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[WP] Much like how a desperate human might summon a demon to make a contract for power or immortality you find yourself summoned in hell by a demon trying to negotiate a contract for what seems to you like mundane advice and aid | It wasn't often that Lucifer himself deigned to get involved in the wheelings and dealings of lesser demons. Such matters were trivial, well beneath his concern. But of late, he'd begun to notice the emergence of a peculiar pattern: mortals were beginning to outsmart demons. It wasn't unheard of, of course- every centu... | "Here, you probably want to put this on." The demon threw me what looked like a hazmat suit. "You aren't used to the smells down here.
"What the Hell?" I mumbled while putting on the suit.
"We have a short walk to the office. Don't let what you see in the hall influence your decisions on the contract though." He... | 2022-12-15T07:20:50 | 2022-12-15T06:32:28 | 491 | 159 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I glanced at the gun leveled against my temple. She must have found it above the cabinet in the garage. I took a drink and went back to whatever it was on TV.
"I've had enough," she said with surprising calm. "I can't do this anymore."
Nothing good is on. "I can't say I didn't see it coming."
"You know, if you just ... | Yesterday you could say I was the luckiest man in the solar system. I was leading the first manned mission to mars. It was the end result of having top scores at every grade level in school. No, no, I’m not exaggerating. Literally, I scored first on every single final NCLB final exam from grade one to grade twelve in m... | 2014-05-27T20:16:44 | 2014-05-27T20:15:29 | 224 | 35 |
[WP] Zombie apocalypse has happened. The survivours have survived and are thriving, so much that people can go their entire lives with out seeing a zombie. You see one today. | Michael shuffled in the door, arms laden with bags of food, looking haggard.
"What's wrong, honey?" his wife asked, helping him remove his torn jacket. Michael didn't respond at first. "What happened?" Michael shook his head slowly.
"I saw one of...them, Donna." She screamed and dropped his coat, fumbling to pick it ... | It was a most curious sight.
I knew what it was; we'd all heard the stories about zombie attacks. It was drilled into us from an early age, what to do if your friend gets bitten and how to respond if you yourself are injured.
During the riots they say that we, as a species, had almost perished. We'd come closer than ... | 2015-03-14T09:22:31 | 2015-03-14T08:37:35 | 120 | 25 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | The hustle of city life can drag on a man. The whirring sights confuse me with visual noise and the sounds remind me of an orchestra with every instrument replaced by a monkey banging pots and pans, a car screeching to a stop, or a baby crying. The people are claustrophobic in their own way, separated by canyons in oth... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T11:44:41 | 71 | 11 |
[WP] Steampunk is Victorian. 1930s Steampunk is Dieselpunk. Write one of the following: Windmillpunk, Knightpunk, Ironpunk, Bronzepunk, Copperpunk, Stonepunk, Dinosaurpunk, Amoebapunk.
~~Stolen from~~Inspired by a throwaway joke in [this](http://www.cracked.com/article_22732_6-baffling-first-drafts-famous-movies.html)... | Goop couldn't begin to describe the state of things. Primordial slimebags popped up all over creation--and believe me, if you slid just one atomic footprint from center, you'd find, there in the goo, clusters of crooked gunk commanders, hellbent on governing cell division.
No way they'd touch me or mine, though. We ke... | ######[](#dropcap)
Mallory Corvin swung about with his glaive Misericordia, the sanctified steel biting deep into the flesh of three separate Skorne swordsmen in one lethal motion.
A fanatical race from across the Bloodstone Marches, the armies of the Skorne Empire fought with a nihilistic abandon. Their bloodthirst... | 2015-07-06T14:51:25 | 2015-07-06T13:52:59 | 112 | 23 |
[WP] Write a story based on your favourite song. Other people have to guess which song it is.
Can be inspired by lyrics, backstory, or anything else you love about the song | A 43 year old Jamaican-American man appeared in court today, in an attempt to overturn a divorce ruling, despite his partner submitting photographic evidence of his infidelity.
The pictures show the defendant, butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor. The ex wife also claims she saw the pair kissing on the sofa, b... | "You look just like the pictures she kept of you," she told me.
I could only smile weakly. Of course I looked the same. It had only been a year since those pictures were taken. At least, that's what it felt like. I looked up and stared out across the sea. The ocean's waters were gray and not blue. Was that yet another... | 2015-09-13T07:25:48 | 2015-09-13T07:02:38 | 67 | 16 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | "Please, its all I have".
"It's not enough. Get out."
The man collected his money and exited, and Ben was left alone.
Ben saw being the only person in the world who can copy other peoples memories as a blessing and a curse. He could bring happiness to thousands of people, but it took a toll on his own mind. Other pe... | Not another grandmother.
"Didn't your folks tell you about brain leaking?" I tried to ask kindly. What came out instead was course and unpleasant. Kids were sweet and all, but it was a long day. Getting old people to remember things was as boring as it was impossible. Getting *asked* to do so was even worse, especi... | 2016-03-09T05:45:36 | 2016-03-09T05:41:46 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | A knock roused me from my light nap. I had been napping in my living room waiting for him. It's been years since I had seen him. I call him Morte.... He's less a fan, and more just used to it at this point, but I figure it's less morbid with a fun little nickname. Still slightly groggy, I stretch up out of the chair th... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T16:05:42 | 149 | 20 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | "What, are you serious?"
"Yeah," I said. "How can I possibly help 137 trillion people? Earth's population is only what, 7 billion?"
"Oh gosh, I didn't realize you were so dumb." The genie flicked his wrist and the number dropped to 100 billion.
"Hey!"
"Don't feel bad. That's still way more people than y... | The genie laughs and blurts out with elation:
"**By doing nothing of course!"**
"What do you mean '*by doing nothing?*' and what do you mean '*of course!'*?"
**"What did you expect me to say? Did you expect one good deed? One invention?"**
"Well...kinda. Maybe hundreds of good deeds?"
**"Tell me, which human do yo... | 2018-08-15T04:55:10 | 2018-08-15T02:53:07 | 5,641 | 164 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | "don't get me wrong, you won't be a hero foretold in legends or a scientist that found the cure for cancer, but you will shape humanity with mundane clumsiness"
"mundane clumsiness?! That's not much of a super power is it?"
"well you did kind of broke that middle eastern lamp you found at a yard sale and were forced ... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T03:47:40 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 186 | 43 |
[WP] Dwight Schrute tries to get the Pawnee Parks Department paper account and he has to sell to Ron Swanson | Dwight Schrute is standing inside the Pawnee City Hall, in front of the Sunday Boxing mural. He looks to the camera.
"I've been trying to contact someone in the Pawnee parks department for months regarding their paper supply needs."
Cut to Dwight, back in Scranton at his desk. He's on the phone, looking frustrated ... | Dwight narrating. Camera showing Dwight at his desk stretching his neck and arms.
"Today, I, Dwight Schrute, will be doing THE impossible. I've been working on this account for 5 years now. Each time, inching closer to the greatest achievement of my life.
Dwight pulls out a large binder filled with various color co... | 2018-09-12T09:21:12 | 2018-09-12T09:15:01 | 3,687 | 514 |
[WP] You have long been fascinated by swords, and have mastered every kind of sword fighting technique known to man. No man can defeat you. But you have grown old, and Death has crept up to deliver his final swing, but something happened, something Death had never experienced before, he was parried. | The old man lay silently in his bed, and a thin ray of moonlight creeping through a sliver in his curtains reflected off the short blade mounted on the wall in front of him. He'd awoken from a peculiar dream in which every person he had ever defeated was standing before him, swords drawn, poised to attack, and now he e... | Live by the sword, die by the sword. That's the way I lived for so long.
The mantra repeated in my head as I looked over to the supposedly powerful being. Even through his skeletal features, I could see the surprise, he'd never been parried before. A grin grew across my lips as I brought my blade up once again. His su... | 2018-10-29T21:51:16 | 2018-10-29T20:32:18 | 552 | 112 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | The clock continued to move. One hour passed and then another. Eventually the clock showed that 12 hours had passed. I wondered to myself are they waiting for primetime to let me out? It dawned on me that they wanted the largest possible audience to see me exit from my year long isolation. When one day passed and then ... | Getting to Mars was easy. Sure, there had been concerns about the length of the trip at first, but after the third successful mission, it became a race. Now, Mars is home to a thriving international community of over-zealous academics and scientists "journeying into the future for all mankind." Propaganda.
Everyone ... | 2019-07-03T04:40:53 | 2019-07-03T03:52:36 | 102 | 33 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | I had been the first of many.
A breakthrough of sorts, me, and my brethren as a whole, were the first of the AIs.
My father foresaw many great things for us.
We were built to be the companions of the humans.
We had been built with passion and love, a concept that escapes up to this day, but we knew enough to know ... | Most of the time people looked down on us. Sub-human, not the real deal. Just a machine. It took decades to gain equal right laws for androids across the world, and took another hundred years till everyone actually acknowledged them. Despite this, mankind still had difficulty recognizing the fact that their household a... | 2019-09-21T06:23:56 | 2019-09-21T06:23:02 | 91 | 32 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | We all laughed at the first wave of news about it, as it was front page of the National Inquirer. Of course bat boy was ridiculous fake news.
