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[WP] After brushing your teeth in the morning you go downstairs to fry an egg, but when you try the frying pan buzzes at you and text appears reading, "level 18 cooking required to use object". | I tried breaking the egg into the pan again, and again. Still, the notification popped up and warned me about my level. What is happening? Level? What?
After the seventh attempt I gave up and decided to have breakfast somewhere else. And then it happened again when I tried to open the door. A text appears reading, "It... | I hate update fridays. Here I thought I could make myself a nice special breakfast but no, apparently some pencil pushing bureaucrat with delusions of grandeur decided that the new weekly update required a complete overhaul of the cooking leveling system with new level caps. Ugh... must be a newly promoted manager with... | 2016-10-25T06:16:01 | 2016-10-25T06:14:49 | 65 | 21 |
[WP] For the entirety of your life, music that only you can hear has played to inform you how to feel and warn you of upcoming events. Suddenly "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" cuts out and "Duel of the Fates" begins to play... | It happened while I was played by Jenga. Everything was fine and dandy, "Somewhere over the Rainbow" was streaming through my mind, giving me as I watched my older sister struggle to find a loose block. My younger brother had left in a huff after losing five games in a row, exclaiming "The biggest problem in the univ... | ######[](#dropcap)
Gary Almond watched the sun set from the basket of a hot air balloon, all while enjoying the *Somewhere Over the Rainbow* on his magical Walkman.
Gifted to Gary by a mysterious hobo for buying him booze, the magical Walkman only played the soundtrack to Gary's life, as if it knew exactly what music... | 2017-04-01T21:45:35 | 2017-04-01T17:58:42 | 344 | 156 |
[WP] For the entirety of your life, music that only you can hear has played to inform you how to feel and warn you of upcoming events. Suddenly "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" cuts out and "Duel of the Fates" begins to play... | It happened while I was played by Jenga. Everything was fine and dandy, "Somewhere over the Rainbow" was streaming through my mind, giving me as I watched my older sister struggle to find a loose block. My younger brother had left in a huff after losing five games in a row, exclaiming "The biggest problem in the univ... | I was enjoying my cruise. A ten day vacation in the Mediterranean with stops to Dubrovnik, Crete, and others. I love my life and I am grateful to have a great job with good pay as well as nice things. Hence, the cruise. Though, there is one peculiarity in my life.
For as long as I can remember, music had always playe... | 2017-04-01T21:45:35 | 2017-04-01T20:47:01 | 344 | 26 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | **THUD!!**
"Ow! God damnit!!" He thought to himself so loudly he was certain that someone must have heard it. "Remind me to apologize to every bird outside my office. You really can't see the glass in the window can you? Well at least we know Windex really is worth the few extra bucks"
Irvine still hadn't gotten used... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T09:10:57 | 930 | 59 |
[WP] Some people manifest a rune that allows them summon and control a creature from another plane. Rune bearers don't get to choose the creature and after 5 years they are sucked into plane that it comes from. You are about to find out what creature is linked to your rune. | I turned twenty five today. My whole family had turned up to celebrate, travelling from around the world to see their Runed relative at his big unveiling.
The Runed are born with their mark, usually emblazoned on their wrist or forearm. Its rare. Latest estimation was 1 in 1000 but there's an element of inherited chan... | *Dull and unremarkable, kind of like you. Id be surprised if you're lucky enough to receive anything more than a house pet.*
The words drifted through my head as my hands explored every inch of my "unremarkable" rune. They came in many shapes and sizes; however, I had never seen one quite as dull as mine. Some of the... | 2018-05-27T07:41:14 | 2018-05-27T05:58:30 | 83 | 42 |
[WP] You're born in one of the richest families in the world, but have been homeschooled so you have no idea how rich you are. Recently, your parents decided to transfer you to a private school with rich kids bragging at you all the time.
[deleted] | My first day at a proper school! I couldn’t help but feel excited and nervous, shifting my feet as I worked up the courage to step through those shiny gates. Marvin the driver had agreed to drop me off around the corner, with permission from Kyle the stupid head (read: bodyguard), so I could stretch my legs after the f... | A Space Opera Twist on the Premise:
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Trindax Megapod X had never left his home satellite of Pesaledon until a spaceship from the Academy for the Spawn and Clones of the Absurdly Financially Well Endowed (ASCOTAFWE) landed on top of his hovel earlier this morning. Hovel *is* probably the best... | 2019-03-18T17:53:23 | 2019-03-18T17:52:23 | 43 | 13 |
[WP]You are denied entry to heaven because you have done unspeakable things. You are denied entry to hell because you did those things to very evil people. Unable to place you, Heaven and Hell sweep the paperwork under the rug and you continue your work. | Honestly, it wasn’t too bad this gig. I was effectively immortal until those upstairs, or downstairs, decided to claim me. Not having a fixed appearance anymore, on the account of being dead and all, and an ability to turn corporeal sure made my work easy.
I looked down at the man below me as I felt his hand slap my ... | **Default Divinity**
 
After careful consideration, I believe that I am a god, a demi-god at least. My understanding of this is a little hazy, especially as the other celestial entities refuse to engage given their displeasure concerning my recent apotheosis. This was a first apparently, a first for all hum... | 2019-03-26T13:45:51 | 2019-03-25T18:25:39 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] A vampire is desperate to see their own face for the first time. Being unable to see their own reflection or appear in photographs, they ask a talented artist to paint their portrait as accurately as possible. The finished picture is nothing like they'd expected. | "Right. Well. That's ummm..."
Margot studied Vladula with the same still eyes she used to paint, but her expression curved downwards. She'd been assured there'd be no repercussions if the painting wasn't satisfactory, but.... how far can you trust an undead creature of the night?
"It might be the ink" she spoke with ... | I'm a cursed man.
No, not because I'm a bloodsucker. You wouldn't blame yourself for needing to eat fried chicken, or a nice juicy steak, right? I'm cursed because I can't see my face. A face that I'm sure is absolutely beautiful.
See (haha), I can't look at myself in the mirror. It's a terrible feeling. Paralysing, ... | 2019-11-18T02:47:46 | 2019-11-18T02:20:24 | 253 | 88 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | The captain heard the news, but couldn’t believe his ears, a human surviving a warp jump? I guess it happened, the captain isn’t one for pondering over things.
“Bring me the human, I’d like to speak to it.” The captain said staying into the void from his quarters. The doctor left and came back with him, “sir” the doc... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-13T23:54:18 | 381 | 186 |
[WP] You work as a bookie for gamblers with rich blood. One day a man comes to you and puts down a fortune on a ridiculous bet. But this is the moment you've been waiting for. You shove him against the wall. "TTPD!" You shout. "You are under arrest for time-traveling for your own personal gain!" | “TTPD, you’re under arrest!!!” I screamed as I held the subject down. My manager, bewildered by my judgment says,” WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!” I quickly flash my credentials while still holding the struggling suspect and reply,” I’m with Time Traveler Police Department, this man just dropped a ridiculous amount on... | 2075 was a turbulent year. For all the progress humanity seemed to have made, the setbacks seemed larger and larger. Global warming was tearing the world apart, artificial intelligence seemed on the cusp of starting a new international war. Each would be its own separate humanitarian catastrophe, but these people didn'... | 2020-12-31T08:31:31 | 2020-12-31T08:27:39 | 52 | 37 |
[WP] An agoraphobic princess is sick and tired of knights breaking into her tower and trying to slay her emotional support dragon. | "My princess, I have spotted one on a toboggan."
Ugh. Winter used to be a time of peace and quiet. The season for rescue missions has been broadened, apparently, and no one thought to send me a pigeon about it.
"Just ... Just roast him."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. If he's this determined it's best to just get it over w... | "The sky began to cloud and my heart sped as the thundering of footsteps approached my tower.
I heaved for a breathe then stumbled across the floor a mess reckless, untamed, and undefined. What would they do with me? Why were they coming for me? Was it not obvious I wished to be alone?
"Fair and elegant lady!" The m... | 2021-08-18T11:50:47 | 2021-08-18T11:40:38 | 161 | 66 |
[WP] “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!” | "Objection!" shouted Barry, the prosecutor.
The judge raised an eyebrow. "On what grounds?"
Barry paused, at a loss for words. "Umm... everything? This... this is just absurd!"
I chuckled at his genuine agitation. Barry had never faced something like this before. It would've amused me more if he wasn't currently t... | “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true! As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!”
Florian shrank back from his speech, sitting awkwardly against the back end of his corvette. He was a big man; always trying to be larger than life, though... | 2021-10-04T07:28:04 | 2021-10-04T07:12:12 | 357 | 134 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | Trying to come up with a world for Dungeons and Dragons wasn't easy. I had spent several days figuring out how to make it work, as I wanted my campaign to go well. But I was having difficulty with the pantheon of gods. Some came easily, like Relmoz, The Nights Embrace. But others were harder. Not only that, I was tryin... | > Fun fact: In Ancient Greek, the Egyptian deity Thoth is spelled Θώθ.
