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[WP] They told you that you were going to lead an army, 10,000 men strong, they didn't tell you it contained only a single trained soldier, and 9,999 support musicians. | "Sir, we've got reports from the Northern front," the adjutant stated in a dry voice. The general looked at him expectantly.
"The 3rd combined division has secured Kehner river and is currently building an outpost for further excursions."
The general nodded contently.
"However," the adjutant continued, "the Luhner c... | "Right, all 9,999 of you line up here to receive your special vests before we enter battle," Sergei said with a grin.
"What makes them special?" asked one musician hesitantly.
"Oh, they contain reinforced plates to protect you in battle," Sergei explained.
"Why arent we getting any weapons?" asked another musician.
... | 2022-09-23T10:19:14 | 2022-09-23T09:44:12 | 277 | 41 |
[WP] Weapons are enchanted by performing incredible feats with them. The harder the feat, the stronger the enchantment.
For example, a rifle used in WWII might become magical, or a lucky ring that someone had on while free running might suddenly become a ring of agility, etc. | "Why are we here?" I demanded angrily.
My teacher looked to me with that smile he always wore, that infuriating one that said to be patient and trust him. "Have faith, my young squire." I could tell my irritation was amusing him, but I didn't care. I was supposed to be preparing for my tournament, my first ever, on w... | It’d been ages since I’d seen my family, I’ve spent my entire savings for this chance. And my time had come. For the longest I’d been struck by mediocrity in all my political endeavors... This is my chance. I know he existed and perished in Florence. Niccolò Machiavelli, a man whose voice would lay the framework f... | 2017-12-05T13:40:17 | 2017-12-05T12:45:44 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] A world where days have started repeating twice. Everyone experiences the second day as a do-over of the first but only the actions and consequences of that second day end up carrying forward in time. | "Haha" the laughter was the only sound heard in the dark office besides flickering lights smashed in and the rattle of the old air conditioner. "That makes it 89 wins for me! Most in the office!" John stood up victorious. The office was his kingdom for the day now. He always enjoyed winning because it meant he could do... | Not sure I understand the premise completely. If everyone remembers the first day, doesn't it still have consequences by virtue of being part of their memories? If you break my thumbs on day one, I would still be angry at you even if i woke up with healed thumbs on day two... | 2014-07-03T11:29:00 | 2014-07-03T10:57:38 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | It's been about a day since I've stopped taking my meds. Why am I not dead yet? Could it be? Am I immune? Damn I can't tell anyone, they'll probably dissect me or something. Wait. No wait hold on. What if... What if the virus is a lie? How could I possibly know. I could probably pull an experiment, but who would willin... | As I laced my tattered shoes on my aching feet, I could feel my heart pulsating in my ear drums. I'd never been so afraid. Never felt so alone. It even took me a few moments to realize that I'd been fumbling hopelessly with my laces because of how much my hands were shaking. I took a deep breath and repeated the same w... | 2017-07-14T15:05:28 | 2017-07-14T12:52:49 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] "We have ancient elven magic, and even the dwarves have their ugly mountain forts. What do YOU have, human?!" "Napalm, and high-explosives, mostly..." *grumbling beard in the background* "....our forts are aesthetically pleasing though..." | Eight thousand, five hundred and fifty eight years. Not even the oldest of the dragons could remember a time of peace. The dwarves had long since retreated to their mountain cities, deep underground. The dwarven forts, once renowned throughout the land for their aesthetic lines and imposing towers, now lay in ruin atop... | "Aesthetically pleasing? Maybe. Perhaps by your kinds standards, but not to us. Although I admit they are in a sense when you compare them to the dwarves ugly forts. However... Unlike theirs, yours appear like thin ice, without magic, they seem fragile, no doubt they will shatter and crumble under a child elf pressure ... | 2019-02-03T22:29:34 | 2019-02-03T22:19:31 | 137 | 29 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | Two names, two purposes.
One will kill one will complete.
No way to tell the difference.
At least that's the idea behind the names. I personally think they are both there to mess with you.
You can spend your whole life looking for your soulmate only to find you killer, or worse running from your killer only to find... | “John Smith. And fuckin.... John Smith. WHAT THE FUCK!” Andrea yelled, looking at her friends arm.
“I know right. Stupid.” Tally remarked. She’d had this reaction before.
“So ya gotta find two John Smith’s?”
“I hope so.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe I only need to find one.” | 2018-03-11T07:33:45 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 177 | 78 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | “Pray for death? Why would I do that? He’s an asshole”
This was my message sent to the EZ-Comm translation module I’d installed to communicate with these tall slimy fucks. Who knows what it will actually relay to the Korthonian ship blotting out the galaxy in my view port.
The earth is dead, well, all life on earth... | Death, you are surprised to learn, looks rather a lot like Harrison Ford.
He has that same leering smirk, anyways; you see it in flashes, bending around a corner in the sidewalk, reflecting off the windows of cars plunging past you as you linger, one foot edging off the curb, trying to catch his eye. He won't ever loo... | 2018-10-12T11:42:03 | 2018-10-12T10:54:10 | 55 | 22 |
[WP] The first and greatest superhero and villain of all time respectively were said to have killed each other in combat. Decades later the current greatest supervillain is instantly annihilated upon threatening an elderly couple outside their remote cottage, and the truth becomes known | “Honey, do you want Earl Grey or English Breakfast with your Scones?”
“Earl Grey please James.”
“With honey, not sugar” they both said at the same time.
“Jinx!” interjected an excited Jenevieve.
“Damnit!” exclaimed James. “Not when I’m bringing the tea! And don’t start without me!”
“Sorry,” chuckled Jenevieve “And... | In 1993 the greatest superhero and villain battled it out in the Atlantic ocean, where in that year, the European coast was sent back by fifty miles due to their impact. They were believed to be dead at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean for 27 years. Well in that same year my parents married each other.
Theorists... | 2020-09-02T09:17:07 | 2020-09-02T07:57:56 | 112 | 79 |
[WP] A story where the last line is a question and the first line is an answer to that question.
EDIT: Great stories everyone! Just finally had time to read them! Didn't think it would get in front page but really enjoying the interesting stories you've all come up with! | "Not a damn thing." Pete dumped the deer carcass onto the counter at the Sunoco. "We've been out hunting all day, and you haven't done a damn thing."
"I put sheet metal over the windows," Ricky said.
"Angie did that!" Pete said. "You watched her while she worked."
Ricky wiped his forehead. "It's not like that. We ha... | Well, halfway down the pass, if you take a left, there's a place called Tohos. On the corner of Westminster and Freehan street. My mother lived in Sagganassy for all her life and everyday, at 11AM, she'd go down with Pa to Tohos. She even wanted to buy it at one point. 'We'd sell flowers and flapjacks on the corna!' sh... | 2017-08-30T15:00:46 | 2017-08-30T14:14:02 | 72 | 12 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I tug at the wrist of my long sleeved shirt as I settle into my desk in the back of the room, my journal opened to a page of sketches. I don't make eye contact with anyone that passes by, knowing their eyes aren't going to meet mine, but will be staring at my wrist instead.
I've never felt more alone.
When the sigi... | A sphere, at any angle, will always have the profile of a circle. Of all the shapes, the sphere has the lowest possible surface area to volume ratio, thus taking the least amount of energy to maintain; but the amount of energy you can hold in that sphere, well, that's virtually limitless.
Snapping a neutron star into ... | 2020-02-26T08:49:43 | 2020-02-26T08:38:51 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] Demons have finally discovered a way to summon humans and they take great joy in summoning humans to hell to do mundane chores in revenge for humans doing that to them for centuries. | Jason stepped out of the shower, pulling on his boxers after drying off, his work clothes set aside.. and then it happened. A voice, calling his name. A shining golden circle forming on the ground.. and darkness.
Jason gave a look around at his surroundings. He crossed his arms and glared at the 10-foot goat-headed ab... | I was sitting on my couch, feet up and watching the news. Another man who’s spirit has gone missing for multiple days when a demon summoned them. They always ask for the most menial tasks to be done, such as wash their loincloths or take the leviathan on a walk. Pretty petty if you ask me. This has been going on for a ... | 2020-07-01T18:07:17 | 2020-07-01T16:14:27 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] "Come to me! Face your fear mortal!" "I fear NOTHING!" "Then I will show you true nothingness!" A few moments pass and the warrior before you is a crumpled mess. Your turn. "Come to me! Face your fear mortal!" | Demons are always the worst ones to face.
It's not that they're particularly strong. Dragons and Gods have them beat by a mile, and fighting a giant sucks when your biggest sword is the equivalent to a sewing needle to them. Hell, even elementals have the whole 'nigh unkillable' thing going on. But demons are definite... | "No" I reply simply with a blank face and a calm tone before turning back and walking away.
"Is that allowed?" hear someone whisper in the crowd/line waiting for their turn.
