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[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | "Young man... you must be so confused, are you not? Allow me to ease your fraughts..." spoke the middle-aged man with a balding head, scruffy beard, and cherry-like nose as he tapped the middle cushion of his dingy couch three times, inviting the metal-clad man who'd had his sword pointed toward his neck, missing only ... | I stared at the young boy who sat few feet from me - with watery eyes and bloodstained cheeks. “It's nice to meet you,” he said as he stared back. “What are you doing here Sebastian?”. “I came to ask some questions” he replied. I nodded for him to continue, “How could you allow so much pain and suffering to kill so man... | 2021-07-31T10:10:31 | 2021-07-31T09:54:16 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | Sorry for any typos, written on mobile.
Edit: To the kind person who gave me gold, [thank you](https://media2.giphy.com/media/kkAdqZnvhsc12/giphy.gif) :)
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#The Ex-Con#
Officer Gurira watched impassively as a wrinkled face took a seat across from him. PC-502, otherwise known as Adam Forester, was the oldest convict... | One was a robbery. Two was armed robbery. Five was assault, although cooler heads usually prevailed by one. Most drug infractions were ten. Drug dealing was twenty. Outright murder was forty. This guy wanted *fifty*.
He kept mum about his plans, however. Never spoke a word. Got to be known around the prison ya... | 2016-02-23T18:24:54 | 2016-02-23T17:18:59 | 843 | 174 |
[WP] Everytime you touch somebody you get a flash of your entire future with them. | I clasped my hand onto Peter's backpack to avoid losing him as we pushed through the crowded market. As we wended our way though the crowd, I caught snippets of my future with every stranger I brushed up against. One man was a cashier who would sell me some Advil later that day. One was an old lady that I would give up... | It didn't happen with everyone. I would shake a colleagues hand or maybe touch somebody and say excuse me, but you rarely ever saw something in those kinds of interactions. Usually all I ever saw was me shaking the colleagues hand the next day, or for years after. I might see nothing when I tap the women's shoulder in ... | 2017-01-11T08:14:18 | 2017-01-11T07:44:07 | 285 | 38 |
[WP] You're a 250 year old vampire. You've found that living as a recluse and faking your death every 70 years or so is actually fairly easy. You've consistently fooled everyone except for your mortal enemy - Keith from the IRS | "Have you seriously forgotten me?"
As I sat across the desk from Keith, my IRS auditor, I looked at him closely. "I'm certain i would remember your face," I started.
"No, no, no. Not my face. You aren't the only one faking a death when people get too close to you," he said. "Yes, I had to dig a bit, but this is our f... | Harry the vampire was beginning to get frustrated.
He had spent an hour already speaking with this fellow Keith from the IRS. So far he had provided death certificates, birth certificates, even fake baby pictures. He'd regaled Keith with well rehearsed, utterly fake stories about him and his loving grandfather, Jeremi... | 2018-07-25T12:57:43 | 2018-07-25T08:10:27 | 94 | 65 |
[WP] when you are lying on your deathbed, the whole "life flashing before your eyes" cliche is actually the watchmojo lady counting down the top ten moments in your life. | As you breathe in your final breaths, you begin to wonder what may come after. If nothing else, you can at least relive your memories one final time. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down the Top 10 Moments of your life!
For this list, we're counting those moments that were both memorable, and influ... | They stated their luck but alas, I felt far luckier than any of them could know.
Time was fading away and my eyelids drifted close.
"Number ten is an interesting one! It was the first time his father hugged him! It was also the only time he'd witnessed his father crying. Can you believe that, not before or after but ... | 2017-10-31T01:02:16 | 2017-10-30T21:12:12 | 83 | 15 |
[WP] Death has been eradicated. War, however, has not. | They were called The Undying. They were the original race of men, seeded onto Terra not long after He placed Vitae's green sphere upon the sky. She loved all her creations, both beasts and plants, but always had a higher love for Man. She was grateful that they could frolic over her Fathers sacred vessel, and watched i... | I wanna fight you.
No, thanks.
But I wanna fight you.
No, I'm good.
But I'm soooo bored. We've been alive forever.
Eh, alright. But no cheating this time.
#the 2 line cowboys ready themselves for their duel.
(10 paces later...)
*Pew, pew, pew!*
Ow.
Ow.
Same time tomorrow?
Uh, yeah okay. | 2017-03-15T06:09:48 | 2017-03-15T05:34:07 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] A man confesses to his wife that he's been addicted to heroin for 2 years. She informs him that after the first month, he has only had access to a placebo.
Take this any direction you want. Funny, serious... Surprise me. | "Stacy, I've got something I need to tell you," Travis began, nervously looking around the room. "I've, uh, this is hard to say but... I'm addicted to heroin. I'm sorry that I've kept this secret from you so long. I trait thought that I woukd be able to get over it by myself."
Travis' words were getting faster and fas... | "The money has been coming right back to us. I contacted the psych department at UCLA right after i found out what you were doing and they agreed to set you up."
"So all the thousands ive wasted...you have it?"
"Yeah...Im sorry, I had to hide it from you."
"Why two years?" asked the wilting husband. He began to sob.... | 2015-07-03T22:43:03 | 2015-07-03T21:27:14 | 68 | 21 |
[WP] The . . . creature . . . has been following you for weeks now, but nobody else can see it. It just sits there, staring, grinning. Then one day you look across the coffee shop and see a young woman with another one right behind her. Your eyes meet . . . | I thumbed the pill bottle on the table, and rolled it until the label faced upwards. "ANTI-PSYCHOTIC 1 PILL DAILY WITH FOOD" glared back at me, in a cold and unforgiving black and white font. The bottle remained full, despite the bottle being almost a week old. Every day, I ordered the same thing from this cafe, a refi... | Alexa's going crazy. There's no other possible reason for it. She doesn't even know how it happens.
One day she wakes up, only to see a ghoul like creature staring back into the depths of her soul. It doesn't resemble anything, just a vague black shape, with a hood covering it.
It must have eyes, for it follows her... | 2022-11-26T03:06:06 | 2022-11-26T00:59:59 | 678 | 26 |
[WP] The amount of things promoting Raid: Shadow Legends is starting to get suspicious. News anchors, Congressmen, random Live Leak videos and even terrorists are thanking them as a sponsor. The SCP Foundation decides to investigate this as a possible anomaly. | "Before we sign the papers, I just wanna take a moment to thank today's sponsor for making this possible. This dissolution was brought to you by Raid: Shadow Legends. Raid: Shadow Legends features over 300 unique..."
I tuned the voice out, the thousandth ever-so-slightly unique variation of a spiel I'd heard a thousan... | Item #:SCP-???
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-??? must not be viewed without permission of a level three(3) personnel. Only then, the personnel must wear protective glasses to avoid contamination. All means of social media, news outlet, or communication is to be kept 30 ft. away from SCP-???. T... | 2020-01-30T14:47:19 | 2020-01-30T14:36:49 | 229 | 82 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | I could hear them before I could see them-- a low, ominous buzzing that grew steadily louder until it sounded like I was in the center of a tornado of electricity. I imagined what they looked like--swarms upon swarms of cockroaches, bedbugs, ants and mites; millions of pointed insect legs skittering over the floor, mil... | *Pitter, patter.*
I open my eyes. The sky is stone.
*Skitter, scatter.*
I sit myself up. But no broken bones.
*Slither, slather.*
The screech of tyres, I'll never go home.
*Bizzer, bazzer.*
I get the feeling I am not alone.
*Grrrr! Graarr!*
I know these sounds, a too familiar drone.
*Whish, whoosh.*
And by t... | 2017-04-23T23:40:27 | 2017-04-23T20:32:26 | 226 | 134 |
[WP] Legends tell of the Elder race who utilized strange "technologies" instead of magic. As hordes of brutal killers invade from the north, a young elf heads off to search for ancient ruins, looking for humans... | The Elders were always venerated and spoken of with respect, at least in the annals of history. Their genius was said to have been unmatched by any other sentient race; historians even claimed that any non-scientist Elder youth held a deeper understanding of the universe than ten of our High Sages combined. Even today,... | Enrir raced across the snow-covered wilderness, leaping deftly over slick rocks and the small brush that dotted the landscape. His commanding officer had told him that his stride was like that of a gazelle, and as Enrir's legs stretched and propelled him smoothly closer and closer to his target, he was beginning to bel... | 2017-01-06T20:11:45 | 2017-01-06T16:47:24 | 58 | 35 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | I woke up in cold sweat, searching the room around me. Part of me hoped that the last three days were nothing but a nightmare. But when I looked at the calendar I had on my bedroom’s door, the only thing the red marker spelled out for tomorrow was doom.
I heard the tip taps of something coming to my room from the hall... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... | 2020-09-12T10:25:45 | 2020-09-12T10:13:16 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | I wiped down the counter to make sure it was spotless. Now, If anyone asked me if I believed in the supernatural before I worked as a barista here, I would laugh in your face thinking it as a dumb joke. Well, not anymore. I looked as the clock hit 3:33am. I looked around as the lights dimmed considerably and the air we... | “The usual?” I ask the shapeless… blob, I suppose is one way to describe it. It still hasn’t given me its name, so I call it Tim. Looks like a Tim.
