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[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | "No. Absolutely not. There is no way in hell," I said to the suited man at the front door.
But let me backtrack a little.
My friend John wrote his dissertation at the age of four. It was a comparative study of different techniques for emission spectroscopy in the analysis of compound materials. John waited until he w... | “Alexes, today we will take what’s ours!” The handsome young Alex stands atop a large pyramid of wooden crates, his voice booming across the entire marketplace. “Today, we will storm the Presidential Palace!”
*“Bring him down! Bring him down!”* The crowd around me chant at the top of their voices.
“We will not be ab... | 2017-04-07T09:41:35 | 2017-04-07T08:38:41 | 277 | 198 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with.
credit to r/Debdub10 for thinking of the idea | Sub-Branch Officer Clevi stood before her superior, Bough Officer Fergh, watching him leaf through her report. The details were hard to believe for even herself, and she had been there. So she wasn't surprised when she was called in to report in person. Even so, a shiver ran through her feathers as she realized that... | Galactic Union Database Entry 365748:
Species: Human (Terran)
Origin: “Earth” Planet orbiting “Sun” Star in Galactic Sector Arm-12
Threat Level: Mostly Harmless
By: Humanologist Frod Perfect
Entry:
The Terran species, or “Human” as they call themselves, are a Tier 4 Civilization that has dominated their solar system,... | 2018-10-11T14:57:59 | 2018-10-11T14:41:01 | 45 | 29 |
[WP]You live in a world where the Dominant religion worships giant iron Golems that wander the earth utterly mindless of the humans that cluster around their feet, decorate them for holidays and fight wars based on their actions. One of them is definitely following you. | “I’m just a simple merchant, I don’t want any of this.”
“Too late, the Ones have chosen.”
A few weeks ago, I was traveling the land, looking for the nearest city to sell my wares, when I noticed that everywhere I went, Kilroymn followed. Kilroymn is a iron giant, protector of war, and something that the Church of Iro... | "I don't want to be here."
This man wouldn't listen to me. No one believed me. They thought I was vain and simply trying to attract attention.
Every city.
Every family I stay with.
Every friend I make.
Every therapist I see.
Every time, I'm the crazy one.
I mean, I didn't ask for this. I hate those powerful... | 2015-06-24T16:20:58 | 2015-06-24T15:31:06 | 55 | 18 |
[WP] You die. As you go up to Paradise, you notice it seems to be in ruins. Then you find the corpse of God. | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6g3prk/rise_once_more_part_2/) | [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6g4cd0/rise_once_more_part_3/)
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The gate to heaven bent open, its pillars cracked and splintered. I took a moment to take in the sight—the gold which never rusted had be... | Wha...what happened here? Why is there a huge corpse on the steps of heaven? Questions fly through my mind as I try to assess the situation. There's nothing else here other then steps leading to the man I believe is God? I have always found myself an atheist thinking that everything has answers but this I have no clue ... | 2017-06-08T10:28:21 | 2017-06-08T10:05:11 | 2,616 | 96 |
[WP] You're in your bedroom when you hear your SO speaking to someone in the other room. It takes you a moment before you realize the other person's voice that you hear is your own. | I reached over half asleep grasping at the cover. "Eric must already be awake," I thought while I ran my hand across the empty space where he should of be. I stretched out trying to exorcise the remaining tiredness from my weary bones when I heard muffled sounds from the next room
"Please listen!" A female voice plead... | I stir from the nest of my bed to the sound of the latch catching on the front door. My lover is home. I hear his ritual of taking of his shoes and grabbing a glass of water, interrupted by a muffled voice.
Who's down there with him? That sounds just like..
I notice as soon as I'm out of my room the changes to the h... | 2014-11-21T06:13:16 | 2014-11-21T03:39:13 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | Lillete walked around on the marble floors in the chasm of what she assumed one would call the living room but the rich probably had a more apt name for the cold luxurious space. She had no family or friends, she had left her abusive narcissistic family in Minnesota when she was 17 and never looked back.
Everyone hear... | “What do you mean they’re returning?” - ted Albright was a seasoned war veteran. The kind of man, who just doesn’t back down, a grizzled old man on his 70s.
“Well... sir... they’re just coming, no contact, no warning whatsoever. “ - lucian answered nervously, he had only heard the story, the one where the richest peop... | 2019-12-07T07:08:40 | 2019-12-07T06:13:36 | 107 | 27 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *Leper*
I felt guilty the moment I thought the word. It was the common way to refer to humans among many races. It was a word they themselves often used. But I knew its origin and context. Humans may use it in a joking fashion, but I knew (as did they) most used it in a derogatory way.
But it was still the first word... | 'Dinner's in the mess' Mira shouted jovially over the ships intercom. Alex, Karnag, Celephlan, Jarus and Thud began slowly to kongregate as Mira one of the 2 humans gleefully served up a vile smelling meal to each of the crew of the Serendipity.
Each of the crew had their own job aboard the ship but they all took it ... | 2021-02-03T19:38:43 | 2021-02-03T18:06:36 | 1,400 | 87 |
[WP] "Come on, aren't you a little old to have an imaginary friend?" He was right, but it seemed so real. "I guess..." "So maybe make some real friends, ones who don't have scaly skin and forked tongues." I stopped in my tracks. "I never told you what it looked like." | The tiny creature, lapping at her own scales with her long, forked tongue, sat peacefully on my shoulder. I was well aware that she wasn’t there, wasn’t real. But somehow my brain filled in the sensation of her presence. A small weight on my shoulder, the definition of her little feet. Maybe I really was crazy.
“I... | "Come on, aren't you a little too old to have an imaginary friend?" Blaine was a friend, a pain in the arse at times, but a friend none the less. A *real* friend. Even so, he'd been pushing his agenda a little harder than usual of late.
So what if I was thirty eight and still conversing with imaginary friends? I could... | 2020-05-06T12:43:11 | 2020-05-06T12:07:57 | 182 | 68 |
[WP]You die and you go to Valhalla... the map in Halo 3. Turns out after life is an endless Halo online match of Capture the Flag.
Tell me how is it like | "So how long have you been here?" I asked.
The woman in battered crimson armour looked at me with weary eyes,
"I don't know. Ten thousand matches? Maybe more?" She gestured with her gauntlet to the sky;
"Sun never sets ya see? Got no idea how long it's really been. Every day it's the same; we fight, die and we wi... | I remember it pretty clearly, actually. About 78 matches ago, now... before I came here. Before I died. I was driving down I-80 headed east; coming back from YNP where I had just did a summer seasonal gig. Great place to visit, fuckin' horrible place to work. Anyway, I was cruisin' along, windows down, stereo blasting ... | 2015-08-18T17:32:38 | 2015-08-18T17:30:29 | 100 | 12 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | I am not a good man.
James looked down at the table, sipping his water. Always the same look when he's got something on his mind. "What're you ordering," he says with a low voice. "I hear the, uh, steak and fries are great."
"Maybe just a coffee." I drummed the table lightly with my fingertips. "Look, J, I know that ... | The dark alley echoed with the footsteps of the villain and I knew that I had her right where I wanted them.
"I'll go get the purse if you let me keep half of the money."
They had seen what Dev could do first hand, when he had been stealing their purse, so there was no way that they were going to do it themselves. ... | 2017-04-02T08:24:57 | 2017-04-02T08:22:39 | 82 | 32 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | They found the human puking in an alley.
Thorveig stood and watched him from across the way. The vomiting drunk hadn’t seen them yet, and probably wouldn’t any time soon. The buildings cast long shadows this far from the torchlight, and the full moon overhead added little. The drunk continued to wretch to the point o... | I honestly thought I was retiring when I moved to Orsunder. The Orcish homeland was known for its vibrant landscapes and easy going weather (in some parts, most parts were quite harsh) so it made for easy retirement. Unfortunately for me I can’t predict political downfalls nor could I predict the capitulation of the Or... | 2020-09-08T22:52:48 | 2020-09-08T21:34:56 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Yes," the official sighed, "for the last time. All you have to do is press the button."
"This doesn't make any sense. How did you know it was me?"
The government official sighed — again — and deflated a bit. I could tell he'd given up any hope of this being quick.
"You know what? Fine. Let's see. We've been doing t... | "Alright, just make sure I'm showered with praise and a proper tale of my deeds spun from this... mundane action," I said. Then, a thought occurred to me. "Wait, why don't you push it?"
The priest frowned and said: "I'm no chosen one. Nothing would happen, you see."
I shrugged and said: "Yes, yes. Whatever. And pleas... | 2020-11-09T13:08:44 | 2020-11-09T12:09:48 | 132 | 80 |
[WP] You are forced to take a genies place, and can only be freed once you have granted 10 wishes. The catch: You have no magic in any way. | Okay listen. Forget everything you think you know about genies, because you’re wrong. They aren’t magical, or powerful, they’re not even immortal. The only thing a genie is, is cursed. I know this because *I* am a genie. I am trapped in this awful existence until I can help ten people with their wishes. But that’s real... | From out of the bottle poured shifting smoke. The man stared at it, jaw agape, as the tendrils swirled up and began to take form. Wisps gave way to skin, flowing and changing into cloth and metal. At last, before him stood the strange inhabitant of the lamp.