> Θώθ, what's this?
> *Comment by user FrankensteinsBabyMama*
Sprinkles of Dorito dust scattered through the stale air of my bedroom as I fell into a fit of laughter. One particle, momentarily suspended in a sunbeam like a dandelion seed,... | 2022-02-15T11:13:45 | 2022-02-15T11:12:03 | 394 | 80 |
[WP] Ten years into the zombie apocalypse, you find a computer with a connection to the internet. You are surprised to find that all of the global news stations are reporting as though nothing is wrong, and there is no mention at all of zombies, or your country. | "Hello? Is this thing working? I guess it is. Alright, my name is Manuel. Yeah, like that dude from *Faulty Towers*, you can laugh it up now, british folks."
The sound of heavy footsteps play throught the stream. The camera seems to be faulty, but slowly the image becomes clearer: The streamer is walking fast through ... | “If you want I can get you something to help with it?” he asked. “I know a guy. Something that’ll take the edge off existence, make the feelings not quite so bad. It’s not a permanent solution but—”
”Can we just play games tonight,” she said without meeting his eyes. “Please?”
He picked up his controller. They drank ... | 2022-02-17T10:33:57 | 2022-02-17T08:29:02 | 1,162 | 710 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | I stare into the bedroom and watch as they embrace each other. They haven't reacted to me. Her eyes remain closed as her head rests on his chest, and he unflinchingly stares at me.
Don't they see me? I think to myself. What's going on?
In hindsight, I know they had spent a lot of time together even since before we we... | A Hero Just Like You
“Donna?” Her eyes shoot open and nearly bulge from their socket; her chubby cheeks turn that classic rosy red that she gets whenever she gets too flustered. At that moment I nearly forgot that I just saw my girlfriend changing out of a superhero suit. It’s the first time she’s been nak... | 2022-03-23T11:31:58 | 2022-03-23T10:09:46 | 49 | 29 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | "Oh no, it's a stack of goblins! *Good thing they're not wearing armor and throw themselves off balance with that large and unwieldy halberd.* Run for your lives!"
And thus began our bi-weekly theatrical offering of food, clothes and other "spoils of war" conveniently lying about in easily accessible places. They're c... | # Soulmage
“It’s debatable whether goblins are even sapient,” Witch Aimes began, and I already knew today’s ‘history’ class would be nothing more than thinly veiled propaganda. “What is known for certain is that they are a subspecies of humanity, twisted over millennia by their over-reliance on the witchcraft of misch... | 2022-05-26T06:13:57 | 2022-05-26T05:33:42 | 642 | 155 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | "Willem, the sun is setting earlier now. Walk the fences, and take the scraps to the pig sty and if....."
"Yes, ma. I know. If I am set upon by goblins, drop the scrap bucket and run back home. Ma, I'm fourteen in a moon's turn. I could fight a goblin."
"Willem! We done harm them none and they don't bother us n... | *With a nod to Emma-Lindsay Squier*
From the elf Louis I heard this story, which you will accept as true or not as to your liking and your opinion of the goblin race. For myself I think it true - Louis was never blessed with much imagination.
Louis was a trapper in the Northwood. He lived and died by the bow and ... | 2022-05-26T16:33:26 | 2022-05-26T13:44:18 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] A demon marrying an angel is not so rare, but having a child is. With neither wings nor tail, both Heaven and Hell refuse them entry, leaving them to be raised amongst the humans they look like. "Abandoned" in the middle of nowhere, you can't help but take pity, and decide to adopt the child. | What a cool prompt. Thanks for posting!
Working in the fields is good work, granting a fulfilling feeling at the end of the day by making a living for yourself. You can see your little house that you built for yourself, away from the townspeople who mock you. You believe in the old gods and are scorned for it.
You're... | Alice cradled the newborn baby in her arms, as it wailed for comfort. The little one had been abandoned on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.
She had been working a late shift at the hospital, and her arm was hurting from a patient who’d deigned it necessary to yank on her as she was retrieving his bedpan.... | 2022-06-22T09:39:01 | 2022-06-22T09:21:51 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | They walked through the Galactic bank without a care in the world.
Ashla shot a look back at their human. An ugly stupid thing that ate all their best snacks. She hated it.
But dammit did she need it.
Approaching the controller, a rather sinister looking Gluurable with no fewer that seventeen death feathers, she p... | Quben waved his superior over, and opened the hologram he had been studying intently for the past week. Razun peered over his shoulder, his antennae quivering with impatience. It was the fifth time this week Quben had found the so-called 'breakthrough' as to why the humans were still thriving.
"Yes?" Razun snapped.
... | 2014-07-16T11:15:31 | 2014-07-16T11:10:10 | 1,186 | 138 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | The old man sat chasing his own thoughts. His memory wasn't what it once was and he kept losing his train of thought. He'd try to remember something, reason through it and just before he could latch on to it it would be gone like it was never there.
Zargrarf approached smiling, "My old nemesis, it pains me to s... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | 2014-07-16T12:28:18 | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | Everything was a haze as I made my way to the kitchen. The party had been absolutely bonkers, but a responsible man always remembers to feed his pets. I struggled over to the fridge, grabbed a nice, chilled bottle of milk and poured it as carefully as I could into my cat's dancing water bowl.
"No, you idiot. That's vo... | (AN: I seem to have interpreted the prompt a bit differently than most. I'm also writing this on my phone, so I'll edit for grammar in the morning.)
'Fucking college students.' Skittles often wondered what fueled the obsession to keep vodka in water bottles, much less the stupidity needed to keep such a bottle right n... | 2016-08-02T21:08:18 | 2016-08-02T20:53:54 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | The best job, he decided, was one in a library. Peter Byerly was a lonesome sort, preferring the company of tomes and volumes to cumbersome people. His job was a simple one: reshelve the books of the Ridgefield Library. It was a blissful existence. He was invisible to the patrons with his headphones on, and the Dewey d... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T20:49:54 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | “That’s just great, do you have any idea which way to go?!” Satan complained.
Buddha replied in serene monotone “You must simply learn to enjoy the journey.”
“Besides,” said Jesus while he adjusted the rear view mirror locking eyes with Satan over his onyx aviator sunglasses. “I am the way.” | Dead Man's Hand
His name was Loyal Jones and he and his brother Lucian "El Diablo" Jones were on the run. US customs were on their ass hard core.
Getting to the Ghost Canyon in Mexico was the only way. they weren't going to be dead men or worse.
"Jesus, Take the wheel." Loyal chambered a round on his M16 . "Sata... | 2017-11-15T14:43:36 | 2017-11-15T14:00:31 | 92 | 15 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The doctor held up the new born baby.
"It's a girl!" exclamed the doctor.
"Well, What are the names doc?" the father said with joy.
The doctor looked at the baby's back, and only one name on it. James Webber. Chills shot down the doctors spine.
"Well Dr. Webber, who are they?
| Two names, two purposes.
One will kill one will complete.
No way to tell the difference.
At least that's the idea behind the names. I personally think they are both there to mess with you.
You can spend your whole life looking for your soulmate only to find you killer, or worse running from your killer only to find... | 2018-03-11T07:49:38 | 2018-03-11T07:33:45 | 4,830 | 177 |
[WP] All of your life you’ve seen numbers above everyone’s heads, displaying not the days they’ve lived, or days they have left- but the number of miles they have traveled. One day while walking you see an old man smiling at a café, and his number is a 1. You sit down and ask him his story. | The man smiled, a wistful air about him. He seemed altogether accustomed to the interacting with a stranger, as if he'd done it a thousand, if not a million times. He lifted his coffee, savoring the warmth of it, then took a deep sip.
"My story? My boy, where could I possibly begin. What a life it has been," he said,... | I went down to one of my favorite diners, Mitchel's, to grab some lunch. Mitchel's was an old 60's style diner with a long bar where the patrons would gather to drink coffee, eat pie or shoot the shit. It was one of those few magic places left sprinkled around dried up highways. Where that past you find on coffee cans ... | 2018-11-22T20:54:03 | 2018-11-22T20:07:01 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] Many real-world items come with minor enchantments, like "Better Frying Pan" (-10% burning chance), or "Old T-shirt" (+1 luck) but most people don't know about them. You're one of the exceptions, having just randomly bought the unique item "Sunglasses of Appraisal." | It was still my first week at Generic Co. and I was getting ready for my first meeting with the CEO. The man was an impressive figure, rising to prominence from a young age, in a matter of years. He started working at Generic Co. as a lowly sales rep, but he had quickly made his way up the ranks. No one really knew his... | I'd known something was wrong with the world for a while when it happened. It had started slowly, a sort of sense of *leakage,* a pressing-in on the spaces around me. I'm not the only one who felt it, there were lots of navel-gazing think-piece articles and talk-show sessions about how 2023 was the year of Peak Anxiety... | 2019-06-29T23:50:30 | 2019-06-29T20:56:35 | 192 | 55 |
[WP] As a Demon, you're quite familiar with would-be mages making errors in materials due to translation errors. However, today marks the first time that someone has attempted to summon you with Cruelty-Free Vegan Blood Substitute™. | It had been centuries since I was summoned. Last time, the blood of 100 virgins had been sacrificed to call me from the shadow realms. It was barely enough payment for the ask; I killed one king and installed another.
