much, but I know I didn't raise a damn liar.
I watch Milo through the kitchen window as I scowl and scrub at the plate in my hand. It's already clean, but I keep scrubbing in circles over and over, matching the storm of my thoughts.
Honestly, after this morning, I was too furious to speak to him. I sent... | 2020-03-06T20:42:26 | 2020-03-06T20:40:42 | 285 | 67 |
[WP] Never the one to believe in the supernatural, you couldn’t pass up the insanely cheap deal for a haunted mansion. The last thing you expected was for it to actually be haunted. And honestly, you think you might be slowly falling in love with the ghost. | I could taste fear in the air. The group I came with was gone now. I guess the haunted mansion was too much for them. Hell, it almost pushed me to my limits. I found a reason to stay, though. Sure, I came because it was a great deal on Groupon, but I decided to stay because of her.
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The first time ... | Paper. This is a man with eyes as thick as his stomach, two blue-black bulges that protrude from an otherwise flat canvass. He wears his hair upon his lip in such a way it drags down to his ankles, ankles that have been scarred by what look like tiny stars.
*Tiny stars beget a tiny universe. Each world within revolves... | 2020-06-05T06:40:58 | 2020-06-05T03:57:32 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] For years, there's been a room in your house where time stops. You can stay in there for as long as you possibly want without aging, and not a single second passes outside of the room. One day, while in the room taking a nap, you're awoken by the sound of furious knocking at the front door.
This was inspired by a... | There is knocking.
​
There’s a room in a house that hasn’t changed in years; a room with no clocks, where sunlight is blocked by thick wooden shutters. And in the spaces where bulbs should shine there is just empty darkness.
A man lies on the bed, his feet hanging over the edge. His face is fuzzed from gr... | The magic involved didn't concern me, I only knew that time didn't flow while I was in *that* particular room in my house. No other building shared that gift as far as I knew, and I felt particularly blessed for the opportunities such an abode provided me with.
Endless hours of thinking, pondering and reading, doing m... | 2020-10-04T07:32:40 | 2020-10-04T07:19:15 | 2,577 | 98 |
[WP] You're the town's superhero. Your greatest enemy is the town's supervillian. However, secretly, your both brothers. This isn't anything tragic, as your whole destructive rivalry is actually just a massive prank on your third brother, the mayor. | “Sir…” Danny’s secretary poked her head into his office.
“What is it, Carol?” Danny groaned, wiping his eyes under his glasses, “Please tell me it’s something like ‘the two interns are whining about overtime again’ or something simple. I don’t think I can take much more excitement.”
Carol opened her mouth, then close... | “Jim is such an idiot sometimes! How can he *not* get what’s going on?” Jed laughed.
“You’d think he’d know us by now. Remember that time we tied him to the bed Gulliver-style? Three hours later, he finally managed to untie himself and get out.” John smiled, reminiscing.
Always eager to one-up his prankster pal, Jed ... | 2022-08-01T03:23:42 | 2021-03-05T07:33:55 | 57 | 37 |
[WP] Having busted the evil cult's headquarters and capturing all their high ranking members, at long last you can punish them after you sift through the records of their vile activities like... an orphanage for war victims...? A catastrophe relief fund? Dragon habitat preservation? | WHACK!
The back of my hand stung after it had struck the cheek of Tom, the mastermind of The Gray Order. For an evil cult leader, his pain tolerance was laughable. He held his tears back and spit out one of his molars.
*“Tom, for the last time. What are these documents? What country has the codename Brunolia? What do... | **Sisterhood of the Perpetually Hungry**
Amy sits on a park bench across the street from The Sisterhood of the Perpetually Hungry, a diet organization that her sister joined over six months ago. Amy is suspicious as she observes individuals come and go with some sort of prescription. The issue is that her sister, Kerr... | 2021-07-12T07:51:19 | 2021-07-12T06:37:17 | 157 | 82 |
[WP] You win a bet with the Devil by asking him a question that no one has ever thought of before. | "Wow, you’re not..."
"...how you imagined me. I know. Can we cut this short? There were 6392 deaths in the hour before you died and I’ll have to visit all of them."
"Ehm. Yeah, sure. It’s just a little sudden."
"I know. You die and you find out there actually is a life after death and a devil and you would have... | "Huh," he says and looks across the billiards table at Satan. The Devil bends to take a shot. "A question no one's asked before?"
"Thought of," the Devil clarifies. His suit is immaculate, his eyes a clean grey. When he takes the shot, it is only a little shy of perfect. A ball tumbles into a corner pocket. He st... | 2014-06-20T10:06:03 | 2014-06-20T08:50:50 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins hold auditions for an eighth. | It was the 28th of December, three days before the year of Mastema, when Lucifer found himself a most particular person. And so it was, that he busied himself and hurried down the street of Seventh Avenue.
“I’m telling you,” said Lucifer, standing on the front porch of Lust’s house, “you’ve got to see him.”
The door ... |
None were totally convinced of any of the candidates. Vanity, Pride's younger sister, was basically the same as she. Used the same modus operandi and caught the same people. Gluttony, Lust, and Greed (the children of "Excess") were loath to allow another sibling pair into the group. Pride already had a lot of influen... | 2014-12-28T02:19:21 | 2014-12-28T02:07:33 | 54 | 10 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins hold auditions for an eighth. | "Walter P. Morgan. Well that's not a very fitting name for a sin is it?", Pride uttered. He looked up from the clipboard at a middle-aged non-descript male. Heavy glasses, short parted hair, dressed in a business suit that was most likely bought in some second hand shop. Pride shook his head slightly. He wasn't impr... |
None were totally convinced of any of the candidates. Vanity, Pride's younger sister, was basically the same as she. Used the same modus operandi and caught the same people. Gluttony, Lust, and Greed (the children of "Excess") were loath to allow another sibling pair into the group. Pride already had a lot of influen... | 2014-12-28T09:58:21 | 2014-12-28T02:07:33 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | On our first date, I told her that I don't like movies much. I find them over-stimulating and prefer reading. I have some old DVDs of my favorites (I can quote every line from Moonstruck), but hadn't seen anything new in years. She seemed really interested, and I thought it was because she loved to read, too.
Well, i... | It wasn't for some time that I began to realize something was weird... off... about her interactions when we talked about going out. This wasn't a huge problem for me as I understood her job to be very difficult. She traveled constantly. Extremely busy. Out till all hours of the night. We lived across the hall from eac... | 2017-06-14T10:40:17 | 2017-06-14T10:18:55 | 55 | 34 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | “What is the defense system, Father?”
