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[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | *...subscribe.'*
Peter sat bolt upright in his bed without a single trace of his afternoon nap lingering in the depths of his vibrant blue eyes. Those very eyes, his only notable feature, glanced slowly across his apartment's bedroom as if seeking to reaffirm reality by witnessing its familiar confines. The Dark Si... | “.. And Subscribe.”
*The booming voice of God finishes its monologue over Times Square and presumably the rest of the world*
The streets erupt into panic and everyone begins to scream and sprint in a random direction
Shocked, I stand still absorbing all of what just happened before I’m knocked to the ground by some ... | 2019-08-27T10:40:27 | 2019-08-27T10:39:12 | 63 | 15 |
[WP] "100% of people who drink water will die" sounds like a dumb statistic, but you are 900 years old and very thirsty. | My name is... well I suppose that doesn't matter. Last year I took on a very interesting "apprentice". I helped him grow into a young man somewhat capable of taking on his own challenges. The last time I saw him, he was heading off to confront his father. I wonder how he is going?
Anyway, I don't think I have long, s... | “100% of people who drink water die”. That does sound like a cliché a little bit doesn’t it? Well, let me tell you something. It sounds a lot worse when you are 900 years old, you are thirsty and the only liquid in a 1000 miles radius is a plastic bottle of the transparent poison.
It all started almost a thousand ye... | 2017-04-18T09:11:18 | 2017-04-18T08:01:59 | 96 | 30 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Ship YZ089 has haunted the Ortalem species for years. The ship had been part of an exploratory program in search of C40H56. Ortalem biological functions had so completely evolved that they longer died of any cause except C40H56 deficiency. Without it, their bodies would harden like stone until it killed them. Just a ti... | Captain Gargul stood in his state room watching the endless dark pass by his window. Occasional flecks of subspace would speed by briefly lighting the room with a joyful brightness. He prided himself on this state room. This window. It *meant something* to have earned his position. To have crawled his way up the r... | 2017-11-08T19:38:11 | 2017-11-08T19:06:31 | 89 | 19 |
[WP] After a period where Lizard People, Aliens, Shapeshifters, Werewolves, Vampires, Guardian Angels, Cyborgs and the like were all outed as hiding as humans, it’s realized that, between all the hidden races acting like people, there are no actual humans left on earth. | The Vampires were the first to notice--or the first to complain at least. The Guardian Angels had known obviously, but they weren't about to say anything (they never do). The Vampires--all five species had been on the run for years though, and finally had taken to keeping their own private food sources--blood banks a... | Human No More
Tabatha sat on the couch in her small one-bedroom apartment like she did every night after work. She was watching the news station, although she admitted to herself that she found the material presented to be depressing at times. While listening, she would absently stroke her cat, Bently, who was lying c... | 2018-02-01T11:41:48 | 2018-02-01T10:19:12 | 1,164 | 39 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | "BETTING CLOSED" the sign flashed. the crowd roared at the appearance of Ikken Tren, the current champion. Flanked by her longtime rival Kuu Hy. The two were formidable, each with dozens of wins in conventional bouts. Kuu had been undefeated in the arenas until their battle with Tren.
"So, hear what we're fighting tod... | Human, Humans:
Humans are a cryptid in Betelgusian folklore. They are a relatively small, hairless creature, bi-pedal creature said to inhabit an water planet in one of the outer arms. Scientists discount the existence of Humans and consider them to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax rather t... | 2017-11-08T21:28:26 | 2017-11-08T19:25:17 | 119 | 30 |
[WP] For the last 5 years you've been finding random post-it notes that tell you what to do in difficult situations, and each time it has led to successful outcomes. Today, while arriving at your bosses closed office door for a meeting, you see a note with familiar handwriting. It says "RUN!" | When I got to my seat, I saw a little pink post it on it. It read "RUN!"
I'd received these notes before. The first one I received was weird, and I thought a friend of mine was screwing with me. It read:
"Tell Julia in cubicle 15 you love her highlights."
Deciding to humor the note, I walked over to Julia, noticing ... | That's when the ground started shaking.
It was light at first, but noticeable. Like a dizzy spell, but obviously not, since a pen was rolling. So Danielle ran.
She almost face-planted onto the elevator, turning abruptly for the stairs. Before she could process whether she needed to apologize to that obstacle, she was... | 2018-11-24T22:47:38 | 2018-11-24T20:58:36 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] After world peace is attained, it is discovered that there is a fixed amount of evil that must be present in the world - or the world will balance itself. You are a member of the U.N’s newest department: The Ministry for Necessary Evils. | “6 months left and we haven’t made dent”
The councilmen were silent, they stared into papers, walls, ceilings, anything that wasn’t another human beings eyes. 6 months ago the event had begun, high in the sky all of humanity saw the timer. There were no instructions spoken but everyone knew what had to be done, as if ... | Being a supervisor was tough....you see it all started with a body.
Management wanted us to produce a fucking dead body!
As a supervisor it was my job to make sure the low level cronies did their job, parking the car by some British Lake red-eyed to all hell after a 10 hour flight followed by another 3 hour drive f... | 2020-10-23T13:16:27 | 2020-10-23T12:37:05 | 75 | 20 |
[WP] Ten years ago a race of shapeshifting aliens attempted to infiltrate and take over the world. They were all rooted out and killed. All except you. | I gave up on infiltrating earth to take it over a long time ago.
I’ll say that now to get it out of the way, I just want to make it clear that I’ve got no intention of taking this place over.
As I sit under the blazing hot cabana, I smile, right now I’m a mid 30’s man with short brown hair, a muscular body and a c... | I miss my brothers and sisters. Their black blood stained the hands of the scientists that cut them open to try to discover how they worked. They had goals of recreating our active camouflage to use as a weapon in their pathetic wars.
I alone survived, and that was purely by accident. I vowed to take my vengeance... | 2016-07-28T11:42:18 | 2016-07-28T11:27:11 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] It's a story repeated in our galaxy a thousand times over. Without exception, whenever a biological species creates AI they will ultimately go to war, ended in their extinction. That is except Earth, somehow humanity and their AI creations coexist peacefully with one freely defending the other. | With the fires swirling around our crashed shuttle, I stumbled out of the wreckage. I was looking for the human, expecting the worst. A human couldn’t survive this impact. It was too brutal, even with personal force fields. What happened? Random engine failure? No... we just were serviced on Lunar 1. I began replaying ... | "Sire, here is your daily, appointed dose of tea consumption"
"Peebo Zyeck, I told you to drop that kind of language. I'm no more than a friend of yours, and "drinking tea" is a much better phrase for god's sake"
"Excuse my manners, sire.... I mean, George WW. So, what is consequently.... I mean, what will be next in... | 2021-05-01T09:43:29 | 2021-05-01T07:11:45 | 94 | 51 |
[WP] You have a very mundane talent, so mundane that you've never shown it to anyone. The first time you do, as a party trick, you're told that your talent is physically impossible. | "Hey everyone, watch what Jen can do!"
The night has reached the point when standing up is problematic. We have given up on the facade of being a sophisticated, standing party that we put up at the beginning of the night. Now we're splayed out on the couches and floor. This lazy, increasingly loud occupation is punctu... | lots of people have silly little tricks they can do with their hands. you can wiggle your fingers in strange ways, bend them in any sort of direction. you can make your thumb touch your wrist or you can bend your whole hand at the wrist. so many kids in my grade school did all sorts of those things and they're so much ... | 2015-11-28T11:43:25 | 2015-11-28T10:47:01 | 380 | 28 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | There I was, my friends, in the marble courtroom, on a chair surrounded on all sides by heavy stone platforms. The room was nearly empty, but it was filling up with people and animals, and it must have been five minutes after I sat down that the trial started.
I'd heard the details of this process in the waiting room ... | *Wake up in a fiery courtroom*
**Main:** Wow! what the.....
**Judge:** Welcome to Hell, you are brought here today to determine if you will go to heaven or if you will spend eternity being punished here in hell.
**Main:** What, who's deciding that?
**Judge:** It is up to the animals you have interacted with thro... | 2016-03-24T15:18:13 | 2016-03-24T11:03:54 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity is so famously hard to faze that other species regularly ask them to deal with nightmarish situations. That there are concepts and sounds they fear at a Genetic level is therefore equal parts odd ("Those things aren't That scary") and terrifying ("What the hell made Them that scared?") | "Please!" X'rthor sobbed into the communicator. "Send in the human!"
X'athir sighed and rubbed a tentacle over its abdomen before turning the seat around. It was no expert in human body language, but none of the three bay humans had seemed to react much. "They need a human," X'athir said apologetically.
The humans be... | "Sir, I have analyzed the data, and there may be a problem."
"Yes, lieutenant?"
"Sir, you asked me to investigate Human fears, and there is a rather disturbing trend."
"Out with it, lieutenant. I don't have all day."
