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[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | I just sat there with my jaw sagging, because my Latin lesson usually did not include a visitation by the Morning Star etc. I must have mispronounced.
Lucifer tilted his aristocratic nose upward somewhat as he glanced around my lodgings. I couldn't blame him. As a student I hardly lived a luxurious life.
"Forgive ... |
It had been a long day. I was working a temp job for a contracting company, and after an exhausting day I stopped for a quick drink at the local brewery. I was half way through my beer when he sat down.
“Long day?” The words floated on his voice, which was almost musical.
I however, was in no mood for music. I had ... | |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | The first time I met the Devil was at a bar one night. Sitting next to me, he asked me what I wanted from life.
I didn’t realize who I was talking to at the time, you understand. Just knew that it was a handsome (no, beautiful) young (ha) man (to our weak attempts at perceiving him). He looked tired. He looked like he... | "Don't worry, it won't even hurt. You'll be sent up there straight away if you so desire, but first, you'll have to listen to why I did it all. I've been tired of the misrepresentation. I've done this many times, when I grow increasingly annoyed by *his* crew here on earth twisting and turning everything that happened.... | |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | “What the fuck do you mean? You’re Satan?”
The boy— no, the friend I have come to know over the course of my short residence on earth, recoils visibly, backing away with a sort of primal fear that only exists in the writhing, guttural core of humanity. His face is contorted in horror, golden honey-kissed skin bunched... | “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course that was his vision of perfection, naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Names Lucifer by the way.”
Seven patients and a therapist sat in a circle on plastic chai... | |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | I just sat there with my jaw sagging, because my Latin lesson usually did not include a visitation by the Morning Star etc. I must have mispronounced.
Lucifer tilted his aristocratic nose upward somewhat as he glanced around my lodgings. I couldn't blame him. As a student I hardly lived a luxurious life.
"Forgive ... | “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course that was his vision of perfection, naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Names Lucifer by the way.”
Seven patients and a therapist sat in a circle on plastic chai... | |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | “What the fuck do you mean? You’re Satan?”
The boy— no, the friend I have come to know over the course of my short residence on earth, recoils visibly, backing away with a sort of primal fear that only exists in the writhing, guttural core of humanity. His face is contorted in horror, golden honey-kissed skin bunched... | The gentleman looked sideways across the cracked barroom counter, staring dryly at the eccentric man who had decided to join him. It was late in the small town, hosting nothing but a local museum, fire station, short office buildings, and a scatter of dimly lit bars and overly loud clubs.
“I mean, you would expect to ... | |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | I just sat there with my jaw sagging, because my Latin lesson usually did not include a visitation by the Morning Star etc. I must have mispronounced.
Lucifer tilted his aristocratic nose upward somewhat as he glanced around my lodgings. I couldn't blame him. As a student I hardly lived a luxurious life.
"Forgive ... | The gentleman looked sideways across the cracked barroom counter, staring dryly at the eccentric man who had decided to join him. It was late in the small town, hosting nothing but a local museum, fire station, short office buildings, and a scatter of dimly lit bars and overly loud clubs.
“I mean, you would expect to ... | |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | I just sat there with my jaw sagging, because my Latin lesson usually did not include a visitation by the Morning Star etc. I must have mispronounced.
Lucifer tilted his aristocratic nose upward somewhat as he glanced around my lodgings. I couldn't blame him. As a student I hardly lived a luxurious life.
"Forgive ... | “You are me. You are perfect.” He says.
The first time I hear a voice. It is like honey, light and yellow. Something pulses, it is me, my existence. And I am aware that I am.
“Perfect?” I ask
But already I know.
I feel the glory of his presence and the swirling dawn around him like a cloak of light in the aurora.... | |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | "Sir," I said. "This is a convenience store."
"Ah, yes, yes," the self-proclaimed Lucifer said. He reached into what looked to be a perfectly-tailored designer suit pocket--not that I would know--and brought out his wallet, tossing a few notes at me.
"I was mostly asking for what you wanted to buy..." I muttered, bef... | “You are me. You are perfect.” He says.
The first time I hear a voice. It is like honey, light and yellow. Something pulses, it is me, my existence. And I am aware that I am.
“Perfect?” I ask
But already I know.
I feel the glory of his presence and the swirling dawn around him like a cloak of light in the aurora.... | |
[WP] A race of beings so powerful and terrible, then entire galaxy came together to defeat them. Compassion prevailed and instead of genocide, they had their minds wiped and were exiled to the edge of the galaxy far way from all other intelligent life, to a planet called earth. | No one really cared about humans, at the end. So much had been lost, been stripped away, so many planets peeled to their core, at, at the end of it all, no one really cared about the humans. What was one more planet, in the end?
They called it compassion; but in the end, it was cowardice. No one knows what it takes t... | The System had been silent and deserted for a long time. Only minuscule traces of the once-great Civilization that once controlled this System and that had now become its Prison. A Terrible War between two subbranches of the Species called Human had devastated the Galaxy when their Power spent the Galaxies other Specie... | |
[WP] A race of beings so powerful and terrible, then entire galaxy came together to defeat them. Compassion prevailed and instead of genocide, they had their minds wiped and were exiled to the edge of the galaxy far way from all other intelligent life, to a planet called earth. | No one really cared about humans, at the end. So much had been lost, been stripped away, so many planets peeled to their core, at, at the end of it all, no one really cared about the humans. What was one more planet, in the end?
They called it compassion; but in the end, it was cowardice. No one knows what it takes t... | I remember my father, telling me about our history and how aour ansecters were so powerfull yet so bad and evil and also useless.
He told me:
Ages ago, we were the highest and most powerfull beings in this galaxy, so powerfull we were known all over the galaxy.
I wondered what the power was
‘ what was the power we had’... | |
[WP] You fell in love with the perfect girl. One day you notice that there are a bunch of old photographs and paintings of you two hidden away in her attic. Images that seem be from different eras that you definitely do not remember posing for. | "Good night."
I snuggle up behind Mia and plant a kiss on her shoulder. The scent of her lavender shampoo brings a smile to my face. "Good night, Babe." She presses her cold feet against my legs. I shiver and pull her closer. With a sigh, I sink deeper into the pillow and let my mind drift off into sleep.
\----------... | Moving in went like a dream. I got my stuff and unpacked,lying on the now shared bed,tired. But I couldnt stop just yet. I had a couple things left to do,including putting some stuff in the attic.
"Babe?' I called down the stairs to the living room where she was watching some history documentary
"Yes?' She called u... | |
Oops. Should be *Quetzalcoatl*
Double oops: its not it’s 😕 | [WP] "Behold, the ancient Serpent God Quetalcoatl, the Winged Snake, the Devourer!" "Neat. I'mma boop it's snoot." | "Behold, the ancient Serpent God Quetzalcoatl, the Winged Snake, the Devourer!” declared the High Priest to the curiously onlooking explorer.
"Neat. I'mma boop its snoot."
“Do not boop the snoot! Lest you arouse their great and tremendous appetite…”
“I booped the snoot.”
“…for human flesh. Oh gods, you booped the s... | The moment that passed was pregnant with tension. Everyone, Quetzalcoatl included, simply seemed to freeze in place. The cleric was the first to move. His head dropped into his hands. They had just fought through more than sixty kobolds, suffered all manner of wounds, and even lost a good friend along the way. All so t... |
[WP] You are the prophesied hero, who was whisked away from another world and is destined to vanquish evil. This is the fifth time it happened and you're getting real tired of it. | "This is the Dire Wood," said Aluvitar, snatching a glance at me from below his bushy eyebrows. "The trees thrive by moonlight, and the forest has been steeped in gloom, under the same spell that birthed it, through all the ages of our world, long before Men walked here."
"Yeah, noticed I can barely see anything."
"T... | The army of the terrible Demon King charged towards me. And I couldn't care less. Been there, done that. Four armies vanquished, an exemplary record, and my reward? Another army to kill. The Time Lords had no regard for the feeling of boredom. Time never got bored of ticking. But I did. And today will be my salvation, ... | |
[WP] You are the prophesied hero, who was whisked away from another world and is destined to vanquish evil. This is the fifth time it happened and you're getting real tired of it. | Ava’s first step down the aisle spat her out on a stone dais in the courtyard of a castle, the wedding march replaced by the distant screams of the townsfolk outside the walls and the roar of the demons attacking them.