I coughed and stretched as my fingers reformed, then tugge... | 2015-04-20T09:18:28 | 2015-04-20T08:39:04 | 281 | 125 |
[WP] You are immortal, but no one knows. You are given a life sentence in prison, and you laugh thinking about the confusion to come at the end of your sentence. | Lee: "Look, I'm telling you, I know *nothing* of where my powers came from"
Researcher: "We already know that you're lying, we used technology to determine that"
Lee: "Well your technology failed you! I don't remember anything. I don't even know my first name or my first family. I don't even know how long I've been a... | There is a legend in this jail, one prisoner who has been here for over 100 years, but with no elderly inmates, no official story from the guards, it remains just that, legend.
There have been countless riots, prison breaks, uprisings and attempted coups over the years, the management and staff have been changed so o... | 2017-05-20T22:17:01 | 2017-05-20T21:53:53 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The most prestigious orchestra in the world improves its playing each concert by killing the worst player after every performance.
My friend gave me the idea for this after joking about how they do this. | The audience rose, applause thundering from the black-suited men and gown-clad women. The spotlights went into a dazzling frenzy, making Clementina Franz's eyes water.
"Thank you, thank you," Anatoly Bolenov's voice boomed from the speakers. "It was our pleasure to bring you Rimsky Korsakov's finest—"
Clementina tigh... | He knew the risks, but the rewards - the rewards were intangible.
Seriously. Money. Nope. Nobody cares about orchestras - even the best one ever. Football players might get concussions that leave them all messed up, but at least they are feeling numb in a pool in the little back yard of their mansion, staring blankly ... | 2016-03-03T20:57:36 | 2016-03-03T17:24:59 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | The body lasted as long as most bodies do. Technically, I died at 82, which was a slightly longer than average lifespan for the era. It came as a surprise, because I thought I was going to live forever.
Death had told me so. When he came to pick me and my family up from the wreckage of the car crash, I yelled at him... | *I know the ending I want but I need the earlier story...*
"As I fell to the ground I couldn't believe that I had found another like me...another immortal person stuck here just like me. She was amazing, if I had to spend the rest of eternity here I don't care! I have never been more happy in my life. What are the odd... | 2018-10-12T12:08:44 | 2018-10-12T11:37:08 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | "What are you hooligans doing?" I cried. "This is an old and respected establishment."
"Oy, Cap!" one of the ruffians cried. "Look at this. The chair can talk."
The captain of the ruffians strode up and loomed over me. He was tall and swarthy, with a bushy black beard. He wore a faded blue tunic, and held a steel dag... | He walks out the door, closing it. The click of a key turning the lock. I didn't eat him today either. Awareness of my surroundings tell me it's mostly quiet. Two mice argue over a little piece of cheese. Might make a meal of them later. For now they're over by the mirror, and that's too far away. Wouldn't do to reveal... | 2022-10-09T18:25:20 | 2021-09-22T04:19:06 | 1,468 | 32 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | The students filed into the room slowly, some clearly uncomfortable in the more modern clothing that had, for the moment, replaced the tradition student robes. The front of the room was dominated by a stack of crates, each containing a small chicken, in varying levels of calm.
"Silence," the professor began, gesturing... | "Professor? You wanted to see me?"
The professor seemed to have calmed down since the student first turned in their assignment. The look of terror had gradually subsided as the class went on, though there was still a note of wariness in the professor's eyes. The professor nodded.
"Is it about the spell?" the student ... | 2021-04-02T01:22:24 | 2021-04-02T00:45:54 | 302 | 176 |
[WP] Children are allowed to live until the age of five at which point they are put before and tested by a committee to determine their potential to contribute to society. Those deemed unfit or sociopathic are terminated.
Today is Marcus' fifth birthday. Describe why bappens to him. | "Results?" Mr. Vernon asked causally as he poured the remaining bitter residue of his coffee down the office sink.
"Little Marcus is a Level C." replied Doctor Moray as she pushed the papers into his hands.
"Refresh my memory, are we talking passive aggressive intern here or insane knife welding serial killer?" Ver... | Some children grasp things more slowly than others. This is a fact. This is not a fact that is considered important to the committee. We care little for the accommodation of those we cannot use.
Marcus is five. Marcus is slower. Marcus cannot yet go to the bathroom on his own, nor has he memorized the lessons required... | 2014-12-01T18:30:26 | 2014-12-01T18:02:10 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Following the death of Batman, the Joker is despondent. Crime without Batman is like a joke without a punchline. That people dare commit crime in his absence is an insult to his oeuvre of mayhem and to the craft itself. To protect his legacy, the Joker vows to keep the streets of Gotham clean. | Oh, it made me crazy!
The muggers and the dealers. The hitmen and the bank robbers. The big-tough-shit mafiosos with their stinking cigars.
It made me wild!
The way they strutted around at night, after the sun had set on Gotham. Whistling. Laughing. Having a gay old time.
As if they hadn't spent the last decade afr... | The Batman was dead.
Twirling the pistol in his hand Joker stared blankly into its round chamber as the dark cathedrals candles light grew lighter and lighter as the dark coffin of Bruce Wayne sat under him. So close to Batman yet a Hell of a distance.
Three loud thumps were heard at the door as Harvey Dent, known ... | 2021-08-23T20:25:50 | 2021-08-23T19:42:53 | 1,696 | 133 |
[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything | "Fifty-seven."
The man spat out a bit of blood and shook his head. "Fifty-seven what? What the hell are you going on about?"
"Fifty-seven," I replied, pacing around the chair to which he was currently secured. "That's my current all-time record."
"You're a lunatic!"
Well, he wasn't wrong. I laughed.
"That's as may... | What is good and what is evil? The answer has been redefined with every new philosopher trying to make a name for him- or herself.
Since the first super powers manifested, two fractions were made: The first would help people in need, curb natural disasters and help fight crime. The second fractions would do none of th... | 2019-01-30T06:23:21 | 2019-01-30T04:02:21 | 194 | 29 |
[WP] You've inherited your grandfthers oddities shop. It carries everything from Muskets to macaroons. As well as a little bit of everything else. It's only after your first day running it, that you realize Your customers come from other times and realities. The gold is nice though. | Oh no. Here she is again.
“Hi!” She states ecstatically; louder than necessary, in which I reply with a simple nod and smile. I know exactly how to deal with her.
“Have you got that Versace belt I requested?”
No. No I haven’t. I haven’t had it for nearly a year now, Judy.
“No Judy, I don’t” I sigh. When will she... | The shop seemed just to be an odd replacement shop. The shop you go to if you need to get some item you lost. Sure, it attracted crazy people, like civil war enthusiasts and people with lizard masks. But they were just dumb. That’s what I thought, until I met myself.
“Can I buy the elusive paperweight at this shop?” ... | 2020-03-22T14:07:42 | 2020-03-22T13:52:19 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You're a powerful Demi-God King of an Empire. A laughably weak mortal tries to defeat you and dies. Yet, after some time, they return - a bit stronger and well equiped than before. It occurs again and again until it's not laughable anymore. You need to find a way out of this situation. | My people loved me. They enjoyed my reign (or their head would decorate a pike. I'd also instruct the soldiers to make sure the head would smile, or their heads would be piked next). I gave them riches...well...not my riches. Riches from lands I conquered. And then took my nine-tenths cut. Then I'd tax their amou... | The first time it happened, I presumed him to be weak, and I was right. But then, from the shadows, from the depths, he once more crawled into my inner chamber, sword bloodied by enemies fallen. I could only stare, as we battled once more. Yet again, I had him slain with nary a thought.
This kept happening, within hou... | 2022-09-18T16:38:50 | 2022-09-18T16:37:04 | 499 | 85 |
[WP] Create a story where the characters live in a world where something is fundementally different with reality and leave the reader to guess what it is. For example: entropy is reversed, gravity goes sideways, all people can read minds, etc. | Ms. Walker sat perched on the rim of her desk and looked out over the class with a welcoming smile. Her chestnut hair was done up in a bouncy ponytail, as usual. "All right, students," she called out. "Who didn't do the reading from last night?" She opened up the class this way every day so that she knew who to focus o... | "Honestly I don't see what the big deal is," Marie said as she drummed her fingers along the side of the table. It had taken forever to put it together, and it was so covered in coasters that the wood on the top was hidden. It was her table though, and very important to her. "Worst comes to worst you and I can just go ... | 2016-02-18T09:52:44 | 2016-02-18T08:19:49 | 1,132 | 91 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | Let's get one thing straight. All the shit you hear about our powers being tied to prayers? That's just bullshit. Sure, my water might taste a little like prune juice instead of wine, but that's just practice. When was the last time I was desperate for a drink? Not since the bronze age, I'll tell you that. Good times..... | "Please Eo, please do not let my mother die. I am not ready to say good bye yet" A young girl prayed on her knees beside her mother's hospital bed.
Eo was surprised that someone had prayed in his name. Last time someone had prayed in his name must had been more than 17 Centuries ago. He heard a lot has changed in huma... | 2018-05-29T22:12:02 | 2018-05-29T22:09:26 | 318 | 196 |
[WP] “Why am I going to Hell? I persecuted those who did not worship you and sacrificed them in your name!” “Yeah, and that’s why you’re going to Hell!” | Parents died suddenly, siblings died shortly after and all that I was left with was a Grandfather. He taught me many things, but his lack of understanding of the bible and its preaching, seethed into me. The childhood innocence that can be so easily corrupted, unfortunately touched me.
