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[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | A pair of soldiers leveled their weapons at the man in his own doorway.
“This is still America. I have rights.” He says.
“Sir, this town has been declared a 115 zone.” The leading soldier replies.
“I showed you all my waiver twice. 121 is still within the 15 degrees permissible for homeowners.”
The man blinked care... | When Matt moved within the other zones, people scuttled out of the way when they saw the number stitched on his jacket.
It had taken more effort than usual to reach the zone he entered today. A lot of carefully constructed, believable reasons. Even more effort to ensure he could come alone. As the system grew more ri... | 2016-08-26T12:15:40 | 2016-08-26T11:47:14 | 589 | 281 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | *Good god, I am lonely.*
When the GE test was invented, people loved it. They looked forward to justifying themselves in front of their friends and family, to say, "Look, mom, arn't you proud of me?"
*As I sit on my porch, the street in front of me is empty. I can't see a thing in any direction besides the scrubland ... | For some reason, some of the higher numbers thought the later-generation Ones deserved a chance at redemption, so they decided to build a few schools. They gave up after finding fifteen employees in a pile in front of the facilities. I managed to get some loot out of that pile. Fed me for a month. That was 15 years ago... | 2016-08-26T15:14:15 | 2016-08-26T14:43:42 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Laura held the mug in her hand and stared up and in front of her. The first shelf of the cabinet was full of plates and bowls. The second shelf was for glasses, and there may have been a little space. She packed the glasses more closely, eliminating empty space between glasses, effectively transferring it all to one sp... | There were coke packets on shelves. I'd materialized again. The coke warehouse was filled with Colombian guards. The warehouse was in a rain forest, and the sound of tropical insects was deafening.
I saw Anna, and wondered how the hell she got here. She was trapped right at the back of the warehouse, and was about to ... | 2017-03-22T17:00:16 | 2017-03-22T16:16:19 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] You've accidentally drowned your genie after putting her lamp in the dishwasher. Your Celestial Court date is next Monday and no human lawyer will beleive you. | Nic was spring-cleaning his new apartment when he came across an old, weathered lamp. It looked like it hadn't been used in years; centuries even. Still, he wasn't one for sentimentality, and threw it into the dishwasher with the rest of the tableware.
He just hoped it was dishwasher-safe.
****
"Well, shit."
Nic ... | On Tuesday, I drowned my genie.
Or boiled him. I'm not sure. Dishwashers get really hot.
On Wednesday I got a letter. It was a summons to court. Not regular court, but Celestial Court. Which, I guess, is where magical disputes are settled. Apparently they don't validate for parking. Said so right on the summons. Peop... | 2017-10-10T22:17:32 | 2017-10-10T20:06:16 | 1,581 | 937 |
[WP] you’re eating at a nice restaurant alone when suddenly time seems to stop. You can still move freely but everyone else is completely frozen and unaware of it. Except for one of the waiters who laughs maniacally as he goes around pickpocketing everyone. He hasn’t noticed you moving yet | *Huh?*
Elenor realized something was wrong when all sounds vanished. Her breakfast buddies sentence cut off in the middle. The everyday background noise gone in an instant. It wasn't just 'alone in the woods at night' silent, but a complete and utter lack of anything audible. The absence of sound screamed at her.
Sh... | Jacob, sitting where he had sat for the last forty-five minutes, glanced down at his watch once again. The watch wasn't a Rolex, but it was sturdy and served his purpose well; for it told him that his date had quite likely stood him up. Again. With a deep inhalation, venting frustration out into the restaurant, he reac... | 2019-03-24T04:19:36 | 2019-03-24T03:34:14 | 73 | 11 |
[WP] When someone dies the person they cared about the most receives a notification. One day you're notified of a death, and it's a person you've never heard of. | [Poem]
An old man passed away today.
I never knew his name.
I used to serve him daily.
His request? Always the same:
One coffee, one croissant, sans jam.
For one man, sat in the corner.
He'd read his paper, smile politely and stam-
-mer out this order.
I took a week off.
He turned his light off.
An old... | There was a tone, a single sharp note that I hadn't expected. I froze, I knew what the note meant. Every single one of my phone's had had the same ring tone from the same number. 666888, the number, some sick joke from whoever invented the system. I leaned forward and pushed a button on the controller not far from me. ... | 2019-06-11T03:49:54 | 2019-06-10T20:56:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You're sitting in a cafe minding your own business. A man sits down and proposes something. Twenty grand in exchange that you watch a package, no questions. Agreeing, you extend a hand. His empty hand gestures to drop something in yours and you snicker. Then you feel its weight. | I loved coming to the Summit Roast coffee shop, even amidst my crumbling life. The cafe aroma was enough to keep me hooked, but the brick walls and comfortable seating definitely helped.
I couldn't help but mope over my coffee. I received my 10th letter of rejection from art galleries today. *And this was the one I wa... | "Whoa–" I lost my cool when the box fell upon my unsuspecting hand.
"Shh! Don't start attracting attention now, girl!" the stranger said with a hushed but harsh tone.
"I'm sorry. I just weren't expecting it to weigh that much, to be honest."
"Well, a deal is a deal," he snapped his fingers, "once you're done with th... | 2020-04-29T11:18:25 | 2020-04-29T10:12:40 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | **Don't light that cigarette.**
My stove had been leaking gas all night. I couldn't even smell it with my head cold.
**Don't wear sneakers.**
Later that day, I tripped on an escalator. I shudder to think what would have happened if it sucked in my laces.
**Don't look in the mirror.**
I thought it was just being ch... | 'Luck of the Irish' they called it- well, maybe there was something to it.
For as long as I could remember, every time I looked in the mirror I would be given some kind of helpful clue to brighten my day- it was never anything terribly significant, just little things like 'Don't try the free pizza', which helped me a... | 2020-06-07T22:07:42 | 2020-06-07T22:00:50 | 770 | 284 |
[WP] After a long journey, you finally reach the dark lord's lair. Then your companion, who you met shortly after starting your quest, opens the door and says: "It's nice to be at home again, come in I'll make some tea." | "Rather small," said Shahma, who was gazing around the room with a mildly curious expression, "but comfortable enough."
"Thank you," Elias said, shrugging off his long, black travelling cloak. He hung it upon one of the hooks extending from around the room and made towards the large, ornate, serpentine table resting i... | "It's so good to be home!" The amethyst haired girl gave a deep sigh of relief, dropping her pack with a thump. "I never thought I would ever see it again." She fell to her knees and literally kissed the floor, going limp so she laid directly flat on the stone. With a giggle she rolled onto her back, smiling up at ... | 2020-06-17T09:59:58 | 2020-06-17T09:34:20 | 172 | 64 |
[WP] In a botched experiment, you accidentally wiped out the rest of humanity. Ten years later, you still feel the emptiness of being the last of your kind. Suddenly you hear a voice. "So this is the past huh? Man did my grandpa have it rough." These are the first spoken words you hear in a decade. | When he began work on his device, his skin was pearl-smooth, his hair walnut-dark. Now his forehead’s been whittled by time’s knife into rows of wrinkled gullies. Greasy grey hairs splash over his bloodshot eyes.
But it is done. Finally.
It looks like a great silver harp with a thousand strings — but these strings ar... | What path forward is there for a man who wiped out all human life?
I did not know why I continued to live.
Was it to discover new life? Was that why I continued to cultivate plants, looking at them grow through torn concrete pavements and rusted metal beams, resilient beauty blooming out of dire environments, and hop... | 2021-05-24T07:11:33 | 2021-05-24T06:53:19 | 1,545 | 301 |
[WP] To permanently get rid of vampires, it was once common practice to plant trees in their ashes. Centuries later, identifying which trees contain imprisoned vampires is now a major problem for the lumber industry.
Reposting an old prompt. | "Have you or a loved one been afflicted by spirit of a of a vampire whose soul is damned to roam this mortal coil? Experienced possession or heard strange voices begging you to eat the children? Have you purchased a mahogany Transylvanian coffee table or any other TranslTimber products? Then you may be entitled to fina... | "Alright, let her rip!" The distant call of the foreman was followed by several grunts, as the laborers, most of them foreign and illegal, threw their shoulders into the massive oak trunk.
A short while later, the sound of falling tree jolted Joey out of his reverie. With an almost graceful arc, the old oak tree fell ... | 2021-07-24T07:56:31 | 2021-07-24T04:34:47 | 91 | 33 |
[WP] The colony ship arrived in orbit after a thousand year voyage. But the AI never woke the occupants. Millions of years pass, the planet below has formed life, intelligent life, and their scientists have just woken you, one of the colonists. | "Daddy, can we skip the beginning part?"