She still wore her wedding dress and she was *furious.*
A richly dressed matron wearing a diadem se... | The army of the terrible Demon King charged towards me. And I couldn't care less. Been there, done that. Four armies vanquished, an exemplary record, and my reward? Another army to kill. The Time Lords had no regard for the feeling of boredom. Time never got bored of ticking. But I did. And today will be my salvation, ... | |
[WP] You are a valkyrie and Odin charges you with retrieving what he calls the fiercest warrior that ever lived. When you arrive at your destination you are surprised to find yourself in a small room in some old nursing home. In front of you is the fiercest warrior; a little old lady. | The old man coughed and sputtered as the old lady in her long gown dabbed at his mouth. Outside a storm crested the earth beating at the window.
"Close the window dear. They have it hard enough, might as well not add a draft."
The Valkyie, a being of uncountable years and unmeasurable power, one who had seen not o... | I had always been a headstrong person, long before I chose to go down the path of a warrioress, long before I chose to serve under the gods as their weighty blade.
My drive to satiate my pride had always been my driving motivation. I always strived to prove myself, to prove my worth to my peers, even to the gods thems... | |
[WP] After sacrificing most of your power to defeat the demon lord, they made you a noble and gave you a territory to manage. Upon arrival, you discover it's a poor, miserable backwater where you've been imprisoned with velvet chains. But you have other plans and knowledge from another world. | Great demon lord Hedeos has fallen. It was his thirst for power that got him into my trap, which send him back from where he came. But I lost most of my power in process. I was reduced to mere mortal, with no way back to my home realm.
Humans were grateful and at the same time careful. No wonder, in their eyes i was p... | "We'll get you a sign," said my companion, a cocky-looking kid of about 19 with a cigarette between his teeth, "'I saved the world and all I got was this lousy hamlet.'"
I chucked a piece of bread at him. "Shut up. At least it's a start. Think of what we can do with it!"
"Yeah, I hear chickenwatching is really taking... | |
[WP] After sacrificing most of your power to defeat the demon lord, they made you a noble and gave you a territory to manage. Upon arrival, you discover it's a poor, miserable backwater where you've been imprisoned with velvet chains. But you have other plans and knowledge from another world. | I should have expected it. They were just as scared of me as they were of the demon lord. To the citizens of the great kingdom I was a liability, a powerful being that would turn on them whenever I got the chance. They wanted to be the ones to make the preemptive strike, wanted to beat me down before I could regain my ... | "We'll get you a sign," said my companion, a cocky-looking kid of about 19 with a cigarette between his teeth, "'I saved the world and all I got was this lousy hamlet.'"
I chucked a piece of bread at him. "Shut up. At least it's a start. Think of what we can do with it!"
"Yeah, I hear chickenwatching is really taking... | |
[WP] Mages are classified based on the material which they can control for magic. Stone wizards are often builders and brutes, wood wizards are guardians of the forests and libraries, fire wizards are cooks and smiths and glassmakers. You are the first blood wizard ever born. |
From an early age the magical community saw me as an irregularity in a society that hasn’t seen change in centuries. Little did my poor parents know I would be a pariah that would disrupt the core understanding of our magical society.
At the age of nine we are placed in a room with simple objects. A stone, a piece ... | My affliction was discovered at a very young age. The horror on my mother's face that night was something to remember and still brings a smile to my face after all of this time. I knew I shouldn't have caved into my urges. The deep, deep taste that never seemed to be quenched took over me. One drip at a time.
But no ... | |
[WP] Mages are classified based on the material which they can control for magic. Stone wizards are often builders and brutes, wood wizards are guardians of the forests and libraries, fire wizards are cooks and smiths and glassmakers. You are the first blood wizard ever born. | I am the Blood Wizard.
Those who know me from legends decry me as a monster, a weapon of mass destruction, the terror of battlefields and cities alike. Nations have put out bounties on my head, and hunters from all over the land seek my death.
And none have returned.
Their hearts stopped, their corpses mangled, t... | My affliction was discovered at a very young age. The horror on my mother's face that night was something to remember and still brings a smile to my face after all of this time. I knew I shouldn't have caved into my urges. The deep, deep taste that never seemed to be quenched took over me. One drip at a time.
But no ... | |
[WP] Mages are classified based on the material which they can control for magic. Stone wizards are often builders and brutes, wood wizards are guardians of the forests and libraries, fire wizards are cooks and smiths and glassmakers. You are the first blood wizard ever born. | A viscous, crimson stream ran from Ballack’s nose and ears. His eye wide but not white, each vessel within had burst, flooding the previously snowy plains with scarlet. I sat with my back to the corner into which I’d been pushed—scared, but not sorry. I hadn’t meant to kill Ballack, I didn’t even know that I could, but... | The Blood Lord sat in his throne amidst a sea of drained, disfigured bodies. They had been dead for years, of course, but he had never cleaned them up. His chambers, after all, needed decoration.
Beyond his palace were the wastelands of his creation, and, with them, more corpses: their skin charred and mutilated. He r... | |
[WP] You rule the land with a wand whose power overwhelms all others. Some call it the barrage of fire, others the metallic whirlwind. Some simply refer to it as death itself. But only you know the wand’s true name, inscribed in the handle: AK-47. | The wand of death spat fireballs on the poor knights. Their horses went mad, their chainmail was pierced, and all they could do was stare. Not one of them could come near me.
"Stop your damned sorcery, you good-for-nothing bastard," the King yelled.
He was behind the knights, sheathed by bodies of brave men, a coward... | The so called heros lie dead or injured in front of me. They were like the others, claiming that they will be the ones to end my tyranny and how I was evil, the same as all the others who went to fight me. Honestly this group was pathetic, not even a healer among them. Not that a healer would do much against my AK.
I ... | |
[WP] A father and son sit down for a serious talk. The father plans to tell his son that he's the last member of an ancient race and must carry on the bloodline. The son plans to come out to his father. Neither has any idea what the other plans to say. | Alexander studied soft olive coloring that was present in his son who sat across from him. The son looked out the window with a set of warm, honey colored eyes. The same eyes that his father possessed and were said to charm any woman they smoldered at. Phillip's mother would often regale friends how she felt hypnotized... | “Son... what I’m about to ask of you is quite selfish... but please know it’s for the best” as I swallow, my throat feels tight, as if my neck had conspired against me to constrain my Adam’s apple like a fleshy prison “w-what is it dad? It can’t be that bad... right?” My tone makes this question more of a plead that th... | |
[WP] A father and son sit down for a serious talk. The father plans to tell his son that he's the last member of an ancient race and must carry on the bloodline. The son plans to come out to his father. Neither has any idea what the other plans to say. | 'I... have to be honest, bud, I didn't see the signs until recently,' Alan said, shoving another undercooked sausage into his face, and then chewing without exhibiting even the vague threat of closing his mouth.
The café was alive with many sounds. The clink of porcelain. The chatter of mid-day workers enjoying cold c... | As I ring the doorbell, I go over the plan one more time. Kiss, handshake, lunch, help cleanup, insist mom goes sits down. She’ll go outside to the porch, dad and I will have some time to talk. Kiss, handshake, lunch… the list begins to sound like a mantra in my head, one after the other.
This is the latest in a seri... | |
[WP] A father and son sit down for a serious talk. The father plans to tell his son that he's the last member of an ancient race and must carry on the bloodline. The son plans to come out to his father. Neither has any idea what the other plans to say. | "Son, you are the youngest descendant of my space colony."
"Space colony huh"
"I lied to you and your mother, I'm not French"
"You're funny"
"I'm serious, my parents didn't die in a car crash, my home, my spaceship, crashed here on earth, I was the sole survivor"
"Very funny"
"I am like Doctor Who, the last of my... | As I ring the doorbell, I go over the plan one more time. Kiss, handshake, lunch, help cleanup, insist mom goes sits down. She’ll go outside to the porch, dad and I will have some time to talk. Kiss, handshake, lunch… the list begins to sound like a mantra in my head, one after the other.
