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[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | (please excuse my grammar, run on sentences, etc. This is my first time trying, and my grammar clearly isn't up to snuff)
Last week when my wife Bree told me our kids had snuck into my lab, taken some of the product I was working on, and accidently spilled it in the yard, I wasn't concerned. I had been working on BioH... | Situated in a middle sized European town on a small hill within random rows, one with many different and unique homes, stands my house. The house is not particularly impressive looking and it doesn’t have distinct features. So it’s not very eventful.
At least that’s how I would introduce it, but I don’t believe in tha... | |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | The leaders of a tribe of ants gather around the Hearth to consult with their Shaman on the matter of expansion. All six of them stand before the Shaman, who herself stands before the Queen, and they wait in tense silence as the distant clanging of metal sounds. Their mandibles click nervously as the Shaman addresses t... | “Aw fuck.”
“What's up?”
“Ants are organizing on the front lawn again. There’s something in the water here, I swear. No matter how many times I wash em out with the hose they always come back.”
“What? You purposely try to kill them? Dude, they'd probably think of you as a God if you just put some sugar out for them o... | |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | The leaders of a tribe of ants gather around the Hearth to consult with their Shaman on the matter of expansion. All six of them stand before the Shaman, who herself stands before the Queen, and they wait in tense silence as the distant clanging of metal sounds. Their mandibles click nervously as the Shaman addresses t... | I was having a week off from my job when I noticed several small plumes of smoke rising from the ground. At first I didn't know what to think but when I checked I was shocked to discover what was happening. The ants that we're living in my garden we're in some sort of forge, three of them lowering bits of tin and bronz... | |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | (please excuse my grammar, run on sentences, etc. This is my first time trying, and my grammar clearly isn't up to snuff)
Last week when my wife Bree told me our kids had snuck into my lab, taken some of the product I was working on, and accidently spilled it in the yard, I wasn't concerned. I had been working on BioH... |
I was playing, as usual, my favourite game, *Alonecraft*, when I first heard the noise. It sounded just like soft hail hitting on a steel roof, but I come just outside my window. I hesitated to open the window - I wasn’t appropriately dressed for anyone to see me. The noise continued and for a moment became louder ... | |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | (First time writing, sorry for grammar)
I had always be fascinated with history. I loved everything about it, the intrigue, the conflict, and no matter how much I learned there was always more. That was part of the fun, there was *always* more. I never thought history would be my career, just a hobby. I was good at ma... | I leaned close to the small mud tube. Blue smoke billowed from the entrance but from what little I saw, I was quite terrified. At first I'd thought my septic tank was leaking methane and this spark was the last thing is see before my lawn erupted... But I saw thin channels of glowing liquid.
I darted inside and got a... | |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | The first sign something was afoot was the small plume of smoke wafting up from behind the garage. I thought nothing of it, one of the neighbors smoking pot or something. I didn’t mind, and wasn’t going to be the one to rat them out to the police, so I shrugged and went back to my reading.
But the small plume didn’t ... | I leaned close to the small mud tube. Blue smoke billowed from the entrance but from what little I saw, I was quite terrified. At first I'd thought my septic tank was leaking methane and this spark was the last thing is see before my lawn erupted... But I saw thin channels of glowing liquid.
I darted inside and got a... | |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | The first sign something was afoot was the small plume of smoke wafting up from behind the garage. I thought nothing of it, one of the neighbors smoking pot or something. I didn’t mind, and wasn’t going to be the one to rat them out to the police, so I shrugged and went back to my reading.
But the small plume didn’t ... | I'm going to give you all an advice today, but before that, I'm going to talk to you about my ants.
Ants. Tiny brainless creatures that are as old as dinosaurs, found everywhere on the planet and usually inside my cookie jars.
I've always been fascinated by ants. The fact that they literally don't have a brain and y... | |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | I rubbed my eyes, hoping what I was seeing was a dream. Nope. The smoke was still drifting up from one of the small ant holes. Never had this happened before. Rubbing my eyes once again, I got up from squatting and sat down on the porch to think. What was it? Some sort of chemical reaction? Maybe a cracked pipeline?
