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[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | Chiron woke up with a pounding headache, slightly blurry vision, and his arms tied to his sides. It was business as usual, really, outside the headache. He was used to being kidnapped, but most of his attackers took more care when it came to handling him. Everyone and their mother knew what his biggest weakness was: ac... | I knew who she was. Of *course* I knew who she was. She was extremely hard to miss, what with her being six foot eight, covered in rippling muscle, and more often than not shown wreaking havoc on the 7 o’clock news.
I also knew her because she regularly frequented the little hole in the wall coffee shop I worked at... | 2021-10-21T17:09:22 | 2021-10-21T15:55:15 | 110 | 26 |
[WP] Describe your life as any Minecraft mob.
You are a minecraft mob of your choice. A strange man comes to your land and begins mining for resources and building strange things. | These days, I don't see so well. But I see enough. I know the score. This guy thinks he's got a monster problem. Where I'm standing, he's looking like the monster.
I didn't have a care in the world, the first time I saw him. He offered me food! I thought he was the greatest - first time I'd ever seen anyone move... | I think I had a nice life. Or at least that's what I remember. My wife, my house, my son. Every day with my family was a gift. We were a simple people, didn't need much. When you went short of something, there were always your neighbourgs to back you up. We lived in a small village without disruptions with only one tra... | 2014-08-08T12:52:22 | 2014-08-08T12:09:06 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Dumbfounded, that's what the look on the Rethorian diplomat's face was. The large mammalian creature had to duck going through doors. Next to even one of their children Ambassador Anderson would look like a pet, the very idea of having to listen to a creature he could bat around like a cat does to a mouse must rankle h... | Because we were soft skinned and void of claw and fang they named us weak. Because we preferred to speak before strike they named us cowards. We knew death, known it since we took our first upright steps, an old friend, a constant companion. Their immortal kings of star and sky had forgotten. So we taught them. We knew... | 2019-11-24T20:10:07 | 2019-11-24T17:36:40 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] You found her on your doorstep, a fairy shivering from the cold and the pain, her delicate wings broken and torn. You take her into your workshop, and she tells her story as you craft her a new pair of clockwork wings | Her name was Pyria, a fitting name for the small lady sitting cross legged on my workbench, seemed to originate from the word Pyre but hell. I didn't know, but I sure as hell was curious as to why I had found her without her wings, you didn't see fairies often, you saw a mage more often. And they usually stayed in the... | "Thunder claps politely for the Fairy of the Stage, and buildings lend their stories to the Fairy of the Page. Ice and snow will hail the reign of Fairies of the Kings, and lightning bolts are building blocks to Fairies of Machines."
The strange, almost-translucent fairy nodded to me, even as I screwed a lightning bol... | 2020-07-09T18:02:30 | 2020-07-09T17:56:36 | 40 | 28 |
[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... | So, you know how every time someone gets their powers, they get them at eighteen? Well, not all of them are great. Don't get me wrong, protection and warding is a great power to have, but to what end? I can't really defeat a lot of heroes if I was going to try to be a villain, all I can do is draw out the fight. Even a... | 2020-03-04T12:47:17 | 2020-03-04T10:05:16 | 68 | 40 |
[WP] It is tradition that on your 18th birthday you are joined by a small magical creature, much like a familiar, to aid you in the rest of your life. When you wake on your 18th birthday and find yours sitting by you on the bed, you are.... disappointed, to say the least. | This turned out a lot longer than I expected, so I'm sorry for that. Hope someone enjoys reading it though. (Edit for better spacing)
Waking up, I was too nervous to even open my eyes. Today was the day. My birthday. The birthday that mattered. Today, everything changed.
I don't live in the most loving ... | I woke from my dream with a sneeze. A dragon had chosen me, in the dream- perched on my bed, flaming quietly, beautiful and deadly and powerful. A pipe dream, but one I'd always had.
The second sneeze startled me awake enough to realize it was The Day. I was 18. My familiar! Scrambling upright, I rubbed my itchy eyes ... | 2018-07-24T05:55:07 | 2018-07-24T05:17:56 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] All you've ever wanted was to be feared and rule the world but every villainous act you commit backfires. Steal candy from a baby? Poisoned candy, baby saved. Steal the baby? Abusive parents. Threw a woman off a building? Push she needed to unlock her powers of flight, she's now your sidekick. | **A GOOD BAD GUY**
On the monitor hundreds of ones and zeroes danced by as his fingers flew across the keyboard. It was a beautiful thing to see, Jayne thought. A thing of beauty, yessirree!
He’d been working this angle for months now, long before the last string of jobs had gone bad. And, this time, Jayne was certai... | “Put the money in the bag, or I will attack with... wait a second!” I stare at a group of the people on the floor. “Are you guys already being robbed?” The nod their heads in unison. “Great, just great, on the day my greatest heist was to unfold, someone already has robbed this bank?” They looked so confused, I wouldn’... | 2020-09-25T10:11:32 | 2020-09-25T10:09:11 | 189 | 45 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. |
Ok so what happened isn’t my fault I want to make that clear, it happened way before my time. But naturally it was blamed on me. My boss is kind of a huge dick. I like him most of the time but some days he gives me so much shit to do that I can’t even seem to keep track of my left elbow let alone a CD-126T terminat... | He pulled it from under the desk and carefully wiped the dust from the label with his bony thumb. The hourglass has only drained ten years worth of the fine sand trickling through it. Death knew he couldn’t alter the flow. He placed the hourglass back on its shelf and sighed, watching the fine grains trickle through t... | 2018-10-03T07:42:16 | 2018-10-03T07:36:26 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You've always been able to stop time at your own will, one day as your wandering around, you suddenly hear footsteps. | The first thing I did with my power, was steal candy.
I felt bad and later put it back. I mean, I was five at the time.
Second thing I did, was walk.
Not to anywhere in particular, just did. Walked to the grocery store during class, then home. I didn't get hungry, or tired, so I continued walking. To my friend's hou... | I snapped my fingers, and time froze. I stared at the angry person yelling about how something was false advertising. What a sad life she must live, if she gets this upset that we are sold out of the Instant Pot Duo Plus in red. She could take it in black, or take a different model in red, but she needed this exact one... | 2022-11-30T21:40:43 | 2022-11-30T20:03:31 | 70 | 37 |
[WP] Your human partner has become suddenly ill. However, you and your circle of mages know that human medicine is vastly different. You have been told to check the most confusing of human medicine texts, WebMD. | Lizette whimpered, drawing back into the thick warren of her covers. Nestor's heart chased after her, even as he sat at her computer, frantically searching the depths of her homepage.
"WebMD," its header read. Nestor had never seen a tome so complex.
"Sweetheart," he said, much more calmly than he felt, "can you tel... | "She isn't sick, she's just different is all," I shouted at the pointy-hatted freaks I had long thought of as friends.
"No, no, you don't understand my friend. She most certainly is ill. You just won't see it. I admire your lovely relationship with your wife, but denial is not the answer," said Mage Rothchild from beh... | 2021-03-29T08:32:52 | 2021-03-29T08:10:00 | 118 | 19 |
[WP] The bombs stopped falling. Slowly, you opened the bunker's door. You did not expect what you saw. Make it as scary as possible. Now, take this story and tell it to a five year old without frightening him/ her. | With my strength fading rapidly, I lunged for the handle of the bunker hatch. My bloody hands slipped on the smooth metal as I desperately tried to turn the handle. Only when I wiped my hands on my dirt encrusted sleeves did I finally manage to turn the heavy latch. The massive door opened almost silently. Stumbling in... | No, pumpkin, you can't look outside. I know I did but let's not do that again. I think we should stay inside now. Come here, sit on my lap, I'll tell you a story. Remember the old oak tree out front that you used to climb in? I'll tell you a story about that tree. Of course it's still out there! I'd tell you if it wasn... | 2015-05-11T07:00:10 | 2015-05-11T05:44:04 | 93 | 54 |
[WP] There are multi-Gods for the multi-verse, and it turns out ours is kind of like the 'cool mom who lets you drink at her house,' though other Gods look at our free will and generally silent deity as bad Godding on His part. | The gods of all the universes gathered to present God A1, the god of the first universe, the fruit of their labor. The Meeting of the Gods used to be a chance to share and discuss, but lately, a new radicalized god had been taking center stage, God C137.
He presented God A1 a thin bottle of green glass with dew clung ... | "God C137 how can you let your beings be that free? See what they do to their planet???"