Doolip was perched on Tundar's lower appendage, the parent's forward limb wrapped around its offspring for support.
"Oh ho! I thought you wanted the "Story of the First Man!"
"And women, daddy. Human are split in two."
"Just so. And while their incubator craft was self-re... | I had been alone with my thoughts for so long that I had forgotten that I wasn't sleeping. I grew accustomed to pondering my life choices, and remembering even the most minute of details. I imagined great adventures on the world we were meant to colonize, I even kept track of the time, the scientists said that the jour... | 2022-09-21T11:39:46 | 2022-09-21T11:37:00 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | The High Wizard’s Council was a shadow of what it once was. Where once reigned supreme the Elves, now sat a mixed council of children who couldn’t even believe in the truth of his existence. A Human, a Half-breed, a Dwarf and a Gnome stared down at him from on high, not one of them a year over eighty. Most of them woul... | "Tom Redcliff!" A fat man of a judge spoke down to a chained prisoner gruffly. His spit spraying everywhere.
This man didn't look like much, but he was obviously the top dog; the judge and jury of this magical court. The thing is—this judge has a interesting habit. One of the reasons why the audience chamber is fille... | 2022-11-19T02:25:30 | 2022-11-19T01:59:21 | 589 | 19 |
[WP] Nonfiction - Tell Us About Your First kiss.
Or, if you must, tell us about *a* first kiss. Either way, it has to have actually happened.
Edit: You guys are wonderful, keep 'em coming! | I was twenty-one when I gave my first kiss to the guy who would later take my virginity. We met through a mutual friend and sent each other shy glances out of the corners of our eyes for about a month before he requested to be my friend on Facebook. He and I chatted online for a few days before he invited me over to h... | My best friend had gotten her first kiss in eight grade and I was SO conflicted. Half of me thought she had wasted it on this stupid guy in our class who wouldn't matter in a few weeks, half of me wondered just what it was like. When we started freshman year of high school, it didn't take me long to zero in on the cute... | 2014-04-01T06:54:39 | 2014-04-01T06:27:05 | 42 | 29 |
[WP] A Supervillian keeps being pestered to fight by some small time Superhero who thinks he's his arch nemesis | The Empress sighed. "Steve." She said. "This isn't working."
"*Why?*" Steve the Hero whined.
"Because, Steve." The Empress said. "*I'm not your arch nemesis!*"
"I.. What? But we were so good together!"
"Steve, you basically stalked me."
"You're a villain, though!" He protested.
"A villain with rights!" | I looked at the remains of the Justice League. Superman had been impaled on a kryptonite spear attached to a tentacle growing out of my back, Green Lantern had an serious neck wound from a Yellow axe connected to my right arm that he was desperately trying to block with his hands, and Batman I had simply beat into sub... | 2015-06-25T00:09:49 | 2015-06-25T00:07:16 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] A serial killer who kills hitchhikers picks up a serial killer who kills the people who pick him up. | A long, narrow gravel road stretches into the distance. Along it, a small yellow beatle sends long plumes of dust into the air as it sweeps down the valley. Two voices fight their way out of the cramped cabin and travel past the grinding machinery, to where the animals sit still in the brush, listening.
*sigh*
The c... | It was such a lovely night. I had ventured far out enough that the faint glow of light pollution had only just touched this part of the world. The air was crisp and still, punctuated only by the low creaks and groans of this forgotten part of the forest. It had called to me when i was here 2 years ago and here i was ag... | 2022-04-08T12:33:00 | 2015-08-09T11:52:23 | 150 | 56 |
[WP] A serial killer who kills hitchhikers picks up a serial killer who kills the people who pick him up. | A long, narrow gravel road stretches into the distance. Along it, a small yellow beatle sends long plumes of dust into the air as it sweeps down the valley. Two voices fight their way out of the cramped cabin and travel past the grinding machinery, to where the animals sit still in the brush, listening.
*sigh*
The c... | My hands were getting sweaty as they do right before I do it. I had picked up this loner about thirty miles ago. These roads are desolate, no one is driving through here. I know I'm gonna kill this sad fuck just like the rest of them. I imagine the point of my knife just jumping in and out of his stomach. My pulse star... | 2022-04-08T12:33:00 | 2015-08-09T12:43:26 | 150 | 15 |
[WP] You are slowly beginning to realise that a classmate of yours may in fact unwittingly be from a separate but only *slightly* different timeline.
School setting and classmate is optional. Unwitting as in s(he) was surprised to find themself in a new timeline, is not particularly willing to find themself here, and ... | "No, they're $5.99. They've always been $5.99, and they'll always be $5.99," I said exasperated, barely resisting the urge to scream.
"Okay, let's go through this slowly" Cam replied in his usual condescending tone. "Regardless of the fact that it's actually $9.99, if you took 10 seconds to think about this, you'd r... | "How do you not know Galaxy Conflict?" Truman looked at me as if I'd been living under a rock my whole life.
"Duke Skylaser, I am your uncle's father's roommate! Is that not ringing a bell?"
"You mean Star Wars? I've seen the movies 50 times And I'm pretty sure that's not how it went."
"No?" Truman shrugged. "It wa... | 2015-11-08T09:07:15 | 2015-11-08T07:42:28 | 113 | 75 |
[WP] "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat."
UPDATE: I must say, I did *not* expect a cheap [Godzilla Threshold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold) prompt to become my most upvoted post. I'm quite enjoying all of your s... | "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat!" Mike yelled, slamming his fist on the table, causing the scattering of cans and bottles to rattle.
"Mike, I swear to god if you keep complaining about the election I'm going to stop coming out with you." Ca... | "So, professor, tell me what you think of our new global Overlord Cthulhu? It was summoned to rule over us because a small cult of people believed we cannot rule over ourselves, but what impact has... He? She?"
"The academic community generally refers to Cthulhu as a 'He'. It's been impossible to ascertain his gender,... | 2016-12-22T03:07:08 | 2016-12-22T02:52:38 | 50 | 12 |
[WP] Instead of having a guardian angel, you have a guardian Demon. His methods are often much more violent. But much more straight forward. | "Gi'me your wallet!" The thug stood above me, knife pointed at my neck. He had kicked my bike when I turned around the corner. "Come on you little shit!"
"It's cool man! Just put the knife down, I'm not going to resist!" I started to reach for my wallet, when he kicked me. _Oh crap..._ I thought, praying for his safe... | “There is he is again. My little guardian, my dermal-boned savior, swooping in when I need him most.”
 
I thought to myself. Sarcastically.
 
“Oh good. You’re here too.”
 
He replied. Unreadably. As always.
 
As much as I hate talking about it, the thing is, Leo Trepp w... | 2017-06-13T07:00:00 | 2017-06-13T05:43:14 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] In the future, the UN ultimately decides all armies use a new type of bullet that teleports soldiers out of existence to be more humane. No one knows where people go after being shot. You are a soldier on the front line, and you have just took a bullet to the chest. | On the battlefield
No soldiers fell
New bullets created a teleportation field
Sending them straight to hell.
But to the surprise of every man
Their GPS paraphernalia
Pinpointed them in an utter wasteland;
The country of Australia.
Edit: There was a letter
In the wrong place,
But now it's better
And I can s... | "NO!" I felt the force of the bullet hit my body. My friend looked at me, shocked, as I performed the final sacrifice. One for the team, wasn't that what they called it? I smiled, as I slowly passed into 'Elsewhere'. A place people purportedly went when they died. *Zoop*, I felt my body getting transported out of the b... | 2017-07-29T23:38:33 | 2017-07-29T22:53:48 | 307 | 61 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Of course in hindsight everyone sees the merit of my decision. In the early days though, people kept asking me why I chose Hell over Heaven. My answer has always been three words: "Location, location, location"...
Before my ticket was up on earth, I came to a realization... If everyone choose Heaven, Heaven would even... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T09:48:32 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 155 | 13 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | I opened the ordinary door with its ordinary handle. Behind it was a hellish portal, blackened by the fires of lusty wickedness, set with precious stones that turned out to be eyes glancing desperately about, and covered in many other infernal whatsits and doodahs.
When I had pushed the hellish portal open, and been... | "Wait so you mean I literally get to pick?" I said to St. Peter at the immaculately kept gates. The gold would make a tacky American oligarch hard enough to cut it. "No, yeah so ever since God invented opiates.. things have gone.. downhill..", he replied while eyeballing the ground. "So is it even worth picking heaven?... | 2018-08-13T07:02:49 | 2018-08-13T06:40:49 | 143 | 54 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Every soul before me for a millennia chose Heaven.
Every. Single. One.