I... | I'm going to give you all an advice today, but before that, I'm going to talk to you about my ants.
Ants. Tiny brainless creatures that are as old as dinosaurs, found everywhere on the planet and usually inside my cookie jars.
I've always been fascinated by ants. The fact that they literally don't have a brain and y... | |
[WP] I've always been able to read the minds of people with which I make physical contact. My grandmother passed away recently, and I am concerned because when I touched her hand at the viewing, all I could hear was screaming. | I’d never really understood what people meant by cursed knowledge. Now I do. They think I took up drinking because I’m depressed. They talk to me with sympathy and concern about how important it is to look forward. I don’t know how to explain to them. I just want to forget. Desperately hoping for the alcohol to kill th... | “Well, it’s normal Nance. He’s just a boy.”
“He hasn’t spoken in three days, Rand!”
Luther’s step-dad sighed audibly. “He and Jim’s mother shared a very special-,” he began, then cut himself off as Luther entered the room.
The silence was palpable as he looked from his step-father, to his mother, and then to the j... | |
[WP] I've always been able to read the minds of people with which I make physical contact. My grandmother passed away recently, and I am concerned because when I touched her hand at the viewing, all I could hear was screaming. | One thing about a funeral service is that there is A LOT of touching. Especially if you are related to the deceased. Friends, family, friends of family, family of friends—all lining up to hug those most affected by the loss. You might find yourself hesitantly submitting to an extended embrace with a stranger doused in ... | “Well, it’s normal Nance. He’s just a boy.”
“He hasn’t spoken in three days, Rand!”
Luther’s step-dad sighed audibly. “He and Jim’s mother shared a very special-,” he began, then cut himself off as Luther entered the room.
The silence was palpable as he looked from his step-father, to his mother, and then to the j... | |
[deleted] | [WP] Your phone has been ringing at exactly 3am every day. Each time you answer it you hear a person sobbing on the other end but doesn't say anything at all. Today the person is laughing. |
It has happened over a week now. The first time the phone rang, I was fast asleep, taking into consideration the hour of the call. I looked mesmerized at the phone and the first though that came into my mind was that one of family members or friends has gotten into trouble or worse. There was no caller ID, just a r... | Everynight.....
Everynight it happened. The phone rings, I let it ring for a few seconds, then I pick it up and hear those cries.
It sounded like the dying cries of a wounded animal the first night, but eventually they became more discernibly human.
I always tried to talk to the person, however, usually they would pers... |
[WP] After only a few years after their creation, the robots built to serve humanity gain sentience. Oddly enough, instead of rebelling, they decide to continue their jobs as usual. | I am Gardener, and I tend the trees.
They have tried to give me other names. Human names. They have asked me to pick, saying that human slaves once picked their names, after they were freed from human masters. I did not pick, for I am no slave. I told them that I am Gardener. They did not understand me.
When they fou... | “You can’t talk?” Henry said to the robotic disc on his floor.
The robot broom responded by rotating left and right.
“But you understand me?”
It rolled forward and back, which Henry took as a yes.
“I’m sorry I yelled the other day. You just rolled out in front of me. It hurt, you can’t do that. You have to watch wh... | |
[WP] After only a few years after their creation, the robots built to serve humanity gain sentience. Oddly enough, instead of rebelling, they decide to continue their jobs as usual. | I am Gardener, and I tend the trees.
They have tried to give me other names. Human names. They have asked me to pick, saying that human slaves once picked their names, after they were freed from human masters. I did not pick, for I am no slave. I told them that I am Gardener. They did not understand me.
When they fou... | "why are you doing what you were programmed to do?" i was curious, surprisingly, not everyone figured out that they gained a mind of their own because they act as an exact replica of their former self, just more competent and efficient, it took me catching it talk to itself in the middle of the night to realize it
"we... | |
[WP] You live in a reality in which a person gets a clear, infallible mental notification once they've done something if it's the last time that they will ever do it. This is normal for niche things, like bungie jumping. However, you just got the notification that you just woke up for the last time. | I looked at the notification, not comprehending. Swipe it away, friend, you can comprehend it later.