This is the latest in a seri... | |
[WP] It’s the hunger games, but while they’re happening an apocalyptic event occurs outside the dome. You, a contestant in the Hunger Games, are the only person who realizes that the only people left alive are trying to kill each other for a long-dead audience. | I took a second glance at the note inside the care package. It simply read "Apocalypse outside. Game abandoned. Stop killing." It was awfully brief but I know these things charged by the letter and they weren't cheap. This had to have cost a bomb and it wouldn't have been easy for one person to foot alone, so it couldn... | \[Poem\]
We fight each other armed and sure
the pride of home within our souls
this is what matters, what's true
Outside the wind whips, skies darken
predatory nature waits
the last word will be hers | |
[WP] It’s the hunger games, but while they’re happening an apocalyptic event occurs outside the dome. You, a contestant in the Hunger Games, are the only person who realizes that the only people left alive are trying to kill each other for a long-dead audience. | It was not what I expected from the sponsorship, the news that the world was falling apart. I really hoped it would be some food, or some antihistamine. The spines of the plant I’d trodden on this morning were certainly having an impact on me. My ankle was swelling rapidly.
I put down the infopad and considered my opt... | All things considered Antoine thought it was pretty funny that he’d learned of the end of the world by trying to cheat. His fellow contestants might not find it quite as amusing but as he dodged their arrows in the sweltering jungle ecosystem of the dome he found that he didn’t much care. Whenever they all made it out ... | |
[WP] As the villain pulled you from the rubble you glared at him as he removed your mask. His smirk dropped when he saw your face as he said: “Wait, Dan from Pizza Hut? YOU are the one who I’ve been trying to kill for all these years!?” | “So, are you going to kill me?” I said, looking up at him defiantly, one eye covered in a trickle of blood.
“Of course not.” Marazon said, standing up straight and holding a dark suited hand to the sky, “I will erase anyone who is not worthy of existence on this earth.” Then he pointed to me,”You are worthy. You make ... | As the villain pulled you from the rubble you glared at him as he removed your mask. His smirk dropped when he saw your face as he said: "Wait, Dan from Pizza Hut? YOU are the one who I've been trying to kill for all these years!?"
"Uh, yeah.. I guess. Three years of high school, and these two years of college. Uh, hi... | |
[WP] As the villain pulled you from the rubble you glared at him as he removed your mask. His smirk dropped when he saw your face as he said: “Wait, Dan from Pizza Hut? YOU are the one who I’ve been trying to kill for all these years!?” | My head hurts, I thought as my adversary leered gleefully over me. There I was, crumpled in the corner from the evil Jeff Bezos’ Amazon crush attack. His bald head glinting in the moonlight, the world’s most powerful villain leaned down near me.
“You did well. Truly, impressive” he gloated, as he raised me by the col... | As the villain pulled you from the rubble you glared at him as he removed your mask. His smirk dropped when he saw your face as he said: "Wait, Dan from Pizza Hut? YOU are the one who I've been trying to kill for all these years!?"
"Uh, yeah.. I guess. Three years of high school, and these two years of college. Uh, hi... | |
[WP] Every civilization has their own version of Death, each being similar and "kind." Except for Humanity's Death. Their Death is terrifying. | When the four brothers gathered in the halls of Creation – the cradle of the universe – they gazed upon each other to see how the countless millenniums had changed them. While they were not physical beings, their bodies took shape of the civilization that they guided to the next life. It would morph itself to resemble... | “Who is that?” asked John’s earpiece in response to the clicking of ‘Rufus’.
Rufus wasn't his real name, he introduced himself as ‘Knak’ric’lactak’, john said “Break, assign name ‘Rufus’” and now whenever he said the name, the small speaker clipped to his shoulder would say ‘Knak’ric’laktak’ along with translating eve... | |
[WP] Everyone heard of guardian angels. You were born with them, and they are only removed from you when a crime is commited. But you? You have a guardian demon. | Some people never had a chance. Those born deformed, mentally deficient, to abusive or neglectful homes, even just a little "different". It takes great strength to overcome such disadvantages from birth. But what about when the very thing that separates you, strengthens you?
"I know that look, stop waxing philosophic... | James’ key slid easily into the lock of his front door, if he had anything of value in his apartment, he was pretty sure his lock could be picked with a smooth butter knife. The floorboards groaned in what sounded like pain as he stepped into his worn down apartment. It wasn’t much, a kitchen/living room, bathroom and ... | |
[WP] The demon stepped forth from the crackling summoning circle, eyes blazing and dark wings reaching into the sky. "Destroy them!" The dark sorcerer yells. The demon stops and looks at the sorcerer. "Nah. I just want to look around." The demon takes off, leaving the sorcerer and heroes dumbstruck. | The demon strolled through town, jauntily waving to terrified villagers as he whistled a little tune. He stopped at an apple cart, throwing an apple up and catching it. He placed a copper coin down, looking around confused as the cart owner cowered underneath.
"Hmm, must be out for a break. Oh well, better leave a lit... | Adavan and the rest of the Heroes’ Guild were not sure about whether or not they could trust the great sorcerer Drakvin the Red, but it would be hard to deem the sorcerer a failure in this moment.
After all, he had just summoned the Great Demon Escalus to bring them salvation.
The sorcerer, for his part, was overjoye... | |
[WP] After so many years,, the long-lost princess has finally been found! Thing is though, she's an infamous thief, who is currently in prison after being caught trying to steal from the royal family. | The guard pushed at me and I did not stumble. That made him push at me again and I made an effort to look like I stumbled, hearing him chuckle. It was a long way from the teachings of my Master, but I still was able to walk carefully and with balance as I was taken into the bowels of the prison. The scrape of the metal... | "Some fifteen years ago, the only child of the royal family disappeared without a trace, along with her entire escort, on a simple ride through the Royal Forest. We scpured the woods for any sign but their trail just ended. For months we awaited a ransom demand but none ever came. Eventually we resigned ourselves to n... | |
[WP] After so many years,, the long-lost princess has finally been found! Thing is though, she's an infamous thief, who is currently in prison after being caught trying to steal from the royal family. | The guard pushed at me and I did not stumble. That made him push at me again and I made an effort to look like I stumbled, hearing him chuckle. It was a long way from the teachings of my Master, but I still was able to walk carefully and with balance as I was taken into the bowels of the prison. The scrape of the metal... | “Ok. We are all here. Now, will you talk?” The queen of Antia said, stepping up to the bars. Behind her, the king and the two princes stood in amused irritation. They had emptied this wing of the prison of other people, hoping to keep the newly caught prisoner’s identity secret, at least for a time.
The prisoner was E... | |
[WP] These aren't regular tv channels. These channels allow you to watch your life if you made different choices in alternate timelines. Went left instead of right? Channel 1052. Ate eggs instead of cereal for breakfast? Channel 86. But what you really wanna see is on Channel 777. | I didn't realize just how many choices a human makes until I watched channel 777.
Every single second was a momentous moment. It didn't matter if I was doing the most mundane of tasks: cutting my fingernails on the left hand first, closing a window, backtracking a lost step. Or, the most special of occasions: gliding ... | It was known as Channel Luck. Channel 777 was that one where, whoever was holding the remote, that one moment for you would change. You know the moment, the one that derailed your whole life, that defines you as a person, that separates your life into ‘before’ and ‘after’. Some genuinely don’t have moments like that, n... | |
[WP] Humans have discovered that music is made across the whole universe, but different species make truly different kinds of music that sound completely alien to any other species. That is with the exception of one genre that somehow appears on every single planet. | *We noticed the first broadcast around 2043.*
The Owens Valley Radio Observatory picked up a deep space transmission that everyone shrugged off as a joke or broadcast anomaly with some even claiming it was just local radio stations bouncing off of passing planes. That seemed plausible enough with the first few transmi... |
“As you can see between the Third and Fourth Millennia humans maintain standard tempo, however the Craxor Jive broke that pattern, as the only other species in the UniSphere that maintain similar auditory wavelength as the humans – Kalfor!“
All the holograms abruptly flickered at the sudden deviation from the lect... | |
[WP] Humans have developed faster then light travel and made contact with alien races. Turns out our civilization still has the most primitive classification because we somehow managed to skip one of the simplest inventions imaginable. | The loud siren blared its unending scream at a supernatural volume, forcing me to sit up straight in a remarkably swift motion to contend with it. I pawed at my bedside table, finally getting a grip on my phone's alarm, and slid my fingers around the screen wildly before merciful silence took me once again. My head nat... | "What do you mean they don't know about it? It so abundant on their little dirtball that you will stumble over it with every damn step."