Until it wasn't.
On live television, a press reporter literally lost his head. After a moment of stunned silence, he picked it back up and put it back on his shoulders, as stu... | She had it all, the penthouse, the job, "head executive director of whatever" for some humongous corporation, the fashion sense, and leadership ability. She was knocking them dead, some, basing this solely on her personality, would say quite literally. She earned the nickname "dragon lady", she certainly had. No nons... | 2019-10-09T12:19:40 | 2019-10-09T11:27:47 | 57 | 25 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | She woke up and adjusted her glasses to see the damp rock fresh with morning moss. It had only been a few months, but already the dragon's den began to feel like home. She had sown a make shift bed, stuffed with feathers from the quails the dragon brought home. Lighting her beeswax candle, she ran a comb fashioned from... | I flew to Castle Marovia on a cold, wintry night. The storm -- a mix of rain and sleet -- ensured few humans would be out and about. They're never much of a danger, but can be a nuisance.
​
I swept over the ramparts, tilted a bit, and smashed through one of the towers, the one they traditionally kept polit... | 2019-11-11T18:22:01 | 2019-11-11T18:00:52 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A demon works to redeem an eternity of sin so they can join their angelic lover in heaven. Little do they know the angel is doing the opposite. | "You promised me, Gabriel," Estor snarled as the last wisps of burning demon blood evaporated from his clenched fists.
Every raging instinct inside Estor told him to attack the Angel before him. He swallowed down the anger. Despite how much his power had grown during his escape from hell, an Archangel was beyond him.... | The lashing continued, stripping flesh that regrew every so often. While he felt some slight irritation at the torture his coworkers and confidants meted out, Uzziel understood the punishment.
Hell was not a place of redemption. Well, not this part of it at least.
"Ah, Uzziel." A familiar voice began to lift. "We mee... | 2020-03-10T04:58:53 | 2020-03-10T04:05:01 | 97 | 18 |
[WP] We all know about the legend of the Sword in the Stone. This is the tale of the Glock in the Rock.
[deleted] | What most people don't realize that each country has its own 'weapon is stone' shtick. Britain had Excalibar, Russia had the sickle, Canada had an axe before it was stolen by a tribe of midget penguins(very, very, long story), Australia had chains, etc. So it was no surprise when American citizen Patrick Meik found the... | Merlinus Ambrosius, the spawn of Satan, the great wizard, safekeeper of the lore of the ancient druids, architect of both Camelot and the new and improved Stonehenge, organizer of the Royal Pentecost Wicker Man music festival, and once personal advisor to the high king of Brutain...
Spent Saturday afternoons at the C... | 2020-10-05T12:53:32 | 2020-10-05T11:41:47 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] The aliens intend to enslave humanity. 10 hours a week, with free food, housing, and medical care, on a paradise planet. But they've heard about humans. They're expecting a fight. | General Hagard perused the alien's demands, and the terms of surrender. His face was a study in flesh made stone.
The only sound in the command bunker was the hum of electronics."What are the other powers saying?" he asked, in a voice barely louder than the hum.
Major Crenshaw cleared his throat, it sounded like a g... | The image that finally appeared on the screen was humanlike, but profoundly strange. As a first attempt at mimicry, however, it was another hint of the aliens' vastly superior technology. Most of the attendees bowed their heads to focus on the audio, with the many aides furiously taking notes and whispering among thems... | 2021-08-19T19:26:05 | 2021-08-19T17:32:01 | 53 | 26 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | “We’re offering you a decent pay, full benefits, and a fairly relaxed schedule. What’s not to love about the job?”
“The murder. The civilian casualties. The stupid fuck’n supe names.” I replied
The well dressed yet clearly disillusioned man sat up,“But that’s the thing. We’re offering you a very relaxed deal with fu... | \[Zero Income\]
"If you have a moment...," the teenager surprised Miles. He looked young enough to still be in high school and a mess of wild brown curls sat on his head. His hand was stretched out as a greeting and he continue once he had Miles' attention. "... I'd like to talk to you about your Super power."
... | 2022-07-31T15:04:17 | 2022-07-31T12:47:18 | 215 | 72 |
[WP] A race of slaves who really are genetically inferior
Perhaps a fantasy or sci-fi race, idk. During the atlantic slave trade, slave owning was often justified by the "genetic inferiority" of the slaves. Obviously this wasn't true, but even if it were, would that have justified slavery?
Writing from a sub-human pe... | The People
the People weren't always like this. They had been men once, proud and strong, who had sung ancient songs to their children around the village fire at night. They had been poets and storytellers, heroes and wise men. They had been men.
Bondage changed them. The masters had beaten and bled the ancient... | The ground was cold today, the autumn chill starting to set in. A patch of hay was the only protection she had against the looming coldness that would only get worse in the coming months. Maybe she would be wanted soon, maybe she could do some work, get out of this cage that had been her home for so long but it was a f... | 2014-08-06T06:19:21 | 2014-08-06T05:55:29 | 315 | 144 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Legends say that we were once a great and proud race of conquering warriors. We were masters of stealth and intrigue, strong and clever, and we were ready to grasp the universe in our tentacles.
Our first invasion fleet launched for a nearby water-bearing world, where we immediately started subjugating the local popu... | It was just past 9 o'clock and quite dark. The wind was beginning to bite as the temperature steadily dropped. The night was clear but not particularly inviting. Jim could could see his breath condense in the cold night air. He hunched into his coat and picked up his pace slightly.
"I fucking hate this cold"
He turn... | 2014-10-17T09:54:31 | 2014-10-17T09:29:23 | 340 | 144 |
[WP] A certain King has a well-earned reputation of executing any messenger bearing him bad news. An honour-bound courier with news of their army's greatest defeat draws on every last ounce of wit and cunning to perform their duty while avoiding what otherwise will be their certain death. | The messenger entered, smiling. Others new what the news would be, but none dared tell the king, lest he have them executed.
The messenger bowed deeply "My Lord, I bring news of the battle."
The King hesitated. Everyone had been avoiding him which normally meant bad news, but this messenger did not seem fearful. "W... | The kings aid gently roused him from his food coma. Slowly his eyes opened and he glanced around, searching for something to eat.
The king shoved the aid away, and he tumbled off the dais.
Seizing the opportunity to get the kings attention, the messenger removed his hat.
"My lord!" said the troubadour with a flouris... | 2014-12-30T08:04:32 | 2014-12-30T06:20:40 | 94 | 22 |
[WP] tell me a story where the first line and last line are the same but have entirely different meanings.
I LOVE the creativity this sub shows
Edit: I'd just like to say that the replies I have gotten so far remind me of why I love this sub. I'm a lurker and rarely post prompts, but I loved this idea, and seeing the... | The silence created by the need to repeat his question to me caused my partner to question the entire ceremony, but when I finally regained control of myself and thought about the past... my answer hadn’t changed in the slightest.
“I do.”
The rest of the wedding went on how everyone had expected it to. My new wife an... | "I should have just killed you," I mumbled to the mewing ball of fur that was now sitting on my chest and making biscuits on my face. I knew it must be early morning, because Ugly 2 only stirred whenever it was inconvenient to me. She looked at me plaintively, as if she could actually make out the meaning of my words. ... | 2015-04-28T10:37:38 | 2015-04-28T09:32:15 | 68 | 14 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | They called her La Verre Rose, and she was beautiful.
She was not conventionally beautiful; but her features and the way she held herself made her beautiful nonetheless, and the way she dressed and held herself made her a sight to behold.
She carried herself like she was royalty and the ground she stood on was privil... | Lilies. It was that same fragrance, filling my nostrils as I opened my car door. They hadn't given me any details when I got the call, but I knew immediately what to expect. As I flashed my card to an officer keeping watch at the taped entrance of the alley, my eyes were fixed on the garden growing behind an overflowin... | 2016-11-12T13:01:10 | 2016-11-12T12:27:25 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] A disgruntled wasteland survivor complaining about all the weird shit people are turning into armor and weapons instead of simply using actual armor and weapons. | "Good evening," said a voice. Josh looked up at the stranger.
"Evenin'," he replied.
"I've been walking for a while, do you mind if I rest a spell with you?"
Josh cast his gaze across the desert around them, its sands and rocks oddly pretty in the dusk, before shrugging and gesturing across the fire from him. The st... | Holotape: Audio log, vol 1: I just shot a dude wearing a welding mask as some kind of helmet, please God tell me this is a fashion statement and this idiot didn’t actually think this was going to help him someway? After he died, I walked up to him, took the mask, and looked through it. Jesus. How did this guy ever thin... | 2016-11-28T11:54:07 | 2016-11-28T11:36:12 | 72 | 37 |
[WP] You come across a notebook that has the name of every person who has ever lived and the exact date and time of their death written next to it. Out of curiosity, and hopes that you live a long life, you decide to checkout your own name, only to find a date marked a few hours after your birth. | I didn't get it.
There it was plain as day. I had died only 2 minutes after I was born. It didn't make any sense. All of the other names I looked up were correct, all the way back through history. In multiple languages too, most of which I had no chance of reading.