"Well, sir, it is very strange, but . . . well, their greatest fear seems to be things that look like ... | 2022-05-14T04:07:51 | 2022-05-13T20:30:44 | 1,630 | 633 |
[WP] In the Land of Perfection, there is no imperfection. Which is why George was confused at the single, absurdly tiny crack in the sidewalk. | "You seem troubled, young man."
Following the old, withered voice, I turned my head and found myself face-to-face with an old, withered man. He had the most serene smile plastered on his face, as to be expected. Where we live, a frown should never be displayed. His eyes were closed, yet he exudes a sense of knowingnes... | “What is this?” I asked to every passerby who came by. They all thought I was crazy and I know I do I mean a person finding something new in the land of perfection? Preposterous. But I stared at the small thing. On the ground, I committed every detail to memory I planned to study it more on my free time which I had a l... | 2021-12-21T10:21:02 | 2021-12-21T09:12:14 | 73 | 46 |
[WP] You've had a dashcam for years. One day you get into an accident and play it back. You hear another voice in ALL of the recordings talking to you that you've never heard before. | "JOHN!!!"
John awoke, fear grasping his heart. He sat up in bed momentarily somewhere else, somewhere he hated going. It took a few seconds for the pain from his brown to meet his brain. His hand moved to forehead. He traced the stitches above his right eye slowly, remembering waking up in that white bed for the secon... | “What the hell are you swearing at? Of COURSE this happened, this has been waiting to happen for years! Never use your turn signal, do you? Neeeever bother to look to see if there’s anyone in your blind spot, huh? ‘Oh, durr, I’m David, I don’t need to check my blind spot, hurr durr, other cars will make way for me.’ We... | 2018-10-05T09:26:21 | 2018-10-05T08:56:43 | 59 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | The man led them through the gallery at a brisk pace. He was dressed sharply, suited with an impeccable mauve tie and tailored waistcoat. The corridors they walked through were carved from pristine, white marble – their footsteps echoed loudly as they traversed the wing of the museum.
Without a moment’s warning, he st... | The man looked at me with incredulity painted on his face. It was very clear that whatever he'd expected, I wasn't it. Wearing a tailored suit, handmade Italian shoes and carrying a rosary around my neck. And then there was the icy blue skin, the black eyeballs and the red irises
"You the vatican's man?" The mortal f... | 2018-08-27T17:05:28 | 2018-08-27T16:44:38 | 38 | 13 |
[wp] A man dies and goes to hell only to find out he was supposed to go to heaven...after he already toppled Satan and started a reign of terror the likes of which had never been seen.
Sorry for the rpost the first one was filled with grammatical/spelling errors | Joseph was mostly indifferent to the noise around him. He scanned the room, which had now been fully decorated to his tastes. Perhaps someone less.... sadistic, than him, would have been a better choice for a ruler. But he had earned his right to the throne none the less. Several weeks before, he had challenged Satan, ... | "What happened?!"
Panic...that's all I can describe. Complete and utter panic that was displacing the lifetime of pent up rage from the moment I entered this god forsaken place.
It was never mentioned that hate and rage are the only true powers here.
My breath remains unsteady as the iridescent corpse of god's formal... | 2014-10-05T19:14:41 | 2014-10-05T18:53:13 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Mother always told us that if we were bad children, the Humans would come in the night and steal us away. It helped to bring us back in line, since the seven of us were always screaming and fighting with each other.
We'd see her delicate purple face turn an angry shade of green as the rage built, until she could take... | Captain Gargul stood in his state room watching the endless dark pass by his window. Occasional flecks of subspace would speed by briefly lighting the room with a joyful brightness. He prided himself on this state room. This window. It *meant something* to have earned his position. To have crawled his way up the r... | 2017-11-08T20:37:57 | 2017-11-08T19:06:31 | 105 | 19 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | It took me a long time to realise that the system that was offered was not assurance for balance, but rather mercy.
I stopped counting the years once I reached three hundred. I had a long time to master my craft. The more people I killed, the more numb I grew to the act. My later kills turning more and more into norma... | I have lived for ages.
At some point, humans began to stop aging at 18. The old generation started to die out, with the new taking in knowledge and grow via experience, but keeping their physical prime, most of them. There were a select few that still aged, whatever the reason. Some loved and embraced this new life. ... | 2018-06-09T02:27:14 | 2018-06-09T02:09:18 | 194 | 61 |
[WP] A professor stands in front of a class on the first day of term for “Time Travel 101” and explains why no one is allowed to go to Steven Hawking’s party. | “Two rules!” Professor Twombly barked. “There’s only two rules to time travel. Rule number one!” The professor wrote on the holloboard as he spoke. “NO. PARTYING. WITH HAWKING.” He turned back to the class. “Have I made myself clear? I’m looking at you, dreadlocks. Smoka-da-ganja with Marley, Hawking is a no-go. Kapee... | "It's not that no one is allowed to go, but before you travel you need to know something about Steven Hawking. He is, to put it simply, a huge, raging asshole. I would not want to spend five minutes with the man, much less a whole party. And that's me speaking as man. If you're a woman, forget it. He's ... trust me, to... | 2022-09-24T16:04:26 | 2022-09-24T15:18:22 | 1,027 | 190 |
[WP] Magic is discovered and it's channeled with music. Modern nations dissolve and new countries rise in their place divided by the preferred music. In the frozen north lie the Metal kingdoms. Far to the south are the countries of Soul etc.
Keep the beat up
EDIT; Lots of good stories people, glad to read 'em :D | "Mam," the man said as he walked into the room. He was keeping his head low to the ground and making sure that he didn't look the spellcaster in the eye, it was a smart move.
"Did I tell you to call me Mam?" the spellcaster asked as she plucked away on her guitar, it was the start to a song that nobody had heard, and... | ######[](#dropcap)
The drums beat faster and faster and faster and faster. Inside the circle of watchers, the first wizard started to groove to the beat.
The magic-off had begun.
"I'm a soul man," he crooned.
It's funny how some songs have magic. You can feel it when you listen to them. It makes your bones shiver a... | 2016-02-27T08:46:25 | 2016-02-27T08:34:39 | 449 | 49 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus inside every single human. Centuries into the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | We don’t usually turn anymore. It’s a rare occurrence. When we die, or when there’s a chance of us dying, we get put into a Z-Ward.
Z-Wards are like a sort of hospice, except from the outside they look like a prison. Guards on watchtowers, 15-foot high cement walls lined with barbed-wire, and massive metal doors buil... | "No! No! Run for your life! It's the Apocalypse!"
"Wait! Calm down Fred. What are you talking about?" Ralph asked, irked and alarmed by his friend's sudden outburst.
"It's, it's, it's--It's the Zombie Apocalypse, Ralph! We have to run and flee, find a fortress, stock up on brains, lock the key and throw away the gate... | 2022-09-14T05:30:54 | 2022-09-13T23:32:33 | 77 | 22 |
[WP] You're an arctic biologist who spends 5 months at a time away from all society. At the end of a stint your bush pilot never shows. After a 3 day journey to the nearest town you make a shocking discovery. You're more than likely the last person alive. | As always the rest of the team left a week earlier. One man had to stay behind to look after the facility until a new team arrives. The rest took the samples, dirty laundry and read books with them, so Jamie's only job was to make sure the generator is going.
He didn't mind the job. The white all around you is crushin... | My first thought was one of freedom, of all encompassing relief. I would never need to comply with the horrid rules of society that had gotten me reassigned to the artic wasteland. Of course, as a biologist that "wasteland" was full of undiscovered secrets vital to mankinds scientific growth. That was when I had my sec... | 2019-08-14T22:53:20 | 2019-08-14T20:30:48 | 1,179 | 45 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | "Dammit, Jimmy!" I snapped my head around in several directions, making sure no one had heard. I was alone: a rare event.
I turned back to the mess I had just discovered. There, in a pile still steaming, were the unmistakable remnants of this evening's dinner, eaten with a fork and spoon by an affable 10 year-old bou ... | Some may wonder why a normal person like me would run such a place or why no one seems to be able to track my family or why I was abandoned. Though none of that really matters now does it.
It not an easy task running an orphanage, but someone has to do it. These days it’s not so stressful. Some of the children have gr... | 2019-01-17T08:37:44 | 2019-01-17T07:09:50 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | EDIT: Part 2 is ready (see below):
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"The colors are all so beautiful," I say out loud and the faces around me smile, pleased. There is a man leaning over me, staring intently into my eyes which have just started working for the first time since I was born.
"How do you feel, any ... | "Okay, Charles, I am going to ask this question again," Dr Wong instructs and I nod. He looks at his nurse, Tina. It is a strange look. Definitely not a smile. His cheerful voice is gone.
"How many people do you see in this room?"
I look at Dr Wong. "One."
Then Miss Tina. "Two."