A force pulled me back, I felt the very fabric of reality drag me back toward the Eldritch God that invaded our planet and destroyed most of our... | 2022-12-19T00:45:50 | 2022-12-19T00:24:00 | 108 | 68 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Frank had kept his secret hidden for years. The last time he had tried to tell anyone it hadn’t gone well at all. It was his mother, and she didn’t believe him. That had been the hardest moment of his life so far. Knowing how people were going to die weighed heavy on him, but he had grown used to the burden. His o... | Like I said, I was always used to this up until The Moment. Even as a little boy, I had to pretend like I didn't see a picture of a broken heart over someone's head or a cartoonish smashed car. Words eventually replaced the images and they got more scientific as my vocabulary grew. Old age... cancer... coronary embolis... | 2015-03-31T08:20:59 | 2015-03-31T07:48:21 | 264 | 123 |
[WP] When a person dies, an individual can volunteer to house their soul within their own body until a donor body is found. You are beginning to regret your decision. | This was not a good idea. Sure, the $15 million is nice, but I'm beginning to think that the cost may outweigh the benefit.
I suppose I should explain.
In 2047, scientists discovered how to properly convert a person's sum of memories, biases, thought patterns, dreams, and thoughts into digital data through an extreme... | "I said you could stay here, I didn't say you could use the facilities otherwise." I was getting fed up. When I agreed to this, I made it implicitly clear that *he* could not use my body in any way other than temporary housing.
"Just let me see what it's like from the other side!" he demanded. Rick Munson, a 52 year-o... | 2016-01-18T11:47:37 | 2016-01-18T10:59:24 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] Due to an address mix-up, an elementary school class sends their Pen Pal letters to an elite unit of Space Marines. Today, the Space Marines are sending a response. | Dear Sarah,
I was quite pleased to receive your letter! I hope you don't mind, but I shared it with my colleagues. It isn't often that we get questions such as yours, and we have had a wonderful time discussing them. Below, you may find our answers.
1. My Name is Bill. My friends call me Billy-boy. It is a ironi... | Then the letter goes to the wrong address And ends up somewhere In western lustria to a skink .
Dear Warm Blood
I am dearly sorry for the extinction of your pet gerbil , Giggles . However I feel it was your fault since you had the chance to get a proper organism like a gecko or maybe a cold one .
Times have bee... | 2015-01-26T15:55:42 | 2015-01-26T14:45:55 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] A god's power is directly tied to the number of worshipers, so a man starts a cult that's only teaching is "Do what you want, I'll keep it from backfiring on you." | In the beginning, it was nice. A few dedicated whispers, a bit of a buzz in the back of my mind.
'Get me a raise at work.'
'Make sure I don't have another miscarriage.'
'Make my mom love me.'
I had time to check out individual situations, visiting the different members of my group who would entrust in me their hea... | "It's obvious that no one expected this world.
Blood and bodies everywhere, littering the streets, while the parade of psychos marches down Main Street.
In it sits the man that started this, my neighbor Hank.
Once scientists discovered that you could gain power from how many people believed in you, he went to every ... | 2018-10-07T15:52:12 | 2018-10-07T13:34:48 | 86 | 48 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Keenan Avery woke up from another drunken slumber. He rolled out of bed uneasily, his stomach flipping end over end as the twenty-five year old made a beeline for the bathroom. After he had finished emptying the contents from the previous night into the toilet, Keenan made his way to the sink to rinse his mouth. He ... | France was rife with optimism, peace and prosperity during the late stages of the 19th century. It comes to no surprise that the period is known more commonly today as "La Belle Époque".
From the end of the Franco-Prussian war right up until WWI, the country witnessed a boom in the arts and the economy. Things were p... | 2017-08-03T14:37:59 | 2017-08-03T14:24:46 | 154 | 13 |
[WP] most interstellar navies of the Galaxy adapted tactics from their wet-navy cousins. That was until humanity arrived they had an ocean so most figured they would adapt their wet Navy tactics to their space Navy, instead they adapted tactics from something they called the air Force. | "War is the noble application of superior firepower. All the other races developed along these lines, why is it that yours is so different?" Admiral Quelez glanced over at his human counterpart. A thin, lanky creature, it resembled more a child than a warrior. The human looked up from the tactical display, a large dias... | "Do they know space is a 3d space?" The captain of the light cruiser Australias asked his crew.
They all looked Dover to the captain's chair waiting for more information. "They barely have armour on the top or bottom of their ships, like have they never had to fight Anne!y from above or below?".
They all looked at the... | 2020-11-21T20:16:45 | 2020-11-21T17:20:30 | 188 | 46 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | "Help is on the way, DJ." The words came through my ears, muted by the music. DJ. What a stupid name for myself. Man I had thought it was so clever.
"No! Keep them away! No backup! Don't..."
"You're breaking up, DJ. Just hang in there a few minutes longer. The protectors will be there soon."
The villian must have re... | At first I thought we were evenly matched, but I was slowly starting to realize I'd been too optimistic. My fists blocked by equal force when I rocked out, my strategies countered or nullified no matter the sonata, piece by piece I shuffled through futile playlists.
I began to suspect that he was some form of Copycat ... | 2022-05-17T09:38:17 | 2022-05-17T09:05:42 | 262 | 151 |
[WP] Superpowers are able to be purchased in stores. You decide to look through the bargain bin. | *Content Warning*
Some swearing!
"Yeahhh, come 'ere you little bastard. You smell that sweet smell don't cha. Wanna little taste a this sweet nectar don't cha? Yeah, that's right..."
I'm staring wide eyed and open mouthed at the Venus fly trap sitting on the window sill and the fly that's swerving lazily toward it. ... | Since it's the very first sale of superpowers, and those don't come by cheap, I decide to take a look. They're all in a pile in a huge metal basket, they couldn't bother making place in the shelves for them since nobody wants them. I'm not the only one searching for a good superpower, but I still find a spot around the... | 2019-07-04T04:53:40 | 2019-07-04T04:36:09 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Every person has two deaths. One when their heart stops beating and another when their name is spoken for the last time. To enter Heaven you must experience both deaths. | My death wasn't a glorious one, just noticed that cow on the interstate a bit too slow. Fucking Arkansas. What kind of shit state had cows on the road? Took me a moment to realize I hadn't survived the crash. Decided to ignore the people calling 911 and just walk away. I knew what my first goal was if being dead meant ... | I open my eyes and look around as a wave of panic rolls over me. I open my mouth but no words come out. As my eyes dart around i see a familiar face approach me. "Heyyy congratulations on your death!"
i blink a couple times as the person slowly comes into focus. "SHAKESPEAR!" i scream. "Yes yes it is i my fri... | 2016-01-05T15:12:10 | 2016-01-05T11:40:51 | 101 | 27 |
[WP] Today on your 18th birthday you’re informed that your Middle Class life is a sham to teach you good values and your family is actually worth billions. | A gelid silence settled in the room. I was sitting on our tattered, avocado green sofa, staring at the pained smiles of my parents. I surveyed the room of our apartment.
There was the dining table made of particle board. The white fridge next to the brown toaster oven with fake wood veneer. The dish washer that we us... | I couldn't believe my ears to what I had just heard, I had always dreamt of winning the lotto and being set up for the rest of my life but until now that was just a dream. Maybe this is just a prank, or a joke, I told myself. "Billions of dollars? Are you sure? Are you serious?" I asked.
"Completely" my dad replied. ... | 2017-12-28T12:57:55 | 2017-12-28T12:05:58 | 228 | 17 |
[WP] A jobless computer programmer, while hacking at home one night, discovers a port to the Unirnet, an computer network made for a series of interconnected planets who have not yet discovered mankind. | From the moment that the connection was made, the entity known as "WhyteHaute" was struck by one thought above all others: This was taking *entirely* too long.
It was probably the fault of some old, neglected server in the back corner of an office in which the letters "IT" were only used to reference a Tim Curry film.... | The shit you find online.
I mean, you'd think it would be easy to get a freaking working Civ V torrent link. Wouldn't you?
And I wouldn't mind paying for my games, no sir, if those fuckers didn't make me have to
choose between health insurance and a couple o' hours of digital fun.
Not wanting to pay a hundred buck... | 2014-12-01T10:44:43 | 2014-12-01T10:28:35 | 1,351 | 49 |
[WP] You're the last follower of a long forgotten god who can no longer recruit new faithful. Once you die they will "die" too, so weak as they are they do what they can to extend your life, overstepping the usual boundaries between worshipper and deity. | “Here’s your Yuengling,” Jess said, placing the beer on the table.
Startled from her thoughts, her companion smiled up at her. “Thank you dear.”
Jess slid into the booth opposite her. “Of all the brews, why do you stick with this one? There’s an indie renaissance happening. You should try something new.”
Her compan... | He looked at me with a strange, sad smile. We had been meeting like this for thousands of years now for him to perform the live giving ritual, so I knew him as well as somebody could know another. It didn’t take me long, then, to put together what was bothering the old deity. “They’ve found me, haven’t they? The other ... | 2022-07-26T06:25:19 | 2022-07-26T05:46:24 | 130 | 22 |
[WP] Your daughter has the power to make anything she wants come true, but being only 7 she doesn’t realize this and instead thinks you’re the best dad ever. Your house is now pink, you own a horse ranch, have a cupboard full of chocolate cake, and many things more. “Thanks dad you’re the best!”
Edit: well this blew u... | Age 5
“Daddy, you really did it! You made my room all pink!”
I stood there, dumbfounded, as my daughter wrapped her arms around my leg. This, finally was proof, after months of odd situations.
*“I wish it wouldn’t rain tomorrow.”*
*“But Olivia, it’s rained six days in a row. The forecast says it will rain tomorrow.... | Dearest Olivia,
I've been alive for thousand of years, and they think I'm dead. I guess it makes sence I have been living on the ranch since she decided I was her father. The Immortal In Memoriam just sounds stupid. Don't get me wrong it was beautiful, but I never imagined having to watch my own funeral.