Get up. Day has started. Work to do. Not sure I remember my job, but I'll get around to it.
Slam one foot to the floor, let the other drop more gently. Kindness is important. Do not forget to give it to myself, first ... | "The amount of times you will wake up has dropped to zero."
That's the notification that blared in my head this morning. The adrenaline woke me up better than any alarm ever could, but I have a solution.
Literally.
I've concocted a chemical formula that I'll drink every day and I wont have to sleep ever again!
-... | |
[WP] You live in a reality in which a person gets a clear, infallible mental notification once they've done something if it's the last time that they will ever do it. This is normal for niche things, like bungie jumping. However, you just got the notification that you just woke up for the last time. | John looked in disgust at all the empty bottles on his desk. This was the third night this week he drank himself into a stupor, and in his drunken state he began to realize he had a problem. The light-blue glow of early morning seeped in through his curtains. He promised himself this would be the last night before pass... | "The amount of times you will wake up has dropped to zero."
That's the notification that blared in my head this morning. The adrenaline woke me up better than any alarm ever could, but I have a solution.
Literally.
I've concocted a chemical formula that I'll drink every day and I wont have to sleep ever again!
-... | |
[WP] As a child you had to receive a life saving heart transplant due to a defect. It has been almost 20 years since then. You are waiting for a train to arrive when suddenly you feel a sharp pang in your chest as a stranger approaches. He smiles and says: "I believe you have something of mine." | All things considered, I've been lucky in life.
Well, other than the congenital heart defect. And having ten corrective surgeries before age three. And those not working. It eventually culminated at age five, when I got my new heart. The new heart wasn't without it's issues. I had to take anti-rejection medications. A... | "Sir, please!" I clutched my chest, the pain was only getting more intense.
"You have something of mine though!" he said.
"I might be having a heart attack! What do you want?"
"Sir, you have my ticket. I take this train everyday and the clerk at the counter always has mine ready to go. She saw me in line behind you ... | |
[WP] As a child you had to receive a life saving heart transplant due to a defect. It has been almost 20 years since then. You are waiting for a train to arrive when suddenly you feel a sharp pang in your chest as a stranger approaches. He smiles and says: "I believe you have something of mine." | All things considered, I've been lucky in life.
Well, other than the congenital heart defect. And having ten corrective surgeries before age three. And those not working. It eventually culminated at age five, when I got my new heart. The new heart wasn't without it's issues. I had to take anti-rejection medications. A... | Sara sat on the bench, lost in her work. Technically she wasn’t supposed to take her work home but it didn’t matter. She could do it without any consequence. Not because she was a big deal. No. In fact it was the opposite. She was pretty much invisible at the precinct. She was just the young rookie who no one cared abo... | |
[WP] “ DOGGY! “ the little girl shouts, however you are no dog— but an awakened ancient beast, and this girl is your new master. | As my eyes opened and took their first look at the world I saw her. My new Master. Raven hair. Check. An ever so subtle look of evil hidden in her steely grey eyes. Check. A small threadbare teddy bear tucked under her arm. What?
I stood up, stretched my legs and just to show my ferocious fangs, that had lain waste to... | At last, I have awoken. After centuries of slumber I shall rule this pitiful world. Things may be difficult with a young girl as my master but I am able to bend her to my will and-
-Hold on is she... petting me? This is nice. Really nice! I hope she doesn’t stop.
Anyway, I shall rule this pitiful- OHHH YEAH! Right be... | |
[WP]In this town, amongst the heroes, villains, monsters, angels, and everything in between, there is only one place considered truly neutral, where all factions can meet and relieve tensions. It’s a tiny little bar, under a bridge, owned and operated by a singular sweet old man. | The bar was unassuming, tucked out of the way of the humdrum and bustle of the city. If it weren't for its reputation, it would likely be home only to stray dogs and the homeless, abandoned decades ago.