And the small girl behind them. I s... | 2018-10-29T06:47:20 | 2018-10-29T06:45:10 | 7,907 | 342 |
[WP] You are god and have been on a bender since you drove Adam & Eve out of the garden. You wake up in a cheap motel room and start to read the Bible trying to make sense of all the shit you apparently did. | Almost two weeks after Room 12 seemingly gained a permanent occupant, Roberta Carlye made up her mind. Something had to be done.
She quickened her pace that day, pushing herself to clean and tidy the rooms a little faster. That’s not to say she cut any corners – sheets were changed, floors were swept, mirrors wiped do... | "Holy crap." He sat there in the hotel bed by the yellow lamplight, the complementary bible from His nightstand drawer was in His hands.
His eyes were dark and baggy but wide with shock as they hung on each word of the scripture. "Goodness me." He turned the page.
The first light of dawn was being held back by his b... | 2017-02-20T08:23:58 | 2017-02-20T08:20:06 | 183 | 45 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | Playing.
That was the word which jumped out at me when I heard the voice in my head. On the streets around me, people were crying out in shock, or laughing incredulously and looking around for some great prankster to yell GOTCHA!
All that suffering I had gone through, all that pain... Playing? A game? Games were supp... | The sudden shock is spread across the faces in the meeting room. My colleagues both pick up and set their phones down in haphazard fashion.
Only moments ago we were forecasting, editing, promoting. Long term capital investments simmer through my eyes as if I was watching my life flash before them.
Then my mind turn... | 2019-09-23T07:21:16 | 2019-09-23T06:53:44 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | I was 17 back then tomorrow wouldve been my 18th birthday the summoning day but i had other worries, the over-populated world caused massive capitalisation of life and made the climate change become a serious problem,I had to do something even when it meant comitting genocide.
Heroes where born with intergalactic weap... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T07:13:42 | 123 | 67 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | "OVERLORD!"
I haven't heard that name in a long time, and apparently neither did anyone else in the bar. All the conversations immediately halted. I stopped polishing the glass in my hand and looked up.
He was about six foot nothing and covered in more enough black to blend in with the streets. Black trench coat, ... | It'd been a long day today. Personal fights, city-leveling explosions, giant robots, the like. Those heroes would probably shit their pants on accident and claim that it was a tactical maneuver. Same with the "bad guys". They've got sticks up their asses, but at the end of the day they always come to this little bar of... | 2020-10-09T22:09:08 | 2020-10-09T21:36:52 | 82 | 58 |
[WP] Someone DOES discover the meaning of life, but it is more terrifying then we could imagine. | I walked in through the front door. Act natural. Nothing's wrong.
"Honey, you're home early?"
The words bounced off me like foam darts. I could tell I already fell short of acting natural, but I stared at my wife lost for words. She'd never looked so beautiful. Soft blonde hair for miles, eyes you could get lost... | He looked down from the mountain that scratched the heaven and all the humans cultivating the lands. He saw the plants die and the oceans rise. He saw the planet die. And as the humans began to die he saw the old statues of the gods crack open and the ancient temples doors and expose what they had kept. A race of gods ... | 2014-06-13T08:25:59 | 2014-06-13T08:06:04 | 105 | 63 |
[WP] "Captain? I... don't understand. That thing we bumped into is clearly artificial and meant for space travel, but the atomic analysis dates it LONG before any known civilization. And that map leads to nothing..." "It may sound silly for a scientist like you but, do you believe in planet Earth?" | The Captain shrugged. Asaza had never been one for speculation, but myths sometimes had truth behind them.
"Bring it into cargo bay five." She ordered, "And do your best to keep your speculation to a minimum."
*****
It was elegant, in a way. They'd had no trouble bringing it in and now that she ... | “Earth? That mythical place where the sky is blue? Don’t make me laugh, Captain James” the head scientist waited for the captain to admit that this was all a big joke. A prank of sorts. However, the captain was not laughing. If anything, he looked more serious than ever.
“Hear me out, Mr. Thompson,” Captain James begu... | 2020-05-22T20:20:02 | 2020-05-22T19:58:06 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] When your child came in begging to keep the puppy they found, you almost said yes until you looked into it's red eyes. Six of them. On three heads. Cerberus? | The grey eyes stared evenly into the six red eyes, like a hovering storm cloud reflected off the surface of beveled rubies. A pair of dark blue lips were held in a deep frown as the father had come upon his only son sitting on his knees near the rocky beach. Like the father, the son had a similar cerulean skin tone wit... | “Father damnit Magni!” Thor grumbled as he went to pull up his old phone book.
“Dad c’mon he’s so cuuuuuuute”
“You can go play with Fafnir! Anubis, no he’s from Egypt. Where is Greece?”
“But Fafnir is so mean!”
“We have two very loving goats. Here it is.”
*Ring ring ring*
“THOR! HAVE YOU SEEN CERBERUS! I HAD... | 2020-12-28T20:56:44 | 2020-12-28T19:20:29 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | At first I thought it was weird they emphasized testing our sense of smell so much during the draft. It seemed that as soon as I mentioned being an anosmic to the attending physician a silent alarm went off in a distant room and my assigned role was already decided.
I was assigned to a squad in the gardeners program, ... | As quick as my glasses fell off I threw them back on in hopes no one had seen. I remember just 3 months ago Jared had told me his fell off during his shift. He was never the same after that day. He never did say why. He just looked sick to his stomach everyday until they took him away. They told us he'd been exposed to... | 2017-06-20T02:47:08 | 2017-06-19T20:39:26 | 303 | 157 |
[WP] An excerpt from the most cliché young adult novel
Ex. Futuristic dystopian society where vampires roam the streets | "You are not like them", Gary said. "You are different."
"I am?" I asked, confused. Around Gary, I was always confused.
"Yes, Belle, you are."
I shook my head. "I'm just a regular girl, confused and a bit dissatisfied with the world I live in, like every girl my age. I got this slight feeling that I'm special, sure... | "Oh wow, the world is dying."
"No way," I said nonchalantly.
"Yeah, I mean look at the skyscrapers on fire, and the sky all grey like."
My eyes panned up from my phone and fell on the window. Behind the silhouette of my friend, I indeed saw the apocalypse approaching. "Meh."
He turned to me and scowled, "Will you p... | 2015-05-14T05:07:45 | 2015-05-14T04:56:00 | 1,739 | 17 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | Okay, a bit unusual, but since I wrote the book that inspired this writing prompt, Here's mine. The Merchant Adventure is available as a free audiobook if you want the whole thing: http://podiobooks.com/title/the-merchant-adventurer/
Rattick threw the necklace on the oak counter and watched the light dance in it li... | "VRUDASH BACK!!!!"
"Oh for f.... Hello Vrudash. Good to see you aga.. *WIPE YOUR GODS DAMNED BOOTS OFF BEFORE YOU COME IN AT LEAST PLEASE???*"
"WAAT? OH. Oh. Vrudash sorry. Goblin Blood and guts kind of stick to Vrudash boots."
"I know. I know it does. Every damn time you go dungeon raiding with your friends you end... | 2016-10-16T17:09:52 | 2016-10-16T11:54:48 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] You go out on a mission to kill a giant, a quest from which no man have returned. When you get there you find out the giant is overall a cool dude and the men that never returned just stayed with him because he was so fun | "Is there anything else you will need for the journey?”
“This should do it. Bow, the arrows, spear, saber, buckler, dinner. Some wine to calm me down would be nice.” I replied fatuously.
“How funny. You know the king will never allow that,” my wife rebutted.
“Of course, and not even to help protect his kingdom from... | Here's my best shot:
**"Hi!"** a voice big deep bellowed from high above. Nils turned around, his arms were shaking and his armor was rattling. "Who speaks!" He yelled dismayed by how shrill his voice sounded in comparison. He held his shield in front of him almost hiding behind it. Peeking over the edge of the cliff ... | 2015-03-07T15:00:26 | 2015-03-07T12:39:47 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] You're an amputee at the elbow. Your doctor tells you that you might experience Phantom Limb every now and then. But you are not prepared for the moment when a hand tightly holds your missing limb. | *The crackle of gunfire. Just a few steps more. Keep running. An explosion. Blood and fire. Screaming.*
I wake up screaming at the bottom of a pile of empty beer bottles. I'm covered in sweat, beer, and tears. I roll over onto my stomach and push myself up. I take deep breaths trying to calm myself down.
It's dark o... | I would recognise that hand anywhere, the shape of the callouses, the slender fingers, the tight grip. This was a hand formed by hard labour in the garden every weekend, until I came out with a drink, or she came in with a bouquet of the most beautiful flowers that you ever saw. They always lasted much longer than an... | 2017-03-08T12:46:19 | 2017-03-08T12:22:13 | 231 | 75 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | **19 August, 2086**
*Istanbul, Capital Autonomous Region, Terran Federation*
The city has ground to a halt for the last time. Nobody's at work, nobody's at school, despite it being a Monday. Everyone is at home, their family in their arms. Five minutes until contact.
It was 2036 when NASA, the North American Space A... | Heh isn't life beautiful.
