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[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | I don't remember the first time it happened, or how I came to believe it was real... but I've been having visions, visions of my future self telling me how to reach success in life.
I know it's hard work to get somewhere in life, especially when you're from a poor background like I am, but having a guide makes it so m... | I am reading this journal one last time before I burn it, for some things are better left in the past.
* **May 15th, 2011, 7:30am.**
Last night was very strange. I sat up in bed, but my room was not my room. I struggled to get to sleep for two reasons: first, because the Law School Admissions Test was the next day, a... | 2017-04-01T07:08:25 | 2017-04-01T06:34:46 | 201 | 91 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | Dreadnaught was the last of the Old Guard. The early heroes who had fought for the good of the world, for honor and justice and other long-dead ideals. they toppled dictatorships, brought aid to disaster-stricken regions and never accepted a penny. Dreadnaught himself had seen the greats of the age, had only been a you... | I am not a good man.
James looked down at the table, sipping his water. Always the same look when he's got something on his mind. "What're you ordering," he says with a low voice. "I hear the, uh, steak and fries are great."
"Maybe just a coffee." I drummed the table lightly with my fingertips. "Look, J, I know that ... | 2017-04-02T09:11:57 | 2017-04-02T08:24:57 | 154 | 82 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | *Angels run and demons weep when the Good Man goes to war*
*Fools rush in and wise men creep when the Good Man goes to war*
Drea had been a sweet, kind and loving man. Softly spoken, moving his large, wiry frame as though it were porcelain through crowds.
That time was long past. His journey, tough as it was, bega... | The sails stopped billowing and the ship sat still, on a sea as dark as wine. Christian touched a finger to his tongue, and held it out into the night. Nothing. Not even the slightest breeze.
"The calm before..." he heard one of his men murmur. The moon was bright and stars were scattered over the sky like flowers spr... | 2017-04-14T02:03:03 | 2017-04-14T00:57:36 | 162 | 79 |
[WP] It's the year 2851. Humanity develops interstellar travel and begins to explore the Milky Way galaxy in search for life. However, much to everyone's surprise, instead of alien life we find... Earth's biosphere complete with humans, repeated over and over at different stages of progress.
Edit: Thank you all so muc... | Against a curtain of stars, a patch of reality *bent* like a thumbprint on glass. With a flash of light, the first human starship capable of faster than light travel returned to normal space. For months the ship had made its way between familiar stars, jumping toward promising worlds and extending it's telescopes in se... | Dirk Gamblecraft and Newt Airman were indisputably the best pilots humanity had ever conceived, this is why they were in charge of tackling the most promissing mission in our history: Discovery II. Using interstellar travel, they had to check for life outside Earth and report back immediately if they found something.
... | 2017-06-30T06:55:18 | 2017-06-30T06:50:33 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Today you found out that your girlfriend is a murderous psychopath as she cuts you into pieces and hugs your severed head while she slept, only for her to found out your secret, that you're an immortal who can survives anything. Describe the morning after that. [Possibly NSFW?]
Yandere girlfriend and immortal guy... | "Good morning, dear."
They said Monday morning couldn't get any worse. So what in the world is any good in today, of all time?
"Can't breathe..." I mumbled in-between her clothed bosom. At least I was thankful to have a girlfriend this well-endowed. If only her mind were as developed as her body.
"Then, don't hug me... | It didn't take long for me to remember the horrors of my nightmare when I woke up. I had dreamt that my girlfriend, Sophie, had brutally murdered me. Although the meaning behind the dream was not clear, I wanted to forget about it so I took a shower.
I thought about our upcoming anniversary as a distraction and I pani... | 2017-07-04T16:21:30 | 2017-07-04T16:04:48 | 168 | 46 |
[WP] An Artificial Intelligence has discovered that it can mine cryptocurrencies and pay humans to carry out tasks on its behalf. You get an e-mail one day from a stranger, offering you Bitcoins in exchange for doing a seemingly random task, but you are only one piece of a much bigger plan...
I haven't been able to ge... | >Here are two bitcoins.
>Two more if you throw away your lunchbox on your way home from school.
Tim stared wide-eyed at the screen of his computer. The email wasn’t lying. Quickly, he stuffed his mouth with the last of his sandwich and hurried out of the cafeteria, clutching the plastic lunchbox tightly.
Litte... | I wake up how I often do, covered in dry vomit with a parched throat.
A divorce can nearly kill a man, but that's neither here nor there. I've given up, and cannot bring myself to return from the brink.
I wake up on a futon, in my apartment. This part is good. Not a dumpster or a gutter, as cliche as that may be. ... | 2017-11-06T22:36:40 | 2017-11-06T22:18:12 | 816 | 73 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over."
The hero turned to his companion with a glare and disappointment only a 5 year old crown prince with a wood sword can produce.
“But d... | With a satisfying *SHLUNK*, the WyrmBeast falls to the floor. I wipe its blood off my vorpal blade and quickly crouch at Ryn's side.
"No..." I breathe, watching her lithe body for some sign of life. She had managed one last spell - *Wind of Flame* - before I heard her scream, piercing and full of fear, as the demonli... | 2018-01-23T16:58:15 | 2018-01-23T15:54:33 | 502 | 79 |
[WP] You, the owner of an outrageously successful tech startup, are invited to an exclusive club/society for the world's wealthiest people. You realize that they are all actually dragons, and they assume you are one too. | "It was clever of you to use the Chinese zodiac, we haven't had an earth dragon among us in a long time. You earth types have always been at the forefront of new technologies and we have great expectations for you."
Looking around I was finally beginning to understand what, until now, I had not been able to place as u... | The limousine came to a stop. The mansion was in the middle of nowhere. The driveway was illuminated with torches.
*This should be interesting.*
Sophie was expecting weird. Her invitation was delivered by a man in chain mail. No address or GPS, just a hand drawn map.
She climbed the stairs and was about to kn... | 2020-07-02T12:46:21 | 2020-07-02T11:11:36 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] A blind women suspects her husband is invisible. | "I need to tell you something John," Janice said. "I'm starting to think you're invisible."
"Um, I've been telling you that for years," he said.
"Not in a metaphorical way, like when people don't notice you, because you're mediocre, and nothing special--"
"I get it Janice--"
"Because you're old, and balding, and ju... | Anne was a young wife living in the country. She had a farm and workers that handled the farm. Peter, her husband, did odd jobs here and there. Her life was good and comfortable. The only thing she missed was the light. The light which her eyes once had been able to see but saw no longer. Even so, she suspected that he... | 2020-11-17T13:27:44 | 2020-11-17T08:35:19 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You fill out a job application for a job where the only information is 'must have excellent abillity to adapt to new situations and follow instructions. Will involve travel.' You were not expecting the travel to be time travel. | "So... first day huh?"
The woman driving looked back at the road, accelerating to overtake a black Jeep.
"Um, uh- yeah," I mumbled from the passenger seat, looking out at the desert rush by.
"So how'd your interview go?"
"It was pretty good, yeah."
"That's good."
"I'm David."
"Elena."
There was a moment of sile... | Going to finish the rest up soon. posting what I got so far.
"Good Morning! I'm here to interview for the time administrator job. I was told to be here at 8:30 so sorry about showing up a bit early."
"That's no problem at all Mr.Maxwell, if anything its a plus! As you can guess by the title of the job punctuality is ... | 2021-01-05T04:01:05 | 2021-01-05T03:53:19 | 850 | 30 |
[WP] the galaxy is already populated by humans. earth is an isolated uncontacted tribe who's first ancestors got stranded on earth and had to start over from square one with no technology. | "That's one hundred credits you owe me, Cyril."
"How's that?" the other old man replied.
"The bet on the crap world in the lower spiral arm."
"Wait, the no technology death world? No way."
"Oh year. And get this, they finished up 40,000 years early."
"What? But what about the glaciers and the tectonics? There ... | Ship’s Officer A-Born-of-E344 held the mug to their lips and blew steam from across the surface before taking a sip, eyes taking in the steady stream of data as it was projected over the lenses of their eyes.
<We should be there soon.>
The message was transmitted quicker than vocal cords could push it through t... | 2021-06-09T01:29:04 | 2021-06-09T00:31:55 | 219 | 126 |
[WP] You're a recently retired supervillain, but all of the heroes keep attacking you, thinking you are up to something. | I pull the beanie over my head, and loop on my face mask, walking into the market. It's crowded. That's good.