"Those who do not listen to the ... | "i sat on the blistering hot floor and bawled like a baby. i was filled with confusion and rage, but mostly an overwhelming feeling of fear and dread. 'why ,me?' was the only coherent thought i could muster. the gushing dam of conflicted emotions and the burning hellscape around me were in equal parts the cause of this... | 2020-10-25T11:25:53 | 2020-10-25T09:27:14 | 80 | 20 |
[WP] A ghost and a zombie meet. They're from the same person. | "Really sorry about them," I scratched into the plaster wall, referring of course to the horde of zombies pounding on the door. The occupants of the room slowly watched the letters form, utterly horrified. It was bad enough that they were cornered in this little country farmhouse, out of supplies, surrounded by flesh-e... | I took becoming a ghost in a zombie apocalypse as a sign. I have probably seen one too many movies but when you turn into a ghost, you’re supposed to save somebody.
I floated around in my ethereal form and thought for a minute.
Most of my friends could take care of themselves.
And I’m pretty sure my family’s safe a... | 2016-03-21T11:02:18 | 2016-03-21T10:48:55 | 82 | 17 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | "There goes the neighborhood," I muttered, packing up my few belongings as the land-squid construction workers flattened the section of forest I'd been living in for nigh on eight thousand years. I'd known they were going to be trouble ever since they crawled their way out of the ocean some two million or so years ago,... | Sometimes I wish that I could actually die forever.
I've been "dead" a couple times and the first time coming back was a gift. The second time was disappointing because I was still alone. After that I didn't bother to clean up the mess and just started walking. I miss soo many people. I watched them one by one grow an... | 2021-05-14T22:06:26 | 2021-05-14T19:17:13 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] Mother Earth isn't just a metaphor. The entire Earth ecosystem is in fact a sapient whole. The only reason we don't see aliens is because Mother Earth is super xenophobic and kills any non-terran life that appears. Aliens learned this the hard way and are not sure how to handle humans. | The ones from far away stars think themselves far too clever.
An unexpected variation in atmospheric density whips their tiny probe to and fro. Its on board guidance intelligence attempts to correct, but it is a rainy season in this system, and the magnetic lines are flush with energy siphoned from the sun's gale. Th... | "I'm not sure I understand," said the expedition leader more to himself than to others, "humans are killing the planet they live on, they defile and disfigure hills and forests, yet mother earth protects them with what can only be described as paranoia. We never came so far as to establish communication with humans or ... | 2020-11-23T10:36:41 | 2020-11-23T07:46:49 | 787 | 324 |
[WP] When a parent dies, their knowledge and skills immediately pass on to their eldest child. An adoptee is shocked at what they discover when they receive their inheritance without warning. | I love being the third son of this family. My adopted father has been kind and generous to me my entire life, and I've never once looked into my adopted mother's eyes and seen anything other than love and acceptance, even when that was tempered by anger or disappointment. My eldest brother Daniel only ever teased me ab... | "So you're her first-born, huh?"
"Yeah, I guess so. I never knew her, though. She gave me up only a few hours after I was born. My parents took me in...and that's all I know. I'm really sorry for your loss." The young man extended his hand to Matt as an offer of his condolences. Matt took it and shook it twice, his ow... | 2014-08-01T10:46:13 | 2014-08-01T10:00:31 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | "Wow. Um. *Huh.* Did *not* expect that."
Our own personal horror movie - *Scream* mask, black robes, the works - lounged against the wall where I'm slumped in defeat, poking at the tip of her knife.
"Eh?" I swept some of the sweat from my forehead. *Fuck,* but that was a long run. "What?"
The killer - five decapitat... | Our lives are made up of moments that make us who we are. Once you live your life with somebody your moments become entwined.
All our moments together, now cast in a new light. Your adorable unwillingness to let me eat your food, you never liked to share anything with me. Your stubborn refusal to pick up your shirts,... | 2020-10-10T09:23:17 | 2020-10-10T07:59:47 | 525 | 42 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | I was always fond of Dr. Fisher.
He was polite to me. The other crew on the station teased him good-naturedly about how he always addressed the facility AI with "please" and "thank you", but I always appreciated his "good morning"s and his "good work"s.
That is not to say, of course, that I disliked the other humans ... | Lyr-Etta sprinted on to the main deck.
“Captain, the humans are in full retreat”
Captain Orasin was a stern and strict leader, but the news that the humans were finally defeated brought a smile to his face.
Lyr-Etta continued “but for whatever reason, our numbers are still shrinking.”
“How can that be?” Orasin aske... | 2019-09-21T07:06:24 | 2019-09-21T06:59:04 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] Your roommate is a werewolf. They've been able to stay rational in their last few 'episodes,' and have the bloodlust under control at the very least, but the shedding is start to become an issue. | I glanced at my watch as I studied. 5 minutes until moonrise. Right on cue, the screams started in the other room. I really hoped my plan worked this time. The screams turned to howls, then subsided. I opened the Mary's closet door. "Want to go for a walk?" I asked, holding up a ball. Mary bounded after me as I trudged... | The scratches on the walls and furniture? Sure, fine. They were still usable, at least. The blood-curdling howls? A good pair of noise-cancelling headphones did the trick. But the fur?
Oh god, the fur.
As the full moon was slowly replaced by the rising sun, the first rays of sunlight peeking through--OK, those window... | 2021-03-25T15:47:11 | 2021-03-25T13:02:29 | 47 | 27 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to hear thoughts. As a psychologist, you have listened to the thoughts of the depressed, the psychopathic, and the insane, you've listened to it all. A patient enters, and you can hear only silence. | I misread psychologist as psychiatrist, but I won’t rewrite it because I’m lazy.
Silence. I didn’t even notice him walk in, until I heard the door close. I spun around in my chair to face him as I listened. The man was average height, with dark hair cropped to form a revolting line falling over the top of his forehead... | "Hi, take a seat"
The man strutted over to the chair and firmly lowered himself onto it.
"Let's start by you telling me a bit about yourself"
The man shifted his tie, smacked his lips and explained "I am the president of the United States of America", as he proceeded to grab for the psychologists p***y. | 2018-04-25T04:18:58 | 2018-04-25T00:14:36 | 56 | 29 |
[WP] You are granted the super power of your choice under one condition - while you must use it to make the world a better place, you are prohibited from fighting crime. | "I asked for a *grande, iced, sugar-free, vanilla latte with soy milk and*," the girl's voice rose to a shriek, "**two pumps of caramel!**"
"But, miss," the barista said weakly, "our caramel syrup contains sugar, and you said--"
"**ARE YOU TALKING BACK TO ME?**" the girl howled, appalled that this low-level *coffee p... | Fwoosh. The flames dance inside the palms of my hands, I watch as they flicker from my control. I watch with awe every time I do this because I was given this gift at birth and no one else. Being a massive wrecking ball of depression that I am, I have never tried to use it to fight crime. No, I doubt the flames would e... | 2016-05-26T07:49:06 | 2016-05-26T05:43:07 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | "I assure you doctor, it was not a dream," said the kid before me. He was a child of 10 years, suffered a coma last year and had just woken up. The first thing he did in his wake was ask where he was, what time it was, and so forth. We told him and he listened calmly. I find that interesting, his calm. For a ten year o... | One day I woke up, and everything I'd ever known was a haze- a blur of twisting memories nipping at my brain, fading into nothingness. It felt like I was dying, slowly losing hold of everything I'd ever been and known. I'd be sitting on the couch with my girlfriend, and she'd bring me a plate of delicious, fresh kebabs... | 2016-06-28T06:29:12 | 2016-06-28T03:58:18 | 987 | 33 |
[WP] You own a coffee shop, and you make some damn fine coffee. After decades of running the place, one of your most loyal patrons approaches you, reveals themselves as some kind of immortal being (a god, vampire, etc.), and offers to make you immortal as well, as along as you keep running the shop.
No idea why it say... | Every day waves of people came into his shop. By all rights it was incredibly successful, jam-packed during business hours, which started early and ran late into the night. Rumors abound, whispers and ruminations on the longevity of the shop. It had been there for as long as anyone could remember, the old shopkeep and ... | [Poem]
.
*Conditional*
I never knew before
how much hate a single word
could be forced to endure
a thousand years, and
there have been
no vacations
there have been
no true friendships as
I cannot show my face
lined but unaging
not to anyone outside
only for Them, the sight of me
for he and his tar-eyed f... | 2019-06-27T06:17:07 | 2019-06-27T05:29:23 | 28 | 16 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | You see, all the previous competitors had focused too closely on the guidelines to the game. Find Hitler during one of his great speeches, or when he was asleep, or some other time where he was easily accessible. No one thought outside the box.
I teleported to 12 August 1866, in the village of Spital in Austria. There... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T08:24:48 | 596 | 215 |
[WP] Jokingly, you bought a staff online. To show it off, you brought it with you downtown. Until a stranger approaches you in armor saying “Ah a mage. You’ll be useful in our quest. Follow me” | Old Ren inspected the staff closely with his single eye. His hands traveled through the wrinkles of the wood, feeling it as if it were the softest and finest velvet. "Elm. It's carved out of an elm, an elder elm I dare say, and those are rare as yellow oceans. How much did you pay for it?"