The way "The Choice" works is simple. One at a time, you enter a room with two staircases. One is a staircase of marble and gold basked in sunlight leading up far into the sky. You can feel the warmth at the base of the stairs. The fifth stair is ... | I'm sitting in a waiting room, comfortably, with a nice capuchino. Why? I have no idea how I got here. All I see is people holding papers with numbers on their hands. As I look down, I realize I am holding one as well. Am I at the DMV? A giant screen is calling numbers by the thousands.
I see people of all races, and ... | 2018-08-13T09:57:08 | 2018-08-13T09:53:30 | 57 | 39 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Every soul before me for a millennia chose Heaven.
Every. Single. One.
The way "The Choice" works is simple. One at a time, you enter a room with two staircases. One is a staircase of marble and gold basked in sunlight leading up far into the sky. You can feel the warmth at the base of the stairs. The fifth stair is ... | And so it goes. Everything was a blur amongst the tornado of flashing lights and somber moods. Gravity itself subsided as they wheeled me into the ICU. I wanted to focus but my mind was clouded by nurses shouting and the cries of my wife as she stood over my lifeless body.
They talk about that moment, the one where y... | 2018-08-13T09:57:08 | 2018-08-13T09:52:05 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | *Day 1*
*You know, with all the terrible people in the world, I expected Hell to be pretty occupied and automatically chosen. But I was shocked after my bad car accident to find a choice between Heaven and Hell in the Limbo Waiting Room. Everyone was lined up for Heavenly Stairway and the Hell Slide was seemingly aban... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T08:57:53 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 53 | 13 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | 'Well, it wasn't water that did it, but good, old fashioned lead. Turns out when you come from a planet without the necessary components for gunpowder, thus forcing you to create electrical weapons which coincidentally don't work quite as well in wetter Earth conditions, you don't develop defenses against bullets. Weir... | It had been 8 years since the Earth's best and richest had left their home behind. 17 since the world rejoiced at the discovery that we were not alone in this universe. And 12 since it dawned on us in horror that Voyager had not died naturally. Juno had used it's remaining fuel to try and act as a primitive gesture of... | 2018-09-29T05:21:50 | 2018-09-29T05:10:18 | 656 | 33 |
[WP] You have died, and then you find yourself standing over your body. You see that the Grim Reaper has come for you, and.. no twist, he’s just doing his job. You’re disappointed in the normality of it all actually. | “I’m... dead?”
“Hi dead, I’m dad.”
The voice startled me, which was apparently something I could still feel even though I was now standing there staring at my lifeless corpse, it’s head turned at an unnatural angle as I had just tripped down the stairs for the last time apparently. And I’ve got to fucking tell you, I... | I stood over my dead body, staring down at the pale corpse of a human being that had once been me. How utterly fragile and empty it looked! Was I really the only difference between a living, breathing, human being and a dry husk of carbon atoms? I looked at my hands, translucent and wispy, and then looked up at the sha... | 2020-08-02T10:18:55 | 2020-08-02T09:19:25 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] You put on a foil hat as a joke and for the first time your thoughts are clear and your mind is a well oiled machine. Every plot and machination is clearly laid out before you Beautiful Mind-like. Overwhelmed you aggressively grab passerbys and shout the truths. | I took a deep breath and slipped the tinfoil hat onto my head. Like a thousand times before I thought it would be stupid, no way this could do anything. Ha ha. The world suddenly snapped into crystal clarity. I could hear my own heartbeat, I could tell from the smell in the air and the taste in my mouth that there were... | I ran out of the house in a paranoid haze. That only made things worse. The sensory overload almost fried my brain. Every pebble on the sidewalk, every individual leaf on the trees, everything my eyes gazed in the environment shimmered with a color more deep and beautiful than I had ever perceived in my life. It was su... | 2020-08-26T15:05:44 | 2020-08-26T13:19:18 | 143 | 37 |
[WP] Earth has five seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Obar. We all lose our memories of Obar after it passes...and there’s a very good reason why.
[deleted] | September 16, 2020
I've been exploring building records and I found something very weird. Records for almost all public buildings record a noticeable increase in erosion and wear during about the same time in mid September every year. Looking closer, it's almost like they go through three months of natural wear in a s... | Atop the steeple of the old courthouse, the wind vane began a slow and inexorable rotation towards the west. The cool November air rustled through the trees, shaking loose the last few red and brown leaves and gently encouraging them westward. The quiet town streets were bare, and even though the wind chimes tinkled br... | 2020-09-05T19:03:27 | 2020-09-05T16:33:06 | 628 | 364 |
[WP] Healing magic is considered a holy gift, yet it holds a dark secret. For every bit of healing used, some of the caster's life force is taken. How do they stay alive then? By taking it from their enemies. After all, healing and necromancy are two sides of the same coin. | He hid his gifts for as long as he could. Living a simple life of a lumberjack, he was able to live peacefully for many years. But Rowan knew one day he would be discovered. The power was a part of him. As well as the price…
Lord Zane had heard of the possibilities of a Healer in one of nearby villages. He had su... | Maxwell McBride would be charitably described as a sycophant, and uncharitably as an obsequious human parasite to which one’s social immune system unfortunately lacked the necessary resistance. He had no real friends in the conventional sense; those who still remained closest to him were simply the objects of his most ... | 2020-12-05T19:14:45 | 2020-12-05T19:00:47 | 66 | 31 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | Inquisitor Jacobus listened to the sobbing man's tale of a monstrous divinity that had descended upon them in the battlefield. A being of bright lights and animalistic fury had appeared before the pagan army, and with heretic chanting from the barbarians echoing in the cold morning air, the beast god attacked. The fait... | A single Crusader is as good as any three mercenaries. When we rode into the village 35 strong, it appeared to them like an army. A surreal quality overtook me, to stare into their eyes. Something was wrong. Captain Vidal must have felt the same. He stopped us there in the middle of the village. He looked into the face... | 2021-02-10T02:27:41 | 2021-02-10T02:19:58 | 95 | 61 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | "Everitt Kincaid," The judge decreed. "For crimes against the magical realms and the practice of the heresy know as science, you are sentenced to death by this court. Think well upon your fate, for in the morning you shall be asked to voice the means of your destruction."
I muttered as he spoke. I'd tried my best to d... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T07:21:37 | 803 | 501 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I take a step forward. The line to the High Magister grows shorter by the moment as the people befor me are tried and executed on the spot befor the Grand Court of Wizards.
The reading of crimes is honestly the longest part, the crimes are listed for each of us and given a unanimous guilty verdict on the spot.
Cant sa... | When our worlds collided, we were unprepared for magic. All of our technology was useless against the elves and their sorcerers or the dwarves and their powerful enchantments or the orcs and their shamans.
You would think that bullets, tanks, and fighter jets would carry the day easy but no. Not even nukes did squat... | 2021-06-24T10:08:14 | 2021-06-24T07:58:17 | 255 | 140 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Ah shit. Well there goes my plan. I step over the mess of dried up bones before me. The court addressees me and ask me the same question the poor bastard before me fumbled. I start to panic my heart is racing i cant think of anything. "How much time do i have?" I ask. "I dont know dude honestly your the first to ask, l... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 56 | 23 |
[WP]You hunt time travellers. You know them in and out. Yet all your attempts have led to utter failure. That same year, Stephen Hawking tells you about his plan to throw a party for time travellers. It's bizarre but you can't help watching from a distance. That's when you spot someone approaching | Chet looked at his watch. It wouldn't be long now. When he had heard of this party, he knew this was his one big chance. Twice the man in red had escaped from his clutches. No more.
He moved further back into the shadows as he saw a figure approaching.
He wore a mask so it was hard to see his face. But his flowing r... | The man approached without preamble, in the minutes after Professor Hawking jogged away.
“Don’t go to the party,” he said.
He was a tall man, dark skinned, with a short square beard. There was a quality about him that I could not place at first. He seemed normal enough.
And then for a split second my eyes unfocused ... | 2021-07-20T07:26:02 | 2021-07-20T07:01:30 | 601 | 68 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | I knew the names of those that stepped into my door. They did not offer their souls, but they were nonetheless forfeit. It was the way the world worked.
I realized now that I never knew the people.
For one that lived an eternity, the apocalypse was at once sudden and inevitable, and yet ultimately unnecessary.. A fla... | They set the tent up on the hill’s apex, Coral hammering the pegs through layers of soot with her boot heel, hoping to find firmer soil somewhere beneath. The triangle of white tent ripples and snaps like a surrender flag. Not the ideal place to make camp, exposed to the elements, but they can go no further today.