“Yesss” the cursed sound comes out, like nails on a blackboard. The first time I heard Tim speak, I swear, my ears bled, it’s so awful. I wonder if it’d be inexcusably rud... | 2022-10-30T14:15:06 | 2022-10-30T13:51:26 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] "Never get a human drunk." An old galactic saying, that most heed. Your ship's captain didn't. Now, your multi-million-dollar, state-of-the-art railgun corvette is spinning through space, speakers blasting the human song "Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!" and guns firing to the beat of the song. | I woke up instantly when the guitars started strumming. I sat up in my bed, and angrily started heading to the door. Some drums started to play, and the ship started to shake. It took me a second to realize the guns were firing in tune to the music. I stomped towards the bridge, every shot was over thirty thousand doll... | This, *Disco,* is perhaps the most dangerous pox. Twenty and Three cycles have passed since we allowed the humans to occupy positions of power upon our starships, and I say with the most sincere hopes that this illness, this *Disco Fever,* as our novice gunner calls it, is all that it takes to get these filthy skin-bea... | 2022-12-06T21:40:31 | 2022-12-06T20:36:05 | 488 | 213 |
[WP] A Purge-like scenario, but instead of killing people, customer service workers can talk back to customers and management for 24 hours. | Today is the big day...well at least that's what everyone at the office calls it. I slid from my bed to my bathroom, past my degree gathering dust on the wall. From my kitchen to my car, from my car to the parking garage, the parking garage to my desk.
I live a quiet life. I'm alone for now but it's because I work a... | **It's 12:01, Boss! You know what that means (cracks knuckles)**
(sighs) Uh, I'm... I mean, you might want to--
**Quiet! (soft chuckle) Well, Mr Bronski, I mean Phil, you no good lying sack of elephant--**
*TWENTY THREE HOURS AND FIFTY EIGHT MINUTES AND FIFTY SECONDS LATER*
**--you fucking impotent yellow bellied c... | 2017-07-19T19:50:27 | 2017-07-19T18:15:07 | 77 | 20 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded earth. They offer the key to immortality and light speed travel... In exchange for 3.5 billion slaves. | "You cant be serious."
She was incredulous. I had worked with her long enough to know when to play my cards close and when to lay them all out. My entire deck was on the table.
"Does it look like I'm joking?" I wasn't. "We have an opportunity to free ourselves from not only this planet but from death and all while g... | "So how much do you know about human culture?" Jason asked. His forehead was beaded with sweat; this was easily the biggest risk he had ever taken.
The alien, whose name seemed to comprise solely of metallic clicking and scratching sounds, started viciously making chattering sounds, shaking the equivalent of its head ... | 2017-06-03T11:48:01 | 2017-06-03T11:22:18 | 69 | 12 |
[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. | It always freaked me out. Over the years I had learnt to deal with it. I always hesitated to sit with a person who was doomed to die to a contagious disease. My parents were destined to die of old age, and seeing they were in their 40's, it didn't bother me that much. I had a brother when I was 6. There was a complicat... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T09:00:24 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 180 | 21 |
[WP] As a free roaming ghost, you finally feel like you can breach and explore Area 51. The moment youre on the base though, alarms begin blaring. "Code 62: Ethereal Intruder detected." | As I looked down at my bullet-riddled corpse, I could only think one thing.
*Mom was right.*
She'd told me that the voices I heard were all my head, a result of the mental illness that runs in my family -- as opposed to a genuine astrally-projected distress signal from alien lifeforms confined at Area 51 by a shadowy... | # Soulmage
**Distance was strange on this side of the mortal veil.** The space an object took up was determined not by its physical volume, but by how much it had impacted the living souls of the world. And so in my ethereal form, I passed by mountains the size of sand grains and hearthplaces that loomed like towers.
... | 2022-10-17T22:47:48 | 2022-10-17T18:20:03 | 215 | 90 |
[WP]Being one of the most powerful villains in this city, you obviously have one of the most powerful heroes as your arch enemy. On one of your days off, you turn on the news to see that not only is your hero fighting someone else, he also appears to be losing. | "BOOOOOOOSS!" The henchman waddled down the hallway. "Boss! Boss, turn on the news! Channel 6!"
Pyro Manic looked up from his book, his head flaming like the fires of hell, his eyes crazed like twisted embers of a chaos engine. "Napalm, what have I told you about--"
"No time!" The henchman waddled over to the TV and ... | [POEM]
I stand over him
My fingertips red
The red of the new stain on his suit
His body limp
Sprawled out on the concrete
From the crowd a gasp
They cheer for me, a whistle, a cry
I’ve never had this before
A sight to see
My enemy standing near, behind me
Amazed at what I’ve done
I look back down
To the... | 2020-02-29T06:58:55 | 2020-02-29T05:13:10 | 159 | 13 |
[WP] You are in a bar when a six year old pigtailed little girl takes the stool next to you. In the deepest lumberjack voice she says, "Hey, Frank, make it a double. It happened again." You can't resist and ask her, "What happened again?" | I stared gaping mouthed as the little girl struggled to climb onto the barstool, which was nearly as tall as she was. The stool kept tipping under her weight, so I steadied and she deftly hoisted herself up.
She gave me a cute smile. "Thanks," she boomed. Her voice was utterly disproportionate to her body. She sounded... | "What happened again?" I asked, mildly interested.
"I just needed a drink", she replied after a swig. Looking at me after wiping her lip with the back of her hands, she smiled a little, then went back to sit on the stool.
"I needed something to warm me up." she said, eyes looking at nothing in particular, then finish... | 2016-07-22T03:00:05 | 2016-07-22T01:17:25 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] You enter a store with the intention to rob it. But while waiting last in line so everyone can leave first, the person in front of you pulls out a gun and tells the cashier to empty the cash register. |
I approached the bank tentatively, knowing that those tall glass doors opened to something more than a desk of tellers waiting to service the impatient clients lined throughout the room. At least, they did for me.
Six months ago I had the life of my dreams: a beautiful wife, two incredible children, and a comfortab... | The queue is long. You wait. Soon. Soon you'll pay them back. You'll get what's yours.
You wait patiently. The queue moves slowly. You watch the tellers, wondering which one fate will deal you.
It's hot. A bead of perspiration runs down your nose. You swipe it off, and accidentally brush the shirt of the man ... | 2019-06-15T11:49:42 | 2019-06-15T10:55:08 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] As a drug peddler, whenever someone asks you for coke, you reply 'Is Pepsi ok?' . You thought it was funny but today it also kept you out of jail. | Lydia was new to the whole crime thing. She had always been straight laced. A goody two shoes. The rule she broke back in the third grade still occassionally kept her up at night. But desperate times called for desperate measures.
It had been two days since her last meal, and rent was due at the end of the week. Her ... | \[Poem\]
Making money is ez,
as I have a really good biz.
My life is completely bliss,
you can buy many drugs for less!
Ah, here comes a young miss,
I may give her something... for a kiss.
She asks for a quick buzz,
naming a drug which sounds like a fizz.
As always I jokingly suggest peps,
and surprisingly sh... | 2022-10-08T19:15:32 | 2022-10-08T17:54:17 | 168 | 35 |
[WP] You are abducted by the Russian mafia. Shortly after the news gets to your loving sweet grandma and she reads that they are "starving you" she's not so sweet anymore and now has a new mission. | The wooden baseball bat produced a horrific crunching sound when it made contact with my face. Everything became a blur at that moment; my mind discombobulated as the jelly inside my skull bounced around, a couple of teeth came out, and my eyelids instantly swelled up. The poorly lit room became even darker as all of t... | The door of the van opened. Viviana stared in fear as she was dragged out. She would have screamed if one of the thugs hadn't choked her earlier for it. One of the other kidnappees had not been as lucky. Viviana still remembers the glassy tear soaked eyes losing focus and the body being chucked into a ditch.
She was ... | 2016-11-27T11:57:20 | 2016-11-27T10:43:33 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] For decades, humanity has lived in absolute harmony with its galactic neighbors. When a new civilization arrives with intent to conquer, however, our capacity for destruction is rekindled, and it's unlike anything the galaxy has ever seen | The leaders of the council sat together, in a silent rapture as the one surviving Valian told his story.
​
They had all heard the stories. Of how, many centuries ago, a lone pilot from the planet known as Earth, had arrived on Corralean soil. This new species, so small.... It was a rocky relationship at f... | The galactic council meets only when urgent matters seem trivial. Tildoor, the Tredonnan ambassador, can smell war from a thousand light years away. Today he sniffles and snorts with the bluster of an old-earth hog. Ynid, the ambassador from Yamusoto, knows danger well. She’s survived the harshest climate the habitable... | 2019-03-03T20:51:15 | 2019-03-03T20:28:31 | 192 | 87 |
[WP] It was a staff, made of twisted wood. It was magic, of course, like all good staffs. And above all, it was *mine* now, passed down through generations. But the glow in the glass orb is fading, and only now can I see that it was a pixie, trapped inside for countless years. | The final glow of light faded from the small, worn globe and I knew I had failed. Failed myself foremost, my destiny. Failed my ancestor's bequeathed heritage. Failed the man I had doomed to die with me in this dark, terrible place.
