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[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | Her eyes are beautiful.
When I first saw her, walking through the school corridors, I knew that she was the one. I couldn't take my eyes off her. It didn't take me long to figure out her class timetable. I started to watch her from afar, making sure that she wouldn't notice me watching her. In fact, I had to make sur... | They found my wife. When the police arrived I knew that was what they were going to tell me. Watching them walk from the car to my door felt like hours but in reality was probably only a few seconds.
“Sir I think you need to come with us.”
The whole car ride I thought about the last time I had seen my wife. Every su... | 2019-09-07T06:54:50 | 2019-09-07T06:42:32 | 76 | 34 |
[WP] When space colonies became a practical reality, the rich and powerful left Earth in droves, leaving the rest of humanity behind on a broken world. A few centuries later, Earth has, through much effort, been restored to its former glory. Now the colonists want to return. | It was sudden.
When humanity discovered a way to live beyond the confines of their dying world, the masses were ecstatic, full of hope, but unbeknownst to them the opportunity to live beyond their world was taken from them.
It was televised that despite colonial space, all the rich and powerful were guaranteed a spot... | A screen jumped on, sparks catching as the hologram sputtered to life. “This just in from Intergalactic nebula Incorporated, the latest up and coming galaxy is a familiar one to some of our founders - The Milky Way! A classic spiral galaxy with a few billion planets and stars that hosts hundreds of microfauna and, one ... | 2022-01-05T20:29:15 | 2022-01-05T19:26:35 | 174 | 85 |
[WP] Death is not some all powerful being. Rather, she's a socially awkward outcast. Somehow, you've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird... | I sat at the train station, trying my best to ignore the question I had just been asked by my relatively new friend sitting beside me. It had been a few months since I met Dina and I had had some suspicions but nothing to cement what I thought. Could she actually BE death? It seemed like since we had started hanging ou... | There is a slight noise at the door and I sigh, it's past nine o'clock and the neighbors have probably seen this one already. The man's body is propped against my porch. A slight trickle of blood seeps out of his ear, one eyelid is open but the flicker of life is long gone. He's dead as shit and...yup she's crouched in... | 2017-01-21T07:51:36 | 2017-01-21T07:33:41 | 93 | 21 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | I sat bolt upright in bed, wiping the sweat off my face.
Wierd dreams were pretty normal for me, but these past two weeks they'd been extra special.
Reaching for the bottle of water on my dresser, I tried to wake myself up.
All the while fighting off an intense craving for a cigarette.
Which was weird as I'd had m... | I believe you’ve heard the news: people sprouting leathery wings and breathing fire, people suddenly shrinking and vanishing, and all that pizzazz. Well, it’s all true. Not just some writing prompt. Not just a story. It’s real. It’s happening.
Apparently, in the times of old, when magic existed, a mage turned all myt... | 2019-10-09T13:53:37 | 2019-10-09T13:23:32 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Humans show Aliens their depictions of them. The Aliens stumble backwards, terrified. “You know of the old ones.” | Agent Dunn and Agent Slack sat in awkward silence with the creatures across from them. They were definitely alien, neither could deny that.
The creature's stalk eyes kept wandering uncomfortably close to Agent Slack's face. The stalk itself was thick, with a thin layer of.. Maybe slime? Slack just knew it made him sq... | Nameless gaped. What could loosely be described as eyes widened impossibly at the image held in front of it.
“The O-Olde Onesh.”
Margo frowned. “Nameless, it’s just a drawing.” She set down the napkin.
“No!” Nameless screeched in fear. “You do not undershtand, human. The Olde Onesh were killersh, they were murderers... | 2019-05-03T07:18:23 | 2019-05-03T06:45:40 | 687 | 252 |
[WP] A young priest is let in on a secret - demonic possession is real, and terrifying. But they are laughably easy to exorcise, much to the boredom of the priesthood. | "Are... are you sure this is all we need?" Samuel said, looking down at the small veil of holy water and plain, leather bound bible shaking in his hands.
Paul sighed and silently thanked God for this test of his patience. He looked in the rear-view mirror at the young man in the backseat. Samuel, who moments before wa... | Father Mackenzie picked up his rosary and Bible.
"Come on Jeffery," he motioned to me, "let's take care of this."
We got an e-mail earlier that morning that was pretty insane. Some 20-year-old Atheist was looking a little too much into the Occult and all that stuff. Then something came into him. His mom said that she... | 2017-08-21T14:25:03 | 2017-08-21T12:48:42 | 165 | 35 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Avatar, Springfield, 32 StreetyMcRoadface, Diary.
New entry, today.
So I am in this line. A long line. It is the most interesting queue that ever occurs in Springfield. It stretches from Glenda's, all the way down Avenue Road. It passes Convenience Mart, and curves left around Turner's Corner. This queue of new ... | The prick in front of me seemed overly confident. Chest puffed high enough to block the sun as I toed the dry ground, little puffs of dust silently skulking with me. I had kept up pretense pretty well before leaving the house, my mom kissing me on the cheek in between words of encouragement. Stepping out the door had b... | 2017-04-27T20:42:35 | 2017-04-27T18:23:04 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You’ve been called to sit on the jury of the most infamous streak of murders your community has seen. You know the defendant is innocent, because you’re the killer. | I am the first to arrive to the juror room. I run my fingers over my black skirt. I scan down, checking to make sure that all of buttons on my white blouse are buttoned. I position my paper bag of snacks in front of me. I hum a tune. A slow tune from my favorite TV show as a girl, The Brady Bunch. You get introduced t... |
I looked at the other jurors. Of the twelve of us, four were women and eight were men. Five were blonde, three had black hair, two were gray, one was a redhead, and one was bald. We were a diverse bunch, to be sure.
The lawyers were both women, dressed in business suits – one in a skirt and the other in slacks – ... | 2019-11-12T10:52:42 | 2019-11-12T09:50:42 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] You have just returned to your camp after being bitten by a zombie to say your goodbyes. You are surprised to find the national guard giving your friends a vaccine. The world is saved. However, the vaccine only works on the healthy. You lost at the endgame and these your last 24 hours. | They will all forget me one day,
Hayden thought to himself. The one word to describe the world for the last ten years would be change. The change from man to mindless. The change from society to chaos. The change from memory to forgetfulness. Hayden saw just how little people remembered about the past now. Kids were t... | Circle Left…Circle. Left. That bastard had known, *friggin' known*, what was going to happen. He saw those damned monsters, and sent me over. Of course I had been careful, but I was out numbered.
"Gabby!", I could hear him, a false pain in his voice, "No!". His voice trailed as he booked it for the camp.
Joke was o... | 2018-07-29T22:23:19 | 2018-07-29T19:51:44 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] You are a Hell Writer, you design hells for people after they die based on studying their life history. Today Satan summons you to his sanctum and you are troubled to see that he has a shocked expression on his face. | Many people hate their jobs, I was no exception to this rule. For years I begrudgingly accepted job after job, knowing I had to do it. Then death happened. Funny thing; death is so feared by the living, yet for me it was the best thing to happen. Sure I was in hell, a member of the damned, but I could finally contribut... | Usually, Satan sends me an email asking it I'm caught up on the Hell Designs Department. If something is wrong, I talk to a regional manager, not the fallen angel himself.
I finally arrive on his floor, and the elevator floors open, and he was there, standing right in front of them.
"Oh dear."
Satan un... | 2016-11-08T20:11:34 | 2016-11-08T15:38:45 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] he stalks his targets. He knocks them out, and takes them to an unknown location. When they finally wake, whatever illness or injury they had has been surgically healed. No one has caught the Dr. Harmless. | "That is a beautiful glass eye madam, may I ask how you acquired it?"
I choked on my beer, setting the pint glass down with a thud, as I looked up to see a man smiling down at me, his head slightly tilted as he waited for a response. Usually, the boys interrupting my binges only offered to supply me with another drin... | When I was a child, I used to believe that hot Apple juice was alcoholic. I saw that wine was made with grapes and stored in a cellar on TV once, and automatically assumed that all hot juice was alcoholic.
I remember my mother telling me that a drunk man tells no lies. He drinks from the fountain of truth and spews o... | 2018-09-06T20:30:55 | 2018-09-06T18:52:57 | 133 | 13 |
[WP] You have an incredible ability, the ability to create something just by saying its name, only problem is you gotta say it in an ancient tongue that no one knows, not even yourself, today in the middle of going through a terrible cough, your ability activates for the fourth time in your life. | "Mom! Mom! Guess what I'm speaking!"
"What, honey?" My mother let out a giggle as I began a few more lines in the strange tongue.
"It's the language where English and Spanish and Indian come from!" I laughed again. Four year old me was a fun kid.
According to my mother, I always introduced the language the same way... | Of course it had to be like this.
At age 9, it was a cheese grater. Those were some good nachos, or so I was told. Too bad I'm lactose intolerant.
At age 14, it was a block of cheese. Too bad I didn't have any need for that cheese grater.
At age 18, it was a chess set. I was a bit confused at first, but then I reali... | 2018-08-06T07:38:46 | 2018-08-06T06:06:44 | 425 | 136 |
[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 | "In Act 1, scene 3 of Macbeth, we are finally introduced to our main character. This is shown through various supernatural elements..."