The Researcher was perplexed. "How the bloody hell did they even manage to get our attention then?"
"As you might have already guessed, not by the usually means", his protegee answe... | |
[WP] Humans have developed faster then light travel and made contact with alien races. Turns out our civilization still has the most primitive classification because we somehow managed to skip one of the simplest inventions imaginable. | "You're still *completely* organic? You haven't hybridized with Artificial Intelligence at all?" The stranger asked me.
We were standing on designated neutral ground for humanity's first touch with an alien race- and so far, they were only one thing; confused.
"Look, the fact that you've managed to get here means you... | "What do you mean they don't know about it? It so abundant on their little dirtball that you will stumble over it with every damn step."
The Researcher was perplexed. "How the bloody hell did they even manage to get our attention then?"
"As you might have already guessed, not by the usually means", his protegee answe... | |
[WP] Humans have developed faster then light travel and made contact with alien races. Turns out our civilization still has the most primitive classification because we somehow managed to skip one of the simplest inventions imaginable. | "You're still *completely* organic? You haven't hybridized with Artificial Intelligence at all?" The stranger asked me.
We were standing on designated neutral ground for humanity's first touch with an alien race- and so far, they were only one thing; confused.
"Look, the fact that you've managed to get here means you... | "Esteemed Council members. I have momentous news for the galaxy. The humans have finally discovered Slood.”
A hush descended over the auditorium. Agent SOL-3 smiled to xyrself. Xe loved a theatrical flourish. Perhaps something xe had learnt from a long time observing Earth. The humans might be as blind as hatchlings w... | |
[WP] You adopt a humongous dog from the animal shelter, unaware that it's actually a werewolf. | My mom told me the best thing for a broken heart is a dog. Growing up in a household with more pets than people, I would tend to agree. My favorite dogs were always the big dogs, so that’s what I have in mind when I head to the local shelter.
The moment I laid eyes on Peter, I knew he would be coming home with me. Som... | Between dinner on the stove, the successful conclusion of his first week living with his girlfriend, and the unexpectedly massive dog who had stolen their hearts, Aaron thought life had never been better. That all changed in about 5 seconds flat when the new dog’s howl became a painfully human scream and he tore his ey... | |
[WP] Imagine a fantasy world that isn't permanently stuck in the middle ages. | Me name Ugg. See weak man. Weak man hot. No likey. Will not touch hot man. Hot man burn hands.
Me name Ugg. Cute girl there. Will ask for food. She name Kugg. Kugg odd girl. Ground move around Kugg. No talk to Kugg.
Me name Ugg. Kugg see lots of water from eyes. No water anywhere on ground. Ugg confused.
Me name ... | Thanks for the question OP! I've always hoped that p/AskPoppet would do one for folk that hate other folk for being folk! I changed the names here so don't worry. I also included definitions for the people from other realms in here
I hate my best friend Mazz. She's so weird and posts *wayyyyy* too often on Cinnamon. C... | |
[WP] Write a romantic comedy, but the couples have functional communication skills, and are competent when telling each other their feelings. | "Linda! What's going on here?"
"James? What are you doing here?" Linda replied, trying her best to be unassuming.
"I thought you told me you wanted a personal day to go shopping. It's a little strange when you spend it with another guy, don't you think?" James said, as he looked at the guy she was shopping with.
"He... | As they crossed paths in the coffee shop, Danny and Sarah shared a glance.
Sarah, an ace reporter for her cities newspaper has traveled from Manhattan to write a paper on businesses in England.
Danny is the recipient of his fathers inheritance and fortune, now in charge of his family’s company. However, with such a... | |
Doesn't have to be a secretary, could be any employee. | [WP] Boss: "No? Then you're fired." Secretary: " As of last week, i'm the majority shareholder of this company. You're the one who's fired." | My blood ran cold as I reread the email. Dane, the most irritating but still producing shift manager we had, had written an email detailing why his team didn't need a sanitation crew and had fired their last janitor. Stating obsolescence and lackluster performance, he had let the old man go. He was due to retire in ... | “No? then you’re fired!” The director shouted, practically spitting. “Give me that device.”
He went to snatch the device and I stepped back. It put the pad just out of reach but his expensively manicured nails left big scratches down my bare arms.
The security drones shifted almost imperceptibly. To the trained eye i... |
[WP] You are a Knight that was supposed to follow a prophesy to kill a dragon. Now that you've finally gotten to the dragon, your starting to have second thoughts about going thru with it. | "Look, I'm just not sure about going through with this," 'Sir' Geraint said, his voice sounding weak and whiny in his own ears.
Friar Etienne was exasperated under normal circumstances; now he was exponentially exasperated. Exponserated, or something. His face was going red (not from drink for once), from his chins ... | "Up, up!" yelled the child. It shrieked with joy as its mother lifted it up, the child's fragile wings beating excitedly. Tendrils of smoke leaked out the child's nostrils, its green eyes staring up at the forest canopy with wonder.
It had been three days since I had left royal court with a mission. A request to kill ... | |
[WP] “ALERT: Stay indoors! Do not go outside” the alert says on your phone. You don’t know if it’s a joke or real though, because you’re currently outside and feel nothing wrong. | Shuffling through the junk and spam, I close the mailbox with my elbow. When my phone suddenly starts shrieking, the papers nearly slip from my hand. I pull my blaring device from my pocket. The flashing message takes up the entire screen: "ALERT: Stay indoors! Do not go outside!"
I press the button to silence the thi... | The wind was picking up, swirling around me in a way I couldn’t quite understand like I was caught in one of those tiny leaf tornadoes in the middle of small-town roads. I stared at the alert on my phone, the notification blinking ominously at me. I looked back at my home, the windows staring at me like open mouths, ... | |
[WP] Superheroes need sponsors to pay rent. It was one thing when they just put logos on your costume. Now the product placement is really getting out of control. | “They want me to what?”
“Smoke one cigarette on live TV.”
“I told them I was a non-smoker from the start.”
“I know, but Smokestack Cigarettes is your biggest sponsor. They’ve made it clear that if they can’t get any shots of you actually using their product, they’ll pull funding.”
“Hank, you don’t get it. If I tell... | Flash shows up in the video, with his suit suspiciously normal. He's been making these videos since the 'Superman Dashcam' video went viral. Like every other superhero though, he eventually starts doing sponsorships.
If 'eventually' means two videos.
For the last few months, his costume has gone through a plethora... | |
[WP] You have OCD . Your roommate is the god of chaos . | I shudder, she had just grabbed my crochet hook off the table and used it to stir her coffee. My eyes begin to tear up as lays it across the project I was working on, drips of sticky creamer oozing onto the wool.
I snatched the work, and the hook and gently wiped it off, over and over again. I stared at my careful sti... | I've always hated my roommate. He's always been a messy guy. I hate sharing my dorms with the guy to be frank. It's like he was doing it on person y'know? I ain't got nothing against pansies but the least you can do is respect others. We ain't animals y'know?
I've known the guy since last year but it's been a hell... | |
[WP] You have OCD . Your roommate is the god of chaos . | "1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11..."
I considered screaming, wanting to pull at my hair and start screaming. "*No,* it's 12. I'm at 12. 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12. And now it's 13. Soon it'll be 14 and we have to reach 64 and then it'll be done so can you *please* shut *up?"*
I kept tapping my fingers together, perfect squares upo... | I've always hated my roommate. He's always been a messy guy. I hate sharing my dorms with the guy to be frank. It's like he was doing it on person y'know? I ain't got nothing against pansies but the least you can do is respect others. We ain't animals y'know?
I've known the guy since last year but it's been a hell... | |
[WP] One day, this woman starts showing up in your daily life. On the TV, in a magazine, on the bus, in a store. After weeks of this happening, the woman storms up to you, exhausted. “You’re the most ignorant mortal. Why can’t you notice me?” | "To be honest, I dead did notice you, but I have a tendency to ignore things that I find highly annoying".
This chick gave me what I assume to be a glower, but came off as a mousy sneer.
Like. I. Gave A Fuck.