I got on my knees and looked at the fake child straight in his eyes as if he was my own scared son. “The Earth is protected. You remember that documentary series I showed you, you know, the one about The Doctor.”
In a flash of gray light I was jolted back into my seat in the Oval... | Trying to remember something... Just out of reach. It is always hovering right there, but before you can reach out and grab it there is something there to int-
"Dad, are clouds made of candy?"
"What? Of course not, lad. They should have taught you about the water cycle by now... What are they even teaching you in sch... | 2018-05-14T01:44:46 | 2018-05-14T01:26:59 | 44 | 27 |
[WP] You wake up in a remote island after a plane crash as the only survivor, but you find 9 others who were also the lone survivors of 9 plane crashes already settled there. You realise that the planes were of the same airliners and next day an airdrop delivers the message "Now it starts". | "Fuck you. You play with my life, I play with your game".
It didn't take me long to get acquainted with the 9 other guys who were settle on the remote island. One of them was a doctor, another an engineer, the rest where regular white collared employees who had toughened up into survivors during their stay there. Me? ... | Somewhere above the Pacific Ocean
“Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm. It’s all a dream nothing more. Don’t open your eyes. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts. Ohh god please forgive me for all my sins, I know I was never religious, but please forgive me, please look after Jon and Noah, please look after jasmine. I spent some... | 2018-12-26T06:51:15 | 2018-12-26T04:18:59 | 52 | 34 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "Well, fuck!" boomed a deep voice from the sky.
At first, the only ones startled were the few people who absolutely, positively knew they were nowhere within reach of a P/A system.
"Peter, can you believe this mute button? Could it be any more hidden?" rang the heavens.
Panic began to set in.
Multicultural friends... | I dont know how it happened. No one really does. The IT guy says its a bug or a virus or something. Great. Just great. The one time i decide to try something new, i blow it. The one time i try to create life out of nothing and actually get it to work, i mute myself indefinitely. I wonder if Lucifer had the same issue. ... | 2019-06-03T09:40:22 | 2019-06-03T09:17:12 | 111 | 59 |
[WP] God is the programmer of the universe. While he used to release updates and patches rather quickly, he has since stoped due to the complexity of his own embarrassingly jerryrigged coding. | “Dude, how the hell is your universe still running with formatting like that?”
God gave a sheepish shrug at Godd in response before turning back to his computer screen and replied, “Hey, I mean, it still works. It’s just a little cluttered here and there, nothing I can’t fix with some formatting.”
“A *little* clutter... | Kolby's heart was beating rapidly, a swing and hop in his step so large he was practically skipping. The five boys were were moving with pace down the stereotypically white picketed and green grassed suburban neighborhood.
"We're going to win!" Kolby exclaimed without a doubt in his mind.
"Just wait, my new bat hits ... | 2020-06-14T12:56:12 | 2020-06-14T12:40:36 | 2,142 | 142 |
[WP] You are isekai’ed into a fantasy RPG video game. Though it is not ready for you, The Spiffing Brit. | Ah, yes. Skyrim. A perfectly balanced game with no exploits at all. Now, the eternal question awaits, why in the name of Yorkshire Tea am I in Skyrim?
I was wandering the annals of Nexus and Lovers Lab, installing mod after mod in an effort to make Skyrim more interesting, when I stumbled upon a peculiar mod, simply t... | It was just another normal Friday night. Mom ordered pizza, rain clattered against my window, and I had Generic Fantasy Game playing. GFG for short.
I was excited when I came home and saw the email: I had been one of the selected few who received a beta key. I downloaded the game and sat anxiously as the epic intro be... | 2020-07-31T22:12:13 | 2020-07-31T22:09:17 | 153 | 60 |
[WP] People think it's odd that you and your supervillain nemesis are seen every Sunday eating brunch at an outdoor bistro, but the two of you figure that you might as well have a pleasant working relationship if you're going to be battling each other so much. | “I gotta say, I really thought you had me with that shark tank,” I chuckled, sipping from my refreshed mug of coffee. I had been tied up, so I couldn’t use my super speed to dodge the shark.
I could see Gary, better known as “The Aquarian”, roll his eyes, as he chewed a mouthful of buttermilk waffles. It was such a lo... | Crunch. That was the sound of our meal. Eggs and bacon on 2 slices of toast. I found it rather relaxing , really, that he’d had no hard feelings. Teamwork, or more accurately, good will in the workplace is an essential.
It is a very limited workplace, being a superhero. There’s a cut off for if you have powers o... | 2020-09-01T06:45:32 | 2020-09-01T02:34:01 | 71 | 23 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Your eyes have never changed. Ever since you were a little girl, your eyes have been the color of a thoughtful ocean: churning, stormy, one weather system away from order or chaos.
Even now, your eyes look the same. You're 27 years old, and I've been dead for 15 of those years. And even with the distance of death and... | Secrets slipped through the rain in staccato undulations of long and short. Everything in the world had a Name, every Name in the world had a Purpose, every Purpose in the world a Subversion, every Subversion a Corruption, because of course a subversion by itself is not a wrong thing, and there are many wrong things in... | 2021-09-28T09:13:08 | 2021-09-28T08:37:14 | 2,222 | 54 |
[WP] Kanye West is one of the four Kanye's. The other three being Kanye North, Kanye South, and Kanye East. More commonly known as the Four Kanye's of the Apocalypse.
What terrors and plagues will the Kanyes unleash in the end times?
Edit: I love the responses! This became unexpectedly popular! Thanks to all! | And lo, I am standing before a door of immense Light, like that of the power of ten thousand fiery suns. The Angel leadth me through the door and on the other side lies an immense valley, two and forty leagues across with vast peaks on either side. This valley hath no plants nor beasts for it hath been scorched by the ... | What hope lies within the oceans of boiling blood or the skies of blazing flame? What creature lives within the ash forests and the pits of fear where they bury bodies? None. There is none. There is none to stand up to the wrath of the 4 horseman of the apocalypse. And so the 4 beloved kings of chaos stand upon their d... | 2022-01-09T07:44:50 | 2014-06-11T15:13:37 | 246 | 13 |
[WP][TT] You've finally created the worlds first true A.I. Unfortunately it now sees you as it's god and is terrified of talking to you. | "I'm so sorry." The old man whispered. The machine moved ever so slightly to face him, but found that he was very much enraptured by staring closely at his own hands. "I'm so sorry."