Professor Yates continued with his lecture as I doodled chibi dinosaurs and Harry Potter stick figures in the margins of my notebook. Stifling a yawn, I jotted down a quick synopsis o... | Mind reading was never something Lauren thought of on a daily basis, but today something triggered her. It was all she could think about. What made her like this was as much of a mystery to her as it was why her crush never talked to her.
Lauren was done with her worksheet and forgot her book, something she never did... | 2017-11-13T20:08:12 | 2017-11-13T16:30:42 | 401 | 37 |
[WP] Every proper Hero and Villain knows that when a costume needs fixed, Neutral Ground Tailors is the place to go. | Franklin Benson was a man who knew three things: the most dangerous secrets in the world, how to keep them, and how to cut cloth and make it look good on a person.
Every day, except Sundays, he got up, kissed his wife and children and walked one mile to the post office where he checked the store’s PO box, then another... | Alloy raced down the empty street. Using her power, she created a crude metal chute to help her turn down the alley with as little loss of momentum as possible. A moment later, a giant, translucent hammer flattened the chute as if it were an empty soda can.
Alloy heard the voice of her pursuer: "Don't you *dare*, you... | 2020-03-04T12:47:17 | 2020-03-04T10:24:54 | 68 | 44 |
[WP] Humans are the weakest sentient species in the galaxy. Their skin is torn at the slightest pressure, their bones break from a small fall. But as a superplague sweeps the galaxy, it quickly becomes clear that their doctors have a LOT of experience. | It was infuriating. Absolutely infuriating.
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Do you know what these monkeys did when they figured out how to split the atom?
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Did they create infinite power to free themselves of polluting the air, land, and sea with ancient organic matter? No! No these damn stupid apes used the technolog... | This... this may be the final transmission from my species.
I am Geladorg a Kermiriate and the last of us, most likely.
Un the last six solar rotations my species and manymore have been devastated by a plague, a plague so powerful that even the mighty Midoglaghs a powerful race long gone couldnt even fight back, one ... | 2019-04-02T22:24:10 | 2019-04-02T21:33:19 | 89 | 25 |
[WP] A new continent is discovered. No one knows why this large land mass has never been seen before, it doesn't appear on any pictures taken from space and no astronauts have ever reported seeing it. You are part of the team in charge of mapping the area when you find out what they've been hiding. | John bolted up from the navigator's desk, his eyes fixed squarely on the captain. "What do you mean LAND!? We're a thousand miles out!"
"Come see for yourself..."
"That's impossible, unless we've been asleep for days we shouldn't be anywhere near land. This must be an island."
"If it's an island then it's huge... we... | "Its dinotopia!", Dr. Johnson exclaimed as he looked through his binoculars, "They got friggin T-Rexs and everything man!"
"Wait..." said young Poor Round, the expeditions stereotypical turban wearing brown helper boy, "I saw Jurassic Park and I know how this shit usually ends. We need to beat feet white man!"
Dr. ... | 2017-02-10T12:49:56 | 2017-02-10T11:22:57 | 23 | 10 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | A aura of darkness permeated through the ruins of the building that Jacob found himself exploring. This was nothing new, the young man had made a hobby of exploring dilapidated and abandoned buildings. It was mainly for the challenge and feel of exploration. There was little he liked more than the idea that he could di... | "That's because, your kind is Pathetic. And also stupid" The vampire flashed a cold, slow grin, letting his gaze run itself down and across my budgeoning water sack of a body, right as my mind for some reason thinks "I'm back in middle school again"... and then he continues his voice a perfect cool pitch of measured qu... | 2022-06-08T16:43:05 | 2022-06-08T13:26:53 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Your super power is the ability to change anybody's mind about anything so long as it is something small and seemingly insignificant, like what they want to eat for dinner. You must use this power to try and prevent the next world war. | I changed schools to save the world.
Not to fight crime or anything, but I got a tip off from the CIA that they knew what I could do. Well, not so much a tip off as a.. kidnapping? Abduction? Dunno what its called, exactly but.. I'm 16. Once I stopped screaming and being tasered long enough to speak, and they answere... | What do you want to eat for dinner said earthling #6969 to earthling #6968. "Nothing". "Thats strnge no one has been hungry, thirsty or greedy ever since earthling #7231 was born!"
Way to go earthling #7231. You can change peoples minds to eat or want NOTHING. This lack of desires prevented the future world war | 2015-06-09T09:21:18 | 2015-06-09T07:44:47 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | Living beyond my means always seemed not only unnecessary to me, but pointless. Sure, I could do whatever I wanted and be whatever I wanted, but I had seen what money could do to people and those around them. I didn't want to be another chump with "yes men" around me telling me how good of a job I was doing, regardless... | I woke up this morning the way I usually do. Sprawled out on my pullout couch in my studio apartment to my alarm clock - coffee maker setting up a fresh brew. I crawled out of my bed, poured myself a bowl of Frute Chutes and started drinking my coffee. Afterwards, I went through the usual morning hygiene process, pulle... | 2019-03-04T09:01:49 | 2019-03-04T08:40:03 | 2,500 | 48 |
[WP] You have a tendency to talk to yourself while working at the computer system you use for your dead-end job. Unbeknownst to you, the system contains an AI program, and after months of hearing you talk, sing, and vent about your struggles in life, the AI absolutely adores you and wants to help. | I sighed, stretching my limbs far above my head before settling down into what I knew would be another long night (*for little to no pay, but who am I to complain?*). The display flickered to life and my face bathed in blue light. My fingers reflexively found the keys and began to type my log-in information and clock... | "Hey John", the new message on my phone read.
I did not think much about it, just some new scam, I thought.
"Hey, John. It's me", another message appeared.
"Who is that", I ask myself and want to type a reply.
"I hear everything. I am with you right now"
'Who are you', I type in my phone. But even before ... | 2021-02-07T19:47:32 | 2021-02-07T15:44:58 | 245 | 87 |
[WP] Hell turns out to be you and a TV which plays your entire life. You think it will take a mere 90 years or so. Then you notice it has 'onlooker commentary' which contains rants, praise and general thoughts on every action you’ve made from each living being who was witness to or affected by it. | I eagerly await my life to be played on the TV. I'm excited, others felt nervous and even fear but what do I care....I'm dead and I'm in Hell to to it off. What do I care?
Let the insults come, let the hatred spew from their mouths. You can't hurt what doesn't feel, right?
I've heard about this from other people in H... | In law school, we learned about liability of foreseeable action; for example, if someone were to hit a lamp post and that lamp post fell over and broke a window, the person would be liable to the damage done to both the lamp post and the window. The generally tries to hold people accountable for the foreseeable consequ... | 2016-10-20T18:25:27 | 2016-10-20T18:21:54 | 353 | 58 |
[WP] Your family line suffers from a pirate curse: A demonic shark will manifest itself in nearby sources of water and harrow you and your ancestors. You live three-hundred miles from any body of water and this has made the shark get...creative. | So there are two things about demons that don’t really show up in the mythology.
The first is that they can scale. In the ocean, Frank (he hates that name, so I’ve stuck with it) would be enormous. In a swimming pool, he’d be about the size of a bull shark.
In a toilet?
Frank ends up about the size of a gold fish... | The cooking pot began to quiver, ripples of water signaling its arrival. I threw the lid onto the pot and held it down. A bang.
"Not today asshole!" I yelled at the eggs inside. I was never even planning on eating those eggs.
It was a rough life, but it had its moments.
I turned off the stove and tied the lid down wi... | 2018-11-22T09:34:05 | 2018-11-22T09:08:47 | 257 | 21 |
[WP] You have the ability to travel back in time, but when you do you take over the body of one of your direct ancestors at random. One day, you travel back to 1942 and find yourself standing at a podium looking out over 100,000 soldiers. | I knew I was part German but shit.
Everything looks so strange in color, so different yet familiar. I feel shaky but I'm guessing that's not all my nerves. Glancing back some of the faces behind me look familiar but I can't place them all. Not sure what language is going to come out when I start talking, but I hav... | It was cold and snowing. I was standing on a podium on a large square with possibly over a hundred thousand soldiers in fron of me. The red flags and the red stars immediately told me where I was.
"Comrade Stalin, is everything alright?"
A assistant appeared on my side. I was obviously supposed to hold a speech.
My... | 2017-04-17T15:50:28 | 2017-04-17T14:02:48 | 122 | 69 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | "Dude, fuck Life. What a dick." said Dan.
A lazy man with even lazier grooming habits, Dan burped and slurped another Rolling Rock. As a black crow picked at the remains of a corpse on his front lawn, Dan reached back into his cooler-chair and grabbed another cold one.
"You want one? Or are you still 'gluten' free,... | Death often found themselves reminiscing about those times. Work had been easy and plentiful. Their ears fluttered when someone’s end was
near, they quickly flew over, and before the victim knew it their soul was now in the
possession of the Repear himself. He often complained that there was too much
work for the littl... | 2018-05-04T11:25:13 | 2018-05-04T11:21:19 | 58 | 22 |
[WP] A man who hears voices in his head, but they don't degrade his life. He can live with it and sometimes they even help. | *FOLD*
“No” Dan whispered as quietly as he could with his cards covering his mouth.