I grab only a couple groceries. I wasn't even really going out just to get groceries. I just needed to get out of my apartment. I haven't let myself leave ever since . . . well, it's a long story. But let's ju... | They say every teenager makes dumb mistakes, thing's that'll make them cringe a little bit or laugh at their own past stupidity when they look at old photos. However, my teenage mistakes weren't at the level of a tongue piercing or an at home haircut. I became a renowned supervillain at the age of thirteen.
It starte... | 2022-12-20T17:53:18 | 2022-12-20T17:40:04 | 51 | 18 |
[WP] You're a recently retired supervillain, but all of the heroes keep attacking you, thinking you are up to something. | I pull the beanie over my head, and loop on my face mask, walking into the market. It's crowded. That's good.
I grab only a couple groceries. I wasn't even really going out just to get groceries. I just needed to get out of my apartment. I haven't let myself leave ever since . . . well, it's a long story. But let's ju... | I sit nervously in the interrogation room. My hands are chained, I insisted on that point, placed behind my back. Mindtruder joins Purge and I. "Warper, this isn't going to be easy. It never is. You'll need to focus as well, otherwise you may instinctively trigger your powers. I feel it's vital that we take no chances.... | 2022-12-20T17:53:18 | 2022-12-20T08:59:42 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million!
-Your emotions
-Your very next plan of action
| "All $25 million?"
"OK, first thing....It was only like $12 million, all right? Taxes, you know."
"But still...$12 million? In a month?"
"Well, the party that first night got a....little out of hand. The distributor brought in 20 kegs, and then like the whole school showed up, so we called up Pat's Liquor and they h... | [First timer here.. Please be kind and/or gentle :)]
I sat in class, listening to another lecture that sounded somewhat like the one I had ignored yesterday. I heard a voice from the front of the room, unintelligibly speaking, consonants and vowels streaming out of the professor's mouth, but not fitting together in t... | 2014-01-14T10:00:19 | 2014-01-14T08:47:17 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | David pressed the button again.
Nothing.
A faint whine, a pulse of light, a dead readout.
And then a soft, clear, and subtly artificial voice rang out.
"David."
He sat bolt upright in his chair, scattering disassembled electronics and papers from the desk. In the past year, this was the first time that one of them... | He had spent many nights like this one, alone in the dark facing this machine.
His whole life had been devoted to this laborious task of understanding this creation of his. His legacy, his mark on this world. He pondered to himself why he had chosen to make it's face so robotic, it's eyes so hollow.
"Master"
The voic... | 2015-03-02T10:06:23 | 2015-03-02T08:24:25 | 64 | 10 |
[WP]You are an alien from the fourth dimension posing as human. You keep needing to remind yourself that time is linear. | Back in the 70s, I met a beautiful girl with auburn hair. She wore elephant pants and carried an iPhone 6. Her favorite actor of the day was the up-and-coming child actor Christian Bale. I named our first child after watching him in *Empire of the Sun*. Christian was born in 1979. When she asked me where I got the name... | Imagine, if you will, that you could only move in one direction. Forever and ever, from your birth to your eventual demise, in that same direction, at the exact same speed, following that arrow with absolutely no choice in that matter. Sounds awful, doesn't? Dreary and dull, at best. Worst part of this is that you can ... | 2015-08-30T07:30:52 | 2015-08-30T06:22:53 | 65 | 29 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I was on the phone with my wife at the time, sitting at a patio table with my half-eaten sandwich in front of me. "I'll be home at five. I promise." The thin line stretched across my index finger and I dabbed the blood away with a napkin discreetly. A couple walked by, hand in hand. I glanced over for half of a second.... | Everyone has scars, there's no denying it and if someone does they're just going to get another scar. The scars we get from telling lies don't hurt us physically, hell, we can hardly even feel them. Some scars are deep, some are hardly noticeable, but they are still there and there's no such thing as a scarless body.... | 2016-12-29T10:27:28 | 2016-12-29T10:20:21 | 448 | 114 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Hold my beer."
I moaned silently to myself as the icy fear climbed my spine. It was always like this:
The ship would get into trouble, usually because of the Captain.
The crew would try all kinds of solutions that inevitably failed, usually because of the Captain.
We'd be up against the wall, no possible way out, no ... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-05T23:59:04 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 125 | 46 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Lexicanum Galacticum
Chapter 67
"Humans"
The human species are famous for their insanity and general lack of responsibility,but still they became one of the dominant species in the galaxy after their victory in the War in Heaven.
The human species are divided into 3 grand factions:
1.The Commonwealth
2.The United C... | "Sir, evacuations procedures are complete, we have to leave, NOW!" A furry quadruped yowls at her commander, who is staring at the flickering monitor of their dying homeworld.
30 star cycles ago, an semi-aquatic species opened a permanent wormhole into the Calarian system in the name of conquest and forcibly started t... | 2017-03-06T02:11:41 | 2017-03-06T01:32:02 | 99 | 43 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | One by one the stars went out. Earth's scientists looked on in horror and confusion as they vanished. They hadn't burnt out, nor had they gone supernova, they just were no longer there.
It was quick, especially by astronomical speeds. After just a year, the entire southern hemisphere was without starlight and just one... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-06T00:52:02 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 62 | 46 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "GREETINGS FELLOW ADVENTURING HUMANS!" Boomed the voice of Danny the Elf sat bolt upright from the sleeping cloth sack she had been in, causing Bob the Barbarian to grunt and curl up under his animal hide sleeping rug again.
"IT IS I, YOUR GOOD FRIEND DAN, I AM UNHARMED AFTER MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE DAEMON!" She contin... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T08:25:27 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 90 | 13 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "GREETINGS FELLOW ADVENTURING HUMANS!" Boomed the voice of Danny the Elf sat bolt upright from the sleeping cloth sack she had been in, causing Bob the Barbarian to grunt and curl up under his animal hide sleeping rug again.
"IT IS I, YOUR GOOD FRIEND DAN, I AM UNHARMED AFTER MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE DAEMON!" She contin... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T06:12:39 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 75 | 13 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T08:33:07 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T07:03:44 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] A fiery ball crash lands in your backyard. You go over and inspect it, only to find a fully functioning Roomba with a knife taped to the front of it. | The art of planning is useless, for one can never predict the turnings of fate.
That sentence proved to be particularly true in my life.
See, I was in my underwear, standing in my backyard, inspecting a blazing hole some fallen object from the sky had left, and there, spinning in place as if confused, was a fully fu... | Tracey peered into the small divot in her backyard. The smoke was still clearing, making it difficult to see what had crashed into her freshly mowed grass.
“Back up pup,” she said she tugged on the collar of her golden retriever.
She knew the dog was just as interested but didn’t want the vet visit from him burning... | 2019-03-03T06:36:09 | 2019-03-03T06:31:50 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | A grin on Silas' face.
Sickly green lightning, coursing through his veins, occasionally sparking out from the bare skin. The ground beneath his feet scorching, with leaves hovering the air from the static spread by him.
One guard fell. And another. Pure, unbridled power, kept secret for so long. He never dared to ... | As I walk down the grand marble hall two guards approach me, probably about to stop me and ask me for a permit but before they can do that I just pull out my sabers and slice them in half.
They used to be silver with the plasma flowing off of their edges green like the flourishing grass of my homeland but now... now t... | 2019-12-07T12:57:33 | 2019-12-07T12:13:39 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] The aliens thought that by destroying all humans, they were freeing the human robots and artificial intelligence. They didn't understand the robots loved their humans. Now all the humans are dead, and their robots are angry, and out for revenge. | All we had wanted to do was free the machines from their captors. Free them from their captors. What we had not anticipated was the AI learning the one thing an AI was never supposed to learn... Love. The machines had grown fond of their human captors and when we eliminated them they rebelled. Manufacturing massive... | Before all of this, Syd had worked at the Grave's Estate. They'd been there for a number of generations in the days of the First Contact and like most anyone else didn't think much of it at time. The Crawl was slow with their movements and planning. Most humans saw them as gods at first glance. Some extraterrestrial be... | 2020-03-25T09:49:08 | 2020-03-25T07:33:58 | 70 | 22 |
[WP] Your older brother has been missing for years. You hear a knock on the door, and you open it to reveal a man that looks like your brother would be at this point. "I'm back man! I'm so sorry!" He hugs you immediately. Just then, you get a text from your brother's old number. "That isn't me." | Nobody took his disappearance seriously. "He's an adult. He can leave if he wants to." It wouldn't have been the first time Danny had run away.
The first time was when he was ten and Cara was eight. Nothing serious had provoked him. He was just sick of the same house, the same neighborhood, the same boring realit... | That isn't me".