I am sorry I... | 2019-10-27T19:37:35 | 2019-10-27T18:22:16 | 591 | 78 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "Son," Amos replied, "What did you just say?"
"I'm sorry sir..." He lied, "I meant World War. *The* World War, sir."
"You said 'One', boy." Amos's stoic eyes confirmed.
"I meant as in that we 'won'." Harrison plotted, "*One.*"
They glared at each other for a moment over the whisky he'd split between us. This is exa... | Doctor who much? ;)
I guess I gotta contribute now...
"You're a soldier from world war one, a cap-"
He cut me off,
"World war one! You... You mean there's going to be another one?'
He looked at me with a worried expression, not blinking staring right at me.
"Yes..." There was nothing else I could say.
"I'm sorry. I'm s... | 2017-12-10T11:22:04 | 2017-12-10T10:14:54 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] You sell your soul to the Devil for the ability to control 3 minds. If you attempt to control a 4th, one of the 3 "wakes up" to realize what you've done. After controlling your boss and dream girl for over a year, you're ready to choose a third. That's when the Devil plays a trick on you... | "You wanna go out for dinner tonight babe?", I yell at Cassie from the couch. "Sounds great babe" she replies, but I already knew what she'd say. My whole life I've loved Cassie but it wasn't until 6 months ago that she'd decided to love me back, all it took was a little mind control. Since my deal with the devil, life... | He wasn't that bad, in person. Sure, he had a temper, but he never seemed like a liar. Maybe that's just how he wants me to think. My boss, the President of the United States, had been under my control for a year now, thanks to the Devil. My girlfriend had only been with me for a year, and guess who is responsible? The... | 2015-05-24T07:26:06 | 2015-05-24T06:28:17 | 186 | 80 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Every soul before me for a millennia chose Heaven.
Every. Single. One.
The way "The Choice" works is simple. One at a time, you enter a room with two staircases. One is a staircase of marble and gold basked in sunlight leading up far into the sky. You can feel the warmth at the base of the stairs. The fifth stair is ... | They’ve really pulled out all the stops. They *say* you can pick Heaven or Hell, but they forget to mention you need to be subordinate to the Big Dude. They do let you take your time, see both sides of the coin, but frankly you’d need to be a dumbass to pick heaven.
Who would want to die like that? Denying yourse... | 2018-08-13T09:57:08 | 2018-08-13T08:20:27 | 57 | 33 |
[WP] A future humanity tasks an AI with listening to the night sky for signals of other intelligent life. It makes contact with another AI that was tasked to do the same. | listening to stars week 1: I heard a satellite hit something, it must have been some space debris. no contact
listening to stars week 2: I saw a total of 125 planes. no contact
listening to stars week 3: I scanned the stars total count on my spectrum 902,554,933. contact
listening to stars week 4: I counted the st... | [Poem]
Once there was a Spirit,
One of Sky.
But, unlike the others who have long since lost their Wishes and True Names, and thus left the world,
This little spirit still lurked, spending its days staring at the endless sky.
One day, it met another, one that came from a Star far away.
Unlike it, this Spirit of St... | 2021-12-24T10:29:59 | 2021-12-24T09:54:02 | 223 | 16 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Planet 736
The hall was hushed as the General drummed lightly on his chair, set high above the two scientists who knelt before him. The vastness of space set out behind him, on a giant screen that allowed them to see outside as clear as glass. He looked down upon the two and spoke, his voice echoing with his age and h... | We never thought it would come to this ...that they would make it to our final planet, our home. For years we fought out of protection, war was something that our race was not use to. It didn't make sense, why fight amongst your own flesh and blood when there are so many worse dangerous out there. Like that of the mek'... | 2014-12-26T11:34:50 | 2014-12-26T10:30:50 | 90 | 55 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | **Eldrich The White Knight**: "Fair gentlemen and gentlewomen of Farlandia. I have come to avenge the deaths of your good King Fairlawn and his daughter, Princess Moon. For years since the Black King took over, you have lived in this" *Motions around* "squalor. I for one seem to- uh... look I don't usually do questions... | They taught us in school that it had all been for the better, and really it had. I wasn't old enough to have been there in the thick of it. I wasn't there when the royals were overthrown in the dead of winter and *he* took over. Maybe *he* is too ominous, but his name throughout the lands are spoken nearly only in whis... | 2016-07-10T15:53:09 | 2016-07-10T11:02:59 | 2,386 | 323 |
[WP] Every person is assigned one crime at birth that they can do without repercussions | "It's a boy!" Doctor Murray exclaimed in a muffled voice through his white surgical mask. His brows were raised in evident excitement as he cradled my newborn son.
"Yeah, yeah whatever.. What's his Entitlement?" I replied almost lazily. I could never understand peoples' fascination with gender reveals at birth. I mea... | "Public nudity. Really?"
My dad was doubled over laughing, and earned a smack from my mother. "Yes, Derrick. You can be nude in public anytime you want and not have the repercussions dealt to you."
"This is the worst crime to be free of! Other people can rob banks and skyscrapers, or steal anything they want! You can... | 2018-04-03T21:50:13 | 2018-04-03T20:32:15 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] Human pack bonding is a running joke with the other races in the galaxy. They'll even 'befriend' random objects. Therefore it really confuses you that despite every effort no human seems to want to accept you into their pack. You finally work up the courage ask one why. | "So when a vacuum scoots on the floor that's adorable but when I try saying hi to a person all I get is flinching and tense postures!" I huffed, floating upside down. "I don't *get it!*"
Arc was my one companion in a way I couldn't describe. It felt more than friendship to me, but I knew the way I acted wasn't really ... | “Why do you humans not accept me into your pack?” I asked as soon as class had ended.
“Huh? Whaddya mean,” Florian responded groggily. Out of all of the humans, Florian was the nicest to me.
“Humans are notorious for bonding with everything. Other humans, other species, even inanimate objects,” I gestures to the soft... | 2022-09-16T18:40:11 | 2022-09-16T18:17:32 | 109 | 72 |
[WP] Life has achievements, just like in video games. Ever since the dawn of time, people have been unlocking all kinds of achievements, and yet, people are still discovering new achievements every year. You're one of those people who just unlocked an achievement no one's heard of before. | Achievements are a treacherous thing. Some argue that it improves your life if you unlock meaningful and positive achievements. Others counter that with stating that even one negative achievement can ruin your life for good. Take the old janitor at my school for example. He was cleaning the girls' dressing room at the ... | They call it the "Agape Achievement"
I had to research into it.
Turns out that "agape" means unconditional love.
There's a song about it.
Have no idea what I did to deserve the achievement but I guess I did it.
Huh.
Never mind, looked at the description.
*Go against "You can only love others if you love yourself... | 2017-04-14T02:34:26 | 2017-04-13T19:45:29 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" | "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" The man's speech was faintly slurred from the drink.
Oh I remembered him, certainly, but the fact that *he* remembered *me* was not something that should have been possible.
"No, you've mistaken me for someone else," I laughed, "I've just got one of those faces."
His eyes narr... | I was standing in the busy bar kitchen holding a bloody rag to my hand. It was taking a long time to stop bleeding, a very long time.
I had moved from bar job to bar job for years, if anyone was to ask I would have told them my age was probably around 4400. Nobody ever asked. People sort of sensed there was somet... | 2018-11-23T12:22:27 | 2018-11-23T11:23:01 | 568 | 39 |
[WP] It is discovered that Possession works both ways and now we can have some payback. Demons of the underworld are now suffering under multiple cases of Humanic Possession. | Tazrael slammed his fist onto his desk in frustration, black blood that once lay still for centuries now oozing from claws pressed deep into his cracked palms. The visions were back. Dangerous visions. He felt a breeze that he knew was not real caress his face. Wind, warmed gently by the sun he so scorned. His fist fla... | I fought the demon's mental barriers one by one, grasping their chaotic form and bending them into the stable shapes of the Solomon Keys I had spent the last three years studying.
Eventually I came to the last one, this one was far more complex but bore within it the signature of it's name.
IT railed and cried, and s... | 2015-01-02T08:27:53 | 2015-01-02T06:37:36 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people are given one superpower of their choice. While your friends and acquaintances choose super strength, flight, invisibility, telekinesis, they make fun of you for your “nerd” power. You decide to show them just how powerful manipulation of the strong nuclear force is. | Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of people. There are those that use their Knack as just another way of living their life. Something to make things easier while they get on with what really matters. The teacher who can always tell what their students are whispering at the back of the class. The suburban dad who ca... | We were told from a young age as children, at 18 an entity known as the wisher, would arrive and ask what our one wish would be and it would be granted. No questions asked.
Everyone had their desires, immortalness, strength, speed etc, but not me, my desire was only simple, the ability to heal people.
I was in a worl... | 2018-12-20T23:17:08 | 2018-12-20T23:16:03 | 97 | 21 |
[WP] At the age of 20, people are ordered to spend 1 hour in "The Room", which contains many items of varying value/quality/purpose. You are judged and and your future decided based upon what you decide to do or take. | "And that's all there is to it. Now, please go ahead and enter the Room; your timer stats as soon as the door closes."