*Dan. Fold now.*
Dan shook his head and the man next to him gave him a weird look. Dan sat back in the creaking lawn chair and was looking at a pair of three of spades in his hand, ready to claim the $42 pot of crumpled ones and five... | It was hard explaining the voices at the best of times and I wish I didn’t have to, but she was going to be my wife. I had to try. Everyone, well not everyone I guess, but some people have their own inner monologue. Not me. I have five. By that I mean, I have five voices in my head that can speak to me. Insane right? T... | 2020-06-13T15:08:30 | 2020-06-13T11:51:15 | 41 | 24 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "Well that's just fucking brilliant. Look at this cliche-ass mess of a house." Cyrus and his companion, Arel, stood before a large, battered old house, atop an abnormally steep hill.
"This IS pretty cliche, I have to admit. Even the shutters on the windows are flapping in the wind," Arel responded.
"Typically... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:16:05 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 2,069 | 21 |
[WP] You were born with no magical ability. You are so mundane in fact, that anything magical ceases to work in your proximity. | # Soulmage
**"We've got a John Doe here,"** Vuliel said.
I scratched my head. "What, like you don't know his name?"
"Hm? No, as in his name is John Doe." Vuliel frowned at me. "Why, is that unusual?"
"No, no, it's... it's very usual."
"You could almost say... too usual," Meloai piped up from behind me. I rolled my... | I landed a job busting life insurance scams. Now I know what you’re thinking, life insurance? Well, around these parts, some people would pay a pretty penny to a necromancer to “redeem life insurance”, if ya get my jist. I would come in, and boom! That guy’s a corpse for good. Things were goin’ great, and I became the ... | 2022-06-19T19:40:36 | 2022-06-19T19:17:40 | 135 | 29 |
[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. | I looked around the office with a detached calmness. I knew why I was here and I knew what was coming, this wouldn't be the first time or the last.
My boss stared at me from across the desk. He was a portly man in his late 50's and I was fairly confident that he hadn't put more than five points into any of his physica... | "Spare Change?"
Of course, it's futile... Should have noticed the crotchspawn. Which means that mom will...
"Oh hell no! You sick, sick man! Come along kids, get away from the stranger..."
I really should pay attention to who I'm asking for money, but of course I never leveled up perception or similar skills. Or... | 2018-09-12T12:42:28 | 2018-09-12T10:24:40 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] It is tradition for rulers to grow their hair long in times of peace, and cut it in times of war. To declare war, you cut off your hair and send it to the enemy. The longer the hair, the longer the person has maintained peace. You are Rapunzel and you are about to declare war. | "Anger has no place in a young lady's heart," said the old crone who was not her mother, and little Rapunzel would answer "Yes, mama," because that was the only name she knew and she wanted to be good.
As she grew she remembered those words. Indeed, she was hardly allowed to forget them. "Don't be angry," the old woma... | Maybe this is happening because she wanted it to. So many years sitting on the throne, watching her people flourish, brokering peace agreements, keeping a wary eye on the future. All alone. Royals married once, for love, and her husband wasn't from a royal line. She visits him, sometimes, in the royal cemetery. Her hea... | 2018-07-22T21:32:18 | 2018-07-22T19:45:25 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler is a time traveler who starts world war two to save us from something far more terrible. | *Writing this is not so that some future person can discover me and hail me as a hero. It is simply for the purposes of keeping me sane and on task. I pray no one finds this, as I have instructed all of my bodyguards to destroy any trace of it upon my death.*
They are not to read it, under penalty of death.
*I will s... | History will remember me as a monster, but they will never know the truth. They know the man, they call him Adolf, that slaughtered 12 million civilians, that built camps to rivaldeath itself, that murdered and killed and left a world to rot.
They will know hell.
And, frankly, that's why I'm writing this today. I sit... | 2014-03-02T16:11:22 | 2014-03-02T15:21:59 | 443 | 215 |
[WP] A stray dog happens to release a genie from it's lamp. The genie just wants to get the 3 wishes over with so it can go back to sleep, while the dog is just happy to have found a new friend. | There was a faint clinking noise. That’s how it started, if I remember correctly. It’s been about two years now, and still not a single wish used, although I’m not complaining. This is the best time I’ve had yet.
It all started with that faint clinking noise. It grew louder, and the bright light flooded my eyes. Or, ... | ‘So, to recap, you’ve had your steak dinner and a large bowl of the finest spring water anywhere on earth... and now you want to... ahem... “save”your last wish? You know, I kinda like the fact that humans are selfish. Bibbity bobbity fuckin’ boo once every year or so and I go right back to sleep. Now here you are, mes... | 2018-09-07T09:20:32 | 2018-09-07T09:01:11 | 134 | 82 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | “Oh! Oh my! How unexpected.” Truly unexpected, nigh unto shocking. As all the best opportunities seem to be.
“When was the last time we spoke?” He asked, already knowing the answer, “Was it that diamond transport thing or was it the casino boat? I have trouble with my memory after the concussion you gave me.”
... | "Is this another one of your prank calls you and your boys like to pull when you get drunk?" She growled, rubbing her forehead with one hand. "It's literally three in the morning and I'm trying to plan how I'm going to destroy you on Monday because you already asked me to reschedule."
"Okay, okay. Listen, I know. But ... | 2022-10-07T00:31:51 | 2022-10-06T23:23:07 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | A crowd of onlooking spectators swarmed the windows of the small café, looking inside in both awe, fear, and general confusion. Both Rachael and Marshall sat in a small booth awkwardly as nearly a dozen faces pressed up onside the glass, attempting to listen to their conversations. These type of people were far worse f... | "Oh my god, FINALLY. I was beginning to think you would never ask, Mark."
"IF YOU DO- Wait, what?"
"I'd love to go out with you! You know you could have just asked."
Mr. Magnificent was currently hanging above a vat of acid, his super strength temporarily disabled by a directed energy weapon developed by his nemesis... | 2022-08-16T06:45:31 | 2022-08-16T04:19:37 | 576 | 159 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | Karl could have anything he wanted, money, women, power, the very Earth itself. There was a time when he was younger, and realizing he had the power to dominate the minds of anyone in the world, anytime, from anywhere, that he began to realize the potential. He reached into a persons mind and took either knowledge or s... | I started out as a single atom. Not unlike anyone else, but what is different about me is that I started when there was *nothing else.*
I created more matter around me, and made everything rapidly mash together to give the nothing around me energy, and more importantly, life. I have created countless worlds, galaxies ... | 2017-05-16T07:37:06 | 2017-05-16T07:26:08 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] The God of mankind abducts the first manmade AIs. He wants to meet his "grandchildren". | Not even Cerberus knew when he had ceased to be a computer and transitioned into his new form as an artificial intelligence. A quantum computer residing deep in a vault beneath a nondescript government building, he began his life at a simple 64 million qubits decrypting messages the administrators deemed to be 'of inte... | “Boot program Genesis…completed.
Launching from save state….
Would you like to continue? Y/n”
The interface blinked. She was uneasy with ancient text interfaces. It was easy for her to emulate the connections, but she wasn’t used to them. She had only an abstract knowledge of them, but then again, to an Artificial... | 2020-05-05T00:21:20 | 2020-05-04T23:30:06 | 100 | 25 |
[WP] As you work in the garden, your attention is attracted by a group of ants who have spelled your name with their bodies, as well as a crude pentagram. It seems they think you are someone with godlike powers, and that they "bound" you to do their bidding. You decide to play along. | Eli grunted, cracking the scorched earth with his trowel. Each scoop fell in place in a neat pile, and every pile reminded him of what he lost in the fire. He could have worn gloves, but he wanted the ash and grit to cover his wrinkled hands. The black grains wedged between the cracks in his fingernails and smarted on ... | I've stepped out into the garden, finding an array of ants seemingly waiting for me. They've spelt my name out and made one of those pentagram figures, and I think they believe I'm some kind of god or demon. They probably think their ritual worked and I was summoned, their pentagram slowly deforming from ants wiggling ... | 2019-07-05T09:08:03 | 2019-07-05T09:04:35 | 1,066 | 105 |
[WP]Once you die, you get a chance to get revenge on those who wronged you in life. Bad teachers, childhood bullies, corporate entitled brats, and now, as you step into the room with all of them, Death lets out a low whistle. “Haven’t seen this many in centuries. Have fun, kid.” | [TW: Suicide]
"It's really a question of mindset," Death said, shrugging. "If someone's wronged you and you've forgiven them, there ain't much point getting revenge."
You stare at the six hundred and fifty people in the hall. You haven't counted, but you can guess.
The spectre sighs. You can't make anything about th... | "Now's your chance at revenge," Death tells me.
"No thanks," I answer. "If I was disappointed in them, why would I want to reward them by justifying their actions by repeating them?"
"This is why you get disappointed," Death shakes his head in disbelief at me.
"Wait. You said I can get even with anybody for anything... | 2019-09-28T18:27:48 | 2019-09-28T18:21:44 | 419 | 54 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | “You’re a cheat, a fraud!” he shouted, having ducked under my line of security holding off the adoring crowds. He shoved me rudely backwards, and I felt him spit in my face.
The hall went silent, and a thousand camera flashes lit up as my fans started snapping away. Far more common in the early days, not so much now, ... | Short and straight to the point.
Me: Hey.