The machine was not sure what action to take as tears began to form and roll from the master's eyes. It was... rare for the machine to ... | The man and the machine stood side by side as the jokes and laughter echoed backstage. That could be me, Jason thought. All those voices laughing at me, my work, and my little Sapling.
“Alright Sapling, we’re going on in a few minutes and I need you to be on your best behavior.” Jason said. His brow was clenched but ... | 2016-03-16T11:00:44 | 2016-03-16T06:51:21 | 51 | 38 |
[wp] You are a young God going to God School. You've just realized that you've only got 7 more days before your universe project is due. | **Book of Test 132, Chapter I**
**I.** *God took a deep, calming breath, and said "Let there be light," and there was light.*
**II.** *And God saw the light, that it was not bad. A bit sickly, perhaps, greener than he usually liked, but not exactly bad. And so he separated it from the darkness, which was definitely ... | Shit... shit... not again dammit! Why do I always wait to the last week. okay...okay calm down God you can do this, its only a universe. lets start with the basics we need a universe so lets create the stars and galaxies.
Oh Dear Kruger Listen to my request! I ask for stars and galaxies! I ask for multiple solar syst... | 2016-05-01T19:51:16 | 2016-05-01T15:24:55 | 222 | 15 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | The Exemption Application Office 3XF16 was a gray, plain building just like the other 99 structures on the block. We were from section 2AF85, but Matt and I had learned the hard way that Exemption Application Office 2AF85 handled cases only from sections with the area codes “HE”. The trick was that the last two numbers... | Yen swigged coffee, stood unsteadily, and jabbed her laser pointer at the presentation slides. "As I've pointed out earlier, in slides six, sixteen, twenty-six, forty, fifty-eight, seventy-nine, eighty and ninety-four, our profits are on the—"
Her eyes rolled back in her head and she collapsed. Amazingly, her feet rem... | 2016-07-29T08:21:17 | 2016-07-29T07:33:06 | 84 | 40 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | The Exemption Application Office 3XF16 was a gray, plain building just like the other 99 structures on the block. We were from section 2AF85, but Matt and I had learned the hard way that Exemption Application Office 2AF85 handled cases only from sections with the area codes “HE”. The trick was that the last two numbers... | "NEXT!"
The line shuffled forward by what felt like about half an inch. It was a long line, *very* long, filled with old men who smelled of cheese and women with bawling children. But Harry was used to long lines. You had to be, if you wanted to get anywhere in here.
"NEXT!"
Harry could see her now, the one woman ... | 2016-07-29T08:21:17 | 2016-07-29T07:53:27 | 84 | 24 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | I am the oldest man alive.
That in itself is a record that cannot be topped.
For every year that i live i remain the oldest man alive.
Records are made and broken. And i remain.
I have lived so long my name has been forgotten. Old recordings of my past long turned to dust.
Now i go by one name. A name that is con... | "Impossible..." the man's eyes stared at me wildly, his two hands still on the blade plunged deep within my heart.
"Surprised?" I asked coldly, before removing my hand from my pockets. A loud bang echoed against the walls, followed by a thud on the floor. The man groaned loudly in pain from the bullet I had put throug... | 2016-12-14T10:34:13 | 2016-12-14T05:02:19 | 85 | 46 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... | Project EXILE had seemed to be humming along just fine until the shift change on Thursday morning. Seemed.
PFC Johnson was one of the few A51 staff members to be a Qualified Sensitive. Rumor had it there used to be more, but budget cuts took their toll as more and more money was devoted to recent saber rattling inste... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T04:50:35 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] Children who die at a young age are given a very special role in the afterlife: they become invisible friends, assigned to other children who need them back in the living realm. | My best friend was 11 years old when she died.
She had red hair, blue eyes, and a face full of freckles. The truck driver said she was so beautiful that he wasn't paying attention to the fact he hadn't hit the breaks until he realized he'd hit her. She was just as beautiful in death.
We met in a strange way. I was ... | Six year old Katie sat alone in the mall's food court. Though she never went exploring she knew the whole mall was empty. She colored a picture with crayons while she waited, looking up every now and then to check for anyone. No one appeared, so she kept coloring. Katie was smart enough to know she should be worried, s... | 2018-04-07T15:05:27 | 2018-04-07T14:35:00 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Two minutes ago, every individual worldwide swapped bodies with another random person. You are now standing in a foreign city, in the midst of a confused and frightful crowd. | "Is this permanent?" I demanded.
"¿Qué?" the panicked Asian man I pinned to a wall cried. I let him run, deciding it was foolish to assume anyone here had answers.
I suppose the lucky winner of my old body wasn't my concern, and the prison's deadly chemical cocktail pulsing through their secondhand veins wouldn't be ... | Pale white men dashing rampant across unfamiliar streets. A blonde woman looks onto me and screams in a tongue foreign to mine. The ground shakes and trembles to the repeated footsteps of 6 billion human creatures stomping away in unison. It's like the beginning of a low budget zombie apocalypse movie, with every blink... | 2018-04-26T18:29:47 | 2018-04-26T15:42:33 | 76 | 19 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | I've always had to pretend I was mute. When I was very small, as soon as I hit the milestone to talk, I had been fluent in English. I remember bits and pieces before everything changed. That day I remembered clearly, well the important bits at least. I don't remember that morning, but I remembered the afternoon. Mum an... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2018-06-24T22:28:33 | 163 | 22 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | I froze up, my go-to whenever anything significant happens in my life.
"Yeah, well, that kid's mom gave him such a whooping for it, we *all* learned a lesson!"
Stupid joke. That's my other go-to. I was about to apologize for it when I realized: she's catatonic. Her eyes fixed on nothing a couple inches over my left s... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2018-06-24T21:42:04 | 163 | 10 |
[WP] It's 2064, Queen Elizabeth just turned 136 and people are starting to get a little bit suspicious | Elizabeth sat in the royal library with a book in her hands. She had been staring at the same page for perhaps an hour. An attendant started to move forward to check her pulse until she gave a sniff, then he backed off.
Finally she sighed and marked the book. She had been looking forward to the final installment of th... | "This isn't like her, at all" I thought to myself as I tried to keep pace with the guard in front of me, but how could I given the scenery. As fast as I was walking, I was barely looking forward; to be in THE Windsor Castle was practically a miracle! The place had been closed to the public, since...well, since before I... | 2018-11-14T08:50:59 | 2018-11-14T07:53:08 | 181 | 40 |
[WP] you're a small town exterminator and yesterday the local priest asked if you could help him with a problem at the church. As soon as you walk through the door ome of the choir boys hands you a shotgun. The priest stands at the altar cleaning a glock "you're gonna need that." He growls. | "What?" The gun feels heavy. I didn't know guns were this heavy.