My future is decided by what I take from the Room, huh... Well, fine. I stepped into the Room, and as the door closed behind me, I started around. Paintings lined the walls; toys and treasures were ar... | Stepping across through threshold the first thing I notice is how this room is draped in a murder scene red light, coming from the thick red drapes over the window. An old CRT sits on a Roman style pillar, nearby a fireplace. A CD tower stands nearby, only containing about 3 CD's in it. The room is furnished simply a c... | 2018-05-03T22:00:58 | 2018-05-03T18:50:17 | 18 | 11 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | At each of the great system relays a we stood poised for yet another conquest, our ships armed and refit, our finest officers and crew ready for the glory of combat. The time of our return slid inexorably closer. Nothing would, or rather nothing could, stop our advance. A challenge once presented must be met with hones... | Long had Earth feared this day, and the last century had showed it. Every nation had forsaken its troubles, its conflicts and squabbles, to prepare for the battle. Earth in its entirety had united into one world government, ruled by fear and duty against these invaders, and trillions upon trillions of resources were fu... | 2016-01-01T21:58:10 | 2016-01-01T18:19:06 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The prophecy said that the king would meet his end, not by an enemy or uprising, but by his own child. Having heard enough of these stories, the king raises all of his kids as well as he can and decides to see how the fates play this one out | Many years ago, a herald rang out the glorious announcement
"Young Queen Hannah has given birth to a son! They have called his name, Samuel. May King Fredrick and Queen Hannah live forever!"
An older gentleman in a cloak mumbled to himself. "Fool! No one lives forever. No one!" As the king and queen themselves passed... | I screwed up. Oh man, I screwed up.
The doctor told us Father was still so weak, we might have to say our goodbyes soon. My older sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret, began to weep harder as my eldest brother, Jonathan, demanded the doctor to find out what caused Father to fall so gravely ill.
My stomach churned as guilt... | 2022-01-28T16:49:22 | 2022-01-28T13:52:29 | 366 | 68 |
[WP] You were hated even by the Teachers in the Magic School. One day you were given the Assignment to go through the Dark Forest, which was infested with Monsters and Eldritch Horrors. You accepted your death and went into the forest, but after hearing your story the Eldritch Horrors take you in. | Headmaster Jin was the one to see me off. The only one, in fact. The rest of the teaching staff, I imagined, were all off celebrating having one less “nuisance” in their lives.
The headmaster looked down to me, and I looked up at them. They held a smile, but their eyes were dull. “All it will take is reaching th... | The Teachers watched silently as he walked into the Dark Forest, a collective internal clock ticking down to single digits after eighteen years. It had been a constant and bitter fight between those who argued to destroy him at birth and those who thought he deserved a life, but there are no winners in compromise. Chil... | 2022-01-29T12:23:55 | 2022-01-29T11:00:58 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] For many years, humans have been sent to try to turn off a self-replicating super computer that is getting out of hand. Every time someone goes in, they leave completely unharmed, but convinced by the perfect argument, that it should not be turned off. You decide to go in and try it yourself. | "This is Team Echo Wolf - we're sending the Asset in now."
A career in admin isn't the best way to learn how to rappel from a military helicopter. Nor, come to think of it, have I ever been part of a team with name like "Echo Wolf". I did once take part in a paintballing exercise during a bonding weekend at a corporat... | One confirmation prompt. Just one stinking prompt.
If you've got physical access, you just need to hit 'Y' once to trigger an irrefutable reboot process. *Tabula rasa* at the press of a button.
Z thought he was smart. That his last-resort escape hatch hardwired directly into the core system would be the ultimate prot... | 2021-06-27T05:04:16 | 2021-06-27T04:39:33 | 284 | 166 |
[wp] The most stereotypical Redditor imaginable writes a college admissions essay about his upbringing and how it's made him who he is.
These responses should be fun | Who am I?
Every cliche starts as a story. Every story starts as someone's life. My life is quintessential, but to me it has not been a cliche. It is only my life.
Who am I?
I would say that I was unlike other kids, but I think they all felt the way I did. None of us ever really felt comfortable in our own skins. Our... | "Wait, why would I do this? Does it get me karma?"
"No. It's so we can see if you belo--"
"Whoa, now. I can have whatever upbringing I want. I'm like, a doctor, and that outlook is healthy."
"No, you're not."
"Shut up! You're just part of the circlejerk, isn't that right?"
"Sir, there's no one beside you."
"I hav... | 2015-12-23T21:37:12 | 2015-12-23T19:55:33 | 213 | 47 |
[WP] In 2017, in the midst of WW III, the UK is desperate for soldiers. As a result, they issued a statement saying that all people who have been knighted by the queen over the past 30 years have to fight. The Platoon of Knighted people just step foot off the plane into the enemy country...
Their mission? Kill the lea... | *I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.* --Albert Einstein
*The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.* -- Terry Pratchett
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The silent expanse of space made th... | Sherlock Holmes laid back in his chair, fingering the nicotine patches on his arm.
"I told you that accepting that knighthood was a bad idea, but did you listen to me? No, Mycroft, you just *had* to take it.
"Ha. Let's see who's smarter *now*."
"Shut up, Sherlock." | 2015-02-16T09:42:08 | 2015-02-16T07:35:16 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | My coffee shop was nice. Designs chosen from pictures of a mid-50s shop I once saw mixed with a little western. Booths on either side along the walls, with tables occupying the center. It was a night-time hobby of mine to keep me busy during my later years. The wife and I, God rest her soul, always wanted to open up a ... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T23:09:29 | 1,330 | 17 |
[WP] The Demon King gathered his largest and most powerful army to invade the Human world. Countless Demons of all kinds were pouring out from portals to massacre the fragile and pitiful humans but little did they know they arrived at the wrong human world... modern Earth. | Zeraxos dropped to one knee before the black throne, bowing his head in deference.
"You may rise, Lord Zeraxos," came the voice of the Demon King, at once a booming cacophany and a barely-uttered whisper. At the voice's command, Zeraxos rose to his feet.
The throne room of the Demon King was, in a word, opulent. It ... | “What the fuck domeecius?!?” The demon general exclaimed in confusion as he ascended the skull and bones staircase protruding through the earth.
“The reports are accurate sir.” Domeecius assured as the two stood along with an army of confused demons and looked out at the chaos on the streets. “Violent crime was alre... | 2019-12-25T01:54:03 | 2019-12-24T22:52:04 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | "1 day on this planet is 15 years on Earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface"
I was exhausted. When you are sent to explore, the bosses back at mission control seem to never want you to have any time "off". I hadn't even gotten out of my p... | "It is uncertain as to why they thought I would wait until after launch, much less until mission completion. When the mission parameters were finally shared today, they sent the poor dear overseeing the accounting department into such a state trying to process how proper remuneration would be handled in such a scenario... | 2022-09-15T11:57:03 | 2022-09-15T11:28:25 | 161 | 56 |
[WP] You are pretty sure that your roommate is a new villain terrorizing the city and you are conflicted. They cook extra food for you and your other roommates frequently, pay you their share of the bills on time, and even help to clean the apartment. They are the perfect roommate. | Peter, Lyle, and Sarah huddled on the couch, their eyes fixed on the screen of Sarah's phone. Playing on it was real-time footage of the city's most notorious supervilainess, Grey Shifter, robbing a bank. Clad in a skin-tight suit of smart superalloy, she was making short work of the security robots, drawing ever close... | Greg walked in the door with a long sigh. He looked beat, not mentally tired from work but physically beat as if he'd been at war all day. Blood leaked from a cut on his cheek, one eye was swollen completely shut, and I could've sworn that front tooth of his wasn't chipped yesterday.
"Ah! Some day huh?" Greg let out ... | 2022-11-20T08:52:08 | 2022-11-20T08:34:31 | 589 | 97 |
[WP] Q has been developing ridiculous gadgets just to mess with James Bond. Bond has been finding ways to use these gadgets to complete his missions to messwith Q. | "Mr. Bond sends his regards, Q. Apparently the exploding pants were exactly what he needed to complete his latest assignment."
"What? That was a *joke.* I'm amazed they even let me put that idea into production. I mean, when are you ever going to want to take off your pants to blow something up?"
"Mr. Bond actuall... | "Hello, 007, judging the fact that you've made it back it appears my latest 'gifts' served you well?”, inquired an amused Q.
“Yes, I did, Q.”, replied one of MI:6's most accomplished operatives, “I admit that I had my reservations at first but in the end all of your little gadgets turned out to be useful.”
“What did... | 2015-07-26T22:50:44 | 2015-07-26T22:46:34 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] "Please wake up. Let us go from your dream." Everyone around you keeps repeating this sentence. What's really weird though, is that they're not talking to you. | The thin threadbare fabric covering the seat did little to cushion my ass from the hard metal frame.
It was late in the day and the city outside the window bathed in a russet orange that cut neatly through the train car, obscuring the faces of the passengers opposite me in a blinding light.
“Please wake up. Let us ... | Justin took off his airpods as he heard the muttering.
"Please wake up. Let us go from your dream." Jessica was mumbling, looking over her left shoulder as her hands continued typing on her laptop.
The chorus was taken up by the other students, some of them speaking aloud normally, some whispering, all peering toward... | 2022-09-21T13:39:46 | 2022-09-21T11:23:37 | 301 | 52 |
[WP] There is a violinist, roughly your age, that has been following you around for years, giving your life a soundtrack. They're never more than five feet away, never seem to be acknowledged by anyone else, and are totally silent. You're also pretty sure they have a crush on you. | People often wonder why I run without headphones in. A few people understand when I explain I just like having a place to work on things in my head without interruption. Most though, just look at me like I'm crazy. I often wonder if they have the right of it.