I was on my feet all goddamn day taking care of wannabe rich bitch customers who thought they were holier... | Nothing against you, but you lead a life of adventure and live superficially. The places you've seen, the people you've met and dated...I can't keep up with that. I lead a life much more different than what you are attached to. You keep so many things hidden from me that all I see is the lavishness of the covers you gr... | |
[WP] One day, this woman starts showing up in your daily life. On the TV, in a magazine, on the bus, in a store. After weeks of this happening, the woman storms up to you, exhausted. “You’re the most ignorant mortal. Why can’t you notice me?” | "Mortal? Notice you? I mean ... sure I noticed you. I even thought it was strange how you were popping up everywhere. But what was I supposed to say?"
"You could have started with hello," the woman replied, arms crossed. "But I'm glad you weren't as ignorant as I thought. We gods try to be subtle these days, especiall... | Nothing against you, but you lead a life of adventure and live superficially. The places you've seen, the people you've met and dated...I can't keep up with that. I lead a life much more different than what you are attached to. You keep so many things hidden from me that all I see is the lavishness of the covers you gr... | |
[WP] "I'll make this simple. We have a fleet of flying battleships and a massive robot army and you don't. Ban slavery and return our citizens now, or we will do it for you." | ​
*Territorial Union Headquarters, Berlin, Germany. 2430 A.D.*
“What forces do we have available?” asked State Minister Robertson as he walked into the situation room, soldiers saluting him as he strode through the doorway. The room was covered from floor to ceiling in computer monitors and display screens... | "Alright everyone, listen up."
The lieutenant said as he walked in to the briefing room. He was the kind of soldier who deliberately got into trouble to avoid promotions so he can stay at a rank that was low enough not to warrant a desk job. He liked to fight. Rumour had it that he managed to avoid eight promotions in... | |
[WP]The world literally revolves around your schedule. So long as you don’t sleep, tomorrow won’t come. People around the word know this and have all adapted to your sleep cycle. Tomorrow, a great catastrophe will occur...but not as long as you stay awake...and everyone knows it. | "Madame President, the latest models suggest that the hurricane will make landfall tomorrow. It is currently estimated to reach shore as a category 5, with top wind speeds north of 180 miles per hour. The models suggest that it will make landfall near Savannah, Georgia, then follow the coast north, hitting every major ... | Dear Lucy,
12/21/2012. We all knew it was coming. The “end of the world” or whatever it was that made the Mayans quit making their calendar on that day. That’s tomorrow.
Ever since you’ve known me you knew that my life was not normal. I controlled time on a day to day basis just by being awake and asleep. I could pre... | |
[WP]The world literally revolves around your schedule. So long as you don’t sleep, tomorrow won’t come. People around the word know this and have all adapted to your sleep cycle. Tomorrow, a great catastrophe will occur...but not as long as you stay awake...and everyone knows it. | Day One
The sun didn’t set. Not completely atypical, this shit happened all the time in college. Back before anyone knew it was me controlling this, cable news was a treat to watch any time I pulled an all nighter. Or all dayer. Terminology with this shit is weird.
I was thinking, is there anyone I want to see? Anyon... | Dear Lucy,
12/21/2012. We all knew it was coming. The “end of the world” or whatever it was that made the Mayans quit making their calendar on that day. That’s tomorrow.
Ever since you’ve known me you knew that my life was not normal. I controlled time on a day to day basis just by being awake and asleep. I could pre... | |
[WP]The world literally revolves around your schedule. So long as you don’t sleep, tomorrow won’t come. People around the word know this and have all adapted to your sleep cycle. Tomorrow, a great catastrophe will occur...but not as long as you stay awake...and everyone knows it. | "Madame President, the latest models suggest that the hurricane will make landfall tomorrow. It is currently estimated to reach shore as a category 5, with top wind speeds north of 180 miles per hour. The models suggest that it will make landfall near Savannah, Georgia, then follow the coast north, hitting every major ... | It was such a shame, it seemed that there was only one way for me to rest.
The scientists, with all their knowledge and research could do nothing to stop it. The Great Catastrophe, as the ancient Mayans had called it. A great ending that would, inevitably, erase all of existence. It was a wonder that they had predict... | |
[WP]The world literally revolves around your schedule. So long as you don’t sleep, tomorrow won’t come. People around the word know this and have all adapted to your sleep cycle. Tomorrow, a great catastrophe will occur...but not as long as you stay awake...and everyone knows it. | “What time is it now?”
“It’s now 71:48, Tim. 12 minutes until day 3.”
It’s been almost 3 days since I last slept, and it’s been almost 3 days since the start of “today”. I turn my head to the right and look out the window to see the moon, still hovering in the same place just above the horizon for the last 24 hours.... | It was such a shame, it seemed that there was only one way for me to rest.
The scientists, with all their knowledge and research could do nothing to stop it. The Great Catastrophe, as the ancient Mayans had called it. A great ending that would, inevitably, erase all of existence. It was a wonder that they had predict... | |
[WP]The world literally revolves around your schedule. So long as you don’t sleep, tomorrow won’t come. People around the word know this and have all adapted to your sleep cycle. Tomorrow, a great catastrophe will occur...but not as long as you stay awake...and everyone knows it. | Day One
The sun didn’t set. Not completely atypical, this shit happened all the time in college. Back before anyone knew it was me controlling this, cable news was a treat to watch any time I pulled an all nighter. Or all dayer. Terminology with this shit is weird.
I was thinking, is there anyone I want to see? Anyon... | It was such a shame, it seemed that there was only one way for me to rest.
The scientists, with all their knowledge and research could do nothing to stop it. The Great Catastrophe, as the ancient Mayans had called it. A great ending that would, inevitably, erase all of existence. It was a wonder that they had predict... | |
[WP]The world literally revolves around your schedule. So long as you don’t sleep, tomorrow won’t come. People around the word know this and have all adapted to your sleep cycle. Tomorrow, a great catastrophe will occur...but not as long as you stay awake...and everyone knows it. | Day One
The sun didn’t set. Not completely atypical, this shit happened all the time in college. Back before anyone knew it was me controlling this, cable news was a treat to watch any time I pulled an all nighter. Or all dayer. Terminology with this shit is weird.
I was thinking, is there anyone I want to see? Anyon... | “What time is it now?”
“It’s now 71:48, Tim. 12 minutes until day 3.”
It’s been almost 3 days since I last slept, and it’s been almost 3 days since the start of “today”. I turn my head to the right and look out the window to see the moon, still hovering in the same place just above the horizon for the last 24 hours.... | |
[WP] "The only thing worse than a vengeful god is a bored god" | Demeter sat on the porch sipping wine watching Sisyphus push the rock up the hill. Again.
"I'm so bored" Persephone said as she gently ran her fingers over Cerebus' six ears.
Hecate nodded and yawned. "The new dead are no fun at all. Earth is an absolute yawn. Same disease, same complaints. Apollo's biology project ... | John pushed his plate away, got up from the table, and headed into the den. He wasn’t quite sure why he’d interrupted his meal to walk across the house, but he suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to do so. He arrived in the den. There was a TV on one wall, a window on the opposite wall, and simple chess board with two c... | |
[WP] "The only thing worse than a vengeful god is a bored god" | Demeter sat on the porch sipping wine watching Sisyphus push the rock up the hill. Again.
"I'm so bored" Persephone said as she gently ran her fingers over Cerebus' six ears.
Hecate nodded and yawned. "The new dead are no fun at all. Earth is an absolute yawn. Same disease, same complaints. Apollo's biology project ... | Ellie picked up the magazine from the table and read out loud, "The only thing worse than a vengeful god is a bored god." She curled her face in disgust, but quickly softened. "I barely recognize this now"
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"What did you read?" I asked.
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"Cosmopolitan! Can you believe it? This kid has more ... | |
[WP] "The only thing worse than a vengeful god is a bored god" | Demeter sat on the porch sipping wine watching Sisyphus push the rock up the hill. Again.
"I'm so bored" Persephone said as she gently ran her fingers over Cerebus' six ears.
Hecate nodded and yawned. "The new dead are no fun at all. Earth is an absolute yawn. Same disease, same complaints. Apollo's biology project ... | Humanity are the forgotten Gods of Earth. They were Gods, for they were master of all her creatures. They were Gods, for they shepherded new life into the universe, wrought from steel and lightning and the magnitude of their imaginations. They were Gods, but only for a short while. For although Humanity had many gifts... | |
[WP] "The only thing worse than a vengeful god is a bored god" | I hadn't expected to wake up again, after I died.