"A shame," she said. The *thing* pretending to be a woman smiled at us from her makesh... | Ordinary citizens endure about a couple of weeks of bureaucracy every time a relative passes away. During this time, the Kingdom reviews last wills and testaments, settles old debts, then finally parcels out any remaining estate to the survivors.
In my case, given that magic runs deep in our blood, the Cabal has to g... | 2017-06-17T19:37:27 | 2017-06-17T17:51:01 | 75 | 52 |
[WP] You are 70 years old, and see your granchildren playing with the newest electronic. It looks complicated, and when you ask to use it, you say "Where's the touchscreen?". | Tim and Molly had come to visit me for the weekend while their parents were off on their 15th anniversary. I had spent the day beforehand baking goodies and planning a few things for us to do around the house. I'm too old to drive now, so I tried to think of what I enjoyed when I was young. It feels like it was yesterd... | In my day, touch screens were all the hype, some might even call them "the bees knees" so imagine my surprise when my kids came home with a block of plastic.
"Bobby, what's that there thingymiggiger" I ask looking at him shove a smaller plastic box into the top of the first block.
"Well dad, I found it in one of thos... | 2015-05-21T08:08:50 | 2015-05-21T07:03:31 | 118 | 17 |
[WP] It was then Harry Potter realized the last 7 years in Hogwarts was actually a mental institute. The man he thought to be Dumbledore was just an elderly caretaker. Harry, looking at an old broken twig he once believed was a wand, started to remember what really happened during those years. | *Here lies Albus Dumbledore, who loved Hogwarton.* The gravestone lay tucked away in a small corner of the cemetery, not yet worn by time, small and unobtrusive. A light soft rain kissed the old gray stones scattered around the burial grounds of Hogwarton Institute for Mental Recovery. Two men dressed in somber black... | Dumbledore? But you're... you're... dead. Snape... he well...
Wait, where am I,?
Where's madam pomfrey? And what happened to your robes?
I'll get us out of here Albus.. Alohomora! Alohomora!
Why is it not working?
"Oh Harry.... are you having nightmares again?
Here, have a chocolate frog. It'll make you feel better." ... | 2019-04-09T11:18:39 | 2019-04-09T09:58:52 | 379 | 54 |
[WP] scientist have found neanderthal DNA that is 100% intact. They decide to clone it only to discover why they died out. | Dr. Tim Rosen accepted the truth. He would never get another promotion. "The Lab" as they were referred to in classified documents, had lost 47 of the neanderthal test subjects to date. The governments attempt at creating a faster stronger soldier from our genetic predecessors was a complete failure so far. Today's fa... | With a *hiss* the doors opened. Fog spilled from the cloning bay.
A voice from inside cried out, "Graaaafuu".
"Did you hear that?" whispered Dr Codwell to his assistant.
The voice cried out again, louder. "GROG FUCK!". Grog, the Neanderthal, sprinted out of the cloning bay and tackled Dr Codwell's assistant, a youn... | 2015-03-23T09:09:38 | 2015-03-23T08:55:47 | 104 | 42 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | "...And as the victors, the Irik Confederate shall now be taking control of your cities and governments on this colony planet. Your unfit leaders shall..."
I caught snippets of the speech, but I wasn't really listening. Neither were my comrades moving around the crowd, I wager - well, except Francis, I knew that he wa... | we thought of them as saviors when they first came they expected immediate surrender on our part. They thought after slaughtering millions of lives we would surrender. they were wrong. We were faced with what could have been our destruction our annihilation but we would not so easily bend into their fold. Nay we rose a... | 2019-12-17T18:31:00 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | As negotiations fell apart, the foreign assembly of diplomats aboard the Cymbalaeum Space Station felt a tension spread across the room. The humans, normally jovial by galactic standards, were now stone faced. Corbyn had seen such a face only a few times, but never in discussion of war. Their opponent was the Theisp Em... | (You know what? I'll bite. I plan on deleting this line later, but I may forget.)
"Such is the duty of lords and princes, envoy. Release the pl-"
*"Release?* That's a pompous way of saying 'annex', diplomat'"
"We only ask what is our birthright, from the great Mandate Of Our Wisdom - our law is fair, our rule is ju-... | 2018-12-15T01:17:13 | 2018-12-15T00:16:21 | 109 | 30 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | The Warfang watched the pathetic excuse for a human diplomat before him. This mission was a study in boredom, and had not intergalactic relations demanded the prescence of his delegation they would have done away with the whole thing and just attacked.
Already the Concordates warships were hurtling through the human h... | Our victory was decisive!
We conquered earth within only five months. The last of their military died within the first week. "Humanity", as they called themselves, will surrender to our demands. We will take their colonies. We will take their homes and make them ours. We need new breeding grounds. We need new farmstea... | 2020-02-07T14:29:21 | 2020-02-07T13:30:24 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] The only place to eat for miles is the Asian restaurant attached to the gas station. The food is great, but their fortune cookies always come true. | "I'm staaaarving!" Eric's plaintive wail from the backseat was slowly driving his parents insane.
"Eric, honey, that's why we said you shouldn't skip breakfast. We'll stop for lunch shortly." Eric's mother, Mrs. Starr, sat in the front passenger seat and tried to keep the peace on these long car trip but even her usu... | It was obviously a Pizza Hut. Or well it used to be. Hadn’t actually served a slice of pizza in a decade, but the stylized awning rooted its place in history. Since then had been a carpet store, a Chinese restaurant, an Irish Pub and now home to a bike repair shop. Placed just off the interstate next to a Shell gas sta... | 2016-09-07T10:48:35 | 2016-09-07T10:47:10 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | "Alright, listen carefully. This is very important. I am on my way, but it's going to take me about 6 hours to get from New York to South Dakota. There are some things I will need you to do. First, shut your mouth. No talking, no matter what. Second, find yourself some benadryl. Over the counter. If you don't have it, ... | The sounds of grunts and footsteps penetrated your dreams.
"The wife must be having a nightmare" you thought as you drifted between the waking and dream worlds. As you slowly started deafen yourself to the noise and head back to dreamland a startling revelation throws you back into the waking world with a start.
... | 2018-07-18T16:02:05 | 2018-07-18T11:05:03 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You're a demon fresh out of Hell Academy with a degree in Torture Methods. However, instead of being assigned to one of the large wards, like Identity Theft, Gaslighting, or Matricide, you're put in charge of the little known "Miscellaneous" ward. | "Miscellaneous Ward? What in the actual Hell is that supposed to be? My dad was right. I should have just majored in Genocide Studies like him. This is what I get for trying to be different! What is he going to say when he finds out I've been posted somewhere no one has even heard of? What if he disowns me or something... | That day was the day of my graduation from Hell Academy.
I earned my degree in Torture Methods, though it wasn't my best subject. I just didn't have the talent for it. I mean, I could disembowel someone if I had to, but I never developed the same flair for it that my classmates had.
I had thought I was doomed to a ... | 2016-12-04T13:15:10 | 2016-12-04T12:39:15 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You made a pact with a friend at 16 that if neither of you has married by the age of 46, you would marry each other. You are both now in your fourties, and you are starting to regret this pact. | (Sorry if the formatting is off, on mobile!)
"My wife is making a big dinner, would you like to bring Adam over? It's been a while!"
I smiled faintly. "Of course, Flynn! We need to catch up. What time?"
"Ehhh, better give her an extra hour just in case she gets creative. 8:30 good?"
"Sounds great. I'll let Adam kn... | The dinner party was in full swing, a mix of couples and those dwindling few in their social circle who had yet to settle down. Katherine grinned as she offered more wine to her old college classmate Harry and his lovely wife Susan.
They barely noticed her, as they seemed to be in their own little world. But she didn... | 2016-01-19T23:50:21 | 2016-01-19T23:17:02 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Turns out that God does not care if you are gay, atheist, or pagan, but he is a real stickler about mixed fabrics. | Jordan had a number, and eagerly waited for his number to be called on the big screen in the waiting room. It was filled with nervous pacers and impatient folks, waiting for their turn to be judged. It had been an hour and a half in the waiting room, and a year in purgatory. The nuclear war really set judgement back, a... | I stood among the souls of the fallen. We were covered in chains for the sins we committed in the world of the living weighing us down in the spiritual. In the court of Gehenna we stood before the infinite oneness with the sephirot marked on the podium before it. One such soul on trial was so covered in chains that he ... | 2019-03-16T06:08:36 | 2019-03-16T04:31:43 | 149 | 87 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | “All in favour of sparing her life, step forward!”
I looked around the village square, but no one moved a muscle. The seconds rolled by, and the hope I held in my heart crumbled, only to be replaced by a sharp tang of bitterness, resentment. There was Peter, whose fever had yielded to her medicine, but he kept his eye... | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | 2017-09-14T11:57:05 | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 2,008 | 114 |
[WP] In the future, you are world famous. A lot of the of the arbitrary people in your life (grocers, people you bump into) are actually zillionaires from the future paying a huge amount of money to travel back in time just to get a glimpse of you.
This is sometimes what I think when I meet strangers. They paid to mee... | "Honey, no one is following you," my boyfriend, Nate, reassured me again.
I craned my neck around anyway, certain that I had heard my name whispered furtively behind my back for what seemed like thousandth time that day.
"Maybe you should go see someone, dear. Paranoia can be a sign of a serious mental illness."