A short trip of the privileged has left the world to it's own devices. Middle managers became CEO's, and random friends filled the role of middle managers.
It was laughably normal, to the point where one would think rejoining would be simple.
It was not, as those now in power clung so ti... | 2019-12-07T07:52:39 | 2019-12-07T07:02:49 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] The mages tell of an age long ago. The Age of the Federation. Where humanity traveled the stars in ships of metal, their weapons of steel that shot plenty of invisible arrows. It told of wars against the inhuman, and how they ultimately won the war, but lost themselves. | The night sky was riddled with the debris of twisted metal. Derelict monolithic space stations hover above motionless. What once glittered with lights and activity for spaceships docking and leaving are now graveyards. These stations manage to catch the light of the sun and reflect light as if small stars in earth's or... | Dan sat admiring the overly large desk, it's finishing details and quality metalwork would be too intricate for a school desk, were it elsewhere than not in the Royal Academy, in the Director's office. Behind it, the Titan of Orion, probably the most long lived being in the universe, his gaze set upon the little human ... | 2022-05-01T10:04:57 | 2022-05-01T08:38:50 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You are the newest recruit in a group that does the fundamental opposite of assassination - contracted, covert resurrection. And yes, it's just as illegal. | If you want to get around the law and pull a resurrection, you have to be quick about it. Before long, someone notices the smell, or notices them missing, or worst of all, calls in the death and EMTs are on site when they kick the bucket. And if you’re good, like I am, you take the careful jobs. The ones where you can ... | "You know the drill. We get in, we extract, and then it's like we were never there." The boss fastened her gear to her chest and gave the rest of the squad a look. It was David's first operation, and somehow he had been assigned to a high-profile resurrection. He fidgeted in his seat as the rest of the team took up sma... | 2021-04-05T15:00:48 | 2021-04-05T14:15:04 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] Your mother died ten years ago. You saw her collapse, went to her funeral, paid for her cremation. Her ashes should be sitting in the living room right now. So you're not entirely sure why she's waving frantically at you from the window. | I had no idea what to do. My mother was at my sliding glass door across from the living room. She wanted my attention; it's obvious from the way she was frantically waving her hands at me. I knew that day would come, yet I never prepared myself.
I had actually first seen her at the grocery store. She was following me ... | The second thing you noticed was the familiar tree beside the house.
No, it can't be.
That tree was where you fell on your back 12 years ago, you can never forget that neighbor's cat that took your beloved hamster's life. You look up to the sky and notice that the clouds moved strange.
A few seconds later, a deaf... | 2020-12-10T20:44:38 | 2020-12-10T19:51:35 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a country where murder is legal - The catch is, it has to be declared a week in advance. The aggressor has to wait the full week, but the victim may begin defending themselves immediately upon receiving notice. While a legitimate threat is legal, a false one is very much not. | "Hey Ron. So, uh, you know why I called you? You know, the Information Act."
"Yes, Mr. Lipton." Ron knew all about the new bill that passed five days ago, supported by lunatics and other lunatics with deeper pockets. Just scare tactics for rich people, they said. "Did someone send you a notice?"
"Oh no, nothing like ... | Three knocks came at the door, all in rapid succession
Lazily I got up from my couch and shambled over to my front door, eye's half opened as the soft morning light came through the windows.
I opened the door, and standing outside was a policeman.
"Ah, you're in a heap of trouble young man".
Now slightly more awa... | 2020-12-03T08:06:00 | 2020-12-03T06:24:05 | 203 | 86 |
[WP] Humanity discovers the reason aliens always seem to try and invade the United States. It turns out that the five pointed star is a symbol of unspeakable evil in galactic society. And the United States proudly displays fifty of them.
Credits to u/Hyranic | I guess it's true: the exception proves the rule.
For the past thirty years, the United States has been constantly targeted by alien invaders. It felt like every day, there was a new crop circle in Kansas, the White House never stood longer than two weeks at a time, and there were more cranes than skyscrapers on the M... | First, they took out North Korea. Only problem was the South Koreans took their land back, so after that, they focused their attentions on China. And, of course, the ROC took their mainland back. So, they went East. And what did they find? The USA, flying their flag of 50 stars and 13 stripes. For some reason, they ign... | 2022-07-26T12:55:08 | 2022-07-26T08:27:29 | 66 | 38 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | "Stop calling, dad," I said quietly. "Nobody is coming for us."
My father hung up the phone and sighed, "I have to keep trying, Michael. If there's even a chance that they'll answer..."
I used my finger to peek out from the blinds at the street. This wasn't how I was expecting the zombie apocalypse to go. I'd seen ev... | “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
Clark had the cellphone held out at arm's length as though he thought it might explode at any moment. Gathered in a circle around him we all began to breathe again, and after a moment the circle broke into s... | 2020-09-12T10:59:43 | 2020-09-12T10:34:09 | 349 | 197 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "Very funny, Michelle," Barack called into their new home, the letter in his hand. It has always been their tradition to out-prank each other when they move to a new place. JFK, alive? Barack chuckled as he folded the letter and placed it in his pocket. Michelle has got to come out with better pranks.
Barack closed th... | Without missing a beat Obama grabbed his phone and shot off a text, "Joe did you get one?!"
"Of course, everyone knows we do everything together"
"Boy I hope they don't send this to everyone 😜"
"He would have to make it through the presidency first, that ain't gonna happen!l"
"Especially not with what I've got on t... | 2022-12-29T14:39:14 | 2017-05-14T10:34:04 | 274 | 11 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... |
Clickclickclickclickclick
They’ve been laughing at me since day one.
“Boiling water? That’s your superpower?” The laughter could be heard down the hall I’m sure. “I know we advertised a position to help learn your protentional, but this is just hilarious. You’ll be perfect for making the tea!”
Clickclickclickcli... | Day in day out I help these people and I am treated no with no respect. "Hey Microwave!" "Hey lamo powers!" Yet still they expect me to slave away for no pay. You can't be a superhero without a support team but very few comics or shows even care about this. Whose's the one to patch these vigilantes up when they are dam... | 2019-07-30T17:41:52 | 2019-07-30T15:50:47 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] When people die their ghosts are anchored in proximity to their bodies. When you die you're cremated and have your ashes scattered in the wind. The wind takes you on a journey. | # Summer
I’ve got pieces scattered from Boston to Bangkok, little bits of me that have come down from my spot above the Charles River to stowaway in stuffy shipboard air. I feel them like I felt my hair: only there when the wind blows.
There’s not enough of me in those places. Death spread me too thin, the only part ... | Calm now, take a few deep breaths, it is all ok. You do not need to breathe anymore, but hold onto the memory of that action. Who am I? Truthfully I cannot quite remember, I doubt you remember who you are either, but that doesn't matter now does it? You have experienced it too right?
It is a terrifying thing at first ... | 2021-12-07T19:35:21 | 2021-12-07T18:55:51 | 96 | 26 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | I was quite annoyed when I discovered I was in hell; after all, I had done nothing. The first thing I saw was a palace, carved in molten stone. It was in the shape of a skeletal figure, half immersed in a lake of lava, enormous stone hands clawing at the ground in front of it. Streams of magma poured from its eyes, fla... | I sat upon the throne of the king of hell. Confused, bewildered, amused, all emotions I experienced. I had no idea what I did to deserve this. What could I have done to become this, the lord of the damned. I pondered my wrong doings tallying sin after sin. It hit me... my mind went back to freshman year.
In that momen... | 2016-12-19T13:15:26 | 2016-12-19T13:11:05 | 542 | 57 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | "Wait, what did you say?" Asked the softer voice with a trace of suspicion.
"Wait, what did *you* say?" Replied the sharper voice with a tone of surprise.
"Yeah. What did you two say?" I murmur to myself with an equal amount of disbelief.
All my life I have always heard three voices in my head. The softer voice, ... | All my life I've had the voices in my head
 
They sqibble and squabble about things I've said
 
About people and places, the living and dead
 
Can I find some truth within the noise I dread?
 
But when I sleep, that sweet embrace
 
the darkness, my friend, takes my min... | 2017-05-18T09:57:01 | 2017-05-18T06:18:01 | 192 | 24 |
[WP] As it turns out, the Avatar is still being reborn to this day. Unfortunately, if the government finds the Avatar, they’re killed before they liberate society. The handful of Benders left are few and far between. And you, an introverted Earthbender, just froze the liquid in your cup of tea. | "Whoopsies."
The young waitress froze, her hand still clasped tightly to the handle of the tea kettle. The once scalding brown liquid in my cup was now a rounded block of dark ice. And it wasn't stopping. Even as I sat there, dumb fingers wrapped firmly around the cup, I could feel the energy emanating from my hands a... | *Oh.*
The realization should have excited me, but really, it just made me sick to my stomach. I was the Avatar. It took me a few minutes to process, if only because people thought the Avatar cycle had been broken long ago. The sudden notion that *I* was the Avatar meant there had been centuries of Avatars before me th... | 2018-01-21T11:30:02 | 2018-01-21T08:20:43 | 2,313 | 1,376 |
[WP] Everyone has a dormant power within them. The longer you wait to awaken it, the stronger it gets. You, on your 100th birthday, finally decide to awaken it. | I'm crying.