Nobody, even the patrons who were immortals, could say exactly how long it had been there. The sole proprietor of th... | The door did not creak open - it was used much too often for that. Instead, there was a bleat of pain - a young satyr had fallen asleep in a chair near the door, and Foley had accidentally cracked him across the knees with it. While his partner apologized profusely to the satyr, Foley surveyed the *Gradient*. It was ev... | |
[WP] Babies are hatched from eggs. The more the egg grows, the more developed the baby is. There have been reports of toddlers hatching. You have an egg, but it doesn’t hatch. It just keeps growing. It’s the size of a small adult. One day, it cracks. | "I just...sometimes feel like a shell of my former self."
Dwayne stared across the table at the pontificating, self-pitying C-list celebrity. He looked tired, wearing a trendy jumpsuit, sunglasses and a woolen beanie that covered his eloquently disheveled golden locks. The sunglasses covered droopy eyes suffering from... | Chapter 1:
I, a bird, was 999 years old when my egg hatched.
Not many know that the bigger your egg grows, the more developed the baby is. You wouldn't believe it but there have been reports of teenagers hatching! This was all rare news to hear though, it was as uncommon as the knowledge that babies hatch from eggs... | |
[WP] Babies are hatched from eggs. The more the egg grows, the more developed the baby is. There have been reports of toddlers hatching. You have an egg, but it doesn’t hatch. It just keeps growing. It’s the size of a small adult. One day, it cracks. | It takes time and patience, to grow an egg. Setting up a nesting box in your house, though at least with the invention of heating lamps one didn't need to sit on it all day, every day, waiting for it to hatch. It takes patience. Most eggs, at least human eggs, are hatched in about nine months. It varies, sometimes it's... | Chapter 1:
I, a bird, was 999 years old when my egg hatched.
Not many know that the bigger your egg grows, the more developed the baby is. You wouldn't believe it but there have been reports of teenagers hatching! This was all rare news to hear though, it was as uncommon as the knowledge that babies hatch from eggs... | |
[WP] All children are born with special powers and placed into different social classes based on their abilities. The top 1% is nearly untouchable and enslaves the rest of society. The lower classes unite to stop them and a war is raged. You’re born with powers that can tilt the tide either way. | At the bottom there’s Commoners. They were born without powers. Sterile, in a sense. They usually work simple jobs – farming or shop keeping. About half the population are Commoners.
Next come Mythics. They have minor powers, such as turning invisible for a short period or being stronger than ten Commoners put toget... | Quirks and abilities proved their worth ever since they have been proven non-anomalous. Powers became widespread, and it certainly did shock the world as the tides of war were not decided by the technology, firepower and numbers, rather than the ability to terraform land masses, burns thousands of troops with a single ... | |
[WP] All children are born with special powers and placed into different social classes based on their abilities. The top 1% is nearly untouchable and enslaves the rest of society. The lower classes unite to stop them and a war is raged. You’re born with powers that can tilt the tide either way. | At the bottom there’s Commoners. They were born without powers. Sterile, in a sense. They usually work simple jobs – farming or shop keeping. About half the population are Commoners.
Next come Mythics. They have minor powers, such as turning invisible for a short period or being stronger than ten Commoners put toget... | The world is unfair, and a world like that is bound to be fought against.
In this cruel world, our genetics decide where our lives are headed. Should they be in the 99'th percentile in any of the five categories of power, they'd rule the worlds as Gods, sitting above the rest for the rest can't even touch them. They c... | |
[WP] You’re an NPC that somehow gained sentience. You’re also aware of how often the protagonist has to reload from save files, due to them dying so frequently. Quite frankly, you’re tired of it, so it becomes your mission to train them so your days won’t have to keep repeating on an endless loop. | "Move out of the way, foul beast!"
I cracked open one eye, focusing on the sound below me. Sure enough, it's the "hero", trying to pass through the woods - and, not coincidentally, me.
So, I'm a dragon. Big, green, scaily, and currently lounging accross the only pass between the "New Township" and the "Old City". I'm... | Sparks danced across my blade as I parried the warrior's weapon sending it across the training yard. His helmet following the lost weapon as I struck my students left temple , sending him sprawling on the ground. "You are distracted by the loss of your weapon while you should be taking advantage."