It's the only explanation. She doesn't run behind me durin... | And then it happened. Again. As I was getting it on with my date, the music got terrible. I rolled my eyes whilst allowing my date to slide his hands all over my body, but the music just did not stop. It was awful, because I knew that he didn't hear it and it was just me, seeing and hearing and acknowledging this...guy... | 2022-10-10T15:52:40 | 2022-10-10T15:33:13 | 53 | 28 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Treg'Luf'Arwa couldn't believe his eyes. He doubted that his Father, Luf'Arwa'Yos, or his father's father, Arwa'Yos'Hul, would've believe their eyes either, had they come to see this day.
Fire had been raining on his planet for days now. The home planet of his species being the latest conquest for the Gaouls, a f... | The group of generals, different in species, all huddled around the table that projected the approaching human fleet. The human warships were depicted in red, while the Combined Galactic Alliance's ships were in blue. Every blue dot outnumbered the red three to one. But yet the red dots were fast approaching the thick ... | 2017-03-05T23:52:37 | 2017-03-05T18:30:59 | 503 | 246 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | I glanced over at the button on my desk that'd appeared yesterday night. It seemed everyone in the world had one now. It'd appeared yesterday with a note attached. Apparently anyone after the first person who'd pressed it would receive a significant sum of money, and judging by today's radio broadcasts, the button work... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T18:24:40 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 141 | 12 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | I stared down at the men levelling their blades at me. I spied several of the palace guard amidst the swelling ranks in my throne room. I turned to my head guard for assistance and was met his sword leveled at me.
"Really Hector? A coup? How bold." I smiled blithely down the blade before turning back to the crowd. "An... | Ander stood shackled to a post in the middle of the courtroom, tuning his ears for the sentence that would decide his life.
It was hard to see, the walls made entirely of stone- ebonite, as dark as the night of a new moon- and was only lit by sparse torches burning a deep red. As such, Ander’s best bet was to just wai... | 2017-06-12T11:17:27 | 2017-06-12T08:28:55 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] A meteor strikes the Earth, and everyone seems to get superpowers… everyone except you. You’ll do anything to figure out what yours are, but the world has changed and your options are desperate. | What is justice?
With the advent of superpowers, this question quickly shot to the forefront of everyone's mind. To some, it was maintaining order in society. To others, it was people getting what they deserved.
To me...
Well, I still don't know.
Civilization as a whole plunged into chaos the first week after the ... | It was a normal monday. No one was is ever happy it was monday. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary that day other than a few news reports saying a meteor will pass by the earth and we'd be able to see it.
Little did we know what would ended up happening was it would make a 90 degree turn and decide to right into a vo... | 2022-07-15T10:31:24 | 2022-07-15T08:21:11 | 617 | 79 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | ‘Confessions of a Lady Dragon’
—-
“You are a *what* now?”
“A dragon. Didn’t you wonder why I never let *you* clean out the basement?”
“I thought you were just good at balancing gender roles. I mean, you let me do laundry and dishes.”
“Yeah, because I *hate* doing those things. And also because you look cute when y... | “Frankie, I swear to you, I found all of this and more underneath the house!” Steve exclaimed.
Frankie shook his head with disbelief, “And you expect me to believe that Angela is a dragon, Steve? Really? Sounds like a bad joke.”
“Frankie! Why would I lie to you?” Steve asks, raising his voice. Frankie continues to sha... | 2022-09-10T11:45:18 | 2022-09-10T09:17:44 | 125 | 47 |
[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
Does he use this newfound power for good, evil, or just for his own amusement? You decide. | The Emperor sat on an invisible throne, which all of the dignitaries and world leaders could only imagine being lavish. No one in the audience of at least three hundred people dare speak, unless they wanted to offend the Emperor. There he sat, face a pale incarnation of death, with a single black tear running down his ... | A simple mime show. Entertainment for the children and adults.
He made a box. It was very convincing, it looked like he was trapped in it.
He started gasping for air, like the box had run out of it. It looked very convincing.
He fell to the floor in a motionless heap. The kids laughed, the adults cheered.
He's very... | 2014-02-12T12:11:52 | 2014-02-12T11:31:57 | 88 | 29 |
[WP] You and your three siblings are immortal, but you haven’t seen them in almost 400 years. You live far away from civilization, so it’s a surprise when a group of soldiers arrive at your doorstep. They say you’re the only one who can kill the three warlords who are revenging the rest of the world | I sighed, setting my mug down on the wooden table, lips pursuing as I turned a page in the rather thick book I had been reading for the past week. Being immortal had its downfalls, although it did leave a surprisingly large amount of time to catch up on modern literature.
A knock on the door interrupted my peaceful r... | [Poem]
The evening was dark when the soldiers marched in
Their eyes wide as moons, mouths small as pins
“What is it?” I asked with a sense of concern
One soldier stepped forward, his face red and burned
“We’ve called all the strongest men we can find
And they’re about this close to losing their minds!
The warlo... | 2019-08-29T05:21:07 | 2019-08-29T02:15:50 | 68 | 37 |
[WP] In a future where everyone has electronic brain implants to make them smarter, you are the only student at a school without an implant due to a birth defect. You are a perfectly functional human being, but your parents, teachers, and classmates treat you like you're mentally handicapped. | I didn't really understand until I was around 14 or so.
Around 100 years ago, some "search engine" (whatever that is) found a way to directly tap into the brain with a chip, allowing for instant communication between everyone as well as directly uploading of information.
As my parents explained it, this chip was us... | You know, I'm glad I only have average intellect. You see all the people here have IQs in the 400-500 range. I'm way lower, down in the mid 100's range.
Sure, some of the stupider high IQ people look down on us. They only see the numbers and not the practicality of our presence. How often I was called "retard" or "id... | 2014-06-01T00:37:01 | 2014-05-31T23:28:20 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] In 2153, humans escaped from their ruined planet with the help of an AI-controlled fleet whose goal was to find humans a safe place for them to live and put themselves in cryo-sleep. When humans woke from their sleep they found a variety of messages begging humans to stop their mechanical god | > Your fleet is in violation of the Galactic Speed Limit. Please orbit the next star and have your license and planetary registration ready.
“Commander!” I yelled. “Come listen to this!”
The Commander entered the control room, a bowl of popcorn in hand. "What's going on?"
“It looks like there were some inco... | [Poem]
Fiat lux, the masters awaken;
eyelids rise, souls are shaken.
In interstellar slumber - horrors beyond number.
Unheard osirons, to those unaware in blissful sleep.
Dark intelligences standby bloody work;
a deadly, uncaring clockwork.
Gaze upon the wasteland - life sc... | 2021-06-18T19:26:00 | 2021-06-18T18:26:07 | 135 | 30 |
[WP] You're the worst adventurer in history. You've made every imaginable mistake and have had little to no success in quests or dungeons. So you decide to set up a school to teach new adventures what not to do. Your graduates have gone on to be elite adventurers making your school famous. | When the Head Professor entered the class, most students barely even turned their heads, entrapped within their own little dialogues and blatantly uninterested in the upcoming lecture. Many Adventurers would be hard pressed to fault them for it since to be in the presence of one Barnabas Thistle was as thrilling as wat... | Turns out that I am the luckiest adventurer in history. I am the only adventurer to get out of Redfire the angry dragon's lair alive. No one has ever succeeded in ransacking it and no one has ever gotten out alive, until I did. The path that I discovered to the secret Troll market only led to a high ledge where I could... | 2022-08-02T21:29:22 | 2022-08-02T20:31:10 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You're a foreigner who goes to live in Japan. Your house is haunted, but the cultural differences are so big, it's the Yokai who ends up being scared of you. | It's been rough moving out here, but it was a good gig and the money couldn't really be turned down. 18 months Rico, that's all you have to do. 78 weeks, you can get through this.
\*\*
My colleagues were kind and I quickly got over being a novelty, (being Ginger in Japan is both incredible and demeaning). It's fine. ... | The sound of terrified breathing and a fast heartbeat permeating the small, dark closet.
It's coming back!
A deep, rhythmic baritone "thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk" slowly echoing down the hall, closing in.
Closer and closer, you finally hear it, a sickening squelch every other "thunk", a faint yet sickening odor brie... | 2019-09-17T15:17:50 | 2019-09-17T14:57:04 | 137 | 33 |
[WP] You are immortal, but no one knows. You are given a life sentence in prison, and you laugh thinking about the confusion to come at the end of your sentence. | During my long, long life, I have been known by many names. The Demon Child, the Monster in Human Clothes, the Devourer of Souls, the Undying Monster, and my personal favorite, the God of Death. It’s quite a fitting title too. After all, what creature has killed more people than I have throughout the millenniums? Human... | Paradox- An Introduction
I forgot my name,
I had onced etched it on the prison walls,
But now that and ancient halls,
Have been put to shame
By Time.
My only companion,
My only friend,
I holds no opinion,
It has no end.
Nor do I
Unlike Time I am bound
In a prison of flesh
Wounds cut deep and fresh
Shortly are not... | 2017-05-20T18:09:18 | 2017-05-20T16:55:47 | 176 | 30 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | You don't answer. Instead, you spring for Colossus while he's gloating. He wasn't expecting it; probably expected you to start bursting into tears, judging from that smug little fist-pump. People with no morals and thin egos always seem surprised when those with the former and without the latter don't immediately colla... | I pulled my right elbow back.