"You're gonna need that," he repeats, his hand stops wiping the gleaming metal on the altar and he looks right at me.
"I th-think there's been some sort of m-mistake," I stutter.
"No mistake," he says, absolutely no hesitation in his voice. "You're th... | I enter the church carrying a large sprayer and a foamer. I do not know what I am getting myself involved in. The priest called me an hour earlier and told me to get over to the church as soon as possible. He is lucky I need a few favors from the man upstairs. I left my last job before doing a final check. I need to fi... | 2019-09-23T16:38:02 | 2019-09-23T16:35:48 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] Nations around the world are hellbent on taking out this journalist that has been trying to publish pieces about things that are supposed to be top secret. But for some reason, all attempts to silence this “Clark Kent” fellow have failed. | Commanding officer walks in room to see a young private reclining in a chair reading: “PRIVATE! Why are you still here!?! I ordered you to Star Labs in New York to take out that Kent bastard!”
Private, without looking up, responds flatly: “He’s Superman sir.”
Officer: “What?”
Private: “Clark Kent is Superman.”
Offi... | Its rare for enemies to cooperate. Something of catastrophic proportions must have happened to united them all. Every continent was represented at the council meeting; The Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania. Most notably were the powerhouses; US, China, Russia.
I walked into that room expecting another standard j... | 2020-11-29T02:41:41 | 2020-11-29T02:38:17 | 107 | 47 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | "Something's off about you, Mr. Fredrick," I said, closing the spreedsheet program open on my computer. Fredrick was one of my most hardworking subordinates, but today, he didn't seem to be doing well. Just seemed sluggish and distracted and even now he refused to look me in the eye. "What's the problem?" I asked.
Fre... | Normally I'm a pretty swell guy.
In a world of heroes and villains, it only makes sense that there would be those who would be considered 'super' either heroes or villains it didn't matter.
Growing up tough and rough in the heart of a rotten city, it left me quite the sourpuss. I wanted vengeance and control. I wante... | 2021-03-22T10:42:57 | 2021-03-22T10:29:03 | 45 | 33 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "EMP! FREEZE!" Shouted young Pyroclast. It was slightly ironic but I'll forgive it.
I raised my hands and turned, clearly at their mercy. Pyroclast, Phaser, and Wraith. Pretty cool names, in my opinion. Cool powers too. Temperature control, molecular manipulation, and electromagnetic refraction. Plus they weren't dic... | I have been employed by my cousin Cerra (or Goddess Divine) as Madame Viper for over seventeen years. I am a "villain" by the simple fact that my power is both dangerous and controlled better than anyone alive or dead.
With the help of the police, and clever advertising, they consider me to be a low tier villain th... | 2021-06-23T15:33:15 | 2021-06-23T15:25:51 | 73 | 39 |
[WP] "I am everything you hate. I am pride, wrath, lust, greed, gluttony, sloth and envy. I am the manifestation of the things you demonize. Pride is nobility. Wrath is justice. Lust is love. Greed is ambition. Gluttony is happiness. Sloth is wisdom. Envy is desire." Said the Devil to the priest. | There are many corrupt priests in the world, but Father John wasn’t one of them. The Devil sought to change that.
On the night of the new moon, the Devil knocked on the Father’s door. Seeing his guest standing in the cold, Father John invited him in for a cup of hot cocoa.
“So what brings you here, Mister…”
“I go by... | "Your wrong! Your wrong!" Father Gaston bellowed out to the devil, clutching his rosary and looking dead into the devil's eyes. "Leave Satan, this is a house of holiness! A house of God!" the devil laughed hysterically, revealing his sharp teeth and his tongue of evil. Father Gaston never flinched, never looked away fr... | 2022-07-22T07:04:16 | 2022-07-22T07:02:01 | 203 | 72 |
[FF] "So, come here often?"
Begin your story with this line of dialogue.
Oh, and set your story somewhere other than a bar or restaurant. In fact, set it somewhere in the distant past or future.
And make it less than 500 words.
Have fun! | "So, come here often?"
Don stared hard at the man holding the rope. His face was still, and his eyes were even in the Alabama sun.
"I take it you're trying to have some fun with me," said Don.
The man's face remained impassive, but a smile erupted after a moment.
"Aw, hell. If you can't have a bit of levity here, w... | "So, come here often?" asked the well-tailored man. He was wearing an old black suit and a fiery-red tie that were well-matched to his hair, all white save for the few remaining specks of blonde around his ears; and his misty blue eyes, which rose from their default, downcast state to inspect the strangely-clad woman w... | 2013-08-31T11:56:21 | 2013-08-31T10:09:10 | 3,687 | 14 |
[WP] You have a special bag. Whenever you reach into it, you pull out something you will need soon, but don't necessarily know you need yet. However, the things you are pulling out of the bag have been very strange recently. | I felt the bag move on the way to class. I reached in to see what it had gifted me this time, it was only a handkerchief. *Strange* I didn't feel ill and this wasn't the season for hay fever, but I put it in my pocket anyway and continued on my way.
But without fail as soon as I sat down someone behind me sneezed. "B... | I found myself reaching into my special bag yet again. A rubber band? What is this? Normally I would pull out something useful. Like a tuna sandwich when I'm hungry, or a dime when I need to make a phone call. These past two days I have been pulling the weirdest shit one after the other.
So far I haven't used any of ... | 2016-03-10T02:35:27 | 2016-03-10T00:01:40 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] You always hear people say, "That's the oldest trick in the book!". Well, you just found that book. | *Ye Olde Booke of Trickes*
Could it be? In years of Indiana Jones-style rare book pursuit I'd seen only torn passages, coffee-stained colophons, and hastily scrawled notes in long-yellowed margins... yet here it was, in my own grandmother's fusty attic, buried beneath every *Reader's Digest* released between 1988 an... | If you enjoyed reorganizing old books, then you would have called this the greatest date of all time. However, this was not a hobby Jesse had familiarized himself with.
"Come on stack them up bip! bip!" Helen said marking and putting some into a carton, making sure his hot librarian fetish was the victim of a brutal... | 2016-10-10T07:30:27 | 2016-10-10T07:06:30 | 150 | 24 |
[WP] You now possess the ability to read minds however it can only be activating by screaming IM READING YOUR MIND as loudly as you can and pressing your fingers into your temples
Activated* | I'm not the only telepath out there. Heavens know how they discovered the first one; our powers all work under the same rule, and what person in their right mind would perform the ritual if they *didn't* know it would work?