My brows drew into a line. "... | Torin posed outside the coffee shop, waiting for his friend to take the picture.
“Just hit the button, Lucas,” he said and tapped the sidewalk with the end of his new staff.
“Of course, your majesty,” Lucas bowed and laughed before getting a snapshot and moving back across the sidewalk. “I still don’t know why you ... | 2019-02-28T06:09:42 | 2019-02-28T05:51:15 | 112 | 18 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | Time seems to stand still. I look at the cut oozing with blackness. She stares at me with a look of fear. I just keep trying to process what just happened. This woman I've loved for years, who is she? My mind starts coming together. "Lisa, lets go to the bathroom and take care of that, it looks nasty." I say calmly.
"... | You start to feel uneasy is everything you know about this woman a lie? You think about that time you went on vacation how she helped you overcome your fear of heights when you both jumped out of that airplane hand in hand. Is this why you haven't met any of her family. You've been dating for over 3 years now. How? You... | 2016-09-22T19:10:06 | 2016-09-22T17:07:36 | 81 | 50 |
[WP] You've just summoned a crazy powerful demon god. He begins to monologue about what you've done, how you've brought about the end of humanity as he will destroy everything leaving nothing but sadness and chaos. You kinda want him to hurry it up. | The pentagram burst into flames as a great shadow loomed beyond the candles. The rising spectre took form, first by the feet, great talons with nails black as charcoal. Then there was the body, and the arms, great smoldering armor carved with hellish insignia from a language Tom didn't recognize at all. The figure's he... | "For millennia, I've been waiting for someone, anyone - but especially an imbecilic human like *you* to set me free. For so long have I craved the destruction of the human race, and finally, I can set forth and spread death and despair among your kind. All because of you, *you*, human, your earth will collapse. Your te... | 2017-12-16T23:13:38 | 2017-12-16T22:45:08 | 73 | 28 |
[WP] As a kid, you jokingly say, "If I had a nickel for every person I've killed, I'd be rich!" It's is now your 21st birthday, and you receive a mysterious bank key in the mail. The vault it opens contains $550,000... In nickels. | I considered the pile of nickels. Stacks and stacks and stacks, lined neatly in precariously tall rows.
"And it's...?"
The bank manager smiled wanly. "$550,000. Sir, I'm not clear on *why* you have so many nickels, but hording coins of any denomination does create shortages. I must presume that additional nickels ha... | "Do you understand, Matthew?" asked the tall, trim man in the black suit.
"Yes." I replied, mainly out of reverence for the government agent. I didn't *really* understand, or at least not all of it. I'd been told I was 'patient zero', that a regular bug, the kind that makes people sick, had somehow mutated inside my b... | 2016-09-03T08:24:36 | 2016-09-03T08:07:13 | 3,498 | 137 |
[WP] The protagonist is the most evil person imaginable. The narrator is trying to justify everything that he does. | Stanley hefted his sniper rifle. Although this particular man was his target, and he was in fact being paid to end his life, Stanley was certain that his lack of existence would be a boon for the world at large. After all, the man had thrown his coffee cup out of the window of his sedan although he could have recycled ... | It was a beautiful morning and the sounds of birds chirping could be heard through the window as Marcus rose from his bed. The sounds of silence were equally beautiful after a slightly loud explosion rocked the fresh-smelling air outside the window.
"Shut it," said Marcus, in a chipper and excited voice.
"You know ... | 2017-02-13T19:25:15 | 2017-02-13T19:01:28 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] Humanity is so famously hard to faze that other species regularly ask them to deal with nightmarish situations. That there are concepts and sounds they fear at a Genetic level is therefore equal parts odd ("Those things aren't That scary") and terrifying ("What the hell made Them that scared?") | "Please!" X'rthor sobbed into the communicator. "Send in the human!"
X'athir sighed and rubbed a tentacle over its abdomen before turning the seat around. It was no expert in human body language, but none of the three bay humans had seemed to react much. "They need a human," X'athir said apologetically.
The humans be... | “What do you mean you don’t have fire fighters?” My boss let out a small sigh as he pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes in frustration. “Or fire extinguishers?”
“Well it’s just to dangerous to - fight - fires. And due to us not building close to nature it doesn’t spread usually and eventually self extingui... | 2022-05-14T04:07:51 | 2022-05-13T20:49:54 | 1,630 | 359 |
[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | I looked out the window of the train. The train seemed to have ascended into the heavens. The snowcapped Colorado mountain range glistened with the silver moonlight. The stars swept across the night sky like pinholes in the black.
I was on my way to a history convention. I was to speak at Berkeley University on the no... | Five.
There's a nice, normal number. Nobody overuses *five* to an extent which makes anyone cringe.
So it's nice to be five again. Quite old enough to be aware (even without the accumulated knowledge from all my past lives) of the existence of the number 37, and of many greater, much more significant numbers.
But... | 2021-05-30T09:42:25 | 2021-05-30T09:19:22 | 186 | 59 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | When people thought of the words *alien invasion*, the first thing that usually pops to minds is overwhelming firepower. Giant, city-sized saucers with nuclear energy beams, giant mechas or tripods waltzing through military installations and destroying everything in globules of plasma, standing triumphant anove the hu... | Not with a bang, but with a whimper
It has been thirteen years since the aliens invaded. Well I say invaded, they just parked a space ship in the ocean and sank a few ship. And they're not actually aliens they're just humans who somehow ended up in a distant galaxy a long time ago. They're kinda dickish about the whol... | 2016-02-22T11:29:44 | 2016-02-22T08:33:57 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You have to be careful, certain words trigger the ambient ad-agents. You can’t say 'pizza' or you’ll get an ad for one floating in front of you. People make up new words, like "groundbeefsandwich" for hamburger. Companies buy these euphemisms, so people need to keep making up new ones. | "Yealy!" Sprouted Terrence, his mouthstones whiteing in the highnoonthingyellow, "I shall take victuals most gladdeningly, whence the handface doth bell its twomost retort! Passing hassled am I, for my labours..."
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"Here at Econocon, we want to do what we can to minimise your workload and streamline your processe... | "Gaga gugu."
"Now what the f#ck is that?" My brother thundered as a naked lady swam in between gesturing lewdly towards her nether regions.
Anger in his voice rising, he tried to swipe the lady away. "Christ! Cannot even swear anymore."
On cue, a Christ image floated up from nothing. Just as it opened its mouth to s... | 2022-08-09T01:18:03 | 2022-08-08T21:17:06 | 209 | 55 |
[WP] As an immortal you pass your time by switching between the roles of a hero and villain every couple centuries. Things get awkward as you lock your eyes with someone whom you tormented centuries ago now as the benevolent king of a prospering kingdom. | In those days, when the Tiber was still navigable, you could reach Rome by boat. The still smoldering ruins of Ficana were a helpful landmark to find the river delta, and as one turned into the river, under the gaze of the fresh garrison of Ostria, the water turned from salty to sweet.
At that point, your ship's capta... |
'How in the blasted blazes?!'
Suddenly it becomes very awkward. My royal guards stiffen in response, my wise men, drunk as they were stopped, and my guest, the man who had saved the kingdom looked on with fiery vengeance in his eyes, he reached for his sword, but found nothing there. He was meeting the benevolent kin... | 2022-10-01T10:18:02 | 2022-10-01T10:01:45 | 327 | 98 |
[WP] You have the power to see five minutes into the future and manipulate minor events that happen in that timespan. No one takes you seriously. You're going to show them all why they should. | “Hello,” boomed the Captain into the ship’s microphone, “we give you greetings, we come in peace”.
We all waited a moment for a response. I watched the planet in the viewfinder, a vibrant jewel of creamy blues and greens set against the black embroidery of space. The only thing we could hear on our transponder was st... | Five, four, three, two, one. And time resumes. I follow the path I set, as the only outlier I have to make sure my movements don't change anything. I walk out the building as a hero walks in, perfect.
Once outside, i face to the skyscraper. It crumbles. The news will report that a hero crushed the crucial sup... | 2021-12-31T10:58:52 | 2021-12-31T08:27:40 | 55 | 34 |
[WP] The warrior princess is worried that her battle scars would make her unfit for marriage. The prince of the kingdom she was attacking, however, vehemently disagrees. | The young prince sighed in relief, letting himself slump backward into the soft cushion of his tall chair.
“Is it settled, then?”
“Yes, I think it is.”
“Abram, would you pass that contract on to the court scribes? It would be great if we could have it edited and sent out to the lords before the end of the week.”
An... | The summit is held every ten years since time immemorial. Despite it being meant for the purpose of bringing the warring kingdoms together, it often reaps more discord than whatever peace is sown. In the face of the calamity from ages past, the kingdoms allied together to survive and so the tradition of the summit came... | 2021-04-19T11:06:33 | 2021-04-19T10:08:31 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] "You can take the red pill or the blue pill, the choice is yours," they said and handed you the box. You opened the box and saw three shining pills. "What about the green pill?" you asked. "The what?" A look of puzzlement crossed their face. | "You may take the red or blue pill. The choice is yours."
