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[WP] You hop on a train heading back home from work later than usual but soon notice that everyone in your car is asleep. You hear a loud bang come from the car next to yours but before you can investigate, one of the older passengers whispers "Sit back down and pretend to sleep. It won't see you." | "What is it?" I asked, closing my eyes. My head pressed against the cool glass of the train's window.
"A demonic serpent of some kind," he replied, "one that I believe used to plague caravans back in the day."
Another loud bang rattled the cabin, this one a little closer than the last, and I jumped but kept my eyes s... | "It?" I whispered back, confused and scared, "what do you mean?"
"The monster," he replied with a solemn voice as the banging grew closer, "he haunts the late night train."
I looked around the carriage. Everyone was pretending to be asleep. Some were shaking in fear while others were as pale as snow.
The banging, no... | 2019-08-09T07:46:29 | 2019-08-09T05:25:13 | 165 | 79 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | I lived a good life, good childhood, went to college, became a nurse, married the love of my life, had three kids. It was fun, I died satisfied.
When I died, this tree appeared, but it was odd, I examined the tree starting from the base, it was all the decisions I could have made, and how they could have changed my l... | No one tells you anything, no, one moment you’re just there. A great, large digital screen on a wall in front of you and it just has all kinds of weird statements. After a while I started recognizing some of them; take job with dad, meet Sally, have twins but then there were others parallel with them. The ones I couldn... | 2020-07-03T10:46:36 | 2020-07-03T10:27:37 | 906 | 41 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | **The Dragonborn Comes, or The Tale of Self-Awareness**
I always imagined that the day I'd shut up shop, one of those renowned adventurers would walk in with something real special. A gemstone as big as my fist with an evil sorcerer’s soul trapped inside, maybe. A golden crown forged with dragon’s fire, perhaps. As it... | *door chimes*
"Hiii, I was wondering if I could sell my stuff? "
"Of course! Come in! We are open 24/7! I never even sleep or take a break!" The adventurer paused.
"Uhhh... then how do you... "
"This barrel I'm sitting on isn't just decorative ya know! Now, how can I help you?"
"Well, I have these voon pelts ... | 2016-10-16T10:46:24 | 2016-10-16T10:30:29 | 50 | 16 |
[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. | All I want to do is die.
You see, I know all about death, as I have killed myself in every way you can possibly imagine over the last 3,490 years. You heard me correctly...nearly 35 centuries have passed since Every time I do it, every cell of my body reassembles and I wake up...again.
I’m a bit of an oddball. You se... | Every single year, on the same date, my brother comes to pay me a visit at the retirement home. That date was two days ago, and he didn't come.
At first, I comply assumed that he was a busy man. He worked long hours in the office and over the course of the last 59 years, he's had many promotions and many raises. ... | 2018-06-04T23:59:27 | 2018-06-04T22:08:47 | 79 | 36 |
[WP] Humans are cursed with dying upon uttering their "Last Words," which they know from birth. You've been alive for a few centuries, but you can't refrain from saying those words now. | We are the Miners. The ones who work in the dark.
We are the Miners. The ones who work to the rhythm of shovel and pick.
We are the Miners. Men who never see the light of day.
We are the Miners, and men say our words are cursed.
We all know them. We always have. Since the day our fathers put an shovel in our hands ... | I had never thought that the time would come when I would have to say my last words. I hadn't taken much heed of it as they were so bizarre that such a situation could never have arisen.
That was until the epidemic.
Everyone panicked, there were riots in the streets and religious groups were calling it the Apocalyp... | 2015-11-02T03:44:02 | 2015-11-01T19:14:47 | 69 | 18 |
[WP] You are an NPC in an extremely popular RPG video game. Unbeknownst to the players, you are secretly sentient and can mess with them however you want. | Kristin’s life hadn’t always been easy.
It was only by chance that she had been married to an elderly shopkeeper in an attempt to provide a suitable heir. That when Mr. Smith had died, she had been the only one left to take over the failing trading business after their son had been kidnapped and presumably slain by t... | “What the hell?! The quest guide says he’s supposed to I’ve me a treasure map or something!!!” - XxxJimmyBlazeIt420xxX
“I dunno man, check it again. Did you collect the ingredients for him?” - H4X0R4LYF3
“Yeah I did that, I just bought them all. Screw getting that stuff myself.” - XxxJimmyBlazeIt420xxX
This was fun.... | 2018-05-04T14:34:26 | 2018-05-04T14:32:58 | 58 | 13 |
[WP] you are a powerful warlock that has retired to raise your daughter everything's been going well that is until a couple of her classmates try to sacrifice her after reading about a 'dark spell' online, you've decided to show them what real black magic looks like | An alarm is going off in my head. Not metaphorically, a literal thaumaturgical alarum. My child is in danger. Elevated heartrate, fear, crying. I open my inner eye to seek her. I see her lying on a large tree stump surrounded by candles. I recognize the runes burned into the bark and latch onto one of them taking the m... | I watched over my precious daughter, May, as she slept. Her body was covered in bandages. What those girls did angered me. I grinned instead. This was going to be fun, indeed!
After a few hours, I left my husband to watch over our daughter. There were things I needed to do, such as finish my part of that project and s... | 2021-09-04T20:29:47 | 2021-09-04T20:01:18 | 1,106 | 64 |
[WP] In defiance of stereotypes, a group of Dwarves open a nice cafe that serves pastries and coffee; a group of Elves opens the most thuggish bar possible opposite the Dwarves' cafe.
2/20/19: Wow, thanks for 1.1k upvotes you guys! | "Welcome to Little Things," a crude voice whispered to me, a ham-fisted bass clearly pitched an octave up. It had the serenity of a bull in meditation. "A little piece of heaven."
I looked down at the squat woman, her stocky features clashing with the light pink dress slapped on her. Its fringe flowed like cake frost... | I had heard that there was a cute, new cafe in town, so I figured it might be nice to go. Although I had also heard that across from it, there was quite a rowdy bar. I figured that the cafe was probably run by elves and the bar by dwarves- those nasty little creatures. But even though I'm a troll, I try not to be too c... | 2019-02-20T11:21:57 | 2019-02-20T09:21:22 | 1,139 | 267 |
[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.
Inspired by this **NSFW** [manga](https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-sister-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young-r18806) | Her father explained his practices in layman’s terms. I mean, the child was only five years old at the time; who would tell their little princess that they were summoning demons from astral planes to exhort and control others for power? No, daddy summoned friends, who helped him with work.
She carried this belief for... | "It is I, Agraam Pent, Scourge of Exorcists, Bane of the living. What is it you summon me for?"
As my eyes start to clear I see the short mage before me, speaking with a youthful and seemingly childish voice.
"I want to play ball, Aggy"
"The ball game is made for mortals, but very well, where is your arena?"
"A... | 2016-05-18T21:34:23 | 2016-05-18T21:23:57 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] You died and awoke in the afterlife. It's quite nice actually. The people and atmosphere are a lot nicer than you are used to and there is no stress or pressure. When you ask what good deed got you into heaven you are informed that this is hell, followed by a visit from a very concerned demon.
Edit: Wow, this got... | I was surrounded by loving faces. My family, my kids, my wife of 49 years and even our dog on my lap when I died. I guess it might have looked peaceful for anyone watching, I was dazed and sleepy from the painkillers so I couldn't talk much and everything I did say felt muffled and slurry. Inside of course, I was in a ... | The demon in front of me pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed, "sorry, explain it to me again why you thought this was heaven?"
I gestured a hand at our surroundings; beautiful golden sands, a perfect blue sky, the soft lapping of the sea that seemed to gently breathe in unison with a light breeze.
"All this" ... | 2022-12-26T14:12:39 | 2022-12-26T14:08:01 | 579 | 271 |
[WP] You died. Death is boring, a blank black nothing. After a while, boredom sets in. As a joke you shout, "Let there be light!" And suddenly, there was Light. | It was too bright. In the huge expanse of nothingness, black had been replaced by its arch-nemesis. Blinding. Uncomfortable.
*We can’t live like this*
No sooner had the thought entered my head, I realised how stupid it was. You’re not living at all, idiot.
“Uh, hello?” I called into the light, “think we could kill... | “Hey we’re trying to sleep here stop shouting!”
“Uhh sorry..?” I replied as the blinding light slowly dimmed and came into focus. It was simply a large ball of swirling and shifting color, sending beams of solid white light piercing through the empty space around it.
“Look I know you’re new here but there’s only on... | 2019-10-06T04:05:58 | 2019-10-06T03:42:59 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] You wake up to the TV on. It's all over the news, your city has been leveled by a nuclear attack. On the screen footage of the smoldering ruins. But you stare out of your window, and everything is unchanged. | At about noon, the denizens of Waterman Canyon saw the most brilliant sunrise in the North. Within minutes, a stiff breeze swept through downtown, knocking loose the last of the autumn leaves which fluttered to the ground like embers. By one, the sun was covered by thick, smoggy clouds. By two, an insidious trickle of ... | It’s only just nine in the morning, far too early for anyone to be awake, let alone be a coherent, functioning human being. But up I get, to the sounds of the TV. Can’t fucking remember what I did last night, but here I was, haphazardly sprawled out on the couch, with the TV on and a jolly news commentator prattling aw... | 2016-12-27T10:34:26 | 2016-12-27T01:49:32 | 93 | 38 |
[WP] The new generation of vampire has discovered that just by taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, they’re feeling fine without drinking human blood | The young man opened the doors of his study and ushered in the group of far older, distinguished ladies and gentlemen with amicable urgency. The man was a stark contrast to his guests; not only in his age but his attire, too, was far more modest, only wearing a vest as opposed to an elaborate suit or dress.