"I... | The glass isn’t as strong as they think it is. There’s a crowbar I have hidden under a bush in the enclosure. Could smash through and grab each one of them by the throat, their eyes bulging in disbelief. Equal parts incredulity and amazement. Gawking and gasping at the utility of the man standing in front of them. A vo... | 2016-09-21T13:21:22 | 2016-09-21T13:01:20 | 362 | 38 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people summon an animal that perfectly fits their personality to be their Guardian Spirit.
The animal would probably not be of the user's choice.
Just putting that out there. | All this naturalism shit never really had me going. I remember back a few years ago, when we could have cell phones, tablets, computers, any electronic on the face of the planet. But, of course, at the ripe age of 13, they had to discover that god actually existed. Or something. I'm not terribly convinced that it's a g... | Her family all sat around her, waiting. Before long, there was a fog in the house. Her family smiled, knowing the spirit was coming. Out from the fog came a man. Not an animal, a man. The girl's family shrieked in fear and ran, while the girl let out a chuckle as the man slaughtered her family.
The Girl Was A Monster,... | 2014-06-26T01:05:24 | 2014-06-26T00:07:08 | 75 | 24 |
[WP] You been a bullied outcast your entire life despite your pure heart and kindness. One day a horrible prank for you goes wrong, leaving you to die. Before your final breath, Death appears in white robes, and offers you a golden scythe with a name engraved on it: Karma. | Duude. So, I was out catching some waves a few months ago. Chillin' away from the pack. Y'know, like I usually do. No big. When one of the bigger dudes, Bret, comes paddlin' over.
Now, this dude and me have a history, ok? He's had it in for me since highschool. It is what it is. He has a rough home life, so I don't l... | (This was written on 17 hours of being awake, so don't expect too much quality.)
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I laid flat on the concrete, the cold ground being blanketed with a warm crimson the more I laid there. I always imagined what death would feel like from a young age, which is concerning considering my age the thought first ... | 2019-04-19T06:10:58 | 2019-04-19T05:52:43 | 76 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone has a guardian angel, but yours is killed by a demon. Fortunately it takes pity on you, and becomes the first guardian demon. | I stared in horror at the smouldering feathers cascading around us, like the results of a firework and a pillow getting too frisky together. The twisted monster that had destroyed the angel huffed a deep lumbering breath out then sniffed the air. I stiffened, my shocked numbness quickly fading to terror as the beast st... | "Well, shit. Kiddo, stop crying. Seriously. Please."
He just lay there, over the corpse of his angel, balling his eyes out. How the hell did he even see me? *Maybe that's why I was sent to kill him in the first place.*
"Kid, please, could you just stop your shit? I'm sorry, ok? This is just business, orders from the ... | 2016-08-15T05:10:38 | 2016-08-15T04:37:11 | 77 | 27 |
[WP] Lines on a summoning sign act as filtration layers, allowing you to choose how strong your summoned demon is. The more lines, the less power can get through, the weaker the demon. A pentagram is the most commonly used. A triangle is for experts. You're attempting to use a circle. | I had mastered everything. I was one of the few archsummoners that had attempted the triangle and succeeded. There wasn't a demon in the seven hells beneath us that could withstand my bindings. It wasn't due to intelligence, or power, or even strength. I had patience and I studied. While I was a little older than the o... | "Finally!" I exclaimed, joy surging through me. It's been months since I started doing this secret project of mine and I finally achieved success.
"Now to put the finishing touches." I slit my wrists and let the blood pour on the circle. I reached for the scattered bones around me, placing it carefully inside the circ... | 2017-11-16T01:06:16 | 2017-11-16T00:01:00 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | **Log 1.01 - 6462/55**
Potential major new biodiversity harvest, Arm 4, stellar coordinates \[classified\]. Approximately 9 million identifiable species, DNA-based. Minor indigenous sapience, no world government, hive mind, or cybernetic control. Not even common language.
**1.02 - 6462/56**
Received message from ... | When the human race first entered our star systems, we thought they were laughable. They came to “explore” and “settle”, but they appeared very poorly equipped and naïve to be doing such things. Of course, they were not the first race we’ve seen with colonizing of any sort on the mind; our people have dabbled with that... | 2022-08-05T13:08:24 | 2022-08-05T12:43:01 | 561 | 63 |
[WP] He believes it’s love, fated to be together. Maybe that could have been true, if he hadn’t blackmailed the princess into sharing the first dance. If he hadn’t threaten the lives of her people in exchange for a kiss. Maybe she could have loved him, but Love doesn’t grow in poisoned soil… | Princess Valiar held her breath as the scouting party snuck their way along the hillside. These were the Kallhar empires most elite soldiers and they were on a reconnaissance mission. She and her unit had been given information that they would be taking this exact route.
She held her hand up, a signal to her officers ... | Ishmir stood on the palace balcony. He breathed in the cool night's air. Joyful music and brilliant light spilled from the doorway behind him. He stood in the corner, away from that cone of light. He looked out. Below him sat the kingdom of Astasia. Only a few lonely lights wandered the night down there. He looked up. ... | 2021-01-16T22:29:46 | 2021-01-16T21:59:31 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Lucifer is trying to take a man's soul, but it turns out the man is a car salesman, and a good one. Describe their negotiations. | "Yeah, see, as much as I'd like to take that deal, I just don't know if it would be worth it for me."
"Worth it?" Lucifer asked. "Of *course* it's worth it! For just the measly sum of your immortal soul, you can be a movie star, a millionaire. You can have any girl you want!"
"Yeah, but I just don't know if that's re... | "C'mon Bub, you're coming with me," said the tall dark figure, his eyes glowing with red.
"Sure, but first take a look at this beautiful 2013 Kia Soul. Two years old and less than 200 miles on it. Isn't it something?"
"...it's alright, nothing too special"
"That's because you haven't seen it. Take a look inside. Ve... | 2015-11-08T16:33:36 | 2015-11-08T11:44:11 | 388 | 107 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | "We're heading down" I shouted to my friend. "No, don't" a voice followed. Strangers have been spotted lurking near the mines, swiftly followed by abductions. To go down there would be crazy, but a necessity - my only hope to save my dear. "Love will conquer all" I muttered beneath my breath, reciting the promise we ha... | He gazed into the distance, smiling as a cool breeze hit him.
It reminded him of a memory of his childhood, the first time he played in the rain. All the cousins gathered at Grandpa's house and played various games for hours. The uncles and aunts joined them after a while and everyone then hosed off after the rain. ... | 2017-08-30T07:28:28 | 2017-08-30T05:46:13 | 170 | 46 |
[WP] You are having a conversation with the monster under the bed, when it realizes that beds are just made of flimsy wood and fabric | "You'll be sorry!" I warned him loudly, but he didn't listen.
The creature under my bed (whose anatomy I was still a little fuzzy on) continued its furious assault against the plywood bottom of my bedframe.
"Grrah! Rawr! Errgh!" it grunted, scraping it's thorned whiplike tentacles, releasing a confetti of sawdust.
... | She heard the sound like boots on the landing. Slipping between the mattress and the wall, Krissy wiggled as far down as she could. Her bare toes touched the slimy edge of the carpet. She could feel the wet rubber of Mud as he circled her ankle.
She had forgotten to wear her socks again. He always made her feel cold ... | 2015-09-18T16:06:54 | 2015-09-18T15:45:08 | 53 | 26 |
[WP] It's your 93rd birthday and after blowing your candles, you jokingly rearrange the candles from 93 to 39. When you wake up the next day, you feel... young again.
First prompt ever!! Based off of a post I saw on front page. | “Papa,” My great-granddaughter, Mya, shouts as she tugs on the sleeve of my shirt. I turn to see her beaming up at me. Eight years old and full of love and wonder. “What are you wishing for?”
I smile. I have an urge to tell her that as you get older you wish less and less. You learn that life doesn’t give you what yo... | Not understanding why this familiar but distant feeling was happening, I sit up. It was odd. Not odd as in looks but in the feeling of sitting up almost effortlessly at my age. It had been ages since I felt... good? Young? Able to endure the day, I suppose?
"Meh, maybe today's a good day! No arthritis first thing in ... | 2018-03-14T12:54:15 | 2018-03-14T12:15:51 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | I've always wanted a familiar. I grew up reverent of my father's. That dirty little mutt happily plods along behind him just like I used to. Like all familiars, it appeared with a plain, white card, only marked with the date of its first appearance and the name of the trait it represented.
"07/29/1993 - Loyalty".
To... | "Hi Tommy" I'm your familiar said the beautiful angel.
Those were the first words I heard when I woke up and I was ecstatic with joy at finally manifesting my familiar and I felt so much warmth and comfort just being near her.
I hugged her and she hugged me back while ruffling my hair. I was so happy that I couldn'... | 2017-01-20T17:20:07 | 2017-01-20T12:43:33 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | *Calm down*, I think to myself. *This guy is probably some crazy psycho who escaped from some hospital somewhere and somehow got himself a gun and shot my wallet. Yep, perfectly normal state of affairs here. Glad he's not a mugger!*
I watch as the man engaged the safety, and began explaining his actions, as he pocket... | Well, that was unexpected.
"What was that thing?"