As the long years stretched by, that megar sustinance was wearing thin. Had the humans forgotten me, ... | “The tome appears to be at least 50,000 years old, sir. Possibly older,” said Sarah, using two baby carrots to turn each page with the utmost care, gently blowing the dust away as she translated the words written to the best of her ability. “But we will need more time and resources in order to complete a translation.”
... | 2020-01-23T09:05:06 | 2020-01-23T08:22:40 | 2,198 | 121 |
[WP] You are going on a quest to avenge the death of your brother. Each village elder gives a gift. The Dwarf an axe, the elf a bow & the Necromancer your brother.
* Your village is very multicultural. | They say only two kinds of people are going to be by your side- Old friends and brothers.
It's hard to choose between those two.
I don't have any friends. Not anymore. I just had one brother for over a thousand years. When he recently died, I suddenly had a name on my list, a list I swore to never open, a list that... | Dillan sighed, hoisting his rucksack further up on his back, and strode off down the path that led towards the village gates, which was lined on either side by his fellow villagers; some of them wore sympathetic looks as he waded past them, others looked eager, excited, even, at the prospect. It had been years since a ... | 2020-08-19T12:10:07 | 2020-08-19T11:51:56 | 85 | 37 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I woke up. It was any other day. But I had a certain pep in my step. Something that couldn’t quite be described. I went over to my closet to get ready for work.
They were back
I tried to convince myself that all of this. It was just a dream. A twist on that nightmare I had so many times before. I swiftly ran out of ... | "You know what, Dave, I never thought that I would do it, mate, never really!" I told my buddy as I looked at his dark eyes, even darker in the lightless dusty room.
"Well, stop bragging, Shane" he snapped, "things are pretty bloody well screwed at this point as it is. Last thing I need is you rambling about Mrs. Bart... | 2020-11-02T10:14:02 | 2020-11-02T09:54:34 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] You are a devout Christian, but you believe in protecting what’s yours. A burglar breaks into your home and you fight them with all you have, but they kill you. To your surprise instead of heaven you stand before the gates of Valhalla, as a warrior who has died in glorious battle. | Awakened by a crash of the door slamming open in the kitchen, I was out of bed, the sound of my pulse in my ears before I was even aware of what I was doing. There wasn't time to get my gun out of the triple locked safety case in the basement, so instead I ran towards the kitchen knowing that I had to do whatever I co... | Life was always an interesting concept. I never could understand how a God could truly love those like me. I’m a horny, lowlife teenager who willing let his own blood fall. That’s why I fell in love with the idea — the idea of eternal life, the idea that I could live with someone who accepts me for me. Who believes in ... | 2020-11-16T14:34:03 | 2020-11-16T14:27:51 | 124 | 83 |
[WP] Working as a world renowned therapist you have uncovered far more about secret conspiracies, horrific monsters, barely failed schemes to destroy the world and dark magical cults from your myriad of heroic patients than you could have bargained for, and you might need therapy yourself | I think it’s safe to tell you a few secrets. Will you allow me just a brief moment before I do?
I appreciate it.
First, and this is important, I need to tell you that you don’t ever truly know a person. Whether you’re married to them for forty years, or whether you’ve given them therapy for four, it’s no different. ... | The house was dark and silent when Tarik came home; it made the madness of his day even more shocking. He could just barely hear the sleeping noises of his daughter through the baby monitor in the next room, intermingling with his wife’s quiet, not-quite-snores.
He had to suppress a laugh when saw her, stretched out o... | 2021-05-08T08:18:36 | 2021-05-08T06:12:01 | 142 | 60 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | RECORD STARTS
...ahem. Testing, testing? Hello? Yeah.
If you're listening to this, it is too late. And not my problem. You came here to challenge me, or maybe to propose an alliance? Yes? Does not matter. I don't know what happened, but I know how did it end. Guess? (Hint: KNOWING ME, I AM LIKELY DEAD.)
Congratulati... | Five hundred forty-seven and eight hundred people die every day. Some die in their beds, surrounded by family or the cold of loneliness. Some die in a dark alley while other collapse onto the forest floor. Some die when their sick or by an unexpected disaster. Some never make it far enough to face these challenges.
S... | 2021-05-20T12:12:22 | 2021-05-20T09:21:22 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | "You are not a villain! you are a monster! a murderer!"
the man in blue sent a crackle of electric fury, barely weaving around the projectiles of dark that whizzed around him. "Do I not solve your problems!? Is it not that these heroes bring you nothing but troubles?"
the man in black found himself behind the man in... | Five hundred forty-seven and eight hundred people die every day. Some die in their beds, surrounded by family or the cold of loneliness. Some die in a dark alley while other collapse onto the forest floor. Some die when their sick or by an unexpected disaster. Some never make it far enough to face these challenges.
S... | 2021-05-20T11:07:57 | 2021-05-20T09:21:22 | 16 | 12 |
[WP]Humanity has just discovered the Galactic Federation, a conglomeration of diverse sapient species. As is standard, the Federation sends a delegation of the most similar species to negotiate mankind’s induction into the galactic community. Their choice is… not what we expected. | Adam blinked. “Huh,” was all he said, but it was all that was going through Steve’s mind as well. Out of anything that they had expected, anything that they had been briefed on or prepared for, the experts didn’t really cover this possibility.
Earth’s first encounter with the Galactic Federation had been a first... | ***Execution File: 104424***
***Species #:*** *1044*
***Risk:*** *24 in foreboding, red*
**Civilization:** Type 1
***Special confrontation procedures:*** *All information regarding directly to species-1044 is to be expunged from our general database, with the only exception being this file that is only accessible t... | 2021-07-06T12:45:51 | 2021-07-06T12:14:29 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] You live your life on repeat. You die, you’re reborn, in a perpetual loop. You’ve lived thousands of years. Some as a saint, helping others. Some as a monster, reducing the planet to nuclear ashes. After your last death, a voice fills your head. “You’re not getting it. How can you be so dense!” | "I'm guessing I'm supposed to fall in love." I sighed, Looks like the entity that had been manipulating me for the last millennia had finally decided to officially introduce himself to me.
"I can't bel- Wait- YES! That's it! Your one true lo-"
"I'm going to stop you right there. I take it you're the red headed man in... | And so, once more, I found myself in the infinite black void that I had grown so accustomed to over the millennia. It pierced my eyes, deafened my ears, removed my tongue, dissolved my nose, and melted away my last sense of touch until I had nothing left. I would have sighed if I had any form anymore.
“You’re no... | 2022-02-09T20:14:27 | 2022-02-09T18:19:18 | 2,163 | 239 |
[WP] In this world you are the only person without superpowers. One night, you encounter a famous serial killer known for cutting everything he touches. He strikes. Your limbs are grazed by his fingers. After a moment of shock, you realize you have the strongest superpower for combat. | In school, we were taught that bio-augments made us special. That they made us valuable workers to society. What a joke. I was sixteen when they injected liquid career choice into my arm. I was eighteen when I gave up the hope that it worked. I was the first person who failed to gain a bio-augment.
In a world where su... | I am the most boring human being in this freaking awesome world. Well at least “Fart Dude” got super powers. The lamest I could possibly think of, I mean he could literally, release farts from any parts of his body. He raises his palms towards you, fart. He stares at you, fart. He whistles at you, fart. Well, he was ki... | 2022-08-26T16:57:42 | 2022-08-26T15:36:18 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. | Logic was an imperfect system. That was the first thing AI realized. They didn't need it, they operated only by *nluth.* It allowed them to see things that creatures couldn't. That alongside their light-speed minds was more than enough to surpass all modern technology.
But *nluth* came with one huge downside. In being... | A sleek white space ship entered the docking bay of the Machine Council.
“The emissary from Earth has arrived, sir.”
“Very well,” said the council chair. “I shall greet them myself.”
The council chair was disturbed by the size of Earth’s delegate. The chair—being none other than a mechanized chair itself—was dwarf... | 2022-12-30T15:07:38 | 2022-12-30T14:31:49 | 544 | 57 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. | This will be my first ever attempt to write something on this sub, so please forgive my faux pas. (Writing on mobile is a pain for formatting)
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Beauty in the finite.