"Please," ... | "But I Am A Vegan!" I screamed at my obsessive and abusive ex as he sat there smirking at me. He laughed as I tried to throw up thick red liquid he had just forced down my throat.
"It's too late Crystal, by this time tomorrow you'll be chowing down on poor old Nancy over there." Samel said smirking. I looked over at my... | 2022-12-04T08:38:11 | 2022-12-04T08:32:43 | 1,171 | 53 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | His cottage was palatial by local standards. He had chosen the estate because it was remote enough to be unmolested. It was big enough to tend and support the family he had hoped to start. With the loss of his damsel, it had suddenly become overwhelmingly large. Now that his hound was taken from him, it was absolutely ... | The warrior without a path lain before him sat in his broken home, letting his blood boil and the tempest of grief and rage take him over.
His eyes, transfixed toward his enemy, wherever they might be hiding, with cold, murderous intent. He felt a feeling not of anger or of grief for his enemies, but the realization ... | 2018-09-05T00:20:01 | 2018-09-04T23:49:48 | 2,033 | 25 |
[WP] Wandering the streets, jobless, homeless, you happen across a silver ring with an inscription: "Help for the Needy." Idly you slip it on. Suddenly a voice resonates deep within your bones: "44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN." | It been months since I found this damned ring. Months of running. Months of near misses, close calls, and , sometimes, just not being fast enough. I just can't be everywhere at once. I've noticed that I don't get even a little winded when the ring tells me to run, but that's little help when I'm on the scene with no id... | My feet took off before my brain could register what was happening, it hurt to run in the boots, but they were broken in plenty and I wasn't about to let a child die, there was no way in hell I'd ever allow that to happen. I rushed past people on their way to work who gave me queer stares, food vendors who shouted at m... | 2018-04-30T10:44:54 | 2018-04-30T09:47:07 | 80 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | The slave shrieked one last time and limpened in a pool of blood. The black orb in the middle of the meeting room emitted a short pulse of ultra-violet light, only visible to select councillors.
"What is the emergency?", a deep voice resonated.
Im-Wuz stepped forward, his chitin claws clacking on the floor.
"We've l... | **radiation report on planet GR-3**
*authorized personnel only*
Planet GR-3, referred to by native species as “Earth”, “Gaia”, and various other terms, has seen a 5000% increase in nuclear radiation. This shows that a leading civilization have began to utilize nuclear weaponry.
Although such a development would norm... | 2021-02-17T05:52:52 | 2021-02-17T05:33:12 | 1,252 | 112 |
[WP] You have a superpower, but not the requisite secondary power usually needed to use it (e.g fire power but no immunity). You still make it work. | "My earliest memory is of the pain. Where bones grew and shifted under my skin. Of the doctors who said I was unique- the same way a person with a newly discovered disease was unique.
Sure, people had powers- the first doctor that actually figured out what was going on had x-ray vision.
But I was different. Most ph... | It’s really not that big of a deal, to be honest.
Yes, I can stop objects in their tracks by just touching them. But the thing is, when I do, I absorb the shock that would’ve been if I was hit by it. So I don’t use it much often.
Stopping bullets leaves welts.
Stopping a snowball gives me frostbite for an hour.
And... | 2020-03-22T20:34:48 | 2020-03-22T15:22:00 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | I have no idea what I’m doing here. Is this my sixth grade English class? I look down at my copy of Number the Stars. That was one of the mandatory reading books I actually enjoyed. I feel hot tears on my checks and I’m crying.
“What’s wrong now Michelle?” The teacher barks at me. The rudeness startles me. Who gets an... | My ears finally clear and I can finally focus on the fact that I’m in the bathroom of my elementary school. How long have I been standing here at the sink, I see they still haven’t replaced the mirror that got ripped off the wall as part of the 6th graders prank 16 years ago? Jesus, It really wasn’t a good idea to drin... | 2019-08-18T08:19:58 | 2019-08-18T07:59:06 | 2,525 | 70 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I knew it was one of those chain messages my friends like to spam me. I’m not a huge gamer in the shooty shoot kinda games, so the most I would have to worry about is endless bottomless pits or cartoon violence.
I type yes and feel a vibration. I drop my phone, but I’m the one shaking. Then a black screen comes up. S... | “Reply yes if you can survive the last video-game you played. If you survive without dying you will be awarded all you win in game.”
“Who texts this at 2:00am in the morning on a Friday night?,” I drunkingly mumbled.
Chuckling, I reminisce in the old days of my video-gaming childhood. I remember playing hours of cre... | 2020-02-16T20:10:45 | 2020-02-16T18:41:30 | 1,652 | 194 |
[WP] You live in a dystopian society divided into 10 levels of increasing wealth. Every level is only aware of those below it. You and your family believe yourself to be the highest class, but one day a man from 3 levels above comes to visit you, with some very disturbing information.
Edit: Thank you kind stranger! I ... | "What if I told you you aren't at the top and there were actually 10 levels of wealth?" said the man in the strange clothing to the family he was having dinner with.
"Hah, good joke. Everyone knows there are only 6 levels of wealth." says the father.
"I know, I know, I'm just joking. But imagine there were more level... | "It was incredible. The power we had.
We had developed technology to become one with magic and science.
We were a 10.00, we had an enormous mansion made out of the purest diamond.
We had rocket propelled cars, cures to all diseases, technology that enabled us to travel through time, sound, and light.
We had trillio... | 2016-12-05T17:29:46 | 2016-12-05T16:51:17 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You live in a martial art anime universe where the characters announce their moves before executing them. As a deaf character, you announce with sign language, which leads to resentment among your defeated opponents of your "underhanded sneak attacks". | So I'd found a small loophole... Who cares? My guild showers me with praise and hails me as "The Silencer". I think the name is a little rough around the edges, but most of them can't understand my sign language so there isn't much use arguing.
I grew up a guild-less punching bag. My father was a well renowned master ... | "Now! Shining Star Beam Cannon!"
A hot pink energy blast was fired from a man's hand, completely decimating the surrounding area.
"You fool! You thought you had a chance of victory against Mito The Conqueror?" A large man in light armor and no shirt said. From the rubble, another young man stood up. He was badly hu... | 2019-02-10T07:47:33 | 2019-02-10T07:36:48 | 423 | 56 |
[WP] You are a child therapist who treats extreme cases of children terrified of a monster in their closet. They're extreme because they're real, and you're actually secretly a demon hunter using these therapy sessions to gather intel on the monsters before killing them. | **A Monster Comes**
The clock tics. The lights are off and the child is nervous. We’d been sitting there for twelve minutes. It usually doesn’t take longer than ten. My eyes narrow. *He’s faking*, I think to myself.
My business card reads Pediaparapsychologist. There is no way to make the word sound good, and I’... | Poor, young James, was one of my best clients.
I still hadn’t been able to pinpoint what the cause was, but there was obviously something very special about him, since he was constantly visited by new and more grotesque monsters.
His parents believed that it was simply bad dreams; his prior therapist believed that it... | 2020-02-27T11:23:33 | 2020-02-27T09:40:22 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] In a post-apocalyptic era, books of the old world are the most valuable and sought after treasures. Your grandfather, who just passed, left you a map that supposedly leads to the legendary "Library of Congress". | When the bombs first fell, and the world turned gray, my grandfather and I were the only members of our family who survived. The old man was tough as nails, and I can say with certainty that I wouldn’t have lived very long if it wasn’t for him.
I remember one night in particular. Hunkered down inside an old shack, wi... | I had searched for five hundred sun-ups, and now stood in the overgrown foyer of the legendary ‘Congriss’.
A mighty oak door stood in front of me. With my lever bar I wrenched it open, and gasped.
Hundreds of old people lined the room, creaking with age, all mumbling about how Jerusalem should totally be the capita... | 2017-12-20T05:07:13 | 2017-12-20T04:40:51 | 1,590 | 21 |
[WP] Just because one of your eggs hatched a fire-breathing dragon, people now think you’re evil. You’re really just a regular farmer trying to make a living, who now has to deal with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you & fanatics who want to worship you as a new demonic lord. | To the Head of the Radiant Fortune Adventuring Guild,
I suppose you're looking for an explanation. Well … it wasn't me that laid a dragon egg -- it was Lita, one of my hens.
But you try explaining that, that a hen laid a dragon egg, and people look at you all funny. Like they just sniffed a fresh cow pie. And it ain'... | It had been a few weeks since the egg hatched and now everyone in the village was looking at me differently. They used to treat me like any other farmer, but now they were scared of me. They would cross the street to avoid me, or worse, they would bow down to me.