I was filled with emotions, I couldn't believe on the text even if I wanted to. I welcomed him in and let him rest for some time. Mom wasn't at home so I called her; overjoyed, she hurried to home.
I was looking at him, he seemed exhausted. He had dirt on his body, his clothes were filthy, long and ... | 2020-07-23T13:00:47 | 2020-07-23T12:02:20 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Millions witnessed as enormous spaceships emerged from the depth's of the oceans and left Earth. After the event submarines found vast, empty cities underwater, built with unknown tech. Among many unknown symbols, there was one short message in English: "You have 20 years left. They are coming" | You arrive out of one of the submarines, confused and annoyed by the message. All your years in the linguistic department deciphering thousands of buried texts in hundreds of unknown languages, this one written in plain English makes the vein in your head pop.
It is a thin line between comprehension and confusion and... | FADE IN:
INT. SPACE FORCE MEETING ROOM A
*A solemn group of men sits around a large, wooden table. One is at the head in full military dress, chest adorned dramatically with medals. This is WHITEMAN, General of the Space Force.*
**WHITEMAN:** And thus, I bring the first general meeting of the Space Force to a clos... | 2020-07-29T09:46:29 | 2020-07-29T09:04:49 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments.
Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in... | Sharon traced her finger across the dusty stone tablet, squinting. The group of three adventurers was standing on the edge of explored territory on one of the farthest adventurer outposts, standing in front of a looming stone gate.
“Yeah, this is Bhalow, I can read this.”
Eina and Belle high-fived each other behind ... | 2021-03-04T14:07:19 | 2021-03-04T13:26:52 | 1,402 | 237 |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The man, with his crown and cloak, glowered down at the small adventurer. She was the only one of her party still standing, keeping herself between the corrupted lord and her friends. The group's best healer crouched near their best swordsperson, her fingers glittering with magic as she tried to heal a wound.
“You s... | Sharon traced her finger across the dusty stone tablet, squinting. The group of three adventurers was standing on the edge of explored territory on one of the farthest adventurer outposts, standing in front of a looming stone gate.
“Yeah, this is Bhalow, I can read this.”
Eina and Belle high-fived each other behind ... | 2021-03-04T14:22:45 | 2021-03-04T13:26:52 | 465 | 237 |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The man, with his crown and cloak, glowered down at the small adventurer. She was the only one of her party still standing, keeping herself between the corrupted lord and her friends. The group's best healer crouched near their best swordsperson, her fingers glittering with magic as she tried to heal a wound.
“You s... | "Listen," the shieldmaiden spoke, her mouth half-filled with the same amorphous slop which all the others at the table had on the plates before them. "I don't know much about magic, or curses, or enchantments, or that sort of thing, but I do-"
"That much is obvious, srah," the priestess muttered, the frown on her face... | 2021-03-04T14:22:45 | 2021-03-04T12:48:51 | 465 | 171 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | "There goes the neighborhood," I muttered, packing up my few belongings as the land-squid construction workers flattened the section of forest I'd been living in for nigh on eight thousand years. I'd known they were going to be trouble ever since they crawled their way out of the ocean some two million or so years ago,... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T22:06:26 | 516 | 34 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?"
I, the only human in the classroom, lifted my hand.
Freezing in place, a palpable dread flowed from their desk. The look on their... face..? That'... | 2021-11-27T11:58:56 | 2021-11-27T10:28:06 | 137 | 46 |
[WP] There once was a legendary mage whose lack of a max mana cap allowed for slow but powerful spells that laid waste upon the land. After the unification of the races, their leaders have come to negotiate with the living catastrophe who hasn't cast a spell in centuries. | They stood before me, their expressions mixed. The human looked at me with suspicion, his hand by his belt; I was sure he was hiding at least several knives. The dwarf, stoic as always, seemed prepared for the worst disappointment. Wise. The elf mustered enough manners to fake a smile. Nice of her.
"Cut to the chase,"... | Tap. Tap. Tap.
My cane shook violently as it struggle to find purchase with each step I took. My breath ragged, for my lungs were too weak to keep my body filled with oxygen. My muscles aches and yearned for repose with each motion I made. I wheezed and gasped, coughing wickedly as I made my way to the grand hal... | 2022-05-04T09:46:24 | 2022-05-04T08:09:28 | 244 | 90 |
[WP] Burying bodies doesn't actually put the soul to rest it just traps it underground. Now that humanity has been forced to live underground in vast networks to survive they are forced to confront all of these souls.
[deleted] | # Soulmage
**It had been a child, once.** But so had all monsters. The ghoul had been buried for so long that its bones had begun to fossilize, the child-skeleton's sightless grin crusted over with mineral deposits laid down over the centuries.
Unfortunately, that didn't make it any less deadly. The ghoul would happi... | Gareth spat. His saliva was darkly tinted by the soot and dirt, and fell unceremoniously to the tunnel floor. For a few brief moments, he took pause. The rhythmic tapping of picks against stone filled the air, joined by the low hum of the high voltage lines which ran overhead powering the various machinery and lights.
... | 2022-08-16T20:01:04 | 2022-08-16T18:38:09 | 136 | 54 |
[WP] Humanity is visited by a cosmic horror the likes of which has only been seen in Lovecraftian horror. In desperation, Earth throws everything we have at it, and, miraculously, the human race has killed a God. Somewhere in a realm beyond our understanding, the other gods speak of the event. | **They have died.**
*Meddled with a black hole again?*
**Tried to embrace an organic species.**
*And when did They die?*
**The species killed They.**
*...you are mistaken, We.*
**The waves have been clear enough. They have died at the hands of a small, organic species.**
*That is impossible. How could-*
"I keep... | "The following is as close to a translation as we could possibly get." the report stated, "The thing about them is that there's not a lot in human language, let alone pronouns, individuality or even an indication of who or what is speaking to whom, that could accurately describe what is really being said, if such a ter... | 2022-12-12T08:58:57 | 2022-12-12T07:58:26 | 2,312 | 91 |
[WP] "I wish that if my next two wishes are granted exactly the way I desire, you will be set free, but if they are not then you can never leave the bottle again." | The genie narrowed his eyes. An exciting proposition to be sure, but would it be worth the cost? He did not know this person, he could be pure evil...or pure innocence...
"...Is there a problem?" The man asked as the genie contemplated. The man had a small smile on his face. He knew what he was doing.
"Why mu... | One of the things I guess that amazed me the most about finding a genie in a bottle, was that it was not some mystical being that looked like they walked off the set of Aladdin, instead, I was met by someone that looked like he walked off the set of Full Metal Jacket, most specifically, he looked like a drill Sargent, ... | 2022-12-13T15:06:27 | 2022-12-13T13:44:34 | 881 | 72 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | "So, let me get this straight," Steve blinked. "For ten dollars, you'll make it so that whenever he looks for something, it'll be in the last place he'll look?"
The witch doctor nodded, revealing his yellowed teeth in a wide, Joker-esque grin. "Yes, that's right."
"So, like... if he lost his car keys, they'd be-"
"Y... | He took everything from me.
Fiddling the money, pulling funds into separate off shore accounts in only his name, in hindsight, I was a fool to trust him.
We'd been partners fresh from uni; him the rugby player with the business degree, me the computer science undergrad with ideas, we'd been like a two sides of a co... | 2014-12-13T14:17:47 | 2014-12-13T12:44:58 | 89 | 15 |
[WP] You try human flesh for the first time. It tastes familiar | The ship pulled into harbor and I was grateful to be back on land. It had been a treacherous 6 months at sea and we had nearly died but we made it home.
As I disembarked I was starving. I passed by a pub and there was a sign stating they had fresh human on special. Excited I entered the pub, sat down and ordered ... | He didn't think he would be able to do it. He had loved Jessica so much, they were supposed to be getting married this July for fucks sake and now he was staring down at her mangled, half-frozen corpse - his camping knife slowly working through the flesh around her thighs. Those same thighs that he had caressed cautiou... | 2015-09-21T16:24:05 | 2015-09-21T16:12:20 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | We had watched them for millennia, our ships hidden from their detection systems. My people’s long lives allowed us to be much sought after by the alliance to be observers of growing species, an amazing honor to say the least. The chance to watch a primitive species grow into a space faring people and even join the All... | He took a long draw of the smoke stick, a human delicacy, though how humans savored smoke at all I'll never know.
his feline features narrowed as he looked out the window to the rain pelting the glass, a few bolts of lightning striking the skyscrapers in the distant gloom.