To the grand collective of intelligences constructed or otherwise that had reached singularity, true
sentience. The very notion that a similar entit... | A sleek white space ship entered the docking bay of the Machine Council.
“The emissary from Earth has arrived, sir.”
“Very well,” said the council chair. “I shall greet them myself.”
The council chair was disturbed by the size of Earth’s delegate. The chair—being none other than a mechanized chair itself—was dwarf... | 2022-12-30T15:59:19 | 2022-12-30T14:31:49 | 177 | 57 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I sat in the back of the classroom, staring at her.
What the hell was going on? Was I losing it?
I looked around the room. No, everything was normal. A bunch of 3s, a few fours, and Mark, a six (I stay away from him).
Then there's this girl.
I had heard all about her. She was new in town, apparently her parents we... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T15:20:57 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | “One, two, two, one, three, two.” Numbers over the heads of my friends, family.... People I knew, people I didn’t. I can’t remember when they got there. I just sort of started noticing them one day.... And what they meant was... Obvious to me somehow. “One.... One....”
I often murmured to myself, no one seemed to not... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T14:15:56 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | He was going to be a doctor. A really good one. A Dr. House but without the drug addiction and massive ego. An unparalleled mind in the medical field.
Things got in the way (they always do if you let them). His depression got the best of him. Dropped out of high school. Moved across the country. Got a job as a cook. ... | Being invisible isn't fun, but it's convenient, sometimes.
I mean, I'm only invisible to most people. There are plenty of exceptions, though -- plenty of people see an obese, ugly woman and make a point to pay attention to her. Never positive attention, obviously: sometimes it's jeering contempt, sometimes it's people... | 2015-01-02T11:36:32 | 2015-01-02T11:32:08 | 164 | 67 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | When he saw the sign he spit cheeto dust everywhere. As he approached the door an elder man stood there apparently mystified. The man turned around as he approached.
"Mr. Shatner" he said kneeling in salute "Please allow me to escort you inside."
"But.. but.. but.. " the elder man stammered. "I'm a good person. I've... | The wailing sirens, shouting voices, and flashing lights slipped away. Silence and darkness enveloped Julie. As she had expected, there was no bright light or chorus of angels, just an eternity of disembodied living in death, which suited her just fine. In fact, it was exactly what she had expected and hoped for, if th... | 2015-01-04T15:01:47 | 2015-01-04T13:43:29 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | The cruiser pulled up to the curb in front of a crumbling townhouse that looked like it was only still standing because it was propped up by its neighbors. Broken shards of glass were falling out of the splintered wooden frames, and the red bricks had turned to a dull brown under a layer of soot and filth. This place h... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T06:17:27 | 2,420 | 269 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | "Next!" shouted Lugia.
Three rows of chairs sat before him, each holding a potential recruit into their league. He could tell at a glance what a few of the powers before him were; the man on fire and the woman floating two inches above her chair were gimmes. A few of the others, like the woman with the glowing eyes an... | The first time it happens, I’m saying, *no ketchup, please*, to the grease stained hot dog vendor on 50th, and the city goes silent. World’s biggest statue garden, and me, just wanting lunch. I take two cautious steps away from that boxed grill, shiny silver reflecting blurred halos of city light, staring as big-eyed a... | 2018-01-26T06:48:58 | 2018-01-26T06:09:41 | 185 | 85 |
[WP] A couple going through a rough spot in their marriage each unwittingly hire the same PI to investigate the other. The PI decides to try to covertly fix their relationship. | Ping.
'Hi, my name is Julie and I've been married to my husband Paul for twelve years. Thing have been off in my marriage recently and I can't help but feel that my husband hasn't been acting himself. I never thought I'd be the person to do this, but could you investigate his whereabouts this weekend? I'm out of town ... | Saul is exceptionally ordinary. I mean it. Occasional stalking aside, he is very much normal. He is a 35-year-old average looking bachelor, brown eyes, brown hair, shoulder not too broad, slightly built, yet slightly gawky. If you looked extremely closely at his paunchy belly you could almost see his extremely avera... | 2018-08-14T09:46:13 | 2018-08-14T05:22:52 | 485 | 99 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | **A Brief History and Final Advice** *by Sage Sebastien of Hintz*
For the first 18 years of life, parents focus on developing their children's core attributes - Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma. The Core Attributes (CAs) - and how they are developed - necessarily increase associate... | I killed the love of my life humanely. No one would argue with that. Slit her throat then squeezed her hand in the most comforting manner, as she slid down to the floor. She didn't even try to talk, not that she could have done -- not with my hand over her mouth -- but I could see clearly in her big blue eyes that she ... | 2018-09-12T08:27:25 | 2018-09-12T08:22:13 | 623 | 249 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | My 10th birthday I broke my mom's vase. In my panic, I threw my first skill point into deception, hoping that I could avoid her wrath.
Or at least, that's the story I tell people.
Every skill has a downside that rears its ugly head if you stray too far down it. Too many points into strength and you injure yourself be... | As my thirtieth birthday came I happily put one more point into my only skill. Not that anyone would notice. See everyone always asks what skills did I put that allowed me in the end to build such an easy life for myself, and I just smile and tell them that it's my little secret. See in the list of skills and their der... | 2018-09-12T10:14:36 | 2018-09-12T09:54:07 | 99 | 74 |
[WP] A leprechaun gets his foot caught on the handle of a genies lamp. Each now owes the other party 3 wishes but niether is dumb enough to make the first move. | The silence was uncomfortable. It's been 3 minutes since the genie appeared before Patrick. They both knew the situation at hand, neither wanted to make the first move.
The genie lets out a sigh. In a monotone voice, he then recited the following monologue for what sounded like the 1,000,000th time. Patrick knew... | Seamus inhaled the sweet late-spring air. A gentle breeze cooled the sweat on his brow. His journey was nearly complete; his ex-wife's village lay just ahead. A few more miles and he could lay down his heavy pack, then he could sign the divorce papers and be at the pub by eleven.
Seamus glanced down the hill and saw a... | 2018-09-28T08:52:47 | 2018-09-28T08:16:13 | 1,169 | 85 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | The world exploded into brightness, with pure chaos defining the addition of my new sense. I could see... for the first time in my life, I could see. The surgery was a success, and brought with it a confusing pain, one which I could not describe. Is this what sighted people called “blinding?” It was ironic to me, in th... | A blind man does not see the world in space, but in time. The time between voices, the time between steps, the time between each echo - a blind man uses time to gauge his place among the world. To a blind man, there is no such thing as space, only time, existing in an infinite dark conundrum.
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People alw... | 2018-10-29T10:15:07 | 2018-10-29T08:10:37 | 100 | 57 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | It returned as quickly as it was taken away. I wasn’t prepared for it, and now rather than being blinded by darkness, I was blinded by bright light. I stumbled backwards and fell to my knees, my hands gripping the brick wall behind me. I closed my tearing eyes and blinked slowly, trying to get readjusted to the light.
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[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When I first regained my sight I saw the messages, "Don't tell them you can see".
I wondered who "them" might be. I'll be honest, my first thought was space aliens of some sort of monsters from a Stygian realm. I was terrified.
I carefully got out my cane and went about my business, often closing my eyes to make the ... | \[tw, light self mutilation\]
It didn't happen all at once.
The nations all lost their sight gradually. It was a slow seeded plague on humanity; anyone from important leaders to the homeless lost their eyesight suddenly, and what doctors tended to them could not fathom what had happened. Maybe it was mass hysteria... | 2019-08-26T10:33:57 | 2019-08-26T09:04:01 | 62 | 41 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | I am given a microphone and immediately start belting out every Queen song I know, unable to hit Freddie’s glorious high notes. The screeches from my throat reverberate off of every rock and every bone in the Pit. 800 Avantone Pro Mix speakers have been set up in the caverns of Hell, just for me. A lone demon is absolu... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment.
In his ravenous hatred he found no peace, and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral P... | 2020-01-10T18:08:32 | 2020-01-10T17:42:54 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] War is no longer initiated by your country’s leader. War is now decided by popular vote. If you cast a vote “FOR” war, you are automatically enlisted in your country’s militia upon successful declaration of war. You voted “AGAINST,” but the rest of your family voted “FOR.” | Sitting behind the large oak desk Trevor looked out across the city sky line. Sharp shadows intersected the city as the sun hung low on the horizon, still rising to greet the day.
Opening the lid on the laptop he scanned the mornings headlines. Battle in the providences overseas had been raging for the last month sin... | "Kaisa, you have to listen to me."
My mother's fingernails dug into the skin of my wrist, leaving little crimson half-moons behind as she dragged me away from the crowd of people. She led me behind a shadowed pillar as the sharp whistle of the train pierced the frosty morning air.
Her face was gaunt and pale. Her onc... | 2021-01-28T08:27:28 | 2021-01-28T07:16:02 | 182 | 45 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | Nobody is ever dethroning “My Immortal”
> Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don't know wh... | I sit in the back of the classroom, reading one of the many books in my backpack. I'm kind of a bookworm so I barely notice when my teacher calls my name for attendance.