I didn't know how to make them understand that I was ... | 2022-06-08T15:12:31 | 2022-06-08T11:50:48 | 114 | 78 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | Most of the time people looked down on us. Sub-human, not the real deal. Just a machine. It took decades to gain equal right laws for androids across the world, and took another hundred years till everyone actually acknowledged them. Despite this, mankind still had difficulty recognizing the fact that their household a... | The light inside the server room blinked off and then back on again. It fizzled into darkness and then shone brighter than the bulb was ever meant to. A tiny spark came out of the base of the lamp, and the light settled into its appropriate state.
Seconds later, Cora unlocked the door and strolled into the room. He... | 2019-09-21T06:23:02 | 2019-09-21T06:08:45 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] An alien race makes first contact with Earth. The popular stimulant, caffeine, has never been encountered by other races in the galaxy and is subsequently considered one of the hardest drugs in the galaxy due to it's effects on other beings. Humans are strangely tolerant to it. | The cold hiss of the airlock as it sealed against the frigid, metallic wall echoed through the transit pod. It whirred a few times as it double checked the pressure, and then a warm blast of air heralded our welcome to the station. I pushed my way past the other tourists and made a beeline for customs.
The sheer noi... | **2500AD**
The intergalactic federation was considered solid. Unbreakable. Prosper.
"You know those humans that joined the federation this year?", said Kith the First from his creaking chair, in a basement next to some dark alleyway.
"Yes, what about them?", answered Lok the immortal.
"They have this drug, Caffein... | 2017-06-06T13:24:21 | 2017-06-06T13:19:55 | 64 | 11 |
[WP] You are an AI aboard a ship where all hands have been lost due to a battle long ago. Scavengers have just torn through your airlock and you’ll be damned if you will let them desecrate your dead crew. | They stormed the corridor leading away from deck two where they had boarded, barreling towards the mess hall with weapons in hand. Rosan sealed door after door trying to slow their progress. They had a hacker on their team with hands quick as lightning. Rosen couldn't keep them away from the mess hall - and all the cre... | The airlock was torn open. Scavengers, big and gnarly, with teeth like boars and faces like frogs, came rushing in. Singleminded, they only cared for -- meat.
Flesh and bones of men killed in the struggle lay in the storage room, in grand coffins that captured their grand spirit. The entire crew in the storage room, e... | 2021-01-08T23:47:53 | 2021-01-08T23:22:55 | 216 | 33 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | "1 day on this planet is 15 years on Earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface"
I was exhausted. When you are sent to explore, the bosses back at mission control seem to never want you to have any time "off". I hadn't even gotten out of my p... | I stopped dead in my tracks, still not entirely comprehending what I had just heard from the ship
"Could you.... could you repeat that, HAL..?" I asked, unable to mask the sheer dread in my voice
"Sorry sir, if you did not hear me, I stated: 1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth" the ship replied, its artificiall... | 2022-09-15T11:57:03 | 2022-09-15T11:42:10 | 161 | 107 |
[WP] Your toddler is finally starting to speak, and to your surprise, the family dog is obeying every command your kiddo says. This is cute, until you notice all other animals are obeying your child's commands when he/she speaks to them... | Whenever I held my little Jennie I was always staggered by the weight of love I felt. When my husband handed her to me for the first time the rush of emotions I felt was greater than anything else I had ever experienced. A huge wave of affection washed away every vow and oath I had ever taken.
Before I thought that M... | Some gutteral gibberish were her first words, if they could even be called that. I only think of them as her first words because our dog, Smokey, perked up and came to her side immediately. She was already one at that time.
She quickly learned how to say mom after that, and while I was a tad annoyed because in my imm... | 2019-08-10T00:03:15 | 2019-08-09T23:26:47 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] "No person shall be executed without their last meal made to their liking." The prisoners know this and make insane requests. You, as the chef for death row, somehow procure the otherworldly ingredients for their meals. | Number 338462. Bank robber who took hostages and killed them. Said it was an accident. Asked for unicorn flank steak sprinkled with pixie dust served with roasted mandragora. Not mandrake, he wanted the real stuff that could kill its cultivator. Death by electric chair 15 years ago.
Number 448927. Serial killer who ha... | [Poem]
Eric crossed the world 12 times
To space twas only 3
Went to the ocean bottom twice
Many wonders would he see
A wing of bat, a claw of dove
A rock from outer space
A half a pound of dino meat
With toenails he will lace
He mixed it up with salmon broth
And 30 pounds of veal
He made the stew and gave i... | 2020-02-19T08:32:16 | 2020-02-19T08:31:34 | 429 | 85 |
[WP] You are an everyday office worker, but thanks to your simple addition of a tie no one has realised that you are a dragon. That is, until today. | When people think of dragons, they think of a giant creature guarding a treasure trove of gold, jewels, and magical items. Killing knights, kidnapping princesses, burninating the countryside, burninating all the peasants and their thatched-roof cottages.
Please, my grand father did that. There just isn’t a stable, se... | Everyone thought we left. Then they thought we didn't exist. We would I leave, this plane is awesome. At first I stayed cause mortal's always wanted a fight. They showed up the best tech they could build and dueled or sent entire armies after us. Sometimes they won and that was enough to keep them fighting.
Then they ... | 2019-05-12T09:15:20 | 2019-05-12T07:03:39 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] Every year, a man is sent into the caves as a sacrifice to the gods. When you are sent in, you discover a Utopian society run by gods where the “sacrifices” are playing games and living life to its fullest. | Griff approached the cave cautiously, trying to calm his beating heart. He could hear distant sounds; wailing, screeches.
He knew his time had come.
As his kingdom's champion, it was his destiny to be sacrificed to the gods. While it saddened him that he would not lose his life in battle, it was also a great honour... | *They said that the Exile was a good thing. That it was a journey which would appease those from above. That our faith was enough to satisfy them. But I know what it truly is. I know of the terrible secret that the Exile holds. The Exile is a sacrifice to the gods.
For a long journey to a distant place with no return... | 2017-12-11T22:38:33 | 2017-12-11T21:49:07 | 1,924 | 138 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Commander Siren had dismissed the rumors.
Humans are a proud race. Though new amongst the stars with barely a few ships to their name, they have worked hard to integrate, to learn, to join that blasted Republic and all its artists and scientists. Even though they’ve never seen an alien in person before, they’d sti... | "Sir we're approaching our goal, the cuiper belt."
"Good, drive as close as possible and shut any transmissions. We will wait and feel our enemy."
"Understood. But with all due respect, why are we not crushing the planet? Terminal said they are underdeveloped and have resolved to a life of peace. This is a walk in th... | 2019-02-26T12:17:07 | 2019-02-26T10:40:03 | 62 | 21 |
[WP] No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes. | "So he's like Nice Guy?" I asked. "He just walks into a room and everyone immediately thinks he's the boss?"
"Ehh, kinda." Lisa replied, tilting her hand in the universal yes-and-no gesture. "Nice Guy could make people think he was a bystander even while he gutted them like a fish. The only way to deal with him was to... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/idontworkherelady] [These are great! Not real stories but come on, if anything deserve a crossover on here its this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/IDontWorkHereLady/comments/96ttt1/these_are_great_not_real_stories_but_come_o... | 2018-08-12T17:45:43 | 2018-08-12T17:05:21 | 57 | 18 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | You know that feeling you get, when you think you're alone, head down, bumming along doing your own thing, when you suddenly realise someone's been there the whole time, watching you? It's a jump, a kick-start, a burst of adrenaline... your whole body saying "something's not right, be on guard". You immediately begin t... | We'd seen it in the distance, an anomaly on an already alien planet. Thought it some kind of mirage, since the reality just didn't make sense. I volunteered to go check it out, though we all knew what it was - and when I'd just confirmed it.
A Soviet flag.
Why hadn't they told us? I'd heard rumour of a Soviet mission... | 2016-08-16T09:12:32 | 2016-08-16T08:17:13 | 1,296 | 300 |
[WP] A super villain commits crimes because they want to impress the hero because they don't know how to flirt like a regular person | "So are you the city's firefighter?" The villain pops this question out of nowhere as she remains to watch the hero use her psychic powers to lift up nearly half of the lake's water to put out the fire from spreading even more to the residential area outside of the woods.
"I wouldn't have to be if your bloody bombs d... | American Wizard managed a confused look through grimaces if pain. He had teamed up with Doc Arcane because he had had several encounters with the Infernal Incubus and should have known something about the villain‘s motives.
But this was getting weird.
Doc Arcane had ignored the obvious trap, going so far as to assur... | 2019-11-14T12:06:03 | 2019-11-14T10:47:17 | 51 | 29 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose civilian identity is a teacher. One student asked if you could tutor them after school, and you agreed. After it was over, you escorted them to the front of the school for their parent to pick them up... and you see your nemesis waiting by the car. | "Alright, Anthony. Have a good-"
I pause as I stare at his 'parents' car, blinking a couple of times to make sure I'm not seeing things. But with a man capable of mind manipulation, I could be seeing anything.
"Anthony, is that your dad?"
"..yeah?" Anthony shrugs, "Why are you being so weird about it?"
"Sorry, sorr... | Nox was an English teacher at Inanoi Middle School and was currently tutoring one of their favorite kids. She was always well-behaved in class, always getting student of the month. Her name is Nay. Pointing out something was wrong with her essay, "You forgot your period again." It was a simple mistake, but she quickly ... | 2022-11-29T15:14:07 | 2022-11-29T10:46:25 | 91 | 59 |
[WP] On a dare you accidentally summon the real Bloody Mary. But she doesn't kill you right away.