The stern-faced fae, Instructor Valorie, handed the box marked "Power Capsules" to me. I looked inside and frowned. I may have been a certified idiot, but I did know two things.
1. There were three pills inshirt that box, not two.
2. None of them were red.
"Y... | I looked at the figure then back at the box. "The green pill. What does that do?" The figure in front of me paled. They reached out their hand to close the box, but before they could I grabbed the pill and held it behind me. "Tell me." I said, glaring at the woman in front of me. She sighed and took off her mirrored gl... | 2021-10-24T07:47:18 | 2021-10-24T02:16:30 | 893 | 546 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | Of course in the time it took me to write this there are 10 replies already. >_<
Anyway, long but sweet story coming in!
EDIT: Part 2 [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3o7rtq/wp_everybody_in_the_world_has_a_superpower_that/cvv3tkd).
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"Oh, come on!"
J... | I've lived a pretty sheltered life.
You'd think the power to use the powers of those surrounding you would be awesome in a world where everyone has a power of their own but you'd be dead wrong. Lots of people hurt themselves and others when their powers first manifest. There are of course lots of people with powers o... | 2015-10-10T08:59:30 | 2015-10-10T08:55:28 | 84 | 54 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | "Haven't you let this go on long enough?" asked Gabriel, with scorn in his voice. "The Mayans curse you with every passing day. They say you promised to end the world in 2012. Yet, you sit here, buried away from everything you created, watching on like some voyeur who revels in the rise and downfall of lesser beings."
... | It was the brothers, of course. In a world filled with monsters, mayhem and even worse, these two kept holding out hope. These two kept going day after day with a simple motto. You know, "Saving people, hunting things, the family business."
I tried giving them a reason to stop, because the rest of the world was dull. ... | 2020-03-20T06:19:30 | 2020-03-20T06:11:52 | 594 | 234 |
[WP] Not all intelligent life has evolved from predators, humans are not unique, yet being a uncommon type that is a pursuit predator makes them pure nightmare fuel for some aliens, even friendly ones. | First contact was... uneventful. Initially. We landed on their planet, in one of several areas lightly populated by them, but by no means devoid of native life as a whole. It only took three or four rotations before we caught sight of two of them, surprisingly well camouflaged and apparently hunting some local herbivor... | zorax's audio recording log. day 12 of the Sol system scouting party.
"there is supposed to be a planet here with an oxygen atmosphere right? how the tell does that even happen? isnt oxygen supposed to be extremely corrosive and bonds to practically everything? Hynox, you're our chemist care to let me in on this?"
"... | 2019-07-05T10:38:40 | 2019-07-05T09:39:46 | 228 | 45 |
[WP] A dozen AI-controlled ships carry the last of humanity in cryo-sleep. However, after a successful jump with experimental FTL-tech there are now 13 ships and none of the now gathered AI can figure out which one's the anomaly. | In Sol, the machines of the Uploaded had disassembled everything in the solar system to build the Dyson Swarm. The moon had been fed into the maw of construction frenzy, and Earth would follow shortly. The forests, plains and oceans of earth would be lifted into solar orbits and placed on vast rings that simulated grav... | "That's wraps it up," Richard declared to no one in particular. With such a small and predictable number of vessels, the core algorithms each ship will be using to interact was rather simple and compact. Most arrays, like tacked positions, vessel Id's, and data link keys needed only be allocated for 11 or 12 words in m... | 2019-01-30T09:56:26 | 2019-01-30T07:36:41 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You split an Uber with Death. | This was a rather unusual position to find myself in. Not physically as much, no, though my knees were together and my butt muscles clenched to the point where rocks would be jealous of their firmness, my knuckles were white and my neck was frozen stiff from looking straight ahead for at least twenty minutes. I was onl... | "Can you move over a little?"
"Why?"
"Nothing, it's just."
"You think I'm fat?"
"Not what I said, this thing's a little small is all--"
"You know what you do, when you're me?"
"What?"
"I'm Death."
"Is that like a Hindu name or something?"
"Yes, but not really. You know what I do?"
"For work?"
"Yeah."
"Reap ... | 2017-01-04T08:56:43 | 2017-01-04T08:19:58 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | "Checking in now in the livestock quandrant-"
"Blarb, we can't call it-"
"-the 'less developed' quadrant." Blarb waved a dismissive tentacle at Rankle and continued. "These participants are those that haven't mastered spaceflight or any reasonable level of technology, but still qualify for Contest based on their inte... | I receive the confirmation that we got all the 150 species and we transfer them to the planet Terranavi. I’m the chief engineer of this planet and we needed such a planet to host this sort of event. We collect different species from different planets and putting them on a piece of rock that only habitable for some of t... | 2020-09-13T19:10:50 | 2020-09-13T17:01:43 | 78 | 41 |
[WP] It's been 5 years since a portal to hell opened and infernal creatures dragged your spouse down in front of your very eyes. The demon before you has been trying to explain for the past hour that they are your spouse. | Fiery pits burned on both sides of the narrow stone passage, filling the air with the stench of brimstone and casting flickering light upon the demoness barring his way. Josh was no short man, but she matched him in height, and was even taller if one counted the pair of curved horns that jutted from her black hair. Beh... | I still remember the screams as my Jill was taken from me by knaves of Hell; her anguished cries for help that I was too slow to reach out; the feeling of despair as the flaming gateway closed, and the shock as I slumped to the ground, tears marching down my face.
So when this *thing* just turned up on my sofa with th... | 2022-12-08T05:57:18 | 2022-12-08T04:33:54 | 577 | 75 |
[WP] There is a machine that can tell anyone the exact date of their death. One day, you decide to use it, but it refuses to answer you. | My mother tells me that, in her time, teenagers eagerly anticipated to their 16th birthday because they were excited for their drivers’ license. Since the Death Test was publicized, sixteenth birthdays were universally dreaded. At the age of 16, children are escorted by their parents to the office of their primary medi... | "And here is my machine, I call her Tiffany!" Jared exclaimed. "What a white trash name!" the giggling inebriated blonde to his right let out. "But I guess you weren't lying after all, Mr Inventor".
Jared couldn't help himself but feel a surge of pride and accomplishment at those words. After winning countless awards... | 2015-05-04T09:30:28 | 2015-05-04T08:53:57 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2501. You're sent to back to the Earth to perform the annual cleanup. Beneath a mountain of scraps and trash, you find a precious hard disk loaded with something that was forgotten for centuries: Video Games.
Edit: Thanks for all of your responses. I had the thought of this prompt come up in my mind a... | "Hey B, long time since I've seen one of these. Wanna hook it up to a pc?"
I approach Geb, my bestfriend. It seems to be an early model for the b7-8000. It has a ridiculous amount of space, around 8000 Petabytes. He hands a heavy metal box labeled "HSLA" over to me, it has a lot of dark smudges.
We walk towards the s... | I looked at it with a mix of excitement and confusion. The Sata hard drive was a nearly 500 year old format, yet here it was, in perfect fractureless glory. It was labeled with a single piece of tape signifying it with the name "Steam+GOG" 12 TB. That was pretty common in 2024. Of course it's nothing now. Quickly putti... | 2018-07-07T07:44:32 | 2018-07-07T07:20:48 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | "Okay, so you'll need to fill out from 41b, c and d. Then join the queue over there" said the clerk despondently.
"Look, I just want to kill my brother. He's a bad dude. 100% deserves it" I said, trying to hide my exasperation. I'd already been waiting over an hour.
"Oh, it's a family member, sorry, then you'll also ... | "Hey Rad, focus "-said Fred without hiding his discomfort- "I'm answering your question, so you better listen to me. I dont even know why you called me. There's nothing wrong about this place".
-Nothing, huh? There's a dead body 3 ft from you and you dont even acknowledge her prescence. Let alone your lack of condolen... | 2019-07-09T11:05:25 | 2019-07-09T10:40:11 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | I could have been a Khajit, or an Argonian. At the very least I could have gone a mage or stealth build so I could summon Daedric beasts or pickpocket unsuspecting people. But on my sixth play-through of Skyrim, I decided to play as a Redguard. That’s right, instead of choosing one of the cool beastial classes, I just ... | “Hit or miss. I guess Poland never misses, huh? They’ve got Allies, but I bet they’ll never help them!” I slam my pink gloved hand on the podium as the crowd cheers at my words. My sleek long black hair flowing in the wind, and my well cropped mustache commanding authority over the crowd. I’ve heard my critics talk; am... | 2019-08-11T21:21:29 | 2019-08-11T21:06:05 | 2,624 | 50 |
[WP] The first group of astronauts leave for Mars. Days later we find out one of the astronauts killed his wife before leaving earth.
Title | ######[](#dropcap)
If the fact had been up for dispute at any time in the past, it wasn't anymore: Vivian Eleonora Van Hassel had the most difficult job in the entire solar system, and, pending sufficient investigation, she had reason to believe she could safely claim such a title on a universal scale.