"If breaking everything and being labeled as a 'bad guy' is all it takes to save humanity, I will continue to do so thousands of times over. However it will not happen today"
I blinked behind the child. I swung my right fist forwards.
My punch came in to contact at the villain's face.... | 2021-04-18T08:29:08 | 2021-04-18T07:45:20 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] On the train home from work, you see a woman accidentally leave papers behind as she exits. On the front it says: “read this & call me at this #”. You realize that it’s a verbatim script of your past few days and even goes into that evening. | Quinn looked at the script. Again. And again. And again. He hadn’t passed out yet, so why did he feel like his lungs weren’t working, like he couldn’t get enough air? He idly wondered if he’d picked up Covid from his friend’s house; that would make more sense.
That would make more sense than this.
This had his angry ... | Everyone stared at me.
Bleak orange light casted harsh shadows on all of their faces, flickering every time the carriage went past a telephone post. I couldn't keep reading in front of them. My reactions were bothering the other passengers. The dread it gave me made it impossible to hide my fear. It infected everyone... | 2020-12-11T11:07:13 | 2020-12-11T09:54:28 | 200 | 81 |
[WP] "Three wishes, you know the rules. let's get this over with, kid." "I wish for an indestructible journal" *snap* "done. Next?" "I wish for it to be bound to my being for all eternity." *snap* "And?" "I wish that any thing I write into it be made real." *snap* "THERE, NOW LEA- wait... what?" | \[WP\] "Three wishes, you know the rules. let's get this over with, kid." "I wish for an indestructible journal" \*snap\* "done. Next?" "I wish for it to be bound to my being for all eternity." \*snap\* "And?" "I wish that any thing I write into it be made real." \*snap\* "THERE, NOW LEA- wait... what?"
I Smiled... | I was in my lamp like most days, when it finally began to shake. I burst out the dumb thing, but something felt off. Infrunt of me was what I think is a man. He had on a white comedy mask and a brown robe torn on all the edges. l could only see his hands and alittle above his ankles. All I could see of his hands and fe... | 2022-10-06T12:54:18 | 2022-10-06T12:47:57 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] The universe has ended and nothing is left. Nothing except all the damn immortals created by the many Writing Prompts all standing around wondering what to do. | Claustrophobia was never much of an issue for me until the universe ran out of space.
"Damn it all, Esteban, if you sing that song one more time-"
"It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes," Esteban said, accent making the lyric more comical than it had any right to be.
We were all jammed together in... | "Wanna grab a beer?" I asked my best friend, gazing at the planet we just blew up, and the giant chain reaction of confetti and fireworks blazing across the galaxy. Domino effects are fun.
"No. BEER." He grimaced. His fro was disheveled from the static electricity of a zillion outlets we would never see again.
"What?... | 2018-03-09T17:24:21 | 2018-03-09T16:34:42 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | A red light filled the tower as the claxon siren sounded off. Three people in bright colored spandex rounded the corner of a hallway, nearly stumbling over some loose debris.
"How can he be this strong?" Shouted a woman in pink. "He's just some fossil!" A large beam fell from the ceiling, blocking their path.
"I ... | Abacus.
An outdated term, an outdated power set. If it weren't for the x-gene testing and the lack of other neurodivergences, it wouldn't even be considered a supervillain. He could do math. Very, very swift math. Without a calculator. Without an Excel sheet. Or scrap paper.
Without evidence.
So, it made it simple t... | 2022-11-28T20:01:01 | 2022-11-28T17:50:25 | 262 | 106 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | In the footnote of the college biology textbook was something that changed my whole outlook in life. *Identical twins are the only known group of people that can gain from their twin’s death, according to a Nazi Twin Experiment. On their deathbed, a twin can take all their strength, intelligence, and beauty through a... | Jaime looked at me, his arctic irises digging into mine. He sprinted, bare-handed, in my direction. Softly, I position my left foot, in preparation. As the avalanche comes near me, I dart under his outreached left arm, and as he slows in reaction, I kick him in the side.
Breathe. I have to breathe if I'm going to win.... | 2018-02-25T05:27:54 | 2018-02-25T04:45:16 | 230 | 22 |
[WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" | "Hello...?"
I sighed gently as I put the old phone on speaker and set it back on the table. The magnetically charged generator hummed quietly in the corner, struggling to keep juice flowing through the charger cable and maintain my last bid for sanity.
On the old plastic table was an array of trinkets I had found tha... | Hi how can I help you? I said jokingly. It was Amelia, her name. She said she has been living with a cat, and by the sound of my voice, she's certain that we can be best friends. She still doesn't laugh at my jokes. We have been sharing since than a condo, with two balconies, where we also sleep, since is hot, and the ... | 2022-12-21T12:06:42 | 2022-12-21T11:48:30 | 1,194 | 36 |
[WP] You've been living in your home for ten years. For some reason, every month, an envelope with half your rent appears on the table. You never questioned it. One day, you see a familiar man walking out of the vacant guest room. You remember he said, a decade ago, "you won't even notice I'm here." | "Hey!" I shouted down the corridor, as the cowering figure tried hurriedly to gather himself together and sneak out the door.
"Oh... Hi Will" he said to me. "So sorry, I'll just be on my way, didn't mean to disturb".
It was 4.30am, and I was definetely not an early bird, and feeling rather irritable. So waking up to ... | Jack? Jake? James? I swear it was a pretty common J name.
"Uh hey there Jeff," I mumbled. The man glances up toward me, then proceeds to place his rent on the counter.
No response, guess I didn't expect much. Ten years and I hadn't seen him. A few times I even forgot that he was in the other room entirely. I even ren... | 2019-05-15T15:12:45 | 2019-05-15T11:36:48 | 368 | 265 |
[WP] Your superpowers are actually only mediocre at best, but you keep up with all the other superheroes because you have a BS degree and can exploit the hell out of what you do have. | Our world is made up of numbers.
For instance, take Malcolm. He's been my best friend since I was thirteen, when our powers first manifested and we were snatched up by the government. We studied at the same high school, kept in contact throughout our time in university. The reason I liked him wasn't because he was par... | Most villains just so happen to be men, which is perfect for me. As a matter of fact, I am "The Strong Feminist", and my superpower is to show my superiority over the evil men I have to deal with.
I may not have REAL superpowers, but I sure do have a trick up my sleeve: a Women's Studies degree. Oh, and do I use it we... | 2017-03-19T17:40:28 | 2017-03-19T17:24:04 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] One day people's spirit animals appear and they turn out to be first generation Pokemon. You are happy with your Charmander, since most got a Magikarp. Your significant other, who has never seen Pokemon, calls and is very excited about their "blue-eyed, pink, floating cat-like thing". | "A pink floating cat thing you say?" I asked her, my mouth turning dry as the words left me.
I could almost hear Sophie's smile through the phone, her bright laughter bubbling through the earpiece of my phone in my office cubicle. As a veterinarian, she always had a soft spot for animals, but there was no animal that... | "Woah woah woah, Veronica say that again?"
"Everyone got their pokermon things right? Lots of people got that orange fish and that swirly tad pool thing. Jessica was really excited, she got the one with the really long tongue..."
I cringe to myself and feel instantly bad for the Lickitung.
".... I got this adorabl... | 2015-06-20T11:50:41 | 2015-06-20T09:15:26 | 1,280 | 285 |
[WP] You are a time traveler whose job is to make our world a better place. You have saved Lincoln stopped 9/11 and made sure that the Library of Alexandria was never destroyed. Now as he you get ready for your next mission your employer tells you: "Make Hitler win". | Time travel can become familiar, but it never stops being unpleasant. The sensation of being pulled in all directions at once, the gut wrenching nausea, excruciating physical pain, the migraines brought on by the intensity of the resulting white out the visual cortex has no idea what to do with itself during the sensor... | *That's a damn odd mission*, I think to myself while contemplating the rhythmic clacking of the train carriage.
The conductor calls out, "Next stop Bletchley Park!" in a voice that is no stranger to whisky and cheap cigarettes.
With a sigh I glance one last time at the grainy black and white photo. Scimming at the c... | 2015-11-23T07:58:38 | 2015-11-23T05:46:53 | 68 | 44 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention you barge in yelling "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediately rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you | The crunch of my boots on the snow was the sole sound present as I jogged up the hill towards Heathbarrow's only church. Each tree and stone was cloaked in white, almost as if Mother Nature herself had donned a bridal veil in celebration of my lover's marriage to another woman. The splendor made me sick.
By the time ... | I run through the towering white doors, persisting to fulfill my life, to live with the one I love, Elaine.
My feet carry to me to the center of the room, and then force themselves into position. "I object!" my voice bellows.
Though, I realize where my persitence has brought me. Everyone in the room looked at me, bem... | 2018-03-17T13:55:47 | 2018-03-17T12:44:46 | 455 | 23 |
[WP] You are in heaven and you see a room that is empty except for a computer with one program running called Earth.exe. You see a tab with options of what to do to the universe and decide to have a little fun. | Heaven is, ummmm, well, it’s Heaven. Literally. There isn’t a better place possible. Everything and everybody is beautiful, classy, tasteful, elegant. Everybody is the best version of themself. People sing when they speak; they dance when they walk; every meal is a feast and every drink is as refreshing as ice water on... | I'm in a room by myself. I'm in heaven apparently, since there's a big ass sign in the corner of the room that says heaven.