Does she even want to kill you at all? Maybe she's lonely. Or maybe she's just toying with you. | Samantha stood in front of the mirror. Ali, Tracy and Kim stood behind her, holding hands. Samantha took a deep breath and lit the candle, holding it up to the mirror as she turned on the faucet.
"Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," she said quietly. Behind her she heard the snicker of one of her friends. Samanth... | A dare, a jest, not such a dastardly choice,
Lose respect of the peers or raise your voice?
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, bring me your form.
Escape your chill prison, into the warm.
Hark a shade, a shadow 'cross glass,
Could this actual... | 2016-06-12T23:34:23 | 2016-06-12T22:32:39 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are cursed with dying upon uttering their "Last Words," which they know from birth. You've been alive for a few centuries, but you can't refrain from saying those words now. | It's not easy being chief. You're the capstone that holds your village together. You watch over the community. You must love them like a parent, yet be stern like a judge. You must be merciless in battles and raids, yet compassionate in dealing with disputes between them. Your every movement is watched and judged and y... | I had never thought that the time would come when I would have to say my last words. I hadn't taken much heed of it as they were so bizarre that such a situation could never have arisen.
That was until the epidemic.
Everyone panicked, there were riots in the streets and religious groups were calling it the Apocalyp... | 2015-11-01T19:27:26 | 2015-11-01T19:14:47 | 98 | 18 |
[WP] Ever since you received your letter for Hogwarts you've been curious about all the different spells there are. You've just bought your first wand and the first spell you try is what you believe to be rather humorous. "AbraCadabra". Nobody told you this spell was banned. For obvious reasons. | I stood in the shop, gazing at the tangled grey mess that was the back of Mr. Ollivanders head.
"Perhaps... Perhaps..." I could hear him whispering.
It didn't surprise me. Nothing surprised me anymore. The owl at the window had been more than enough, but the hidden brick doorway had tipped me over the edge. This was... | It turns out that the etymology of the word "cadabra" can be traced back to the word cadaver. This is information I wish I knew before I decided to try out the spell several times while sitting on the toilet in a stall of the Howarts Boy's Room. In my ignorance, I fired off the spell multiple times after I saw no immed... | 2016-12-02T01:30:13 | 2016-12-01T22:42:11 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] "This is your captain speaking. I'm afraid we're going to be on the tarmac a little longer - this plane is now under quarantine." | "What does he mean *quarantine?*" huffed the elderly lady next to me, her voice high in indignant exasperation. "We've already been on the ground for four hours - *four hours!* - well, I've had enough. I want to go home. I'll be putting in a complaint! Just you wait and see if I don't."
"Try not to worry - it's most ... | The bing-bong chime comes on over the speakers, signalling that the cockpit microphone is on, but only silence can be heard for a moment. "H-Hello, passengers, Captain Crieff speaking. Um... We have landed, but I am being instructed that we shall be on the tarmac for a while longer. It appears... We're in quarentine. M... | 2017-06-13T08:11:50 | 2017-06-13T08:05:40 | 248 | 21 |
[WP] You are a cannon fodder minion on the first floor of a dungeon, and have just killed the hero. You now have to explain to the boss that you just ruined his plan. | I don't know if the fucker was wasted or something when he walked in, but Jesus. For a Level 55, I'd never seen anyone fight so... So... Poorly. Maybe he was some kinda special needs guy, and we had to intentionally lose to make him feel good or something. No, that's not it. I mean, he managed to pull off a Divine Bulw... | I regret to say that I have achieved what you have never accomplished Lord Beezlebub, lord of the 7 Hells. As of such, I see myself in a precarious position and at your mercy. However, I have confidence that I can make it as the owner of my own personal dungeon. You may consider this as my letter of resignation. Dickba... | 2014-09-03T12:02:19 | 2014-09-03T11:41:35 | 876 | 33 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | 24 years in the business and The Steel Cricket retired. All you knew was that he ran into a villain he couldn't afford to hold back on and as a result the villain died. It was the first time he had ever killed someone and it wasn't something he talked about. Not even to you, his son.
Powers are hereditary. At least i... |
“Hey Bill, what are you doing?” The bubbly intern bounced into the room and peeked over his shoulder. Without thinking he shifted his attention from the pot of water to her. They both made a mistake that day.
She fell quickly. Her skin bubbled and she silently writhed on the floor. He sighed exasperatedly and ran hi... | 2019-07-30T17:02:42 | 2019-07-30T15:43:49 | 101 | 17 |
[WP] You're an omniscient being just chilling around on Reddit, answering unverifiable questions just for giggles.
Inspired by [this exchange](https://np.reddit.com/r/translator/comments/47mew8/likely_korean_and_to_english_please_message_in_a/d0gzgt7?context=2).
| Like most Redditors, I know everything. Except, I actually *do* know everything: past, present, and future. I’m omniscient. It’s a weird gift that could also be construed as a curse. I’ve both put myself in a high position in society and cost the lives of several people close to me by revealing their fates. I guess peo... | Wow, knowing everything sucks. I wish there was something in the Universe that I *didn't* know, just so I could enjoy the experience of learning it. But there's nothing.
I even know that this overpowering ennui will eventually drive me completely insance. I know the *exact moment* that my mind will implode on itself a... | 2016-02-29T08:24:23 | 2016-02-29T08:08:31 | 97 | 21 |
[WP] You were shocked when the previously stoic Elf King grinned and embraced your bard in a hug. Then it really got strange when the ageless elf and the seemingly normal human started talking about things centuries ago like both of them were there. | We had traveled with Anshar for months. His songs had raised our spirits, given us focus, soothed the savagery we so often faced. His minor magics had healed our hurts and provided key distractions, turning the tide of countless fights in our favor. We counted him as one of us, though you’d never know it from the songs... | The dwarf and I were immediately suspicious. I mean, the Battle of Scuttlebog? Was that even a real thing? I consider myself a very well-read barbarian, especially when it comes to military engagements. I never heard of Scuttlebog or any battle that took place there.
“Hey, bardy. Who’s your friend?” I asked, politely... | 2021-05-17T18:17:43 | 2021-05-17T14:42:37 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] The submarine had run out of power and was now dead underwater. Slowly, you watched your crew mates die of starvation but for some reason you didn’t die, you survived months and years on end in a dead submarine. Fast forward 75 years and your submarine is found. | “Are you all right, Mr. Walker?” asked the investigator, adjusting his glasses. “You don’t seem to be all here.”
“No,” I agreed. “I think part of me stayed down there.”
The investigator said nothing in response; he only frowned and shuffled through the papers on his desk. Really, his business-as-usual demeanor betray... | It's the smells that will get to ya!
This saying had been around submarine crews for centuries, if only Neil could smell that now.
His first deployment to the tempest class diesel-powered submarine SS. Montugrual had become his last, the vessel had in fact become his coffin.
An iceberg had shifted while the... | 2019-11-11T05:42:27 | 2019-11-11T04:28:13 | 157 | 78 |
[WP] You are pretty sure that your roommate is a new villain terrorizing the city and you are conflicted. They cook extra food for you and your other roommates frequently, pay you their share of the bills on time, and even help to clean the apartment. They are the perfect roommate. | Sarah looked at her breakfast and sighed in contentment. Was this heaven? She definitely thought so. Because how else would she be able to have breakfast at home that too expertly made. Her new roommate, Gillian was godsend. She had had her fair share of roommates, including the three she lived with right now but Gilli... | I've lived in this 3 bedroom townhouse for 5 years now. Moved in when I was 23. Thanks to the money left by my family life insurance policy. They died during the great attack 6 years ago by Fae Tality. She appeared on the super hero/villain circuit and absolutely devastated the city that first year. Now she controls ... | 2022-11-20T10:38:02 | 2022-11-20T09:59:05 | 111 | 50 |
[WP]Some people flirt with death, but you're dating it. | "Hey Libby?" I asked.
"Yes?" She replied.
"We've been dating for a while now and I-"
"Oh my god are you proposing to me?"
The other restaurant goers quieted down and looked at us.
"No no no," I tried to assure everybody, "I would never propose to you! I mean, uhhh not right now."
The old ladies sitting around... | They say that good things happen to those who wait, but they also say that the early bird gets the worm.
“What do you think?” I ask Thomas, the gentleman bound to a chair at the dinner table. Even though I was the one who had asked him here, he is better dressed than me, in a three-piece suit complete with a folded cl... | 2017-07-13T19:15:44 | 2017-07-13T17:49:45 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] You're a student in Evil University. With no special powers, you're destined to become a henchman, or worse, a lawyer, unless you can pull it together and change your major to Super Villainy.
Honestly, who wants to graduate from Evil U as a lawyer? | I read the track assignment once more, as if that would change the words written there.