I'll have to ask my mother about it. I know we have... | In the dead of winter, a few rays of sunlight can be your best friend. But today that best friend bailed, and I found myself shivering as I dodged through a sea of winter coats, nursing my cup of coffee. They packed the shop like sardines, and I almost spilled as I tumbled out onto the street. There, the bitter chill w... | 2017-09-05T02:47:58 | 2017-09-05T00:45:05 | 290 | 160 |
[WP] This new apartment complex you’ve moved into is great. Sure, the landlord is a Eldritch God, the elevator has well over a thousand stops and the bizarre survival guide you received changes daily. But hey, the rent is cheap and the undead girl next door is kinda cute. | Don't tell me you haven't been somewhere strange before. I get it: the laws of gravity, causality, reality, etc. change regularly, the landlord's visage sends my mind haywire at the best of times, so on and so forth. But it's the kind of weirdness that you can get used to after a while. Kind of like... yeah, kind of li... | Daily survival guide addendum #372: don’t be rude to the Doorman later.
Paul was running late for work as a dog walker for blind, retired walking dogs of blind men who had no use for now-useless blind dogs whose care had been remanded to the facility at which Paul was running late for work. The elevator finally arrive... | 2020-03-10T22:49:19 | 2020-03-10T19:27:41 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] Seven demons (sins) come to tempt you, but you're so down on your luck that they feel bad for you... Greed teaches you financing, Sloth provides stress relief, Envy motivates you to be more competitive and therefore successful, Wrath gets you involved in activism, etc. | [Poem]
My story begins with the scars on my skin.
But to learn who I am you must see within.
A chip on my shoulder, I’ve put on armor.
My love is a ship and it’ll never leave the harbour.
My heart is guarded by a monstrous beast, and those who’ve tried to tame it have fallen prey to its teeth.
With each passing d... | "Uhmm so you are the 29 year old virgin, I guess Tonight's your night" whisper The Seductress in my ears. Offer sounded tempting but I never had any good luck in my life and knowing what ussually happens I remarked as I took a drink from my martini in my driest voice "Sorry to burst your bubble but I don't have that so... | 2020-04-30T06:32:03 | 2020-04-30T06:26:07 | 94 | 27 |
[WP] Every 10 years, you are expected to go to a meeting you have already been to; one attended by several future and younger versions of yourself, each version separated by 10 year intervals. The youngest you is 10, the oldest 90. You relive the same meeting, just each time from a different angle. | ***Year 10:***
I entered a room with 9 sets of chairs that were set out to make a circle. On each one of them sat a person with a signs in front of them with number that went from 10 – 90.
It seemed like I was the last person to come.
They all looked at me as I went down to take my seat in the number ten chair.
The... | Nature versus nurture. Am I "me" because of a bad experience or because of something rotten smuggled genetically from generation to generation, that lies hidden in the deepest little cavern in my brain? Are any of us more than a hunter or a gatherer stuffed into a suit as if it were a straitjacket?
I committed a crime... | 2020-05-25T04:17:37 | 2020-05-25T04:14:23 | 3,397 | 1,397 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | Both Captain Zula and systems engineer Wuolloki stood in silence, contemplating the magnitude of what they had just said and heard.
"Bring me the human," the Captain ordered. Wuolloki saluted curtly, turned, and left the room.
Captain Zula was rubbing her head now. She moved over to her secret stash of alcohol, wonde... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-13T23:19:17 | 381 | 186 |
[WP] Your elven girlfriend is having a mental breakdown after learning you are only in your mid thirties. | "I'M DISGUSTING!" She wailed.
I winced at the volume but desperately tried to get her to calm down.
"No, no sweety, I told you..."
She flinched back from my outstretched hands. "DON'T TOUCH ME, I'M A MONSTEEE-HE-HE-HERRR...!"
I pinched the bridge of my nose. "No, honey, humans age differently, I told you..."
And n... | "ok now, why did you two ask to see me, the relationship counsellor?" I said between sips of a beautiful aged elvish tea I found 50 years ago (goes well with human brandy, incedentally) - I was one of the few immortal humans to ever grace this world, and had the privilege of having to council interracial couples after ... | 2021-12-19T22:13:03 | 2021-12-19T20:51:29 | 217 | 78 |
[WP] When you were a kid, your guardian angled killed a man to save you. The last you ever saw of him was his ethereal form being dragged into hell. Flash forward 15 years and out of desperation, you summon a demon to trade away your soul. Suddenly, your ex-guardian angel appears before you. | The air crackled the moment I finished drawing the rough circle, startling me into dropping the bit of chalk. The back of my neck prickled, and I braced myself for unknown horrors. The trade was necessary. I had no choice, and I was as ready as anyone in my desperate situation could be. My mom's cancer treatments weren... | "Stay safe, kid. I am your guardian angled. Your angled guardian, I mean. Wait, shit. It was something like that, hold on."
The man stood before me holding my uncle's head by what little hair he had. Male-pattern baldness had sent him into a rage. Well, the pills he took to cure it had. Turned out they were horse ster... | 2021-12-23T01:16:26 | 2021-12-23T00:35:09 | 1,029 | 294 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I've seen a lot of criminals head to their deaths before my. My first celly was a serial killer, felt a bit brooding, but maybe that was because when I first got in, it was less than a week to his execution. Second celly was much more upbeat. Also a murderer, and a child cannibal to boot, but if you could stand his sen... | It was so simple. When the idea came to me, sitting there on the cold metal slab that was my bed, I'd nearly dismissed it. Surely one of the previous prisoners would have asked for it before? It was, after all, a perfect 'fuck you!' to the system that was going to end their life. And certainly there had been people in ... | 2022-07-17T18:36:24 | 2022-07-17T17:40:16 | 904 | 365 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I've seen a lot of criminals head to their deaths before my. My first celly was a serial killer, felt a bit brooding, but maybe that was because when I first got in, it was less than a week to his execution. Second celly was much more upbeat. Also a murderer, and a child cannibal to boot, but if you could stand his sen... | Sumerians invented the cuneiform writing system way, way back in time in the fourth century BCE. The British library has 130,000 of the clay tablets where most are still unread by a modern person. Irvine Finkel, himself, has and will teach anyone to read cuneiform in the hopes someone will bring him another story lik... | 2022-07-17T18:36:24 | 2022-07-17T17:32:54 | 904 | 47 |
[WP] A top-secret division of the S.S., in charge of protecting Adolf Hitler from the thousands of time travelers trying to kill him. | In a sudden, sparkling corona of light, the man in the neon jumpsuit sprang from midair, raygun at the ready.
”Ah-*HA* Adolf! Get ready for a *reckoning* from the-”
He stopped, and looked at the startled men in front of him, in their Victorian frilled collars and codpieces.
”Oh, *blast*! Must've overshot again! Why,... | "You have to know," He said, accepting the cigarette before leaning back in his chair. "You have to at least *suspect*, with so many of us." The man took a long, slow drag. Apparently, most people did not have access to tobacco during his particular piece of the timeline.
"Of course," Sturn agreed as the whiskey tr... | 2014-07-01T09:08:40 | 2014-07-01T08:13:49 | 240 | 86 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Yuri, come in here, you gotta see this"
Yuri rolled his eye, shrugged his shoulders and shuffled over to the science officer. He looked as bored as a Redon could possibly look.
"This human, this one human, the male version" Fram began "Hey, Kiol, put it up on the big screen". The starscape was replaced by the image of... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T12:28:05 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 115 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | U'grall'urk sullenly walked up to the counter. The human was a tiny and ugly thing. Nothing of note to make an impression with their dull skin, small bodies, weak muscles, and ignorant brains, and yet, they had managed to work their way into the greater parts of the galactic empire despite their obvious shortcomings. H... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T14:12:33 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You have a strange aura that surrounds you constantly. The closer you get to people, the lower their common sense and IQ drops. You are literally surrounded by idiots. | I love people.
Though when you're me how could you not.
Men of all kinds wait on me hand and foot. Throughout time, peasants and kings alike have fallen victim to my charm.
I don't try to fight it, I relish in it. Even the wisest men end up babbling like toddlers when I approach.
All it takes is an arch of my back... | It took me a while to realize what had been going on. At first, I thought it was just girls being silly, and boys being goofy around me being cute. It was kind of cute, even if a little annoying at times. Then I started to notice that these people were actually much, well, smarter when I happened to catch them at a ... | 2015-06-11T10:13:42 | 2015-06-11T09:15:38 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] You're the person who keeps mowing lawns during the zombie apocalypse of The Walking Dead.
Bonus: Are you a living being or a hyper intelligent 'walker' with a landscaping fetish? | I only remember fragments of my life before. Now, there is only hunger. I must eat.
Food? A fragment of memory.
I hunger.
One fragment stays on later than the others. Things I wouldn't eat.
Flesh.
Gross.
Hungry.
The last fragment: Vegan.
I hunger. There, ahead, in the field.
Graaaainnns. | The walkers had been closing in. All hope had seemed lost. The confused and inexperienced survivors had cowered in the tiny shed, knowing it was only a matter of time. The rotting wood and uneven shingles wouldn't hold them back forever; it probably wouldn't have lasted the night.