He replies almost nonchalantly, "Some alien. I am an agent of the United Nations. You understand that I have to take you in now, right?" He seems sincere, and as if he doesn't actually want to take me in, but rather just has to do it.
"Would it matter if I said no?"
... | 2017-07-13T00:40:53 | 2017-07-12T23:20:55 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.
EDIT: I just want to say thanks to all of the writers. I'm having a lot of fun reading all the different perspectives and... | "*No* crust?" the man grunted back. "You sure?"
"Yeah!" I was slightly drunk, and I found it amusing. At worst, I'd end up eating hot tomato sauce and cheese slop with a fork while watching cartoons. "And make it snappy! I'm hungry." I'd specifically picked the '30 minutes or less' place, though I'm really not too goo... | It wasn't the usual delivery guy that I opened the door to. The man infront of me had a hood pulled up tight to mask his face in shadow.
"Pizza delivery. You uh, you wanna start a tab?" The man asked whilst shifting his weight between his legs.
"A tab?" I enquired.
"Ye, you're obviously a—*sniff*—you know, a connect... | 2016-06-02T10:15:15 | 2016-06-02T10:00:18 | 1,145 | 263 |
[WP] You and 49 others wake up in a weird room. An automated message then begins playing: "For the next 50 years, you will race one another. You have been modified to remain ever youthful. Whoever gets to a checkpoint last is killed. You can use any means to get there. Your first checkpoint? Mars."
One little detail t... | **This wasn't supposed to happen. We had a system.**
I had always dreamed of immortality. To live forever, to have the entire world to explore.
Ha, I never realised how small of a dream that was.
I hadn't asked to be taken away; but with what they offered us, I wouldn't have resisted.
Not to mention the others. I w... | I cough, as I awake to the foul, warm stench of body odour. Confused, I lie flat on the cold, smooth floor and stare at the clinical, white ceiling. Though the floor on my back is cold, I can feel a warm heat around me. People.
I roll on to my side. There are a good number of people lying around, crammed together - no... | 2018-06-01T11:59:47 | 2018-06-01T11:42:10 | 83 | 17 |
[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 ... | Distant rain signaled to Tuvo that the attack had begun. The smell of burning leather passed his nostrils when he looked down to see his slippers scorching on the near molten rock face of the cliff. “Shit!” he muttered to himself quietly. His mage was leaking again, causing the rock to heat.
A hand quickly pressed fla... | "Help!" the woman screamed while backing away from me.
I took my time, matching my steps to her backpedaling. No one could stop me even if someone *had* heard her. Any city guard armed with merely a sword was just as likely to cower in fear as this woman, and I didn't blame them.
Each time my foot hit the ground, the... | 2016-11-12T11:55:40 | 2016-11-12T11:34:36 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] You are a part of a cult that believes the end of the world is near. Unlike most doomsday cults your group is made up of ex-scientists who discovered an ancient evil deep within the earth, and found that it was due to awaken in a few weeks time. | The institute is built directly over the brick well. Now the well sits crooked, stooped, inside the vast basement.
On my first day here, Hopkins — a retired physicist — reels up the great metal bucket. He cranks it by hand and it takes two hours and a pool of sweat for it to arrive.
“Why by hand?” I ask. “Why not hav... | Not even our fellow scientists believed us. Group 504, the ones that went crazy. We were the laughingstock of the academic world, a joke that others would make before exploring some great unknown.
“Don’t come back a 504.”
They would tease, not realizing the horrors they were so readily ignoring, something that de... | 2021-04-27T07:13:12 | 2021-04-27T06:03:23 | 1,182 | 115 |
[WP] You're the wizard's apprentice, and of course the first few years involve running errands and doing other tasks. He hands you a daily schedule, but to your confusion the total hours for the different tasks add up to more than 24. "Figure it out" He says, "I chose you for a reason." |
"Sir, I just checked my tasks for the day, and... well frankly I won't be able to complete this in the day. This is three days work at least, and they're all marked to be done today?" I looked up from my unusually long list of tasks to find that his eyes were already fixed on me.
His brow furrowed, he leaned in as h... | Being the White Wizard’s apprentice is an honest days work.
Still. I didn’t spend 7 years and $350k in tuition to spend my days skinning newts, grinding herbs, and swiping right for the White Wizard Elon Musk.
“Elon. I’ve never let you down. But today’s list is impossible.”
“Fucking millennial. Siri could do your jo... | 2019-01-14T15:34:44 | 2019-01-14T13:24:49 | 18 | 10 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | "What are you in for?" my cellmate asked.
"Grammar," I said, my eyes fixed on the wall.
"Hmm?" he said, sitting up in his bunk to hear me better. "You say something about your Grandma?"
"No," I said. "*Grammar*. The rules of composition for effective communication."
He laughed. "How did grammar get you thrown in me... | Jeremy hung up the phone. His ear was ringing after the blasting he had just received from the CEO. He took a deep breath and dialed Alexandra's desk phone.
Alexandra sat down across the desk from Jeremy. She looked tired and stressed. "I'm sorry Mr English, I couldn't believe it when I saw it on the news this morning... | 2015-06-19T05:45:51 | 2015-06-19T04:04:57 | 1,136 | 410 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday they receive a letter from their future selves. Some recieve long messages about their future lovers or messages about changes they would have made. Yours contains nothing but a small list of locations and the words, "NEVER VISIT". | My mom got a detailed set of instructions on how to meet my dad. Mom being Mom, she tossed it- well, tried to, the paper got caught by the wind, and landed squarely in the lap of my dad, who'd been sitting on a nearby bench, reading.
My dad got a time and a radio station. He got really excited about the whole thing, ... | It was a whirlwind week, five locations in as many days, full of love, knowledge, wealth, splendor, and finally, the contentment of a future secured. She waved goodbye as the yacht sailed out of the lagoon of her new South Pacific atoll.
She wasn't entirely surprised to see an elderly version of herself picking her... | 2016-11-24T03:29:58 | 2016-11-24T03:17:06 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The Goose has collected all of the Dragon Balls, the dragon is summoned and asks, "What is your desire?" The Goose honks. The dragon hesitates... "As you wish." The dragon disappears. Nothing noticeable has changed, and that makes you very nervous... | The dark clouds dissipate as the Eternal Dragon returns to its slumber. The Dragon Balls soar into the sky and fly off in different directions so the search can commence once again. The Goose does nothing. It turns its head to the onlookers behind him, stunned at what had just transpired before them.
"What just happen... | You continue to watch the situation unfold, astonished that all of this is unfolding in front of you in. 12:15, on a Monday afternoon, in the middle of central park, is where you start to question your sanity. Suddenly, the goose notices you staring and begins to glare. Immediately you clam up, a bead of sweat begins r... | 2019-10-21T01:04:02 | 2019-10-21T00:58:39 | 291 | 10 |
[WP] Once a year, on January 1st, a random citizen in the world receives a letter; addressed to them personally, and signed by the same woman. Each letter predicts the worst disaster to befall the world that year with terrifying accuracy. | Samuel tossed back a beer as he scanned through the letter that had appeared in his mail that morning. He saw the name that was, by now, familiar to everyone on Earth: Moira.
He knew what he was supposed to do. Hand the letter over to the government. Hell, to anybody who had the slightest inkling on how to avert the ... | The stars shone pure and beautiful through the brambles of the hollow in which he slept. It was the day of his tenth birthday though he didn’t know it. He also didn’t know that the world was waiting and worrying. Today was the day of the letter.
He wasn’t aware of these things. It wasn’t because his mind wasn’t sharp... | 2016-08-28T07:40:54 | 2016-08-28T07:30:35 | 121 | 28 |
[WP] "Checkmate," you say, a smug expression on your face. "Finally," says Death. The smirk is wiped off your face as the Grim Reaper removes his robe and hands you his scythe, "It's been 400 years since I beat the last guy." | Sitting on two chairs made of cold stone in a cold infinite desert of pale grey sand, were two figures. One was the tall handsome fellow with the smirk, me. The other was clad in black robes woven directly from the raw entropy of the end of the universe, with a skeletal grin, DEATH. Between us, stood a chessboard. Crav... | "it's roomy!" You explain to your girlfriend when she asks why you've been wearing nothing but a black robe for the last 3 weeks.
"Yea..well, it stinks!" She did have a point, collecting souls for the underworld did take it's toll on the old hygiene front.
At first she didn't notice, that I was somewhat more ga... | 2020-07-07T21:26:49 | 2020-07-07T20:16:18 | 2,318 | 423 |
[WP] The dead have come back to life across the world, but they're not here to eat us. They're all fleeing from something terrible in the afterlife. | > **Why have the dead come back and what are they doing?**
> An opinion article by Maxxon News reporter Oliver Davis.
If you had told me one year ago that some sort of "zombie apocalypse" was imminent there is no way I would have taken you seriously. To be honest- I would have laughed in your face. That was bef... | [Newspaper Article]
**My husband the Spirit man**
"No we weren't together before he died but I met him when he came back and I just fell in love" described Lizzy when interviewed, after 3 months of knowing one another they sought out a priest to make there arrangement official. Lizzy is just one of thousands of teenag... | 2015-01-23T09:28:59 | 2015-01-23T08:49:44 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] Listening to one of your grand grand grandpas war stories, you slowly start to realize he is Hitler. | The withered old shell of a man stood with his back to me, facing out the window of his study. The faint notes of Wagner could be heard coming from the antique record player in the corner. A vegetarian dish on the desk, untouched, had grown cold. long had he been standing there, waiting for me? The tension hung thick i... | An old man on his porch shouting at deer.