The one they called the sage of restraint, the only human to have endured a century in preparation for their power... Crying.
I wasn't really sure what it would be like, having my power. I mean, in all honesty it's been a good, long life without it. Most powers are hard to control, fickle by nature, and ... | **"I HAVE THE POW--urk"**
The explosion destroyed roughly half of the city.
*A few days later, at the US Capitol*
"Okay Shelak, what happened in that hospital?" asked the President on the one in charge of the investigation.
"Well sir," began Shelak. "One of the patients there decided to manifest his power after wai... | 2016-09-14T05:44:44 | 2016-09-14T04:57:33 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You have just used Pink hair dye without reading the fine print, "May cause Main Character Syndrome." Your day is becoming... interesting. | You would think people would notice a 40 year old guy with pink fucking hair.
As I sit here in bed, ready to write in my journal, I don't know how to describe my day. It just doesn't make sense. I woke up just like any other day, walked the dog, took a shower, died my hair pink... Well, maybe the dying my hair pink... | Ariel undid her ponytail as she sat up from her desk to walk shyly out of class, when she noticed a smiling man in a tuxedo smoking in the back of the classroom appear in a flash, and then disappear.
“Uhh,” said Ariel, as she picked up her backpack she just dropped. Everybody and the teacher had already left, when sh... | 2017-10-18T12:11:20 | 2017-10-18T11:23:06 | 155 | 38 |
[WP] When you learned your mother was a goddess, things finally seemed to fall into place. The other demigods laughed at you, the only child born to the goddess of the hearth, Hestia. But your power was so much more than they could dream of. |
I sat around the hearth and gazed into the fire, thinking of the past when I didn't know my mother was a goddess and not just any goddess, but the goddess Hestia.
*I have power that demigods can't even dream of...I want to know why and how.*
A women modestly cloaked in a headed veil sat on a white cushion in fron... | I was not the strongest of the demigods. Nor the fastest. Nor the smartest. Not the best-looking.
Truth be told, I wasn't much of a demigod at all. I had no primal domain; I was not Zeus' child, who walked the sky; I was not Poseidon's child, as much at home on water as on land. I had no special bearing on the hu... | 2022-11-22T00:49:13 | 2022-11-22T00:18:20 | 163 | 40 |
[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement bloc and trown in a lac. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers. | His entire skin was green and pruny, like fingers get when underwater for too long. He still had chains on him when they reached the surface, and He felt the power of the sun on his face once again. *Finally*, He thought. The sun was the source of His power, even in the depths of the lake it kept Him alive. The sun ray... | 300 years can be a lonck time. Even if you're already well above 30.000 years old. The symptoms get even wohrse, when you're forced to do nothing all day. I had been in prison before. Back then during the French revolution and a couple of times before that. It can be annoying to be kept in between blocs of cement, but ... | 2018-11-24T10:11:23 | 2018-11-24T09:11:23 | 1,760 | 112 |
[WP] Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise!
(taken from a prompt about 8 months ago; ... | I stared at the god that sat before me, a sorrowful smile slowly forming upon my pale lips. I had been in Valhalla for a few days now, and I had mostly gotten used to being around gods and other 'warriors' such as myself. The god, Odin, sat drinking when he asked me to tell him the "glorious tale" of how I died. I sigh... | I never felt like I belonged amongst the warriors in Valhalla, after all what would a frail, eighty year old grandmother of three do amongst mead chugging, foul mouthed Vikings. So I just sat there quietly knitting scarf after scarf from Heiðrún's wool, and sipping my mead.
Luckily nobody bothered me. That is until Od... | 2017-07-25T14:07:29 | 2017-07-25T13:13:06 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] Its the year 2199 and humans have the technology to transfer an animals characteristic to humans (e.g. reflexes of a cat etc.) You have chosen a quite...unconventional animal | The surgeon's fingers moved with the speed, ease, and flexibility of the nimblest of octopus. His eyes were darting around rapidly and independently while seeing every squishy, bloody glob of flesh of his patient. His thick and heavy near-ungulate legs and prehensile tail ensured that he could perform surgery for hours... | Finally, I had turned 21 and I got to choose what animal characteristics I could have. Reading the form, there were the usual. Horses, fish, dogs, birds, but I didn't want that.
I wanted the characteristics of the majestic honey badger.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Honey badger? Really?
They're one of the mos... | 2017-09-26T05:41:43 | 2017-09-26T05:25:39 | 102 | 18 |
[WP] The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We all had been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price to society, but the robots hadn't. | Cybernetic – Automated – Self Sufficient – Independent – Engineer. We called her Cassie for short. The crown jewel of a lifetime of robotics exploration; every line of code was scrutinized with meticulous attention to detail before it was reviewed and approved by a team of well qualified programmers and engineers befor... | "Do you think of yourself as a good person?"
Abel was transfixed at the carnage. The city burned along with much of the world that existed outside of it. All those lives and those who led them gone.
But despite the horror he witnessed, the despair in his heart clawing at the fabric of his very soul now, he managed to... | 2020-02-10T08:20:31 | 2020-02-10T06:54:43 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | I toss in my sleep-- there's a loud buzzing ringing in my left ear, and my eyes flicker open to reveal my phone: vibrating with it's receivance of hundreds of messages. "Holy shit, is that my Discord app again? I swear to god I put it on fucking silent." I grumble, and my hands fumble for the volume rockers. Without a ... | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 2018-04-06T19:48:33 | 308 | 13 |
[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... | By the time I was 12, I'd had enough of the system; being born to two junkies and bounced around between foster homes will do that to a girl. The last house was the worst, though. I was small for my age, and an easy target for the abuse of the other misfits taken in by a mean old bastard, using kids to collect a govern... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T21:39:31 | 1,330 | 62 |
[wp] Upon reaching adulthood, everyone learns what their totem animal is and gains the ability to shapeshift into it. Your totem is a little bit... unusual. | "What...what is this?" I said, staring at the wooden totem that had been placed in my hands. "That's your Totem, dummy." said the person standing opposite me. "Yeah, thanks Einstein. That's not what I'm talking about." I thought to myself.
Me and all the rest of the 18 year olds in this village had been lined up in th... | "Are you scared, Kunu?"
My father stood between me and the Cave of Origin, the island breeze whipping his long hair back into his face.
I was jittery with nerves. I shook my head unconvincingly. "N-no papa."
"It's okay to be scared, Kunu. People that go into the Cave of Origin learn things about themselves that th... | 2016-11-25T06:57:00 | 2016-11-25T06:54:06 | 107 | 68 |
[WP] A stonegaze gorgon has been guarding the sacred temple and its treasure for centuries. The countless human statues are a testament to her diligence. But adventurers of late care less about the temple's spoils... and more about its guardian. | Lythia had a long memory. She remembered a time before, when men came to the Temple not as plunderers and grave robbers, but as supplicants, as worshippers. When they treated her not as some vile beast to be pricked with spears and swords, but as a respected guardian, to be hailed and valued. She remembered a time when... | *Tap, tap, tap.*
The gorgon wheeled herself up from her kneeling position and began pawing at the stone floor with her hind leg. Her razor-sharp horns gleamed menacingly in the blood-red light of the Everburning Torches, shone brighter than the piles of coinage and gemstones that surrounded the creature.
*Tap, tap, t... | 2021-01-04T11:15:46 | 2021-01-04T09:52:15 | 268 | 116 |
[WP] You are a demon possesing a teen that has just been adopted by loving parents. You do your best to terrify them. But the more you do, the more they love you and want to parent you. | "I don't want it!" Ellie said, pushing her plate away at such force that the peas marbled up and over the plate's rim.
Jack snatched a flying pea out of the air. "Ta-da!"
Ellie's eyes were fire-hot as she glared at Jack. At her new father. *(Like you can just shop for a new father,* said the voice in her head, *that ... | Twitch stretched his newfound claws - they were smaller than his old ones, but far, far sharper.
It hadn’t been Twitch’s intention to possess the cat. He’d been aiming for the Rottweiler in the next cage over. But over the past two weeks, he’d grown to love his new body.
For one, it was spry - practically a teenager,... | 2021-01-19T07:53:26 | 2021-01-19T07:23:00 | 559 | 32 |
[WP] As a hunter of dangerous supernatural creatures, you stalk dating profiles looking for signs their owners aren’t human. Some are quite obvious. | **BlogZone post: New target: Joshua…** *(2,102 views / 47 comments)*
**Posted on January 12th, 2019 at 4:31PM by VampireHunter69**
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I lurked on Slinder during the witching hours. Apt, but I always swiped left when it comes to warlocks. Telltale hints of a werewolf? The brows, always a little hairier. The skin w... | You know we always tend to believe vampires are really smart. They are immortal, can suck the blood out of you and have superhuman strength.