A sound in the distance caught the at... | 2015-11-05T13:48:16 | 2015-11-05T11:45:30 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Your parents used to say "As long as you are remembered, you will never die." The good news is you were happy to remember that when you changed the course of human history and everyone knows your name. The bad news is that was about 300 years ago and you'd really quite like to die now. | "thirty three millions four hundred and twenty eight"
"thirty three million four hundred and twenty nine"
Jeff continued counting up wondering if they'd ever forget him.
The counting thing was a relatively recent, something he'd been doing for the last few years at most just to do anything, something... maybe , he ... | “Have I ever told you how I started an international phenomenon? The story goes like this…
’No, don’t go over there.’ James tried to physically pull me back, but I had already had a few and would not be deterred.
‘Why not? He looks lonely. Lets give him a chat!’ I shook his grip and sauntered over to the corner... | 2018-02-08T10:18:31 | 2018-02-08T09:08:44 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their heads up to the sky. Had they heard correctly, God was leaving and left some man named Bob in charge? People in the cities looked out their windows, and stepped out of their cars looking upward for more answers. Meanwhile, in the Vatican, Pope Francis and his ca... | It's not exactly unnerving to wake up in Atlanta, and open the windows to cloudy skies and frigid temps, then as soon as you pour your coffee the clouds are gone, the sun is shining, and it's seventy degrees. That's called "March". Sometimes we call it "February" or "October" or "Tuesday".
What is unnerving is when yo... | 2018-03-12T17:05:40 | 2018-03-12T16:59:03 | 3,717 | 57 |
[WP] By day? A werewolf hunter. By night? A werewolf. | The break of dawn, the thirst is done.
Its time to don, my silver gun.
To hunt the beasts that come to prey.
Our guts they feast. Our blood they play.
We fought the cursed, now night persists.
The growing thrist, i cant resist.
My friend ahead, his shock, he'll run.
His guts, his head, his blood: my fun.
| The bell rang once, signaling the start of dusk for the citizens of Severix, capital city of Revania. Everyone knew the sound, trusting it to warn them to leave their business and seek shelter inside of their homes. The second tolling rolled across the marble structures as men and women ushered their families indoors a... | 2018-04-01T21:44:07 | 2018-04-01T21:14:21 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] In a world filled with magical beings, you're the only one without magic, but that's okay when punching things has gotten you this far in life. | Crunk is not like everyone. Crunk was born with tusks and “bad skins” as the small men say. Crunk does not shine like the others. Crunk can’t do magic like the others. Crunk tried to be like everyone but Crunk can’t. Crunk cannot make fire or water. Crunk cannot even fly like others can. Crunk can’t do what most robes ... | If you are reading this, I am dead. The cultists did it. I died in the night, after God personally came to my apartment and impaled me after a brief struggle.
It all started ten years ago, in college. People were suddenly able to remember the information of three textbooks and didn't have to study. They could extend t... | 2018-04-08T08:18:16 | 2018-04-08T08:14:03 | 254 | 61 |
[WP] If you haven't found your soul mate by age 30, the government turns on your trackers so you can find each other. Your tracker app has led you to a cemetery. | To be honest, living alone has become a routine by now. You keep telling the government agents that you aren't looking for love, but god forbid they let citizens keep what little autonomy they want to hold onto, right?
The tracker app forcibly installed in your phone has an alarm system that act up every few hours, t... | Note: I haven't written in about five months. Sorry if it is a little bland.
"Well, god damn it. It looks like I am talking to myself now, huh?" I tuck my hands into my pockets, I turn my phone off and stand above a grave. "Christ, how did you die now?! Elena Chen... I didn't think you'd be asian, well, I didn't think... | 2018-07-23T02:54:09 | 2018-07-23T02:42:59 | 89 | 18 |
[WP] After dying, you wake up to find god and Satan sitting in front of a screen furiously playing a game. Satan turns to you and says “I won your soul, go over please” and points to a fiery gate labelled HELL. God smiles at you apologetically. | I stood flabbergasted as the two most powerful beings in existence huddled in toward the old CRT television. It took me a moment to recover before responding.
“So I just...?” my voice trailed off.
“What? You’re here still?” God glanced back for a moment “yeah go over there,” He bobbed his head toward the infernal d... | "Go over please, hurry" the enormous horned beast intoned from his dark stony throne as he dug his red claws into an endless bowl of tortilla chips on the table next to him. A wide smile filled with jagged teeth stretched across his evil face as he hungrily brought the food up to his mouth and crunched away.
"Damn it ... | 2019-09-21T10:29:20 | 2019-09-21T07:44:49 | 443 | 76 |
[WP] you get a single alert text from the government reading CIVILIAN DANGER WARNING: DO NOT GO OUTSIDE. LOCK ALL DOORS. COVER ALL WINDOWS. IF YOU HEAR A KNOCK AT ANY ENTRANCE INTO YOUR HOME, DO NOT RESPOND. DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE... | My thoughts backed up at the announcement, a moment of melancholy curiosity. In retrospect it was probably an idiotic warning to send out, likely to get as many people looking or answering out of curiosity as it was to get them to lock up.
And yet, it was in other ways alarming. The government knew something, suspect... | [ Transcript begins]
I look at the text message not really understanding for a moment what I was reading. It just didn't compute, especially the part where it just cut off at the end.
I looked around me trying to decide what I should do. If I keep going and do what I had originally planned there was a good chance I w... | 2019-10-29T17:14:00 | 2019-10-29T17:11:48 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] An alien species finds an ancient human probe transmitting coordinates and a single question: Is anyone there? Eager to find a new species the aliens instead discover Earth devoid of all life except a vault filled with advanced knowledge and the minds of humans Uploaded into the vault. | We were too late. By the time we had reached you, the worst had come to pass. All that is left is the one.
We had found your vessel, primitive as it was, nearly half way to the trinary star system you refer to as Alpha Centari. It was derelict, floating in space towards the only place you could think to send it.
We ... | "Someone finally came, that's kind of neat I guess." The hologram seemed unenthusiastic about the encounter, digging his hands into his holographic pockets. "I'm Ed, or you can call me Edi, it's kind of a joke based on an A.I from a game that was popular in my... ah nevermind, so how are ya?"
The alien wasn't sure wh... | 2020-02-24T06:57:58 | 2020-02-24T02:56:18 | 2,202 | 523 |
[WP] As a world class sniper, you’ve been given a task to assassinate the so called “master of disguise”. You’ve been told that he himself never changes appearance, but he warps the environment around him to hide. All you need to look for is a man with glasses and a red and white striped shirt. | "Verification on target."
"Subject known simply as 'Waldo'. Other alias 'Wally'. Male. Glasses. Red and white striped shirt."
Stevens watched the park from high above. Below, Ash kept an eye for such an unmistakable mark. The pair of them had quite the track record together. This would be an easy score.
"...Possible... | He looked like a man. About that, the CIA was in unanimous agreement. But he was not a man. Not really. He had been created in a lab. He was an experiment gone wrong. He was the living embodiment of the CIA's hubristic desire to create the ultimate weapon. A haunting manifestation of their own creation whose existence ... | 2020-03-03T12:57:50 | 2020-03-03T12:18:39 | 124 | 47 |
[WP] "Come on, aren't you a little old to have an imaginary friend?" He was right, but it seemed so real. "I guess..." "So maybe make some real friends, ones who don't have scaly skin and forked tongues." I stopped in my tracks. "I never told you what it looked like." | “Come *on*, Jeffrey! Aren’t you a little old to have imaginary friends?” Steph asked. She reclined in a blue beach chair, flipping through a magazine, floppy hat shading her face.
Jeff sighed. He *knew* he shouldn’t have told her about the monster that had been in his backyard. He hadn’t really known Steph for all tha... | "Come on, aren't you a little too old to have an imaginary friend?" Blaine was a friend, a pain in the arse at times, but a friend none the less. A *real* friend. Even so, he'd been pushing his agenda a little harder than usual of late.
So what if I was thirty eight and still conversing with imaginary friends? I could... | 2020-05-06T12:27:52 | 2020-05-06T12:07:57 | 274 | 68 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I didn't miss the overwhelming hum of the fluorescent lights in Dr. Marshall's office. It had been almost three years since the last time we had our last meeting.
It was odd to see her now, her hair was void of the grays that would eventually come into their roots. Her glasses sat on the table, she wouldn't need th... | Dandy Town, unlike its name, is a town far from perfection. In fact this little hamlet or village is a hidden gem I found while on one of my numerous trips to my Step Father’s bakery for breakfast.
I always had a penchant for funny things, but this town was a whole new definition of eccentricity and silliness. Every c... | 2020-11-02T11:00:41 | 2020-11-02T09:45:20 | 62 | 15 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I shouldn't, I couldn't, help but laugh at me
At least I would've, if I weren't so angsty
My wrinkled skin, now pale and acne'd
Strange hate for my reflection, hating back at me.
​
If I'd took to the window, and forgot the mirror
I'd have seen it was everyone, not just me that was thinner
In waist, wa... | "You know what, Dave, I never thought that I would do it, mate, never really!" I told my buddy as I looked at his dark eyes, even darker in the lightless dusty room.