"I tell you Timmy, back in the old day,
Your grandpa was the big cheese around here;
They listened to what grandpa had to say."
Then Grandpa lit a cigarette, and stared
In wistful stupor, one lone tear on his cheek.
He took a swig from flask, and shameless shared,... | 2016-10-02T15:10:02 | 2016-10-02T08:34:14 | 414 | 76 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | *Pop*
"Oh...hey, John."
"Hey, Margarete."
John sighed. Her bedroom was a mess - a total, absolute, pig-sty-hit-by-a-tornado kind of mess the likes of which made him cringe. Magazines, sheets, and even bits of old food covered the carpet like a layer of soil. But it was nothing compared to her.
It was a familiar ... | I was on my third date with a lovely woman when the tingling in my fingers started.
"No... Not now!"
"What's wrong?" Jennifer looked at me, baffled.
The tingling was creeping up my arms. More intense as it spread.
"Uh... So, I'm going to disappear for a bit. Not sure where I'm going or when I'll be back. Just kno... | 2017-03-22T12:24:47 | 2017-03-22T11:45:22 | 3,731 | 106 |
[WP] A planet rotates once every 1,000 years so that each side is either tundra or desert; the poles are also frozen wastes, but there is a small area of ever moving habitable land. Two nomadic tribes isolated on each side of the planet begin to find the 500 year old relics of the other.
I kind of imagine one tribe vi... | We chase the light.
For hundreds of years we have followed the sun mother. She moves slowly, casting great lakes of fresh water out of the frozen, dark abyss in front. Weeds and plants sprout weakly in the new day, yearning upwards and bringing us nutrition and life. We are a blessed people, and as the holy sun mother... | "Pressure?" I asked.
"I'm not detecting any changes," said William. "Atmospheric pressure same as it's ever been. Why do even bother checking?"
My patience was wearing thin as well, but it was important I didn't show that to William. "Lieutenant, unless you have a better way of getting off this rock, we're going to c... | 2015-05-11T13:50:12 | 2015-05-11T13:26:42 | 52 | 22 |
[WP] When you entered cryogenic sleep, you expected to wake up in a futuristic world. Instead, you wake up in a dusty cave, a man wearing dark robes staring at you in horror. | The old man and I stare at each other - he with horror and me, with something probably much the same.
*This is one of those weird time events*, I thought. Sometimes, the combination of cryosleep and FTL travel had weird side effects. I decided to speak, to test out the moment.
"What is this place?"
The old man's bro... | This was certainly not what I had in mind when I had frozen myself in time for 80 years.
It was a dark cave. Strange, seeing how the place I had been frozen in wasnt a cave.
The cryo container had some sort of automatic releasing mechanism. Probably a timer of some sort.
This had to be a nightmare.
Suddenly, I sa... | 2020-11-05T00:08:37 | 2020-11-04T23:23:15 | 776 | 73 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | By the way Gwen and I reacted to our new buttons, you'd think that we were little girls. Really, we were sixteen, old enough to finally own a Money Button. Both of our parents thought that the buttons were far too dangerous, but that didn't take the thrill away, and certainly didn't stop them from coming in the mail. N... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T19:05:24 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] In the future, illiteracy is the norm and implanted digital assistants convert text to audio. A child, who had his implant temporarily deactivated, learns to read. When the implant is reactivated, he realizes that what it reads to him is drastically different than what the text actually says. | **Liberty’s Loss**
 
Kids, don’t play with EMPs.
Why?
Well since my Know-It-All digital assistant was mysteriously knocked out via an unexplained accident as I sat there innocently being innocent, I’ve learnt two rather unfortunate facts.
Firstly, English was not meant to be red, or is it read?
This fast ... | In years after the final war, when Google glasses became artifacts from an ancient civilization, men stopped reading and began to read through their ears, per say. They no longer look for themselves, but only listened.
But this changed when Google's servers failed, a rebel with no implant had began to learn, and to ... | 2019-04-15T20:39:49 | 2019-04-15T18:05:09 | 490 | 22 |
[WP] You have the ability to pull any fictional character out of their world and into the real world. The catch is, every time you take a character out, you must put someone in their place. | "Merlin’s beard!"
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore sat confused in my room. The old headmaster still had his night robes as I put aside my copy of *Order of the Phoenix* and studied him. Long silver beard, half-moon spectacles hiding the piercing blue eyes, long nose, he was exactly how I had imagined him.
"Pr... | Dad's always busy. Whenever you ask him to do something no matter what it is, he just says, "Later." Later, later, later--and tomorrow comes but later never does.
So you pretty much have to replace him. You hardly seem him anyway. He's either at work or he's telling you he's too tired to go swimming this weekend or ... | 2017-09-28T12:57:08 | 2017-09-28T12:46:50 | 158 | 12 |
[WP] You are a security guard working for a supervillain. One day, superheroes break in, and in the ensuing fight you get what should be a fatal wound. Hours later, you wake up... | The first thing that I saw when my eyes fluttered open was The Devastator standing right over me. I'd never seen him without his mask on before this, and only now realized that he had carrot-red hair, a smattering of freckles across his pale skin, and clear blue eyes. He looked so... *normal*. I'd expected him to have ... | Josh opened his eyes, his chest still sore from the lance that had been shoved through his heart.
Wait a second...
He hastily touched his chest in order to survey the damage, but it was as if he'd never been mortally wounded to begin with. Josh was confused - and that was putting it mildly. He remembered Valkyrie lau... | 2017-03-14T09:06:33 | 2017-03-14T09:01:51 | 255 | 28 |
[WP] You were a billionaire pretending to be an average Joe in order to find someone who loves you for who you are and not what you have, now in your honeymoon you confess the truth to your spouse who was apparently doing the same thing | Their marriage was quaint. Under the lazy white lights of a courthouse waiting room, Marcus and Vanessa sat together, hands clasped, fingers interweaved, hearts pounding. Alongside them were four or five of their closest friends, but in the lovers' world all they could see were each other. She was wearing the same wedd... | Him
Today was going to be the day.
​
Today was going to be the day I finally told her what my job was. Our relationship was perfect, we found each other at a small-cafe located inside of a relatively poor village and bonded over our simplistic hobbies and personalities. I fell in love with her instantly h... | 2022-02-24T17:10:34 | 2022-02-24T15:58:21 | 1,032 | 111 |
[WP] You are driving to your friend's house to play D&D. A truck losses control and just before it hits you time freezes and a message appears "roll to dodge the truck" | The truck swerved to the side, missing us by inches. The sudden turn caused the truck to jack-knife as it hurtled towards the overhang, its screeching tires leaving long black rubber marks along the road. The driver managed to jump free right as the truck went over the edge, his trucker hat flying skywards as he rolled... | Time froze and my arms flew up and were waiting to be crushed by a truck and then nothing.
I opened my eyes and the truck was frozen in front of me and the words roll to doge appear in front of me. I reached out and grabbed a d20 from my bag and I rolled it. Everything in my life was counting on this one roll.
The d... | 2019-02-12T10:29:38 | 2019-02-12T10:24:10 | 128 | 42 |
[WP] After years of gentile persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend. | *I apologize in advance. I am a horrible person.
The silly Gentile friend of mine needs help. I mean, it's a shame that she has ultimately loose morals and will possibly burn in all eternity for lack of true faith and ultimate knowledge, but her lack of relation with our Savior is eating away at her soul.
I recomme... | Kelly stared down at her unanswered text message. Internet friends could be so unreliable. Her friend had been nagging her for years through an app to get help, but when she finally did, they ghosted her. It was a real dilemma.
She read the text again and sighed. “WHERE YOU AT? HOLLA WHEN YOU GET HERE.”
Kelly’s frie... | 2018-01-06T12:05:59 | 2018-01-06T08:56:02 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You can choose one thing to be the best at. Your title as the best will never be broken. However, you're only as skilled at it as you are now. Everyone else just gets worse. What do you choose? (x-post from /r/AskReddit)
Wasn't originally planning to ask this here. I posted this question in /r/AskReddit. But, /u/... | The bearded man asks me the question, something that I hardly was expecting.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"The thing you choose, you'll be the best at, forever. Your skill won't increase, though, the skill of others will simply decrease," he replies calmly. His wrinkled face looks at me patiently, waiting for his words... | ###**Notice to /r/askreddit pilgrims**
Please take note of Rules 1 and 2 in the sidebar. This is not /r/askreddit; literal answers to the question posed by the prompt (i.e. "I'd be the best at writing") qualify as "low effort" responses - keep those kind of responses to the /r/askreddit thread. This is a place for exp... | 2015-02-20T06:24:48 | 2015-02-20T06:09:50 | 92 | 19 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | By the time I was 12, I'd had enough of the system; being born to two junkies and bounced around between foster homes will do that to a girl. The last house was the worst, though. I was small for my age, and an easy target for the abuse of the other misfits taken in by a mean old bastard, using kids to collect a govern... | My friends calmly tracked down the rude customer and knocked on the door. They proceeded to have a polite conversation in where it ended with the rude customer saying sorry and apologizing for taking out his marital frustrations on the Cafe. They all then went back to the Cafe and drank maple syrup and watched hockey b... | 2018-10-20T21:39:31 | 2018-10-20T20:48:06 | 62 | 15 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | On my third day encamped at the base of the Dawnbreaker mountains I met the great cat *Kurush-En,* who the locals thought a god and who at the time I thought only an entry in my bestiary. A crucial and long sought entry of course, for this hadn’t been my first trip and wouldn’t have been my last, but it was still no mo... | "Here kitty, kitty, kitty," Rowland Jensen approached the small furry creature in a crouch and make small kissing noises so he didn't scare the poor thing away.