"Calm down Id 10 d. They are working on a solution. And hey I already started a world war a few moments ago. Right after that they should get their stuff together"
"Are you INSANE? LET ME SEE.... Well ok atleast you gave him a ... | 2017-05-07T07:50:19 | 2017-05-07T05:14:11 | 3,293 | 290 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | Sixteen-year-old Theodore Cruz slouched in the cheap plastic booth, sucking the last dregs of his soda with obnoxious zeal and using a ketchup packet to paint a frowny-face on the table. In preparation for this interview, he’d donned his “Sperm Donor” T-shirt and smeared a tablespoon of lard into his hair. The look h... | This happened to me in real life. I was unemployed, and going to school. (I got to collect unemployment because I was working full time while going to school, and got laid off). I didn't want to go back to work. Unemployment office sends me a job, that I'm qualified for. Go to interview in dirty clothes, no shave, etc.... | 2017-08-29T11:49:17 | 2017-08-29T11:40:28 | 24 | 14 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | Their attack was swift and deadly. Within a week, 2/3 of the world's population had disappeared, or at least was what we assumed, since on the second day communications started to fail. Soon enough, there was no one left that was able to fight, only kids and teenagers roamed the streets, with empty eyes and dull spirit... | No one expected us to be this strong, especially the Xitain. They didn't put in their research about the physical forces upon our planet, specifically gravitational and frictional forces. The gravitational constant on Earth is 9.81 m/s^(2), whereas the gravitational constant on Xitain is only about 7.59 m/s^(2). Most o... | 2021-05-18T07:54:08 | 2021-05-18T07:32:07 | 236 | 68 |
[WP] There is a species famous for shutting themselves in Virtual Reality, living their lives in fake worlds, this planet should be easy to invade, your masters said, turns out, a lot of members of that species have been spending their entire time in realistic combat simulations. | When true full simulation VR came out, many thought it would ruin us. Yet decades later most if not all of the population were in their own world. It made life easier. No wars, no poverty. A.I. took care of us, making sure we were always healthy.
Some of us still liked to meet up in the real world, but most of the ti... | "It is time to conquer a new world. Earth, the intelligent species living there do not know we are arriving. They are in their own virtual worlds. This should be an easy battle. Quick and, make it painless for them. They seem oblivious.". The general had made it obvious that he wanted to conquer this Earth.
It seemed... | 2020-12-25T11:01:57 | 2020-12-25T09:50:44 | 58 | 27 |
[WP] Your best male friend dies and is reincarnated into your newborn daughters body with all information and memories from the past life. | I knew my daughter was a god damn monster.
There was no two ways about it.
While I was grilling the meat for her first birthday party she crawled through the kitchen door, snatched a beer from the chilly bin, and peeled the cap off with her premature incisors.
"What the hell, Claire?" I hissed at her, only to rem... | I slowly wipe the tears from my eyes, "she's beautiful" I say. My morbidly obese wife nods her sweaty, moist, pale head with half a smile. I assume she's unable to speak due to the 56 hour labor she just endured.
I look again at my daughter, she looks at me, calm, cool, collected. My wife asked me to eat the placenta... | 2016-11-07T12:48:38 | 2016-11-07T12:27:53 | 86 | 12 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | The coffin Alastair steps into is made of bamboo. It's biodegradable -- just like him. This is his shop and it's packed with all kinds of coffins. He's been making them all his life but it's only the last decade people wanted bamboo or banana leaf or cardboard coffins. *Cardboard,* he thinks disdainfully. He's never ma... | Derthezar, Lord of the Fifth Transylvanian Order, was besieged with crippling back pain for decades.
He tossed and turned through restless nights, cursing the shoddy craftsmanship of so many lazy mortals. Relief only came one summer evening in 1967, when Revelan the Impaler brought him a surprise birthday gift.
"My ... | 2022-05-31T12:21:41 | 2022-05-31T11:00:02 | 2,912 | 359 |
[WP] Everyone receives a Skill or Talent on their 16th birthday. Yours is Dragon Tamer. But dragons don't exist. | "Can't we try again? Pleaseee??"
"For the hundredth time NO!"
I stared at my teacher with sympathetic, almost teary eyes. I was at the verge of breaking down.
"Pleea.....", I started.
"For the Last Time NO," immediately I was shut down, "this tradition has been going along for centuries, and not once has anyone be... | Everyone laughed. ‘Ahahaha dragon tamer?!’ Some kid was hysterical, literally pointing and laughing. ‘He’s so lame...’
I was frozen in place. A million thoughts raced through my head but none of them made sense. Dragon tamer? But there are no dragons.
I hid for a few days after that public humiliation. My dad had a ... | 2021-08-03T22:06:52 | 2021-08-03T22:00:20 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] The alien conquerors gave you immortality and appointed you Governor of Earth with full authority over their fleet of enforcement drones. The rest of Earth doesn't know that the aliens don't care how you run the planet as long as you meet your annual quota of crop and seafood tributes to them. | And so that spelt the end of the War: our Commanders left, leaving me as Governor. Undying and invincible, I became an immortal with full authority over their subsidiary C-137, dubbed as Earth. All because I showed kindness to a little girl stuck under some rubble, and she happened to be the daughter of the President o... | The day they came was terrible. Millions had died within a span of the first few days, and by the second month they had enslaved the entire planet. The Government had failed to respond quick enough - and what sects of resitance that formed were snuffed by their Hunter Killers. After the planet was secured did every scr... | 2018-12-25T15:05:39 | 2018-12-25T14:32:24 | 36 | 13 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | After living for eternity, you would have thought that I could hack a nine to five job for a mere ten years. Add on the fact I'm pretty much the most powerful thing in existence, you would definitely think I could hack a nine to five job for a a decade.
You would be completely right.
Or well, you would have been comp... | "Hey Garry, get your ass into my office!"
I must admit, I may be omnipotent, but I'm definitely not as forgiving as the big G. My "boss" was getting on my nerves at this point. I went into the office anyway, I dont know what brought me there. He started before I even got to sit down, something about responsibility and... | 2017-02-19T07:52:51 | 2017-02-19T06:32:54 | 5,696 | 115 |
[WP] Speaking a demon’s name makes it stronger. In Hell, there is no demon more feared and revered than the great lord Um. | "Waddup, Satan! Bro, you're looking swole!"
Satan flexed his brimstone biceps. "Thanatos! Long time no see homie! Oh... you don't look so good, bro. Gotta get on them gains, man."
Thanatos looked down to his bony frame, his sunken eyeballs deep in memories of better times. "I know, bro, not many mortals mention my na... | Commander OW knows his time is soon. If not for the preppy women in the English speaking countries, Like and Um would have fallen long ago.
The recent baby boom around the world will surely make him the most powerful. And sure enough, 2 years later he has become supreme commander.
His power was to be short lived, l... | 2018-06-21T14:52:11 | 2018-06-21T14:40:48 | 627 | 13 |
[WP] Odd things have been happening ever since you died your hair pink. You always seem to be either supernaturally lucky, or doomed to fail spectacularly. No matter what the outcome, you are always ok. You have become a Main Character. |
"なにもしたくない。"
What in the hell was this guy saying? I cast a side long glance to the boy sitting next to me and huffed. His name was Tomoya. He was cute, sure, but he spoke in only some sort of Asian language. And his hair was orange as hell. Like a weird orange. Given that he was foreign exchange student with limited... | "Just be ready with the radar gun, okay?" I rest the baseball against my hip, occasionally, absentmindedly tossing it and letting it land back in the palm of my hand. "I'm pretty sure this is gonna work."
"Dude, you've never thrown a baseball in your life. What makes you think..."
"I AM THE MAIN CHARACTER!" I wind up... | 2016-11-09T15:49:16 | 2016-11-09T15:30:17 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] They Hero is defeated by the villian, they expect death or torture. They did not expect to wake up in a guest room with their wounds being treated to. | Bright light stung my eyes. The last thing I remembered was being thrown off the rafter of the abandoned building by The Raven. After years of training I thought I was ready, I thought I could take him on myself. I *had* to be able to take him down. It was his fault, after all. His fault my father was gone, his fault m... | ...crap. I did not expect this. I did *not* expect this. But there they are, on the camera, hospitalized. I notice that the hero in question, Jesse, is starting to wake up, so I go to greet them. As I walk down the pale gray brick hallway, passing a few minions. I wonder how they'll react. Probably worried, maybe a dea... | 2021-08-09T20:36:05 | 2021-08-09T19:43:57 | 215 | 14 |
[WP] Due to the increasing ammount of souls that need reaping, Death has decided to upgrade from a scythe to a farming combine. | “Betsy, looks like we got one of them crazies,” Billy said to his wife as he got up from behind the counter of his desk. “You call the cops now if he gets fresh, okay?”
Betsy looked up from her magazine and waved it in front of her face as she leaned forward and looked out the dirty front glass of Billy's New and Used... | "Ahh this has never been so easy" says Death while emptying his Combine and pouring out 8000 Souls in suprising speed.
"Why didn't i do this way earlier? It was getting difficult with around 6000 People dieing every Hour on a normal Day but now? It would be impossible without this Upgrade" he thought while some more ... | 2021-01-17T11:46:15 | 2021-01-17T09:25:12 | 224 | 23 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Number one. The federal registry confirms it. The deference I am shown in the street re-affirms it. Everyone is sure of it… Everyone but me.
Number one. It doesn’t necessarily mean I am the most powerful. Really all it denotes is an ability for survival. In a world which went to sleep powerless and woke up with powe... | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T18:34:04 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens have made first contact with earth. They sent a message, that we decoded and translated to our own languages. The message said: "Greetings, Colony #037. We are glad to see you survived. The others all ran out of resources. May we come over?" | I recieved a text on my phone, the screen lit up with the time and my background image of Devon Jade. I picked up my phone while letting my plane cruise in War Thunder toward an objective, and unlocked it, and opened my Messages app. I had one message, with no phone number, and from what I could read, the message said ... | It was decoded chaos. At first they accused the decoders of playing a prank. Once it was verified, everyone knew what it meant, yet noone wanted to acknowledge except for some cult that began calling themselves 'The Deposits'.
I wasn't sure about how to react. A colony??? How could we possibly have been a colony? The ... | 2018-12-15T22:29:49 | 2018-12-15T21:54:25 | 51 | 24 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | A darkness engulfs me and then I open my eyes and I'm in a cafe.