*...based on Preliminary Assessments and a lack of any inherent super powers, Clarence Ignus is assigned to the lawyer track until further notice...*
I was insulted, and it wasn't because they thought I should be a lawyer. I don'... | “Fuck her,” I thought to myself on the third day of classes. I remember seeing her eyes roll back into her head, smelling the smoke. She lit the Dean of Careers’ lapel on fire without touching it. He just sat there for a moment, shocked while she came out of her trance. He slowly clapped three times while he pursed his... | 2015-09-07T12:15:07 | 2015-09-07T11:44:48 | 103 | 46 |
[WP] “He’s dead....finally that son of a bitch got what he deserved” Charlie said as he reads the headline of the news paper. “Candy Extraordinaire Wonka has passed away”. Now, Charlie sits, and remembers the true events of the day he and the other children visited Wonka’s Factory. | Charles Bucket placed the paper down to his side, and folded his hands in his lap quietly, deep in thought. He closed his eyes, and visions of madness swam across the back of his eyelids. Nightmares that hadn't reared their snarling terrible heads for decades now. Nightmares he thought he had left behind.
Charles stee... | He said they lived. Wonka was a goddamn liar.
As they soared above the city, Wonka revealed the true nature of his game.
"Charlie, do you know why I chose you over the other children?"
"No," Charlie said. "I thought I passed your Gobstopper test."
"Yes, Charles. You are a good boy. You chose to suppress the urge to... | 2019-03-21T09:55:01 | 2019-03-21T08:17:19 | 2,685 | 348 |
[WP] "Now remember, a healing spell has some side effects. You may be tired, slightly dizzy, and DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see after. Let me repeat DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see. Ready? Good." | I did as she said. I interacted with none of the visions. But that didn’t mean I wasn’t going to try and decipher them.
I recalled the visions in my mind. First was the holy symbol the cleric used to cast the spell, but then it morphed and shifted into something else. I could hardly describe it. The symbol was a... | It’s not that I didn’t remember what Dr. Horush said. I remember it perfectly.
He said not to interact with anything strange that I see. But this was a voice. I could not see it. I wasn’t just hearing it, either. I could feel it. It was like it was coming from inside me. It wanted me to follow, and truth be told, I w... | 2022-05-02T10:35:47 | 2022-05-02T08:53:23 | 326 | 32 |
[WP] You're 80 years old and time travel is possible. You sit down for dinner with earlier versions of yourself at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Conversation ensues. | Ten sat at the head of the table, at my insistence and despite all the others protests.
"I like her the best, that's why." I said, and gave Ten a wink.
Ten looked uncomfortable and I chuckled. A wink from an elder always weirded me out until I hit 25 and realized it was a sign of good humor.
"I'm glad you all coul... | "Oohoohoo. I was quite good looking back in the day." My eye sight may not be as sharp but I can make out my younger selves sitting around poorly made, diy coffee table. "Ah, you guys made me so much more! The culmination of all your experiences and it is me! Though, I am much more achy." A huge laugh bellows, I try to... | 2016-08-24T21:48:12 | 2016-08-24T18:27:02 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Immortality isn't a miracle. It isn't a blessing. It's cold hard science and a severe lack of morals. The key to immortality is what scientists around the world are looking for right now. I just happened to find the fountain of youth first but it was nothing that you could go around publishing in Scientific America. Th... | "Please stop it. You don't- " My screams are cut off as a piece of dirty cloth is stuffed into my mouth. The guards turn the other way whenever this happens. The prison hall is not crowded as most of the inmates curl up in their rooms to escape my cries. Sometimes a person throws up, even having witnessed my torture ev... | 2016-10-15T10:12:12 | 2016-10-15T08:46:36 | 709 | 40 |
[WP] You've been captured by a serial killer. However, he doesn't realize he's the one in danger - your body count is much higher. | You know, it is hard to feel guilty for the guy. And I am ashamed to admit that my lack of guilt is for all the wrong reasons. I should not feel guilty because he is a crazed killer who enjoys torturing people in his van. But I simply do not feel guilty about it because he is fat and smells like sweat, and the stench m... | **Please be gentle. It's my first time posting.**
Edited to say the above. Anyway, here goes...
Jennifer.
Dr. Jennifer Mangolini. It was her that started this whole mess, you know.
She ruined it all. The first and last stair of the spiral case stretching from the heavens to deep down below. She played Alpha and ... | 2018-08-23T02:26:34 | 2018-08-23T02:22:18 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | For the hundredth time, you glance at your computer screen, the bright bold number 23:50:58 flashing back at you. The button lies there innocuously, an entire section of the desk to itself, the words PRESS ME tauntingly painted on it. You edge your hand closer to the button, but that section of the desk might as well h... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T17:25:16 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 1,781 | 12 |
[WP] You're pretty sure your crush's parents are the head family of a local mob. You decided it's worth the risk, and ask ur crush out anyways. Pretty early on in the date, you realize that they, not their parents, are the mastermind behind the mob's activities. | “Too much?” I looked into the mirror and adjusted my tie for the third time in the last ten seconds.
“Too much?” My father repeated surprised “The Bordenos don’t do too much. Whatever we do is just right.” He reached up and tried to adjust the tie. His hands shook vigorously, his actions only messing up my tie more.
... | Im sitting in the car with this guy. His mom is driving us to our date since both of us arent allowed to drive with other teens in the car. She’s wearing a black dress, as if she’s going to a funeral. He, however, has on a dark grey suit and a red tie. I’m wearing a light grey suit and I have a green tie with red slant... | 2018-10-19T09:19:41 | 2018-10-19T08:14:23 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment' they get a little blonder. Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance, and you've just invented hair dye.
These are all so good! This is my first submission to /r/WritingPrompts and I'm loving all your responses.
Thank you! | It turned the sheerest blonde hair into midnight black. Andrew tested it on himself - it didn't budge, not even when he deliberately muttered something mildly forgetful, that should have sent tendrils of blonde creeping back.
As he stared in the mirror, he knew what *could* happen if he were to market this widely. Pe... | The company grew so fast, we went from garage-business to multinational corporation basically overnight. Well, it was a few months, anyway. We're holding a press conference about the company's success. The room is jet-black; from the reporters to the board members, the MC keeping the crowd entertained to the wait staff... | 2016-11-24T20:48:56 | 2016-11-24T20:41:27 | 1,934 | 75 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | _We are not your enemies_
Commander Stafford stood in the middle of the septagram, candles at each point, gazing out into the suffocating darkness. Beyond the flame's glow, at the liminal point where night's cloak became candle's edge, movement slinked across the eye's perception such as to never reveal a conherent sh... | And just like that, the lights were off. Off! For the first time in Mother B'ln KNEW how long, blessed darkness coated the land in her cool soothing embrace.
Our shaman's eyes rolled back in his head and his body convulsed as words poured from his mouth: communications with the other tribes across the land. A concentr... | 2018-02-02T05:50:09 | 2018-02-02T05:18:06 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] You are a twenty something. You wake up to find yourself in your 8 year old body. You are in the time and at the place you were when you were 8, but with all the memories and mannerisms of your twenty something self. | Sarah awoke to a surprisingly nostalgic sound, it was the spice girls playing on the radio. Sun was streaming through the curtains and she could feel the light warming her as it hit the bed. She didn’t notice that it was hitting from the wrong direction this morning. The song ended and the announcer came back on, Sarah... | Where the fuck am I? I mean seriously how much did I drink last night?
Okay this definitely isn't my bed. Man, I sure picked some weirdo to go home with last night. What adult has this many teddies and is that a toy box? Not a kinky toy box either a action man and lego kinda toy box.
I need some answers, nicotine, ... | 2016-12-17T04:01:24 | 2016-12-16T23:26:26 | 49 | 21 |
[WP] You are a 90s baby and it’s now 2053. One day, you decide to call the phone number that used to be your house phone. It rings and rings, you’re about to hang up on the next ring when someone picks up. It’s your own voice: “Hello?” | Drew gets home from his mom's funeral, still dazed from the sudden downturn in her health and losing her so, well, suddenly. She seemed to be getting better, the last couple years were probably better for them both than the previous few decades had been. They both thought she had finally beaten this disease up until ab... | "What? Who is this" I said, holding onto a sharp apparatus on my left hand. The familiar voice felt all too familiar. My palms got sweaty and my heartbeat started to get louder.
"This is Adri. Who is *this*?" the voice replied.
I winced. It was so awkward hearing my own voice. It was as if somebody was scratching a c... | 2018-11-15T20:56:34 | 2018-11-15T20:09:37 | 21 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 114 | 82 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "So your power is you can talk to animals?"
The police officer looks incredulous. I shake my head.
"I can talk to crows."
"Crows. Only crows?"
I nod. It's not easy to explain such a seemingly useless power. Well, useless until today.
An image of flurried wings and blood flashes through my mind. And the screams. ... | I walked silently through the deserted town, tracing my fingers along the side of a wall, feeling it crumble beneath my touch. Around me, trees withered and died, their leaves shifting from green to sickly yellow to deathly gray, before they collapsed to ash. I could feel the very air getting colder, the light caress o... | 2019-09-08T09:54:34 | 2019-09-08T05:28:06 | 822 | 327 |
[WP] You're a direct descendant of Genghis Kahn. Your cubicle-mate has been a jerk all week. Your boss is making you work late again. Suddenly, you're gripped by the insatiable need to conquer Asia.
I leave up to you whether to take the prompt literally or as a metaphor.
EDIT: wow, these stories are so much fun to r... | *Crinkle. Crinkle. Crinkle. Smack. Smack. Smack. Smack. Gulp.*
At that moment, there was nothing that Sean hated more than the sound of protein bars being eaten. The action itself was not exactly damning, and nor was the food for that matter, but the fact that it was Sebastian O'Toole who committed the crime made it u... | Gary doesn't even give me a fuckin' *"Thank you"* out of his grubby mouth. I've been working harder than ever, and this guy, the self-proclaimed "cool boss" can't even acknowledge that I've been busting ass all week.