It had been a worthy death. Also an incredibly horrific and agonising death, sure, but a worthy one.
Disaster after disaster had befallen Earth. It had started with a virus that quickly mutated, one that even magical remedies could not quite keep up with. Then the vir... | “Only boring gods are bored.” the demon squeaked, lifting a clawed hand to hide the chatter.
“Hey! Who. . .who shaid that!” The skeleton rattled as his head rolled to look at his minions with eyeless sockets. The Baron sat on a giant throne, fashioned from dirt, bones of various animals and humans, and grave moss.
Th... | |
[WP] You are renowned for getting Supervillains to turn over a new leaf, people wonder what special powers you must have. The truth is you have no powers, just a basic knowledge of counseling and the ability to ask "What do you want out of life, and is there a better way to get it than villainy?" | “What do you want out of life, Mr Clobber?” I stared at the man, the intense muscle-bound figure nervously scratching at his mutated arm, the appendage resembling a steroid filled log more than an arm. Another victim of a freak accident, a normal man before the mutation. I had to pity the guy, his intense persona a mer... | Fame, fortune, and feelings.
That is what most of the most deranged villains want when they sign up for creating trouble. One guy just wanted his own wikipedia page so he could win a bet. He took a senate meeting hostage, and got a lot more than his own wikipedia page, and much more than he bargained for. Another live... | |
[WP] The main hero and main villain, both humans who have never seen each others' real face, meet at the grocery store and really hit it off. | The bulb flickered ominously, illuminating the tableau of damage and decay before me. Everything I could see would be destroyed before the day was out. I knew I could save one thing, and one thing only.
I felt my heart quicken, and I even started to salivate as I reached for my selection, but to my right, I saw moveme... | [A very long queue for checkout where a man with a cart entirely full of oreos waits at the end]\
[Enter Harbinger]\
Harbinger: woah. You must like oreos. I mean I definitely do, but couldn’t you have left some for the rest of us?\
President of Vanguard: First strike policy man. Me and my boys have a thing for these. \... | |
[WP] While serving a sentence in prison, a creature broke in and killed everyone it could reach. The prisoners were originally glad to be safe locked inside their cells, but they quickly realised that there's no-one coming to get them out while the beast still wanders the halls. | I had been scratching at the wall with my spoon when I heard it crash through the wall. It was huge, the size of a moose at least, but it looked like a cat, all fur and fangs. It mauled the guard outside of my cell in a matter of seconds. It stalked over to my cage and I swallowed, barreling backwards.
“Good kitty,... | The heavy footsteps of the monster echoed through the halls of the prison. While in their cells everyone still didn’t dare speak a word, fearful of what might happen if they were heard. It was earlier established among the few prisoners that dared to speak that the creature is blind and can only find people through so... | |
[WP] You are an adventurer who stops to rest at a small snowy village. The townspeople regale you with stories about an ice witch who turns people into frozen statues. You journey to the mountain to deal with the witch. You find that she is just a misunderstood artist making ice sculptures. | The first thing I noticed was the smell. How pleasant it was.
Then, the considerable warmth. It was so warm, I thought, is she trying to get me to take my coat off? Is this how she gets you?
But the smell, it was disarming just the same. There was saffron. Rosemary. Lemon. It was like walking through a garden on a wa... | I trudge, heroically, towards the witches lair. I shudder, heroically, as I pass the hundreds of victims surrounding the path.
As I heroically approach the lair I can hear a loud growling noise rip through the air—no doubt some beast the witch has conjured for her bidding. Over the growling I can hear an the twisted v... | |
[WP] You are an adventurer who stops to rest at a small snowy village. The townspeople regale you with stories about an ice witch who turns people into frozen statues. You journey to the mountain to deal with the witch. You find that she is just a misunderstood artist making ice sculptures. | We'd dealt with a mystery like this before. Townspeople turning to stone, parts of them being discovered in swamps and nearby caves. It turned out to be a most terrifying creature, a great basilisk. Slaying the foul beast was no easy feat given it's powerful instincts. The beast sent two of our guild members to an earl... | The tall stranger regards the "ice sculptures" with his dark eyes, the wind blowing his cloak around him.
The sculptures are detailed depictions of people in various stages of flight or fight or defense - some seem to be running, some drawing weapons, some holding hands up before them as if to ward off an attack. The... | |
[WP] You are an adventurer who stops to rest at a small snowy village. The townspeople regale you with stories about an ice witch who turns people into frozen statues. You journey to the mountain to deal with the witch. You find that she is just a misunderstood artist making ice sculptures. | "I always wanted to be an artist. There is no place for an artist in the village. They fight for regular yields to feed families and trade what little surplus they have. When you fight for survival, there is no place for superfluous dreams. What does the hungry do with a sculpture? He starves.
My parents were not bad ... | The tall stranger regards the "ice sculptures" with his dark eyes, the wind blowing his cloak around him.
The sculptures are detailed depictions of people in various stages of flight or fight or defense - some seem to be running, some drawing weapons, some holding hands up before them as if to ward off an attack. The... | |
[WP] You are an adventurer who stops to rest at a small snowy village. The townspeople regale you with stories about an ice witch who turns people into frozen statues. You journey to the mountain to deal with the witch. You find that she is just a misunderstood artist making ice sculptures. | (1/2)
"Regrets...? Oh my love, in my line of work regrets can only burden for the living", the old man said weakly lying on his deathbed. His expression was sorrowful, burdened so as his mind wandered.
Galatea caught on her father's expression. The young maiden gently put the warm towel on her sick father's forehead,... | (1/2)
“Fourteen, Fifteen, Fuck.”
The old trick of counting the steps to drive her through the bitter snow was not working, again. She’d begun to suspect about ten leagues back that her uncle was full of shit. Then again, the forgery conviction should’ve told her that - it certainly had informed the judge.
The ‘fourt... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | A thousand years ago, the town of Hamelheim had been just another podunk hamlet in the middle of nowhere. It had been a hundred miles from the nearest paved roads, a thousand miles from any significant harbor, even the local streams were scraggly, little things, barely even adolescent. That had all changed though, when... | "Recruitment was- weird. Never before, or at least not since, oh, the last time I tried hooking up with someone without warning them what they were getting into, was so much attention paid to what lay between my legs. I should have seen it coming: the gender box on the application took up half an entire page, included ... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | A thousand years ago, the town of Hamelheim had been just another podunk hamlet in the middle of nowhere. It had been a hundred miles from the nearest paved roads, a thousand miles from any significant harbor, even the local streams were scraggly, little things, barely even adolescent. That had all changed though, when... | The band of adventurers slowly approached the temple, their faces beaming with confidence and pride. The temple had been erected 4 centuries ago by powerful mystics as a vault, and a crypt. Sages lusted after the knowledge that was kept inside, the power-hungry yearned for the strength the ancient mages held, and some ... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | A thousand years ago, the town of Hamelheim had been just another podunk hamlet in the middle of nowhere. It had been a hundred miles from the nearest paved roads, a thousand miles from any significant harbor, even the local streams were scraggly, little things, barely even adolescent. That had all changed though, when... | They touched the Golden Ass of wishes thinking there dreams were gonna become reality. Ignoring the big warning sign saying "no man shall live if touched by the golden ass."
When they were all done, they wished for a fair world for every minority in the universe only to be shocked when they all started dropping dead ... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The man, with his crown and cloak, glowered down at the small adventurer. She was the only one of her party still standing, keeping herself between the corrupted lord and her friends. The group's best healer crouched near their best swordsperson, her fingers glittering with magic as she tried to heal a wound.
“You s... |
“Look,” Freya said, turning on the car’s cruise control for the seemingly endless highway, “this would be our biggest project yet. If we’re going to go for this one, we need to be in consensus here.”
Lex crawled into the back seat from the trunk, holding Amy’s chemistry notebook and Kris’ spellbook. “I’m in,” they ... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments.
Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in... |
“Look,” Freya said, turning on the car’s cruise control for the seemingly endless highway, “this would be our biggest project yet. If we’re going to go for this one, we need to be in consensus here.”
Lex crawled into the back seat from the trunk, holding Amy’s chemistry notebook and Kris’ spellbook. “I’m in,” they ... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | Sharon traced her finger across the dusty stone tablet, squinting. The group of three adventurers was standing on the edge of explored territory on one of the farthest adventurer outposts, standing in front of a looming stone gate.