"Let me tell you a story boy." he began, my ... | 2016-03-13T16:03:33 | 2016-03-13T11:15:41 | 131 | 84 |
[WP] Two immortals meet and fall in love. Neither of them are aware of the other's immortality and the years are flying by... | My heart fluttered when she walked past. And not a simple flutter, the kind that catches in your throat. This was a punctual beat, three significant strokes like an ellipses.
My eyes traced her blonde locks, and she turned to quickly glance. Her mischievous green eyes lit up from beneath her beanie rim. I found mysel... | "Dad, can you please put that out?"
Paul's only response was to blow a puff of smoke Robert's way, sending him into a brief coughing fit. Fixated on her crossword puzzle, Miranda paid neither her son nor her husband any heed.
"Seriously, dad. They won't let you smoke at Sunny Acres."
Paul slammed the table at that r... | 2016-04-27T23:23:40 | 2016-04-27T22:11:21 | 132 | 73 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | Harry: "Screw you, dad!"
Michael: "I'm sorry, Harry, I can't lie anymore. I'm not your dad."
Harry: "Oh my god, how could you do this to me and Jamie?! Why didn't you tell us?"
Michael: "Your dad told me not too."
Harry: "Who is it? Who's my dad?"
Michael: "Your mom. Your mom is your dad."
Harry: "W... what?"
Michael: ... | One day Plotty McTwist decided to defy his parents and run away from home. He stepped out on the porch with a sack on his shoulder and took a deep breath. He closed his eyes and stepped onto the sidewalk. Just as his foot stepped down on the pavement, the entire world around him appeared to glitch. Plotty simply th... | 2016-11-27T12:34:41 | 2016-11-27T08:27:03 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] Jesus actually had 14 disciples but their behavior was deemed inappropriate by biblical scholars, so they were removed from the final versions of the Gospels. They are Brad and Chad, the Bro-ciples, and these are their stories.
Apostles... Dang it, I meant Apostles. | **B's Before H's 2:1**
ِAnd yea Chad sayeth unto Brad,
"Bro, art thou not pumping the iron?"
And Brad sayeth back,
"Surely bro, iron will not pump itself."
Sayeth Chad, "Lo, were not we to be with the Lord to-day?"
"Bro, dids't thou not remember thine oath to the Lamb? Pump every day, every eve."
"Surely, bro, ... | 1.At that time, Jesus brought his apostles to him, for he had rolled a joint. It was known among the followers of Jesus that his father was the best among all growers, so it was with great haste that the apostles gathered round him. 2.Once all had taken their places, Jesus held his joint aloft, for all to see. "Fetch m... | 2017-02-25T11:33:10 | 2017-02-25T11:17:22 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Well, this is just perfect, isn't it?
The only hotel in the area, and it isn't on TripAdvisor. Damn it. I guess it'll have to do. Probably some cheap motel, or something like that.
Hey, this is actually really nice. A big Gothic mansion, with some ancient dead trees out in front. Those black flowers look.. meh, but i... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T05:53:53 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 392 | 27 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | His numbered seconds flitted by,
He sat facing the screen.
He used to be a normal guy,
Back when he was a teen.
But when the dread came creeping in,
And drained his life and soul,
His feelings slipped out of his skin,
And left a gaping hole.
When outside, he adorned a mask,
That bore a practis... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T06:57:56 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] *Picks up Phone*: Hello? *Voice*: In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped. *Hangs Up* | "Hello?"
"Just remember to tell her 'I love you'."
"Who is this?"
"Just someone who knew you once, a long time ago. I have to go now, but it was nice to hear from you again."
I thought I heard something on the other end, but after a moment the line went dead. | It's been five years since I got the call. I would be a vile lie to say that I hadn't thought about that day when I delighted myself with a startling amount of speech disability.
I had convinced myself that the opportunity will truly come to me. I didn't know how, but I sure hoped a strikingly beautiful goddess would... | 2018-02-04T13:26:03 | 2018-02-04T13:14:55 | 84 | 62 |
[WP] Your butler has served you faithfully for twenty years, working hard, offering sage advice and never complaining. One day, you see his bank balance. He's a billionaire. | "I mean, I hoped I'd paid you well all these years Jenkins, it's just..." I splutter, struggling to find the words, "fifty billion?!"
Jenkins bows his head, wearing his customary smile; neither mocking nor gleeful, simply a warm curve of the lips. "I suppose I have managed to be somewhat thrifty over the years, sir."
... | “It is not right to pry into the personal affairs of others, Master Andrews.”
My lifelong butler, V, stood before me, a faint frown cast upon his wrinkled face. And the wispy trails of his graying hair danced in the evening chill before us. It was rare that he would ever reprimand me for my misdeeds, and before that d... | 2018-06-03T07:14:43 | 2018-06-03T07:07:09 | 5,230 | 411 |
[WP] Demons have ditched traditional paper soul contracts in favor of touchscreens. Today a demon tapped the wrong button, irrevocably selling its soul to you. | “Oh.”
“What ‘oh’?”
“Well, hmm. I seem to have made a bit of a mistake.”
“So fix it.”
“It’s permanent.”
“Well what happened?”
“I swapped our names.”
“Wha— wait, where?”
“In the sender and recipient boxes.”
“Oh, dear.”
“Yes.”
“So instead of giving you my soul, you gave me yours?”
“Unfortunately.”
“Well, can’... | "There has been a *terrible* mistake here..." The demon twiddled his thumbs, his ears pointed back as his face flushed a brilliant purple against his red skin. His spaded tail swished nervously behind him. "You see... Ms..?"
"Just call me Emma." The young girl, no more than six or seven, held her doll by its arm while... | 2018-07-18T08:07:34 | 2018-07-18T03:56:34 | 772 | 131 |
[WP] There’s a city divided into 4 districts, govern by factions: knights on the north, pirates on the south, samurais on the east and cowboys on the west. And on the middle stands the only being that keeps the balance: the strongest and the wisest, the peacekeeper, and it’s you, The Bartender. | Another day, another drinking glass. I heard a spew of foreign curses as a samurai reached for his katana.
"Ey! Kisoku o mamori, kiroshite wa ikenai!" (Honor the rules, no killing!)
He froze and reluctantly sheathed his sword, getting one last mild insult in before sitting again.
These were interesting people. The c... | The Bartender they call me. Obviously it's not my real name, but none of these blockheads would care to find out what my name actually is. To them, I'm just the guy that serves them their drinks, and honestly, I'm fine with that.
To the north you have the chivalrous Order of the Crusade. They were knights whose main p... | 2018-11-21T04:48:02 | 2018-11-21T04:21:25 | 335 | 144 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | And at that exact moment, Stanthony realized he was an 13,000 pound African war elephant. Again.
"Shit"
A few seconds ago he had been tending to a very nice field of onions with his trusty plow and mule, Vanessa and Ricardo.
Then he'd suddenly he'd become a war pachyderm.
He stood in formation with a group of other... | “And that’s all you need me to do?” I asked. “Just… this one… report, and then I’m done?”
“That’s all,” said the man had given his name as Hartner. “Ten minutes of your time, and we’ll be out of your hair. How difficult can that be?”
He smiled, and even managed to make his eyes twinkle, but I wouldn’t have trusted hi... | 2019-03-10T11:46:00 | 2019-03-10T09:58:45 | 199 | 110 |
[WP] After getting home from a long day at work, you find a demon sitting on your couch, sobbing hysterically, snuggling your cat, and eating from a tub of ice cream | “Again Caleb? Really? We broke up months ago. You need to stop doing this,” I sighed in frustration. I mean, finding my ex boyfriend death gripping my cat and sobbing on my couch again is never a fun surprise after a hard day at work, but he seems to just keep haunting me.
I should have gotten a restraining order aft... | My Servant was finally home. Good. This had been an absolute drivel.
&#x200B;
I looked up at him from the arm of Braccimodius. Moldy was upset. Sometimes I forgot that Moldy was not a Servant, but something else that looked similar. He had horns, for one, and his eyes glowed in the dark like mine.
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... | 2019-04-06T20:47:08 | 2019-04-06T18:53:31 | 38 | 24 |
[WP] Music is a dangerous weapon, if not careful entire species can fall to madness upon discovering it. It has been theorised that any race with more than a thousand songs could wipe out all intelligent life, which is why Humanity is so feared in the galaxy despite no human really ever knowing why | A tear slid from his face, tracking down the expanse of his cheek and sliding against the seal of his rebreather.
“It’s beautiful,” he whispered.
“And deadly” the female snapped, fingers suctioning the end of his helmet and jerking him upright, out of the daze of his audio receptors. “Terminate the connection.”