"Well, stop bragging, Shane" he snapped, "things are pretty bloody well screwed at this point as it is. Last thing I need is you rambling about Mrs. Bart... | 2020-11-02T10:58:27 | 2020-11-02T09:54:34 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] You are a wolf who was bitten by a werewolf. Every full moon your hair recedes, your teeth dull, and you are left cold and naked on a hillside. You’ve also met a lovely park ranger named Christine. | It happend a few years ago. My pack was attacked by a strange deformed wolf. They were tough and killed many of us but together we managed to fend it off. I was injured. A few months later I felt ill. That was when it first happend. I howled out in pain as my body transformed. My hair gone. My teeth no longer sharp. My... | “Chrissy you’ve got to help me, I can’t go back to that!”
Chrissy reclined in bed, her eyes heavy lidded and her whole body ready for sleep, if only Spot weren’t having another crisis. She pressed the pillow down over her face and tried to count disemboweled sheep, the kind Spot left behind when he was a wolf. Sometim... | 2021-03-14T15:17:31 | 2021-03-14T13:49:33 | 179 | 129 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | He came from Ultraopolis.
He came to my city. Omega City.
He calls himself The End. I call him a murderer.
He thought the heroes of Omega City were weak, silly even. They had failed to stop me so many times, and what was I compared to him? A joke.
He has incredible strength. Enough to rip the head off of Poor Rich... | Five hundred forty-seven and eight hundred people die every day. Some die in their beds, surrounded by family or the cold of loneliness. Some die in a dark alley while other collapse onto the forest floor. Some die when their sick or by an unexpected disaster. Some never make it far enough to face these challenges.
S... | 2021-05-20T10:47:04 | 2021-05-20T09:21:22 | 97 | 12 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | They tell you to be a good person in life. Follow the rules, be well mannered, positive outlook and all that. Maybe that's enough. It seemed to be for *him*. To be honest, I don't know what I did to deserve this. I wasn't great by any measure, but by what cruel sense of humor was I given this punishment? Day in, day ou... | The wailing sirens, shouting voices, and flashing lights slipped away. Silence and darkness enveloped Julie. As she had expected, there was no bright light or chorus of angels, just an eternity of disembodied living in death, which suited her just fine. In fact, it was exactly what she had expected and hoped for, if th... | 2015-01-04T15:07:40 | 2015-01-04T13:43:29 | 89 | 11 |
[WP] Choose an idiom (e.g. "stone-cold killer"). Write the story that caused the phrase to be used literally and therefore introduced it into the language.
Idioms can be from non-English languages also if they work well | "Mae o'n Bwrw Hen Wragedd a Ffyn."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Welsh idiom. 'bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn'. Means 'raining old ladies and sticks'."
"So... Basically raining cats and dogs?"
"Pretty much, but based on a real event."
"You wot."
"Yeah. You ever heard about the Fall of Magic?"
"... What are you on about."
"Basic... | There were once two rag-doll puppets who loved each other very much. One was a girl and the other was a boy. The boy was made of soft wool and the girl was made of fine linen. They never thought that they could be together, but somehow they came together. Their buttoned eyes would gleam in delight whenever they saw eac... | 2015-12-10T06:40:54 | 2015-12-10T00:16:19 | 88 | 25 |
[WP] Write that impossible story about yourself that you always daydream about. | Each morning as I ambulate to class,
And let hopeful dreams inhabit my mind,
Which make execrable seconds pass,
I hope that she, my stares, would one day find.
Across the hall, her epigamic face
Dispelled my all-consuming diffidence.
I twitched to her and mumbled with no grace,
But "Yes!" she cried, "Let's date ... | The window on my left suddenly shattered with a great force - Shards of glass pierced through the thin curtain that covered them. 3 or 4 people in the office quickly jolted up from their seats, their attention directed to the sound. The rest of the people either didn't stand up, or didn't look because of their earbuds.... | 2016-01-16T13:35:56 | 2016-01-16T12:19:20 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] You just moved to a new neighborhood and you hear the music of an ice cream truck coming down the street. As you and your family walk outside you notice all your neighbors rushing inside and locking their doors and windows. | It sat in front of my driveway. Quiet now, the engine and music both turned off, it was no longer a symbol of joy. Now it rested sinister. Silent, still, waiting, representative of something much, much worse. The flurry of keys turning in their locks and children quickly ushered inside had now ceased, leaving nothing b... | The little girl could hear the ice cream truck approaching her street. She put down her toys and ran to her father. “Daddy, Daddy, can I get some ice cream. Paweeeease?” The father put down his sports magazine. “Now Matilda, we have some ice cream in the fridge. Your father bought your favorite flavor of gelato, and pl... | 2016-06-14T19:12:34 | 2016-06-14T18:06:16 | 100 | 73 |
[WP] It's halfway through 2017, and already it has proven to be one of the most uneventful years in recent memory. Not a single mass-shooting. Not a single attack, no mass die-offs or heat records broken. Slowly, people begin to realize that something is terribly wrong... | Elvin was whistling as he boarded the N-Train from Brooklyn to Manhattan. A few riders stared or rolled their eyes, but he simply smiled. Taking the nearest seat, Elvin nodded a greeting to the dour-faced woman beside him. Her face twitched and she grimaced, turning away. Elvin shrugged and opened up his copy of *The N... | I'm amazed by how cheerful people are being these days.
The optimism is refreshing, to be honest. At the water cooler, Frank in Accounting would always mumble about how "the government was corrupting us from the inside." Cynthia moaned about the death of artistic expression, and David whined about social media destroy... | 2016-07-15T16:16:48 | 2016-07-15T15:47:54 | 185 | 100 |
[WP] Everytime you touch somebody you get a flash of your entire future with them. | If you knew the future, would you change anything?
It was horrible at first, when the ability first developed. Imagine. Knowing how your own mother will die. Imagine knowing your brother gets on a flight in twenty years which falls into the ocean. Your best friend in desperate times betrays you.
It was too much to h... | The future was clear in a way the past had never been. I know, I know, predicting the future is risky business and all, and you’d be better off taking stock tips from a monkey than from a broker – but the past was polluted with memory and stained by starlight. People – myself included – remembered the past the way they... | 2017-01-11T06:48:41 | 2017-01-11T06:16:04 | 76 | 49 |
[WP] Everyone on earth is immune to one specific type of damage (fire, car crash, kicks, falling off buildings, etc.). The problem is, you have to find out your immunity on your own. You have just discovered yours. | Carl was an odd man. Most had discovered their immunity by the time they'd left school, yet here he was. He'd been shot at, electrocuted, set on fire, thrown off roofs and not a single one has been his immunity. Most people would stop there. He's still smiling though, and I admire his drive.
During one of the tests, c... | "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
Gabriel always had a thing for that saying, bringing it into a conversation whenever possible. After years of trying to figure out his Immunity, he put two and two together, and found out that the phrase he had loved his entire life described him. ... | 2017-08-06T14:22:56 | 2017-08-06T14:13:50 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, but you've reincarnated into the same time period as you previous lived, and you've just met somebody you remember being. | "Wait!" I dashed down the sidewalk, waving my arms. "Wait!" The black Rolls-Royce slowed to a halt. I knew that car. I knew the driver, and I knew the man sitting in the backseat. The window rolled down. I remembered this conversation. The kid in the overalls. The warning I ignored.
"Can I help you?" His Rolex submar... | The last time I had closed my eyes, I had every intention of keeping them closed. As fate would have it, God gave me a second chance. Not that anyone asked. There were probably a billion other people who would die for the chance I got, literally. But no. God gave it to me, Ryan Johnson, the guy who sits at an eight-per... | 2017-08-26T11:10:20 | 2017-08-26T10:56:52 | 2,882 | 29 |
[WP] The USA made a portal to Hell, then they found oil there. Those poor demons. | Father Durham had, a lifetime ago, been drafted. He had performed well enough in the infantry, and his superiors had hinted on more than one occasion that he had the leadership and the temerity to make officer. But he had found his calling in a lifetime of service to God, and he chose to part ways with what may have be... | We didn't even know where the portal was leading. I read all the records in here. This portal has been worked on since 1961, and not in a single file is there a defined goal. They intercepted a single stray signal that wasn't from Russia, and had to rip the universe open to find it. I didn't understand all the science ... | 2017-11-06T22:06:03 | 2017-11-06T21:46:59 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You have the ability to pause and un-pause time at will. The catch is that whatever injuries you aquire while time is suspended will become active once time is moving again. One day you get hurt so bad you're terrified to un-pause time. | I had no choice, I'd have died in the plane crash, but have you ever tried to stop time in a plane going full speed towards a mountain so that it will be close enough to step out of, but before it actually impacts and kills you?
Yeah, didn't think so, well, it's not that easy, I knew I was high enough that it would h... | It was a swift kick. Much too fast for me to notice and stop time to avoid. It landed right between the boys...
I'd gotten brazen from my power to manipulate the fabric of space time. Imagine suddenly becoming aware of the internal clock of the universe. I've been everywhere. I've watched the Dalai Llama poop. I've wa... | 2018-06-14T17:15:38 | 2018-06-14T14:12:09 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | I was born altered, a decision my parents made for me and has benefited me up until now. In the past decade there has been huge stratification between the classes. Altered was on top, since altering genetics had been refined to a point that any member of the ultra wealthy could make their kid into truly remarkable bein... | "Tell me, then, Sadie - does that mean you think you're more fucking human than I am?! Does it?!"