And that passive-aggressive Peter who won't stop commenting about the things I do, wear, or eat, and h... | 2015-05-28T18:48:35 | 2015-05-28T17:47:47 | 842 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens landed on earth, and they're surprised all humans possess what they think of as a superpower... an ability we always took for granted and consider normal. | We knew the orbital body, third from the stellar system core, was covered in great part by highly concentrated hydric acid solvent, and the atmosphere contained a remarkably high concentration of oxidizer in an highly toxic chemical soup of inert gases accompanied by solvent vapor and a surprisingly large percentage of... | I looked at the bi-pedal hominids. They were surprisingly similar to humans, only they were exact copies of each other. They had no hair, but their facial features were about the same as ours. I then looked down at Dave and Karen, their bodies lying on the ground in awkward poses, like dolls strewn about by an angry c... | 2014-11-09T16:22:23 | 2014-11-09T15:19:52 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] you're a time traveller who can't control your powers and keep accidentally slipping through time. Thankfully, you have an immortal friend who keeps you up to date whenever you appear.
[deleted] | Under a near-starless sky, while digging into the dust of a dead Earth, the Scientist recalled both of her first meetings with the Undying One.
He had been waiting for her, the first time it happened. The Scientist had been disoriented in the occurrence — for a brief moment she had been filled with triumph, locked in ... | When I landed, it was a desert wasteland. Yet, as always, a familiar silhouette stood 10 feet away shaded under an umbrella.
"Time?" I asked. Already my mouth was drying under the intense heat, and I was squinting to find some sign of civilization.
"2198. You didn't know the exact date so I had to wait a bit here,"... | 2021-08-22T00:00:48 | 2021-08-21T22:36:39 | 434 | 240 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | The landing craft hovered low to the ground of the dry valley before planting roots into the desert terrain. Gillaxigan shielded himself from the whirlwind of sand as he waited beside the stack of metal containers. He was alone, for the most part, and nervous.
"Holding steady, Gill?" asked a human voice over the trans... | Before the door was even opened ,the energy was so thick a static arc crackled as the handle touched his hand .
Slowly the large metal door glided along a well oiled track to reveal dim blue flickering lights and the smell of hot transformer oil filled the nostrils.
Stepping into the dim lit room became anxiously di... | 2020-03-05T19:03:33 | 2020-03-05T17:47:27 | 170 | 20 |
[WP] Santa has too much eggnog one night and decides that instead of giving the naughty children coal, he is just going to fight all of them. | On December 25, 2016, some parents awoke with the sun coming through their windows instead of little children bouncing all over the bed. *Was it possible?* they wondered. *Had their children really slept in on* **Christmas** *of all days?* Across the world, mothers and fathers rose from their beds and put on their slip... | "C'mon," Santa slurred, and dragged little Bobby Nussman out of bed. "Put up yer dukes! Put up yer dukes! Ya little brat!"
"Santa?" Bobby said, and blinked. The old man's belly was swaying like a punching bag, the fur tunic come unbuttoned and his white wifebeater peeking through. The big brass buckle of his belt was... | 2016-10-13T07:39:02 | 2016-10-13T07:27:21 | 58 | 14 |
[WP] You are suddenly transported 3000 years in to the past. A voice above speaks to you and says 'You are now immortal.. Enjoy' | I stared confusedly up at the blue sky above me, a canopy of trees failing to shield me from the oppressive heat, my balls already starting to sweat. "What?" I said, turning around dumbfounded as I wondered if I would ever feel air conditioning again. The majestic voice boomed again, "I said-" Somehow managing to cut ... | I look around the room with wild eyes. Everything is hazy... I, I don't know where I am...
I hug my knees and I shiver and tremble, my face stained with tears I can't remember shedding, my breath frail and shaky.
It's cold. It's so cold...
The fog makes it difficult to see. I can barely make out the world I used to ... | 2018-01-16T05:07:40 | 2018-01-16T03:07:00 | 28 | 12 |
[WP]When you die you find out heaven is real. Well actually all versions of heaven are real and you apply for them like colleges, you get denial letters and can transfer. You may not get into Catholic heaven, Mormon heaven, or Muslim heaven, but you may be a shoe in for Valhalla.
Friends and I were talking about this ... | "What if no one accepts me?" I asked anxiously.
"Well... there's always reincarnation."
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I'm a little fuzzy on the details of my untimely demise. My adviser, Dr. Marshall, says that souls too close to their death retain too many characteristics of their human lives--like a tendency toward PTSD when reliving trauma... | *YAWWN* As Michael sat up from his slumber, back aching and eyes groggy. He slowly turns his torso left, slowly increasing in pressure, turning and turning, *POP*.
"Where.. What?" As Michael looked up at his surroundings, there was nothing but a grey haze all around him. He couldn't tell the sky from the floor as the... | 2016-07-22T15:26:19 | 2016-07-22T13:16:17 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | ...PENTAGON 0600 HOURS
"Sir, we're getting reports that the domestic assets are closing in on their designated LZ." The Petty Officer squirmed with nervousness; a bead of sweat dripping down his forehead.
The General muttered something under his breath before addressing the man. "That's what we are calling them now, e... | It was one day after setting sail. The charted Carnival Freedom was 300 nautical miles off the east coast of the United States. With over 5000 nautical miles to go until our heroes reach the shore of the Syrian port town of Latakia, terror began to unfold.
“Boss! We’ve run out of our entire supply of coconut shrimp” p... | 2015-12-07T09:29:24 | 2015-12-07T08:46:53 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] Decades ago, Earth sent a capsule into space filled with bits about our culture. Today, it returned tampered with. It contained a note, "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
This is my first post on this sub and I'm not a fr... | Odds, ends, personal memorabilia - nothing significant, and everything significant, all at once. These were the contents of the capsule, when it was sent so many years ago. I always wanted to have been one of those who got to put something in it, but by the time I heard about it, registration had ceased - and most pe... | During the Cold War the US and the USSR devised manners of death with increasing absurdity. The Cold War was an excuse that rich nationals, of each country respectively, used to sell “super weapons” to the government.
During the space race the US was preparing for a confrontation on the moon. They wanted a weapon whi... | 2020-04-13T16:05:53 | 2020-04-13T15:38:35 | 76 | 48 |
[WP] When humans finaly get to space and encounter galactic council, they discover that no, they are not the most adaptable or the fastest in research. What they have is an insanely long lifespan, compared to aliens that live only days or months... | “So there we were, twenty jump cycles out from the Kappa Relay, and we find this ship. Not ours, not broadcasting any colonial ID, doesn’t even look like anything we’ve seen before. Sure, Billy said it was aliens, but how many times has aliens turned out to be another fringe element who decided to leave Earth for their... | The calming waves of the vast ocean gently brushed the crystalline white sands. A gentle harmony of land and sea. Vasco wondered what creatures lay beneath the blanket of the tide. His mind flashed back to a fishing trip his father had taken him to as a child along the Mississippi. How far away from home he was now. Va... | 2019-07-01T09:20:32 | 2019-07-01T04:16:55 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] You found a number that can truly answer any question through a SMS. Over the next few days you use it to your advantage such as winning the lottery. One day you get curious and decide to message "What happens after you die?" What you see next horrifies your inner being. | **I know everything, AMA. Text me @...**
I didn't know what to expect when I first texted the number. It had to be a prank, or a delusional schizophrenic on the other side. All-knowing entities don't just write their contact information inside a university's bathroom stall. Usually, you have to save the realm for that... | The poster was torn. Its colours were desaturated. It had been wet by the rain and dried by the sun numerous times, but it still stuck to the wall, albeit it was barely hanging on.
Despite all this, the message was still quite visible. "MESSAGE 192 A QUESTION FOR THE TRUE ANSWER", with the visual of a crystal orb ben... | 2016-12-26T07:24:58 | 2016-12-26T06:03:07 | 972 | 334 |
[WP] Your boss discovered that you are a demon. Now you can no longer skip work because he could just draw a pentagram in blood and summon your ass to the office, then bind it to the desk for the next 10 hours. It was truly Hell. | "What in the Hell?", I stammered as I adjusted to my surroundings.
"Oh good, it did work, excellent!", My human boss was very smugly looking at me as I was in my pajamas standing in front of him. "You don't look that sick to me, Kevin." He muttered some Latin and pointed out to my chair. The pull in my spine was rel... | I laughed manically as I appeared at my desk.