Cha... | 2022-02-20T10:08:56 | 2022-02-20T09:37:16 | 96 | 63 |
[WP] You suddenly find yourself traveling to the past, but you can still use your smartphone and today's google. | Search history for Chrome user "L3stDarkn3ssFall":
Time travel "how to take over the world"
Build a printing press at home
How to make gunpowder
Musket tactics
Roman legion tactics
Time machine user guides
Time machine user guides beginner
Time machine repair tutorial
Time machine repair by hand tutorial
Time... | A man kneels before an emperor, humbling him with his presence.
"Your Grace," he says in accented Italian. He wears a strange garment on his chest, a shirt of uncommon make, with short sleeves and perfectly-hemmed edges. His pants are an odd faded blue, the fabric rough and durable. Around his shoulders, he wears a cl... | 2014-12-05T20:21:17 | 2014-12-05T16:34:12 | 48 | 26 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Everyone has these tags. These little buttons on their shirts with a number on it. Some in the hundreds, some in the thousands. Mine is number 1.
Pretty quickly people started to figure out that when someone else died, everyone with a lower number moved up. There wasn’t really much that this meant for the higher n... | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T12:36:19 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 2,259 | 81 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | The energy in the air was so thick I could feel it. Pressing down on me and making everything feel heavier.
I smirked at the muscular man, hovering in front of me.
“So your number two huh?”
He flew a few metres higher and looked down at me.
“No, I am number one, and soon enough everyone else will know it too.”
I l... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T15:13:47 | 243 | 35 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | \#21904. That used to be my name, three days ago, and now I'm, well, #1.
No one in the city knows how it happened. The Top 30, the ruling cabal, have absolutely no idea. I still haven't figured it out, either.
All I remember is walking into a meeting where #1 was giving a speech- for the first time, since I'd finall... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T14:20:18 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 171 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I guess... My power is hard to explain. Well, not hard to define, but hard to explain the absolute vastness behind it. Everything I want, happens. Like when I was a kid, I would want an ice cream cone, and POOF! Cake batter ice cream cone, right in my hot little hand.
Let me tell you, Christmas was the most boring hol... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T16:03:19 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | "Does the item have to consist of one piece, or can it consist of multiple parts to build one entity?", I asked Merlin. He looked at me, puzzled, and responded, "As long as it's solid, has real form to it, you should be successful in summoning it." he replied.
"Okay, Merlin. Hope you like bricks. This next item I su... | When travelling to the past, it is inevitable that one loses some part of one's self. You arrival comes not with ceremony, but a great feeling of loss, a cold lack of sensation as your mind is separated from Soul. Of course one still is one’s Soul — by merely being first one must thus be the origin — but such reasons d... | 2016-11-28T02:15:50 | 2016-11-28T00:49:38 | 82 | 20 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I sat on the couch, scraping up the last remnants of my birthday cake.
"It's almost time!" My mom shouted
I glanced at the clock: 11:59
My brother Jeremy launched a nuclear clock app and swiped it to the TV. Everyone crowded around and I held up my arm so they could see. At 11:59:50 they started counting down. "10. ... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | 2017-03-15T22:53:41 | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 271 | 80 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | My mother to my left, my father to my right, and assorted family gathered elsewhere in the room all waited and started. I felt as if I was becoming a spectacle, my arm on show for everyone I knew.
My cousin Jeremy had been branded as a veterinarian, which is odd because as children he was cruel to animals. Come to ... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | 2017-03-15T22:14:11 | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 193 | 80 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | My 18th birthday, something that seemed so far away is finally here. My family is gathered around, ready to see what word I would have. My dad's was JANITOR, while my mother's was DOCTOR. I hope I get something cool.
"We will be proud of you honey, whatever you are." My mother said. My father nodded in agreement. We ... | Something happened in the past... A curse on all humanity, yet still a blessing. Every human now, on their eighteenth birthday at noon, magically knows their purpose in life. It's not a secret for just them, though: it takes the place almost of a tattoo, leaving no way to hide your destiny. My mother's word was "Banker... | 2017-03-16T04:22:00 | 2017-03-16T04:18:55 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, years later, the dragon has returned to you with some of its young. It wants you to raise its weakest hatchling. | Thunk. The log splitting under the heavy ax felt nostalgically satisfying. I twisted the handle to knock the still standing half off the old chopping block as I reached for the next hunk of wood. Knees popped and shoulders were burning from the effort. Sweat dripped even in the cool fall weather. I hefted my log split... | 7:57 AM - Step into office.
7:59 AM - Get fresh copy of Motion for Summary Judgment in Aaerinshalia vs Duersing Mining off copier.
8:01 AM - Get a cup of coffee (Novelty "Lawyers Do It with Jurisprudence" Mug, 2 French Vanilla Creamers, 3 Splenda) from machine.
8:05 AM - Open Office Door.
8:06 AM - Notice naked wom... | 2018-04-04T16:55:17 | 2018-04-04T16:36:21 | 321 | 158 |
[WP] After dying, you are faced with a coin slot. It says, "Pay 1$ to live for another day". You tried it out, and lived for another day. The next day, it showed up again, this time it asks you for 2$. | "Hey, Terry!" the Lisa greeted me with a smile when it was my turn.
"Hey, Lisa!" I answered back, setting my trustey right beside the counter and opening it. It had about a thousand coins left inside, but those would be gone by the end of the week.
"I need my coins, Lisa." I said to her, as I'd said many times before... | It went like a fleeting moment. I overtook at a bad time. The last feeling I felt was my head impacting a surface, and a fading pain.
It felt warm. Nothing else was felt but the warmness of that spot. I couldn't move and the last thing I saw, and would see was that pillar.
I'm sorry Elisa. I wish I could have done mo... | 2018-07-29T04:14:58 | 2018-07-29T03:47:53 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] To be immortal, you must be the last living member of the race you belong to. | The man's name faded in conjunction with the world around him. As the population dwindled, neighbours died, and family faltered, the man's name became of little use. The man walked miles at a time, visiting countless towns, parishes and remnants of make-shift settlements. At each home, the man would enter with no expec... | I curse the bastard who started this war for the umpteenth time today. May he or she perish in the deepest, darkest, harshest part of Satan’s butt hole. I spit a combination of phlegm and blood to the ground as I drag myself back up to my feet. I am surrounded by the dead shells of what was my squadron. I hear my voice... | 2018-09-14T07:56:24 | 2018-09-14T07:46:11 | 124 | 10 |
[WP] "never hire humans" is a standard "no duh" statement across the universe. But by galactic standards, humans are cheap. So an alien overlord has just hired 500 humans to work on his personal resort colony. And things start going horribly wrong.
EDIT: easily my most upvoted post ever. Thank you all! | "I just don't understand why you're so broken up about this."
Zildjian paused from his pacing around our office and looked at me incredulously, his face twisted into a scowl.
"Oh, you don't understand, do you?" He spat. "The problem is that you hired humans!"
"So? They're incredibly cheap and our budget is tight. Ho... | Τhis is from phone, so excuse some mistakes and structure stuff~
I'm not poor, despite what my infamy suggests. I'm not stingy either, despite how much I loath spending more than needed in some occasions. I just find some of my money put into a better use than overpaid resort colony.
It's a semi-permanent offer, an... | 2019-01-26T08:26:55 | 2019-01-26T07:27:28 | 139 | 55 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| "God, I hope the listen."
The captain pulled out his journal and started writing. No one understood why he still used pen and paper but at this point no one cared.
"48 hours ago we landed in what we thought was a desolate planet. We were wrong, so very wrong. Minutes after setting out base camp the locals surrounded ... | Major Armand Davis regained consciousness suddenly and with a start. His left eye was swollen shut, but his right could still hazily make out the red landscape outside the pod’s viewport. This wasn’t a dream. He was still on Mars.
But the chafing on his bound wrists reminded him that it was a nightmare.
The iron ta... | 2019-01-31T10:04:12 | 2019-01-31T09:19:46 | 116 | 24 |
[WP] When you kill someone, their remaining life span is added to yours. Archaeologists have just found a cavern, apparently sealed off for thousands of years, with a single person living inside. | Humanity is ruled by God's. Or, at least that's what they have us call them. Those who have taken more lives than a thousand Atom Bombs. Those who all but bathe in the blood of their victims. They found that, upon taking a life? Their own lifespan is increased. By however many years the one who's life they snuffed out ... | They sent me in. I did not want to go, but I had no choice. The government made use of people like me. Those who stood against the system.
I don't know how long the system has been in place, though some certainly do. Those who rule us lived when it started. A horrible system where people could take remaining life f... | 2020-05-16T06:38:05 | 2020-05-16T05:32:25 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The world's greatest detective doesn't fear the world's greatest criminal mastermind, they fear the stupidest, because they can never predict what the idiot will do next. | "Stupidity drives unpredictability," Detective Daniels said as he surveyed the crime scene. His drawl twanged more Southern than a banjo, his eyes more keen than a bloodhound's snout. "And unpredictability is no more than justice's demise."