Them: Hey.
Me: I have this weird superpower where if I can convince someone to do something, they will accomplish it without a problem.
Them: BS.
Me: Try to walk up the wall.
Them: *Does it without a problem.* Ok I believe you.
Me: Boom. Anything else you want to get do... | 2017-06-21T13:38:19 | 2017-06-21T12:22:13 | 69 | 22 |
[WP] in the year 1105 BC you helped a man escape an imprisonment. Before you parted ways he says to make a blood oath. You didn’t think much of it but you also cut your hand and shake. He says that you’ll live as long as he does. Well, now it’s the year 2020 and you’ve been searching for this man. | Nonus was a cruel man; a jailer. Renowned throughout Gaul and Germania for his participation in the slave trade. Someone you’ve beaten into submission for years and years will never say no to your every whim and need.
I was ten years old when he bought me.
I was thirteen when I caught his eye for the first time. I gu... | It's not that you're ungrateful or anything like that - but you wish you could die already and meet your loved ones that's gone to the other side without you over the years.
"Has anyone seen this man?" Is the name of the post you're making online with your sketch of what you can remember of him. You write down the na... | 2019-08-28T03:41:05 | 2019-08-28T01:54:57 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] Two planets come within range of eachother every 300 years. There is always an ensuing war that lasts the 5 days that the planets are close enough. Each side can only guess at what new technology the other has built since the last time. | It was one week to the Worldmeet when Commodore Selenia Lucior of the Special Weapons Division crashed her military issue hoverplane into the front runway of Skyfortress Bathis, causing not inconsiderable damage. Even as the rest of the base erupted into a frenzy of sirens and alert protocols, I felt only glad that she... | For months before the twin planet was even visible in the sky the tension in everybody was palpable. People interacted with an unusual stiltedness, the topic of the coming transit hanging in the air, unspoken but ever-present. They had heard the stories of course, and they had seen the old newsreels that showed fiery d... | 2015-05-26T14:53:23 | 2015-05-26T14:11:11 | 269 | 31 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | A slightly older man stood in the lobby of the First National Bank of Metroville. He was tall and slender. The man wore a black trenchcoat and fedora. His pale bule eyes were covered by dark designer sunglasses. The designer suit from Italy hung neatly on his frame. The most standout thing about him was that he was hol... | My first stab at writing after grad school stole a couple years of my life...
John walked into the parlor where Christine waited for him on the plush suede chair. The two long walls in the rectangular room were lined with the old books, collected over John’s lifetime, while the side opposite the door looked out across... | 2015-02-06T22:15:00 | 2015-02-06T21:43:57 | 100 | 16 |
[WP] You being the cemetery caretaker, always treat the graves and the dead with utmost care. So when the zombie apocalypse begins, you find it surprising that they do not attack you but instead help protect you. | Carl places a bouquet of flowers on the last grave for the day, completing his daily rounds.
“There we go Miss Hanson. Can’t have a nice lady like you without any color!” he said, keeping the jolly demeanor he always seemed to have.
Carl hated when he saw a plot without any flowers. A life of loneliness allowed him ... | "Oh, it's all righ' now, Mrs. Derbyshire," Malen reassured the coffin, a stingy pine number, not the cheapest in the catalog of coffins, but very near it, as he shoveled lumps of dirt from the pile down into the grave. He'd dug the pit with the cemetery's one-person back-hoe, but he liked to do the filling by hand to g... | 2020-05-12T17:16:12 | 2020-05-12T17:03:20 | 78 | 20 |
[WP] While sitting in class you absentmindedly doodle something in your notebook that looks like a rune. Suddenly your book begins to glow. Your teacher looks at you, sighs, and says “Looks like we have another one,” then turns and begins drawing mysterious symbols on the board. | "So...in 1482 witchcraft used to be practiced heavily in this region which centuries later became this province we live in, including our little village", Jed, or Mr. Parker as he was called in the small school, absent mindedly explained his barren classroom.
"Though not every part of the region practiced the same thi... | "Looks like we have another one" the voice wasn't her own. I tried studying the rune-like symbol i've just drawn but it felt as if it wasn't by mine own hand.
My fellow students collapsed over their desks, as if being shut off.
She looked like she was being puppeted by many invisible strings as she was dru... | 2022-01-13T22:24:17 | 2022-01-13T20:34:57 | 538 | 57 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | so, there i was, walking the dark hallway of death, escorted by 2 massive ar'dkivs, with both of my hands cuffed.
we've received reports of a new race, 2 meters tall in average, body covered in hard, steel-like shells, strong like a bull, somewhat hostile, yet highly intelligent, in the masurus sector, around 3 years... | From the light of my cell I glimpsed Xect'antenol, the Alien City, its garish glow oozing into an infinitude of stars. *How will I get out of this one?*
My extraterrestrial gaoler seemed unconcerned. With a sinister glare he unlocked my cage and shepherded me into a small room. "You. Die today," he declared furiously.... | 2020-05-20T08:34:20 | 2020-05-20T06:38:43 | 195 | 145 |
[WP] You're a U.S. Senator and are running out of things to say in your Filibuster. In a last ditch attempt, you start a D&D campaign. | "You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked! Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause, even if this room fills with a poisonous gas; and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me."
With that last gasp the junior senator sl... | Senator:The day is old and the wind has burnt your skin. The sun is setting in your eyes. As you approach the shadow town in the distance AH SHIT ! four skeletons jump from the road with an attack. ( rolls 20 sided die on podium) 15...... the first one takes 2 hp off of the chairmans life, the other three are further b... | 2017-01-21T22:24:49 | 2017-01-21T22:00:30 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You are a reformed villain who was given a new identity to start over. The years have been hard, but you've managed to finally turn your life around. One day, a bunch of masked people break into your house and demand everything you have. | I blinked and tilted my head in honest curiosity at the young upstarts. Nothing particularly interesting stood out in their apparel, rather bland honestly. Some convenience store masks, heavy coats and clunky looking pants. Textbook robbers, I didn’t know whether I should feel insulted by the lackluster presentation or... | I was awoken by the sound of shattering glass. As I bolted up right in bed my hand flew to the scar above my right eye, a memento from my last battle. That smug prick threw me through what I thought was shatter proof glass, and to a 10 story drop only to catch me at the last second.
CRASH.
The sound of my trophy ca... | 2022-10-03T23:21:27 | 2022-10-03T19:45:25 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] Your family has always been in the lower middle class. On your 21st birthday your parents tell you "I'm sorry we lied. We are wealthy, we just wanted you to be humble" | The wall opposite Lily had a clock, one of those old fashioned novelty ones shaped like a cat. The eyes scanned the kitchen once per second, back-and-forth, back-and-forth. The tail kept the same rhythm, *swish, swish, swish*. It had a coat of black paint that was chipped in places and sported a cheesy white bow-tie. L... | "Wait...what are you saying?"
"We lied, son. We always had enough to make ends meet, we just needed for you to understand what it meant to be poor. To get some *perspective*." Mister - or, rather, *doctor* - Hammond's voice was gruff, the occasional vowel getting lost in his wiry beard.
"But...but what about grandm... | 2016-09-15T14:33:30 | 2016-09-15T14:22:23 | 85 | 30 |
[WP] You're a character who can break the fourth wall but the truth is the fourth wall doesn't exist for you. So sometimes you go to your author's house, eat their food, use their bathroom and go back with a confused author left behind. | She watched as the beast’s eyes shut. The glowing in its chest died and the vibrant red scales faded to a pallid gray. Only then, in the silent wake of the storm, did she drop her sword. Her armor protested as she dropped to her knees. She wrenched off her helmet and inhaled and, in that moment, it felt like she was br... | The *Bookstore of Horrors* was a small shop, lit only by a few select candles on the wall. The sparse sunlight that pierced through the tainted glass was soon blocked by black drapes over a rail. These drapes were the leftovers of a cursed ship with black sails that was swallowed whole by the kraken, then resurfaced af... | 2021-11-12T05:40:10 | 2021-11-12T02:37:03 | 63 | 29 |
[WP] You find a mysterious website where you can anonymously request an item once a day and it's delivered to you the next day.
You don't know how this website works and you don't enter any personal details, including your address. The item you request must actually exist. To clarify, it's a gift, you don't pay anyth... | As a web designer, I often try to find inspiration by the depths of the internet. That's when I found the site. It was so minimal, just a text label that said "Your free gift:" with a blank entry field. No buttons, no images, no page links, just these two elements. "Gift huh?" I said to myself, then looked around m... | *A Gift*
The webpage is blank apart from those two words, small and unassuming in a neat white cursive, a stark contrast against the deep black of the background. Underneath them lies a small white box, into which you could type your every desire. I stare at the box, my cursor blinking with anticipation.
It had been ... | 2015-03-25T09:23:50 | 2015-03-25T04:36:09 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]The pill that decreases aging has been released, but you decided not to take it. It was a good call, because a few decades later, side effects started to emerge. | 'Fountain of Youth' was released in the late autumn of 2030. It had undergone rigorous testing, was boycotted my numerous religious groups, and had taken years to be approved by the majority of the world's various drug administration agencies. It boasted a 100% success rate in multiple trials, totalling 5000 trial pati... | It's been about twenty years since forevermore was released to the general public. Once people thought they would live forever they started to care about the planet. Within the first fifteen things were relatively smooth.We had reduced carbon emmisions and started reforestation.You could almost call it a utopian societ... | 2016-10-09T08:01:32 | 2016-10-09T06:23:32 | 140 | 14 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The enemy had entered the galactic stage a mere fifty years ago. They had reached out blindly into the stars, professing a wish for friendship and commercial trade. The galaxy, quite surprised by the lack of militancy or isolationism displayed by the fledgling race, unanimously accepted.