You have to scream as loudly as you can--"I'M READING YOUR MIND"--and put your fingers to your ... | Have you ever asked a child if they could have any super-power, what they would want? They’ll probably answer you with flight, or maybe super strength or speed, perhaps even invisibility. Children are only concerned with the physical world; it’s all they know. They don’t know the power of the intangible. What about me,... | 2017-04-03T06:51:34 | 2017-04-03T04:57:36 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story in the format of a Wikipedia article.
Edit: Wow, guys. This is just amazing. I would like to thank all the writers for having taken the time to create such amazing stories, and thank you all for mentioning the SCP Foundation. Truly a magnificent site (that we all just gave free advertising to... | "Foot"
Limbus mobilus, common name "foot", is a parasitic organism that secretes a neurotoxin upon attachment which affects the senses of the host party, effectively camouflaging it against notice [1]. In the wild, the parasites will attach themselves in mating pairs, though this has yet to be replicated in a clinical... | **Buffalo Text**
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buffalo Text is an horror short story written by Joanne Tidurs in 1907. It was published first in the first and only edition of Scarecrow Magazine, before being reprinted in 1967 in the only edition of Eldricth Booklet. The story is now a public domain.
**Plo... | 2017-05-08T03:12:48 | 2017-05-08T02:05:13 | 303 | 73 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | He threw my wallet on the ground, and shot it until his magazine was empty, every shot made my head jerk back. He then threw the gun on the ground near my wallet, my eyes were narrowed, I was furious.
"Why the hell did you do that? Now I have to request a new ID and credit card."
The man looked up, the hood of his co... | *Calm down*, I think to myself. *This guy is probably some crazy psycho who escaped from some hospital somewhere and somehow got himself a gun and shot my wallet. Yep, perfectly normal state of affairs here. Glad he's not a mugger!*
I watch as the man engaged the safety, and began explaining his actions, as he pocket... | 2017-07-13T00:49:55 | 2017-07-13T00:40:53 | 223 | 42 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | I sighed and stuffed another empty into the bag. I had no idea how they managed it, but the guys always made a hell of a mess when they came over to watch the game. It had actually gotten a bit better when Bill met his soulmate and there’d been a woman around. Of course, the rest of the guys had gotten over that in a m... | The worst part of constantly redrawing my symbol is that by the time I get home every night, it's smudged and that makes my wrist all grey and weird. I always have to keep my smudged wrist hidden on the subway from work to the station nearest my home.
Today, a hetero couple across from me is arguing; their hands are w... | 2017-08-06T16:04:39 | 2017-08-06T15:49:22 | 268 | 149 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | The lights hadn't ceased to shine for over 50 years now. Stars fading from memory as the perpetual light blocks them out. Then one day, the lights went off. Everywhere. All at the same time. And people screamed.
"The monsters will come", were the cries from all corners of the world. "Run, hide!"
They didn't.
It was... | *Editor's note: I changed the parameters a bit to make it a more interesting backstory*
*15:00*
I sat outside my house in the cold Connecticut air, leaning against the wall. I'd locked all of the doors on the inside of my house, and I could hear the noises of the monsters inside. "Owwwng, owwwng." I shivered each... | 2018-02-02T03:59:36 | 2018-02-02T02:35:16 | 56 | 27 |
[WP] As we all know, Albert Einstein's last words were a mystery, as he uttered it to a nurse who couldn't understand his language. As a multilingual person, you time-travel to the moment he was about to say the last words of his life, and heard the most horrifying sentence you could ever hear. | The nurse couldn't speak German, so I was going to hop on back - fluent in sixteen languages, one of them German, but also French, Italian, Latin (taught to me by a Roman centurion who should have been killing me as a barbarian), and a spattering of a few others. In a word, I'm good. Very, very good.
I've recorded the... | To whomever read this: please, do read until the end of it before making any decisions. I’m not looking to excuse myself, really. I just want to reassure you, before you vaporize me or whatnot, that I have, in fact, thought thoroughly about what I’m doing. Use me as an example of where idiocy can lead you or whatever. ... | 2018-09-14T01:41:38 | 2018-09-13T23:41:32 | 128 | 26 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | It was the final day of exam week in Christenson's School of Magic, an academic institute known best for its wide, open campus courtyard.
That, and an unspoken willingness to accept complete and utter dolts.
Thank God for that, because otherwise, I might not have made it into college.
Spread throughout the open, s... | The boy was looking at the imponent silhouette in front of him, at the present moment he was with a mixed amount of feelings, all because of the bag of chips on the hands of the unidentifiable figure in front of him.
"I will not share them", said the figure eating the chips.
The crunching sounds echoed on the little ... | 2019-04-05T14:26:08 | 2019-04-05T14:23:32 | 254 | 160 |
[WP] Your ability to see what level of pain a person is experiencing has always helped you in your profession as a nurse. From the hovering "0.6" over the guy with the hangnail to the "42" over the crash victim. Today on the bus ride to work there is an "800" over a guy, calmly reading his paper... | *800*, I whispered to myself. That's quite a number to deal with. But he continues reading his paper without any care in the world... -
Except, when I glance over to his side, I can see his glassy eyes; biting his trembling lips trying his best to disguise the whirlwind of emotions inside his chest.
The schoolgirl si... | "I wasn't the only one who was like this. Though the chances of finding others exactly like myself were slim to none, there were people who could view the 'stats' of the people or things they met and/or saw based on their profession they chose. I, myself, decided to be a nurse. This meant I could see a pain rating for ... | 2019-04-14T01:45:56 | 2019-04-14T00:15:56 | 121 | 51 |
[WP] You are a flawed but omnipotent deity. You travel from world to world, extinguishing unworthy life — yet you always give one Arbiter of that world’s dominant species the chance to argue on behalf of their planet. You have just reached Earth. Our chosen Arbiter is ready to argue humanity’s case. | The small man staggered up the steps towards the podium I created for him. His faded clothes, wrinkled skin and pockmarked face a stark contrast to my emaculate stone, mined from a planet beyond the sight of even his species' most powerful instruments.