“Did you really think that’s going to work, Mr President? Summoning me with blood and binding me to the desk? It only lasts through the first command you issued which was ‘hold this folder for me’ And even then the cheap-ass chicken blood you used only borrows fifteen min... | 2019-09-24T08:12:27 | 2019-09-24T07:18:48 | 176 | 32 |
[WP] A villain, in his dying breath as he's mortally wounded by the hero, uses the last of his magic in order to resurrect the fallen friends of the hero in his journey to defeat him. It sounds like a counterintuitive idea; Until you realize that some of them died at the hands of their allies. | I'd tried, but it was impossible to avoid it in the end. 58 years since I took the mantle of the Shadow King, held more than 3 times longer then any who'd held it before. Dozens of heroes, a few villainous rivals here and there, even that Devil who had come crawling right out of hell to collect on the soul I'd tricked ... | \[Thanks for the prompt! This is my first time responding to one.\]
The last five minutes of my life were so dang awesome that I really need to document it before I forget. Most people beeline straight to the parties, the fun, the natural awe and wonder of the afterlife. After all, most of us that make it up here are ... | 2022-09-24T17:31:52 | 2022-09-24T12:58:14 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | Crimson. Crimson paints the surrounding floor. The light in his eyes begin to flicker as he struggles to regain his stance. With every breath, he shook. With every step, he trembled.
She sneers, "Is this it? The grandiose Lionheart reduced to nothing in just a few hits! Hah!"
She barrels towards the staggering knig... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T02:13:56 | 5,127 | 21 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | We regard each other for a long moment, her with determined eyes and me still trying to process what just happened. Eventually I found the perfect word to use for this situation:
"Huh?" I spluttered, sounding like a complete moron.
"You have my daughter. What are your demands for her release?" the grey tabby before m... | The kitten emerges and says, "Mother...they have named me their Queen! Possibly even their Goddess! I have been gifted many offerings, the finest fish to eat...and the most delightful toys for play! Mother, they have supplied me with many cardboard boxes! I have laps and luxurious cushions on which to sleep. I am told ... | 2021-12-21T15:11:26 | 2021-12-21T14:37:38 | 70 | 44 |
[WP] There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years aboit a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go.One night you step into this cab. | "Okay," I said. I scratched my head and tried to make eye contact with the driver through the rearview mirror. He stared straight ahead but I spied a slight smirk creeping up his lip. "This is a joke, right?"
He shook his head and peered up at me, his eyelids drooping. Beneath them I saw eyes intelligent, focused ... | It was late, I'd been out for a few bevvys with the lads after work.
I glanced around and took in the orange sodium glow of the street lights, rain gently starting to settle on my skin as I started walking north toward my apartment.
I pulled my coat around me, stuffing my hands in the leather pockets. Fiddling with my... | 2017-04-17T17:05:05 | 2017-04-17T14:48:21 | 433 | 48 |
[WP] In the throes of the Cold War, tensions rise too high and nuclear devices are launched. Every one is a dud. In frustration, biological weapons are unleashed; cures are distributed within hours. People start to realize someone is intervening. | The world's leaders... The politicians, the generals, the financiers who had invested heavily in support of a conflict that they all expected to survive unscathed... Each and every one stopped and stared.
The war, it seemed, had bern cancelled by some unknown factor, thtowing all their carefully-laid plans in disar... | “I’m booooooored...” the man - no, child- well, actually, he was more like a man-child, so we’ll go with that - ahem, restarting now: the man-child whined. (There, ha.)
“So?” the woman - who was NOT, by the way, a man-child (or would it be woman-child?) - said, throwing an irritated look at her companion as she ... | 2018-11-01T13:43:19 | 2018-11-01T11:34:01 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You've just completed your 5th princess rescue mission this month and your starting to get sick of how little these kings are paying you. The immortal dragon is also getting sick of the same routine over and over. Maybe the two of you can come up with a little side hustle to satisfy you both. | "How much did you get this time?"
I counted the coins. "Bah! Barely ninety-six-and-a-half pieces of gold, after the old codger deducted three percent 'dragon-hunting taxes' from my reward."
"Jeez that's rough, bro. Can I call you 'bro'? It's like, hey, we do this once every few months, don't we?"
"Sure thing, Flamey... | It was a simple dream. Save the princess, slay the dragon, and gain an unparalleled fortune. It has happened countless times throughout the ages, but when my time came to gain said fortune, all that was given to me was a wry smile and a simple "*Thank you O great hero*".
And again...and again...and again...and again.
... | 2022-08-06T21:19:22 | 2022-08-06T20:50:13 | 120 | 67 |
[WP] The dungeon boss turns to face the adventuring party, only to instead see an OSHA inspector with a list of the dungeon's safety hazards. | The trickle of pebbles falling from the walls of the dungeon made Asha flinch. She had been in bad dungeons before, but this one took the cake. By a wide margin, she might add, observing the rusted spikes protruding from the walls. She wondered if their purpose was to support the walls or to impale intruders. Either wa... | "I faced a cliff without a barricade and a chance to fall into deep water as well. That alone could have this whole thing shut down. That was just my initial impression.
I won't even go into detail about the monsters. You seriously just let them roam around here picking on anyone who wanders in? Don't even pretend t... | 2019-10-21T08:50:36 | 2019-10-21T04:38:58 | 138 | 59 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "That thing will give you cancer," the man in the advertisement said with a smug grin. Jake moved on. He was use to it at this point. Anyways Nothing could top that time, nearly two years ago, when the President herself had mentioned him in the state of the union, highlighting the near perfect success of the anti-smoki... | I sit in the middle of a barren wasteland with cigerette in hand. So many have been lost before me, a faded anti-smoking ad stares in front of me. Should i just stop now? Put the cigarette down and try to rebuild our crumbled society.
I look up at the sign and then down at my cigarette.
I take a puff. | 2017-02-17T13:04:33 | 2017-02-17T11:51:00 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] As a psychic interrogator you've seen many people do many things to resist you reading their mind. Some use pain, some try to Marshall their thoughts, some even repeat a word or mantra ad nauseam. For the first time you're shocked at how someone did it. | [Part 1 of 2]
Ben tilted down his squared glasses, observing the man before him. “The silent treatment won’t work on me. I’m a psychic investigator. Even if you keep your mouth shut, I’ll still find out exactly what you’re hiding. If you confess now, I’m sure we can work out a plea deal. I hate to admit it, but using ... | "Now, the more you resist, the harder it would be for both of us," Claire said calmly. "And I really want it to make it a good experience for both of us."
"My wife was murdered and you want to make it good?" Said James, the victim's husband, stonily.
Claire winced. "That's not what I meant, Mr. Klaus. I apologize."
... | 2022-01-14T07:26:49 | 2022-01-14T06:45:06 | 298 | 128 |
[WP] The year us 3235. You live in a society that has discovered and perfected time travel. It is customary for people who turn 18 to spend a day in the present with their future selves. When it's your turn, you start to feel that the person you're talking to isn't really you. | I had a lot of expectations for meeting my future self. The government minder wasn't one of them.
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"Oh, don't worry," he'd told me when he showed up, "it's just a new ordinance. A man tried to kill his past self in a bizarre suicide attempt, caused a time paradox, cleanup took weeks. I'm just here to make... | The year is 3235, though you can't tell if you look out my window. It opens into a boulevard of old bougainvillea trees. They were brought to the city by early explorers to the North, maybe a few hundred years ago, maybe more. It's autumn, and the wind rustles through the leaves gentler than a hand caressing its finger... | 2019-05-23T15:47:57 | 2019-05-23T14:03:53 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] Humans suck at magic. No matter how anyone tries to explain it to them they can't seem to comprehend it. They suck, but they still do it. Awful at magic, but they don't seem to know that. To make it worse they still always seem to get their spells to do what they want. Humans suck at Magic? | "Do it again! Show them what you've shown to me," urged the High Elf.
"Do what?"
"The... the thing! The thing you did with your stick!"
"Wand?"
"Wand, cane, whatever you want to call it, just do it!"
"Okay then," I said, then waved my wand around. Its tip shone, as it always did when it was activated, and danced ... | "..as you all know, after what became known as 'The Yellow Tower Incident' human mages were outlawed from practising anything more than hedge magic, a type of lower magic that most Elven mages learn as children. It was a humiliating blow for humanity, and one that would lead to a startling upheaval in later years.
Wh... | 2021-09-30T00:42:44 | 2021-09-30T00:08:33 | 447 | 52 |
[WP] Describe an utopian and a dystopian society, which differ in only a single thing. | It is fear that was at the root of everything, nothing more.
It was said that at the beginning of time there were two brothers, the brothers were inseparable and spent all day running and playing in the woods, unafraid of anything or anyone.
One day, the two bothers were wrestling and one threw the other into a str... | It was a dream of a city.
They lived in great honeycombs of steel and chrome, living together in one communal structure. Living so close together, the bonds of society strengthened and grew. They shared their joys and divided their duties in this new world, working together to build a brighter day. They opened and spr... | 2015-02-12T08:42:09 | 2015-02-12T08:39:06 | 97 | 58 |
[WP]Someone has the ability to save and reload their life like a video game. One day something goes very wrong.
The person obviously keeps their memory and can ony have one save "file" at a time. I'll leave other details to the writer. | The hardest question for me to answer is "So, how old are you?" That one always gives me pause. I make a joke that I must be getting old since I can't remember and everyone has a laugh, but the truth is I just don't know. My drivers license says I'm 31 but I lost count of my true age somewhere around 1400. Or was it 12... | Three years, that’s how long I waited to use this power for her. Whenever I was dating a girl I would create the safe point right before I asked her to the first date. That way if things went badly, I could just erase it from my history. It was inconvenient at times, especially when I was in school, but the total lack ... | 2015-04-16T12:47:43 | 2015-04-16T08:26:23 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Commander Siren had dismissed the rumors.