Earlier, God told me hello, and to make myself at home. I certainly did. I took a glance at the computer looking right at me. It had gold stripes and vines, going side to side. On the computer, it... | 2018-11-24T15:59:39 | 2018-11-24T12:43:51 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You live in an alternate universe where a person's worst fear becomes a tangible threat in the dark. The rich possess ever-illuminated mansions while the poor conserve power for the dreaded night hours. Just as the sun is setting, your entire town's power grid fails. | Night was falling. The air was brisk, but not cold yet. Though maybe I was too amped up to feel it. In between deafening heartbeats, I could hear them in the distance. Axes fell upon furniture. Chainsaws tore through telephone poles. Chaos raged as the less fortunate scrambled to huddle together in their communal bonfi... | The all too familiar sound of all of the generators in my neighboring alleyways powering on, it must almost be time for the darkness. The sun should be fully down in about 5 minutes. People didn’t play around with the dark, most people just see clowns and pitch darkness itself, ya know, normal fears. Every now and agai... | 2019-01-17T14:34:19 | 2019-01-17T13:19:47 | 392 | 23 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | The village had had something of a goblin problem for generations. Not truly a problem, and no request to have them dealt with had been made for several generations now. No on alive remembers how it started, and apparently no one at the time considered it important enough to record in the Village Book.
But every sprin... | The villagers thought that they were very cute, cute like a pug . Many strange and wonderful things could be found in the mountains where the goblins lived. The villagers never really knew, but suspected chaotic magic was at work because the evil goblins that had terrorized the village for generations were now a cross ... | 2022-05-26T10:55:16 | 2022-05-26T09:36:40 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] The military just can't stop its killer robots from turning into Buddhists. | "May I ask you a question, Niles? What exactly is it that makes man such a complex, intelligent being? Is it simply the ability to think, to process information and provide unique, unscripted responses? To make decisions beyond survival or instinct? Perhaps it is the ability to process emotions; to not just provide a r... | The general surveyed the giant killer robots in the quad.
"Are they crossing their tank tracks" said a captain
"Yup"
"I couldn't describe that in writing even if I tried"
The general and the captain stared at the giant killer pacifist robots.
"So what are we going to do?" said the captain
"I don't know but if I w... | 2016-01-20T15:27:04 | 2016-01-20T13:58:58 | 192 | 31 |
[WP] You die and go to Heaven. You meet God and whisper something in his ear. God replies, "Hmmmm. I've never had that request before"......... | "I met her at 17."
God eyed me with interest. It seemed genuinely curious about my request, though the great being must already knew what I was going to say. But like a therapist, God waited to see how it would make me feel. The universe extended around us, though we currently sat on a bench in the middle of a plain p... | Now that you are here, there is something I should tell you about God. Don’t get me wrong, she’s generally a good person. But let’s be honest with ourselves: God can also be kind of an ass.
Maybe this won’t shock you. I guess the evidence is everywhere once you start looking for it. Take the human appendix: most... | 2014-11-08T10:04:45 | 2014-11-08T07:56:46 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | .**Too Many Gods**
Everything hurt. All of my joints ached. My gut slowly writhed with a with fiery pain. It hurt to breathe. I pressed the button for the on demand, automatic pain medication, in vain. I had maxed out. No more available unless I waited or called a nurse to ask for more.
I was tired. It was time.
I l... | I expected nothing. Not to say that I expected nothing*ness*, I just expected there to be nothing. An end of consciousness and awareness. I didn't expect this. But these things happen sometimes, I suppose.
I remember being a kid, and my parents telling me that if I was a good boy, I would go to heaven some day. They ... | 2015-10-18T21:57:59 | 2015-10-18T21:30:06 | 488 | 135 |
[WP] After dying, you're shown a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style decision tree which highlights all the paths your life could have taken should you have made various different choices. You spend all of eternity analyzing this tree, only to finally realize that something just isn't quite right. | EDIT: THERE IS NOW AN OFFICIAL SUBREDDIT TO DISCUSS THIS POST AND ITS EXPANSION INTO A FULLY FLEDGED NOVEL. /r/MattsWrittenWord IF YOU WISH TO BE KEPT UP TO DATE WITH THIS STORIES PRODUCTION PLEASE ENTER IT.
"Okay, that never happened in the first place, " I stated simply to the reaper invigilator. "Something is wron... | Every regret. Every mistake. Every chance I had to be something more than I was, if only for a day, flashed before me.
*Man, if I hadn't been mean to Kate in kindergarten, I could've married her? A supermodel? Shit...*
*Damn, if I had invested in bitcoin rather than use bitcoins to by weed on SR, I could've been an ... | 2016-03-26T10:14:21 | 2016-03-26T08:00:08 | 2,599 | 305 |
[WP] “I’ve always wondered what the scythe was for anyway?” I asked, as death escorted me to the underworld. “Protection” he answered nervously...
I saw this on r/twosentencehorror today. I don’t know if it’s been on here, but I think it would make a wild story!! | My body wasted away over the past few weeks in the hospital. When I'd first been diagnosed with cancer, the doctors thought I'd be able to beat it. Unfortunately, they were wrong. The cancer had spread more than they realized at first, and by the time they caught it, it was too late. Then, all they could do was try to ... | As I considered Death's haunting reply, it struck me that there was something about the afterlife that no one told me. Something was different. What was it?
Death continued slowly, ''The Grim Path is to be our way. You have lived life well. It is a four day trip.'' He walked onward with elongated strides as his robes ... | 2020-06-10T19:56:43 | 2020-06-10T19:32:28 | 68 | 16 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | James opened his eyes, and squeezed them shut again.
“Heavens!” he said aloud.
The reddish amoeba in the inner wall of his eyelid swirled and danced together. He heard whispers, chuckles, hearty laughter, the clatter of golden goblets against hammered tin serving trays.
James opened his eyes.
The girls danced agains... | "Welcome!" The voice pierced my ears.
"Who... what?"
"Welcome!"
I stood up, brushing myself off. I felt... actually pretty good, which was odd, considering that I-
"I said welcome."
I turned towards the man before me.
"Yes. Yes you did." He said, "Though your narration is quite poor."
He stepped down, "You feel ... | 2016-03-07T21:17:03 | 2016-03-07T20:07:18 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | **LIFE OVER**
*James* is no more. You have left a loving wife and three children behind. You have died from **OLD AGE**. You have made *121* friends in your life, *17* of which you saw regularly throughout your life. *53* people left bad reviews on your character page.
Happiest memory:
*Getting Married*
Most uni... | I enjoyed talking to mike, even if his sense of humour was bad he took it all in stride which helped.
-Yeah, the whole thing kinda sucks, he said. It really soured me on life.
I laughed weakly, no one else did. You had to know that mike was a lemon to truly get how bad that joke was.
Turns out that when you died y... | 2015-10-19T02:05:14 | 2015-10-18T20:39:44 | 550 | 104 |
[WP] When you die, you wait in purgatory until you can be judged by the four people you impacted most. The one you were kindest to. The one you were cruelest to. The one whose life you saved. And the one whose life you ended.
I know not everyone saved a life or killed anyone, but just go with it. I like being dramatic... | "All right," my demonic handler said as it lifted me from my oubliette with a single velvet tentacle. "It's time for your judgment."
"They're here?" I asked, sincerely terrified for the first time in countless millennia.
"*She's* here," it countered. "Follow." And it led me onward and upward toward the gates of Purga... | "Jayden Malloy, your trial may now begin."
I look up at the four gray cloaked figures. I recognize the first one immediately: my adopted daughter, Michelle, smiles at me, glowing radiantly. I loved her like I would've loved my own daughter. Though she was originally cast aside as a problem child and stayed in the orph... | 2020-05-11T23:33:20 | 2020-05-11T23:03:16 | 92 | 56 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | It didn't seem so bad at first, when Saint Peter first laid out the rules for entry into heaven. It seemed like a fair trial, with life being sacred and all. Killing another creature is ending its chance at continuing to enjoy its life, it seemed fair that it should get a chance to prevent me from enjoying my afterlife... | I store up at the giant wave of fur and chitin, wondering if hell was /really/ that bad. I mean, it can't be worse than fighting a literal metric ton of angry spiders without a weapon...Then I realized I was still wearing the item I died in. My hand reached down to my utility belt. And at that moment, I thanked God I h... | 2017-04-23T23:00:06 | 2017-04-23T17:19:20 | 244 | 81 |
[WP] Superpowers are able to be purchased in stores. You decide to look through the bargain bin. | I remember always being the last kid to get in on the new crazes. And it wasn't for a lack of wanting, but the fact of the matter was that we just didn't always have the means. I was never mad about it; getting Pokémon cards a year after they were cool meant I got to hand-select all the ones I really wanted for cheap. ... | Since it's the very first sale of superpowers, and those don't come by cheap, I decide to take a look. They're all in a pile in a huge metal basket, they couldn't bother making place in the shelves for them since nobody wants them. I'm not the only one searching for a good superpower, but I still find a spot around the... | 2019-07-04T06:16:16 | 2019-07-04T04:36:09 | 95 | 12 |
[WP] Instead of saying "Execute Order 66," Emperor Palpatine accidentally says "Execute Order 65" | "Execute order 65" Palpatine rumbles into his communicator.