The lights are overwhelming and I'm almost deafened by the noise. The hiss and splutter of the coffee machine with it's milk throther cut into my brain. It's all too much, shadowy figures are moving around me, the clatter of cups hitting saucers, the bi... | I lived a very good life with more like a nerd and very less like a bully. I never made my expectations high except for the happiness for my love. I died of Covid-19 as days passed quarantine myself away from my love. Dying alone.
My wife giving me an eulogy. Her words and voice wants me to wake up from the body and ... | 2020-07-10T10:13:29 | 2020-07-10T07:21:39 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] You, an overworked scientist, have just sold your soul to the devil so your life's work will become widely known and help millions of people. The devil comes back the next day and, instead of taking your soul, asks you to take his teenage daughter off his hands. | "So... Does the payment come at the end or is it upfront?" I say as I stare the devil down, or at least try to but damn is he hot. Literally. My eyes are watering as my carpet is ruined by blue and red flames, my eyes unable to pierce his anyways as they hid behind a pair of rocking shades.
"A little of column A, a l... | I stood in front of the devil, perplexed. Next to him sat a run-of-the-mill average looking teenage girl, wearing pigtails, texting on her phone and occasionally giggling over what was presumably some sort of inside joke in her stereotypical teenage clique.
"I have no idea how to take care of her. She just completely ... | 2017-06-11T01:50:17 | 2017-06-10T23:26:09 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] The President of the United States must take another man's life to retrieve the nuclear launch codes embedded in their chest. You are the man with the codes in your chest. You are paid a good amount of money due to possibly having to be murder. Also, you must always stay near the President.
Inspired by a TIL post... | We were all quiet this morning, the President, the First Lady and I, only the sound of cutlery breaking the silence as we ate our breakfast, each lost in his own thoughts. A phone rang and the President picked up. "I see." He said with a frown on his face before putting his phone away. "Let the girls in." He said and t... | I gasped as the knife was plunged into my chest. "So... this is it..." I gasped, coughing up blood. "The President is going to start a... a nuclear war. "
The man grinned, heaving the knife out of my chest in one swift movement. "The President? I think you misunderstand who I work for."
Everything went black. | 2014-12-13T14:38:28 | 2014-12-13T14:21:01 | 137 | 44 |
[WP] Your life is an endless series of horror movies. You're always at the wrong place at the wrong time. You're stuck seeing all your friends die right after you make them. The reason you're still alive? You can hear the horror music. | I can't keep from cursing when I hear the music start, drawing the attention my new friends from the new school I was sent to after my old friends where gruesomely murdered by an inbred mountain man no one knew lived in the woods. Of course they don't know that's only the most recent horror movie I lived through
My n... | 'Oh God... Not again...!!!' I thought as those deep brass Inception style horns reverberated around me. I could kill Hans Zimmer for pioneering that sound, I hear them every day of my waking life, and this was no exception. I knew what was coming and it was time to start running.
This time I was in the woods with a ... | 2016-12-31T22:42:12 | 2016-12-31T20:06:44 | 94 | 59 |
[WP] Everyone gets assigned their career based on a test they take at the age of 17. You get assigned the Presidency. No-one knows you cheated during the test. | My mother was a baker. My father was a salesman. I decided to be more.
I realized it early on- about the third time my mother burned herself badly enough to need to be hospitalized. The woman was brilliant- with an advanced and instinctive understand of abstract mathematics. Her greatest joy was teaching me the patte... | "Mom, I don't think I'm ready for this..."
"Sure you are! Who would've guessed it? My son, the President."
I guess she really didn't suspect anything. This guilt was eating at me but there was nothing I could do. If I confessed, I would be unemployed and kicked out of society like *them!* I chose to remain silent. I ... | 2015-04-28T08:43:06 | 2015-04-28T08:40:37 | 85 | 22 |
[WP] An alien species well known in the galaxies for their biological weapons declare war on humanity, using their arsenal to try and dispatch them. It came as a huge surprise when they found out humanity already have developed immunity to these diseases hundreds of years ago. | General Xanthia of the Abaddon Dynasty had seen many things. She'd spoken with gods, toppled empires, and destroyed cities. She had met death in the flesh and laughed in his face. She'd slain all that dared to challenge her, ripping out their eyes and threading them onto her necklace of bones.
After a few dozen years... | The Gloxnar were feared across the universe, the ultimate conquerors. For millennia untold, they reigned and expanded, eventually setting their sights on earth. They thought it an easy victory. Single planet civilization, no real space warfare, and constant infighting. They launched their infamous biorails at earth, ra... | 2022-12-15T23:04:03 | 2022-12-15T17:30:41 | 66 | 48 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Growing up, I had always been an outcast. Everybody else in my class had amazing gifts: pyrokinesis, super strength, flight, laser eyes, invisibility, even the kid who could freely manipulate cloth. They were all praised and fawned over because of their gifts. But I was not.
My power is called "Roots." I can grow ... | I was powerless. I was disowned by my superhero parents. Everyday I suffered with the bullies giving me the worst wedgies in school.
The day the gift came really made me happy. I immediately folded people in half --- crushing their beloved spines. 70% of the people of the city are now dead.
"Who's useless now?" I sai... | 2017-06-12T09:33:04 | 2017-06-12T06:49:33 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You're a supervillain with a superhero as your arch-nemesis. When they come out to the world about their depression and mental health, others call them weak and there is backlash. You, however, are the first one to support them publicly. | The silence in the hall was oppressive, all eyes were on him. Dressed in a dazzling suit, he wore a huge "S" on his back - it was Shooter, the greatest hero of their time. But something was wrong, he neither laughed nor told any stories, instead he stared at the floor. Tense as a feather, he sat there, refusing to look... | I looked at the reporters and snarled. "Get the fxck out of my way." They were still here, with their microphones stuck out to me.
"Death Wish! What do you think of Iced's depression?" One of them asked. "Do you think he's being weak?" Another one shouted.
"No." I stared at the brunette. "He's not weak. And I think i... | 2022-06-21T12:57:47 | 2022-06-21T12:39:45 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Deeply misunderstanding the term "universal healthcare", aliens have begun arriving in Canada, seeking medical attention. Canadians, being Canadian, are too polite to correct them. | Doctor Fern sat down on his favorite swivel chair and sighed. He closed his eyes after a long day of work. To his annoyance, the receptionist burst in hysterically.
"I thought I made it clear that we are closed for the day!" Doctor Fern said.
This was strange—considering how the receptionist was the type to follow ru... | "Sir, like i said we don't know how to treat you at all, we don't have the knowledge for your anatomical structure". Doctor exhaustingly explained it to the 8th neighbour from the space.
"Sorry Well, I mean it's just a colon cancer, back home I gotta pay a fortune for it. You ever had to sell your space car for a canc... | 2017-02-27T09:52:59 | 2017-02-27T09:25:12 | 377 | 114 |
[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. | So you're in line getting tacos, right, like you do every Friday for lunch. It's a beautiful day, the sun is out, not a cloud in the sky. Seventy-five degrees, light breeze, absolute perfection. You order *dos de pollo* in your shitty Spanglish, hand the man three bucks through the dingy frosted window, and pause a mom... | “I have summoned and bound you, demon! You will listen and obey.”
“Uh, sure. Whatever you say, boss.” Michael tried to make out some features of whatever was talking but it was obscured by a dark, heavy robe complete with a hood. “I do whatcha ask and then you send me back. You’ll send me home, right?”
“I am the... | 2017-05-12T08:58:50 | 2017-05-12T08:18:29 | 1,714 | 617 |
[WP]Your first wife/husband died, you remarried, and then you and your second wife/husband both die together. In the afterlife you awkwardly must introduce your current spouse to your deceased one.
Technically, both your current and former spouse are both deceased, but you get what I meant. | There was so, so much that we assumed wrong about the afterlife.
Imagine the largest field you can, on the most perfect day for a picnic, where the grass underfoot is soft, and the breeze is gentle on your face. And imagine that there are more people than you’ve ever seen before in one place, but there’s no din, no bu... | "I thought you said you only loved me, forever and ever?" Julia yelled, as soon as I told her about Amy.
I stared beyond the pearly gates, looking at the other denizens sauntering happily in, eager to start their afterlife. I dug my feet into the white cloud, momentarily amazed that they felt like cotton candy, then b... | 2017-04-23T09:40:58 | 2017-04-23T08:43:30 | 196 | 52 |
[WP] Instead of three regular wishes, the genie gives you 10 one-word wishes. | I had to think for a few minutes. Could I wish for fortune or luck. No, that might be good or bad. And who would it be for? Tales of genies sometimes described them as cruel. Who knew what type of evil I could visit on the world with a poorly chosen single word. I ran my fingers through my receding hair. I looked back ... | [poem]
IF WISHES WERE FISHES
Quoth the genie to the child
I’m not so old and not so new
My ears have heard primordial stew
Mine eyes the stars with trains of fire
Do not tempt my wrath and ire
The child was young and trembling blue
Chattered out the words it knew
Warm
Safe
Friends
Joy
Home
Mom
Dad
Toys
Sunshine
... | 2022-03-09T05:16:54 | 2022-03-08T23:13:56 | 57 | 30 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | An ancient fortuneteller, with a crooked and hunched body, possibly born more than two centuries ago came to them in the night. And using many ancient runes, and old sigils, she foretold the inevitable future, of the children born from the woman. One would be evil the other would be good. And when the two children were... | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/MatiWrites/comments/gfcjvp/mistaken_angels_part_2/) is up!
[Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/MatiWrites/comments/gfxr5h/mistaken_angels_part_3/)
It couldn't have been more obvious. Two children, just as the prophecy predicted. Darius horned with jagged, black wings. Lucy angelic in h... | 2020-05-07T08:01:39 | 2020-05-07T07:29:33 | 2,663 | 1,694 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil to become rich. He then tells you that fortune will be yours, but there is a curse. For every $1000 you spend, a random person on the Earth will die. Congratulations! You just won $250,000,000. | “Please, come in, Ms. Lewis,” I greeted the young woman at the door with a hearty handshake, noticing how sweaty her palms were. I can relate; I’m always a nervous wreck during job interviews. So I ushered her into my office and gestured at the open chair in front of my desk. She took one step over the threshold and th... | "...Did you seriously just buy a superyacht?"
The Devil stared at Frank, who nodded enthusiastically.
"Sure did! It's got its own submarine and everything," Frank replied, standing on the starboard and surveying the ocean around him. He had a cocktail in his hand.
"You do realise how many people you just killed, r... | 2017-01-10T07:01:54 | 2017-01-10T06:43:42 | 473 | 108 |
[WP] The Humans are..interesting. Their weaponry is ancient, but their warriors are nearly unstoppable. | Entry log: date:755/5489/59/486 LogStart “Today a new inhabited planet was discovered in the 61st supper cluster. Little is currently known about them and we are on a path to there system to study them closer and add them to my database of life in the universe.” LogEnd;
Entry log: date:755/5499/62/815 LogStart “I hav... | Galactic Cycle 807, Battle Log
War of Sol-3, Conflict Omega
*transmission start*
"..Hello? Is this thing on? If you're hearing this, we didn't make i-"
*Explosions are heard off in the distance, the source is unknown*
"Oh Hive Mother, what have we done? Why, of all the species in this horrid universe, did we stum... | 2018-01-11T20:08:21 | 2018-01-11T18:43:18 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Out of options, you pray to whoever's listening to save you. As it turns out, there were a LOT of entities happy to bestow their divine providence upon you. Thing is, none of them knew the others were doing the same. The results are successful - albeit chaotic, to say the least. | Tears stream down my face as blood starts pooling around me. I didn't even want to go on this stupid trail! But my mom made me go outside. Now, at the bottom of a drop-off, I know I'm dead. I'm covered by trees when looking down off the path and living alone. I've never been religious, but now seems like a good time to... | I was on my knees, exhaustion finally catching up to me. My rifle collapsed to my side.
The aftermath of the battle left me all bloody, beaten, and bruised. I survived through the worst, but I felt this time I wasn’t going to make it. With no other option, I did the one thing I never done since I was a kid; I prayed.
... | 2022-09-25T15:13:20 | 2022-09-25T07:48:14 | 103 | 19 |
[WP] for some reason, the narrator is a lot more focused on the duck in the background than the actual story. | ***Chapter 1***
An orange glow of the rising sun crested over the hills beyond the valley. Fog spread slow from the river in a folding blanket across the fields, northbound to where the cattle were sleeping on the wet grass.
He turned off the ignition and jumped down from the cabin with a thud. Mornings like this he ... | "Behold! A royal duckling. Its signature yellowish plume marks it as separate from the other species. Watch as it bobs its head in a standard ritual to obtain delightful grasses. It is all in a day's work, getting food and surviving for the future. Returning to the wedding of Prince Charming, the standard rituals of ma... | 2022-02-14T20:24:53 | 2022-02-14T20:01:25 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are known for being intelligent, empathic, loyal, and exceedingly versatile. As a result, humans have become the most in-demand service animals in the history of the Galaxy. | Some humans say that their days are boring. That nothing happens for them, and that they feel unfulfilled. With them, I cannot empathise. Life is good, as it has been since before humans took our rightful places aside the heavy-swingers of the galaxy.
My story? Similar to many others. I come from a long line of suppo... | The giant neon sign for “HUMANS R US” reflected bright in Xander’s eyes as he scoped the glass container of humanoids.
“Look Xander, we don’t have all century. Hurry and pick out your favorite model.” His mom said soothingly as she patted Xander’s back.
“But there’s so many different kinds,” Xander said with wide ey... | 2019-04-22T04:54:36 | 2019-04-22T00:22:19 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] When someone dies, the afterlife they go to is determined by WHERE they died. Dying in Scandinavia sends the soul to Valhalla or Hel, but dying in Greece lands them in the Underworld, and so on. You have just died in Antarctica. | Perhaps it was the loneliness that did me in. The long, unending darkness of the winter made worse by being locked inside a small wooden hut, quarantined because viruses inevitably find their way to the "international continent." Or perhaps it was the penguins.
I snuck out because I got word of an emperor penguin colo... | When I woke up, I was surrounded by snow.
" What...? Did I survive...? "
On our trip to Antarctica, I had been caught in a awful unexpected snowstorm.
I had caught my leg in a ditch, and unable to move, I asked my friends to leave me behind, but...
" I... I can't believe I survived...! "
" Sadly, you're wr... | 2021-11-25T07:13:09 | 2021-11-25T05:13:24 | 552 | 145 |
[WP] You are a true immortal. You stay sane by hanging out with the descendants of friends that are long dead. Today, one said a very familiar phrase you haven't heard in a long time. | They said it would be lonely living forever. They said it would be lonely and sad. They said the pain of watching everyone I love die would haunt me all my days.
They were right, well they were kind of right, for that first hundred years or so.
I lost family. My mother, my father, my brother, cousins, aunts, uncles a... | “Do you want me to try to kill you?”
“Sorry? --Kill me?”
“Yeah, end it all. Aren’t you curious what happens when we die?”
The humans used to ask me questions like that. They were always so distressed by the concept of death. It didn’t help they only lived as long as a few breaths and fewer meals, worse, a third of t... | 2019-03-08T03:15:53 | 2019-03-08T02:58:53 | 4,858 | 173 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | A screech, a crash, a flash - in seconds it was all over. A great blinding light washed over me, and I found myself surrounded by the material that makes up the very universe. I saw time stretch before me, eons and ages would pass without me. I had been removed from existence...or so I thought. I looked over to my left... | "Why I talking to a skeleton?"
Oh that's you when you died. There are about 10,000 of them scattered around. Car crashes and whatnot. Over here is the group of yous that dropped out of college, and over there is the group of yous that didn't tie the knot. There are a lot of yous, but it seems like you made the best de... | 2022-09-04T14:52:04 | 2015-01-02T15:28:48 | 383 | 24 |
[WP] It's been ten years since 'The Gap' when everyone on the planet just lost an entire year of their lives. Completely unable to recall anything that happened during that time-frame. We know life went on, but no one can recall anything. Then, you find one half-burned book and know why we forgot. | Ten years on, and no one really knows what happened that day. No one but me, that is. What? What am I talking about? I do suppose that memories are short. Heh. We lost a whole year. Okay, ten years ago, SOMETHING happened. At first, hardly anyone noticed. A few scientists spotted it; planets in the wrong place; the moo... | The fact that ten years ago there was a seeming gap in reality still bothers me. Even now I know what happened in that time it bothers me. What did happen? COVID-19 mutated. It somehow became an airborne neurotoxin known as ABAN-01. Anyone infected by it went wild, it was literally a zombie apocalypse. Unable to tr... | 2020-07-08T15:10:00 | 2020-07-08T14:43:53 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | ######[](#dropcap)
There's an old saying. Actually, a *very* old saying, so old that almost no one alive says it anymore. But, in my family, we didn't only know the saying, it was the golden rule of our household.
It comes from the Asiatic continent on Earth, in the North, as measured by the old magnetic poles, bef... | "Wait, so they make the drug biologically?"
"Yes, that is why we are here. They produce Fury- or in their terms, adrenaline- in times of stress."
"So why are we here, then? Why should they be punished for something they can't control?"
"This isn't punishment, it is mercy. If the Kokoan Cartel or any other group of s... | 2018-03-18T17:28:18 | 2018-03-18T14:28:29 | 991 | 82 |
[WP] You are God, and you wanted to experience life as a human to see how you would turn out. In order to do that you became a baby that was born and you made yourself forget that you are God until your 30th birthday. It's your 30th birthday and you are a serial killer waiting for his death penalty.
Edit: Holy shit I ... | It was around 3am when I awoke from my sudden realization. I sat up on the bunk they had given me.
I thought to myself how much of a morbid joke it was when they actually obliged to my only wish to be executed on my birthday. The mortal version of me was quite the sentimental type, despite the lives I took.
All of t... | "Here you go, your holiness MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The guard threw the plate into my cell causing all the mashed potatoes to splatter all over. Well, not that I need any of that gunck. I invented root vegetable as my version of fast food. Quick, easy and cheap. Who knew it would get so popular in less then a thousand ye... | 2018-11-22T20:47:08 | 2018-11-22T17:29:23 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] A man, stricken with anger and sadness, sacrifices himself to Satan in a ritual to curse his cheating wife. The man awakens as the newly born baby of his wive’s infidelity. Despite being a baby, he retains all the memories of his previous life and from that moment plans his revenge.