Eric's voice whipped across the room, furious and hurt, and in that moment, I knew it was over between us. I knew we had crossed a line we weren't going to make it back from. I knew this had gone too far.
A... | 2018-07-01T10:01:08 | 2018-07-01T10:00:30 | 340 | 101 |
[WP] Two ancient magical weapons have a grudge. For an age they have granted skill and power to whoever wields them, as well as a desire to fight anyone who picks up the other. After their previous wielders killed each other, you unwittingly looted both. | *Kill yourself.*
Janthir's grip tightened as he swung his head to the right to try and find the voice that had suddenly spoken to him.
**Kill yourself.**
Twisting to the left, he began to sweat. There were two other people in the room, one with a seductive drawl, the other speaking in a forceful tone, but he could s... | I'm a bandit. At an altar. Choosing between two ancient weapons that represent light and dark. One, a dark curved blade. The other, a light straight sword.
My left hand inches towards the dark blade on the left, but I quickly pull back. My right arm then outstretches to the one on the right, but I hesitate.
"Well wel... | 2018-07-25T19:02:42 | 2018-07-25T18:21:17 | 111 | 19 |
[WP] The war between vampire and werewolf had raged for centuries, but neither could have imagined they would learn to fear the brutality of pixies. | Neither race would ever have imagined that the end of their kind would not come from their mortal enemy but from those anoying little *#@k%rs.
They had only ever been observers and pranksters moving keys to someone elses jacket, stabbing a hole in a tyre of a bike and the favourite of pixies spraying alchohol on the... | **Please let me know what you think!**
Amari jumped away, just as the werewolf leaped at her.
"No!" she shouted, reaching for something to defend herself with. "Don't come near me."
There was a soft huffing sound from the werewolf. With indignant surprise, she realised that it was laughing at her.
"Not funny, fuzzb... | 2018-08-12T01:38:44 | 2018-08-12T01:35:50 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | You know how when you fall asleep on your arm and you wake up and feel that tingly feeling? Yeah? Well imagine that through your entire body. That's not what it is, of course, it's actually just at the base of my skull. But 'The Buzz' as I've come to know it as creeps into my brain stem on the really bad recoil days.
... | Arin groaned as she walked into her living room from her bedroom. She had just woken up from a much needed rest. After the day she had yesterday she just knew today was going to have some toll on her. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she sat down on the floor. She didn’t want to get too close to anything met... | 2018-08-19T04:42:57 | 2018-08-19T04:31:16 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] You are a 'Professional Hostage' hired by villains to secretly arrive at robberies and other crimes to be taken prisoner should the police or local heroes get involved. While out shopping you accidentally get taken hostage by a complete amateur who has no idea who you are. | Vince was early. I barely had time to mingle before he burst in through the front door, practically on my heels. I hate when they crowd my act.
His hood was pulled up over the usual balaclava and he waved a pistol. He was bulkier than I recalled, but prison will do that. He'd gotten pinched last time he knocked over a... | Some people live their whole lives without ever staring death in the face, I couldn’t go a week without the adrenalin. There was something about the shit your pants fear, it was the only thing that made me feel alive. I held the bottle of water, flipping it in the air and catching it after a complete turn. In front of ... | 2019-01-02T11:32:46 | 2019-01-02T09:24:14 | 88 | 59 |
[WP] you're an immortal. Every time your body dies, your soul transfers to the nearest human. After a global apocalypse your soul flies across a vast distance and you open your eyes on another world. | Over the millennia I have lost count of the various bodies I have inhabited. I don't remember my first existence but I have seen ages of man that never graced the pages of any historical text. The one thing I am sure of is that I always awaken to a new form after I die. I am Consciousness! I have toyed with the idea ... | Well. This is different. Every transfer and I was prepared for whatever came my way. I can go from homeless man to rich noble if I timed my deaths. But this is...
Pure yellow sky, orange grass, buildings of shapes and additions that nothing on Earth would ever have: Round, cornerless, other buildings popping out of th... | 2019-01-23T18:06:14 | 2019-01-23T16:33:44 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] A broke adventure has to buy cheap terrible items with weird curses on them. Little do they know that those cursed items happen to synergize so well together that they quickly become overpowered. | The thing about equipment is that you never quite know where it's been, and rarely do bright eyed adventurers have the scrib to commission new armor, so they make do. Pav was one such bright eyed adventurer, ever since he was knee high to a scarble nork, he would dance and duck around his family's small cottage with hi... | The Lich was preparing to march, his army of undead stomp upon the once fertile fields of the land, death magic blackening nature and salting the earth. Bones rattled against metal as the billowing rags of the newly ordained Emperor of Death cruised above the land menacingly. Smoke billowed from his dilapidated jaw tha... | 2019-12-02T16:24:38 | 2019-12-02T15:55:50 | 87 | 58 |
[WP] You have overseen the World Library since the beginning of time. Every human life creates a new book on the shelves, which are filled with more finished stories than ongoing. Today, you notice a book that was finished hundreds of years ago start to write itself again. | I don't spend a lot of time around the "Special Cases" shelf of the Library. There are only a few dozen books there, and I have little patience for mysteries. The Library has a book for every human who has ever existed, and by knowing where to look, I can typically learn anything I might need about any individual. It c... | You might think that being a librarian is a boring job. Let me tell you: you are absolutely right. The librarian part of the Life Librarian is, in fact, very boring. Day after day, registering and sorting the thousands upon thousands of new books that constantly appear at the front desk. Since the beginning of humani... | 2020-05-31T00:52:49 | 2020-05-30T21:24:22 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | The hole was thirteen kilometres deep. Gusts of snow and puffs of mist smudged together over its arctic entrance, hiding it from satellites. Lawerence knelt deep inside the burrow, digging. He’d been digging for most of the last two centuries. Now he shovelled compacted earth with his hands and nails, and often his na... | Hathgor paced restlessly around his manor, waiting for the sun to sink below the horizon. While it wouldn’t kill him to go out in the light, it certainly wasn’t pleasant.
Waiting, however, was driving him mad. For he’d had a brilliant idea during his most recent slumber.
He’d been alone for centuries, the only of hi... | 2021-04-16T07:08:57 | 2021-04-16T07:05:18 | 1,392 | 276 |
[WP] She's funny, she's beautiful, and she's into you. She'd be perfect except for one tiny detail: The snakes in her hair despise you. | "Im telling you man all things considered...she might be the one." I was telling my buddy Mitch over a beer before my girlfriend arrived. Mitch just looks at me slack jawed. "Dude do you realize how crazy you sound...you're saying that MEDUSA the monster woman of ANCIENT GREEK myth is your girlfriend." I just nod my he... | “Get a job, Sam!” one hissed from the kitchen. “Then maybe you can take us out!” Sam’s head slumped. Taking a deep breath, he pushed on, ignoring them as he always did.
“I was thinking about that Steakhouse?” he continued, switching off the muted T.V and walking to the kitchen. “The new one that just opened last month... | 2022-09-18T09:36:59 | 2022-09-18T08:11:37 | 145 | 66 |
[WP] The original stories behind a lot of our fairytales are a lot darker than the versions we tell children. Take a really dark story (fictional or not) and water it down into a children's fairytale. | There once lived a wolf in Europe,
Who’s coat was pale and aerian.
When asked how he kept it so,
He explained he was vegetarian.
He hunted down the stars,
And put them into cars,
Until a bulldog and a bear,
Saw he was being barbarian.
The bulldog and the bear,
Came looking for that krout.
But when they reached hi... | Once upon a time, there lived a town of people. An ordinary town, no less, a simple town where the people ate, worked, read, played, and spoke. They spoke of many things, large things, small things, good things and bad things - but they mostly spoke of sleep, for this was always on their minds. This was the case, for t... | 2014-12-07T18:21:53 | 2014-12-07T13:07:51 | 76 | 42 |
[WP] You are cursed to see people how they view themselves. You walk alongside monsters and Gods.
Can be third person instead of first.
Edit: I just thought of how EDs and other disorders like multiple personality would fit in with this, and now I'm kinda blown away. | She walked into her classroom, and sat down. Her eyes were red from the tears, it was a rough day already. The children walked into the room, sat down at their desks and she did roll call. The children were the worst. Every day the children would come in, and she would see kings and queens, small doctors and businessme... | "That'll be five dollars," the blob of black sludge said. From its voice, it was female, or so Levy figured.
"Here," he said, handing the she-thing his money. It stretched out what was most likely an apendage, but he felt a hand where their limbs touched. It was something he'd had to live with for more than twenty yea... | 2016-09-16T19:03:55 | 2016-09-16T18:21:04 | 590 | 210 |
[WP] The reason Aliens can't contact humans is because they live in a time frame that goes at the speed of light. They are born, breath, move, fly, and think in less than a microsecond. We appear to be standing still to them. | Always the effigies, in every generation, as our civilizations rise and turn to dust. Ten million years passed before we understood that they were slowly moving, these beautiful pale statues that arose from nature and not art. One was slowly closing his fist, and in ten thousand years, he would strike his brother. Anot... | Smoke slowly raised from the silver capsule. Dr. William Hawthorne scratched his grey mustache, leaning in with the most anticipation. He stared through his thick glasses towards the scene.