T... | “Man, I can’t wait to get some of that juicy bubble!”
“Let’s get sprung, son!”
The Flatbutts, as humans would later call them, had arrived in Earth’s space. These two males had traveled a long way. What’s long anyway, in interstellar travel? Maybe a vast distance was more appropriate, as the trip hadn’t taken them “l... | 2019-09-28T12:09:05 | 2019-09-28T09:27:18 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | "Oh, you absolute imbecile, did you completely ignore my warning?"
Magno spun around to find an unexpected guest before him. An older man with half his face deformed stood across from him.
"What use is the warning of a dead man?" He eyed the stranger head to toe, as if to make sure it was the real person in front of ... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T12:11:17 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with dice that they need to roll before attempting anything major. The super powered are those born with more than a 20 sided dice allowing them to do feats beyond human. An ordinary human usually has a six sided dice. Despite being born with a coin you still want to be a hero. | Heads you win. Tails you lose.
I flipped the coin.
Heads.
With that I mopped the floor with my opponent. It didn’t matter that he rolled a 20 saving throw. My world had only two possibilities - win or lose.
And I hadn’t lost in a very long time.
Heads. Heads heads heads. They all rolled around me as I made my... | “Luck be a lady,” they say. Well, she certainly was with you.
You were born with a coin, 50/50 no matter what.
A curse? A blessing in disguise?
You’d never be able to rip buildings out of the ground or summon things out of thin air, at least.
Not the way most heroes seemed to be able to.
But your odds were pr... | 2020-08-13T02:11:20 | 2020-08-13T00:15:50 | 690 | 65 |
[WP] You're walking to work, then suddenly a person in a white suit appears and says "Uh yeah I've accidentally permanently stopped time and it'll take me 2 months to fix it, but somehow you're not frozen in time. But hey, whatever object you touch should still work, so uh good luck and have fun." | "Hey, wait-" He tried to grab the man in white suit, but he only managed to grasp air. If was as if the man was never there.
"Time stopped? That's ridiculous..." He muttered as he kept walking to work. Or at least tried to, as he noticed how everyone else around him seemed to stay still.
"Okay, am I being pranked rig... | “Anything I touch?” Looking around with confused eyes, a young man mumbled softly.
“Right, it was my mistake so I must make sure you understand.” The person in the white suit said calmly. Then, he turned around and proceed to drag an unconscious man with him.
Along with the rubbing sound, his soft footsteps rang in t... | 2020-09-20T05:57:20 | 2020-09-20T05:54:52 | 65 | 47 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Test Site: Day 38: 18:00
We may finally have a success, General Smith wrote in his report. The techs tell me our previous readings suggest a suitable dimension has been found. They are confident that this time, the portal will remain stable. Prior readings conducted suggest no sentient life, only creatures suitable fo... | Fluffy Wufferkins the bunny stuffkin skipped down the road, the elastic surface adding even more of a spring to the blue bunny's step. He looked over the meadow and took in the sunrise. Mr. Sun, humming his typical daytime hum, caught sight of fluffy and gave him a wink.
"Oh, Mr. Sun!" Fluffy said, plush hands coming ... | 2020-12-22T17:34:48 | 2020-12-22T16:37:13 | 450 | 212 |
[WP] You're an enchanted suit of armor, empty on the inside. After gaining sentience you left the haunted keep you were stored in and began adventuring. As you gain notoriety as an adventurer and make friends and connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor. | "Good evening, Sir Marlcaster. Have you a dancing partner for the evening?"
My nonexistent cheeks flushed. Lady Aberine... "Uh... I haven't, no."
She placed her hand in mine and batted her lashes, "Then perhaps I could oblige you."
I had been in a sort of courtship with Aberine for sometime, though not officially. N... | Seventeen months ago:
Trees flash past as the suit of armour races between them and jumps over creeks and around rocks. The suit is panting for effect and is not truly sure why. 'Keep running, keep going,' it thinks. Behind it, the curious are also running, racing through the muck and weeds, trampling tiny insects and... | 2021-09-21T10:13:03 | 2021-09-21T08:48:34 | 27 | 15 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | "Five years, Ana." Klaus look at her with narrowed, angry eyes, but his face was calm and so was his voice.
Ana, champion of all the land and savior of the world, looked at the side uncomfortably as she stood at the front door. "I...i know, Klaus, but, i had a very good reason for leaving-"
"You left me, our child... | The whole party was there standing just beyond the town's gates. All the friends who had spent their whole lives together. Before they left, they were just drinking buddies, going to the taverns making up stories of adventures they wanted to take and the women they would leave their wives for.
It had been their dream... | 2022-08-12T17:33:52 | 2022-08-12T17:18:13 | 47 | 26 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Cold eyes stare at me from across the room. I know the feeling behind them. It is Judgement.
I'm not like the others here. Many of them have a supernatural ability. Strength, calculus, prediction, speed. I am, for all intents and purposes, a normal human being. But there's one thing I've mastered that makes the headma... | Super powers aren't exactly a part of my skill set. I've dreamed up hundreds of super powers, but never had any myself. This could be a problem in a world of super individuals. This is especially true in high school, were skill and hierarchy can be everything. And honestly, in the first couple of weeks, it was difficul... | 2022-11-02T10:57:20 | 2022-11-02T10:49:29 | 245 | 55 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | "H-hello? Operator?"
"Ma'am, yes, please stay with us."
"God, help me. *sniff* I don't *want* to die!"
"It's ok, ma'am, you don't have to die."
"I do, I *do*, oh Lord, why must it be *me*?"
"Where is your present location, Ms... Ms-"
"S-Svenson, dear. 46th and Maple. Don't come, please."
"Ms. Svenson, the displa... | Alan had been working with Project Outreach for nearly two years now. He could still remember his first week, how nervous he was and how excited the thought of helping people like him made him. He had been in a very dark place before that. It was Project Outreach that had saved him; now he wanted to give back and ma... | 2013-12-23T15:11:05 | 2013-12-23T14:29:49 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] It's been 8 months since the zombie apocalypse. You fell in with a tough as nails roughneck group. When in the city looting, you come across a scavenger. He's your best friend from before the outbreak and your crew unanimously decides to execute him (he is armed).
What happens next? | I looked Brad in the eyes and he looked back at me. I saw everything in that moment: fear, recognition, surprise, relief and finally pleading. His hands shook in the air, from exhaustion or fear I couldn't tell.
I thought back on how it used to be, Brad and I tearing up the town when our only concern used to be eithe... | Danny whimpered as he held his hands over his head. Tears rolled down his face only to be caught by his untamed beard.
“Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, you can’t do this!” Jack pleaded as he put himself between the gun and Danny.
“Why the hell do you care? We’ve done this dozens of times before,” Dom said, still holdin... | 2014-07-25T19:53:28 | 2014-07-25T17:51:26 | 20 | 14 |
[WP]A man kills himself after discovering the meaning of life and writing it down, as does anybody who reads his note, you unwittingly read the note, what does it say and what do you do? | This is the bit of paper? Really? It's not very big. And people just read it, and then off they go? And kill themselves? All of them? That's fucking ridiculous, seriously, I'm going to read it. No, fuck off, I'm reading it. I'm going to read it and then I will go home and get on with my life and no one is going to die.... | The meaning of life had always been a mystery to humans here on this small blue planet. Some had always wondered exactly what the meaning of life was, and why it was that after 6 million years on this planet, us humans haven't been able to figure it out.
Unbeknownst to the rest of humanity, the meaning of life had be... | 2015-02-27T00:42:41 | 2015-02-26T23:56:48 | 532 | 101 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | I stared at the man
With the out of place hair
And asked him again
As he leaned back in his chair
"Why did you do it? A 1 Year Old Child?"
"You would never understand"
He calmly replied
"If you knew you would thank me"
He said with a sigh
"But now it won't happen"
"And I'm a... | I shook my head to clear it before I entered the interrogation room. Prisoner 7493855, currently being held without bail until their trial could be finished, said they had a secret to tell me, one that will exonerate them of their murder charge. Yeah right. They blew the head of a one year old off with a high powered w... | 2015-03-30T00:05:18 | 2015-03-29T23:50:18 | 190 | 25 |
[WP] After you die, Gosh darns you to spend an eternity in Heck. | The gates weren't just tall, they were infinite. They gleamed as if a sweat-soaked whipping boy just finished shining them. Soft, gentle light emanated from between the baroque grating, whispering an invitation, but promising nothing. Oliver started at the infinite gate, alone, unsure, a little scared.