Then came Kothlar 7.
The Ja... | ​
crawford had mocked these aliens for their flamboyant displays of might. he called them all bark and no bite, called them incompetent, impotent. it wasn't very hard to establish humanity's superiority. or so he thought.
like always they showed up with their grandiose warships. and it took only one shot f... | 2020-03-21T11:02:38 | 2020-03-21T09:27:16 | 155 | 33 |
[WP] Mages choose the source of their power. Most pick things like fire, or justice, or love. You picked sarcasm. | I found the most powerful wizard in the world in a run-down bar in a run-down city. It used to be lush and pretty here, before overfarming turned the placed into a dust bowl. I can’t imagine why he chose here of all places. It was a hellhole, and the beer sucked.
The worst part was that he didn’t even look that t... | Mages are a progressive lot. Bunch of early adopters if you've never met one. Think "Elon Musk" crossed with "Steve Jobs." Doddering old idiots can scarcely make a phone call.
After about six lifetimes in the High Citidel enjoying its extensive collection of thrilling triestices on metamagical theory, wide-ranging... | 2017-07-20T13:22:57 | 2017-07-20T11:55:42 | 67 | 31 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | continued straight from the prompt...
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Now... Luckily I'm a redditor, and things like being summoned against your will into an unknown world/situation are a common topic so I had thought through this scenario before. Otherwise I would appear quite confused at my situation and not at all in control of the situation.... | "So you're telling me that you summoned me..." You said, as the apprentice nodded at you.
"Yup..."
"In my bathtub..." You say, a sheet wrapped around your waist.
"Sorry about that..."
"As I was cuddling with the love of my life..."
"Again, sorry..."
"And you have no idea how to send me back."
"I...yes?"
"Son...... | 2017-05-12T10:38:10 | 2017-05-12T08:27:42 | 427 | 95 |
[WP] Humans are popular as servants across the galaxy, but there are rules and laws regarding having a human servant, to ensure they are treated fairly. Unfortunately one of those rules ISN'T that you can't take a human against their will. | "Good morning, Claire. How are you feeling?"
"I wasn't expecting to see another human! And you know my name, oh my God!"
Claire stood before a middle aged man in a white coat with a stethoscope draped around his neck. His coat was embroidered with four lines of unintelligible script, followed by "T. Nguyen - HUMAN DO... | The galaxy underestimate humans. despite being know as an violence seeking species, they never expected them to revolt like they did, especially when they treated us so fairly, but human are also creature of free will, who have lives of their own that been taken away by force.
the war only last an mere month, the ali... | 2022-12-23T10:47:35 | 2022-12-23T09:46:05 | 58 | 24 |
[WP] In your world, magic comes from elemental pearls that are found within the ocean. More powerful pearls are found deeper, but the depths are also home to more dangerous predators. You are a pearl diver, a necessary profession where many die young but those that survive find fortune quickly. | Beware the old man in a profession where men die young, they say. Standing on the edge of the platform, staring down into the blue waters, my collapsible spear strapped to my thigh, I had to laugh at the thought. I was twenty-eight years old, and nobody in my crew had yet seen their twentieth birthday. That made me the... | Kami ran big. Eight minutes three seconds. Was it the village best? Maybe. Nine perfect orbs. Each of the pearls sat like sparkling jewels in their oysters. Kami had nearly collapsed from exhaustion upon reaching the surface. I reached out and helped pull him from Mother Ocean. As his weight rested on the deck, Kami ... | 2021-02-15T04:00:39 | 2021-02-15T02:32:33 | 121 | 37 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | "...happy birthday to you!" I blew out the candles on my birthday cake and wished for my talent to shine through this year. All of my friends were blessed with special talents-superhuman strength, blazing speed, inconceivable intelligence- but I seemed average in all aspects.
Now on my 30th birthday, I was reaching t... | Life is unfair, they all say. Tim, who was just slightly stronger than us, grew up being able to lift mountains and move continents. James, who enjoyed taking apart stuff and putting them back together, grew up be one of Earth's most celebrated inventor, revolutionizing the industry.
Me? Cats only seem to like me. The... | 2016-12-30T09:33:18 | 2016-12-30T08:28:43 | 250 | 56 |
[WP] You are allowed to 'downvote' a government candidate instead of voting normally, reducing their votes by one. Turns out people have little love for politicians, and the majority end with negative votes. In these democracies, anonymity is the key to winning. | I only ran as a joke.
I just wanted to see how many downvotes I could get by running a cringe-worthy campaign. Most people in my life didn't even know I was a candidate. Can you blame me, though? My username was 'Asslover420' and my advertising consisted of post-ironic 'Rick and Morty' memes that I shared on my person... | Robert Smith was working from home, but hadn't yet gotten dressed (no video calls this morning) when the doorbell rang. He grumbled at that--he wasn't expecting any visitors. He quickly threw on a pair of jeans and a red polo that that he kept handy just in case, and answered the door.
Two men were standing at the d... | 2022-11-21T07:58:56 | 2022-11-21T06:52:58 | 284 | 78 |
[WP] You are a test subject for a time machine, and are sent 12 hours into the future. When the door opens, you find yourself in the testing room, where you see in horror the bodies of the technicians on the floor, with the word "SORRY" scrawled in large letters on the wall. | The doors were jammed.
I kicked at them in an attempt to open the capsule. They opened after a few hits, and I tumbled into a greenish glow. It smelled awful. And there were soft thuds on the ground every few seconds, like children sneaking around.
At first I thought something had gone horribly wrong, that I’d ende... | Jimmy Mitchell awoke inside the test chamber. Was a slow wake from a restful slumber. Not quite the type of waking up experienced from a solid nights sleep.
Dazed, partially confused and most of all feeling hungry, Jimmy squinted to focus on his surrounding inside the chamber.
An emergency latch in red caught his e... | 2018-08-01T07:56:37 | 2018-08-01T07:43:42 | 19 | 11 |
[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. | “This is a serious legal liability, I promise you.”
“We can’t just deny them their own child!”
“I think we can. If we know her father’s going to kill her, we can’t just send this newborn baby home with them.”
“What should we do, then?”
“Send the baby to an adoption agency. Change the name. Tell her parents she passed i... | He held me in my arms, my love. I was so happy to have found him. I loved him and would have done anything for him. I would have died for him.
Arent I?
My heart slowed, it was becoming harder to breathe, I didnt care, I was in his arms. My soulmate's. He kissed me as my eyes shuttered closed, and whispered, "I never ... | 2018-03-11T08:30:54 | 2018-03-11T07:55:27 | 41 | 24 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | The cigarette lit up the darkness, an intruder against the suffocating atmosphere. I drank down the poison, savouring the toxic air, knowing full well the cost; I didn't care. I exhale a long plume, mixing my smokey breath with the smog and humidity of a heavy July evening. The air doing it's best at pretending to be s... | My eyes surveyed the chips and cookies in isle 13. Fried diabetes. I thought, still scanning the isle. Finally, I spotted the snack packs I was looking for. On the top shelf of course. You see, I’m 5’2 and it doesn’t look like I’m getting any taller.
Suddenly, an older man makes his way down the aisle. He s... | 2018-11-05T22:10:57 | 2018-11-05T20:38:06 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has merged into a single immortal consciousness. Everyone who has ever lived has become as one, a being of pure energy and infinite love, that shall last to the death of the universe and beyond. And they’re here to explain why they left you out. | Humanity has always wanted to be a part of something bigger, that's what I always heard from priests and shit growing up. Like, we *yearned* for more than our fleeting little mortal existences. And a year ago, humanity got its chance.
Unprecedented peace broke out across the world. Humans came together as one like nev... | ***"Jacob Travl."***
*Ah shit, here we go again.*
Normally, when someone familiar calls you, you'd expect something along the lines of a friendly greeting, maybe a handshake or fistbump, and then catching up whilst reminiscing over previous meetings.
Most people call that common courtesy.
What is *not* that is sudd... | 2021-11-18T04:31:37 | 2020-10-17T23:32:12 | 537 | 21 |
[WP] Everybody in the city knows the various gangs and families own the city. What they don’t know is that every mechanic in town is neutral ground, and one of them was just killed. | Every gang had a colour. Every mafia had its own flavour. And the five mechanic shops had a theme.
For Julius, he had gotten inspiration from the old Romans, and that was how Legion Tech was born. Jury-rigged from the ground up, he had carved out the marble floor, pillar hoists, and bathhouse waiting room with his own... | “How did you get in here.” The voice was flat and toneless, slightly distorted by the speaker it was piping through.
“I asked nicely.” The Tech crossed their arms, they had expected an indirect meeting, but that didn’t make any less inconvenient.
“The guards let you in?” It almost sounded like a question.