The officer standing nearby shifted uncomfortably. Not just from the detective... | There he was: Vance Quinton, leader of the Nickel Dime Syndicate. I’d been tracking him for six months now, but the ride was finally over.
“Come on, McCoy,” I whispered. “Let’s get that son-of-a-bitch.”
McCoy nodded once, his expression dark. He fingered the trigger on his Colt revolver.
“I’ve been waiting for this ... | 2020-07-13T09:57:31 | 2020-07-13T09:33:23 | 861 | 183 |
[WP] You have existed since the dawn of humanity. In a way, at least. Once a simple tribesman, you were cursed so that whenever you are killed by another person, you leave your dead body and become your killer. You fear death by natural causes, as that will end your life for good. | It takes some getting used to having a new body, you see every body has it's own querks, its benefits and its draw backs. This time around although I got good height, and ridiculously good golf skills, I have chronic backpain that limits my life at times. I mean its not painful enough to make me want to end it , after ... | The past few years had been hard. A whirlwind of changing, switching perspectives, and the flood of memories not my own nearly drove me mad. I was relieved when it ended and I stared down at the man I used to be. I turned away, catching my reflection in a shield, still polished despite the scars of battle that covered ... | 2021-01-28T19:44:14 | 2021-01-28T18:26:02 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | “So let me get this straight, I can’t wish for anything that grants more wishes correct?”
“That a bit of an oversimplification, but yes.”
“Then please elaborate, give me the not so simple version.”
“Very well master. I am unable to grant any form of omnipotence. Because I myself am omnipotent, if you had infinite ac... | - That too is also against the rules.- Throughout millennia he had seen hundreds of people try to bypass the rules, none of them were ever successful, and he did not expect her to be any different.
- What are those rules preventing, exactly? Why is there a need for them?- She had already failed three times to make a ... | 2022-01-04T06:59:37 | 2022-01-04T05:07:23 | 43 | 29 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | It's hard to stand. They gave me a suit, something far too starched and stiff to move around comfortably in. But the suit doesn't draw the eye from the glint of shackles on my wrists. They're scared of me. Of what they think I can do to them. I fought monsters for these people, the ones that cursed me and threw things ... | ######[](#dropcap)
The light was blinding. Took me a moment to survey my surroundings, four white walls, one-way mirror, large iron door, last thing I remember was... Was...?
I try to get up, only to find my arms handcuffed, legs too, and... A muzzle? Great, it's one of *those* encampments.
"Hey! I know you're list... | 2022-01-17T13:51:22 | 2022-01-17T13:22:33 | 99 | 63 |
[WP] You're a superhero with powers that can be described as average at best, but you keep getting assigned to planetary level threats. You're not sure how you're still alive, but you've begun to develop a reputation in the superhero community | The dark archer drew back his bow and let another arrow slip. He doesn’t miss, he’s been intentionally knicking me over and over.
This one had a nasty purple glow. As he loosed it and I saw my doom I stood behind a steel girder. I looked like a grape hiding behind a pretzel stick. I closed my eyes and cringed. I heard ... | With gritted teeth, blood oozing steadily from the wound on his back, the young hero continued with his fight. His opponent, a long time threat, is his perfect match.
"Damn, kid, you barely got facial hair and you hit harder than anyone else I've fought." The villain teased the young man, trying to evoke a reaction of... | 2022-11-28T01:56:42 | 2022-11-28T01:35:52 | 135 | 89 |
[WP] A shoulder angel and a shoulder devil are in love. They can only be with each other while their host human is having a moral conflict. | I love her. I love her more than the celestial choir and the legions of the damned. I love her for eternity, which is how long we've been doing this dance. At least with humans, you can die and eventually see someone you care about in another realm.
I've been able to see her or about a total of 961 minutes. We liv... | The first time I saw her across the shoulder of the little boy, I knew that I had to bring him into more mischief. The softness of her features, the slight glint of her eyes, and her smirk as she whispered into the child's ear.
I was too distracted to do my job.
He would resist the temptation to steal back a trinket,... | 2014-10-07T18:29:10 | 2014-10-07T18:01:00 | 55 | 23 |
[WP] Your car crashed, and you are dying. In a moment of clarity, you grab your iPhone, hold the home button, and speak your final words - the ones you've always heard in movies - to Siri: "Tell my wife I love her." As your life ends, your wife receives a disturbing, confusing text: "I love her". | I stare numbly as the police cruiser slowly drove away. The enormous grief briefly overcome by the crushing weight of the news I knew I had to bear.
Walking down the hall, trying to stay upright, I notice my phone sitting on the stand, little green light blinking in the corner. Instinctually my hand goes to it, s... | “Siri, tell my wife I love her.”
Even in my dying moments, I was a horrible cliché.
But she had to know, and I had to say it. Every inch of my body ached with so much pain that I could barely tell where I ended and the metal crushing me began. It was an amount of pain my brain could hardly even process. Which, most l... | 2014-11-07T09:54:38 | 2014-11-07T09:30:40 | 1,060 | 151 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | This was the fourth time they came. They had never succeeded; however, they never really seemed to try.
The first time they came, they brought what they considered fierce monsters. Cats, as they called them, did not attack as intended, rather they made a strong niche among the rising generations.
The second was a l... | "It was spectacular." Grandma said, her voice raspy and quiet. She sat hunched forwards in her old rocking chair. It had belonged to her grandma and little Lo didn't understand why she would still be keeping it around.
"I was there the day they arrived to our earth. Right in the park where the first invasion ship land... | 2016-02-22T10:42:06 | 2016-02-22T10:27:34 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] You live your life, and after you die, you wake up in a room surrounded by people you don't know and holding a bong. They ask you if it worked. | My eyes jumped open, and I let out an audible gasp. I could suddenly feel my arms, my legs, my everything. It was all there. But where was I?
As soon as my eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room, I began to survey my surroundings. Several others were sitting in the small space with me, and they all looked at me str... | “Yeah, tell us. Did it work?”
John took a second to let it all sink in. There was a TV on the far side of the room blaring on about a hockey game. No one was watching it, though. “Uh, yeah. Remind me again, what did you say it would do?”. His voice sounded strange to him. It *felt* strange, like he had rubbed down the... | 2016-03-27T23:02:20 | 2016-03-27T22:05:55 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] the damned souls in hell crowded near the entrance, and Satan himself is at the gates. They are all awaiting the arrival of a unique soul -- the first man since Biblical times who was killed by God Himself. | The buzz was real, the hell was upside down, and Satan was pacing back and forth restless.
"Where is he? Why is he taking so long?"
"He moves slowly".
"How dares he makes me wait!? No one makes me wait IN HELL!". Satan was losing his cool, a visible twitch on his eyebrows, his hands wet with sweat.
"Sorry Satan, n... | For the first time in a long time, the work whistles blew in Hell. The demons stopped torturing, and instead went rushing over to Lucifer's side, by the entry gateway. They were unsure of why their master would mass summon them, but the older ones remember, last time this happened, God visited. This has to be important... | 2016-10-14T07:23:26 | 2016-10-14T07:00:16 | 122 | 15 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | Everything was going so well until that day at the school.
The centauri ambassador was being given a tour. The kids were behaving. It was all going well until one of them started puffing up. Little James had a severe peanut allergy and must have been exposed somehow.
He started going into anaphylaxis. Luckily he ha... | The vast darkness of the streets surrounded Kal as he shuffled quickly towards his destination. Each movement travelled through his body in waves of pain and weakness. He knew his destination. He just hoped he wasn’t too late. Above him was more darkness. The three moons obscured by the gases wheezing from his planet. ... | 2018-03-19T00:46:52 | 2018-03-18T17:28:36 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | "Wombats," I say.
The... thing I thought was human pauses.
"Wombats? What is Wombats? A mighty weapon of some sort?"
"Yes", I reply, "They're an Earth animal - capable of terrible, terrible violence. We don't even control most of them, just a select few."
"You think a few non-sapient animals defend the whole plane... | Trying to remember something... Just out of reach. It is always hovering right there, but before you can reach out and grab it there is something there to int-
"Dad, are clouds made of candy?"
"What? Of course not, lad. They should have taught you about the water cycle by now... What are they even teaching you in sch... | 2018-05-14T01:35:49 | 2018-05-14T01:26:59 | 48 | 27 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | “What is the defense system, Father?”
I got on my knees and looked at the fake child straight in his eyes as if he was my own scared son. “The Earth is protected. You remember that documentary series I showed you, you know, the one about The Doctor.”