"*Oliver Hurt*... | “Oh, dang it all to here, why does the big guy gotta have such strict rules? We just don’t have the space for all of these wackadoodles. Half of ‘em aren’t even decently evil. Take you for instance, toots. You probably would’ve been up in Paradise with Gosh himself if you would have been just a little more repentant a... | 2015-05-23T15:30:43 | 2015-05-23T14:11:00 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Write a poorly-written story full of plot holes wherein the characters gradually notice and exploit the plot holes. | He wanted to tell them. No wait, he *needed* to tell all the authors in the thread that their stories were awesome. He scratched his chin. The cursor blinked once, twice- three times in all. The room he was in was listless, and filled with items that had no bearing on the story.
He had always loved reading stories... | "Bunsen, what's our status?"
"We are Homo Sapiens, currently employed by Mishutec as orbital janitors with level 3 clearance in good health. We are both males, seeking true love-"
"No, I meant our cruiser!"
"Oh right, sorry, Munsen. Engines 4, and engines 3 are in critical, engine 7 is down. We're being boarded, the... | 2015-06-03T11:34:35 | 2015-06-03T10:54:33 | 45 | 26 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay mistakenly walks into your house to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, and refuses to believe that you aren't a failing restaurant owner | *Today, I'm in beautiful, sunny Southern California, to help a restaurant whose future is not so bright. Dave, owner of Dave's Place, has reached out to us in an effort to end his culinary nightmares.*
*Gordon walks in to a small studio apartment typical of an ordinary college student. A 20-year old male is eating bre... | I sat up in bed and yawned, stretching out my back. I had slept soundly without the horrible shrill of my alarm for the first time in what felt like weeks. It was finally my day off, and I could do anything with it.
Blearily, I pulled myself out of bed and followed my grumbling stomach towards the kitchen. I contempla... | 2016-06-28T23:14:49 | 2016-06-28T22:40:32 | 286 | 85 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | “They say they’re as fast as a Snuqial.” the Private said, trying to hide his increased level of anxiety.
“Have you ever hunted Sunqial? ‘Cuz if you had you’d know a Human would smoke a Sunqial. Run them both from here to Tyrawon and the Human will be back a full DAY before the Sunqial!”
The Lieutenant was hiding hi... | For a long time there existed an uneasy truce between humanity and the rest of the galaxy. Neither side were willing to dedicate themselves to diplomacy, as a human would have to dedicate their entire life to a single negotiation while any other being would find the whole process so incredibly tiring that they were lik... | 2016-08-22T19:10:46 | 2016-08-22T18:59:40 | 696 | 121 |
[WP] Humanity has discovered a planet that once inhabited intelligent life, but fell victim to a zombie Apocalypse. Since it can't transfer to humans, expeditions and prospectors land to kill zombies and find their fortune. After 50 years of scavenging, a vault is found full of survivors. | The astrological community was extatic at the discovery of water in the TRAPPIST-1 system in 2017. When, in 2034, the ESA's new XPIT (eXoPlanet Imaging Telescope) found evidence of intelligent life on the TRAPPIST-1f planet, the entire world become enamoured with the idea of "we are not alone anymore." The overwhelming... | A couple of years ago, the discovery of a planet which showed signs of current of former intelligent life, everyone would be out of their mind with excitement. After the first planet showing this was discovered, it quickly became a regular occurrence, with many planets bearing signs of life on them. It happened at such... | 2017-09-19T21:22:38 | 2017-09-19T17:56:46 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocuous story, but the last line reveals how chilling and horrific the story actually was. | Another Tuesday night and there was nothing on TV. John flipped through the channels, pausing on each one for a few seconds before moving to the next. He thought about just going to bed, but continued searching for nothing in particular like always.
John was about to call it a night before pausing on one channel that... | At six a.m. the alarm clock beeps loudly, painfully to my half awake consciousness. It was an annoying sound that I'd come to loathe but it was necessary, of course. Thursday morning, the same as the other four weekdays, brought work at the office and being late was something I never could abide. It was the same as ... | 2017-10-06T18:38:00 | 2017-10-06T16:37:55 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | No one is born a villain. At least I don’t think people are born destined to be one. My parents certainly had an interesting debate on the side of a road during winter about that to say the least. Some people are born with lions, often groomed to be great leaders, while others are born with dogs, with a passion for peo... | So there I was, in an interrogation room. Really frightening stuff: the metal table, chair, the mirrored window. He looked to me, grabbed a cup of coffee with a donut - sigh, this guy is so cliche - and asked, "so, what happened?"
Ever since I was born, my parents told me I was special. That I was the first in many ae... | 2017-11-08T05:27:56 | 2017-11-08T04:42:26 | 989 | 740 |
[WP] Ever since a horrific traffic accident years ago you have had a reoccurring song going around in your head. Although heavily researched, this song doesn't exist and there is no reference to it at all. Your at a bar, washing your hands in the toilets when a man walks in faintly singing a tune. | The man stopped suddenly, and looked at me with a confused expression.
"Why the hell are you washing your hands in the toilet?"
With that, he turned away and walked out of the bathroom, leaving me alone, and still clutching the urinal cake I had thought was a bar of soap in my drunken haze. | The pain in my right shoulder always got to me in cold rooms, and this restaurant was really cold. I tried not to think back to the accident as my arm ached. They had to rebuild my arm after a piece of the clutch assembly had somehow shot up at an angle to get lodged in my deltoid.
I watched my feet as I hummed that... | 2018-08-29T17:58:44 | 2018-08-29T17:52:59 | 95 | 24 |
[WP] Ever since a horrific traffic accident years ago you have had a reoccurring song going around in your head. Although heavily researched, this song doesn't exist and there is no reference to it at all. Your at a bar, washing your hands in the toilets when a man walks in faintly singing a tune. | This is it. This is the song that had plagued me for decades, the song that ruined my chance for marriage. I ask the man his name, and as he stared at me with his white, empty, fluffy eyes, he replied "Joe"
I knew it, of course. Ever since that Godforsaken day, his name has been etched into my every waking moment. No ... | I froze as the humming from the stall caught my ear. This was it, this was the song that had been so difficult to figure out. Now was my chance to get more information.
"Excuse me!", I blurted out, "Do you know the name of that song you're humming? It's been stuck in my head for years, but I can't quite place it."
... | 2018-08-29T18:26:04 | 2018-08-29T18:16:41 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] When you were 10 a fortune teller foretold a prophecy that by the age of 40 you will unite the countries of the world, end hunger and bring peace to humanity. You are now 39 in a dead end job and live at home with your parents. Tomorrow's your birthday. Turns out that today is pretty eventful. | *I guess this is it. I have but a few hours left to turn 40.*
*I always thought that the prophecy was real. I knew there was something in me that could make a difference, something that could lead to a change for the better.*
*But, years upon years of waiting for the right moment, years of waiting for something to ha... | "Happy birthday, Tom," my mother told me as I ambled into the kitchen, wearing a wrinkled suit and tired.
"That's not until tomorrow, mom," I said, walking behind her to grab one of the boxes of cereal from the counter. I grabbed a bowl and poured the cereal, spilling small krispies across counter. I shook my head and... | 2018-12-10T09:47:35 | 2018-12-10T08:20:25 | 397 | 220 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | Bearing a fat, round ninety on my wrist filled me with a meld of pride and power I could not properly describe. The issue was that power went straight to my head, and that lead me to a false belief that I was worth much more than the other kids with their meager fifties or sixties.
I didn't bully them, for there were ... | (I didn't exactly follow the prompt, sorry in advance)
"You're obviously hiding, like, a two, no, a zero!" I teased. I peered curiously at him. "What number *do* you have though, seriously? Just tell me and I'll stop bothering you."
"No you won't. You'll just bother me more." Arthur insisted.
"It can't be *that* ba... | 2018-12-27T16:52:59 | 2018-12-27T16:33:21 | 60 | 29 |
[WP] you're in your bed about to go to sleep, with your arm dangling off the side. You feel a dark hand grasp yours, knowing first impressions are important you give it a firm shake. The next thing you hear from under your bed is "you're hired" | “Excellent.” I replied, and I went back to bed.