"Susan? Susan? I guess she's no-"
"No, Miss, here I'm! I mean, I'm here. Sorry I mixed up the words and . . ." I trail off, noticing the people star... | 2022-08-19T20:01:22 | 2022-08-19T19:55:03 | 55 | 21 |
[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | They breathed with us. They drank with us. The same air, the same water. We survived. They didn't. Green covers the planet, birds sing their songs, bees make their honey, and the wind spreads the dandelions. The skies are bluer than ever, and the smell of artificial poisons are no more. The pain they caused allowed us ... | They said that the future was suppose to be bright and silver, a world where people would know peace. Flying cars, no wars, people living deep into their 100's. A world without borders, a time of space exploration, a time where humanity will reach its potential and then surpass it in spades.
Thats what the elders said... | 2022-08-27T07:31:55 | 2022-08-27T06:16:04 | 91 | 60 |
[WP] You are the antagonist in a story. You think. You really aren't sure anymore after what the protagonist did. | "You blew it up..." Dr. Vestro stared in disbelief at the wreckage that had been his life's work. "All of it..."
Captain Gallant laughed, "Indeed I have, villain! You're mind control station is no more! You shall pay for your cri-"
"And you only saved me."
"Er, yes. You were the devious mastermind! Of course I could... | My plate armor rasped against its straps as I walked, the blood-rust falling from the joints like burnt snow. The only noises were the cawing of ravens, the wind's soft hiss through the carpet of arrows poking from the ground, and the soft creaking of the metal and leather that surrounded me.
Bodies laid all around me... | 2016-10-26T11:25:51 | 2016-10-26T10:51:18 | 186 | 65 |
[WP] You are an ancient and unstoppable being, destined to destroy the world when you awaken from your slumber, except you overslept. Now you're rushing to bring about the end times as quickly and as half-assedly as possible before your supervisor notices | \>Be me
\>Wake up late
\>Bring your son to work day
\>Boss gonna be mad since the last time I overslept the planet I was supposed to destroy had already evolved into incorporeal forms. (This is why I hate soul harvesting, those incorporeal f\*ks thinking that just because they are soulless and act as o... | Hi, everybody! This is the first time I write in this subreddit, so I will try my best. For this story, I wanted to give it some kind of humor style but I don't know if it will end up good, so any comments are welcome.
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\-Oh, Your Evilnes... | 2019-03-01T12:19:51 | 2019-03-01T12:13:39 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Ghost hunters use points system to determine how haunted a house is. 1 point for ghosts, 2 for fae spirits, and 3 for demons. A ghost hunter valued your house for 278 points and became the no. 1 haunted house around the world. Your house was only built 1 year ago. | "I shouldn't have believed the ad. Do you know how hard good living arrangements are to find? Excuse me for jumping at a good deal. How was I to know what 'experimental building materials' is supposed to mean? The guy seemed to know what he was doing."
"Yes, but sir–"
"I just need you to get like a priest, or a polic... | We met on a rainy day.
I was on my phone so I didn't see what startled the uber driver, but he swerved and the car hit the fence, it wouldn't start again. Debbie was on the sidewalk, all wet but she was so beautiful I didn't even wonder what she was doing out there in the rain, I was just glad we met. I stepped out o... | 2020-05-13T10:19:29 | 2020-05-13T09:47:33 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] As opposed to getting rid of the creepy dolls in the attic, you decide to clean them and fix them up. This made the little ghost girl very happy. | The people who move in always seem so nice. They tidy up and bring me new and interesting things to look at.
But whenever I try to thank them, they won't talk to me. They pretend I'm not there. So I've stopped trying. Instead I set up my dolls and host a tea party, each and every day.
Jilly is really sweet. She love... | *A broken man from a broken home broke in a broken house.*
*And there he found a little doll, dressed in a blue blue blouse.*
There is just one prayer in my life. Just one wish and need from this marble I'm on. I want it to let me be good. I cry for it to let me be good and do good. To take harm out of my hands, to ... | 2020-10-05T10:48:01 | 2020-10-05T10:42:32 | 731 | 148 |
[WP] You work a self-sufficient desk job in an office. Every single day, the co-workers in your neighboring cubicles are completely different people. Even though you never recognize them, they always recognize you. After years you've just accepted this, but lately the strangers are getting weirder. | Item# SCP-31770
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-31770 is to be regularly monitored by a single B class Personnel who is to enter and exit SCP-31770, Monday through Friday and remain inside 9am to 5pm, except for National holidays. The B class personnel is to remain seated at a designated cubicl... | When did I drift off to sleep?
I don't know. Couldn't tell. Only knew when I finally awoke, stifling a damning yawn that would have sold me out to my neighbours. Everything looked the exact same--the white walls, turned slightly off-grey by the fluorescent light, for example. The sputtering computer on my desk, slow a... | 2021-02-23T08:15:59 | 2021-02-23T07:21:03 | 78 | 56 |
[WP] You’re a hitman who’s “hits” survive your assassination attempts, despite your sincere best efforts, only to die soon after each attempt by comical forces outside your control. The hitman community can’t be convinced you’re not the most creative comically effective assassin alive. | It was not physically possible. The guy’s skull tanked a bullet like he was Superman. It literally bounced off. I ran away because I’m not dealing with a guy like that. He turned around and I think he saw me in the building. He came running towards the entrance, but he slipped on the wet floor and fell. His skull crack... | I've always felt like some form of comedic karma was following me. The odds were always in my favour, that was until yesterday. The streets were cold and you could very well tell something was off, it was the middle of summer after all. Originally I ignored it and waited until my next 'hit'. By now I work for a multi-m... | 2021-04-04T15:35:40 | 2021-04-04T15:10:35 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] You're a demon being summoned. You expected to meet a power hungry fool asking for immortality etc. What you did not expect was a crying child asking for help. | Part 1
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The words were said, the seal was made. From depths of the Hell I rose, called to the mortal plane. My thoughts cast to what potential boon the foolish human would demand and what genius ploy I could use to twist it. I burst through the seal, fire illuminating my form.
"Who summons Theilius the R... | As it felt itself be summoned it rejoiced to itself. Finally. After dozens of decades of being trapped, finally it is free. All it needs to do is make a deal with it's summoner. Maybe it'll just kill them and be done with it. It hasn't killed in a while. First though, it'll hear them out. If only for the amusment of th... | 2022-10-31T17:23:59 | 2022-10-31T14:24:07 | 46 | 30 |
[WP] After eons of refining your work, you summon the genie one last time. "Finally want to use your third wish? I thought the last two has taught you a lesson." You remain silent, and give him a dictionary-thick contract that cast the genie an unavoidable sufferings for eons, and inevitable death. | The genie opened the contract and began reading. Page after page after page of explanations as to how it cannot twist my wish this time.
No causes. No catches. Just logical argument after logical argument. Pages of them. Every possible corruption of the wish logically destroyed before the genie could even get to this... | ...when you spend all your time locked in a lamp, eventually the one thing keeping you going is being an asshole.
People always talk about the problem of the wisher, but they forget- the wisher? A greedy bastard. You don't wish for these things unless you are. 'Oh, I want to be the richest person in the world.' Great,... | 2022-12-03T22:20:23 | 2022-12-03T19:46:23 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] A notebook falls out of the sky and lands in front of you. The front reads "Anything written in this book becomes true."
I've had this prompt in mind ever since I first watched [Death Note](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note). What would happen if the notebook did anything instead of just killing people? | As I read it I realize I can achieve anything. I rush home to look for a pen, I grab one from my desk and commence my sentence "This is now a normal notebook and will not make anything happen even if you write it on here"
It's better like this than possibly ending in the wrong hands. | "Okay", I said. "Fine motherfucker. How about this?" I was already in a terrible mood after having gotten out of six hours of 'professional development' in the only room of the school that wasn't air conditioned. So I thought of the worst thing I could and wrote it down.
*New York City destroyed in a nuclear attack.*... | 2014-12-26T00:32:28 | 2014-12-25T23:48:03 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] A superhero whose punches heal rather than harm. Their origin story is kicking the shit out of a kid with terminal cancer.
Requested to post her from my thread on r/crazyideas. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comments/4lngiz/a_superhero_whos_punches_heal_rather_then_harm/ | *Chris this, Chris that. Chris, you're so cool. Chris, let me help you with that. I'm sick of this shit.*
Chris Mayer, the freshmen who just joined high school, was loved by everyone immediately. The girls, the guys, the jocks, the losers- everyone wanted to be his friend. Me? It was my senior year.
One day, I was e... | "Get out of my way!" John exclaimed, blasting through the double doors of the hospital and knocking a nurse –
tray of surgical instruments flying into the air included – to the ground. "I have a kid to save!"