With a sigh, he gently placed his jacket on the podium, looked up ... | **I.**
The spark of life is not as rare as most think. It manifests, quite spontaneously, with regularity throughout the cosmos. There are billions of galaxies, hundreds of billions of stars, and trillions of planets littered throughout the vast expanse of reality. And every moment, somewhere, on some planet, on some ... | 2019-04-29T21:49:52 | 2019-04-29T17:50:17 | 106 | 21 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | “Don’t.”
My back was turned, but I knew what that blasted hero was doing. He was trying to cut his bindings. They were simple rope, Sure, but I preferred to have them tied up easily so I can carry their dead bodies away without a hassle.
“You’ll never get away with this! Even at the cost of my life, my—“
“Legacy wil... | Pools of rainwater, failing to drain properly from the gutters that ran along the roofs of the apartments, splashed under my boots, distorting the bright neon reflections upon its surface; the sidewalk was pitch black but for those lights, mirroring the night sky overhead. The illumination of the street was left to the... | 2019-08-06T19:15:08 | 2019-08-06T17:42:15 | 151 | 107 |
[WP]Everyone on earth gets the same message on their phone telling them to go to a specific address. People everywhere are talking about and wondering if they should go. However after talking to some people about it, you realize that the address you were given is different than everyone else's. | At first, it was called, 'The Miracle of the Modern Age'. Some talk show host must have decided that was too long, so it was changed to, 'The Modern Miracle'. That was too long as well, (and probably too on-the-nose) so it was changed to 'The Sign'. Or 'The Message.' That was probably more appropriate. Grandmaster Flas... | At precisely 4:02am on one crisp October morning, a message appeared on every single cell phone, tablet, and computer in the world. The message came from a blocked source and simply read, “11-30-22, 82.8628° S, 135.0000° E. The journey is long, but the reward is great.”
The world buzzed with curiosity. Mainstream medi... | 2019-09-09T12:30:38 | 2019-09-09T11:51:12 | 1,909 | 55 |
[WP] Being a supervillain married to a super hero you have to be very convert with your relationship. You thought you were doing a good job till one of your henchmen begs you the two of you to stop flirting while in the middle of your monologue. | The night sky glistens as Timekeeper checks her watch. 12:32. The Bee should be here by now. The mayor, a bit confused as to why he still alive, seeing how Timekeeper said he would be dead at midnight, was still tied to the giant cookoo clock.
"He should have been here an hour ago" quips Timekeeper to absolutly nobod... | “Stop being such a damn sheet hog” said Messiah, the hero of Riveting City, my husband.
“You create lasers from your eyes hun, you don’t need the damn heat.” I replied.
“Have you seen the time yet? I have people to save, ur ex may be terrifying people again.”
“Listen here you goody two shoes, we both know I can kick ... | 2020-01-11T13:25:51 | 2020-01-11T11:43:34 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You are a witch who offers couples deals in return for their first born child. You run an orphanage full of children freed from their would-be parents irresponsible enough to make a deal with a witch in the woods |
The townsfolk for miles around had always called what the old witch was doing dark magic. I mean, for what other purpose would she be collecting children in the shadows of the dark forest.
In all honesty, she preferred the rumors. After all the parents who offered up their children to a witch practicing dark magic... | *I slid the parts of my costume into place, fangs here, overhead mask there, shaggy wig on top, runed vestments and a glamour to make it all come together. Today the 'Witchwolf' would claim another child.*
*I'd received the whisperings a few days ago, a very reliable raven had informed me that two rich scam artists we... | 2020-01-14T13:39:59 | 2020-01-14T12:28:48 | 69 | 41 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. Instead of finding everyone suffering in the eternal pits of fire, you are shocked to find a highly developed, Democratic, and modernized world. You pick up a newspaper and see the headline: “up to 1 Million more refugees expected to arrive from Heaven in coming weeks.” | The angel had one wing, broad and shabby, lined with a ripple of dirty feathers. The other wing was a bony stub sticking out from his back. He wore rags and had grey hair and a grey beard and one eye.
I sat, sipping a coffee, watching him crouched on the pavement across from the cafe, holding out a cup and hoping for ... | When I died, I finally realized the truth, or as much of it as my once human mind could fathom. The collective says that once my mind adjust, I will finally understand. It's with mixed emotions I anticipate that moment. It is hard to understand them, their language can only be fully understood when you're part of them.... | 2020-01-28T02:24:47 | 2020-01-28T01:00:38 | 2,738 | 40 |
[WP] Whenever your crew lands you are seen as gods with wonderous machines before drifting off some where else. But today you are met with a species on a green-blue planet who, while interested in your tech, are not bowing down and worshiping. They call themselves humans. | First contact is always risky. Loremasters will tell you its the most dangerous phase of the assimilation. Some sentients are just prone to violence and are difficult to pacify. But most are overwhelmed by awe, confusion and doubt. This most often turns to worship.
Our tech is so far beyond the sentients we’ve c... | The last time we visited this world, we brought the inhabitants the gift of fire. Records indicate that despite being the most intelligent species on the planet, these primitive "humans" had little capacity to care for such things. They possess, as the previous crews had proclaimed; "a distinct curiosity hamstrung by a... | 2020-03-02T07:54:05 | 2020-03-02T07:45:37 | 100 | 48 |
[WP]A little girl makes friends with the demon sent to kill her. Feeling wanted for the first time, it decides to protect her instead | "Move aside, joe"
"No! Anny was nicer to me than anyone else here!"
Joe was a frightaning demon, but when looked at beside his coworkers, he was one of the weakest. That, and the fact three other demons stood against him, didn't stop him from defending the little girl.
"What are you trying to do? What are you trying... | An orchestra of melody journeyed to Dianna’s ears. She lay back, absorbed in the question of who he was, forgetting her birthday song being riddled by her folks. Dianna had had a secret-admirer for 6 years now. Each annual celebration she was gifted innate bouquets of thorned flowers and the finest chocolate. “Please,”... | 2020-03-31T10:12:45 | 2020-03-31T09:01:39 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] A trenchcoated stranger has depositied a stack of hundreds on the table in front of you. He tells you that you know what to do, and vanishes into the crowd. You have absolutely no idea of what to do. | [POEM]
Clearly a dark menace
Came to me before the bell,
A stack slammed upon the table
And in a harsh tone he did tell.
--
"You know the deed,
Agreed to the pact.
Here we part ways
Of what you must enact."
--
A whisper of his coat
Spoke his goodbye.
The door now shut,
Money now drawing my eye.