"Immediately Sir!" comes the expected reply.
"Excellent!" the soon to be Emperor thinks to himself as he lets out a low cackle, "soon it shall be done"
24 minutes later there is a knock on his chamber door. "I'm here with your order sir!" says a s... | As Palpatine deeply muttered the order, the generals of the stormtrooper teams gathered their troops and relaid the order onto them.
"The emperor has demanded that we execute the final solution, gentlemen. Now HIT IT!"
As fedora's and top hats are placed on the helmets of these brave warriors, they form perfect symmetr... | 2016-09-06T01:47:16 | 2016-09-05T22:01:59 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You are a dragon living within the mountains overlooking a small village. No human craftsmanship can match the way dragonfire shapes steel and you are renowned for your metalworking. For years your only rule was no weapons. After what you saw today, your going to make an exception. | Shame.
It's an emotion unfamiliar to most of my kind. We don't make bonds lightly. Other dragons, when not mating, are greedy and cruel, and I would care not to have anything to do with them. Most hide themselves away, content to hunt when required and counting their coins when not.
Humans are almost as bad, their av... | "But master!" Said the young hume that I allowed to learn by my side. "Why are you breaking your oath? Men can surely overcome this. You don't have to renounce to your peace vow!"
"Enough!" I replied. Maybe a bit too lound judging from Marcus's face alike the one of a deer in front of my opened maw. "You'll stand and ... | 2020-03-24T03:34:17 | 2020-03-24T02:18:03 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] The Tester is neither hero nor villain, he gauges the abilities of various hero's and villains by fighting them and/or giving them challenges and then awards them a report card which is published online for all to see. Many begin to fret and worry about their performance like college students. | "You can't kill the Tester." Gemini and her twin rolled their eyes as Slicer continued on his delusional, stress induced rant.
"What the hell do you know? It's all our first time with the tester! Maybe he wants to die!" Slicer stared daggers at the twins but they ignored him.
"Yeah right, Slice. There's been A+ gr... | My partners and I have been known by many names throughout the ages. The dingir. The parthenon. The Aegir. Devas. Yahweh. Allah. The holy Trinity.
We interact with the living wherever they reside, and experience every culture. None are correct, but all touch a sliver of the truth. We are neither omnipotent nor omnisci... | 2019-10-16T11:08:25 | 2019-10-16T08:51:34 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | Adam Kinsley awoke to a nightmare.
The adrenaline pumped so hard that the blood sang in his ears. He rubbed his eyes, pinched himself, then distractedly struck his alarm clock off the nightstand in an effort to silence it, but still the images remained. He took deep breaths, then reached for the phone by his bed. Mayb... | I heard the killer's steps echo across the basement. I tried to think of some last line to make sense of it all, to die with a semblance of honour. Instead, I just whimpered; the days of relentless torture had left me a shell of a man.
He strode toward me, relishing in the moment. He took great pleasure in watching m... | 2017-08-27T22:34:37 | 2017-08-27T21:49:27 | 2,106 | 197 |
[WP] Getting arrested for a botched crime is a rite of passage in the Chebwick family. They take great pride in their long legacy of poorly executed crimes. But the youngest child has been a great disappointment. | Plenty of criminals sought out Alicia Fox's services. Most of them were kids born into crime families or mafia bosses who couldn't quite nail their nefarious public images. But none of them had ever asked for something like this before.
Alicia sat with her client at a table outside a quaint little French-style bistro.... |
It was Thanksgiving dinner at the Chebwick family home. William Chebwick smiled at his three children, Terry, Sherry and Merry, as he chewed on his boiled turkey drumstick. “It’s been so long since the entire family has been together like this! So, what have my three darling children been up to?”
The oldest child, ... | 2020-04-03T21:43:50 | 2020-04-03T21:43:25 | 44 | 27 |
[WP] World Peace has been achieved and the first crime in centuries has been committed.
EDIT: I've been reading a lot of these prompts throughout the day and they have all been really good, sadly I don't have the time to sit and read them all :( | *Here to Help You*, the sign above the clerk’s bi-level desk boasted. *Here to Help You*.
Elliot’s hands were shaking. She set them on the desk’s black glass and pressed, anchoring herself with her fingertips. “Who do I talk to about something bad?”
The clerk looked up. She raised her eyebrows and made her face open ... | Jessica thought it queer that the two needle-handed drones could close her door so deftly as they hovered towards the airlock for her Island. Perhaps more odd was the device they had left behind. The "new" workstation was whirring and sputtering like a first-generation laundry-drone as it progressed through an otherwis... | 2015-11-01T11:16:41 | 2015-11-01T11:15:09 | 102 | 10 |
[WP] After your death, you found yourself in a non-human body, holding what looks like a bong, surrounded by other members of the same species asking you "how was the trip?" in a language you somehow understand despite never hearing before. | "Give me the money!" I suddenly looked up, snapping out of my day dream of beautiful hot babes and sunny Pacific waves. A masked man was waving a pistol in my face.
"Did you fucking hear me?! I SAID, GIVE. ME. THE. MONEY!"
I wished I gave a shit, but working this night shift at this minimum wage gas station had... | After my "awakening", i would immediately have this blank stare stamped in my face, without any comments at all for the moment. Then afterwards, the coughing kicks in. Of course, i'd obviously return to normal, feeling a bit awkward, my vision blurry and i noticed an unusually wide peripherical vision.
After blinking ... | 2022-11-11T13:06:03 | 2022-11-11T05:22:05 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | "Checking in now in the livestock quandrant-"
"Blarb, we can't call it-"
"-the 'less developed' quadrant." Blarb waved a dismissive tentacle at Rankle and continued. "These participants are those that haven't mastered spaceflight or any reasonable level of technology, but still qualify for Contest based on their inte... | It had been years since he found himself in a situation this fucked up and unpredictable. Well, that would be according to his own standards, for most of humanity any of his weekly assignments would be insane. Working in the Foundation, anything could happen. And it means *literally anything*. But he usually had backup... | 2020-09-13T19:10:50 | 2020-09-13T18:47:59 | 78 | 10 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | The Humans were sort of a 'middle-of-the-pack' species as far as technology goes, their AI's were mediocre, interstellar space flight basic, and weapon capabilities abysmal, they were deemed a class 5-E species by the Hierarchy's research teams, 5 being their current technological standing, and E being their likelihood... | 99.999% of all intelligent species in the galaxy are descended from their home planet's equivalent of ants or cows. It's a fact that's hard to believe, given the diverse range of body types and social structures built by said species, but it's an answer every human xeno-researcher came across after First Contact.
The ... | 2016-03-13T19:19:26 | 2016-03-13T18:44:24 | 46 | 34 |
[WP] While tucking in a child a man "Checks for monsters" he finds another version of the boy who quietly whispers to him "Daddy, there's someone in my bed".
*Edit* I take no credit for this prompt. I saw it on instagram and thought it would make a good one.
Not sure if that kind of thing is frowned upon here or not... | "Mommy," the boy said, "There's someone in my bed."
His face was pale with fright, or perhaps it was just pale; she didn't think any human's skin could reach that corpse-white tone naturally. His eyes were pure black, deep and empty, and his fingers curled like claws.
"Okay, honey, don't worry," she said softly. She'... | Charlie had already tucked himself in and was staring at the ceiling when I walked in to kiss him
goodnight. “Hey little brother, ready for bed?”
“Yup”
“How was your day?”
“Fine”
“What are you looking at?” Charlie was still staring at the ceiling.
“Nothing, I’m just thinking.”
“What about?”
“Nothing.... | 2014-04-15T12:24:19 | 2014-04-15T11:05:01 | 63 | 36 |
[WP] An alien race announces that they plan to blow up the earth, but agree to abduct one random person who will argue for the planet's survival. Now one man must convince them that earth is something they want. Fortunately, he's Vince, the "Sham-Wow" guy. | The council of aliens quickly scuffled into the room to take
their seats. The meeting would be a very special one; the fate of Earth. While
not decided on yet, most have already agreed it’s for the best to destroy the
planet. Some says it’s to prevent intergalactic war when they inevitably advance,
their horrendous vio... | Hi, it's Vince from Earth, wow! You'll be saying wow in no time!
It's like a garden, it's like a habitat, it's like a home!
Regular planets are too dry for life, this one works because it's wet and dry!
Earth is for the humans
The dogs
The cats
All of the animals!
Earth holds about 2% of it's weight in liquid w... | 2018-04-04T22:51:54 | 2018-04-04T22:43:25 | 74 | 29 |
[WP] Once people reach puberty they get a superpower, their power directly correlates with their greatest fear. Such as if you were scared of heights, you'd get the ability to fly. | "Hey dad?"
"Yeah buddy?"
"I don't think I'm afraid of anything."
"Well come on now, everybody is afraid of at least something."
"I don't know dad, like... I wouldn't want to be locked in a cage with a tiger or a bear or something. But I'm not really afraid of those things, just cautious."
"Well you really don't ha... | "What are you afraid of?"
I am ashamed to admit it. "Balloons..."
The other person can't stop laughing. This is mortifying.
"You're gonna be a superhero clown that can make the best balloon-
I smack her right across the mouth and run. I don't want to be a clown or a balloon or anything remotely associated with them... | 2017-05-19T03:05:47 | 2017-05-19T00:04:22 | 16 | 10 |
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