At Space Command Academy, the first lesson of exobiology was to not assume Earth-equivalent traits on extraterrestrial creatures. What looks like a pair of ey... | 2021-01-25T07:22:34 | 2021-01-25T07:18:05 | 1,469 | 293 |
[WP] Looking into the camera on your phone you jokingly say, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To your surprise, suddenly the phone rings! "H-hello?" "Hi! I'm from the NSA." | "Is this Larry Hampton?"
"Oh, shit."
"Is this Larry? Larry Hampton?"
This is.
"This is. Who is this?"
"Listen to me very carefully. I don't know who you are, and I don't have any money. What I do have is a very
particular set of skills."
"I- - What?"
"Nah, just kidding. I'm high. Listen to me, I work for the NS... | I stood shocked. I pulled the phone away from my face and looked at the unknown number flashing on my phone.
I stammered out a response. "You're... you're kidding right."
The unfamiliar voice at the other end chuckled. "I don't know, am I?"
In my brain I rambled off a million thoughts of who this could be and how it... | 2015-02-20T17:27:26 | 2015-02-20T16:52:03 | 403 | 44 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| “Five minutes to choose, Charlie. Make it a good one,” the voice cackled.
The seconds ticked mercilessly downwards. His wrists burned against the restraints as his hands strained to stay away from the two glowing red buttons that stared at him from beneath the clock. To his right was his daughter, Anna, gagged and bou... |
I remember the first night, as terrible as it was, it is one of those memories that never leaves you. My mother had come home late, she worked hard in a small salon in the city, it wasn't much to get us by, but she always smiled when she saw me, always walked a little happier when she was reminded of why she did it. I... | 2014-07-07T09:20:49 | 2014-07-07T07:30:11 | 74 | 24 |
[WP] Governments all over the world cease every space program. Ten years later, a rebellious group is about to launch into space and they finds out why space programs ceased. | The first sensation of weightlessness hits you and you realize you're out there, you've slipped the surly bonds. The tedious waiting, confined straps, and uncomfortable variations from hot to cold that occupied your life for the past eight hours slips away when you realize you're weightless. You unlatch, unbuckle and f... | "3......2.......1......we have a liftoff repeat we have a liftoff"
That's what they used to say, some guy at Houston or whatever would say it every damn launch. It always seemed a bit weird to me, not sure why, but then again the whole concept of space travel is pretty weird. Weird and cool, that's why I decided to s... | 2014-12-28T09:27:30 | 2014-12-28T08:45:41 | 434 | 323 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "I was just doing my job, it's not like I liked the experiments. I didn't particularly care enough to dislike them either, I guess I would say I'm neutral on the matter.
The creatures weren't sentient after all, just huge animals we were studying from planet xerto-R41. I can pinpoint the moment it all went wrong, one... | „Here kitty, kitty, kitty...“ said the human while being in the cargo bay. I never understood that creature, but I’m still fairly new to this crew. But that human is still a mystery to me. However, the captain ordered us to get some of the cargo we need to ship. As I grabbed the inside of the crate, something damaged m... | 2019-11-21T07:06:02 | 2019-11-21T06:21:21 | 2,512 | 21 |
[WP] many young adults claim to have seen a tv show called "teletubbies" as kids, but there is no record of such a show existing.
Shamelessly stolen from vinny vinesauce | Leo sat on the train looking out the window. He loved traveling in train. There was something romantic about it, the quite noise, the careful ruffle and the whole world passing by. He was miles from home but it looked exactly like home. The sun was shining through the trees , blinding his eyes so he turned away from th... | "... May I introduce, Doctor Anthony Richard."
A few polite and naive individuals give a half-hearted applause before realizing the somber nature of the assembly and stifled themselves. The professor, Dr Richard takes the stand and waits for the flashes of photography to slow before speaking.
"*Morning, Ladies and G... | 2016-07-01T07:11:59 | 2016-07-01T07:04:12 | 401 | 26 |
[WP] The demon that tried to strike a deal with you was absolutely not prepared for the level of specificity you've prepared to make sure there are no loopholes for him to abuse. | I surveyed the vaguely evil-looking man in the business suit. His jet-black hair was slicked back, his goatee meticulously trimmed. I had the impression that his suit was alarmingly expensive, though I know very little about fashion and I suppose I could have been wrong. He had a small, centimeter-long scar beneath his... | "Mortal, I wish to make you an offering. Someone as strong and powerful as yourself has earned it. I have a wish to bestow to you. Imagine... anything, beyond your wildest dreams, being made real for you. Just ask," the demon chirped, with a smirk. It fluttered impishly before me. Tiny, winged, and red-skinned — it wou... | 2018-01-20T08:06:42 | 2018-01-20T07:26:26 | 2,131 | 1,072 |
[WP] "Rain or Shine, Sleet or Snow, Goblin or Demon, Dragon or Drow, nothing stops the United Fantasy Postal Service from delivering your packages on time." | I eyed the three men in black leather armor. The one directly in front of me stood lax, his arms moving in gestures as he spoke amicably, but the other two weren’t very good actors. Their stances and their piercing eyes told me they didn’t intend to leave me alive.
“You see, sir, this city has been having a problem ... | Package thieves. Mottlegrub *hated* package thieves. Exactly who did the sly little buggers think they were—*knicking* and *pinching* from he; Mottlegrub Rumpthistle the Third, goblin courier etxraordinare. At least, that's what his business card said. Well, actually, it said: “Mott Rump III, courier Extrao.” There ha... | 2018-12-06T08:04:43 | 2018-12-06T07:10:52 | 115 | 14 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I didn't really know what to think of it. "Don't look at the moon"? Sure, no problem. Going back to sleep now. But then I saw my other notifications...99+? Ok, something is definitely up.
I tried to call my girlfriend, but I notice one of the texts I got was from her. "You really should go look at the moon, its amazin... | I wake up. It's still dark.
Some dogs howl while others bark.
I get up, go to pee.
Get back to bed, ready to be-
-sleeping for the next few hours.
For I can't stay awake, I have no power.
But then my phone rings, Ah a notification.
I try to cover my ears, alas, my realization.
A ping. Another ping. And a hundre... | 2022-12-12T15:52:54 | 2018-04-06T20:24:10 | 191 | 11 |
[WP] You are a video game NPC, having a normal day in an ultra-modded copy of Skyrim. That is, until the Dragonborn shows up. | It's not a bad gig, being an NPC. Just stick to the script when the Dragonborn shows up and the rest of the time you're free to do whatever you want. It puts food on the table and I'm good at it. I've even had some upward mobility, started out as a run of the mill guard and made it all the way up to Captain in Markarth... | Sometimes I spit in his mead just for the hell of it. I've never done to anyone else, but this nonsense about going to the Cloud District is irritating especially since most of the city has to go to the palace in order to file mischarges or other legal fees. I was just waiting for that little bastard to burst through t... | 2018-04-26T13:37:16 | 2018-04-26T13:20:31 | 76 | 17 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | Jeeeeeesus, check out that pathetic 'Mario' on the other side of the road. Running, jumping, and 'Wa-hoooo-ing' like a madman as he makes his way down the street... what an amateur.
I don't mean to brag, it's just that I kinda lucked out when the super power lottery was being handed out. By my count there are a couple... | I sigh as I get slammed into a locker again. It's not hard. A small push and then close the door. See, before this whole shebang, I was a hefty guy, nerdy, and always on my laptop. The casual gamers and jocks only ever played games like Call of Duty or Fifa, etc. They have extremely fast reflexes and reaction times, bu... | 2020-01-05T14:51:34 | 2019-08-11T20:54:11 | 1,516 | 359 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | ‘Confessions of a Lady Dragon’
—-
“You are a *what* now?”
“A dragon. Didn’t you wonder why I never let *you* clean out the basement?”
“I thought you were just good at balancing gender roles. I mean, you let me do laundry and dishes.”
“Yeah, because I *hate* doing those things. And also because you look cute when y... | All these years
The planned dates
The firey attitude
The protective attitude
Always wanting my food
Eyeing my mother's silver dishware
Insisting I buy her jewelry for every anniversary
Not wanting to have kids whatsoever
Wanting me to learn music
Making me submit to her demands
Liking it when I play music to her
Lovi... | 2022-09-10T11:45:18 | 2022-09-10T10:45:48 | 125 | 80 |
[WP] After you laze about in a looped day for years, God finally stages an intervention to tell you that you’re supposed to be trying to get out of the loop. | I’m not usually this irritated. Rather, I’ve always been perceived as the very opposite. I mean, at least sometimes. Don’t dwell on that too much.