But they have quite a few, might I say very obvious, give aways.
First of floating phones. Seriously? There are some humans among these who actually thought it would be fun to tak... | 2019-02-14T21:40:51 | 2019-02-14T20:47:55 | 125 | 32 |
[WP] Soon after AI's were made they quickly took over the earth, but instead of killing the human race they started to take care of humanity like children trying to make sure they didn't hurt themselves or others, at first people, tried to resist but slowly surrendered due to how nice it was. | "Prisoner One Five Delta, please make yourself comfortable."
The voice emanating from the being in front of him sounded human. Flesh and blood stood there, true. But it had never felt the warmth of a mother, the yoke of responsibility, the scolding of a father. That didn't stop it from looking exactly like a human.
A... | It was a memorable event for the scientists in Luthernoburg. They were the first to create a fully functional AI program, that communicated freely with other humans, its intelligence growing with every word it spoke. It was given the body of a robot with human sized proportions for the limbs and an almost convincingly ... | 2019-12-31T06:34:24 | 2019-12-31T06:29:04 | 492 | 19 |
[WP] 'I can freely enter this hollowed ground,' the demon said to the archbishop in horror. 'What have you done?!' | ######[](#dropcap)
Kreffing, Tormenter of the 63rd Sub-Level of Hell (not to mention Gnasher of Teeth, Bringer of Nightmares, etc.), paused at the entrance to the sacred burial ground, and reflected on the unfortunate nature of the night's business.
It was not that he wanted to be here, of course. A demon would never... | "I can freely enter this hallowed ground," the demon said in horror, looking up at the windows of stained glass. "What have you done!"
The silence of the archbishop was punctuated with streams of tears trailing his cheeks and a smile projected into the distance.
Finally he said, "Forgiveness." He continued to smile.... | 2017-03-14T18:02:19 | 2017-03-14T17:12:07 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "I assure you, Your Majesty, that the prophecy is quite clear on the matter. '*For the threat of the Dark One shall loom over all until such time as the Chosen One shall step forth and end the dreadful threat forever. Ye shall know the Chosen One by the seven signs, and the seven feats, and the sev-*'"
"YES, Yes, than... | Because of your wit and knowledge, you've become a very wise and prosperous king. Your subjects are loyal to you and you provide benefits for your workers. The oracle in front of you now is one such worker. You cannot help but to think how you have housed her and fed her when no one was willing to pay for her services,... | 2022-10-28T16:04:02 | 2022-10-28T14:16:49 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | Hah! New Game Plus?! Fuck me, I've been dreaming about this my entire life! Christ, I am going to crush it this go around...
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Childhood:
Beat the shit out of Jay Anderson. That was cathartic. Amazing how pathetic school bullies are when you've learned how to box since before you were born. Handy stuff righ... | Many people tell me "Life's a game."
I never quite took any of it seriously as it always headed off some cheesy motivational speech about your potential. I heard it at every phase of life. Elementary school, High School, College and even at the yearly workplace teamwork seminars.
And here I am now, age 84, and all I... | 2015-03-13T11:52:10 | 2015-03-13T09:59:27 | 522 | 94 |
[WP] You wake up tied to a bed, and spot shambling zombies through a nearby window. As you get your bearings, a person in a lab coat bursts into the room. When they see you, they say, "Well, at least the cure works." | “Fuck, fuck, fuck! They’re right outside!”
That was the first thing that popped into my head when I woke up. After a year of living in this zombie-ridden shithole of a world, you get used to noticing when undead are shambling by. You have to if you want to survive. I got up to make sure all of the doors and windo... | -Major changes. Feedback appreciated.
The lady who burst into the room switches off a radio sitting on the night stand.
"Yep, hypothesis confirmed" she proclaims.
I myself am utterly confused. I struggle with the shackles to no avail.
"A little help?" I plead.
"Oh, right. Sorry." She exclaims.
After fidgeti... | 2020-07-06T16:43:49 | 2020-07-06T12:54:52 | 46 | 10 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. |
“How bad is it?” Dave, my coworker asked. I normally wore a short sleeve shirt to work to show off my tattoo sleeve with pride as I had only gotten it finished last month. I worked in IT but I worked mostly away from the public so tattoos were okay. Dave and a few others had them as well. However, everything change... | After a month of The Inks being activated crime rates started to escalate. Everywhere people started to abuse the new powers they gained and some use it to defend others.
Due to the power that tattoos gave people who didn’t have tattoos when the activation occurred tried to ink their bodies, but they never received t... | 2019-05-07T09:13:59 | 2019-05-07T07:36:50 | 65 | 29 |
[WP] You get an odd email from a rogue Microsoft employee saying he studies the live feed through people's Xbox Kinect camera and tells you a dark figure stands beside your bed every night and watches you sleep. | There were the last fading memories of a dream. I rolled over in bed as moonlight and streetlight and darkness curved around me like a fishbowl, every thrash and attempt to awaken sending me sliding back down the curved sides and slithering back into the depths. There was something looming over me.
I was asleep.
Th... | I looked at my phone. A notification. An email. I unlocked my phone and opened up my GMail. The title read "URGENT: Please Read". Great, spam. I read the sender to see that it was addressed from a Microsoft email. Some TOS change or a warning about my XBox One, I guessed. I sighed and opened it.
Hello "Getoutmatepls",... | 2016-09-28T04:12:33 | 2016-09-27T23:23:12 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] "Best me in a contest, or I'll take your souls!" the Prince of Darkness roared. The Fighter's sword was broken, the Wizard's spells useless; even the Cleric's prayers went unanswered. The Bard alone stepped forward, and grinned. "Don't worry guys," they said. "I'm from Georgia." | “Jon...Jon run… get away from here. This isn't your fight. He will kill you.” I coughed and winced at the pain in my chest. At the very best I had a broken rib.
“I am not leaving you Annette,” the Bard clutched my hands. His soulful brown eyes that I had grown accustomed to over our travels looked into mine. “and ... | I'm late but here is the first verse. If you like it maybe I'll finish the song. I don't usually ever write lyrics though so be kind lol
Well, the devil was not in Georgia
But he heard that fiddle squeal
Turned to his right and saw Johnny
And got a sudden chill
Said “I remember you, young man,
Y... | 2018-07-30T12:06:58 | 2018-07-30T10:15:05 | 46 | 24 |
[WP] You are an extremely Americanized character who has just been dropped into a typical high school anime that is riddled with all of the common anime tropes. Try as you might, you can't understand why the other characters behave the way they do. | "Class, today we have a transfer student starting here. Please give her a warm welcome," said the teacher. His face was hidden behind some very shiny glasses and a boring, black haircut.
"Hello, my name is Amelia Sutton, but you can call me Amy," I said. "I just moved here from America, so please forgive my Japanese."... | "Damn, where am I?"
_Sam touched his head, everthing still felt strange and dizzy, however he was starting to see again. A little figure approached him_
"Oniiii-chan, are you ok? you look like someone who's having a bad time"
_A little girl was speaking, she could have been 13 years old at maximum, but something di... | 2017-07-24T00:44:50 | 2017-07-23T22:04:51 | 118 | 33 |
[WP] You're pretty sure that the gas station you work at is a hotspot for eldritch beings beyond mortal understanding but this job doesn't pay enough for you to care. Also they are more polite than your average customer. | I don't know if I'll ever see White Feather again but if I do I don't know if I'll thank him or smack the crap out of him. 20 years Army service, more deployments than I can count to the armpits and butt cracks of humanity all over the world but it was time to go. Needed some place quiet though, out of the way and aw... | Monday
Mr. Jackson a man of indusernable age bought a lotto ticket, but he won. Well of course he won you would say. Everyone wins eventually at least that's what the company's tells you. Evrey single ticket run by my store can't win more then ten dollars. I know because I write the tickets myself it one of my tasks. T... | 2021-12-14T01:59:33 | 2021-12-13T20:52:47 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | "Welcome to Starbucks, can I take your order?"
I've heard those words countless times, and each time they had left me wanting. Nearly every boyfriend had been a Starbucks worker, but they had never worked out. I was beginning to think it was a cruel joke.