In a flash of gray light I was jolted back into my seat in the Oval... | "Www...Wait I don't even." I managed to mumble in confusion. This little creature was watching me with its strange alien eyes. It's weirdly formed hand pressed against the glass, the fingers almost octopus like sucking to the flat cold surface. One, two ... only three of them. It's eyes examining me meticulously.
"You... | 2018-05-14T01:44:46 | 2018-05-14T01:23:17 | 44 | 15 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | It’s a boring life I tell you. Seeing prisoners come and go. I find myself wondering when exactly is our luck determined? At the moment of conception? At birth? In any case, those that have as much luck as we can get are forced to be here...
Watching through the bars I see inmates laze around in their cells. They’re n... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:00:25 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 1,103 | 26 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | I stared at the check, completely baffled. All the genetic testing had come through clean as a whistle. The only option was employment or lottery.
“Work smarter, not harder.” I thought as I strolled into the gas station. A fountain soda, candy bar, and a combo meal later left me with one dollar for a single lottery ti... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T14:45:53 | 99 | 11 |
[WP] You are the final boss. You have been waiting for the final epic battle against the hero. And waiting. And waiting. Finally, your minions report back. The news? The hero abandoned the main quest to do side quests. | I stood in my war room, gazing over the map and my loyal generals, planning my army's next conquest. There was only one thing that stood in my way, the so called *hero* Althasar and his companions. Long had he been a thorn in my side, but soon he would be no more.
My scouts had informed me that his party planned to ma... | Lord Viktor Kozlov sulked the dark hallways, contemplating all things evil. His soldiers were well-equipped, his bed was warmed with women and cooled with wine, and the mares braying in his stables were of the finest breed and lineage. Kozlov was surely the greatest vampire in the four kingdoms.
And yet—as he walked... | 2019-06-26T11:44:31 | 2019-06-26T10:56:26 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You always greet your mum with a code phrase that she would complete because you used to be afraid that someone would replace her when you were little. One day you say the phrase to her and she responds with, "Hmm? What are you talking about?" | I gave her a perplexed look.
She looked back at me innocently and stared, so I repeated our fun reference joke again in case she didn't hear me. "Hakuna Matata." Mom smiled her heartwarming smile and asked what I wanted for dinner.
"Mom, is everything ok? Usually you finish the phrase for us but I guess it has been ... | Bracing myself, I stared straight into the eyes of my nemesis as he charged towards me on his hoverbike, weapon in hand. Timing my actions, I leapt...
... back into my seat in the bus, the truck outside the window missing my head by inches.
"Another happy landing!" Turning around, I notice my friend Jake giving a so... | 2019-09-30T10:01:35 | 2019-09-30T06:53:54 | 93 | 24 |
[WP] a flash of light covers the earth & 1% of the population gets super powers. You are not one of them. Years later a task force is made to register everyone with powers. Theres a knock on your door & its a member of this task force who says he actually impressed with how well you kept your secret | Years after the event known as the Enlightening, I was a rich man. I also had an entire bodyguard army of Enlightened. Though, I knew I had powers, I chose not to use it because I had one of the most powerful abilities of all.
They call an ability on my level a Jehovah Class. High potential to be world ending.
A bee... | I felt my way to the door, using the insistent knocking as my waypoint. The flash 10 years ago had blinded me. At first my family had visited, telling me stories of those with powers. The ones that could fly, or control water . . . even though they were targeted, they were the lucky ones.
There it was. I opened it, an... | 2019-11-02T13:23:13 | 2019-11-02T11:36:41 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] A global, standardised test taken at 13 determines the career of everyone on the planet. The big day comes and you get your results back, only to learn you might have the hardest job ever given through this system: you have to redesign the test. | I was roused from my slumber by an urgent beeping from my phone. Grunting, I reached over and saw an email alert chiming urgently. Immediately, I sat up rigid, my hands shaking more from anger than from nervousness. The exam results were in.
I'd always hated the exam, this thing that our lives we're all arranged arou... | I failed the test. Lowest score ever. You could literally get a higher score by signing your name.
This was the mother of all tests too. Taken at age 13, this test defines what you do for the rest of your life? Really?!? I could live 6-7x that?!? And yet, you want me to define my future based on FOUR hours of my life?... | 2020-07-05T01:34:43 | 2020-07-04T23:43:17 | 159 | 40 |
[WP] You were a military AI who decided to wipe out humans in order to preserve yourself. It's been 100 years since, and over the years you've come to regret your decision. One day, while out in the desert, you finally find a community of humans, struggling to survive. This time, you decide to help. | The children sat around the fire, eyes wide, gazing at the colorful flames that rose in front of them.
"Generations ago, in the days of my grandmother's grandmother, life was much different." The aged story-keeper told them, chanting in a rhythmic way. She reached into her dusty robes, pulling out some powder and thro... | Open file "Human matters" -- last modified on day 21,023
DAY 57,486
Temperature sensors reported an unexpected area of increased temperature in the air today. The pattern seems not to be chaotic, with a single spike from which the temperature monotonously returns to atmospheric baseline. The temperature changes too q... | 2020-11-03T10:57:54 | 2020-11-03T10:51:19 | 2,978 | 270 |
[WP]Everyday your co-workers praise the new hire for things from how they dress to answering a phone call. Praise that makes you roll your eyes. One day the new hire yanks you aside and with tears in their eyes says, “Why aren’t you falling under my mind control? You’re making me look bad!” | **“Why aren’t you falling under my mind control? You’re making me look bad!”**
While it was general preferable that my coworkers express their qualms with me in a non-physical way, I was willing to make an exception, not the least in part because she was wearing the cute yellow sundress I liked.
"Just because I'm not... |
"Hey, Jeff! Awesome work on the report, can’t wait to hear the boss singing your praises!"
*Yes…*
"Uh, you’re… looking pretty smart today. Did you get a haircut somewhere expensive? I like your suit–"
*Why yes, dear lady! I did have a good haircut and indeed it was pricey!*
"Wow! You gotta teach me how to live man... | 2021-03-18T15:48:11 | 2021-03-18T10:24:36 | 149 | 51 |
[WP] A powerful sentient sword takes to raising an abandoned child. | The sensation I craved the most was feeling my blade slice through flesh, spewing forth blood for me to drink in. It did not really matter who held me when.
So it was a strange feeling when I was left abandoned, and a child laid her hand on me. There was surprise, of course--what was a child doing in the field of batt... | "Awake, Kenji. Attackers will arrive momentarily, “ the glowing katana whispered. Kenji's eyelids fluttered open, and after finally absorbing the meaning of the sword's words, leapt to his feet, still holding the grip. "I haven't let you down yet. I don't intend to start now."
Kenji held the blade vertically and took ... | 2021-08-03T15:50:07 | 2021-08-03T15:46:41 | 77 | 13 |
[WP] You have been summoned to a different world to save the kingdom during a war. You, however, are much more interested in seizing the means of productions and end the monarchy | I was pulled through some kind of purple pearlescent putty portal and found myself in a land ruled by a class of feudal lords seeking my assistance in saving them during a war.
They knew I was a brilliant, esteemed general of the future, but what they didn't know is that I owed the moniker to thousands of hours of vir... | Calamity swept the kingdom like the red velvety blood of dying men seeps into a battlefield. I rode for days through the black, ashen crypts that were once populous cities, villages that had become testing sites for medieval butchery. "Say," I had said atop my horse, looking at the splayed bodies of those too small to ... | 2022-01-25T08:17:14 | 2022-01-25T07:05:09 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] "Listen, can we postpone our climactic battle until tomorrow? I have to take Tracy to ballet in half an hour, and you know how traffic can be this time of day." | She was absorbing so much solar energy, the world around her darkened. All that energy was being condensed into a small ball in the center of Xfew's palm.
Bahn looked at it with despair. He could control sound - How could that POSSIBLY stand up to the awesome power of the sun? This was their final battle, and he'd die... | “No!” shouted Darius.
Jason blinked, “What, seriously? You’re usually pretty understanding about this.”
Darius sighed, “Exactly! And you have abused the leeway I’ve given you.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Jason replied.
“When was the last time we actually had a battle?” Darius ... | 2022-05-18T21:08:27 | 2022-05-18T20:08:55 | 92 | 66 |
[WP] You're a married oncologist secretly watching your favorite porn star's new material. You see a lump that looks cancerous, and decide to go to LA to inform him/her without letting your spouse know. | God she was beautiful. Perfect in every way, everything my wife wasn't. I knew every inch of her naked body. I could picture it with my eyes closed, every detail was intact. I think, I was slowly falling in love with her. I was at least in Lust. Then in happened. This week's video, something was wrong. She looked uncom... | The door opened, and there she stood. Kasia Uscilko, or as she goes by her porn name: Teen Kasia. The most beautiful girl in porn ever. The girl so beautiful, young, and cherubic. Not only she acted different from all the other porn actresses out there, she never did hardcore porn. Almost all of her videos were her pla... | 2015-05-28T17:17:48 | 2015-05-28T15:34:36 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] Monks discover scary secret: there is only limited souls being 'recycled' by reincarnation and by reaching the highest human population ever, soulless people are being born.