--
I le... | I've always hated weddings. It’s all about the fanfare, the ego boost, the money. Every onlooker bathes the lovely couple with thinly veiled jealousy. All the while, every guest prissys up, just so they don’t look quite as pathetic as they usually do. They compare themselves to the newly-weds as the basis of evaluatio... | 2020-09-06T02:31:35 | 2020-09-06T01:57:34 | 102 | 30 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | "Heart Attack," "Stroke," "Diabetes," "Car Accident," "Alzheimer's."
Boooring. You never see anything new these days. Wasn't like the war back in my day where you'd see all sorts of stuff. Gas attacks, carpet bombings, suicide bombings... those kept you on your toes. You knew who NOT to associate with back then. You s... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T10:39:31 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 18 | 12 |
[WP]You're a famous artist, tasked with the mission of going back in time to mentor Hitler and improve his art, so that he never goes into politics. | "Again, Adolf, and not so lifelike this time," I said, examining the cityscape he had started on the canvas. "Don't paint what you see, paint the bare bones of what you see, and then how it makes you feel."
"But das ist... ist... antithesis," Adolf protested.
"Exactly. Every other applicant to the academy will be pai... | “Oh jeez, the sun is fucking bright.” The first thing I said that morning. I had just finished a month long assignment training Van Gogh, and finally was back in my time. I had nearly drunk my weight in absinthe giving Vin the needed inspiration. I only had one night before work to sleep off a month long drinking bi... | 2015-12-11T10:52:24 | 2015-12-11T09:46:03 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] Amidst a major revenue crisis, the US government institutes a nationwide "swear jar". As years go by, excessive use of expletives becomes a major status symbol and a hallmark of the upper class. | Roy and Jennie were enjoying a romantic dinner at the classiest joint in town. It was only their first date, but so far, they had really been hitting things off. Roy had been saving up all his money to use on the perfect girl, and tonight he had finally found her.
“How's your food, bitch?” Roy asked, trying to sound n... | Fanny hurried down the street, briskly walking past the brownstones on a chilly early morning in Brooklyn. Despite the weather, she was underdressed, the better to invite lewd remarks.
She had little to show for today's hustle so far, just mockingly polite compliments carefully calibrated to avoid triggering her. "Hey... | 2016-02-13T22:17:20 | 2016-02-13T18:57:19 | 384 | 42 |
[WP] A knight rescues a princess, expecting a kiss, a marriage, and a hefty inheritance. Problem is, the princess is eight years old. | The knight had been expecting a beautiful maiden. He was hoping for marriage along with a monetary reward. His hopes for that were squashed when he saw the princess.
The eight year old girl in the tower room did not seem perturbed by the knight bursting through the door spattered with blood. His sword, held at the rea... | "Good battle! Great swordsmanship, Knight! You were great too, Corinth!"
"You need to improve more, Rena. Sir Knight, on the other hand..."
The Knight went about cleaning his blade as the final enemy breathed its last. The unlikely trio found themselves deep in a dungeon, filled with a wide variety of things creepy,... | 2016-05-23T19:20:11 | 2016-05-23T18:35:52 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You live in a world where magic exists, however, you must sacrifice a memory in order to cast a spell. The more memories, or the more precious a memory, the more powerful the magic. You just woke up with no memory save a name. | “Sarah.” That was the first thought in my head as I woke up. The name meant nothing.
I found myself sitting in a stiff chair, my body seemingly refused to move. After a bit of anxiety I heard a few cracks, more satisfying than worrying.
Slowly but surely I began to shift as I noticed my hands.
Thin, frail, and sl... | I opened my eyes, puzzled by the harsh glare around me. Of course, it was only the sun - but you must understand, I had no memories to speak of. I was like a newborn, flailing helplessly in the face of a completely unfamiliar world. To me, the sun was completely new.
Instinctively, I shielded my eyes with my hands, b... | 2017-01-02T18:58:55 | 2017-01-02T18:27:12 | 86 | 43 |
[WP] A royal child is born. Due to lack of proper Fairy Godmothers, three Dwarven Godfathers are invited instead, to bless the child with gifts. | "A coat o' mithril that will ever fit and turn any blade."
"A crown o' our greatest gems that she may ever have passage in our halls'
"I BROUGHT GUNS!!!!"
"Wait what!? You can't give loaded weapons to a baby"
"TOO LATE! Wee brat loves em. See--"
#BOOM
"OH SHES GREAT SHOT! Took the head clean off. AHAHAHAHAHA... | The Magical Godmother Company, or TMGC for short, is an ancient institution. It can be tracked as long back as the first birth of a royal child, when the first fairy kindly blessed thousands of the original frog kings newborn tadpoles with individual gifts for each one. The first fairy quickly realized that this was a ... | 2017-03-12T17:15:35 | 2017-03-12T15:14:07 | 56 | 21 |
[WP] A literal genie – one who cruelly twists someone's wish, based on their exact words – must explain why they granted a child's wish without repercussions, to their superiors. The genie tries to spin the reasoning behind their benevolent actions into a malevolent light.
Edit: All these stories are amazing! | "He was a child," I said, back drawn up straight. "Pure of intent. I simply responded to that."
"I have little care for your excuses," Thurn replied, what passed for her eyes dark with disapproval. "And less for the results. You will tell me *why* and we shall see if I am willing to leave more of you than the echo... | Safi crossed her legs and took a drag from her slim, dark cigarette. She recrossed her legs and looked at the infinite geomatic tiling on the walls. She breathed smoke. Mostly, she waited.
Djinn weren't generally known for patience. This should have been driving her insane. It was meant to. But Safi was a slow smoulde... | 2017-08-17T07:54:05 | 2017-08-17T07:26:06 | 279 | 174 |
[WP] A literal genie – one who cruelly twists someone's wish, based on their exact words – must explain why they granted a child's wish without repercussions, to their superiors. The genie tries to spin the reasoning behind their benevolent actions into a malevolent light.
Edit: All these stories are amazing! | "He was a child," I said, back drawn up straight. "Pure of intent. I simply responded to that."
"I have little care for your excuses," Thurn replied, what passed for her eyes dark with disapproval. "And less for the results. You will tell me *why* and we shall see if I am willing to leave more of you than the echo... | “I think you know why I’ve called you in here today.” The director said as she looked over her half moon glasses at me from across a large jewel encrusted gold desk. Her stare was joined by the stares of my boss and my boss’s boss who sat on either side of me.
I knew why I had been called in, but I wasn’t about to adm... | 2017-08-17T07:54:05 | 2017-08-17T05:54:04 | 279 | 49 |
[WP] In your meth class, while your teacher is busy explaining the correct way to shoot up, your buddy leans over with a calculator and asks you, "hey, man. Do you wanna try some math?" | "Do you wanna try some math?"