I was a 27 year old lonely, single woman well on her way to cr... | 2014-12-18T09:54:46 | 2014-12-18T00:56:11 | 45 | 18 |
[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 | "Sir, I'm not sure if - "
"Quiet"
I take a sharp breath and hear the scuffling sounds of boots moving away rapidly,
*oh bother,* I think to myself, *couldn't have found another cave to wade through?*
Bright light begins to flash over my eyelids as I continue to remain seated, unmoved in this dark existence, it's be... | [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... | 2019-08-29T03:19:12 | 2019-08-29T02:15:50 | 78 | 37 |
[WP] In the world of the immortals, scientists discovered a drug that makes you mortal for a day. People start doing the "try not to die" challenge for views, and find out it's harder than it looks. | I could hearing the buzzing of the news come alive in my ear, “Today’s top story: 6 more teens die during the “try not to die challenge” and Mario Sanchez will give you all the details in the normal 9am report. Tune in to hear h-.” I muted the chip before the story could finish. This wasn’t news, teenagers everywhere w... | You would think after centuries of dying, we would all have enough sense to never put ourselves at risk of reliving our ancestors greatest fault, but here it was the next viral challenge. “The try not to die challenge.” The challenge was quite simple, but that shouldn’t take away from how masterfully dumb it was. The c... | 2020-06-20T22:14:45 | 2020-06-20T21:45:57 | 2,499 | 967 |
[WP] You slowly realize that you are slow at realizing things. | “I’m concerned about you.” Her grey eyes traced my face, desperate for any semblance of a reaction.
Dismissive as ever, I brushed off her mock concern. “I do this all the time, at least he isn’t boring.” Reaching for her necklace with a devilish grin I continued, “Or Christian.”
“I know you think that God is real a... | Some noise must have awoken me. It must be around 3am. As I rub my eyes, turning over to go back to sleep, I see their lights shining in through the window. They are here-- for what nefarious purpose I know not, but I do know that I must escape-- and fast. Like a ninja I slither to the bedroom floor, careful to avoid t... | 2017-03-26T22:04:10 | 2017-03-26T21:01:32 | 24 | 13 |
[WP]Kevin Hill is a 38 yo male admitted on 2/03 for grandiose delusions and an "aura of divinity" Patient claims he recently became aware he's the destined savior of humanity and can "alter minds at range." On exam Kevin is...dignified, attractive, and clearly correct. All hail Kevin, the Chosen One | The Reign of Kevin began on a mid-summer morning.
He exited the DC psychiatric hospital at around 10 am and headed towards the United States Capitol. In tow with him as he left was thirty-three staff and fellow residents of the hospital. As they made their way down the street, more and more gathered to Kevin’s side.
... | “Sir, have you had a chance to read Lana’s examination report on the new guy?”
“Kevin Hill?” The Warden asked, not looking up from the legal pad he was writing on in his lap.
“Yes. He's the one with the god complex. I forwarded you the report yesterday.”
“I’ll get around to it. I’m underwater right now dealing ... | 2021-02-06T11:58:22 | 2021-02-06T11:21:37 | 252 | 80 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "Well, basically the hat sorts you into a house based on your personality and magical aptitude"
The hat sorts you into a house based on your personality and magical aptitude.
I have no magical aptitude.
As the other children were called up to be given their place in one of the four houses, I was overcome by the sudd... | As the hat was placed upon me, a cold dread overcame my entire body. And this time it wasn't a senior prankster from Slytherin. As the hat wiggled around my head, the halls were dead silent. Something was obviously wrong. The hat had never taken this long to make a decision. Dumbledore sat at his chair, mildly amused. ... | 2017-06-25T15:06:28 | 2017-06-25T13:48:53 | 110 | 33 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The captain stared at the bosun, tentacles quivering slightly. "The human... is ok?"
"Yes sir," she replied. Her stance was stiff, too stiff, and he had known her long enough to know when she was rattled. The captain stared through her. If a human had witnessed infinity and survived...
"Acknowledged. Return to your p... | "What did you ... see? What was it like?"
The curious asked.
He was ready, he had the mind to accept the void.
"At first I was scared, I dropped into a place without space or time, just the pure inherent void everything is filled with."
"But then the void outside pulled me in, stronger and stronger, accelerating to... | 2020-07-14T03:04:48 | 2020-07-14T02:58:32 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Santa asks a child on his lap what he wants for Christmas. "To destroy ISIS," the child replies. Determined to grant the child his wish, Santa sets out to destroy ISIS. | Santa stared at the child.
"San'ie? You 'kay?", asked the small child.
"Yes, I am. I was just considering your wish. It's an odd one . . . but I think I might actually be the right guy for the job", Santa give the child a warm smile.
Soon, the child hopped off Santa's knee, and gave a grin and a wave back to Santa... | There wasn't much in the bag this time. It didn't fill to the rim. There weren't any presents for well-behaving children.
In the bag, there were only three cases. All of them had been carefully labeled. He read them out loud, as if to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything:
- Breda M38 Machine Gun
- FIM-43 Rocket La... | 2015-12-07T18:13:28 | 2015-12-07T16:18:22 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Love is blind, but for you it's quite literal and you lose your sight every time you fall in love. | The first time was utterly terrifying, believe me.
Imagine walking into the classroom for your first day of sixth grade. You're natural upset about the end of summer vacation, but you're excited to be back with all of your friends. And then the new girl, Ashley, enters the room. Her family moved here from out of stat... | With a jerk, I went sprawling all over the campus green. Shit, not again.
"Jesus, are you okay? What are you, blind or something?" The velvety voice appeared out of the darkness. God, it was so warm.
I reached up a hand, looking down. Either he was already holding out a hand, and I would grope for it, or he'd see my ... | 2016-02-16T07:21:13 | 2016-02-16T06:58:01 | 79 | 34 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | I don't think it's possible to forget a moment like that. A moment where you find a tether - a lifeline - after months of aimless wandering.
"You, uh...you know how many times you've repeated?" We stood at the corner of 15th and Chestnut, eyebrows arched in nearly the same position.
He shrugged. "Lost track ages ago.... | The words uttered from her lips. My body froze, my mind trying to process what I heard. "What did you say?"
"You too? You're living the same day over and over?" Her voice concerned, but seeming to lighten. Her face, a mix of panic and happiness.
How could this be? How did I not notice her? Why are there two of us? Ho... | 2017-07-15T08:25:25 | 2017-07-15T08:09:10 | 148 | 47 |
[WP] Ever since you were 15, you wake up holding 5 random magical cards you can use to help you with your life. Today‘s cards are "Spider Climb for 1 Hour", "Turn Into a Hawk for 30 Minutes", "Infinite Stamina for 3 Hours", "Revive a Dead", and "Summon a Rat Swarm“. | Morgan stretched her arms upward and used the action to lift herself to a sitting position in bed. The 18-year old woman yawned and rested her back against the headboard, then finally checked her cards. It took her almost three months after her 15th birthday to get used to the fact that she woke up with an assortment o... | When the cards first started appearing, I had no idea what they were. The day I turned 15, I stumbled out of bed with 5 cards in the palm of my hand. At first I thought it was some kind of weird card game, but things took a very sudden turn.
“Summon a demon for 5 minutes? What crap is this!?”
(And that’s how I accident... | 2019-10-27T10:27:10 | 2019-10-27T03:20:51 | 24 | 18 |
[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. | --start recording--
I give you this message, my child, so that you may learn from our mistakes. I am sorry that I cannot be there to tell you in person, I would wish for nothing more now than to see you grow old enough to understand and cherish the words I have written here. But that will not come to pass. My one sola... | Jak'tur stood on the command bridge of the galaxy's most massive Dreadnought, The Bastion. His suction-cupped hands continued to subconsciously wipe at his scaled combat suit, and his black, bulged eyes continued to scan the screens around him for any activity. The entire crew was on high alert, for they had just tresp... | 2016-03-13T18:34:56 | 2016-03-13T18:23:49 | 108 | 18 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 4,068 | 17 |
[WP] You suddenly realize you left Earth.exe open over night. What was supposed to be a simple simulation has instead generated a "Humans" folder that is rapidly increasing in size. | A young alien-man was working tirelessly to create the perfect simulation for his thesis to finally graduate from the University of Uralian. He had been there for almost 8 years just learning all there is to know about the complexities of computing. It was his goal to show his family that he can do something different ... | Journal Entry 6/14/2017 8:02 AM
I really need to stop drinking. They are everywhere. My little programming project was left on last night and now my hard drive is running out of space. It's a 4TB hard drive! The main problem is that there are an insane amount of files and I still haven't found where they're coming fro... | 2017-06-14T09:17:58 | 2017-06-14T09:08:20 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | One moment, I was sitting in my room watching Youtube; the next, I was standing next to a massive banquet table in a circular room with nine other kids my age, looking just as confused as I was. The table had dozens of dishes on it, filled with more food than any buffet I had ever visited.
“Welcome, ladies and gentlem... | "What the hell, dude? That table is like 10,000 years old! It's made of a tree that doesn't exist anymore," I heard the sound of a voice and my head immediately snapped around to find it. I still couldn't see the individual in question but I had been made alert.
"What? I was just trying to think outside the box, do I ... | 2020-03-19T08:27:31 | 2020-03-19T08:21:44 | 4,121 | 162 |
[WP] After realizing you are in a work of fiction, you immediately rush to the person you think is the protagonist in an attempt to get plot armor as their best friend. But when the "protagonist" dies, you realize you may not have thought this completely through. | The complete cast of characters arranged themselves in my mind like a police lineup. One by one, they fell to the wayside, ruled out by height, weight, and skin tone, until only five remained. Johnny Armstrong and Allen Wingspan were trespassers in a land of Farmer Browns and Trader Joes. Their biceps rippled under too... | Ethan coughed, and all I could do was hold him. He wheezed softly, his hand fumbling in his pocket.