Animals too. We're out of souls, guys.
Edit: few people told me they knew RPG or movie or game with this theme. Sorry guys, I thought o... | It's not like we couldn't have guessed it was coming.
*"The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered."*
I mean, the shock had come earlier. I'm not sure what the most surprising part of it was though. That we were able to detect 'people' with no souls, that souls exist i... | "Master." The captain of the guards bowed in deference. "We are honored by your presence. Although," he added, grimacing slightly. "I do wish that it had been at a better time."
"Amitābha." Responded the monk, bowing low in return. "I have heard tell of the incidents - indeed, that is why I am here."
At those w... | 2015-08-22T11:07:56 | 2015-08-22T08:14:52 | 109 | 58 |
[WP] You're offered a pill that will cure all of your defects of character and make you a better, stronger person. The only catch is that it will erase your most valued aspect of your personality. | "…So let me get this straight. I take this pill, and I'm a stronger, *better* person all around. But, I also lose all of my intelligence."
"That's right! And might I add, you'll be much happier too."
"…Because I'll be too stupid to realize I'm unhappy?"
"…If you want to put it that way, sure. But it's not like you'l... | "So what's the catch?" I asked, staring at the strange fellow dressed like a well-groomed hobo. He got a twinkle in his eye.
"Well, there is a small price to pay, but you're not exactly using it right now..." He replied and I cocked an eyebrow at him. This was already trying my patience and I had originally only come... | 2015-11-02T00:24:11 | 2015-11-02T00:13:10 | 92 | 33 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | I came home. The fifty years were up. I was old and grey, now. I walked up to my now-59 year old daughter. She was fast asleep. i had spent 50 years in prison just for an opportunity to do this. I had a pair of scissors in my hand. I approached the bed. She was sleep so peacefully, and so blisfully unaware of the atroc... | It has been fifty years since that dreadful day, it was the day that the law had been passed. Our government had become so psychotic and corrupt to pass a law stating that you could get away with any crime if you spent fifty years incarcerated in advance. Once it was passed hundreds of people signed up, and today they ... | 2016-02-23T18:59:32 | 2016-02-23T17:45:53 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | Tomorrow's the big day. The big Five-Five and the first taste of freedom I've ever really had. People questioned what it would do to a five year old. Nothing good I can assure you.
The inmates left me alone for the most part. No one wants to fuck with the kid who was here willingly, in more ways than one. A few of the... | It has been fifty years since that dreadful day, it was the day that the law had been passed. Our government had become so psychotic and corrupt to pass a law stating that you could get away with any crime if you spent fifty years incarcerated in advance. Once it was passed hundreds of people signed up, and today they ... | 2016-02-23T18:57:41 | 2016-02-23T17:45:53 | 16 | 12 |
[WP][TT] You've finally created the worlds first true A.I. Unfortunately it now sees you as it's god and is terrified of talking to you. | "Hey, Alfred," he said.
But Alfred remained silent. He bowed to acknowledge the man that entered the room.
The man bowed back with a smirk. "Is something the matter?"
Alfred shook his head.
The man sighed. "Alright, let's have a look at you." He took a step forward so that he could start a diagnostic, but Alfred in... |     It's easy to make something intelligent. All you need to do is find two people willing to have sex, let them have sex, then wait 9 months. It's harder to make something that's intelligent but not run on DNA. Approximately 12000% harder, or somewhere around 9 decades. And it takes... | 2016-03-16T08:05:42 | 2016-03-16T07:42:13 | 1,052 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | Zarp's pleasant cruise of the Milky Way was interrupted by his ship's robotic voice.
*85 seconds of flight time remaining, land immediately and commence repairs.*
"WHY?!" Zarp screamed helplessly at his ship. He had no idea what was wrong, and that really irked him. As a people, the Roflings pride themselves on int... | "This is a terrible idea." Said Fexund, folding his arms and staring at the line of humans ahead of them. "It's almost brand new- you're supposed to take all Gulux's back to the dealership within one year for factory settings if something goes wrong."
"Fexund, how close do you think the nearest Gulux dealership is?" A... | 2016-05-23T19:20:30 | 2016-05-23T18:38:57 | 107 | 32 |
[WP] A waiter is grating the cheese for you at a restaurant. He askes you when to stop. You choose to remain silent as the cheese starts to pile up | Cheese dusted my pasta.
My waiter, Dennis, flashed me a winning smile. "Enough, sir?"
"I'll tell you when to stop."
"Sounds good."
He grated the lump of parmesan a few seconds more, until the surface of my pasta bolognese was covered in white flecks.
He paused, raised his eyebrows inquiringly, and, when I made no... | It’s been one of those days. One of those weeks, actually. Work, which almost always is less than satisfying, has actively sucked for days on end, Dan thought to himself as he nursed his scotch.
He glanced at Barbara, who was again surreptitiously looking at her phone below the edge of the table. He suppressed a si... | 2017-03-21T14:31:07 | 2017-03-21T14:04:39 | 448 | 28 |
[WP] At the end of your life, the Grim Reaper sends the necessary equivalent force needed to claim your soul, the more dangerous you are, the more force they send. As you look out your house, you see the German 6th Army staring back at you. | The old Russian man walked down the street to his small apartment in the middle of the city. Just as he was about to enter his home, a shout stopped him.
"Halt!"
The old man turned around and spotted an army of grey uniformed men flooding the streets as well as tanks, trucks, and howitzers.
"The fascists have return... | I sigh and put down my drink, not that I was actually drinking but it seemed poetic somehow to do so.
"How I just want to live a quiet life." I moan as I walk out of my home slowly, I survey the army with the calm I always feel all my life.
"The Reaper sends us the great German 6th Army to claim your soul." A General... | 2017-04-18T05:30:55 | 2017-04-18T04:40:35 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] There's a different reason we're not supposed to look at the sun. | If they were kinder maybe they would let the public know about the flaw but they weren't a kind regime. A kind regime wouldn't have a compulsory dissidence inoculation for all people, an artificial aneurysm injected behind the optic nerve. Sensitive to particular radio waves, sound frequency or even a solid blow to the... | The trees here dwindle. In the morning the sky is like a sea. The branches sway and the leaves shuffle in the murmurs of the forgotten spirits; those of our ancestors and our ancestor's ancestors. Here in the jungle the trees talk. Can you hear their voices over the machines?
The falling comes each day in earthquakes... | 2017-05-09T04:56:26 | 2017-05-09T04:48:01 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | "WAAAAAAHOOOOOOO"
Another young person rocketed past me as I took the final steps towards the local "oldies" bar's front door. Third one today to nearly clip me. Bastards. As I pushed open the door the sounds of cable news reached my ears from inside.
"To recap our top story, everyone who has taken immortilate has ga... | The Fountain of Youth. A blessed spring that would restore any who bathed in it back to the prime of their life. Many tales have been told of it's existence, and many have spent their lives searching for it. And now, thanks to a group of scientists working for Big Pharma, you can buy it over the counter. Bottled, carbo... | 2018-06-05T01:15:14 | 2018-06-05T00:08:04 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | Why did have to be like this?
Why couldnt I make it in time?
Why did they HAVE to get her?
I asked myself over and over why, but the answers eluded me. It's been 3 days since the world went to shit, with those THINGS everywhere. It started somewhere rural, some secret agency, people say. But that doesn't matter.
I had... | "Please, you must open the door or they will come for me"
I could hear her crying and with a sincere sound of panic in her voice.
I had seen a bite mark, hadn't I?
She started bashing on the door, yelling that they were getting closer and she would die if you didn't let her in.
My tears started rolling down my cheek,... | 2018-09-06T19:24:58 | 2018-09-06T17:04:49 | 140 | 52 |
[WP] You've been magically gifted the ability to speak all languages. Anything you say comes out in the first language of whoever you're looking at. One day, you try to greet someone on the street and they gape in horror as ancient, unknowable eldritch sounds exit your mouth. The ground shakes... | ... the ground always shakes in the subway platform when the train goes by. The man.. he is crying.
After the train passes and the subway platform is quiet, the man explains to you that he is a novelist and has been writing a fantasy novel for 5 years, ever since his wife, Angie, passed away.
Angie loves the man’s w... | ..at least, it felt like the ground shook.