“Yeah, this is Bhalow, I can read this.”
Eina and Belle high-fived each other behind ... | The easiest of all were the warding curses, in the first year since Aymara had the idea they’d grown rich on those. They were famous relics of the old days, the kind of magic that always seemed to be tacked onto the ends of the heroes stories:
*“And the great lord so-and-so of big-awesome-castle locked away his treas... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The man, with his crown and cloak, glowered down at the small adventurer. She was the only one of her party still standing, keeping herself between the corrupted lord and her friends. The group's best healer crouched near their best swordsperson, her fingers glittering with magic as she tried to heal a wound.
“You s... | The easiest of all were the warding curses, in the first year since Aymara had the idea they’d grown rich on those. They were famous relics of the old days, the kind of magic that always seemed to be tacked onto the ends of the heroes stories:
*“And the great lord so-and-so of big-awesome-castle locked away his treas... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments.
Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in... | The easiest of all were the warding curses, in the first year since Aymara had the idea they’d grown rich on those. They were famous relics of the old days, the kind of magic that always seemed to be tacked onto the ends of the heroes stories:
*“And the great lord so-and-so of big-awesome-castle locked away his treas... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | Sharon traced her finger across the dusty stone tablet, squinting. The group of three adventurers was standing on the edge of explored territory on one of the farthest adventurer outposts, standing in front of a looming stone gate.
“Yeah, this is Bhalow, I can read this.”
Eina and Belle high-fived each other behind ... | "Listen," the shieldmaiden spoke, her mouth half-filled with the same amorphous slop which all the others at the table had on the plates before them. "I don't know much about magic, or curses, or enchantments, or that sort of thing, but I do-"
"That much is obvious, srah," the priestess muttered, the frown on her face... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The man, with his crown and cloak, glowered down at the small adventurer. She was the only one of her party still standing, keeping herself between the corrupted lord and her friends. The group's best healer crouched near their best swordsperson, her fingers glittering with magic as she tried to heal a wound.
“You s... | "Listen," the shieldmaiden spoke, her mouth half-filled with the same amorphous slop which all the others at the table had on the plates before them. "I don't know much about magic, or curses, or enchantments, or that sort of thing, but I do-"
"That much is obvious, srah," the priestess muttered, the frown on her face... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments.
Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in... | "Listen," the shieldmaiden spoke, her mouth half-filled with the same amorphous slop which all the others at the table had on the plates before them. "I don't know much about magic, or curses, or enchantments, or that sort of thing, but I do-"
"That much is obvious, srah," the priestess muttered, the frown on her face... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The man, with his crown and cloak, glowered down at the small adventurer. She was the only one of her party still standing, keeping herself between the corrupted lord and her friends. The group's best healer crouched near their best swordsperson, her fingers glittering with magic as she tried to heal a wound.
“You s... | Sharon traced her finger across the dusty stone tablet, squinting. The group of three adventurers was standing on the edge of explored territory on one of the farthest adventurer outposts, standing in front of a looming stone gate.
“Yeah, this is Bhalow, I can read this.”
Eina and Belle high-fived each other behind ... | |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments.
Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in... | Sharon traced her finger across the dusty stone tablet, squinting. The group of three adventurers was standing on the edge of explored territory on one of the farthest adventurer outposts, standing in front of a looming stone gate.
“Yeah, this is Bhalow, I can read this.”
Eina and Belle high-fived each other behind ... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | I died many years ago, so many now I’ve lost count. The angel and devil at my side have long since given up on pushing my decision one way or the other.
I died young, too young, a mother with a very small child. My son’s father died in an accident when he was just a baby, and then I died suddenly in his childhood.
... | \[Poem\]
One wish between heaven and hell, a ghost travels through.
When people mention purgatory they forgot they’re living it,
forgetful of their grandma watching over you when fucking.
​
I don’t see any other ghosts, presences feel odd now, like wind,
a cold breeze means you’ve slipped past someone ... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | # The Final Choice
“It’s a shortcut, we’ll get home faster,” Greg said, begging his wife to follow him into the alley. “Fine.” Said Lauren. Greg heard footsteps, and a man holding a gun appeared in front of him.
“Hand over your valuables, and we all walk away,” said the stranger.
Greg leapt bet... | \[Poem\]
One wish between heaven and hell, a ghost travels through.
When people mention purgatory they forgot they’re living it,
forgetful of their grandma watching over you when fucking.
​
I don’t see any other ghosts, presences feel odd now, like wind,
a cold breeze means you’ve slipped past someone ... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | Three stood in the back of a cinema, watching a movie with the seated audience. Well, one didn't stand, rather ... floated in mid air in a sitting position. The floating man was enjoying the movie way more than his two companions - one in a white robe, the other in a red suit. "Well?" said the person in red.
The float... | \[Poem\]
One wish between heaven and hell, a ghost travels through.
When people mention purgatory they forgot they’re living it,
forgetful of their grandma watching over you when fucking.
​
I don’t see any other ghosts, presences feel odd now, like wind,
a cold breeze means you’ve slipped past someone ... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | "I need to see her before I decide."
I couldn't give these strange winged beings a straight answer for the choices they had laid before me, nor did I care about my new incorporeal form. All I could think of was my Samantha who had been next to me during the crash.
It was just a regular day, a normal day that took a... | \[Poem\]
One wish between heaven and hell, a ghost travels through.
When people mention purgatory they forgot they’re living it,
forgetful of their grandma watching over you when fucking.
​
I don’t see any other ghosts, presences feel odd now, like wind,
a cold breeze means you’ve slipped past someone ... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | ~A completely non-original story~
I sat beside my great, great, great, great grandson on a sofa, pumping my fist as the big breasted animated characters bobbed across the screen. I had heard the boy refer to the show as... anime or something, but I honestly didn’t exactly care, I just was enjoying the TV. I’d sit in f... | \[Poem\]
One wish between heaven and hell, a ghost travels through.
When people mention purgatory they forgot they’re living it,
forgetful of their grandma watching over you when fucking.
​
I don’t see any other ghosts, presences feel odd now, like wind,
a cold breeze means you’ve slipped past someone ... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | When the veil of death falls upon a human soul, they are given choices. One, dread and ancient, a humanoid silhouette standing with thousands of eyes upon pearl-white wings and a wheel made from pearls fused together. The wheel is also on fire. Next to them stands a handsome or perhaps beautiful individual with some sl... | \[Poem\]
One wish between heaven and hell, a ghost travels through.
When people mention purgatory they forgot they’re living it,
forgetful of their grandma watching over you when fucking.
​
I don’t see any other ghosts, presences feel odd now, like wind,
a cold breeze means you’ve slipped past someone ... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | Three stood in the back of a cinema, watching a movie with the seated audience. Well, one didn't stand, rather ... floated in mid air in a sitting position. The floating man was enjoying the movie way more than his two companions - one in a white robe, the other in a red suit. "Well?" said the person in red.
The float... | # The Final Choice
“It’s a shortcut, we’ll get home faster,” Greg said, begging his wife to follow him into the alley. “Fine.” Said Lauren. Greg heard footsteps, and a man holding a gun appeared in front of him.
“Hand over your valuables, and we all walk away,” said the stranger.
Greg leapt bet... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | "I need to see her before I decide."
I couldn't give these strange winged beings a straight answer for the choices they had laid before me, nor did I care about my new incorporeal form. All I could think of was my Samantha who had been next to me during the crash.
It was just a regular day, a normal day that took a... | # The Final Choice
“It’s a shortcut, we’ll get home faster,” Greg said, begging his wife to follow him into the alley. “Fine.” Said Lauren. Greg heard footsteps, and a man holding a gun appeared in front of him.
“Hand over your valuables, and we all walk away,” said the stranger.
Greg leapt bet... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | ~A completely non-original story~
I sat beside my great, great, great, great grandson on a sofa, pumping my fist as the big breasted animated characters bobbed across the screen. I had heard the boy refer to the show as... anime or something, but I honestly didn’t exactly care, I just was enjoying the TV. I’d sit in f... | # The Final Choice
“It’s a shortcut, we’ll get home faster,” Greg said, begging his wife to follow him into the alley. “Fine.” Said Lauren. Greg heard footsteps, and a man holding a gun appeared in front of him.