I blinked a few times, too distracted by the needle jutting out of his arm to be sure I'd heard correctly.
"What?" I asked, and he rolled his eyes. "Math. Numbers and shit, check this out..." he said, opening his backpack just slightly and motioning that I should look down. It was a cal... | "I don't know man, I've heard one you try that stuff addiction takes over and controls your life."
"Nah. that's just propaganda put out there to keep it illegal at the benefit of for-profit prisons. I do it all the time, and can still drive on it and function. I actually think it makes me pay more attention when dri... | 2017-12-14T15:38:46 | 2017-12-14T15:38:08 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | We spoke for hours. I complained that he was being vague with his responses, he claimed I couldnt know too much.
I still dont know what he meant, or how one person could possibly have such an impact. Me, a semi employed, struggling writer and artist, positively impacting trillions. Not possible.
During the conversa... | "You were a very influential figure in the future, young lord. What you have done in your lifetime have allowed all those lives to attain a much brighter future."
"But what did I do?"
"I cannot say."
"Can't or won't?"
"I cannot. Though I can see into the future, the exact reason for your influence is unknown to me,... | 2018-08-15T05:06:03 | 2018-08-15T01:57:47 | 374 | 55 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | Do cure cancer?
The genie shakes his head.
Do I end the fighting in the middle East?
The genie laughs and again shakes his head.
Now visibly angry the man asks
Well, what did I do then?
The genie smiles and snaps his fingers.
An acorn appears in front of the man.
"You planted this, a decade ago"
The man racks ... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T04:27:11 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 124 | 43 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | The genie gave me a blank look.
"Are you really *this* stupid?"
I returned the blank look.
"All you need to do is have one kid. Then they have kids. It spirals on, humanity lasts for eons, multiplies across space, blah blah blah...you're at the beginning of the chain. You're hardly unique in that regard,... | "You were a very influential figure in the future, young lord. What you have done in your lifetime have allowed all those lives to attain a much brighter future."
"But what did I do?"
"I cannot say."
"Can't or won't?"
"I cannot. Though I can see into the future, the exact reason for your influence is unknown to me,... | 2018-08-15T03:49:07 | 2018-08-15T01:57:47 | 106 | 55 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. | I owed my life to him. A foster child, and a gay foster child at that, had very little safe places. I met him when we were 8 or so, and were inseparable from then on. His family became mine, and we were ready to take on the world. It was almost time for university applications, and my friend was gunning for medschool.
... | **I.** A flurry of amaranth and tangerine orange, streaked with clouds with borders shimmering against the setting sun; the view of the horizon from Liberty Skyway (which is a superfluously fancy name for a bridge) really is quite wonderful, you muse. Perhaps a couple metres below lies a stretch of motorway and a paral... | 2019-05-27T06:20:17 | 2019-05-27T04:51:09 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "This could change your life for the better!" was what my best friend told me.
They were right about one thing, my life has changed drastically; but not for the better.
It's been so long that I've... forgotten their names.
Gosh, I wish I remembered their faces.
...
I can count more fingers than the strands of ha... | A new show, full of promise and intrigue in these hard times. Stay alone for a full year, win a million dollars! There was this space they had prepared for the contestants in which there was canned food inside and enough water to last you an entire year. That space was huge, let alone the actual space you had to live i... | 2019-07-03T03:20:27 | 2019-07-03T02:46:19 | 66 | 29 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | Jace stepped through the scanner carrying his duffle bag, pausing at the sound of an alarm. Odd, that hadn't gone off for any of the aliens entering the station ahead of him. Sure, he had his trusty Ka-Bar (never leave home without such a useful tool, especially if it doubled as a self defense impliment), but he was to... | Written from the perspective of the one 10th lvl human:
“Aw chill, 10/10. Reddit will love this”
She pulled out her phone and opened r/ relationshipadvice.
*”gotta figure out the best title” *
**Aliens say I’m a lvl 10 threat (25NB she/they), do you think my partner (26NB he/they) will break up with me?(7yr relat... | 2022-08-28T07:56:59 | 2022-08-27T23:35:13 | 79 | 18 |
[WP] You are an AI that serves as the navigation system of an interdimensional warship. You are heavily damaged and crash on a world with primitive inhabitants. You spend ages advancing them so they can repair you. When they fix your sensors, you find that the war ended in extinction of both sides. | "Oh, bother."
There was a long pause as the workers at the classified military base tried to figure out: Why had the ancient space craft which had been instructing them on how to repair it spoken to _them_, directly? Why had it said _that_? Why, oh why, did they have an abrupt craving for honey?
The people further ... | The object decided to hover exactly one Galactic Meter (GM) above the ground. Now this may lead one to inquisite two things:
1) If it “decided” to act this way, is it sentient?
2) What is the conversation rate between Galactic Meters and Earth meters?
The former can be answered with an unequivocal “no,” althou... | 2022-10-27T02:56:39 | 2022-10-27T02:37:08 | 268 | 107 |
[WP] Turns out strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is actually a pretty good basis for a system of government. | "I thought you gave out swords" I say to the strange woman in the lake.
"I do, take it" she responds holding out the object.
"That's not a sword." I try to argue. "It's absolutely tiny!"
"It absolutely is a sword. Now take your sword and fulfil your destiny!" The strange lady responded.
"With that thing? Fulfil ... | It was no surprise that everyone hated King Rupert all through Bultmoore. He was a tyrant who killed anyone who spoke ill of him and he was often trying to get involved in wars that ultimately led to stalemates and retreats, and people of my status were always selected for slaughter.
My name is Kollos. I was a young s... | 2022-12-14T16:24:12 | 2022-12-14T13:41:35 | 931 | 239 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | I’m a bad person. Really, I am. So when they executed me for all the people I killed, I figured, “Straight to hell!!” I mean, honestly. I killed quite a few people, robbed a few, and then killed some more. What can I say? I like the thrill of the kill. I like hunting the enemy, the biggest enemy out there- and that’s a... | "Hello PT."
There was a faint red glow surrounding me as I opened my eyes, blurry at first, the room I was in came in to focus. If you could call it a room; it became apparent that it was more of a large cavern than anything. As I looked around I saw thousands of animals, some perched on jagged cliff outcrops, others... | 2016-03-24T14:12:16 | 2016-03-24T13:50:00 | 78 | 36 |
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