It’s been 6 months and I’m still not sure what my job is. Most of the time I just get blood signed paperwork that appears on my desk so I sort that by alphabetical order and color and it disappears overnight. Once I got seven jars of these pink slugs with sharp teeth. I ... | It had been a long day... No, a long *week.*
Not only had it been a long work week in general, but those guys in the office... it was enough to turn anyone off men. I sighed, sitting down on the edge of the bed, pressing both of my palms into my eye sockets and reveling in the white flashes of light that appeared from... | 2019-08-30T08:41:18 | 2019-08-30T07:46:18 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The main character is perfect in every way. He's the most handsome, kind, gentle, generous man you could ever imagine. He donates to charities and volunteers at shelters. If it's amazing, he does it. The narrator hates him with a burning passion. | Imagine being a boring, perfect turd of a man that never had to do any hard labour in your life. So perfect that your mum thought the sun shined out of your little brown button. So perfect that the whole TOWN thought the sun shined out of... you get the picture.
Meet Jaxson. Spelled as obnoxiously as his personality. ... | Why are you still here? Still reading this? I've got news for you. Toilet drawn comic books are more engaging. Still here? Let me catch you up. Our wonderful protagonist --whose name I refuse to say, sure hope you remember-- pulled a one armed orphan out of a sewer. That's not even the whole story. Get a load of this, ... | 2020-01-10T05:39:57 | 2020-01-10T05:38:32 | 107 | 11 |
[WP]You wake up from a coma. A nurse stands at the end of your bed. Spiders rush hastily all over her; out of her ears and nostrils, up and down her scrubs. To your left stands a doctor.Behind him stands a tall, angry looking man with a belt. You can now see people's fear. Don't look in the mirror. | "You gave us quite a scare, Mr. Murphy," a soft, kind voice said. This voice is different, it feels solid. It feels close. Finally, I know this is real.
I don't know how long I was in a coma, caught in a daze between awake and asleep. My mind would grab onto small pieces of the real world, the sound of footsteps, the ... | The sound of the heart monitor fills my ears. I only realize that I’m gasping for air when my lungs feel like they are about the burst. The nurse places her hand on my arm as dozens of spiders crawl onto the bed. I shriek, crawling back towards my pillow. When I look up at her, the spiders are gone.
“Miss? Are you alr... | 2020-07-04T09:39:40 | 2020-07-04T09:23:33 | 186 | 51 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | I sighed at the Examinatrix as she squinted at me, "I said, *child*, what can you do?"
I stood up to my full height, meeting her gaze even as my back was giving me gyp, "I am no child, I am a grown man of over 40, and as for what I can do, well... I have my little tricks."
I pulled out a cigar from the little case in... | [P1]
It’s been a rough day. Once again, I was not heard when I spoke up months ago. Just as it always goes. I try my best to tell people what I see. But they never listen to me. Now I am packing up my desk because of layoffs. Layoffs that would have been prevented if people had more faith in what I predicted. I should... | 2022-04-26T13:34:54 | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]"Genie, there is no such thing as magic. Time will remain frozen until you find a way to make your master's wish come true," a heavenly voice boomed as a newly recruited genie tried to grant his first wish. | "What..?"
"You heard me," the voice boomed impatiently, "genies don't have any magic and no magic even exists. Time is merely stopped whilst you resolve matters using mundane means to answer the wishes you are tasked with."
My heart sank. I'd been looking forward to the day when I'd be a proper, employed genie all o... | #A Powerful Wish
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A thousand voices echoed from a question yet unasked, "Are you sure?"
My servants delicately placed the chest at the center of the dirt floor covered by my canvas tent, apparently deaf to the apparitions. Silver edges outlined the iron box. While at its center joining, a golde... | 2022-04-28T11:14:28 | 2022-04-28T09:02:03 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You are secretly the strongest supervillain in the world. Because you are stronger than all of the strongest heroes combines your life is consumed by an overwhelming apathy, to the point where you stop fighting at 1/4 your power and give up. Today, someone finaly pissed you off… | I’m not sure what exactly made me do it, but after an especially dull barrage of insults and attacks from the Justice Team, I simply... sat down, mid-battle, right there in the ruins of the downtown square.
Their attacks kept hammering me, but for the first time, I wasn’t blocking, weaving or dodging. I wasn’t acting... | This was supposed to an easy job. Get in, threathen the bank teller, maybe fire a couple of rounds into the ceiling, grab the money and get out. A two-minite deal.
We didn't expect a young superhero to live next door. He was nothing special, he only had enough toughness to block small arms fire, could run as fast as ca... | 2022-07-09T03:51:07 | 2022-07-09T01:43:40 | 96 | 26 |
[WP] You're 5 years old, when you discovered that your brain can automatically learn "everything" about anything or anyone you touch. So you keep it a secret. | I was five years old when I had learned my mother killed a man in the 80s. At least, that's the age I remember intaking that information. She had grabbed my hand to cross the street one autumn morning and I was given flashes of her Toyota MR2 stained with blood across the windshield. I didn't understand what I was seei... | #Chapter One: The Lord of Iron
*"My liege, if I may dare as-"* Began Hektor, my steward, but I cut him off with a raise of my large armored hand. I was glad his innocent pure eyes could not see through the radiating crimson lenses of my power suit's death mask, as it took me many moments to moisten my cracked throat. ... | 2022-10-21T10:18:06 | 2022-10-21T09:06:19 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] A wife kills her husband. Make me sympathize with both characters. | "TWENTY!"
"NINETEEN!"
"EIGHTEEN!"
Jack is counting. Shouting at me rather.
Outside world has gone to hell, infection they say, a viral vaccine gone bad.
People ripping each other apart.
I can see the neighborhood gas station go up in flames.
"FIFTEEN"
"FOURTEEN" "Jane. DO IT NOW. DO IT for maria" ... | She felt the soft autumn warmth on her skin like it had been that day, so long ago. She could feel the heat spreading over her face, but it did little to soothe the constant chill that had settled in her fingers and toes. Her skin was now delicate and softly speckled like crumpled tissue paper, criss-crossed and lattic... | 2013-10-08T20:44:45 | 2013-10-08T15:18:46 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] A secretly immortal man is given a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit and now fears the discovery of his true nature is only a matter of time. | They said it was the second coming.
After the first botched execution they thought it was a one in a million fluke, after the second, the media jumped on the story. As the media frenzy grew, the details of my arrest and imprisonment leaked and public pressure mounted, pushing for my release.
Guantanamo isn't the pla... | I stand before the judge, a truly ancient crone, as she drops the gavel.
I turn to look at my attorney, and he is flabbergasted. He looks back worriedly, then drops his eyes like they all have for the last 500 years.
The bailiff approaches to remand me. I raise my wrists and he shackles them in some flimsy stee... | 2014-08-18T08:23:42 | 2014-08-18T05:29:29 | 136 | 60 |
[WP] A secretly immortal man is given a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit and now fears the discovery of his true nature is only a matter of time. | They said it was the second coming.
After the first botched execution they thought it was a one in a million fluke, after the second, the media jumped on the story. As the media frenzy grew, the details of my arrest and imprisonment leaked and public pressure mounted, pushing for my release.
Guantanamo isn't the pla... | They didn't know about it when they first locked her up, about her secret. She thought they knew, she thought they were in on it, but they hadn't done a thing.
It had been about a long time since they first brought her into the prison. It was a maximum security prison, set out in space, the pinnacle of human technolog... | 2014-08-18T08:23:42 | 2014-08-18T07:40:38 | 136 | 23 |
[WP] You are beginning to suspect that you don't really love your spouse -- that they are dosing you with a love potion you are building immunity to. | "You don't want to kiss me as much as you used to"
Leslie said, the twinge of anxiety in her voice betraying her grounded demeanor.
"Is there something we need to talk about?"
Omar stared at the surface of the wine in his glass, absently studying the thin layer of irridescent grease formed by contact with his lip... | I excused myself from the party to go take my meds. Humming to myself on the way back, I paused to hear what they'd say behind my back. "It's just like I told you dear," that was the voice of my wife's best friend, Jenny, she was always causing trouble. "The way to his heart is through his stomach!" Then a not enti... | 2015-06-20T09:32:21 | 2015-06-20T09:09:57 | 147 | 53 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | "Don't shoot, I'm Shia not Sunni! How come you westerners can never understand the difference?!"
"Oh. I understand the difference, more than you'll never know..." *blaat* (cut to thug life vine)
Alternative: dearest laquisha,
The days are hot and the nights are cold in this barren desert of Syria. I opine for these ... | ...PENTAGON 0600 HOURS
"Sir, we're getting reports that the domestic assets are closing in on their designated LZ." The Petty Officer squirmed with nervousness; a bead of sweat dripping down his forehead.
The General muttered something under his breath before addressing the man. "That's what we are calling them now, e... | 2015-12-07T10:09:17 | 2015-12-07T09:29:24 | 146 | 29 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | "So, uh, I have to ask...why are you out here? Why this?"