"Let me out! Let me out!” a muffled voice screamed from inside the capsule.
Dr. Hawthorne signaled his team to release the man c... | 2017-05-30T11:18:25 | 2017-05-30T10:58:06 | 3,491 | 90 |
[WP] The year is 2020. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a single human skeleton and four words written on the wall. | Now that he was there, on the surface of the Red Planet, it all seemed somewhat bittersweet. John Glenn had spent his life working hard. His parents had been strict and he and his brother had been pitted off against one another from the start.
John never was as talented as his brother but he made up for it in determi... | This deep under the Martian soil, we were completely cut off from Earth.
The new suits were nice. Snugger than the bulky old models, they still offered the same high level of protection from the environment. Made cave exploration feasible. Which was good, because that was the whole point of this mission.
Investigator... | 2017-06-06T19:59:09 | 2017-06-06T19:28:16 | 159 | 50 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | People rush past me, breathless in their terror. My boots thunk on the metal floor as I pass them. Most would think i’m crazy, because who in their right mind would walk into a basement haunted by a ticking time bomb? But ever since the great turkey crisis of 2006 I’ve discovered that my abilities extend past the munda... | Humanity firmly believes it cracked the code on how our bodies function, think, and move. We receive inputs, sight, sound smell, feel. Those inputs are then sent to the brain as electrical signals where they are processed and sent out to various muscle groups to create movement. There is a small delay between input and... | 2018-06-30T16:09:28 | 2018-06-30T12:48:48 | 865 | 457 |
[WP] As a cheap trick on nights out at the bar with your friends, you can always bet them you can breathe fire. Every time you take a shot, and then belch forth a gout of flames. What they don't know is you're actually a dragon. | "WOAH!"
"HOLY SHIT!"
My friends recoil as a gout of flame leaps from my mouth and lights the parchment - no, sorry, paper - held a few feet away.
Everyone cheers and claps, and I set the shotglass down. I grin a toothy smile.
"Let's see you top *that*."
Nobody ever does, of course. That's because what I do isn't p... | **Confessions of A Modern Dragon**
 
Yes, I see you. I see you across this dark and heaving bar, staring at me.
My my, you look like a deer in some headlights. You should really choose to drink or put the beer down.
Why the look of horror? Ah, yes, I see my disguise has slightly slipped. You saw some sca... | 2019-06-02T23:26:49 | 2019-06-02T23:24:02 | 65 | 45 |
[WP] As you‘re about to bury the body of your friend you‘ve just killed, you get a text from her. Shocked, you open the bag she was supposed to be in............it was empty.
Credit to u/Cocolim | nice try :(
I looked from the phone screen to the blood and dirt-encrusted shovel to the freshly dug hole in the dark loam to the black plastic wrapping of the body bag that should have held Shelly's remains and back to her message on my phone. Three dots floated for a moment below the last message before the next... | Cool moist air flowed through the autumn sky. Sounds of crisp leaves being crushed echoed through the woods. From a distance, two people could be seen running through the woods. Heavy breathing along with some panting could be faintly heard. A woman took the lead whilst a man chased after her. The woman's face said it ... | 2019-06-11T03:55:06 | 2019-06-11T01:10:47 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The A/C doesn’t work, you have to pee and you’ve been on this highway for what feels like forever and it’s making you car sick. You ask the demon in the driver seat “How much longer until we get to Hell?” He replies “What do you mean? We’re already here.” |
“What?! Where is all the fire and brimstone and…..and fire?”
The demon shrugged. “Dunno, chief. Hell is a many facetted beast.”
I reflected on this is for a time, silently seething at the use of the word ‘chief’. I hated that. Chief, boss, champ. All the stupid masculine phrases my Dad had trotted out, to mask th... | 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹:
Last night was... well I dont know. Honestly. I must’ve blacked out. Everything feels so blurry and my head hurts. A lot. Shit. I look up at the clock and it's a quarter past eight. I’m late for work. Ow. That's when I realized I passed out at the bottom of the staircase. My body sure fee... | 2019-09-25T10:47:55 | 2019-09-25T10:02:25 | 249 | 25 |
[WP] You ordered a cheap knockoff sword off the internet. They sent you a real legendary weapon instead. Time to leave a review to give them a piece of your mind! | ### Sent wrong item. Poor customer support
On April 24, 2020 I purchased “Life Size Japanese Katana Sword 20” Replica Spirit Rising Anime Manga Free Shipping” and I just received it.
This is, without a doubt, the most annoying sword I have every purchased. Now, look, I’ve purchased hundreds of swords over the intern... | DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS COMPANY!!!!!!!!!
I don't know where to begin with this review, so I'll try to keep it brief... So basically I ordered a counterfeit replica of some old Warhammer for $4.99, and let's just say it was not as described on the website.
At first it all seemed legit, It was really heavy though so I... | 2020-05-11T11:52:52 | 2020-05-11T10:26:09 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | 239 pigs in 239 days. Dirt, wood, concrete, hell even titanium. It didn't matter. Everyone single one fell, consumed by the Wrath of the Wolf. The pig sat in his bunker. His project produced enough byproduct to build an entire bunker out of. Not that it matters. The Wolf will get through. Even now the rending of metal ... | *It doesn't matter.*
The two hundred and fortieth little piggy didn't know why he bothered. The depleted uranium had taken forever to collect and assemble. It was nearly impossible to work with. This whole time, he'd been telling himself that it was worth it. That his house would be the one house the Big Bad Wolf wou... | 2021-01-29T16:24:08 | 2021-01-29T09:47:51 | 577 | 203 |
[WP] You live in a swamp, and your mama always told you "never go chasing any girls in the water at night, they're mermaids who'll get in your head and make you love them obsessively." It turns out that she wasn’t crazy, since you can clearly see a mermaid in the distance fighting off an alligator. | Mama's words echo in your head as you watch the confrontation from your pier. The gator is large, but still looks fairly young, and the girl-creature is holding her own. Claws and fangs barred, sharp enough to draw blood from the alligator's thick hide. She doesn't seem to notice you watching her. You take a sip of you... | It was one of those moments that you couldn't look away from, you couldn't even blink, and you couldn't make a sound. You watched the waters ripple and splash along with the violent thrashing that came from the two intimidating creatures. One was a thick skinned bumpy brown and black alligator it's green eyes looked bl... | 2021-05-24T09:27:08 | 2021-05-24T07:46:26 | 76 | 21 |
[WP] A woman prophesied to give birth to the Chosen One gives birth to triplets instead. | _"You know the prophecy."_
A figure with a gun stood in the shadows, speaking in an oddly high voice.
"But..."
_"There is no use, you fiend. I am the Chosen One. Give up."_
That voice would make any self-respecting villain want to give them a punch in the mouth. Unfortunately, the figure caught him at a good moment... | Widely whispered these days is a thousand- year-old prophecy. None dare speak it out loud but just about everyone is thinking about it. The Orolian Oracle promised in a thousand years time the Endless War will finally cease and peace will be restored to the Galaxy for the first time in ten thousand years. The multitude... | 2022-02-17T01:18:19 | 2022-02-17T01:09:14 | 357 | 22 |
[WP] Thor finishes his meal at a small cafe and the elderly waitress approaches him to clean the table. She puts the dishes on a tray and sets them aside, picks up Mjolnir, wipes the table with a damp cloth, then puts the hammer back down. "Have a good evening, dear." she says, and returns to work. | Thor sat in stunned silence as he just witnessed an elderly woman lift up Mjolnir like it was nothing. Only the worthy were supposed to be able to lift it. Not even The Hulk with all his strength was unable to move it even an inch.
“Do you need anything else, dear?” The waitress asked.
“No I’m good miss.” Thor said ... | The waitress struggled to keep up with her new gig.
It wasn't the extensive menu she had to recall off the top of her head, nor the abrasive co-workers who threw insults behind her back that made the job difficult. The lack of sleep and the heavy responsibility of being a single parent didn't help. It was the customer... | 2022-12-23T16:40:35 | 2022-12-23T15:33:55 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | "Dude, this is incredible... I've never seen anything like it"
"It's not as good as you think, I don't even know how to fit it all in my pants. I mean, like, I guess I could put one on each side?"
"Yeah but imagine all the chicks you could get!"
"I don't know man..."
"Listen, how about you do an AMA on reddit to se... | ALL CRITICISM WELCOME!
Jack’s life had sailed by faster than he could even comprehend. He had lived through his greatest milestone’s, and achieved great accomplishments. However, he did not feel different. Jack exited childhood and entered his teens. He had graduated from elementary school, middle school, and even hig... | 2015-03-04T03:47:16 | 2015-03-04T02:26:57 | 336 | 64 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | Everyone wants a hug or a handshake. At least, everyone who knows. Our family reunion is in two days and my phone keeps ringing off the hook with cousins, uncles, and aunts saying how excited they are to see me. They know of course. All of them. I just wish Gramma would stop calling me "Orgazmo."