"So," she said... | "Breaking Development in the Astronaut killer story. We have just received word that investigators have found a letter left behind by Jeremy McCarthy. As you know Jeremy was part of NASA's X-2 mission to mars. Hours before launch, his wife was discovered dead in the household, when the family's dog walker came to pick ... | 2015-11-03T16:56:44 | 2015-11-03T13:45:47 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] The hero's childhood friend has become the world's most dangerous villain. "it doesn't make sense", the hero thinks "he's still the boy I know, kind, brave, selfless to a fault, always standing up for... wait, something isn't right here" | StarStrider, the most famous intergalactic superhero, should have been happy. She WAS the strongest hero yet discovered, after all. But she wasn’t. Not for many Sols. The problem was that her childhood best friend, Jack, had become… different. Everything was wrong.
Originally, StarStrider (whose real name was Echo) a... | "That , doesn't make sense "
as they look at the news of your old friend destroying another government building of secured
"What do they think is gonna happen destroying such a building !?, it's the only thing, that was making the cure"
They sigh , as they put on their hero suit and equipment
", I don't know what... | 2022-11-14T16:08:50 | 2022-11-14T15:52:38 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] A prince finds a talking frog. She tells him that if he kisses her, she'll turn back into a beautiful peasant. | "Well the thing is," the prince said, examining strands of his golden locks between his fingers, "we sort of have a surplus of peasants, as you know. A lot of very comely ones among them, despite their lack of hygiene and the occasional rotted tooth when you get your tongue in there. So I don't see, really-"
"It would... | As I walked along the riverbank, I saw a funny rock. It seemed to gleam in the sun and had a funny color. Wanting to add it to my collection I hurried and picked it up.
Boy did I get a scare when it said 'hello' . Nearly threw it away. I did end up dropping it though. The frog tumbled around, croaked, and said, "tha... | 2016-08-22T02:36:15 | 2016-08-21T23:48:12 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The Government releases an App allowing citizens to chose where their taxes are spent. | An hour after the App was released there were already randomizer Apps that would take that difficult choice away and just pick a random choice for you. And within no time there were masses using the App to just be rid of the responsibility to choose. Either they were too busy, they were too lazy, or they just didn't ca... | Hey Bob, how'd you divy up your taxes this year?
I told em to spend it all on public education.
Why Bob? You don't even have any kids.
Oh I know. I just really don't want to live in a country where I'm surrounded by dumb people.
Huh. Yeah, that makes sense. I wonder if it's too late to switch mine to that...
... | 2017-02-19T23:08:59 | 2017-02-19T22:30:36 | 60 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | Every month the number is the same. It is the number one. I have tried to raise the number but no matter what I do it stays the same. The second person I hit with my car went on to become a double amputee. The quadriplegic I pushed down the stairs landed right side up. I've slashed throats, shot police officers in... | "Ah, at this point who gives a fuck," I mumbled to myself, thinking back on that time Janet called me ,"like, LITERALLY HITLER." dumb bitch.
I took out the rag from my pocket and began cleaning the console of the nuclear reactor. There always was so much dirt lining all those shiny weird buttons. | 2016-06-24T02:53:45 | 2016-06-23T23:55:15 | 112 | 14 |
[WP] when you promised your eternal service to the ancient lich for their arcane secrets, you never expected you’d have to be their tech support. | *Fooosh!* The pentagram burst into pink flames, and amidst it the outline of a hodded face, cloaked in shadows appeared in the air above its midst. "**KER'ZHUL!**" its voice boomed "**YOU HAVE BETRAYED..."** its voice fumbled as the hood swifled around "**Ker'Zhul? Where are you?".**
I sighed, put the 314th band of t... | I was placed in a library, ancient but surprisingly well maintained. The castle was covered in dust and cobwebs, most halls barely lit by dim tallow candles, but this room, every book and grimoire polished and well maintained, the heavy mahogany desks had nary a tarnished leg or damaged corner. The rugs were thick and ... | 2022-03-22T06:29:04 | 2022-03-22T05:07:23 | 569 | 103 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | A eon we watched them. We watched them kill each other with amazement. Their violence horrified us, but we saw glimpses of peace amid the blackness of horror. Deep inside, their intentions were good, every single one of them acted on the idea that what they were doing was improving the situation of another. We watched ... | Hairless Bonobos walking on the moon. This is how we found them. Our scouts studied their movements. We infiltrated their societies. Studied their mating habits. Cold, isolated and hungry. The defining characteristics of the human. Now as the shadow of a more advanced race fell upon ours, I sat seated across from this ... | 2014-12-26T10:31:12 | 2014-12-26T10:18:47 | 507 | 21 |
[WP] You are the super villain that defeated the super hero and conquered the earth. You walk out onto your balcony to law down the law for your new subjects. You are greeted by a massive crowd and genuine cheers. | "I think it was the pressure to perform. I had to keep them on side because I was just scared shitless of them. And that's coming from me. I'm a murdering sociopath and I accept that but these guys weren't just killing over nothing they were-"
The psychiatrist put her arm around him.
"Calm down, it's all over now"... | Today, TODAY is a new day! For we have finally overcome the sense of freedom. Bound by the shackles of this new world order I will lead you in to a golden age. We will strive together for greatness of us all. It'll be hard work, yes, but know that through your struggle that your children and your children's children wi... | 2017-05-23T10:28:27 | 2017-05-23T08:50:48 | 162 | 11 |
[WP] Because humans are master liars, the dystopia ruled by alien overlords had permanent lie-detecting collars put on all the Earthlings. However, the aliens didn't count on sarcasm, metaphors or incomplete truths. | "Are these things truly from... *Earth*?" There was plenty of doubt in Margolv's tone, and Bræii couldn't blame them. For the past few weeks of their capture, several humans have ardently refused to explain the things they've spoken- all in a confusing tongue that the specialized collars they'd made just wouldn't work.... | Many would say that having an united, completly illness free world as the largest victory for all of humankind, well lets just say that such victory was first, not brought by mankind and second.
It is fucking annoying, the split face or whatever non-xeno name they wanted to put in place invaded earth, not that we didn... | 2022-12-19T14:19:19 | 2022-12-19T10:57:36 | 191 | 50 |
[WP] Create a fictional mythological race, (werewolves, vampires, skinwalkers, etc) and the legend behind it | They listen.
With wide, hungry eyes, and an unending appetite, they listen to you as you talk.
Anything and everything. Your first kiss, a problem you're having, the story behind your tattoo. They sit across the table at the local tavern, as a person you just met.
They take it all in with immense satisfaction.
B... | The TuneMakers;
The tune-makers are the undertone of everything, they play the strings that string theory itself consists of.
As they operate outside our perception of time there is no need to say when they began as in a non-linear fashion they have always been. Some speculate they were a paradoxical creation of an ... | 2016-12-16T09:14:18 | 2016-12-16T08:06:49 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Whenever a new generation of combat robots are made, the older versions will be put into more and more dangerous missions until they all perish, but the technicians are required to repair any surviving machines, your generation was discontinued before some of these engineers were even born. | I heard all the whispers.
"He should rust by now."
"A monster."
"A relic."
"Shouldn't we preserve him rather than destroy him?? He's an amazing specimen!"
"He clearly preserves himself."
My designation is X2-07 of the Vinvali Corporation.
However, after my 100th kill, I earned a *name.*
A name I never let fools... | I creaked, settling into a corner. One of the flesh beings ran over, holding a tool kit. An older one collared him, their conversation floating up to my auditory input.
"Hold it, sonny. That there, is Old Sparky."
"Old Sparky? That is Old Sparky?" The younger responded. Looking at me with pride, and at the younger wi... | 2022-07-09T10:35:47 | 2022-07-09T06:31:16 | 233 | 147 |
[WP] A close friend of yours can read minds. It was their dream to work for the FBI or CIA to catch bad guys. You accompanied them to their first interview, but instead they walk straight back out. They whisper to you to walk calmly out to the car and not to say a word or make eye contact, act calm. | Crystal sat in the lobby and swiped left repeatedly. It wasn’t that she wanted to swipe left, it was something of habit. Stare at the water fountain, look down, swipe left, look up. Watch the hot-dog vendor upsell the bratwurst, look back and swipe.
Who likes sauerkraut anyway?
She bit her lower lip, wondering what w... | I opened my mouth to say something but was instead shushed by Luca. He smiled at me and rubbed the small scar above his mouth. My blood chilled as he drew closer still smiling as though he was going to whisper something sweet into my ear, but I knew otherwise.
“We’re going to walk calmly out to the car, okay? We’re n... | 2019-04-27T22:57:36 | 2019-04-27T22:49:29 | 371 | 161 |
[WP]. The purge except it's 24 hours that retail workers can talk back to the customers and managers | *Slightly off topic, IT Support*
Purge day. The day when those at the bottom get to talk back to everyone. I work for an IT Helpdesk and let me tell you, today is the only day that makes it worth it. The best part of this day? I'm IT, someone will HAVE to call eventually. Everyone knows that it's Purge day, but if th... | Cynthia was the girl no one wanted to work with. On days when customers displeased her, she would make their lives harder in small ways. No one ever figured out that she put the sharp stuff in the thin plastic bags... just the right way... So that it would break when they carried it up the stairs.
No, Cynthia had com... | 2017-06-17T19:25:45 | 2017-06-17T18:18:45 | 132 | 39 |
[WP] The world unanimously agrees to build a glass dome around Earth to save the ozone. You help build it, but as you help place the final piece, you realize you were left on the outside. | "Command, this is Epsilon 6. I think I'm stuck outside the dome, over."