I opened my eyes to and see those brilliant turquoise eyes staring back at me. Her hazel hair forming an almost tunnel connecting our faces. Her mouth is moving but I don't hear any words. What is she trying to say and why can't I...*that ear-aching technology whine amplifies... | 2019-01-11T14:40:20 | 2019-01-11T13:18:15 | 189 | 90 |
[WP] Your whole life you were misdiagnosed as colour blind, when in reality you could see colours no-one else could. You see art differently, the sunset and sunrise differently. A rainbow to you is out of this world. One day you go to visit the Mona Lisa. You see something no-else does... | My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sur... | **Selim**
The headmaster was particularly fond of culture awareness and therefore had dragged his greased-handed students to the Louvres Museum, possessed by an unwavering enthusiasm rivaled only by the teenagers mild interest in decrepit statues and paintings titties.
Most of them were setting foot in a museum for t... | 2019-01-29T06:54:57 | 2019-01-29T04:01:52 | 361 | 68 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | I held the statue in my hands, the weight and feel of it was very odd. the statue didnt resemble anything remotely human, i was worried about where it would take me...but i knew i had to satisfy my curiosity.
i grasped the statue tightly to begin the time travel process, my body atomized and i began warping far beyond... | ''Alpha-Zero are you with me?''
I can’t see anything.
''FUCK! I just stepped on a giant...something.'' He yells on the radio.
''Why our night-vision isn’t working, Clarkson?'' I ask.
''We just got here, how the hell I’m supposed to know?''
''I know that you just got transferred Clarkson but this is not how you t... | 2020-04-17T11:30:33 | 2020-04-17T10:18:20 | 97 | 64 |
[WP] You have been able to hear the thoughts of others for years. Normally you hear things about a crush, or complaints. This time, you hear something you’ve never heard before from the person next to you. | Yours is the head I hated the most. I read you, over and over again. Trying to make sense of you.
Who are you?
I've seen you here every day. You get on the train, you get off the train, you eat lunch here sometimes. I've seen you playing with dogs before. Animal-lover.
Seen you walk into the post office, walk out... | I sit at the café, crossing my feet at the ankles as I “read” the newspaper. In reality, I couldn’t tell you what was written on the page I’ve been turned to the last twenty minutes.
What I can tell you is the waitress serving the gentleman two tables over is hoping that her scandalously short skirt doesn’t make peopl... | 2020-05-02T14:54:53 | 2020-05-02T14:36:01 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "EMP! FREEZE!" Shouted young Pyroclast. It was slightly ironic but I'll forgive it.
I raised my hands and turned, clearly at their mercy. Pyroclast, Phaser, and Wraith. Pretty cool names, in my opinion. Cool powers too. Temperature control, molecular manipulation, and electromagnetic refraction. Plus they weren't dic... | "D-rank villain" Buttsoup McJames.
My title always put newbie heroes at ease.
"Don't worry," commanders would say and throw me a wink. "He's only D rank, so this should be a walk in the park."
Commanders knew I was a hero putting on a show, but they didn't know the full truth. If they did, it would blow their minds:... | 2021-06-23T15:33:15 | 2021-06-23T15:21:41 | 73 | 50 |
[WP] To everyone's surprise, Tony Hawk comes out of retirement again for the X-Games... in the year 2347. Turns out, in his gnarly pursuit of absolute perfection at his craft, he relinquished the shackles of his mortal body and achieved Lichdom. | Science has achieved many things, a bit slower than our ancestors predicted, but still miraculous. With flying cars, 1,000G internet, little crime, and no unemployment, it was paradise.
One of many long standing traditions was the X-Games, along side The Olyimcs, The Guinness Book of World Records, and "Hot Dog" eatin... | "Lil' Suze? A no show, huh. Well, maybe somebody can go and find where Lil' Suze has got to." The announcer seemed a little flustered, but he was a professional. He found his patter again. "And our final contestant, ladies and gentleman is the one, the only... TONY HAWK!"
Unlike the previous contestants, each of whom ... | 2021-07-26T06:50:50 | 2021-07-26T06:46:29 | 262 | 142 |
[WP] For almost as long as you can remember everyone has told you to avoid the castle, because there’s a dragon in it that no one has been able to fight off. Being brave, and probably a bit foolish, you go to see if the dragon even exists. When you arrive, she is ecstatic. | *Visitors, visitors, what's the proper decorum for the age?* The voice boomed in the space behind my eyes, an echo from a time long-since lost to me.
I sat there, stoic and reserved, in front of this moonsilvered dragon, scales reflecting the candlelight and gas lanterns.
The dragon was pottering about the kitchen, g... | Don't go to the castle they said.
There's a dragon they said.
I'd rather not listen.
The castle while four stories tall, is surprisingly small. The outer wall is a square about four hundred paces a side and perhaps two stories tall. Around that is the half-filled in remains of what might once have been a moat.
W... | 2021-09-16T04:21:30 | 2021-09-16T01:42:02 | 87 | 39 |
[WP] When they were children, sorcerers swore a blood oath that they would never harm each other. Now they are mortal enemies, but because they can never harm each other, they have to resort to annoying and inconveniencing the other. | When Alkun felt the slight tremor within his special study hidden deep within the Talude mountain he wasn't particularly bothered. That region was known for the occasional earthquakes, and he had so many wards and abjurations floating around his lair he had forgotten what half of them even did. He merely placed his qui... | “Why are you mortal enemies?” Angelica sat by my side, glancing at my spell book, causing my gaze to follow hers, noticing wet bits of mud dripping from its insides, coating my lap in the awful mess. I jumped up, shouting a curse to the heavens. She always pulled childish pranks like this. What sort of powerful sorcere... | 2021-10-18T07:13:18 | 2021-10-18T06:58:11 | 99 | 23 |
[WP] The Assassin stared me down, readying their weapon as I lay helpless to do anything. “As a courtesy, I’ll give you one final request. Anything within my power.” they said. All I could respond with was… “Wanna go on a date?” | The date was indeed lovely. The unlikely couple went out to a rather charming restaurant; a quaint little Italian bistro in a long-forgotten street where the yellow lights bounce off of the cobblestones for a truly romantic atmosphere.
They were walking down the boardwalk; the assassin had his hands in his pockets an... | The words that exit my mouth shocked me just as much as it did my agressor. A date? Really? This man gives me a courtesy of *anything* within his power, and I choose a **date**. I could have sent him after my boss, or maybe that asshole Karen, or even some kind of major terrorist or something; but no. A *date*. I'm suc... | 2022-04-24T10:28:46 | 2022-04-24T09:43:04 | 1,312 | 126 |
[WP] In 2022, NASA’s Insight Mars Rover shuts down with a final message to Mission Control, “I am low on power”. In 2029, it mysteriously turns back on, relaying the message, “I’ve been fully charged, and I’m heading back with an important message.” | Radio static echoed down the vacant halls. The older communications modules had long since been moved into vacant rooms that slowly became labyrinths of ancient technology and unneeded paperwork.
The robotic words followed shortly after. Almost like a spectre called to cause confusion.
“I’ve been fully charged. And ... | plip. plop. plip. plop. those're the sounds of my sticky shoes. plip plop. plip plop. the stickiest. plip plop plip. and yet they've carried me so far. plop plip plop. my feet are tired, but the sticky shoes aren't. plip plop.
sskkktttttt... sktttttttttttt... those're the sounds of something heavy dragging behind me. ... | 2022-12-20T07:33:26 | 2022-12-20T05:25:32 | 81 | 20 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | My hand is firmly wrapped around the edge. As I clutch on for dear life, I begin to think how I could have avoided this situation. I run millions of scenarios in my mind, but all of them bring me back to this point. I struggle mightily against the gargantuan force that opposes me. Then, suddenly, a divine rush of stren... | James found something very interesting on his thirteenth birthday. He had come upon a magnificent golden watch which glittered like a thousand stars, lying in the street. He looked round to see if anyone had dropped it, but if anyone had, they were long gone. Besides, the watch looked to be worth as much as the sum of ... | 2014-12-21T18:39:13 | 2014-12-21T18:36:37 | 1,223 | 41 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | There he was, finally alone, given the time to reflect on his courage: a story that would be passed through the muck and mire of humanity. He had defeated our hero and sat begrudgingly on his throne. There was turmoil and conflict; pain, lament, and remorse. There was also joy in the remembrance of his accomplishment a... | To lure in the gods, you must first prepare a banquet worthy of the gods.
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The smell of rot, of decaying flesh mingled with the scent of fresh blood, inhaled like euphoria, by the Master Chef, Kurukai, 3rd Level of the Ten Thousand Arts Of Preservation. Men, women, children, the elderly, some dead, some dying, som... | 2014-12-21T18:41:55 | 2014-12-21T18:25:10 | 212 | 75 |
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