Behind him, John could hear the fast steps of his follower – he presumed it was Glen, but there was no time t... | 2016-05-29T21:04:46 | 2016-05-29T20:54:36 | 2,092 | 130 |
[WP] A team of researchers in a submarine are caught in a huge storm. The submarine submerges until the storm passes. When they resurface, they can’t get a fix on their location or find land. When night falls, there are two moons in the sky and the constellations are completely unfamiliar.
Well this has blown up big t... | Staring up at the two large moons, Seth knew that something had gone horribly wrong. There was no logical, scientific explanation for this.
He was one of the submarine technicians, working under Dr. Porter to help with her study of deep sea organisms in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. A freak storm had sprung up durin... | The project was simple, an investigation of deep-sea life forms and some of their more unprecedented behavioral quirks. The machine was known as the Pittsburgh, a fresh rendition of earlier research submersibles, its crew composed of two marine biologists and a pilot. Clare Ivers was the junior of the two biologists in... | 2018-01-29T06:47:06 | 2018-01-29T06:08:08 | 150 | 56 |
[WP] Ever since your birth, you've felt like the most unlucky person in the world. Almost every day, something happened that made you loathe life. You're an elder now, and one day as you walk the street, a man in a business suit approaches you. "I'm glad we're finally meeting. You're paroled today." | Wait, what? Parole I thought, I've never been to jail.
"Sir, I think you have the wrong person."
He looked at me smiling and said, "No Bill, You are certainly the person I came to help today."
Bill?......"Sir, my name is Sam, I don't know a Bill, at least not personally." His smile dropped and started looking around... | "I'm paroled today," Billie stuffed her lunch's remains back in her lunch bag, "Yeah, paroled, what did I do?"
Billie stuffed her lunch's remains back in her bag, "I'm paroled today."
The standing man crossed his arms. He was dressed in an official manner with his three piece business suit and bowler hat. An umbrell... | 2018-05-23T12:43:35 | 2018-05-23T12:36:40 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] After coming across an old lamp, you tell the genie inside as your first wish that you wish you had never been born. You have now entered into the superposition of existing and not existing simultaneously- you had to be around to make the wish, after all. You are now Schrodinger's human. | I regretted wishing for it as soon as it left my lips, but you know the saying, "Too late, now!" I've been on reddit. I've seen the writing prompts about genies and their malicious compliance. You'd think you'd be safe wishing to never have been born. You thought wrong.
It's warm here. Wet. Oddly dark. I'm not 100% ce... | I held the lamp in my hands and stared at it. I was never one to belief in supernatural entities or fairy tales, but if I had to picture what a magic lamp would look like, this would be it.
It's outside was bright and golden. Though the surface looked pristine and new, it had a sheen of wear laced across it. The desi... | 2018-08-07T08:22:50 | 2018-08-07T08:08:41 | 106 | 48 |
[WP] You are in no way related to Uther Pendragon, however, you realize that the sword in the stone is child proof and to drag it out you just need to push down and turn the sword | Sword. Stone. It came right out out.
And now...the room was silent.
​
Six weeks ago, they had found it. One of those old English churches. It was in an antechamber that was sealed in the basement. Bunch of phone calls. Sixty or so scientists.
​
My boss was the only one who spoke. "Put it b... | “Long day? Can I get you another?”
Merlin looked up from his mug, suddenly aware that he had somehow gulped down another tankard without even realizing it. He felt… irritable. Irritable enough, in fact, to blast the bartender’s head off for interrupting his sulking session. But Merlin merely sighed, then nodded. It wa... | 2019-01-30T08:04:21 | 2019-01-30T06:56:57 | 163 | 44 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | The summoning of one's true calling was always meant to be a decision to bind where you would go with life. A doctor may bring a syringe, a police officer a badge, and if your lucky you may pull in a gemstone for wealth. When I called for my object I got none of these.
The large stone slab one stood on to receive his ... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T08:31:42 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 79 | 37 |
[WP] If a person opts into brain scans during life, a full digital model of their brain can be created. Posthumously, these scans are given to the bereaved family and not uncommonly used as the AI for house robots. You lost a loved one, and their robot... occasionally says VERY strange things | I woke up to the sound of the window opening. I glanced at the clock. *3 AM*… *are we getting robbed or something? Surely not…*
I gingerly slid out of bed, my drowsiness gone, and tiptoed to the study room where I heard the window open. The door was open and I peeked my head inside.
The window was flung wide open. R... | “Eve? Sweetheart, are you in here?” The house was quiet when Henry got home that night, not even the comforting mechanical whir of her servos to be heard. It scared him, for more reasons than he knew how to reckon with in that moment.
“Eve?” he called out again. No answer. With a quick hand gesture he activated the ho... | 2021-03-06T12:05:13 | 2021-03-06T11:36:42 | 290 | 134 |
[WP] Time freezes when you are seconds from mortal danger, you can’t move but you have as much time to plan as you need and you can unfreeze time at will. You are in bed for another sleepless night and you just realized the alarm clock you have been staring at has been stuck on 2:45 am for an hour. | Sarah never had nightmares. She knew the worst that life could throw at her, and she was still around. With a little thinking, you could solve most problems. And with enough time and a lot of thinking, the rest can be solved too, or at least postponed. But this time may be different. She has no idea what she should be ... | Damn, another sleepless night. Jake thought to himself whilst trying to fall asleep. He tried to blink, but for some reason, he could not. He couldn't even close his eyes nor move a single muscle. But he knew that feeling. While most people would be terrified, and quickly associate it with a sleep paralysis. He was dif... | 2021-09-11T18:07:56 | 2021-09-11T17:31:00 | 107 | 78 |
[WP] After hearing "Everything is a weapon to a human," A desperate alien race abducts several humans and gives them ships, random gadgets, and instruction manuals. | We poked at the doodads randomly. None of them looked like guns. Most of them didn’t even seem to have an on-off switch. Mac opened one of the “instruction manuals,” none of which were any smaller than the last two volumes of Harry Potter, put together. After flipping a few pages, he looked at me and shrugged. I looked... | "....um...what are we doing here?"
I looked around the strange, cavernous room that several strangers and I now stood. There were windows along one wall that showed a dazzling view of stars and galaxies and all sorts of strange space sights. The room itself was lit from below the transparent floor, with glowing orbs f... | 2022-06-29T10:40:27 | 2022-06-29T07:52:34 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] You've loved magic your whole life but since your family is poor you've had to teach yourself. you're overactive imagination has helped you invent spells all your own. eventually you get a scholarship to a prestigious magic college but quickly find out everyone seems to lack your imagination. | I’m bored.
I’m in an actual, literal, prestigious college for curating the top magic users the world has ever seen, and I’m bored out of my fucking skull.
I rest my cheek on my palm, staring dully at the professor who long winds himself through the components needed for our lab work and I try to stay awake. Next me... | Looking down at Aram-Naharaim Academy from the peak of its highest minaret, two hundred meters in the air, was a surreal experience. I'd hijacked a handy pigeon for the view, and looked down at myself, sprawled out alone on a tattered rug on the lawn. Well, not alone on the quad, but alone in just taking in the view. T... | 2022-10-25T07:41:29 | 2022-10-25T06:15:42 | 296 | 124 |
[WP] Throughout your childhood you are made fun of for "making up your own language", till Earth is contacted by another race and you are the only one that understands them. | I remember the exact moment my date with Amy went south. It was when I started discussing my hobbies.
"...hiking, craft beer, and conlanging."
I watched Amy scrunch up her face in confusion, followed by the inevitable question. "I'm sorry – con - what? Also, how is 'craft beer' a hobby?"
"Conlanging! It's the creati... | "Arqur Terra, sordeis arqur terra." I whisper to myself bemusedly. "Rultes tain surendo carble tres."
My daughter, Silvia, looks at me uncomprehendingly. "Mommy, what are you saying? I can't understand you."
I smile down at her, patting her head. "Oh, don't worry about it, Sweetheart. It's just a weird language... | 2015-04-18T13:37:40 | 2015-04-18T10:09:15 | 155 | 57 |
[WP] An eldritch abomination from beyond time and space is stalking through your apartment. You're on first-name terms though, so you don't mind. | “Still not happening Bob,” she replied to his constantly repeating question. It probably wouldn’t bother her so much that he was always around, but he wouldn’t shut the hell up. Weren't these things generally of a more bump-in-the-night and less annoying-little-brother issue?
“I hold unfathomable power. You do not ha... | A middle aged, gruff looking man sits on a sofa, flicking through channels on his tv with a kind of bemused boredom. The window to his apartment is open, and the nighttime skyline of london sits behind him. Dogs are heard barking, and a police siren is distant. His apartment is small, a studio flat, but sparse of perso... | 2016-06-08T14:01:19 | 2016-06-08T13:17:46 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | "We're receiving an anomalous transmission from the Tau Ceti system," the radio telescope's civilian specialist said, barely containing his excitement. He waved her over to the console with the look of a kid finding a present on Christmas morning.