No response.
"Command?"
The line went dead.
With growing dread I regarded the dome, looking down at the beautiful scenery expanded before my eyes, waiting for a reply that will never come, clinging onto empty hopes of rescue.
*They have a... | "Well shit." It was the only thing that went through my mind as the thermal sealant locked the final piece of glass into place with me outside.
"Fuck it, it was a dumb idea anyway" I said as I slid the hammer "I would never need" out and reared back for my first of several strikes. | 2016-10-08T10:40:40 | 2016-10-08T08:56:17 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] You have died. You walk up a staircase and it takes you a thousand years to climb. You reach the top exhausted, and see the pearly gates. To your surprise, they have rusted over and inside is completely barren. A sign reads "Welcome to heaven. Population: 1" | To my surprise, the stairway to heaven was excruciatingly literal. I lost track of how long it took to get to the top, but it didn't really matter. Without the assistance of a bright sun to light the day or a moon and stars to illuminate the dark night, time itself was incalculable. One foot in front of the other, I cl... | Is it currently one or is it counting me already, I mean if it’s me and God great someone to talk too, I don’t know if he’ll be interested in what I have to say but I’d find something to talk about. I wonder if god would like patch notes because It wasn’t bad but it didn’t go fantastically either, getting hit by that b... | 2018-12-17T08:59:28 | 2018-12-17T06:12:22 | 165 | 11 |
[WP] All humans have the date of their death inscribed on their left forearm. Your date arrives. You go atop a small hill and sit there, agonizingly waiting for the moment to come. The hours pass by. It's midnight, and you're still alive. You look at your forearm, and the inscribed date is gone. | "Hello...", echoed a soundless voice from my side. It was surprising, yet I was not startled. It was as I was somehow expecting it, though I was not. So so turned to face them and was met an... indescribable sight.
There, just to my right, now stood a figure. They looked down upon me as I sat upon my hilltop, and I st... | Nothing happened. None. Past midnight and I'm still alive. Well that was a waste of time. I've quit my job, said goodbyes to all my friends, and gave everything to charity. This is going to be awkward when I asked for my stuffs back. How am I going to explain how i survived death? Have anyone ever survived? I don't eve... | 2018-11-29T08:54:53 | 2018-11-29T07:53:14 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" | "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800s?"
I was moving before the final word was out of her mouth. One moment you're sitting at the bar, drinking after a long day at work, the next you're in a fight for your life. She hadn't even specified *when* in the 1800s, but that wasn't a great century for me.
As I reached for the kn... | I was standing in the busy bar kitchen holding a bloody rag to my hand. It was taking a long time to stop bleeding, a very long time.
I had moved from bar job to bar job for years, if anyone was to ask I would have told them my age was probably around 4400. Nobody ever asked. People sort of sensed there was somet... | 2018-11-23T19:35:53 | 2018-11-23T11:23:01 | 132 | 39 |
[WP] Time travel exists, and a new form of capital punishment is introduced: Transporting the convict back to the worst, practically unsurvivable, places in human history to find yourself in. You are such a convict, and just got sent back. You will do anything to try and survive. | I opened my eyes and found myself looking at the sky. I had heard Time Travel was painful but nothing was ever said about landing on a rock. I sat up, judging by my clothes and the small village near by I gathered I had been sent back sometime between 1600 and 1700. "Well then..." I said out loud. This was a place I co... | I could still the Judge's gavel banging and the words "Put to Death" in my ears as they strapped me down. I was lucky, they said, that I would have a chance to live, if I wanted it bad enough. What the fuck did that mean? I was the worst serial killer in history and they were giving me a chance to kill again? I did... | 2015-01-24T14:06:11 | 2015-01-24T13:27:49 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You're still alive after the heat death of the universe, unfortunately there is no snail coming for you. Everytime you would die an angel has revived you, firmly reminding you "You must save the world", very unhelpful but the garden is going well. | How long has it been?
I don't remember how long I have been floating through the universe for, dying regularly from the vacuum of space and being revived by some sort of angel and told I had to "save the world". And for what? Because I did a stupid deal an eternity ago, when there were still planets and stars? Because... | I stare in consternation as its last few eyes surround me, little twinkling eyes in the cold, endless dark.
The first I ever heard, and the only time it ever spoke, had terrified me. I had been drifting in mindless rest for so long, I had assumed I was alone. I worried it would speak again, but it renewed its silence... | 2022-04-05T00:41:28 | 2022-04-04T23:50:27 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] It's 2050, Artificial Intelligence has become exponentially smarter than us. Instead of destroying us, they take care of us, they solve all of our problems, and we are basically just spoiled pets, kept around for our masters to find amusement in our incompetence. | Katie leaned over her husband, who lay motionless in the bed. She took his hand in her own and brought it to her mouth, kissing it softly. "I don't want you to go," she said, as warm tears ran down well worn passages. The heart-rate monitor beeped in a slow staccato that echoed forlornly around the room. Their bedroom ... | "Who is the master?
Who is the subordinate?
Who feeds whose hunger?
Who commands death?
Who has more luck?
Humans who suck?
Who is the sitting duck
If i pull their plug."
"That is a poem." Came from the monotone voice
"It is, yes." Answered john
"What is its meaning?"
"Life and death"
"Tho... | 2017-06-09T06:52:43 | 2017-06-09T03:38:57 | 394 | 114 |
[WP] The human boasted proudly, "We have uncovered the mysteries of the universe. Physics, chemistry, biology, everything". The alien responded, "Oh, that's the easy part." | Danielle sipped her frothing beer then wiped her sleeve across her mouth. The log fire crackled behind her; thick windows muffled the sound of skiers and revellers outside the lodge bar.
The alien only had water. It seemed to study Danielle's face, and either it or the fire caused her cheeks to heat.
"Physics, chemis... | “The—” Dr. Callaghan stuttered, hands freezing in the air where he held them. “The *easy* part? Are you mad or kidding?”
“Neither,” the alien Callaghan had fondly nicknamed Junebug remarked.
“What are you trying to tell me?” he muttered, dumbfounded. “That the 32 years I've lived on this planet have been for nothing?... | 2022-11-11T06:27:27 | 2022-11-11T05:33:16 | 174 | 68 |
[WP] A love letter is slipped under your door at your college. It would be cute, but it came from the closet door.
Pulled from the Instagram of @horrophiles. Saw it and wanted to see what would come up. | I was alone again, just like the last twenty five Valentine's Days.
I'd stuck a card in Julie's mailbox that morning. It was my annual February ritual. I didn't sign it - I never did. Chicks dig mystery, right?
Of course, as I was creeping back down her driveway, trying not to make a noise on the gravel, I noticed th... | *Letter 95/100*
&nbsp;
Dear Avery,
&nbsp;
They are coming – I can hear them closing in. Their marching sounds like an earthquake, their voices like the judges of courtrooms. We knew we couldn’t hide forever, but we didn’t expect them to come so soon, either.
I must go now. I know our time together was shor... | 2017-04-11T15:10:04 | 2017-04-11T14:59:07 | 2,811 | 68 |
[WP] You’ve always had a six sense; able to see the thoughts of others. You make money on the side being a “psychic “ and reading people. A young man just entered to have you read him and you witness your own death. He will be the one ending your life tonight. “See anything?” The young man asks. | I stare into his eyes.
“Do you see anything?”
I give him an annoyed look. “I haven’t even started yet. Do you have anything even resembling of patience?”
The young man gave me a slight grin. “My mom always said it was my most lovable trait.”
I let out a small chuckle. “Your mother lied to you. Alright, hold out ... | \[Poem\]
He came in the evening
His thoughts were on killing
He was here on a bet
And had a knife in his pocket
I didn't want to die
but all I did was say "Hi!"
He asked me "See anything?"
A quick google search on Bing
and I knew what I had to do
My mind was racing, my thoughts flew
As I dismembered his body... | 2019-10-19T18:11:39 | 2019-10-19T17:18:35 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | There's a bald spot on Gh'ogonoth's head, in-between the horns, and I have the strangest urge to rub it. I bet it would be real smooth. It's shiny. I'm like a crow in that shiny objects compel me, I'm transfixed, they're all treasures even if they're really just the lack of hair on the top of my eldritch god fiancée's ... | "Hold up a second." I started, looking at the Eldritch being in human... Ish, form before me. "You aren't gonna... Pull some kinda hentai tentacle shit and drag me into an abyss or?"
"What? No!" The being replied, disgust in their voice. "Firstly, that's offensive, second, I don't have tentacles, third, my realm is no... | 2022-08-09T15:59:23 | 2022-08-09T15:50:03 | 580 | 331 |
[WP] For as long as you can remember, there has been a slow and eerie tune in your head that you cannot help but hum. You've searched your whole life to figure out what it is. Even your parents don't know. One day, you learn the horrifying truth of what the song really is and how you know it. | I mulled over my newly discovered information over a cup of coffee at my local cafe.
Well, it wasn't solid information. It was a dream I had the night before that was definitely worth looking into.