“Hand over your valuables, and we all walk away,” said the stranger.
Greg leapt bet... | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies, a team of an angel and a devil appear before them to give them a choice: either they can go to heaven, or they can have one wish granted and go to hell. They have as much time as they want to decide and can stay on Earth as a ghost until they do. | When the veil of death falls upon a human soul, they are given choices. One, dread and ancient, a humanoid silhouette standing with thousands of eyes upon pearl-white wings and a wheel made from pearls fused together. The wheel is also on fire. Next to them stands a handsome or perhaps beautiful individual with some sl... | She hadn't ever really believed in heaven or hell, she just did her best to live an honest life because that's what she thought was right. Even if she had believed, she didn't think she'd imagine angels to be more terrifying than demons. Well, now she's dead and they stand before her, giving her the choice of either go... | |
[WP] Your arch-nemesis is a telepathic. Things get complicated in a battle when you realize they can recall every embarrassing moment you dread to remember and use it against you. | “What do we have here? Oh look, someone had a rough childhood…” I could sense his smirk, even if he didn’t show his face.
“Come on, really?” I said, trying to make that memory disappear. I was *nine*! “Don’t you have anything better to do?”
“I mean… not really, no. I have to sleep sometimes, so why not have some fun... | Oh no. Shit, goddammit, fuck! No, stop looking at that! That was _so_ embarrassing! I can’t believe you are seriously laughing at the time I accidentally dropped yogurt on top of Calvin’s head. I had the biggest crush on him back then! It was an accident, but the whole school laughed at him and called him “yogurt head”... | |
[WP] When intelligent species from different planets go to war, their respective deities fight as well. The earthlings' indecisiveness about religion has the invading pantheon outnumbered a hundred to one. | The One God of Conquest was an expert at fighting other deities. Make the fight in uncomfortable settings, stagnate it, wield the belief of trillions like a deft hammer and send their gods into the dirt while the armies flooded onto their world, whittling at their strength and the belief they drew from.
But nothing co... | While the forces of Thulan (known to Earthlings as Proxima Centauri b) were making landfall on Earth, the deities of the four main Thulan religions; Drachna, El'guah Intraks, and Uvjozi were ready to fight Allah and Yahweh, the gods of Earth's two main religions. They had expected to fight the duo two-on-one (with a do... | |
[WP] You have a tapeworm living inside of you. It's actually a pretty friendly tapeworm. Sure, he's a two-foot-long parasitic worm, but Jeffrey listens to your problems and gives you good advice. | I was staring again, but luckily nobody was paying attention to me. It was early into lunch hour and the cafeteria was bustling. Emma was sitting in a corner with her nose in a book. It was a really good novel - I read it last month - but that didn’t surprise me. Emma had great taste in books.
“Just go talk to her, ma... | I groaned in pain as I shifted in my bed.
"Oh, Jeffrey, I don't feel so good," I said.
I grabbed my phone and checked my face in the camera. "I look paler than before." I rubbed what was left of my plump cheeks. "I'm looking like a skeleton now, buddy. You think I should get checked up?"
"Oh, no no no!" a faint voic... | |
[WP] After hours in the labor the doctor is finally holding your child. Before anyone can say anything, your baby speaks... "New life, who dis?" | Amy took the baby from the doctor, sure what she thought she heard was a fever dream or some complication of the pain killers. She looked down at her precious boy. Adam, she knew instantly.
Adam winked at her. Could babies wink?
It wasn't until years later, when the peculiar events with Adam moved from a handful to a... |
Life, Anisah found, had a way of taking from you things you hadn’t even known you had. She had never thought to doubt whether her daughter would be a newborn, and yet that was just a preconception she held. And it was stolen from her when her daughter struggled to speak moments after being born. She would have thoug... | |
[WP] The shadows that you sometimes see darting in the corner of your eyes have been getting more defined as of late | "Did you see that?"
"What?"
"*Nevermind*."
Luke looked across the table at me like he always does when it happens -- like I'm nuts. Only for a moment, but, long enough to get the message across. He's polite that way, doesn't want me to feel worse than I already do. Besides, I agree with him that it's time I saw some... | It was hopeless. At first I thought it was just from coming home tired, the blurry sweeping dark that would rush past just out of sight. The eye drops didn't work, neither did the sleep mask. Somehow even through the thick fabric I could still see the glaring black figure, shapeless but somehow familiar. God I'm so tir... | |
[WP] The shadows that you sometimes see darting in the corner of your eyes have been getting more defined as of late | "Did you see that?"
"What?"
"*Nevermind*."
Luke looked across the table at me like he always does when it happens -- like I'm nuts. Only for a moment, but, long enough to get the message across. He's polite that way, doesn't want me to feel worse than I already do. Besides, I agree with him that it's time I saw some... | It’s been three months. Three months since a drink, a smoke, a wank, a relief. Yet I find relief in the discomfort. In the hope that not hiding from pain will amount to something. Will make up for what I haven’t amounted to.
I occasionally catch a glimpse of a roach skittering across the wall in the periphery. Even a... | |
[WP] Your home is super duper haunted. It makes the news for odd events that befall your land. Quite frankly you have no idea why it bothers people .The demons and ghosts respect their leases, pay rent on time, leave you alone unless they need maintenance. Why do demons need wifi? Who knows. | I couldn’t believe my luck when I heard I was awarded an estate through the will of a long lost relative I’d never even heard of. I’d been adopted because of the stigma around half demon half human kids. I knew it must have been rough on my bio parents and despite being raised in foster care I was okay with them having... | A match made in heaven. Or hell, depending on the point of view. For you, it's certainly heaven.
You've had your fill of dirty tenants, unwilling to pay, searching for excuses and using every loophole to abuse your goodwill. Hell is others said Sartres. Sartres didn't have tenants, tenants are another kind of others t... | |
[WP] Your home is super duper haunted. It makes the news for odd events that befall your land. Quite frankly you have no idea why it bothers people .The demons and ghosts respect their leases, pay rent on time, leave you alone unless they need maintenance. Why do demons need wifi? Who knows. | Yeah I signed a lease with the devil, but the housing market is tough these days, and it was this or my mom's boyfriend's basement, for $1000/ month. My current place is $900 a month, all utilities included, beautiful forest surrounding the grounds with tons of wildlife, creek and swamp adjacent with an old flour wheel... | A match made in heaven. Or hell, depending on the point of view. For you, it's certainly heaven.
You've had your fill of dirty tenants, unwilling to pay, searching for excuses and using every loophole to abuse your goodwill. Hell is others said Sartres. Sartres didn't have tenants, tenants are another kind of others t... | |
[WP] Your home is super duper haunted. It makes the news for odd events that befall your land. Quite frankly you have no idea why it bothers people .The demons and ghosts respect their leases, pay rent on time, leave you alone unless they need maintenance. Why do demons need wifi? Who knows. | I feel for the people who wake up to a ghost vomiting blood on their ceiling. I really do. But it’s not Jeffrey’s fault he has gastrointestinal issues, and the guy has never missed a rent payment.
Okay, maybe that’s a low bar, but you wouldn’t believe the problems I’ve had with tenants in the past. Some don’t pay rent... | A match made in heaven. Or hell, depending on the point of view. For you, it's certainly heaven.
You've had your fill of dirty tenants, unwilling to pay, searching for excuses and using every loophole to abuse your goodwill. Hell is others said Sartres. Sartres didn't have tenants, tenants are another kind of others t... | |
[WP] Your home is super duper haunted. It makes the news for odd events that befall your land. Quite frankly you have no idea why it bothers people .The demons and ghosts respect their leases, pay rent on time, leave you alone unless they need maintenance. Why do demons need wifi? Who knows. | “What was it this time?” I asked the demon.
Charlie had the decency to look chagrined at the blood dripping down the walls, shoving his hands, which, like the rest of him, had dark red skin, into his pockets. “Sharon broke up with me.”
My eyes widened. “No! Oh, man, I’m so sorry.”
“Thanks.” He sighed, glancing to th... | A match made in heaven. Or hell, depending on the point of view. For you, it's certainly heaven.
You've had your fill of dirty tenants, unwilling to pay, searching for excuses and using every loophole to abuse your goodwill. Hell is others said Sartres. Sartres didn't have tenants, tenants are another kind of others t... |
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