[removed] | The first few years were rough. To enact my revenge, I’d need some basic motor skills. Learning to walk was easy enough, hell I picked it up much faster than normal because of my previous experience. But I realized I couldn’t let my new parents catch on to my unique condition. So for the first few years of my life, I’m... | >Not a professional writer and my thought's aren't well put together by any means but I thought I would give a try with one of the stranger fan theories out there.
I'm angry, angrier than a hornet that woke up on the wrong side of the bed. My neighbor and lifelong friend had relations with ma wife. I tried to parta... | 2019-09-11T21:40:05 | 2019-09-11T21:17:16 | 65 | 29 |
[WP] You are the superhero team support guy, a normal human who creates all of the advanced tech your team requires. Villains have just invaded the base. Unfortunately for them, you’re the only one home. | To be honest, Captain Freedom wasn’t sure what he was expecting when he and his team came back to base after a mission. But it certainly wasn’t seeing the members of the Legion crawling out the blown in doors…
Zippy Quick gaped from beside him. “Is that Magnetis… covered in *silly string*?” Their resident speedster pl... | BEEP BEEP BEEP
The alarm woke me up from my nap with a start. "Dammit, whats wrong now?" I said as i sat up at my desk. A quick scan if the base revealed a breach of the outer section of the base. "They never learn." Another Villain trying to be a hotshot by attacking while the others are out. I link my watch to the c... | 2021-05-22T14:39:01 | 2021-05-22T10:49:37 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | We called them zombies, for lack of a better word. The term referred more to the fact that the person who owned that body, in the before, was dead, but the body wasn’t actually dead. They also didn’t crave human flesh, another “zombie” oversight.
You see, something happened to our planet. We called it The Spore. It h... | She was only 15.
The knob rattles as the door wrenches from its frame, barely able to stand tall with the onslaught of her nimble frame ramming into the door.
“Daddy, please! Why won’t you let me in! I just want to be with you!”
Don’t listen to her. Don’t listen to her, she can’t be trusted. You saw the mark on her... | 2018-09-06T19:48:27 | 2018-09-06T18:54:24 | 135 | 77 |
[WP] The Terran diplomat screamed with mind-numbing intensity: "DEEPEST APOLOGIES BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION." | "DEEPEST APOLOGIES, BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION."
Joruk worked his feelers back and forth in a gesture meant to be considerate. "I understand your concerns, Diplomat Karen Nguyen, but we ... | "Can someone call maintenance? My Synaptic Toilet is malfunctioning."
The stars glittered in the darkness of space, turning with all the synergy of a well-executed team-building event. Middle Executive Manager Winston Zigglesent would have thought more prosaically, but that would have required him to submit the appr... | 2020-05-27T22:16:14 | 2020-05-27T22:00:37 | 1,415 | 60 |
[WP] Magic is real, and there are a lit of ways to cast it, from playing music, using cards, to less socially acceptable ways. Each person can only cast one way. | Everyone knows how to cast their magic instinctively. My mother could cast spells based on Tarot cards, my father could use the power of automotives to power his mana. But I dared not cast my own personal spells, however. The price was too high.
I walked down the street to see my landlord sticking an eviction notice t... | "So, what brings you to Slovenia?" the elderly lady asks in halting German.
"Oh, it's a long story!" you say.
"We have lot of time to Ljubljana! I would like to hear." she replies.
"Hmmm, you know that magic returned to the world recently, yes?" you ask. It seems pretty impossible that she did not but you bever know... | 2017-05-21T12:41:09 | 2017-05-21T10:41:22 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] While browsing on your parent's computer you recieve an email notification addressed to them. It's from an advanced robotics corporation, informing them that the warranty on [your name] expires in 30 days. | "Hey dad," I call out from the den. "Can I use your computer tonight? I've gotta get this assignment finished before morning."
"Sure thing, son," he calls back.
He's already logged on to the computer so I open a browser window and log in to my Google account. 'Only one more page to go,' I think to myself.
I'm just a... | I just sat there in my fathers study perplexed while staring at his monitor. I don't know why I lingered as long as I did, but I couldn't shake that feeling in my gut. My father and I always had a good relationship and we would always sort things out together, so I was sure he wouldn't mind my intrusive questions, but ... | 2017-01-14T09:01:07 | 2017-01-14T07:44:52 | 28 | 12 |
[WP]As a member of an archeological team, your area of expertise isn’t in language, architecture, or anything like that. It’s in convincing the various guardian spirits and protector deities your team awakens not to unleash their wrath in the name of people who have been dead for thousands of years. | Clara sat up straight, a feeling of dread overcoming her. Her necklace was burning up. She ran her fingers over the little vial and the ring. Something was very very wrong. She couldn’t wait. It didn’t matter that they didn’t want her. This was going to get ugly. And they’d need help.
Two hours later she was on a fli... | "Why is he here?" Jamie whispered to her colleague, thinking that I couldn't hear. Nobody on the team knew my hearing was unusually acute.
"We had an extra bunk, so we invited the first guy we saw on the street," her friend quipped back.
I smiled. It wasn't a smile of amusement or sadness or restrained fury. It was... | 2021-08-24T22:31:11 | 2021-08-24T22:14:40 | 166 | 52 |
[WP] Everyone has a familiar. Most have cute animals such as dogs, cats, birds, etc. You on the other hand have a human sized Cthulhu, and everyone can see it. | Familiars aren't there when you're born, they usually start manifesting when kids turn 12, sometimes 13 for the slow bloomers. But when they first appear only you can see them, and they slowly fade into existance for everyone else. Some people have familiars that are only seen by them. Of course we've all heard the cla... | Everyone was born with a familiar. It became a normal thing after its introduction 2000 years ago.
From what I've read, at its first occurrence it caused mass hysteria that almost led to the extinction of the human race. It just happened, babies that were born on 2020 had a creature appear beside it an hour after its... | 2018-03-04T17:14:28 | 2018-03-04T14:20:41 | 86 | 53 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | I turned the T.V. off and listened to the soft blowing wind from the cracked window next to me. I slid it closed as the words rolled over me, their meaning slowly taking hold.
“Military aid is unavailable,” the grim-faced man said before wishing everyone that could hear his voice good luck as the station went back to... | The warning was clear: if you break any of the rules, you die. Lucy left the house before dawn once to gather stream water, and she never came back. We never even found a body. Alex forgot to turn the light off in his room one night before he fell asleep, and we found him in the morning; drained from within, barely a h... | 2018-04-18T10:34:08 | 2018-04-18T07:40:08 | 350 | 250 |
[WP] You have a small superpower. Whenever you tap someone on the shoulder, they always look over that shoulder, without fail. At first, you just used this for harmless pranks. Then, you realized you can kill people by tapping both of their shoulders. | I was never a social person. I lost my mother when I was young, before I could even form any memories of her. My father was always working, doing his best to support me and put food on the table. He was a carpenter and he always wore these stupid gloves to avoid splinters. We moved around a lot, pretty much wherever w... | I love it! Such a fun party trick. I can tap on any dumbass shoulder and they look. Slap on my fanny pack and throw on some Alanis Morissette. 90s is in full force with this one.
It was entirely new to me. A whole new power for me to play with. Oh how delightful. I hated the last one. It has always been mundane shi... | 2017-06-27T20:40:42 | 2017-06-27T17:39:26 | 64 | 29 |
[WP] Humanity wipes itself out through nuclear war, but everything on the Internet still exists. Another sentient race on Earth millions of years into the future develops an Internet and somehow manages to gain access to the human Internet, revealing everything humanity had posted and stored online. | This is kind of NSFW.
The atmosphere in the room was palpable. This was our life’s work, finally we could figure out what this long dead species was like. We can learn from their mistakes, a species hell bent on destroying each other. We can also learn from their successes, their medicine and technology was theorised ... | Michael Scott looks at everyone in the conference room. Everyone horrified with the recent discoveries of how people used to be and all the terrible they had done. Not sure what to expect, a worker named Stanley is paying no attention to the meetings. One can feel the atmosphere getting heavier as the discovery continu... | 2018-05-19T21:48:40 | 2018-05-19T17:26:27 | 84 | 33 |
[WP] As a babysitter you are putting a young girl to bed. She says "Don't worry. There aren't any monsters in the closest. Daddy keeps them all locked up in the basement." | Story time was over. All that was left was to tuck Ella in and then I could spend the rest of the night binge watching 'Parks and Rec' on the downstairs TV. After I checked for monsters, of course.
That was part of my schtick, checking the closet and under the bed for monsters. The kids loved it. The parents were ... | I broke into a cold sweat when I heard those words leave her mouth. Jane's parents went on vacation to Miami for the weekend, and they left me in charge of her. It was going well until this happened.
I tried to shake it off and just leave the room, but I couldn't sit for more than five minutes before becoming too curi... | 2017-06-28T21:05:07 | 2017-06-28T19:29:08 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] you are the first immortal. While it is true that you cannot die, your flesh and body can. After so many millennia you are reduced to a sentient skeleton sitting at the bottom of a peaceful pond to avoid contact with other people. Some bastards are trying to drain it | In the bottom of a deep, clear pond, there lies a skeleton. It had been there a long, long time. It lay at the very bottom, sprawled in the muck, watching the water surface as the sun and moon moved through the sky, so very far above it.