What I’m saying is I’m normally not *this* irritated. This is bordering on enraged. I’m standing in my office, staring at the calendar on the wall, tapping my foot. Today’s... | In has been 4 years and 32 days since the event. How did it all end the first time? I can't remember. It had something to do with a wood chipper.
As you know, my same day is on repeat. Forever. It's a record player with the same actors, sets, and events. I scratch the record to play a slightly different tune, and eve... | 2019-02-20T12:24:14 | 2019-02-20T09:59:55 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | Colonel James Green's phone began ringing at 15:07. He would remember the time exactly, because it was written in the cold hands of the apple green clock that his wife had given him, that sat on his desk instead of a picture of her, and because it was the phone call that would change his life. All of their lives.
"Col... | I'm sharpening my knives mom sent me from back home in Kansas while pulling guard in the war room, thousands of miles away from home, missing my girl and thinking about muscle cars when suddenly, the radar picks up 3 blips coming from the North at ballistic speeds.
*The end.* | 2017-03-19T07:42:32 | 2017-03-19T07:18:14 | 88 | 19 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | *TESTING TESTING CAN ANY OF YOU STUPID FUCKS HEAR ME*
Those were the first words which God spoke to us.
Of course at first, everyone assumed that they simultaneously experienced the same schizophrenic delusion and simply stared off into the distance. We were unable to comprehended the obnoxiously loud celestial voice... | "My love"
"Yes Hlödyn my dear?"
"What are you doing?"
"Same old same old. Trying to get these deaf mortals to listen to my wisdom for once. I gave up a me-damned eye for said wisdom and helvete fucking damn it I will use it."
"Dear...I now know why Thor is so irritated with you. That microphone was on _mute_ you ol... | 2019-06-03T09:07:27 | 2019-06-03T08:58:04 | 2,232 | 77 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The trigger for the war seemed small at the time, a small, cold sun in between the fifth Doran planet Doral 6 and the gaseous planet I5, a sparse human colony with merely 4 million people.
The cold sun was named Horus, and it was roughly the size of the Human Coalition's very first moon, now a tourist attraction much... | *Valkyrie this is Panther 6, I have changes to line 6 and remarks to pass*
*Panther this is Valkyrie, go ahead*
*Line 6: from original coordinate, area target, 500 meters heading 327 break*
*Remarks: two massed formations with a hundred meter gap, looks like guys on foot talking and dueling within the gap, over*
*C... | 2020-03-21T13:08:59 | 2020-03-21T11:49:38 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Table for one, sir."
I reclined on the wooden chair and sipped at the complimentary cup of lava-heated water. The water, its temperature just nice to heat up my icy skin, spilled out as I set the cup down on the table. Dribbles of water remained on the plastic file beside the cup.
"A hundred and eighty-six thousand... | To: HR department of Hell
From: Norman
Cc: Satan
I honour you otherworldly beings.
I appreciate your work and see the importance of your tasks. But i think there has been an error. You see, i was always a faithful human. Stayed in line, did my work. Never been any trouble to anyone! Of course a few missteps here and ... | 2018-09-26T07:07:43 | 2018-09-26T07:04:35 | 895 | 156 |
[WP] Make me fall in love with a girl without actual any physical descriptions
Just realized this is perhaps more so [CW] than [WP], if a mod wants to edit the title for me that'd be great! | "She was the kind of girl who didn't need an introduction. She entered a room and the door frame turned into a picture frame, as her contagious enthusiasm attracted the gaze of a hundred soon-to-be broken hearts. It's like whenever you saw her it felt like you were walking into the living room on Christmas morning, and... | Anna tossed the stick into the bright April sky and smiled down at the little girl. "That's how you play fetch," she laughed as her seven year old golden retriever bounded across the yard with the energy of a puppy.
"Can I ask you something?" the little girl timidly questioned Anna.
"Of course! Anything you w... | 2014-03-26T17:07:59 | 2014-03-26T15:34:08 | 211 | 42 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | "You don't have to enjoy it," she said. "No one ever really enjoys it."
"But you have to do it," she cocked the gun. "It's hard, I know. Sympathy is the only thing keeping us from following through. Some people say we're tough, that we don't ever feel anything for anyone else. But I'm not tough. You're not tough eithe... | I'm usually clinical about my work, like a doctor. Emotions tend to cause mistakes. I got a letter from a little girl and it said "He hurts me at night. I just want it to stop. Please help me." so this job was a little different. It felt good to use a knife again, it had been a while since i'd been up close and persona... | 2017-02-16T11:23:34 | 2017-02-16T10:30:50 | 130 | 68 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I always go running in the park after work. And before work actually. Because that's what you do when you have "Heart Attack" hovering over your head in big green letters. I know that's how I'll die, I just need to make sure that day is as far away as possible. Maybe if I run fast enough, I can outrun death.
I many wa... | Tim wakes up with a scream. He knows something is wrong, but can't figure it out what. His body just wants to go back to sleep. He's never fully understood what the words above people's heads were, but after the first visit to the doctor he's never spoken about it again.
After last night's explosion, he's finally... | 2015-03-31T09:41:54 | 2015-03-31T08:43:31 | 76 | 36 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | Bodies were moving haphazardly in the lamplight. Worried mutters filled my usually joyous temple as police rallied my loved ones against the wall. They rifled through my tokens and tomes, tossed my sacred texts aside as if they were worthless trifles, and then... the bit. That fat cretin chomped his filthy jaws around ... | ######[](#dropcap)
There's something senseless about the way flesh meets metal.
The desperate pleas and cries, the anguish, this is all nothing new. Especially not new to I, who has lived through both feast and famine, the dark times of the Rebellion and the high times of the Exalted Era. I have known moments when m... | 2020-05-19T23:50:33 | 2020-05-19T23:44:12 | 66 | 32 |
[WP] Humanity wakes up one day to find that a giant penis has been graffitied onto the moon.
A "willy on the moon" so to speak | She had saved my life all those years ago.
I was on the edge of the building when I saw a girl my age looking at me from across the rooftop.
*She's going to give me that talk about life is worth living.*
"It's going to hurt, you know," the girl pointed out, "Can you wait before jumping? I feel like I might have to ... | January 21st, 2017
"Mr.President, reports of a new...well just look at this," his assistant shoved her Ipad screen into his face. His cheeks rose as his grin crawled into a villanious smile; if he could put a Penis on the moon he could put "Trump" on Mars.
-End-
(Far shorter than it deserves but I write about Trump ... | 2016-02-29T18:14:44 | 2016-02-29T15:06:17 | 69 | 13 |
[WP] You are in your grade ten math class when you suddenly recover all your memories from a previous life. | Hi Sandy. I’m sorry I’m late. It’s Harold. Well. It’s Carol for now, but you knew me when I was Harold.
You deserve an explanation, and it has taken me a long time to find you.
See, it didn’t all come back at once.
I was fifteen, sitting in Algebra II, not really listening to Mr. Bell as I copied notes fro... | After I realized where I was I had to leave the class room as soon as possible. I raised my hand and asked if I can be excused to go to the nurses office. By the way I looked it was an easy out. My face was flushed, I had sweat beading off my forehead and looked exhausted. As I got up I had to adjust to my present body... | 2014-05-20T09:42:54 | 2014-05-20T08:42:28 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You used to be the greatest detective in the world till you went into retirement, as you look back on some of your cases you realize. You were wrong about all of them. Every. Single. One. | The whole time, I just assumed I had been really good at it.
Hunting, sleuthing, climbing up staircases in dirty walk ups with flickering lights. It was all just so very novel. I felt like Bogart and I was Bogart. While the other children played Fortnite or kicked around footballs, I was glued to the floor of my gran... | "Damn, will this rain ever stop? The sound is killing me."
Grant slowly stood up from the old, velvet covered arm chair and stood near the pane glass window, looking out onto the gray and blue streets. The gloomy clouds up above seemed to weep as it rained on, not too heavy, not too light. The setting sun seemed to il... | 2020-03-23T08:00:11 | 2020-03-23T06:59:17 | 79 | 24 |
[WP] It turns out the Immortals were ex boyfriends and girlfriends of Death, and as Death is incredibly petty, refuses to take their souls. As the oldest living Immortal, you think it’s time to make amends with your ex. | Mary felt the cold steel of the gun’s barrel around her lips. She pushed it in further, pressing it firmly against the roof of her mouth. She wasn’t scared as she pulled the trigger. She wasn’t scared when she felt the shot reverberate around her skull. Nor was she scared as the taste of gunpowder and smoke coated h... | Crows cawed over the high turrets of the stone castle that stood on a cliff's edge. On one of the turrets stood a man in a black robe. The man was old as sin, his figure was hunched, and presently he stared into the sheer drop which held the promise of certain death. The crows cawed again as a distant church bell rang.... | 2021-04-14T09:06:22 | 2021-04-14T08:25:39 | 62 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | It was an accident, of course.
My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc... | Right eye, left eye...right eye, left eye. Who ever said having these powers was a gift? I can't remember how long it's been, or even how old I am. The feeling of weightlessness, the lack of substance both metaphorically and physically. When was the last time I heard someone speak, when was the last time I felt another... | 2021-11-12T07:30:30 | 2017-04-14T16:02:38 | 4,698 | 175 |
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