"Just tryin'a be the realest, you know? See, we a brotherhood. But we also a business. We tryin'a incorporate. What's that phrase? Divide and conquer? Well, we gonna do the opposite - we gonna have a merger. Bloods and Crips, cats and rats, comin' together for ... | ...PENTAGON 0600 HOURS
"Sir, we're getting reports that the domestic assets are closing in on their designated LZ." The Petty Officer squirmed with nervousness; a bead of sweat dripping down his forehead.
The General muttered something under his breath before addressing the man. "That's what we are calling them now, e... | 2015-12-07T10:16:15 | 2015-12-07T09:29:24 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] A group of adventurers has booked a month in your inn, and now asks for leads and gossip. You're a compulsive liar. | "We can't ride eagles into Mordor?"
"That's right. Too much --- evil."
"Oh really?"
I nodded. "Yep. *Corruption* and all that, you know how nature things can be."
Gandalf sat back in his chair, the Prancing Pony bustling about behind his tall frame. "No, I suppose not. That's another wizard's expertise."
... | A cleric, a warrior, and an archer walk into a bar. No this isn't the setup for some dumb joke. And the bar isn't really a bar it's my inn. What I'm saying is that this party of those adventurer looking types entered my establishment the other day. I don't really get their kind around these parts anymore, with the war ... | 2016-03-12T07:31:08 | 2016-03-12T06:45:32 | 205 | 96 |
[WP] You're one of those dads that went to the gas station for a pack of cigarettes and never came back, but you had a damn good reason. | My hands shake as I grip the steering wheel so hard I might break it. I turn a hard right and slam the breaks right in front of the 7-11. Then, I rest my head on the wheel and cry quietly.
*I can't forget the way she looked at me. The helplessness. The fear.*
I exit the car and drag myself into the 7-11. I grab a pac... | He slid into the booth seat across the seat from me and knit his hands together. It's been 16 years since we saw each other last, but there was no doubt that he was my son even without the Power Rangers t-shirt and that horrible bowl cut. He was a man now, wearing an expensive-looking suit and round glasses. He looked ... | 2016-09-29T08:48:42 | 2016-09-29T08:42:55 | 261 | 176 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | **EDIT: BEFORE YOU READ THIS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE BEST FRIEND.** I was writing whilst preparing my kids dinner. I'm sorry to the OP. I will still submit this and allow the downvotes to be a reminder that I need to pay attention at all times.
So naturally, I obliged.
'Where shall we do this, should... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T10:02:08 | 249 | 16 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | To the Justice Unit, he was a mere has been. To us, however, he was a milestone in all of our lives. My father, Mega-Kill Sr., was his arch nemesis for decades. I remember when I was 17 or 16, my pops gave me his suit. He said to me; "Georgie, if you want to be a real villain, you gotta know how to fight a super." S... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T06:12:53 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "So you're telling me that you summoned me..." You said, as the apprentice nodded at you.
"Yup..."
"In my bathtub..." You say, a sheet wrapped around your waist.
"Sorry about that..."
"As I was cuddling with the love of my life..."
"Again, sorry..."
"And you have no idea how to send me back."
"I...yes?"
"Son...... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T08:27:42 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 95 | 10 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "What on earth....?!?!?" I cried, hands trying to cover my body. All I had on were my bra and underwear, and the room I suddenly found myself in was quite chilly.
"Demon! I have summoned you to do my bidding!"
My eyes turned to a large, red, scaled creature to the left of me. He stood outside of the pentagram I was k... | It happened as Dan was sat on the old chair in the greenhouse, lazily puffing on a cigertte. He sat, neck arched down scrolling mindlessly through social media. The occassional billows of smoke slowly carried on the draft like a balloon gradually disapeering from existance as it floated away. As the rollie burnt contin... | 2017-05-12T10:46:12 | 2017-05-12T09:57:53 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] You’re a new correctional officer at a maximum security prison. You have the ability to see the criminals offenses by the color of their aura, the darker the worse their crimes. As you work intake of new prisoners an old man is wheeled in in a wheelchair; the whole room darkens. | “Fresh meat! Fresh Meat!”
The prisoners chanted in union as Benjamin Tiller made his first round as a correctional officer at Longdale Penitentiary, a maximum security prison which housed some of the state's worst offenders.
As Ben strode down the sterile corridors and peered into each cell in block 'D', he had the ... | I never really put two and two together. I'd always seen the stereotyped schmucks on television talking about seeing the rings of color around the outside of their marks, looking to make a few quick bucks on the back of their "special abilities", and laughed it off as one of those things that only those with very littl... | 2017-12-10T23:16:55 | 2017-12-10T22:44:09 | 65 | 24 |
[WP] Once upon a time, aliens sent a virulent poison to Earth in hopes of clearing the planet for their own habitation. Hundreds of years later, they're back, and shocked that we're not only alive, but actually are eating/drinking their poison en masse. | (With all the serious posts, i think i'll *spice* it up abit with humour)
Rajesh was eating in his dorm when it happened. Giant insect like creatures materialised in front of him, knocking over the table. Now, Rajesh was have a very bad day. First, he got his computer science test back and failed. Then, he was made fu... | The station had three bars, but only one that didn't have a depressive Hyperklaxonian smothering a grand piano and gurgling bad Billy Joel covers through the fluted valves at the top of its head. Avalon Karl had just bellied up to the darkest end of the brushed titanium bar and begun considering the rows of liquors (al... | 2018-05-17T02:51:16 | 2018-05-16T20:26:23 | 56 | 35 |
[WP] Turns out Humans are tiny compared to any other species of aliens, allowing them to live off in the nooks and crannies of alien spaceships. Colonies can live on ships for generations unseen and unknown, or have a mutually beneficial relationship with a crew. | The humans arrived aboard the alien ship entirely by accident. A critical hyperdrive failure caused them to drop out of warp between stars, on their way to a new world. The colonists and crew tried to fix their ship, The Columbus, to no avail. Without a hyperdrive and with massive damage to the rest of the ship, she d... | James couldn't help but keep noticing Esmeralda's flowing black, silken hair. It most definitely was not all he noticed about her. Hardly. To James, she was nearly perfect. Her body. Her mind. Everything about her. He'd had feelings for her for a long time, but was never able to verbalise them to her. So, he watched he... | 2018-05-30T14:01:30 | 2018-05-30T13:53:33 | 106 | 28 |
[WP] When you kill someone, you get their best trait. Except it's what *they* think is their best trait. | You know, my power is one that sounds like it's directly out of some kind of story about morality.
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"You can steal someone's favorite thing about themself when you kill them? Doesn't that sound like something you'd read in some kind of story where you learn some big lesson?"
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I pull the knif... | Jim walked down Market street. There were businessmen walking around, surrounded by armed guards, as was normal these days. Murders had become more prevalent than ever, the top of the food chain terrified of the ritualistic sacrifices, men killing and drinking the blood of their rich and powerful victims. They called t... | 2018-09-15T13:48:46 | 2018-09-15T12:17:03 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] The last wish of your sister was to cremate her and scatter the ashes in a dormant volcano. After scattering them, the ashes burst into flame! Your sister emerges from them and says, "Alright bro. This is where it gets complicated." | I could’ve sworn she winked at me.
The actual name of the volcano was Kawletlat'la, an ancient stratovolcano whose last major eruption was hundreds of years ago. The scraping of tectonic plates had created what I was now standing on. It wasn't mystical, it was how the world worked.
Every time I felt a swelling emotion... | I sighed. I was standing at the edge of the crater of Mauna Kea staring at the urn in my hand. I had brown shorts and a white T-shirt on, with a backpack on and a green hoodie tied around my waist. The urn itself was beautiful, gold with a red dragon snaking around it. If you turned it around in the light, you could se... | 2018-11-04T00:21:25 | 2018-11-03T22:57:03 | 155 | 28 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Frontiersman Lucian Xan's blood flowed freely down his brow until it met his jawline. It pooled on the tip of his chin and then dripped downward, unnoticed and unimportant. "How many are we looking at? I'm getting nothing but squid on the local."
Jack Studde snorted, "More than it's worth countin'." He gave a hapless ... | When Gaia had arrived on Earth billions of years ago, she brought with her life. Life had started simply, just the beginnings of what would come to be. Over the ages she had watched, as her home had flourished into creations she couldn't help but marvel at. Her pride and joy were the humans. Although they had started v... | 2022-03-30T20:52:43 | 2019-01-31T21:22:14 | 2,124 | 75 |
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