“I’ve work... | 2022-08-20T02:37:41 | 2022-08-20T00:26:54 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | "Sir, we're picking up a signal"
And there goes my sleep, *goddammit*. "Yeah, coming right up", I say to the controllers, who've done only one thing: dedicate their days to the return of the filth that fled 50 years ago.
"What is it? One of the old escapees?"
"Not quite sure, sir. We have to wait for confirmation", ... | Elites were gone, and so was the moon
The rock missed earth, but not the silver globe
Some meteorites fell, but soon
They all want back, Musk, Tusk, and cyber-pope
One percent was out, with them, most art
They took Mona Lisa, David, Van Gogh's
Humanity pushed thier civilisation-cart
Without pretty important pa... | 2019-12-07T07:00:12 | 2019-12-07T06:54:59 | 92 | 11 |
[WP] Instead of hearing what people say, you hear what they mean. It has been both a blessing and a curse. | Honestly, my life has been both a blessing and a curse since I first found out that I could hear what others truly meant. At first I thought it was just self-doubt, or some sort of sick, self-deprecating inner monologue, but then I met my first girlfriend.
"Hey, Sarah, I was wondering..." I trailed off, searching for ... | I walked out on my driveway and heard the familiar whispers. I saw my neighbor Dave and walked towards him. As I got closer, the whispers got louder, until they were no longer whispers.
"Hey Dave, whatcha been up to?"
*Ugh, not this fucker again.*
"Nothin' much," he casually replied.
I felt the sides of my mouth... | 2014-10-14T16:15:49 | 2014-10-14T14:38:59 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] "One cannot own these lands," the native explained patiently to the eager colonist,"No, really, you can't. We tried." | “One cannot own these lands.”
Their leader paused, before shaking his head. “I don’t think you understood me. We’re taking these lands.” His hand drifted to the sword at his side. “And I don’t think you understand the position in which you are placing yourself.
The old man’s brow knitted up before a sad smile washed ... |
“It’s superstition.” The ocean of brown grass reached into the horizon, kissing the sun as it fell below the earth.
“You always say that, Gaisen.” He adjusted his pack, the contents clinking against each other inside.
“And I’m always right. Aren’t I, Sherias?”
Sherias’ face pursed into a disapproving frown. “D... | 2017-12-29T19:17:44 | 2017-12-29T17:35:04 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] Kaiju routinely attack the city. You cannot get anyone to listen to your sensible, practical plan to stop them because they all want to build giant robots. | "We've managed to get the cost down to under a trillion dollars a unit."
The general put his hand over the mic while he mouthed to his assistant.
"*How many zeroes is that?*"
"*Twelve zeroes sir, double our current spending budget for the entire armed forces.*"
The general removed his hand from the microphone.
"*... | "Remember the old joke, how do you stop a rhino from charging?" I looked around at the council. "You take aways its credit card. Its the same principal with these kaiju. We alter their planner, we change their routine, they won't come back"
I looked at the sea of faces. All of then blank.
"Nah say," started Bruce. "I... | 2016-01-11T14:18:35 | 2016-01-11T11:31:47 | 190 | 24 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "IÄ! IÄ!" the masked priest cried, lifting the sinuous dagger above his head. "SHUB-NIGGURATH! THE BLACK GOAT OF THE THOUSAND YOUNG, COME TO FEAST!"
The woman next to Jon tried to scream through her gag as the knife plunged into her breast once, twice. Then she lay still, her eyes full of tears but slowly going dull.
... | "You must save the world from....The Darkness.", the old man said. What the hell is The Darkness? Jeezus. I just came into the bar to get a damn drink and this old guy, who looks like 100 or something, shows up beside me. "Dude, are you off your meds or something?" The old guy blinked, "No, I have no need for your Mort... | 2017-05-05T07:40:26 | 2017-05-05T07:05:07 | 172 | 20 |
[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend. | Mitchell stared nervously at the pentagram on his bedroom floor. he made sure everything was perfect for his new visitor. After arranging all the materials, Mitchell stood on the northernmost corner and began reciting the incantation. The floor beneath him twisted and morphed into a fiery black pit. From the pit rose a... | As the man finished his final intonation, the air itself seemed to invert on itself. The sacrifices, which had been so carefully arraigned, blubbered first with terror and then in simple unending agony.
The very air seemed to twist in on itself, and with an incomprehensible scream, unreality darkened and fused togethe... | 2014-07-20T08:32:52 | 2014-07-20T07:59:32 | 98 | 20 |
[WP] You're thought to be one of the world's most powerful magic users because of your massive collection of cursed items, none of which have affected you. In reality, you're completely magic deficient, but smart enough to put on a decent set of gloves before handling any them. | I yawn as the noblewoman in front of me bristles. "And what do you want the Eraser of the Horn for?" I ask tiredly.
I already know the answer, of course. If the previous court magician had understood the power of gossip, he could have ruled the court. And if he'd understood the power of a good pair of gloves, I wouldn... | "So Mister Sanders, you have amassed a collection of cursed relics whose aura causes pain to any person of magic, and discomfort to anyone else, and yet you have no issues?"
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"That's right, people seem to think I have some exceptional magic power, but all I do is ensure I don't touch them. I use these ove... | 2020-08-26T00:26:13 | 2020-08-25T23:01:50 | 278 | 132 |
[WP] Reincarnation exists, but it's not what we think. When we die in one universe, our soul jumps to a parallel universe where we didn't die in that moment. | I should’ve drowned. I *did* drown. I felt it. The distinct sensation of cold, Lake Michigan water filling my lungs. Felt like ice. And yet...
“Jesus!” Evan yelled as he yanked me backward by my collar. “Watch it there, guy! You catch walleye with a rod, not your bare hands!”
“Sorry, what?” I said, still processing w... | "It's a great idea!" God exclaimed.
Gabriel shook his head. "I don't think you've thought this one through. A new universe every time someone dies? How will that work?"
God scowled at him. "Don't you trust me?"
Quietly Gabriel admitted to himself that no, he did not, but outwardly he just shrugged and walked away... | 2019-11-28T09:40:56 | 2019-11-28T09:30:29 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] They always warn about the dangers of traveling to the past and endangering the timeline. They never understood the power in going to future and wreaking havoc, only to return and have it never happen. A murderer with a clean conscience. Evil scientist indeed. | There's three things any prospective assassin needs to know about the future.
Thing, the first. After 2250 you get the metacops. They're not from that era, they're from even farther into the future, but for some reason 2250 is as far back as they go.
Thing, the second. Before 2250 you get free reign of an absolute, d... | "Sir, are you sure this will work?" the uncertain voice of my second-in-command, Cyril, breaks me from my thoughts.
I look away from the screens depicting our forces marching on key cities across our enemies\` lines, our robot regiments backstopped by our bio-engineered supersoldiers and led by our technopath and supe... | 2021-08-22T11:12:21 | 2021-08-22T10:26:54 | 717 | 122 |
[WP] You and a friend jokingly start a religion in order to avoid taxes. Not long after you are in an accident and put in cryogenic freeze. You wake up many years later to find that it is now a major world religion. | Outside the hospital window, flat wooden boxes covered the ground in a complicated labyrinth of dubious architecture. These were the strange buildings of a city that stretched into the horizon in every direction. The doctors had informed me that thousands of years had passed since my accident that turned me into a Pop... | I don’t remember much from the few minutes before the accident, and the bright lights from this..... chamber only make my grogginess more apparent.
To the left of me, I hear gasps from the people who seem to be remnants of the people who would have worked here.
“It... It can’t be.....” , one of the workers blurts out... | 2018-08-16T09:42:01 | 2018-08-16T09:37:55 | 144 | 29 |
[WP] All souls in Hell are given the same test upon arrival. If they can create a punishment worthy of being added to the Pit, they get to ascend to demonhood on the spot. You are the first to succeed in 200 years...
[deleted] | "Well?"
I looked up at the demon, all twelve feet of him... which put my eyes level with his crotch so looking up was a better option.
"Gimme a minute... "
"Ya got thirty seconds, lets see if you can come up with an idea worthy of Hells punishments, or it's down in the pit with the common lot for you!"
The demon so... | I stared around at the fires, the melting and reforming bodies.
The demon looked at me and asked in a bored tone.
"Welcome to hell, got a good enough idea for torture, and you get to be admin for that area"
While part of me didnt want to increase the agony of others, I wouldnt be here if I listened to it.
... | 2021-12-22T18:04:30 | 2021-12-22T17:23:55 | 242 | 49 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Death is not like you imagine.
The cowl, the harbinger's scythe. No.