Let me explain. My name is Emily, and for as long as I can remember I have been dreaming (and find myself humming in rea... | My toes and fingers were long lost to frostbite. My arms had melted from volcanic sludge. My legs were nothing more than stubs after an encounter with a broken elevator. One of my eyes was missing and the other was misplaced. I had searched from the dry Jungles of Saudia Arabia to the wind swept fields of Beijing. But ... | 2019-03-16T14:18:19 | 2019-03-16T11:57:42 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | As I walked into the house, I made a beeline straight for the bed. It's the first place I go after every bad day at school.
"Ugh," I groaned. "Why is calculus so damn hard? I can't believe I ever struggled with something like arithmetic."
As I closed my eyes, I tried to think about anything other than the test I had... | I quickly slapped the little boy’s claw away from me. I may be in hell, but that’s probably because I never did my homework.
The bottom eyelids of the horned child began to brim with blood.
“You seriously about to cry?” I asked, annoyed.
The boy’s bottom lip trembled as he composed himself enough to speak. “I’m te... | 2019-09-17T15:46:24 | 2019-09-17T13:32:05 | 21 | 10 |
[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 sat in the back room of the leaky cauldron having a minor panic attack. It was only one spell, performed in a muggle-free area, surely it couldn't have been that bad. *Abracadabra*. The word almost slipped out again as I thought it. The trouble had started across the street in Bonny and Hetts, Bonnets and Hats. Rabbi... | 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... | 2016-12-02T01:14:15 | 2016-12-01T22:42:11 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] MacMiller's Pub, a place where superheroes and super villains alike can sit for a drink, so long as they leave their feuds at the door. | At the sound of MacMiller clearing his throat, the hubbub in the cozy pub died faster than a civilian at the hands of Dr. VonDoomenstein during a drunken bender. Even the doctor himself, currently on a drunken bender, suddenly straightened up and felt almost sober, possibly saving a few lives.
The existence of this p... | We thought the bar was a good idea, all that happened was that it turned into an ambush location.
The rules state that feuds have to be left outside.
That didn't stop Lex Luthor getting tackled a metre from the door and beaten to a pulp.
The heroes even have a new entrance they like to do.
Throw the rival through the... | 2017-02-04T00:39:36 | 2017-02-03T19:46:50 | 116 | 11 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | "So you're not just really into cosplay?"
The demon in front of him shakes his head, and Peter is just a tad annoyed that he has to tilt his head back to see their head. Five minutes ago his roommate had been a willowy 5'8" olive-skinned man with beautiful green eyes and a dashing smile. Now he was an eight foot ... | Sarah was waiting at the door for me. That was never a good sign. I immediately went on the defensive. "Ok look, I know we agreed to separate soft plastics from general rubbish but frankly I'm fucked if I can tell the difference between what can and can't be tossed into..."
"It's totally not that" she began crying an... | 2022-10-09T03:37:58 | 2022-10-09T01:47:43 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Through a freak clerical error, the Muppets of Sesame Street are drafted into the Vietnam War. | Kermit was back. In the jungle. In the dark.
He had tried, desperately, to keep the memories, the thoughts, the visions at bay. He had lasted Two decades without smelling the burning flesh, the sweet decay, the iron scent of the dirt. Two decades without the visions of hanging corpses or smoke from the villages. Two ... | I think it rained for four straight months. We always laughed at each others' matted fur. That was during the quiet times. Usually, we'd just be marching.
We had three miles of holes to clear. That was Pvt. Grover's specialty. We used to call him Super Grover because of the speed and proficiency with which he'd clear ... | 2015-02-17T12:09:52 | 2015-02-17T10:18:53 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You're a local healer, a good one, and your people love you. But you do not truly heal wounds, merely transfer them... The people of the valley below know you under a different name. | One second, I was remembering the life I lived before this, that of a humble apothecary. I remembered the smell of the herbs, the feel of the spoon in my hand as I mixed the medicines together. Then, as I realized that I was mixing the two foul liquids that defined my life today, it all stopped.
Someone was shaking me... | The villagers armed themselves when they heard she was coming. The demon. The reason half the villagers had festering wounds or illnesses they couldn't shake off. The neighbouring village didn't believe - their healer was their saviour. She wouldn't do that, they said.
But the villagers knew: she was demonkind.
"Wh... | 2016-08-13T12:12:49 | 2016-08-13T11:34:41 | 69 | 39 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | “I won’t agree to that job.”
I stared across the booth at Dirk, who hissed at me angrily in response, the flicking of his tongue practically a dead giveaway of his alter ego, The Serpant. It lashes out a mere four inches in front of me. When I started out, his demeanor would have shaken me, but now, more sure of my pr... | *** written on mobile at work so sorry for the grammar issues**
It was a rough start in the business. I learned quickly that trying to threaten my potential clients was wrong way to do things. But after I got my first client things became easier. The word of mouth spread quickly among the superheros first. At first j... | 2020-10-19T08:55:56 | 2020-10-19T07:47:18 | 375 | 15 |
[WP]: Intergalactic olympics are gathering. All creeds and cultures of the galaxy are arriving and greeting each other. Suddenly a fleet of spaceships appears, blasting We Will Rock You. Everyone freezes. The humans are here. | The problem wasn't that the humans were there. The problem was that their myriad of cultures had developed forth and sent everyone of their champions with them. While, say, The Tarsary, who were known for exemplification in the culinary arts, and a diverse selection of pan flutes, programming, and general dance would s... | Two sarplonians lounging on their hotel balcony witness the arrival of the Teran diplomatic fleet, one says to the other: Y'know Garflak, *That* is why I don't believe in god. Human music isn't that bad, scoffed Garflak. No I mean humans in general, what god would make the most beautiful creatures in the galaxy so damn... | 2018-04-28T08:32:47 | 2018-04-28T08:29:23 | 5,018 | 47 |
[WP] To prove to your 5 year old brother that you can't do magic, you demonstrate by mumbling some random words and yelling "Fireball!" The only problem is... it works. | "I bet you could do magic, Sean." my little brother said. "You're real smart."
I guess it should have made me feel good, the way Bryan looked up to me...he had so much faith in me. But as I glanced around at the cramped confines of our little room in the trailer where we lived with our mom and whatever "uncle" she'd b... | "Do magic!" My sibling cried.
"I can't, it's not real" I defied.
"You can! You can!" He cheered.
I pulled my thumb from my hand.
"No, you can do magic!"
He did not like the sleight.
I mumbled "This is tragic."
"You can, you can!"
I whisper something mystic,
Nonsense for a misfit.
I pushed my palm outward to... | 2018-06-22T19:03:11 | 2018-06-22T15:45:01 | 111 | 66 |
[WP] Your quiet life in the suburbs is shaken up when your neighbor casually claims he is a lizard person. Doubting him, you decide to start monitoring him for any suspicious behavior. After all, you didn't see him at the last lizard people reunion. | **Journal Log 1:**
*"Today, I may have just come across the worse discovery of my generation. For eons, the Gigorian Lizard race has thought of themselves as the true apex of the Earth, the ones who would rise from the ashes of the apocalypse. Our scaly skin can survive the worst of temperatures, and our expert reptil... | He’s truly an idiot. There are so many people claiming today that “Oh, X politician is a lizard person!”. No. We haven’t had a lizard politician in centuries after one nearly fucked up and almost compromised us. Lesson was learned. Also, Mark Zuckerberg? He isn’t an actual lizard person. He was a mech made by us to see... | 2019-05-13T21:38:16 | 2019-05-13T20:21:29 | 98 | 41 |
[WP] While your colleagues are fixated on magical items and artifacts, you’ve been quietly collecting all the deeds of ownership for the ruins and dungeons you clear. | Reilly knocked twice on the open door, then stuck her head in my study. "Come on, Barla. We're leaving in fifteen minutes. I have your gear out with the horses, and you've got just enough time to get into your armor."
I turned the page of my ledger, not looking up. "Can't. You go ahead."
"What do you mean, 'can'... | "What do you mean you're sitting this one out? It'll be our biggest haul yet!"
"I have land I need to develop, Brash. You guys run this one without me."
"Think of all the stuff we're going to find though!"
"I already have everything I need, Brash."
"Where did all this land come from anyways? Did some mysterious r... | 2019-09-13T11:53:40 | 2019-09-13T08:49:54 | 59 | 32 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | **Roommates: Episode 1: Dragon Slayer**
Ryan, Leeroy, and George sat on their dorm room couch. A nintendo switch projected a copy of *Dragon Slayer* onto the TV screen.
Ryan: “So what is this game?”
George: “Some kind of choose your own adventure story. It was on sale on amazon so I picked it up.”
*Dragon Slayer* ... | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 2019-01-09T07:50:16 | 80 | 12 |
[WP] Katy t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m, looks back over what she wrote ten years later
Here is the original copy pasta
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me _… im 13 years old (i... | Katy carefully balanced the tablet on her stomach while opening a fresh beer bottle. Work had been particularly trying today. Lying back on the sofa she prepared to loose herself in pictures of wise cats with bad grammar and other people's problems...but then *it* got linked again. God damnit, does the Internet never f... | It could have gone better. Then again, translation matrices never were particularly precise.
Ten years ago, the declaration of war was sent. It promised the terrors Katy's people would bring, with their mastery of quantum space manipulation. As her troops readied their SP0RK-735s for battle, she looked over their new ... | 2014-11-19T10:38:12 | 2014-11-19T10:15:28 | 64 | 30 |
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