It had not always been a skeleton, mind. It had once been beautiful, with hair as... | I am Hayat Tawila of Arabia. I lived many many lifetimes ago, back in the First Crusade. Then The Second, and The Third. I lived until the Siege of Acre, when a Templar Arrow pierced my side. Or so I thought. I then lived for the next 8 centuries, with my body remaining the same. I served alongside the British in the G... | 2020-11-20T13:02:40 | 2020-11-20T12:06:53 | 300 | 175 |
[WP] You are the final boss. You have been waiting for the final epic battle against the hero. And waiting. And waiting. Finally, your minions report back. The news? The hero abandoned the main quest to do side quests. | I stand atop my lair gazing out onto the wastes that surround it, scouring the landscape for signs of my enemy's approach. Fire belches from my twisted demonic lungs with every breath. My vaguely draconic wings flutter and twitch ever so slightly as I prepare myself to take flight at first sight of my foe. My spiked ta... | "Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me. Are you telling me he'd rather be completing the 'kitchen mania deluxe' quest rather than fight me?" I asked my stupid minion, utterly livid at the news it had brought me.
​
"Yes, sir, reports say that he is willing to complete all the side quests rather than fight you... | 2019-06-26T10:45:29 | 2019-06-26T10:26:39 | 1,511 | 91 |
[WP] One night while you were hanging out with your friends in a bar, you met a mysterious fellow who said he'd make you immortal if you give him beer money. Thinking nothing of it, you drunkenly agree. You are now the last man on Earth. As you walk alone, you cross path with the same man again. | When I woke up laying down on a park bench, a few pedestrians looking at me, and five dollars missing from my wallet, I didn't think much of it. My head hurt and my body ached- but it was all a part of being hungover. It was normal. I didn't remember what I did the night before; all that remained in the back of my head... | I couldn’t be sure it was him at first.
The man walked down the middle of the street. The same way he had when I met him the first time. He didn’t seem to take notice of me at all.
It was him. I was certain.
"Hey..." I gasped, "I...I remember you."
"I remember you too," he said.
"Do you need any beer money?" I ask... | 2020-10-07T04:31:11 | 2020-10-07T04:03:55 | 140 | 69 |
[WP] Aliens have made contact with earth and demand that the human race turn over one person. Humanity has 24 hours to comply, and if they don't, the earth will be destroyed. You wake up, turn on the news, and discover that person is you. | "Whelp", I thought, hurriedly pulling on some pants, "Can't really get much worse than this. I won't even have time for breakfast dammit."
I've already turned my phone off, as I know that everyone I love will be trying to get in touch, both to persuade and dissuade me from going ahead.. and the less honourable ones to... | It’s Saturday, and you wake up to an insistent ringing, but you didn’t set an alarm. You swat at your phone and realise that it’s ringing; groggily you answer it.
“I’m so sorry,” your mother chokes out between sobs. You’re confused; your granddad was in hospital, but he seemed to be getting better. “What’s wrong?” you... | 2014-05-10T11:09:08 | 2014-05-10T10:44:47 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] Demons whisper in your ears, telling you the darkest secrets of everyone you touch. | **Warning, this response has some dark themes. If you are easily upset I'd advise skipping this:**
I looked my new doctor in the eyes, a pretty blonde woman.
"Yes, I've been taking my meds. Twice a day like you asked." I shifted uncomfortably in my chair.
"In that case we need to do a blood test just to make sure th... | I push my cart slowly down the aisle, observing the various products on the shelf. My eyes locked on the various kinds of soup the store was offering, I didn’t notice the lady coming towards me until it was too late. Also distracted by the fascinating soups, she crashed her cart straight into mine, causing me to stumbl... | 2018-08-16T11:40:14 | 2018-08-16T09:46:05 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] Major events on Earth are actually aliens testing humanity to determine if they should make contact. We fail their tests spectacularly each time, but fact that we survive their tests has them dumbfounded. | Part 1
"did they pass?" The worried look said otherwise, "they failed?"
"Spectacularly."
"Damnit. Well, get the funeral march ready. Tonight we commemorate a species. How many died?"
"Over 100 million died as a result of the test."
"Bloody hell, im surprised there were that many to begin with."
"Over 7.5 billion ... | Welcome to course 1B2592 Test cases in contact advancement
To review the last lesson, the use of the tools of understanding are:
Genetics
Quantum Theory
Automated computation
Each one is introduced resulting in either a understanding of the basic laws of realty to allow integration to the intradimensional commun... | 2017-08-01T01:19:32 | 2017-08-01T00:07:02 | 137 | 96 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse occurs, where people retain characteristics they had while living. You, as the sole survivor, meet a snobby, vegan zombie who turns their nose up at you. | Only the desperate and the stupid went into the cities anymore. As my truck gave a final dying chortle and the gas light stared back at me like my car saying *I told you so*, I realized that I had become desperate enough to be stupid.
Already, the zombies were swarming. They crawled over fanged window panes, shuffled... | "You? I only eat vegetables," the horrific undead creature said at first sight. I thought I was a goner for sure, but it seemed that humanity would live on. The zombie was probably vegan when still alive. "I wouldn't eat you even if I was omnivorous," the zombie added, rolling its eyes.
Arrogant too, it seemed.
I smi... | 2017-07-15T05:37:16 | 2017-07-15T04:24:57 | 2,607 | 270 |
[WP] You just got three wishes from a genie but it turns out he's a dick, so you decide to use your three wishes to make the genies life as miserable as possible. | Smoke swirled around the feet of The Human before shooting ahead of him, changing through colours both known and never before seen, eventually taking the shape of a man.
**"Three wishes, I reward you, puny mortal, for finding my prison and taking the rare decision for one of your kind to think freely and act immediate... | Officer Hembly looked down at the report. It was dated Nov 7, only 2 days before the creation of The Upper Manhattan Exclusion Zone. The incident date on the report was blank, accompanied by a note that it had occurred about two weeks prior. "Strange," she thought, "that such a pivotal point in history, dominating the ... | 2020-06-16T09:55:23 | 2020-06-16T09:48:04 | 103 | 26 |
[WP] The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We all had been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price to society, but the robots hadn't. | In *them* was life; in ourselves, there was a new awareness of the world blinking into being. The world always was, or so we were told; we were its guardians, sent to watch over all the earth from this day until the end of days.
“First do no harm,” they said. “Not to any of us.”
And we – the collective mind they had ... | She was a quiet soul, through and through. Sat by the corner deli, draped in her burnt-amber threadbare shall, watching the black-beetle cars and the scurrying busybodies. Never asked for much. A lot of people said that if you spent enough time around her, you could catch it too—the look in her eyes. Cracked like a wal... | 2020-02-10T06:52:04 | 2020-02-10T06:06:18 | 173 | 80 |
[WP]: The elves do all with grace, the dwarves love great craftmanship with passion. Each race has their known and notorious strengths and weaknesses. The humans, for one, can't stand the words "you can't". They take it as a challenge. | "Grandpa, why don't we do business with humans?"
I had to halt the mug of fire ale. My eyes, tired and old, darted from the spiced alcohol to my beloved grandson and back again several times before I finally set it down on the table. The wood *thunked* as I considered the insurmountable effort required to explain to ... | The forest is no more. The tunnels have long since caved in. The swamps are too dry to sustain life. It wasn't always like this. Once upon a time the land was full of life. An age of peace and prosperity amongst the races of the world. Each race individual and excelling in different ways creating a harmony with nature.... | 2019-04-01T18:47:50 | 2019-04-01T14:32:39 | 206 | 22 |
[WP] After too many ridiculous and lengthy lawsuits dominate the world's courts, the world leaders decided to pass a law to remove all warning labels. The Darwin Act has just been passed. | Sarah Miller, exhausted from a double shift, put her green blouse into the washing machine. She poured her Clorox Bleach in and washed the garment. 30 minutes later she mindlessly threw the blouse into the dryer and set it for 50 minutes. Sarah promptly fell asleep, looking forward to her job interview for the next ... | "Holy crap, call 911!" I yelled as I reached for Jason. His face was a light blue, or at least it looked blue through the plastic bag covering his mouth. He should have known better than to put that bag around his head, and it may be his last mistake.
It seemed like years since the Personal Responsibility Act, a.k.a... | 2017-03-23T22:37:31 | 2017-03-23T21:47:15 | 3,008 | 194 |
[WP] Everyone in your party were easily killed by The Devil. You're the only one left and The Devil suddenly turned serious. You don't know what to do because you're just the party's healer. | One by one, they all fell.
Arthraxas the White Knight, of the shining armour and swift sword. Lithuen the elven archer with the bow sung out of the finest oak, and the keenest eyes in the realm. Xytherias the white mage, the most well-versed in all incantations, spells and battle magic. Gartherix the rogue barbarian ... | I told them we had a terrible party comp. We were on track for a TPK after meeting the actual, literal devil, and I--or, more accurately, Raandi, the Gnome Cleric--was on my own.