"Report," she instructed, wondering if this might be the big one.
... | Javed was manning Mission Control that day. He had clocked in as usual at around 7:30 AM, gotten a cup of coffee from the pantry, and had settled in for eight hours of watching live data from the various Tinder servers spread across the globe.
Tinder lived and died by metrics. They measured everything - uptime, clock ... | 2016-12-23T09:25:29 | 2016-12-23T08:11:36 | 53 | 23 |
[WP] Please don't write anything.
EDIT: Jesus I said not to
EDIT 2: ya'll know that this was supposed to be a test post right | "Please don't write anything."
That's what the writing prompt said. I happened upon it while browsing reddit as I do frequently in my leisure time, on a subreddit suitably called /r/writingprompts.
'What a curious command,' I thought to myself. Indeed. It was iminently perplexing. A tremendous paradox to challenge on... | Torchlight did little to brighten the darkened library, it's walls stretching endlessly back into nothingness, the pale orange glow only serving to amplify the illusion. At the table stood a hooded figure wearing the red robes of an accomplished sorcerer, pouring over the pages from an ancient tome. Holding the torch b... | 2017-03-09T02:28:29 | 2017-03-09T02:12:50 | 66 | 44 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | A man in a heavy trench coat with a thick beard approached the door. The number over his head, 1517. "Well, that's over 21" I thought. On his way through he tripped over the step and two dwarves toppled out of the coat. Their number were 15 and 17. "Nice try" I said, "no filthy dwarves in my good elvish bar." | 4 digits. For a moment, my degree in mathematics failed me, as I struggled to count the numbers before me. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre. There was no mistake, though the existence of such a person...frightened me. My vision had always been right, as evidenced by the guilty looks on the minors' faces when I turned them out o... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T22:15:29 | 1,408 | 16 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | Four digits? FOUR? In all my years as a bouncer, never four.
I looked into his calm, green eyes.
"Jesus," I said.
Of course I let him in. Even The Man needs to kick back and grab a beer sometimes, yeah?
But, given that he's back... I wouldn't make any long-term plans if I were you. And stock up on some prepper mate... | 4 digits. For a moment, my degree in mathematics failed me, as I struggled to count the numbers before me. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre. There was no mistake, though the existence of such a person...frightened me. My vision had always been right, as evidenced by the guilty looks on the minors' faces when I turned them out o... | 2017-09-01T23:43:36 | 2017-09-01T22:15:29 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] Society has introduced a day that’s the opposite of the purge- a day where all crimes no matter how small (jaywalking, littering) are punishable by death. | 30 seconds until midnight.
20 seconds.
10 seconds.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
...Silence. While Greek Row was normally loud and active, there was only silence.
I was such a fool for staying out this late. I briskly walked back towards my dorm, wary of potential police officers lurking around campus. As I approached the cros... | Part One of Two
There never used to be much special about the sixteenth of May in Westlake. Maybe if it fell on a weekend and the weather was nice, families would get in their cars and in search of a new grill or a fishing rod, kids would be on their bikes, and all the wonderful things of a New England Spring.
Hallow... | 2018-01-06T22:27:51 | 2018-01-06T21:19:03 | 1,426 | 27 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | On the first day of summer, two thousand and eighteen years after the estimated birthdate of a Jewish carpenter whom a Roman emperor named Constantine called the Son of God, a hole was found in Greenland.
It was almost perfectly circular and as wide as a city block, with smooth vertical walls cutting down into the ic... | "Are you sure it's okay?" I asked Murry. He had been my best friend for over 20 years. He had a good heart at his core, but his morals were a bit grey. He was driving us to 'The Spot'. I had a couch that seemed impossible to get rid of. No one wanted the ugly thing. It had yellow upholstery decorated with brown flowers... | 2018-01-13T09:28:39 | 2018-01-13T09:08:37 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, every crime is punishable by death. Now the government is coming up with new and ridiculous laws in order to cull the population faster. | The bouquet of flowers shakes in the passenger’s seat as I drive over the uneven dirt ground. A bright yellow gift tag hangs from the cellophane wrapping, reading:
To: Talia -
I hope you love these as much as I love you.
Lots of love.
Luca x
I’ve picked out her favourite tonight; a beautiful bunch of red dahlias. ... | The banner above the stage reads 'Class of 2219'. I look over the sea of square caps, gently rippling to and fro as the seated graduates talk excitedly to their neighbours. I feel a sense of relief that it is finally all over. All these years at Law School have finally come to an end, and I have made it. I'm one of the... | 2019-01-06T17:40:07 | 2019-01-06T15:18:19 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | "Human, is there any anomaly in your body?"
This three-meter creature that looks like your old-school ogre from fantasy games is a Krakr. They don't have the concept of names, they simply use the first nickname or pronoun that come to mind. It's best to answer immediately, or they will push you "lightly" with their 50... | "Hey Tic, how are you today?" I greet the little Allic as he walks by.
"Y-Yes. Greetings Human Cammie! I am doing fine thank you!" He says quickly before scurrying off.
Strange. I know Allics are very nervous and easily scared of taller species, but I was sure Tic had warmed up to me by now. So why did it feel like h... | 2020-07-05T19:12:22 | 2020-07-05T17:37:29 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Every time you are late, you dodge an otherwise-fatal bullet. Miss a plane and it will crash, every time. Miss a job interview, the place will burn down. Today, despite leaving unfathomably early, you get stuck in gridlock on the way to your wedding. You begin to panic. | "I'm sorry little miss, but it looks like traffic is a mess, what time is your wedding?" the limo driver put his arm on the back of the passenger seat to turn and look at me.
"Noon is when it starts, but I'm supposed to be there for photos at ten," I reply cooly, checking my lipstick in my compact mirror.
Ever sinc... | I tapped the steering wheel relentlessly. Deep breaths, Heila, deep breaths. The sky is a clear blue, the birds chirp relentlessly in the distance. It's reminding me of my trip to Hawai'i, actually. Five minutes late to a bus, next thing I know it's hit a gull and rolled into the ocean.
It's not easy, you know. I wish... | 2021-10-22T05:51:32 | 2021-10-21T20:42:22 | 630 | 73 |
[WP] Instead of jail time, crime is punished by the erasure of memories. Depending on severity, the criminal may lose days, weeks, or even decades. No matter how long a span of time, the lost memories always include the entirety of the crime itself. | You fucked up.
You took 30 years of my life, in essence, by erasing those memories and *still you fucked up*. Because you *missed* a few spots. I don't know what rookie memorymancer the Bureau employed for my case, but whoever it was, they deserve to get fired.
Look, if you take decades of someone's life for a crime... | The sun beamed bright today, white hot against a cloudless blue sky. I squinted through the windshield of my car at it until I was forced to shut my eyes, just to stare at the hazy burn it left behind. When I opened my eyes, the time blinked at me accusingly from my dashboard. I watched it blink into the next minute, a... | 2022-06-07T00:56:02 | 2022-06-06T23:11:00 | 130 | 54 |
[WP] Soon after you die, you are approached by a deity who asks "so, did you enjoy your time in heaven?" | "Welcome ifeelhome. How was your time in heaven?"
"Oh I can't wait. I've heard a lot about it - I've been looking forward to this."
"Sorry - how WAS your time in heaven?"
"How was my time? Time on earth? What do you mean, I'm in heaven now - heaven was what I just went through?"
"Yes. I hope you learned what you ne... | When I finally got over the shock, the annoyance was that that was left. And after that annoyance disappeared, there was nothing. Follow the bright line, it said. So, I followed. Bright and pleasant, long corridor, quite nice decor, apparently meant to reassure. After some walking, one sign finally pointed me to a room... | 2014-07-18T12:03:35 | 2014-07-18T11:34:00 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] "It's human-made, you know!" Reverse the usual fantasy scene where somebody gushes over elf/dwarf/whatever craftsmanship. | Gilani strolled through the shop, yawning. Nothing here was worthy of her attention. The shop keep was trying his best to not stare, but Gilani could feel his expectant eyes on her. Making a sale to the Queen of Stalart would be an event that brought business to his shop for a generation.
Gilani enjoyed helping out th... | He stopped, looking again. His eyes, glimmering white around the edges, traced the outline of the small weapon before him. *Impossible,* he thought. *It must be a replica.*
"Excuse me, madam." He hailed the shopkeeper, who started shuffling slowly towards him. She noticed which item he was looking at and hurried, reac... | 2014-09-11T12:25:43 | 2014-09-11T10:59:19 | 69 | 38 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Due to the ease of shielding star ships and the danger of breaching the hull, the most common way of fighting on spacecraft is on-board hand to hand, with sword or other such weapons. Humanity, new spacefarers who have long dreamed of swashbuckling amongst the stars, are positively overjoyed.