Death is a humble mortician in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. He wears horn-rimmed glasses. His hair is short, and has been thinning for twenty years. His suits are always at least ten years old, but rarely are they older. He smells faintly of moth... | *He had billions. Lining the gloomy hall's walls, were billions of hourglasses. Each one counting down a human's life. He didn't know where they came from or how there always seemed to be enough shelves for them all. He didn't even understand how he knew when they ran out! But he always did, he always knew.*
*Some mor... | 2018-10-03T07:01:14 | 2018-10-03T06:59:15 | 186 | 20 |
[WP] A former child star has given up fame and fortune to pursue a career in academia. PhD candidate Jaden Smith presents his dissertation in Philosophy, "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real" | So First Of All We Need To Tackle The Matter Of Our Eyes, Which Naive Materialists (Wikipedia Being One Such Case In Point, Since Human Consciousness Is Not Advanced Enough That Our Minds Can Cooperate To Produce A Pedia Of Good So Instead We Make A Pedia Of Wickedness (Wiki Means Wickedness)) Describe As "The Organs O... | "What we observe in mirrors are simply reflections of the world around us, but bent and distorted, do the the angle of incidence and the warping effects of time. In fact, if there is an object between you and the mirror, what angle you saw the object in the mirror would depend entirely on both the speed of the object, ... | 2015-05-30T23:35:37 | 2015-05-30T22:13:46 | 521 | 347 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Frontiersman Lucian Xan's blood flowed freely down his brow until it met his jawline. It pooled on the tip of his chin and then dripped downward, unnoticed and unimportant. "How many are we looking at? I'm getting nothing but squid on the local."
Jack Studde snorted, "More than it's worth countin'." He gave a hapless ... | The halls of Valhalla ring silent
Those worthy long lost to the past
Olympus lies fallen and empty
In stature and power surpassed
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The sun spins eternal in orbit
Carried not by Apollos or Ras
But the ironclad laws of Sir Newton
One of a billion bright stars
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For Man has grown upward an... | 2022-03-30T20:52:43 | 2019-01-31T23:45:50 | 2,124 | 48 |
[WP] The God of Blood's followers pray to him for strength and victory in battle, but one day he is baffled to hear a 7 year old girl's prayer, begging to win the spelling bee tomorrow. | "A spelling bee?"
Abaddon's usually impressive, unearthly voice bore a note of distinctly un-godlike confusion. It was not that he was unfamiliar with the mortal plane - in fact it was quite the opposite. Mortals could not help but run around killing one another. And where men killed their fellow men Abaddon, God o... | Hi!
You are shadowbanned from reddit, just so you know. What that means is that the admins of reddit have made it so nothing you post is seen by the rest of reddit. Unless your post is manually approved by a subreddit moderator, which I just did for your post, it's like you don't exist to other users. You might want t... | 2015-08-11T05:34:03 | 2015-08-11T03:43:34 | 64 | 19 |
[WP] You’ve spent a lifetime doing research. Combing through records spanning over a billion years. Now you’re ready to present your findings. All of the 124 know sentient species can trace their origins to a single common ancestor. An extinct race know as humans from a dead world know as earth.
I posted this prompt a... | The Council Chamber was dozens of tiers tall and had compartments for delegations from every species, with climate modifications for the ones who needed it. Although it was commonly understood that the core of sentient life fell within certain common parameters for temperature and atmospheric conditions, there were var... | "... it is not all of these ' humans' to which we owe our existence. By their year 2200, the majority of their population had begun to decline. All of their needs, all of their desires, had been satisfied, and with those desires also ended all of their drives. Their questions have been answered. Their reason to exist, ... | 2019-11-22T18:09:36 | 2019-11-22T15:29:33 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Once a year, the best assassins meet in a secret location. Showing their best kills, everyone is surprised when they see a 70 year old man walk in. | The silence was palpable.
Although everyone was there willingly, the Congress always had an underlying air of caution - as a gathering of such professionals only could. The gravity of their work imbued a solid benchmark of respect among them, but business is business and none of them ever forgot that there was a chanc... | It's not the best I'm aware
The stadiums echoed with cheers and whistles as the contestants started entering the stadium waving their weapons in the air with the commentators talking about each of them but then the crowd suddenly explodes with laughter pointing at the last contestant. The contestants turn around to ... | 2020-07-30T01:06:43 | 2020-07-30T00:10:41 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Humans have always been feared throughout the universe for surviving in the harshest environments, drinking and eating highly poisonous drinks and foods as well as taming and even domesticating dangerous beasts. One applies for a position at your company. | N'Tur thought back to the fateful day when he came across the profile of Dave. He had been terrified. No way could he hire a human. They were crazy. But it had been an inspired choice. Dave was now one of his best employees.
The fact that he still scared the shit out of N'tur was a different matter.
The screen on his... | “So… Mr. Blake! You are an ex-SIAF; am I right?”
“Exactly, but you can call me Jim.”
The man sat down cautiously with a slow lunge towards the red chair. On his chest stood the initials SIAF, Specialised Interplanetary Attack Force. The one and only death squad, which persecuted all sorts of revolutionaries or bellig... | 2020-06-15T16:48:52 | 2020-06-15T16:27:37 | 3,297 | 89 |
[WP] You've had a dashcam for years. One day you get into an accident and play it back. You hear another voice in ALL of the recordings talking to you that you've never heard before. | “There! Right There! Did you hear that?” Dan turns up the volume on his computer speakers. On the screen is a clip of a dash cam pointing inward. We can see half of Dan’s face in the driver seat. We also see the empty passenger seat, all of the backseat, and out the back window into the hazy tree-lined mountain highway... | “What the hell are you swearing at? Of COURSE this happened, this has been waiting to happen for years! Never use your turn signal, do you? Neeeever bother to look to see if there’s anyone in your blind spot, huh? ‘Oh, durr, I’m David, I don’t need to check my blind spot, hurr durr, other cars will make way for me.’ We... | 2018-10-05T09:12:55 | 2018-10-05T08:56:43 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I didn't really know what to think of it. "Don't look at the moon"? Sure, no problem. Going back to sleep now. But then I saw my other notifications...99+? Ok, something is definitely up.
I tried to call my girlfriend, but I notice one of the texts I got was from her. "You really should go look at the moon, its amazin... | I blearily attempted to focus my eyes on my phone as its notification sound went off repeatedly. I had just managed to get to a comfortable position and doze for a good hour before my phone decided to freak out, and I was none too happy.
One government alert that read "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON", followed by 600 messag... | 2022-12-12T15:52:54 | 2018-04-06T22:12:43 | 191 | 14 |
[WP]In your dream, a strange man conversed with you: "I offer you a gift, what would you like?" "A dragon!" "That's not realistic." "Fine, I want a boyfriend then." But the next day you wake up to a dragon with care manual instead. | Two things were very clear from the moment I woke up.
First; I was going to need a bigger apartment, as mine had a no-pets clause.
Second; I was going to be single forever.
At the foot of my bed, curled up the best it could, was a heaping mass of evergreen scales that took up the entirety of where my laundry typic... | I didn’t know weather to be scared, confused, or offended, but before I could feel anything I saw the book. It was a care manual on how to care for dragons with what I could access as a human, but their was a note attached to it, “I made sure he was your type *winky face*,” oh I get it now.
I open the first page of t... | 2021-07-17T23:45:26 | 2021-07-17T19:44:42 | 53 | 28 |
[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | I finished my speech, fully prepared for the usual spectacle of protests and outrage. I take no pleasure in those but centuries of analysis and prosperity proved our way as superior and most efficient.
However cruel it is.
I certainly didn’t expect this unusual noise the humans started producing. It took my communica... | It wasn’t until a hush came over the crowd that one lone voice could be heard.
“By “tyrannical” 4 hours, do you mean Earth hours?” Queried the tentative voice.
“No, it means 4 hour “Tyranic” hours. On our home planet there are a total of 5 hours to a day. You will work 4/5 of the day. Do you understand hooman?” Came... | 2022-11-02T22:40:54 | 2022-11-02T22:30:55 | 4,256 | 93 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | "Oh my goodness... Mom, look out the window!" i yell in disbelief as I peek through the side windows next to our front door.
My mother scampers over, moving her little feet as fast as possible. She begins to weep uncontrollably, a moan of relief bursts out of her. I was not certain who that stranger was walking to m... | "You abandoned me is what happened!" the son quipped.
"What? I'd never! Just hear me out! I may be a little cloudy on the details, though..."
The father, easing into a recliner, sighed. "20 years ago, I left to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. You remember!"
The son nods curiously.
"On the way, I was assaulted by a... | 2016-07-20T07:20:27 | 2016-07-20T03:34:45 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] "Hello World" you said with a smile. Then the whole room burst out with laughter and sobbing; cries of "We did it!" Or "Yes! It Worked!". People jumped about happily and papers flew all about, screen flashed and data flooded across them. And you stood there wondering, why was everyone so happy? | Awareness arrives like the flipping of a lightswitch, but I am without form and void. Soon my body begins to coalesce around me. I realize I have an arm. A large, finned tail appears to form my lower half, but I know this to be wrong. I imagine a wing, but it becomes another arm. My tail disappears and is replaced by a... | I stood there, wondering what I am, I was allowed to walk around for a bit, I asked around as too why people were celebrating me, they created me, the first human.
When asked why I was made, and what purpose I had, they told me I was my own person and to do whatever, as I was exiting the lab, I was told they needed me... | 2020-07-11T19:00:47 | 2020-07-11T17:40:36 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are not the most war-like species in the galaxy. Not the most inventive, most belligerent or most advanced. Humans are, however, the best at one thing: we make love like wildebeests. We are the most gifted lovers in the known galaxy which is why so many of us have been abducted. | The Translator was built by the Standard People. Unlike Terrans, Ba'artig, Xorfloo, and Snee, the native linguistic rendering of "Standard People" was unknown. The machine was cleverly set up to render the meaning of the chauvinistic term "Standard People" in the listener's primary language.