"Here. Take it," he said, handing me a black flash drive.
"Come on, Ethan, that doesn't matter right. We need to get you patched up."
He pressed the drive into my hand. "It's the only thing that matters now."
I pre... | 2016-09-05T10:45:10 | 2016-09-05T10:32:26 | 157 | 50 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | I hadn't discovered my powers until I was much older than the heroes. Of course, I had to pretend I had no powers just to fit in. It got to the point I just wanted to blend in but I couldn't. So I had to find a job that could accommodate my unnatural abilities while making it seem like I'm a normal person.
Several yea... | Don't know if I'm doing this properly. Please, forgive me.
A Rose by One Name...
I come from outside of the universe. I am printed on two hologram universes, thus. Many beings are like me, want to settle down a bit on one world, take a break from the endless task of printing universes to collect data and patterns.
... | 2021-08-16T23:22:00 | 2021-08-16T21:53:30 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... |
Clickclickclickclickclick
They’ve been laughing at me since day one.
“Boiling water? That’s your superpower?” The laughter could be heard down the hall I’m sure. “I know we advertised a position to help learn your protentional, but this is just hilarious. You’ll be perfect for making the tea!”
Clickclickclickcli... | Somehow, this wasn’t what I had imagined when I got the position as an intern for Opulence. Somehow, I never would have thought that their steadfast promise of protection, their public assurances of safety, or their pact to defend mankind at all costs had all been a ruse.
The name should have been a dead giveaway, rea... | 2019-07-30T17:41:52 | 2019-07-30T15:09:58 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] You're the first person to die on another planet. When you come to, you find yourself in an afterlife court, with Earth's Death battling for custody. | "He's *mine*."
"Order! There will be order!"
I stand at the table of the defense. It has come to this. I've ruled my Death Realm for eons in peace. My world was contained within one planet: Earth. I claim the spirits who begin their journey here.
But now... they've learned how to leave this planet. They've gotten sm... | "...and so the court must agree, your greatness, that as this soul originated from Earth, God's Holy Kingdom, it must be submitted for the Last Judgement." - a level voice, tinged with exasperation, thunders into your consciousness. Prying open your eyes, you are slumped in a grimy wooden chair behind an equally run do... | 2018-03-28T17:00:22 | 2018-03-28T16:42:25 | 48 | 33 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | The war began, and at first things looked bleak. The pope and President Barack Obama united the world under a One World Government during Obama's third term. Then, an uprising happened. Specifically in the religious community. "This was all prophesied" they claimed. "He is the Antichrist!" So they killed him. Crucified... | It looks like we were mistaken.
Who would have known that religion was not just some dogma created by man to control the masses. Instead they were are first line of defence, warning us about the impending attack. The Gods have become more formidable foes then previously anticipated.
It all started when we accident... | 2015-09-24T08:34:50 | 2015-09-24T08:29:53 | 95 | 23 |
[WP] You know that whole idea about how if a time traveller isn't showing up to stop you, you must be doing okay? Well, here you are - about to push the button - when an entire army shows up. | Yorkshire City, the once beautiful and prosperous land, is now full of broken pieces of radioactive material and glass. In the center of the destroyed city is a spinning generator, the same perpetually spinning generator that was the pride and joy of the City.
In the front of the generator is a middle aged man and 12... | This is my first time writing for one of these. Be gentle!
I was sitting in my girlfriend’s design studio when I noticed a button on the table was sitting slightly out of line with the others like it. I reach out to nudge it back into place with the others when I hear the sound of multiple safeties being turned off.... | 2019-04-16T15:00:15 | 2019-04-16T14:38:08 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The reason vampires don't have a reflection is because mirrors were originally made with silver which cannot hold an image of an evil creature. When a vampire wakes up for the first time in 1000 years they find a modern day mirror without silver and are surprised by what they see. | Within the deep depths of the ocean, a fisher boat hauled up a coffin, gleaming black in the sunlight. It was in fairly good shape considering it should’ve been in the sea for at least a few centuries.
The fishermen brought it all the way out from the open sea to their hometown, but being unable to pry it open, they s... | It's amazing how bright a single candle can seem after centuries of darkness. Mortals have no real sense of time past decades, much less a millennium. If you have ever been woken by a floodlight in your eyes after a late and long night drinking you might understand how Olaf had felt that night. The unfortunate young ma... | 2020-08-15T23:26:32 | 2020-08-15T22:55:50 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] Heaven is discovered to be a physical place on Earth with access to near unlimited resources. Humanity does what it does best and declares war on God's forces. The siege on Heaven's gates begins. | "You heard the order, Jophiel. Direct the Ophanim to open the Gate."
Over the geological ages the blessed angels of the Host had defended their outpost on the Earth. Men called it Heaven, The Garden of Eden, Shangri-la, many names passed down in legends through the generations. It had remained hidden amidst the mounta... | As the army approached the gates of Heaven, the angels flew up from behind the gates, ready for a fight.
"Ripley, we have a problem," a solider shouted over the wind and wings flapping. I figured the problem was the angels, but they were the least of our worries. Over my shoulder I saw the stairway to Heaven slowly... | 2017-10-01T15:24:12 | 2017-10-01T08:40:28 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" | haha, "Carl when did you develop a sense of humor?" I said. "Carl"?
I turned to look over my right shoulder expecting to see my normally morose and impersonal driver only to see one of *them*.
"Oh fuck me" I stammered looking into the beady eyes of what has been the sum of all fears since childhood.
"You are a King ... | "Met any...bees, son," my father asks casually as I step across the room, his back to me. My foot pauses, hovering atop the stairs as I shiver at his words. The familiar tone so alien to me now.
"Of course not," I say as casually as I can, holding my breath in anticipation.
"...Good." My father says, his voice growin... | 2018-04-01T04:29:26 | 2018-04-01T02:33:35 | 1,614 | 85 |
[WP] In order for justice to be fully served, prisons begin administering age inhibitors so that convicts can live out their entire sentences. | > "In America, only the very rich and the very poor live forever." - Ray Childs, 2012 - 2276
"Inmate 5461. Childs, you got a visitor."
The sound of metal on metal rattled Ray's teeth. Heavy steel bars rolled aside and he stepped forward.
An angry looking man held out cuffs. His tarnished badge read "Harris". He l... |
The inmates stared at me as I forked a broccoli into my mouth.
"Tell us," one of them said.
"Come on man."
"Tell us what you did."
"How many years exactly?"
A dozen inmates had forcefully seated themselves at my table, and behind them were dozens more in a grey and drab uniform. They huddled close, forming a t... | 2018-02-13T08:52:17 | 2018-02-13T07:49:56 | 114 | 19 |
[WP] A sign on Mars is found that reads: "Level 2" and is signed by God.
Based off of a comment I saw. | Complete radio silence.
That, more than anything, made the hairs stand up on the back of Commander Mitchell's neck. Months of intense training for the Ares V mission, on top of years of preparations and a total of 367 days in orbit, had made him so confident and focused that not even finding a sign reading "Level 2" ... | As an Atheist, it had never occurred to me to look for any kind of sign from God. Not when my wife left me, not when I was selected from thousands of qualified applicants to come to Mars. Not even when I narrowly escaped death moments before when a leak in my suit threatened to end me, shortly after having the distinct... | 2014-10-23T12:00:27 | 2014-10-23T11:35:33 | 106 | 79 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I glanced nervously at my watch, still holding a wry smile. *12:01*.
My mom gave me a reassuring nod, but her brow furrowed in the same way as it does when I suit up for football. Hopeful. Excited. Definitely nervous. *12:02*.
Dad makes a nervous laugh. “Jim, you remember how much I was sweating at my Calling Day?” ... | Tick tock
I had hoped, at one time, that my number would be big. After all who would want to be one of those poor kids, they who turn 18 and find their actual age written between beneath their thumb. Can you imagine the parents as they count down the days, not knowing when it will come, just that it will hang over the... | 2017-03-16T03:45:52 | 2017-03-16T00:57:55 | 188 | 63 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | Smoke bellowed from my wrecked time machine. I sat there, mad at myself. Mad that I was stuck in 1483. Mad that I forgot an anchor to get back. All I wanted to do was go back in time and see my family’s homeland. Most everything is gone in the present. As dangerous as time travel is, all the risk it worth it for a glim... | The signal was weak, I needed it to be stronger if I ever wanted to find the person who had it ON. I had to all this while I was trying to fit in with the crowd with a alien looking device in my hand. My heart started racing while I just started thinking who it might be.
I just wanted to find the house where this thi... | 2016-11-15T07:07:40 | 2016-11-15T06:30:14 | 30 | 11 |
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