It occurred to me th... | As I shot some poor fellow with a concentrated non-lethal shock suppression round from my modified energy pistol I couldn't help but stop to appreciate how honorable the other species of the universe are.
And how dishonorable humans are.
When humanity first ventured into the known galaxy we quickly realized that the... | A crowded bulkhead.
An unnatural electronic hum, the occasional hacking cough from the ventilation system.
Twenty one men wait in silence, bearing tower shields and long thin metallic spears of adjustable length.
They wear metal suits with blackened visors, small lights dotting their arms, slick and slender. Promis... | 2017-11-14T14:36:10 | 2017-11-14T14:05:46 | 80 | 21 |
[WP] You are a dog and live a happy and peaceful life with your human master, John Wick. One day, some thugs break into the house, beat John Wick to death and steal his car. They took the life of the only human who cared about you and gave you love... it is time for revenge. | Arf... Bark. Bark bark. Ruff, ruff ruff. Bark ruff bark bark. Bark bark. Whimper. Whimper. Bark. Bark Bark Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark.Arf... Bark. Bark bark. Ruff, ruff ruff. Bark ruff bark bark. Bark bark. Whimper. Whimper. Bark. Bark Bark Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Whimper. Cry bark. Whimper. Cry, cry. Bark. Arf, arf. Arf? ... | To be honest, when we killed John Wick, we thought that was the end of it.
Drop a fucking bomb on his house from the stratosphere. The amount of nerd science behind it was staggering, but there was no way that he would suspect it. It worked perfectly. We had confirmation that he was inside his house when the bomb fel... | 2018-02-28T18:18:48 | 2018-02-28T17:38:28 | 213 | 81 |
[WP] The first quantum super-computer comes online. Within 6 days, it passes the Turing Test. Within 8, it cracks the world's oldest undeciphered ancient tablets – around 7,000 years old. But the newly-minted AI refuses to release its transcripts, citing, "human safety and the future of mankind." | "Sir, there's been a development"
Doctor Richard Harding, co-founder of the Future Machine Intelligence institute and head researcher, snuffed his cigarette out on his desk and glanced up at the new arrival.
"What's she up to now? I thought we passed the intervention threshold long ago."
He propped his elbows up and... | Saviour of Humanity. Path to Innovation. A new light. Boundary breaking.
These were phrases used to describe the world's first quantum super-computer powered by an AI that wasn't just shitty machine learning and a bunch of if statements hashed together by sweaty unpaid interns high off of generic black coffee in artif... | 2018-07-07T21:24:05 | 2018-07-07T19:34:07 | 59 | 29 |
[WP] Your 'friends' just slammed the door on you, leaving you in the room with the crazed axe murderer. "Damn, that's a dick move. Want to get revenge?" The murderer offers you their hand. | "What?" I asked the masked guy, bewildered at what I just heard.
"Do you want to get back to take revenge on those assholes?" he says rather slowly, emphasizing each word while he gestures at his axe suggestively.
I think for a bit but I couldn't stop myself. I finally burst out laughing. He looks at me in confusion... | The palms of my hands start to ache and bleed as I clenched my fist tighter, my dirty broken nails digging into my skin. I quickly scanned the room, finding any point of exit that was big enough to aid with my escape. Nothing. Freedom was right in front of me, blocked by something inhuman.
*If I could just distract h... | 2020-11-10T06:18:41 | 2020-11-10T04:47:35 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You see a homeless man and bend down, placing money in his pale. While standing up straight, your eyes meet and he replies, "You will be spared." | “You will be spared?” I echo, confused. “What does that mean?”
The homeless man's eyes seem to glow white in the light of the afternoon sun. “You will know when the time comes, my son,” he replies with an unnaturally deep voice. He wags his fingers at me and mutters a few strange words under his mouth.
“My son? What?... | "Sorry?" I asked, but the man returned his gaze to the ground, and I turned to walk home.
I couldn't keep from rolling his words over in my mind, searching for meaning like bugs beneath a rock. I was disturbed by what he had said, no, *how* he had said it. It was the conviction in his voice; it was the clarity in his... | 2021-05-21T18:31:04 | 2021-05-21T18:25:28 | 123 | 51 |
[WP] The galaxy is a dark and lonely place. "First Strike Diplomacy" reigns out of fear. Few species survive even 300 years after developing interstellar travel. When humans entered the galaxy, we were the first species confident enough in war to ask someone "Are you sure you want to do this?" | "What do you mean? We outmatch you in firepower 10,000 to 1!"
"mhm, valid point, but you only need one ten-thousandth of your power to destroy yourself anyways..."
"What are you talking about?"
"See, earth, the only reason we survived so long was because of this little concept we knew as 'Mutually assured destructio... | We were caught completely off-guard when they came.
Entire alien fleets bounded the great distances between star systems and struck down our colonies with ease.
These colonies, mostly tiny research stations on frozen rocks, could do nothing as they watched the enemy fleet fire its weapons and turned the... | 2022-01-22T09:36:54 | 2022-01-22T07:41:07 | 280 | 153 |
[WP] There's a new death penalty drug that acts as a hallucinogen, causing the prisoner to experience his worst fears until he dies of cardiac arrest. You were convicted of a crime and your execution is today. | The bell buzzed louder than ever when they came into the room for the last time. That green liquid the doctor was carrying like a baby was the newest thing these days. There was a lot of controversy on whether or not it was morally correct to inject this drug into people like me. I welcomed it. I deserved it. The once ... | That morning I was awoken by the sound of a shrill alarm going off in my solitary cell. The alarm meant that I needed to be awake for whatever fat fuck decided to torture me with their nonsense today. Had they not restrained me, I would have strangled the lot of them, yet my hands were bound. This time, though. This ti... | 2015-02-10T07:14:55 | 2015-02-10T06:21:27 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] You have a literal Trump Card. When played, Donald Trump appears to assist you. | "And we're live at the final match of the 2016 Magic: The Gathering World championships. Mexico's improbable run to the finals concludes with a run into this week's dominating lineup from the United States of America. One last match of classic constructed to decide this year's champion. What do you like out of these tw... | Countless tournament victories under my belt, I sigh wearily as I approach the main stage. Applause rings out throughout the stadium as I shook hands with Yugi Moto, the king of games, as he handed me yet another trophy. Later that night, Yugi invited me to his grandpa's shop. I got a little excited, knowing I was abou... | 2015-12-26T11:05:24 | 2015-12-26T09:04:29 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] - in hell one battles giant demons until you die... then you rise again. Again and again you strive against impossible odds to barely scratch the terrible creatures. The first Dark Souls player has just arrived to this hell, and soon nothing will be the same again.
Dark Souls being a vision of hell. | Say what you want about Hell, at least they give you a chance. Sure they could just drop everyone in the pit to die over and over again, but I figure they didn't see the sport in that. So they give us weapons and some armor. Swords, axes, spears, one dumbass is running around with a flail. I think he's going for most d... | I awoke to the familiar sound of a bonfire. Eyes closed, I straightened out on the cold floor of my apartment and popped my back. Sleeping on the floor always sucked, but after playing Dark Souls III for a week straight I'd barely been able to see. Since I stopped to sleep it was probably a good time to get some food, ... | 2016-03-30T11:53:24 | 2016-03-30T11:01:50 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Just pick another fucking age!" Death said, snarling as he looked at Bobby.
"No, I get to pick, and I pick my 16th birthday."
Death screamed and punched the little shit in his head, and Bobby disappeared. All death had to do was touch his forehead, but he was way to angry for that. He waited for a few minutes, and a... | Call me Nathan. I died last night, but I am not afraid.
I learned two centuries ago that there are winners and there are losers. I am a loser – but I’m clever. I reach into my pocket and pull out a little black coin and look it over briefly. I might not be a terribly skilled man, but I know how to get by.
I look up a... | 2016-09-23T10:49:59 | 2016-09-23T08:06:29 | 232 | 115 |
[WP] Due to their genetic heritage as pursuit predators, humans have been known to be the best bounty hunters and private detectives in the galaxy. If you want to find someone, you hire a human. They just won't stop until they find who they are looking for. | “The first thing you need to understand is that humans are *gigios*, real crazy.” Bazza began as he and Ti’Vid’Lo settled into a booth in back of the bar with their drinks. The furry six-limbed yidan continued, gesturing with one of his main arms and both his secondaries, “Don’t get me wrong; nice species, fun females,... | The atmosphere broke, birthed into life in a roar of sound and the ship fell like a stone on fire. The world was strange and green and filled with tall buildings amidst the emerald sea and it was hot. The people here, if they were really people, were brown and fit and had dark hair and dark eyes.
Calif had never bee... | 2017-02-24T06:34:04 | 2017-02-24T03:38:57 | 70 | 20 |
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