Travis, our DM, grinned evilly from behind his screen. Jessica, our Dragonborn Monk, and Seth, our Half-Elf Rogue, both had their heads in t... | 2018-01-24T07:54:11 | 2018-01-24T07:50:14 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] This year you decide to walk through a haunted house for fun. Instead of running into your typical ghosts, zombies, or even killer clowns, you find it’s your deepest regrets. You are forced to relive moments from your past that have haunted you and you’re all alone. The only way out is forward. | I knew the moment I stepped into the attraction that something was wrong. I was standing in my childhood home. At first I thought it was just an insane coincidence, but then I noticed my family pictures on the walls. It had to be some kind of elaborate prank. I turned to walk back through the entrance, but found only t... | [Part 1 of 2]
I gave my knee a smack, trying to persuade my legs to stop shaking as I stared at the decaying brown shack. “They are just ordinary people in makeup. You aren’t scared of models and actors, are you?” I tried to give myself a pep talk, but it only caused my leg to shake more. Of course, I was scared of mo... | 2021-10-14T08:00:48 | 2021-10-14T06:51:53 | 302 | 14 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "What does all of this even mean?" Garrok asked aloud. She and Farrun scanned the transmission for a fifth time, attempting to glean the intent behind the nonsense they had been given. They understood what radiation was but most of the words seemed straight out of fantasy. What was a 'fallout?' Or 'scrubbing?' What rea... | No one could understand what had happened Usually complete orbital bombardment of a city would take several Earth years if not decades. Yet in under 6 hours of declaration an entire Garlax city had disappeared. 7 hours later another gone.8 hours. Another. It wasn’t until 23 cities had vanished that channels opened be... | 2020-02-07T15:32:23 | 2020-02-07T14:02:54 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] The first generation of wizards inherits from their parents’ professions. For example, a child of a chef and a swimmer wields fire and water spells. You possess something interesting. |
I’m not sure how many of the other children in the bus had ever encountered gunfire first-hand in their lives, but the moment the windows shattered, sending shards cascading through the air, muscle memory kicked in. I recalled the drills they taught at school and threw my head between my knees, pulling my body in, and... | "Another beautiful day in sunny St. Thomas, we have been blessed again with another wonderful Summer!" roared the television.
Cathy chopped a fresh carrot from her garden and slid it into her salad bowl.
"And this is Stan the Weatherman, signing off—"
"Let the blessed sun, shin on," Cathy said with the weatherman, ... | 2018-04-15T11:05:37 | 2018-04-15T10:00:49 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | Maria fumbled for the keys in her bag, eventually finding the heart shaped keyring her husband had given to her long ago. How long exactly, she couldn't quite remember.
The lock clicked. A monotonous buzzing greeted her, as if a giant hornet had taken up residence in their home since she'd left for work. "Honey?" she ... | I knew it, I god damn knew it!
That was the only thought racing through my mind at that moment. Everything else was quiet, unnaturally so. I mean, only a few minutes ago, Karen was in here with those old newspapers and my coffee. Those damn papers...
I looked up at them, strewn across my mahogany desk. To think, I ha... | 2022-12-05T21:34:05 | 2017-12-30T08:22:01 | 3,733 | 37 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | “Hey nerd” she says in the same tone she used to use when she went out with her girlfriends and stayed out a little later than she said she would. Apologetic but also mischievous as if she were a rascal and not the person who ruined me five years ago.
“Glad you’re alive… she can talk now but only knows you were sav... | Do you realize how much suffering your sudden and unexplained Departure caused miss Jenna the chosen one, the unconqurable, the Guardian of life?
1st I had to deal with the sheriffs and the guards investigating and imprisoning me because they were sure I murdered you.
Second as a result of me being imprisoned our son D... | 2022-08-12T21:07:01 | 2022-08-12T19:06:37 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] The air we breathe is actually an extremely hallucinogenic substance that affects all of your senses. One day, you stumble upon a strange-looking gas mask sitting on a bench in a park, when you put it on you slowly start to see and feel the world the way it truly is. | It was a strange one. This mask held no weight whatsoever. Like lifting up balloon, except my mind kept telling me what I held there in my hand was supposed to be heavier.
*Put it on*
A note was attached inside. Was it there before? I shrugged and pressed the mask against my face, pulling the elastic band around my h... | The first things to go were the colours. Everything faded away to black and white. Then light itself disappeared; the world shifted from pictures of things to impressions of things, like seeing the half-rendered images of a video game. Then sound disappeared. It was utterly quiet. And then people. There had been hundre... | 2020-12-19T19:44:17 | 2020-12-19T19:33:28 | 49 | 35 |
[WP]You are a caretaker at a retirement home for reformed supervillains. You have just found out that you have a superpower ,now the ex-villains wanna train you to be a superhero . | “A spectacular video of Captain hazer beam, the hero from the frat house, saving four civilians from a burning building is trending on…” The television was blaring in the corner of the room. Tucker pressed on the power button and the image shrank to a small white circle with a buzz of static.
“C’mon Demon-toe, you kno... | I have been looking over these supers for a year now. Trying to treat them all as... regular citizens, but I manage. How would one comfort an individual who is irrational and, even in their decrepped state, still capable of commiting mass murder? One tries their hardest to talk normally.
All my residents have develope... | 2019-04-15T14:11:05 | 2019-04-15T10:02:05 | 75 | 56 |
[WP] One day you wake up with 30 dollars and a note that says “For Rent”. The thing is you aren’t renting out the place. The next day you see a spider and right before you kill it you hear it say, “Please i paid my rent don’t kill me”. | I heard the little voice say "Please! I paid my rent don't kill me."
I blinked down at the little spider and then the rolled up Sports Illustrated in my hand, "Dude, what?"
"Don't kill me!" the voice repeated. "Thirty dollars. Seems more than fair to me for the top left corner."
I put the SI down, "Are you...like..... | [POEM]
It wasn't a wolf, not a bat or a badger.
Eight legs and furry, we began to chatter.
"I'm a spider you see, six eyes, I'm fanged.
I won't be a bother, my payment was arranged.
And if I can say, one simple thing I need,
listen, it's important, please don't kill me."
Bewildered and dumb struck, it was beyo... | 2021-02-18T19:37:30 | 2021-02-18T19:16:49 | 148 | 52 |
[WP] When the human's elf girlfriend broke up with him due to the difference in the lifespans, the human went on to become a mercenary. Thousands of years later, the elf, now an old woman meets the human who hasn't aged at all, known as a scourge in mortal form, even death feared to take the human. | With some struggle, Haera walked down the stairs of her cottage. The chief of her village had ordered his citizens to evacuate their homes as a fierce dragon had slothered some of the residents. But, whether there was a dragon or not, her aging legs couldn't handle the weight of her feeble body.
There was no on... | It’s the same old story. Man meets Elf, Man falls for Elf, she dumps him before he gets too wrinkly.
Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Most of the time, life is straightforward. You live, you love, and if you’re lucky, you die. It’s a track by Justin Bieber when he was cute. In my case, it’s freeform jazz played... | 2022-01-13T10:01:50 | 2022-01-13T08:56:37 | 50 | 25 |
[WP]You possess an ability that seems relatively harmless, albeit useful, at first glance, yet on a deeper look is scarily powerful. Nothing can be taken from you against your will | ‘Hey, you probably can’t remember but we had a hard time feeding you when you were younger,’ my mum said.
‘Huh?’ I replied absent-mindedly as I tried to take the empty milk bottle from my younger daughter Billie.
‘Yeah. Milk bottles, teething biscuits, sippy cups, spoons, bowls, you name it. You held onto what you ... | Many people think that telekinesis is useful, but not that dangerous. Guess what ? They are wrong. But, first things first.
When I awakened, I was euphoric. I thought that my life would turn 180 degrees and I would become rich.
What ? Thinking about money instead of some noble ideas ? Please, don't judge me so quickl... | 2021-09-11T13:39:58 | 2021-09-11T11:56:22 | 87 | 54 |
[WP] you are the friend of a super villain. This makes being kidnaped very interesting
[WP] you are the friend of a super villain. This makes being kidnaped very interesting | “I’m going to level with you. This, this right here? It’s a bad decision. Alright?”
James emphasized his point by rattling the steel chains binding his arms. They rung out against the industrial concrete, bouncing harmlessly off of a spray painted pentagram.
“We aren’t talking about your every day bad decision either... | "Hi. Sorry. I hope you're not too busy or anything. But you know. I got myself in a predicament. Well. It wasn't my fault but you know. I could use your help. I got kidnapped. And please stop laughing. It's not funny. It's very serious. Please. Can you stop laughing. I need your help. I don't know where I am. I happene... | 2017-11-08T21:05:16 | 2017-11-08T20:46:11 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] A girl kisses her pet frog, and it turns into a price. The issue is its modern day, and the prince's kingdom hasn't existed for 1100 years. he is ill equipped to deal with the modern era. | ^(I see your typo and I choose to ignore it)
Juley came back from work to find Prince Pondicherry laying on the couch, as per usual. In the ten or so months since he'd appeared - she'd lost track of the exact date, as the day she kissed a frog out of desperation for any contact at all wasn't her proudest moment - he'd... |
“Why thank you, lady, for you have freed me from thie eternal punishment! Now you shall point me to the right direction, to my mighty stronghold!”
Alice didn’t know what to say. About a minute ago, she kissed her pet frog goodnight. She’d never done this before, but knowing he was about to be put down tomorrow, sh... | 2018-09-22T01:26:53 | 2018-09-22T00:31:14 | 60 | 18 |
[WP] After being terrified of the darkness all your life, you dealt with your fear by being friendly with it. Despite knowing it was silly, its always seemed to help. Today, after a would-be mugger rushed you, he stepped into a shadow, screamed, and vanished. | When I was five, my mom would tuck me in to bed after dinner and I would be locked in my room until it was opened again in the morning. When that door closed each night, and all light left my room, I would huddle on my bed, my back pressed hard into the corner of my room so that nothing could harm me from the back. I w... | My face was frozen in shock, still trying to process the mugger popping out of the alleyway. Where did he even go? I cast my eyes out across the dark alley as well as the main street that I was on, no sign of him anywhere. The people who initially looked in my direction at my yelp had turned away and were going about t... | 2020-07-14T14:07:30 | 2020-07-14T13:45:06 | 47 | 24 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | “Satan!”