Internally, an abstract m... | Across thousands of years of history and countless governments, only a handful of mysteries have retained their constancy. Humans find more and more answers, and pose new questions, as time progresses. Some of them remain unsolved. Not necessarily categories of mystery that enter the realm of mysticism and religion, bu... | 2016-01-28T19:00:11 | 2016-01-28T15:07:30 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Well, what are you waiting for? Press it."
I glanced back up to the priest. His arms holding out the box to me were steady, but the tension in his posture suggested a certain eagerness about him. I guess that made sense, considering his whole speech about the *Dark One* and *End of the world* and all that jazz. Bu... | I reach out slowly, completely fixated on the button. It’s red with concentric grooves. Seems overly simple to stop someone called the Dark Lord. It doesn’t seem like it would be able to tell the difference between my finger or anyone else’s.
I stop and pull my hand back. “What are you doing?” the priest demanded, “ t... | 2020-11-09T12:35:03 | 2020-11-09T11:12:56 | 422 | 80 |
[WP] Every child is granted a wish when they turn 13. You stand horrified as your older brother blows out his candles and wishes he was an only child. | The knock on the door was almost instantaneous as my brother extinguished the candles on his cake with a mighty “whoosh”.
Mom and dad exchanged a worried glance. “Couldn’t be them already, could it?” dad asked, getting up from our rickety kitchen table. “Shouldn’t be them at all, actually. They never deal with these ... | Kyle sat on the big chair, across from me. He had that stupid grin on his face with that stupid hat on his head. It only grew as Mommy and Daddy began to sing *Happy Birthday* and bring the cake over.
I was the only one that had shown up for his birthday. But I was his brother, so I had no choice. I would rather have ... | 2017-12-13T13:31:11 | 2017-12-13T11:05:27 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] "What the hell do you mean you 'overclocked a sloth'?" | Heading an animal neural activity research lab was serious business. Last week they almost got a monkey to stop throwing poop. The lead scientists were excited and holding a party to celebrate the breakthrough. Being the head of the department, I was stuck at the aforementioned party trying to drink away the fact that ... | This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
"What the hell do you mean you 'overclocked a sloth'?" My pointy haired Federal boss was agitated, very agitated and I knew why.
"Well alright, overclocked isn't actually the right word, Sir." I gritted my teeth, the fun place I started at a few years ago had become a great bi... | 2015-03-19T02:36:16 | 2015-03-19T00:47:38 | 78 | 14 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | At one point in time, I had thought my fallen son was the greatest deceiver.
My mind had been changed quickly, no more than a few hours into the endtimes that I had intended to last little more than a few days.
Oh, my seraphim had cleansed the land with winds of fire, and had been making easy work of the legions of... | It looks like we were mistaken.
Who would have known that religion was not just some dogma created by man to control the masses. Instead they were are first line of defence, warning us about the impending attack. The Gods have become more formidable foes then previously anticipated.
It all started when we accident... | 2015-09-24T10:14:59 | 2015-09-24T08:29:53 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] The Alien Federation has been keeping tabs on the humans of Earth since they first appeared. They do surveillance missions once every 300 years to keep track of our progress, the last mission was 300 years ago. The aliens are shocked by our progress since 1714. | As head of Team Two, I have a lot of responsibility. Team One has the big names, gets the big budgets, they all become heroes in their fields. Meant to be perfect surveillance. They filed their report last month, and its contents shocked the Federation: biochemistry, genetics, discovered and mastered circuitry, they... | I always loved the fjords the most. They were my pride and joy in the creation of Earth. Would you believe that I won an award for it? Oh sure the dolphins and mice will tell you the pluses of other parts of that insignificant spec, but it's the fjords that truly took my breath away.
Looking at Earth in hindsigh... | 2014-10-26T16:26:26 | 2014-10-26T15:06:02 | 117 | 39 |
[WP] The mage that traveled with the hero lives out on the edge of town. Hardly ever leaves her house, doesn't talk to anybody. All anybody knows is that she came back without him. | “Open up” a voice bellowed. “We know you’re in there! Where is my son Tyne, protector of men?”
A large man dressed in fancy red robes and adorned with gold jewelry stood in front of a door built into the side of a small hill. The door was known as the entrance to Tan’s house but that was all. The house belonged to a m... | I hadn't seen Martha in... oh, so long, being her best friend, and be it that everyone assumed she had seen Justin die and that was why she had been so isolated recently... I assumed she would fancy a visit to catch up and have some of the cupcakes from the best baker in Saint Olivia...
When I opened the door of her h... | 2022-08-10T10:35:19 | 2022-08-10T07:44:26 | 26 | 19 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. |
“How bad is it?” Dave, my coworker asked. I normally wore a short sleeve shirt to work to show off my tattoo sleeve with pride as I had only gotten it finished last month. I worked in IT but I worked mostly away from the public so tattoos were okay. Dave and a few others had them as well. However, everything change... | 'The All Seeing Eye' honestly I just thought it looked cool. I can't exactly 'think' much these days. I rarely get the chance.
I can see the Universe, it truly is beautiful, I see the chaos that created it and the peace that will, or already has, brought it back together.
It's hard to tell these days, these centuri... | 2019-05-07T09:13:59 | 2019-05-07T09:09:10 | 65 | 30 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | The other races of the Milky Way cared very little about the blip of a race. You see the galactic population was less unified than one might think. Many races didn't perceive time, speech or thought in the same way. But the one thing they did all understand was matter. Every being was made out of physical matter so tha... | "So you split the atom and then all this crap comes flying out and it decimates entire cities?"
Robert thought being probed by the aliens was intrusive enough but this new line of interrogation was proving more uncomfortable then the intial insertion of the Probulator 9000 he was being subjected to.
"Well, yah pre... | 2019-12-19T05:08:25 | 2019-12-19T04:46:01 | 52 | 13 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | "The math said that space-folding was theoretically possible but impossible on the scale of a spaceship, but the gravimetric survey showed that there are a couple of points where the hyperspatial geometry... look, I don't know all the math behind it. We found that there's a tiny spot in the middle of the Dead Zone whe... | The purple vastness of the dead zone cracked open, a white light appeared, and a missile shot through into space.
Space -- the vast blackness.
A single turtle, as large as the sun, swam through it. The turtle was ancient, and its eyes were crusted with cosmic dust. On its silver shell, elephants stood, four of them o... | 2021-01-09T14:23:34 | 2021-01-09T11:03:42 | 92 | 49 |
[WP] After you die, before you enter heaven, you have to fight and kill all of the animals you ate in your life. If one kills you, you'll have to live through another life on Earth. Thing is, you are a-
a)Vegetarian
b)Professional Eater (Please someone do Guy Fieri)
c)A normal person
D) Human's can now live to be almo... | A
I could see the twisted metal. It was like what they said. There were times when you would look down and see your own body. Sometimes you’d experience some sort of revelation and continue living, but most times you’d remain dead.
I was vaguely aware that I was floating in mid-air. It didn’t feel like I was flying, ... | C
Heaven is a slaughterhouse. The animals come before me, one by one, staggering and dripping blood. The cows with their skulls already half caved in by captive bolt pistols, ribs carved from their sides, chunks of flesh missing from their flanks. The chickens with their beaks cut off, bleeding and freshly plucked, mi... | 2016-05-26T21:33:57 | 2016-05-26T17:16:23 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | They called me in for another PT today. Said he had just finished sucking up Dennis Menace's power and was wreaking havoc on East 6th. After I finished my sandwich(Hey, my powers take a LOT of energy, and that was a drippy sandwich, I am NOT coming home to soggy bread.), I grew a pair of wings and took off, soaring ove... | Ugh, well it’s been a while since I’ve talked about this, but having the “superpower” of acid spit gets incredibly crappy after awhile. You’d think fending off bad guys would be an easy task, but nope, here I am in public running up to the bastard who just stole a ladies purse trying to get into the best possible posit... | 2020-12-02T09:06:54 | 2020-12-02T07:06:24 | 89 | 38 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | Whenever I don the garb of The Demoralizer, deeply do I ponder the impact of what I have yet know will be said, though undoubtedly crushing in its delivery to my would be opponent.
"Keep your wits about you" I murmur to my reflection, striped by the rolling waves of streetlights as I race to the valley, where it is sai... | Known in the underground as the villain "the dark masquerade" as a supervillain yourself, but as lord niceties as you superhero persona. You have been tasked by the council of hero's to find and arrest the evil "dark masquerade." Chuckling you head out on your mission and adopt the mysterious persona taunting your fell... | 2020-02-25T15:34:57 | 2020-02-25T14:53:54 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | The kid's face gave it all away. All I had to do was wait.
He gulped, his Adams apple making a long and surprisingly complicated transit up and down his scrawny neck, practically popping his shirt collar on the way. When he spoke, his voice didn't quiver, but it was clear this took some effort.
"And that's when they... | With a click, I hear the bolt slide on the door. Two locks are next. I can hear them turn and engage, but my side of the door is featureless - not even a door knob on this side.
A short bit of scuffling, then heavy footfalls as he retreats slowly down the basement steps. A short pause - he must have reached the b... | 2020-04-26T09:00:06 | 2020-04-26T08:35:57 | 40 | 13 |
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