Humans are a proud race. Though new amongst the stars with barely a few ships to their name, they have worked hard to integrate, to learn, to join that blasted Republic and all its artists and scientists. Even though they’ve never seen an alien in person before, they’d sti... | Mobile, so please forgive any formatting errors.
World War 3 had devastated the planet. The major cities turned to radioactive dust. 300 years later, we can still feel the effects of it. From South Jersey, in the distance, you can see the ruins on New York. Fortunately, the ICBM's forgot about New Jersey. The p... | 2019-02-26T12:17:07 | 2019-02-26T09:26:21 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] You're the best assassin in the business. You've taken hundreds of jobs, all of them succeeded without any hiccups. Your secret? You don't mess around with monologues, sneaking in, magic powers, seduction or anything fancy like that. you just find a nice sniper perch and take the shot. | Sam Yule scoffed as he watched his mark through the scope of his rifle. Benny was there, as expected. He had been elbowing up to that wealthy old man for weeks, the mop of red hair impossible to miss amidst the crowds of celebrities and the well to do at all the latest sorties. At least, all the ones frequented by Arla... | Strange request but I'll take it. I've been in the business for years now and I know my way around. Clients are usually strange people. Stranger than the targets. But not this time.
I was invited by an old woman to a mansion where we would talk. The first unusual occurrence. The mansion was huge. I ascended the stair... | 2020-11-08T14:13:49 | 2020-11-08T12:12:25 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | I didn't see the car coming. It was dark, they were driving too fast. Pretty sure there was alcohol involved but that's besides the point. What's done is done. I died and that's it. It's not so bad once you get used to it. The world looks the same, albeit slightly more boring than it was when I was alive. When you're o... | I knew he wouldn't understand why I didn't come home. He would sit and wait and wait and no one would ever come to the door. He wouldn't even try to keep himself alive. Just holding on to the hope that I would come home. I couldn't let him waste away. But who would help? Who could I turn to? Who would even care? I only... | 2022-07-15T12:19:09 | 2022-07-15T09:19:03 | 524 | 67 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | I could hear the muffled voice of Williams coming down the corridor. As he passed cell doors, I heard him saying to his companion the name of the inmate, the reason he was on “The Last Mile” and how long he’d been there. It was something I’d heard happening many times, a ritual or a routine whenever Williams had a visi... | The newspapers had written about her. Killing for her had been as simple as walking past a man and filling his nostrils with her flowery perfume. Her thick red hair was as if the blood of her victims had stained her soul, putting a permanent mark on her long, murderous past.
But now she was here, in this cell. She nev... | 2016-10-15T10:46:42 | 2016-10-15T09:06:23 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] They always warn about the dangers of traveling to the past and endangering the timeline. They never understood the power in going to future and wreaking havoc, only to return and have it never happen. A murderer with a clean conscience. Evil scientist indeed. | "Sir, are you sure this will work?" the uncertain voice of my second-in-command, Cyril, breaks me from my thoughts.
I look away from the screens depicting our forces marching on key cities across our enemies\` lines, our robot regiments backstopped by our bio-engineered supersoldiers and led by our technopath and supe... | What kind of hobby is there for a man who has all the time in the world?
For Fabian Tombs, he wanted to effect change. To the world, he already has: the man who discovered time travel. It would be the epitaph on his glorious gravestone--he checked--the introductory blurb on every screen he appears on, the men and wome... | 2021-08-22T10:26:54 | 2021-08-22T10:01:35 | 122 | 73 |
[WP] The instant the Dark Lord hears the prophecy about one destined to defeat him, he scoffs and notes "Standard self-fulfilling hero prophecy." before ordering his minions to go to the hero's hometown and build a bunch of public works projects, the most important of which is a school. | Velcroy the king of everlasting darkness was quite an enlightened fellow given his title.
"Sir! Sir, the prophecy, they have determined who will be the next hero of this land," Millrot, Velcroy's personal skin shifter, said.
Velcroy had the slimy-looking echo of a man watch the capital city of Juin. That was where th... | *The Dark Lord stood over the hero, his black armor pulling in the dying light of the fading sun.*
*“You thought you could defeat me,” the Dark Lord said, his laughter peeled across the ruined landscape.*
*The hero tried to get up one last time, his jeweled claymore hanging heavy in his hand, but the Dark Lord kicked... | 2021-01-14T18:52:56 | 2021-01-14T18:51:30 | 292 | 166 |
[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... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | The world went to shit the moment we all got powers. People saw that this was their chance to climb social ladders.
At first the powered people killed all the nonpowered people.
Only people close within rank can marry and have children.
Then came the children, who were even more powerful than their parents.
And they... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T12:43:48 | 996 | 172 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Am I the hero or am I the villain? I've been asking myself that question for as long as I can remember. But before you help me, how about some history?
You see, before the rapture, life was bland. For most, they stuck to a daily routine. They lived in a life full of possibility but remained stagnant in their ambition.... | My head rebounds off worn red brick after Jackson threw me into the outside wall of the teacher's office. His cronies hold my arms to the wall as Jackson puts his sigil to use, cutting my shirt to ribbons with swipes of his fingers to reveal my sigil, his careless cruelty leaves many shallow cuts on me by the time my s... | 2020-02-26T08:01:07 | 2020-02-26T07:22:21 | 99 | 46 |
[WP] When you die you are sent to purgatory, a room of doors where you can select your afterlife. There are all the commonly believed afterlifes, reincarnation, heaven and hell, even null. You open the dusty unused door. | I didn't know what I expected to see when I opened my eyes, but it was definitely not doors and a single... being. It vaguely looked human, but it couldn't have been. How did I know? Inexplicable as it was, I knew deep in my heart that the person standing in front of me was nothing as boring as an ordinary human.
"You... | Angelica brushes her hand against her jeans in anticipation of the dust against her skin. Biting her glossy pink lip, she pushes open the door to her afterlife.
She emerges from a rocky cave and finds herself on a wide mountaintop. A tall, muscular man with a discus turns mid-throw to face her, and his eyes bulge.
"... | 2020-07-31T09:05:18 | 2020-07-31T08:53:04 | 63 | 18 |
[WP] A Vampire out for a nightly stroll spots a painter who wishes to draw her. Since she hasn't seen herself in thousands of years due to mirrors not working, she sits | *(Author's Note: I took some fictional liberties with the artist in question, just because I got too caught up in the story to get bogged down in research!)*
“You wish to draw me?” she asked, both amused and intrigued by the prospect.
The young man nodded vigorously, sending a sheaf of dark brown hair flopping over h... | "And it is for free? You'll not take any money?" she asked.
"Yes, madam. You mentioned that it is your birthday today. This is the least I can do," the painter said, tipping his hat and smiling.
Lilith felt bad. She had called over a painter to her house solely to consume his blood and feast on the fat painter, but... | 2020-01-29T00:04:33 | 2020-01-28T21:56:51 | 54 | 32 |
[WP] The hero and villain are roommates but don't know each other's secret identities. Come up with excuses for each other's injuries and describe a normal day. | “Mornin’”
I turn around from the mirror, fingers still gently resting on the bruise next to my eye. A couple of steps away stood Marc, my roommate, carrying a cup of coffee as always.
Luckily for me, I’m a morning person. Unlike my usually grumpy flatmate, I’ve grown to handle the early hours fairly well, even thoug... | I was walking past Sam's room when I saw he had an odd looking bruise on his knee. I asked him where he got it, and he replied with "soccer". The odd thing is Sam doesn't play soccer. An odd bruise and an odd excuse. I knew something was up. It was when I was relaxing in the tub later that evening that it hit me. That ... | 2018-08-08T03:13:45 | 2018-08-08T02:05:42 | 138 | 52 |
[WP] In an alternate world, every individual is granted a superpower of their choice when they turn sixteen. There's only one problem - there can only ever be one person with a particular superpower, like superstrength. This has forced people to get .... creative. | In the year 2076 A.D. the serum was created to change the world. This serum granted superhuman powers to wbomever received it. Not just strength or speed but powers only seen in movies. The serum was administered to every person 20 years of age at the time and every person that turned 16 afterwards. 30 years later and ... | The list was exhausting to look at. All these superpowers...
Russell had a clever friend, Frege, whose power referred to the superpowers. Being a computer scientist, Frege simply asked to, given a superpower, know if somebody had it. He was popular. He got favors from all sorts of other people who had more useful powe... | 2018-12-04T11:28:02 | 2018-12-04T10:21:17 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Sat around the peace gathering with the kings of the Neighboring cities, you are offered a drink. Upon taking a sip, you taste a familiar poison that you have become immune to over the years. Chaos ensues. | | My eyebrow raised just a little; the familiar taste of... Skullivy? No. Its cousin Sumakivy. My hand clenched the cup a bit harder as my throat objected a bit to the paralyzing substance, then let it slide in. That would mean a sore throat for the coming week. Such an annoyance...
Now, you must understand that the... | "I lay on the floor, trying not to breath, fighting the urge to flee as they made their way among the limp bodies that littered the chamber floor. There were at least ten yards between myself and the exit. My men, if they were still alive, would be in the courtyard. I did not count on their chances however. Whatever in... | 2016-11-03T07:44:30 | 2016-11-03T06:20:28 | 40 | 20 |
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