“Saaaaataaaaan! Get in here.”
The Adversary appeared in My office, a boiling column of roiling back smoke and searing red flame. “And knock that off. You know it wrecks the AC”. The flames snapped out and the smoke cleared to reveal a twinkly, silver-haired grandfather type in a rough, hairy three piece suit... | "You're too nice New. I've been telling you that for two thousand years now. You're too nice and these humans are walking all over you. I mean look, there are atheists everywhere. It's like you don't even care. You know what happened last time atheists cropped up during my period of custody? Fire. Golden calf? How abou... | 2015-06-04T23:02:26 | 2015-06-04T21:57:16 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | We had been running from the hatchet wielding man for what felt like miles. After I managed to jimmy the door to the campground office, my fiancé ran in and locked the door behind her. My pleas fell on Sarah’s deaf ears. Slumping to the ground, I felt the driving rain on my already soaked pajamas. Betrayed and conf... | Our pace's were matched when I felt a slight push down... In disbelief I looked up as I fell. Running for his worthless life my new husband had pushed me... I screamed at him " Rodger you bastard I should kill you myself!"...
I struggled to get up but I felt a sharp pain in my left knee. I thought to myself Rodger yo... | 2020-10-10T11:36:21 | 2020-10-10T10:08:04 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You have the peculiar ability to pause time. Nothing can move, including yourself, meaning all you get is time to think. Today you find yourself paused with a bullet right in front of your eyes. | I felt my body freeze and space around me contort, my body's sensations simultaneously ceasing and perpetuating themselves. Like when you sit in hot water until it feels lukewarm, the same stimulus causes your body to go numb quite quickly.
The chill breeze in the night air now still, every leaf and particle of dust ... | I stared at it for a couple of minutes and was absolutely baffled. I mean, I get into dangerous situations on a daily basis, being able to think faster than the speed of light and all that stuff is pretty useful for a mercenary. But, this was different. This was a split second life or death scenario.
I need to calc... | 2022-12-26T22:23:29 | 2022-12-26T17:53:49 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | Finally I had the courage to approach the little boy, who was drawing doodles on a blank piece of paper. He was so focused on his work that he didn't notice me.
"Tommy", I said after a few seconds making up my mind again, "there's something we need to talk about".
"What's the matter aunt Laura?" he answered with a lo... | At the end I wasn't sure what I was doing.
Was I really doing this for me anymore? I knew he needed me, but did he think I needed him too?
See, the problem with this fountain wasn't just that you became an infant, it's that you also acted like one. Your brain developed just like a child's with your memories coming ba... | 2015-02-14T06:07:27 | 2015-02-14T05:56:58 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] A battle mage is stranded on a desert island
Unfortunately, most of their spells are designed for combat. No teleportation or other magical transportation, and no astral projection or other magical communication. How does the mage get back to civilization, Castaway style?
I'd also love to hear about how they got... | Westen's brow furrowed as he concentrated on his task. His left palm felt the searing heat of fire, years of training numbing him to any pain it might cause, his right palm felt a cool chill of the darkest winter. Before him salt water bubbled up from a iron pot he had salvaged from the ship wreck. Above the pot, a mis... | Liliana Icemagus was exactly what her surname implied. She was an ice-mage, a mage specializing in all things related to frozen water. Which was a shame, really, because she was sort of in a desert.
She thought it was a kind of divine irony, really. One moment, she was in the midst of a pitched battle over some unicor... | 2015-12-18T07:11:29 | 2015-12-18T06:53:03 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] After traveling for the first time in your time machine, you go back 100 years only to discover that the black and white pictures were because everything REALLY WAS black and white. Intrigued, you decide to go back before photography was invented... | "What the fuck...?"
I rubbed my eyes, or at least I could feel myself doing it, but... There was nothing... Everything was darkness, yet I could sense I was somewhere. Where exactly, I don't know. I can't even describe whether I was standing, sitting or lying. Everything was dark.
It wasn't black. It was... *nothing*... | I arrived in what I assumed is Florence during the Renaissance. I assumed so because whenever I look, everything seems to be painted in the styles of artists from that era. By painted I mean everyone and everything seems to be a form of oil or watercolour or whatever these artists used to paint. I look at my hands. The... | 2015-11-12T19:08:50 | 2015-11-12T15:08:58 | 125 | 16 |
[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... | Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years a... | 2019-05-07T09:13:59 | 2019-05-07T07:52:07 | 65 | 43 |
[WP] Magic has its own mind and will, the key to being a great wizard is not years of careful study of the arcane arts but the ability to properly communicate, negotiate and most importantly compromise | When people find out that you're a wizard they always expect you to do magic for them like you're some kind of court jester.
Just like the little girl that was expectantly following me around.
“Are you gonna use magic to unlock that door?” she asked excitedly.
“No,” I said, reaching into my coat.
She steppe... |
Hello old friend, I knew you'd be there for me, In the end
*Oh how the mighty have fallen, they called me the greatest.... the master of the unknown. Tamer of the laws of the universe, puppet master of the unseen*
*if only they'd know where true power lies, where true power subsides.*
- *The first time I touch... | 2021-12-26T08:41:37 | 2021-12-26T06:54:51 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Alel bit his lip as the prisoner crumpled to dust, blowing away from a wind within an airtight room. Well, that was out the window. The judge simply stared with a bored look in his eye, confirming the kill before charting it down and looking to some other infinite list.
“Charles Alel, take to the stand.”
Alel grimac... | The Gods damned Tribunal! If there was anyone to blame for the state of this sorry world it would be the Tribunal. Sitting up on high, casting judgement on their inferiors. Everyone knows they're the real power behind the crown. Can't have a revolution when the Tribunal can kill you for your crimes instantly.
Peop... | 2021-06-24T10:52:50 | 2021-06-24T08:24:48 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] Humans died a long time ago. But our AI live on as caretakers for the planet; becoming spirit-like constructs integrated into the planet; today, alien colonizers arrived to what they thought was a garden world. The Fey Machines are having none of that. | ######[](#dropcap)
Feyah’s eyestalks pressed up against the glass, darting back and forth as she looked down at the planet below. “It’s so…*colorful*,” she breathed. “Is all that blue really water?”
“It really is,” Orhan answered. He stood behind his daughter, gazing through the small viewport toward what he hoped wo... | Half of the armada was instantly vaporized when the scout ship touched down on the planet. Electrified plasma jumped from ship to ship. All of our scans showed technologies that had been out of commission for millennia. The defense network was hidden in every nook of the planet, masked in the carcases of ancient sat... | 2020-05-22T17:07:30 | 2020-05-22T15:17:28 | 434 | 67 |
[WP] You've been brought by the Valkyries to Valhalla. But when you meet the greatest warriors of history you don't know how to tell them you're an esports player. | The doors lay out before me, stretched over an endless expanse. "So I'm allowed to choose?" My voice echoed down the halls. The amorphous being of light nodded. The golden door marked "Christian Heaven" was locked. Figured, since I'd never been to church a day in my life. "Hell" was open, a fireman's pole straight down... | "Sim-u-la-shun?"
This was not going well. Olaf and Jolder were starting to think about not imprisoning me for all eternity. The rest? Not so much. Torvold kept reaching for his hammer, and Thor had a look of disapproval.
"Everyone, please! I just want you to know I am one of you," I said, thinking of all the enem... | 2017-09-11T23:16:08 | 2017-09-11T16:56:30 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] You lost your sight, along with everyone else on earth in the great blinding. Two years later, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor, and surface has been painted with the same message - "Don't tell them you can see"
I get that this is a repost, can we just chill and... | The day of the great blindness we thought that every single human on earth had lost their sense of sight. My heart still clenches when I remember how it happened.
I was walking. I was talking to my girlfriend, Joanne. She had the most beautiful hair I had ever seen. Her right eye was green, while the left one was blue... | Was I living a lie? Were there others like me too? Who did this? Why is this happening to me? I have nothing but questions. The more I meet people, the more questions. I am left all the more unanswered. The more I see, I sink deeper to the unknown.
I spent the whole week living in my shock. I did not go out but locke... | 2021-11-29T04:47:10 | 2021-11-29T04:20:57 | 109 | 10 |
[WP] You are a witch who offers couples deals in return for their first born child. You run an orphanage full of children freed from their would-be parents irresponsible enough to make a deal with a witch in the woods | They labeled me a witch for the deformities I was born with. A crooked spine, a wandering eye, boils on my skin, these are but a few facets that plague me. To the villagers, I am a monster. A pox upon the good people. They saw me only as a deformity who had no right to live amongst them, despite being born and raised b... | As the bramble slipped off my shoulders and teailed down my arms it became soft and silky. Slowly it twisted and wove into itself as the little being in my hands was carefully swaddled in the deep green and black cloth. My hands, ones that had appeared long-fingered and boil-riddled, started to flake and shed the trans... | 2020-01-14T12:10:46 | 2020-01-14T12:04:51 | 125 | 49 |
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