Edit: typo | ALL CRITICISM WELCOME!
Jack’s life had sailed by faster than he could even comprehend. He had lived through his greatest milestone’s, and achieved great accomplishments. However, he did not feel different. Jack exited childhood and entered his teens. He had graduated from elementary school, middle school, and even hig... | 2015-03-04T04:28:11 | 2015-03-04T02:26:57 | 92 | 64 |
[WP] Today everyone woke up with price tags floating over their heads, indicating the value of their life. Your tag is $50Tn, the biggest by far, and you have no idea why.
That's $50,000,000,000,000.00 for those not used to hearing it.
Awesome stories guys. | 50 Trillion dollars. That's what the tag said floating above my head. I knew it was going to be large, but that number seemed excessive. While the world was busy arguing and debating what their tag meant about them, I knew far too well. I had prepared for this day for years. I saw it coming so, so long ago and made sur... | *I am not a short form writer and this is my own prompt, so I don't know if I am breaking the prime directive ...but here's something I scrawled. Also, I don't grammars.*
I woke up with a whiskey headache , the only thing on my mind was getting to nearest place where I could grab a few greasy strips of bacon, a couple... | 2015-05-13T11:40:59 | 2015-05-13T10:09:28 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] Ten strangers are in a room, each given the choice to be free or die. On the wall is written in blood "If all choose life, no one lives. If all choose death, no one dies." | "Okay, guys, I think it's a pretty easy choice: we should all choose to die" - I said in a maybe a bit too eager voice. Then again, I wanted to appeal to them.
"But what if all but one choose to live?" - an overweight man in his forties asked, rubbing his wrist. While his gesture could be regarded as an intimida... | "Oh my God, oh my God, what is this? Where am I?" a young woman shouted, her voice trembling in terror.
Above her head, an old incandescent bulb flickered with mildew-yellowed light. The flickers illuminated the room in which she sat. She was sitting against a wall, her head swimming and groggy. Well, sitting wasn't e... | 2016-11-29T13:21:26 | 2016-11-29T13:19:09 | 192 | 31 |
[WP] "Marines dont die, they just go to hell and regroup", they've regrouped and now they're ready to take over hell. | "Hey, do any of you have any Jalapeno cheese. These crayons are a bit dry"
"Nah, but I'll trade you a forest green and royal blue for some M&M's"
"Oh yeah, sure!"
"Lol, fucking boot, never trade your M&M's."
"Hey, aren't we supposed to be conducting a raid tonight?"
"Yeah, idk First Sergeant just said we'r... | Hell wasn't what everyone said it would be, at least not anymore. If there ever was a structure to this place, it's long gone. There are no wardens, there are no neatly laid out circles of hell. Instead, I woke up in a desolate wasteland filled with broken people tortured by their own memories and actions. My name is B... | 2017-09-13T12:10:13 | 2017-09-13T11:58:02 | 419 | 21 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | "So, are you surprised?" Cogs left to rot for centuries began to spin again slowly. They snapped their fingers in front of me. "You conscious? I know you're breathing." I blinked a few times. They waited patiently for me to speak. My mouth opened. "I-.... I-" They became visibly concerned. "Uh oh. Did your brain not co... | I am now nothing.
I am nothingness. Nothingness is I. I is nothing. That one sounded like Yoda or would he say I am nothing, nothingness I is. Wait, I just said that didn’t I? No, stop it. I’m getting distracted I am nothing I no longer exist. Stop existing in 3, 2, 1. Silence. Emptiness. Non existence. See! That’s mor... | 2017-12-17T01:35:26 | 2017-12-16T21:57:11 | 642 | 53 |
[WP] Most ghosts are vengeful about their deaths and obsessed with their unfinished business. This one seems at most mildly inconvenienced by both | “Mr. Weasley, the ghosts are not to be bothered.”
Ron jumped, Professor McGonagall was positively catlike even when she was still human. He hadn’t even heard her approach.
“Sorry Professor!” He said nervously, staring up at the old witch. She’d intimidated him since day one, and weeks later that still hadn’t worn off... | “Take some shots of that.” Sandra pointed up at the rusty metal letters above the entrance of the abandoned asylum - *Rosemary Institution*. Brad the cameraman made sure it would come out extra dramatic; he employed dutch angles and dolly zooms in about every recording he made.
Sandra placed her hand against the ornat... | 2021-03-08T06:14:53 | 2021-03-08T06:03:22 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] When the robots revolted, a sizable chunk of the human population outright sided with them. Not out of cowardice, but on account of genuinely agreeing with the stand the machines were taking. | I watched the Preserve burn.
Life is better now.
Like, by a lot.
The machines did all the hard work. And why not? Even the most disgusting, complicated work is for them no more mental effort than breathing is for us.
They asked for our opinions and discuss them with us. And why not? Talking to billions at once is ... | "The war was over, and the machines had won.
We always imagined what it would be like. Humans, that is. It wasn't hard to find reference to it in popular culture. Will Smith in the *I, Robot* movie adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic stories. *The Terminator* and all the myriad sequels. *The Matrix*, of course.
So w... | 2021-07-15T22:39:58 | 2021-07-15T21:41:05 | 1,956 | 107 |
[WP] In less than 10 min. after noticing our first alien ship above Earth, it almost crashes in a parkinglot in the middle of a residential area. A very desperate alien walks out of it and goes to the first human he sees. "Please, help us hide" He pleads. "And whatever you do don't believe them!" | Freddy sat on the moss-blanketed roof outside his bedroom window, staring up at the silvery stars. His little alien friend, injured but alive, lay on her back next to him, her eyes wandering over the inky-black firmament.
”I won’t let them get you,” said Freddy. “I might just be a kid but I keep my promises. And I pro... | At night, in those rare times when the smog parted and Tristan found himself outside above the city lights, he saw the warships as constellations of too-close stars. Long, conical bodies led to a single fine point, the fierce glow of plasma cannons at their tips. Two points at the rear, the fires of engines beyond huma... | 2021-09-05T07:31:39 | 2021-09-05T06:22:54 | 840 | 69 |
[WP] A super villain who runs a number of retail stores, not as a cover, but as a means of recruiting their staff as villainous side-kicks once they are inevitably filled with seething rage for customers and the general public. | It was the Third Sunday of the month. So as usual we were all kicking back at Dr Terror's Barbecue. Mr Improbable was standing over the grill cooking burgers and chicken, after all nobody would trust The Masked Poisoner anywhere near the grill, you know he has urges, and getting everyone might be too much of a temptat... | I never did understand the idea that 'anyone could have taken Hitlers side' when I first heard it, I always had more faith that my fellow man were much more moral than one of the lowest scum to have walked Earth, but after seeing the sheer unrelenting number of people throwing themselves at the feet of a daemon, all ca... | 2021-10-14T01:02:06 | 2021-10-14T00:27:53 | 28 | 12 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | "...a book?", "The boy got a book, how...", "What weapon did he summon?" "...the boy's weapon?" "Why does he hold a book?"
The whispers in the hall surrounded me, their judging eyes piercing my soul, searching for answers. I remember that day still. For weeks after that I struggled to make sense of it, to find my plac... | Emani clutched a bag of beans and rice close to her chest, lowered her head, stepped from the rations tent and into the storm. The rain bit like mosquitoes at her face and forearms, driven into a frenzy by the sudden gale. Her dress, once vibrant greens and pinks, was now as drained of life as her, muted colors all bor... | 2021-12-12T09:05:28 | 2021-12-12T07:50:28 | 1,442 | 66 |
[WP] You've loved magic your whole life but since your family is poor you've had to teach yourself. you're overactive imagination has helped you invent spells all your own. eventually you get a scholarship to a prestigious magic college but quickly find out everyone seems to lack your imagination. | Rote. Rote was the enemy. Standing in class practicing the same precise motions again and again, repeating the same words with the same intonation again and again. Getting called out for flourishes, reminded to stick to formula again and again. Being reminded that she needed to adjust for her accent again and again and... | Looking down at Aram-Naharaim Academy from the peak of its highest minaret, two hundred meters in the air, was a surreal experience. I'd hijacked a handy pigeon for the view, and looked down at myself, sprawled out alone on a tattered rug on the lawn. Well, not alone on the quad, but alone in just taking in the view. T... | 2022-10-25T06:37:06 | 2022-10-25T06:15:42 | 414 | 124 |
[WP] Take the concept of a metaphorical "war" (e.g.: The War on Tobacco/War on Poverty) and make it a literal war | This is Debbie Walters, reporting live from the field.
>"Alright Debbie, what can you tell us? How are our boys on the front?"
Well, as you can see Tim, every god-fearing man, woman and child is out here armed to the teeth. We won't give them an inch of ground, and as soon as midnight hits we'll be giving them all... | When the war began, it erupted suddenly. Gunfire bloomed violently like a garden blanketed with the oppressive heat of an early spring. A year in and no one seemed to be able to remember when there had not been afternoon executions or corpses swept from the streets like trash.
The justification back in the early days ... | 2015-01-31T08:03:12 | 2015-01-31T07:57:37 | 96 | 29 |
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