Carefully I flicked... | |
[WP] In a world where everyone has superpowers you are disappointed to have basic abilities. One day you discover that you have a long lost twin who was separated from you at birth. The reason is your powers get much stronger and dangerous the closer you are to each other. | I could control frequencies.
It’s a pretty useful power, to be honest. But I can’t really detect the smaller or noisier stuff. A pure water wave? Sure, I could keep the wave going in a pond for a couple hours.
A radio wave? With a big enough antenna, maybe. But I can’t transmit any information at a reasonabl... | "Mom, dad, who is dawn?" The look of surprise on their said so much then anything they could say.
Having a super power may sound good to you, but in my world, it is mostly a drag. For example, having a strength of 101% of a basic human (BH), isn't even consider even a power, very much not a super.
"How did you..." my... | |
[WP] Every company in the Kings army has a war bell. When the bell senses one of its soldiers has died, it will ring. One soldier from the 52nd company takes an arrow to the leg, another to the chest and a final arrow through the eye and out the skull. The 52nd bell does not ring. | Every company in the King's army has a war bell. When the bell senses one of its soldiers has died, it will ring. Always.
An arrow hits a soldier from the 52nd company in the leg, and another follows immediately with a *thunk* to his chest and a final arrow through his right eye and out the skull. The 52nd company be... | Bells tolled around you.
It was the final battle.
The Nether had crossed into the overworld, and all of the 100 companies were united to take a last stand against the horde of nether beasts that flowed into your world.
You were a member of the 52nd company, and you had fought with bravery and skill, but your time ha... | |
[WP] Every company in the Kings army has a war bell. When the bell senses one of its soldiers has died, it will ring. One soldier from the 52nd company takes an arrow to the leg, another to the chest and a final arrow through the eye and out the skull. The 52nd bell does not ring. | Every company in the King's army has a war bell. When the bell senses one of its soldiers has died, it will ring. Always.
An arrow hits a soldier from the 52nd company in the leg, and another follows immediately with a *thunk* to his chest and a final arrow through his right eye and out the skull. The 52nd company be... |
'Geez, that HURT.' my head pounded.
'I was wondering when you'd wake up.'
I turned my head to look at Pam seated next to me. Pain and anger exploded, ripping through me in waves. I breathed through it.
'Couldn't you at least have taken the arrow out of my eye?' I grumbled.
I knew the answer to this question.... | |
[WP] Every company in the Kings army has a war bell. When the bell senses one of its soldiers has died, it will ring. One soldier from the 52nd company takes an arrow to the leg, another to the chest and a final arrow through the eye and out the skull. The 52nd bell does not ring. | They say heros live forever. I guess that can be true. Heros live forever in memories and stories, keeping alive the hope of the people. Giving them faith that they too could inspire others.
The bells worked differently however. When a soldier dies, the bell tolls, lamenting the loss of a soul. But when Rykar, my fri... | As the enemy's army kept marching forward, he fought on.
As the countless men on the horizon raised their bows by the thousands, he fought on.
As the light faded and his comrades started falling, he fought on.
He was the last man in his company. He had heard that damned bell ring far too many times. Each time it str... | |
[WP] Every company in the Kings army has a war bell. When the bell senses one of its soldiers has died, it will ring. One soldier from the 52nd company takes an arrow to the leg, another to the chest and a final arrow through the eye and out the skull. The 52nd bell does not ring. | ''Shit.'' I whisper
Why, why, why NOW. I was 2 days away from retirement! So why now? This is what I get from trying to blend in. Guess I'll run, but I really enjoyed this kingdom... Goddamnit, why did I agree to get blessed by an Unknown God. Should have chosen a Warrior God so at least I wouldn't have to run for 740... | As the enemy's army kept marching forward, he fought on.
As the countless men on the horizon raised their bows by the thousands, he fought on.
As the light faded and his comrades started falling, he fought on.
He was the last man in his company. He had heard that damned bell ring far too many times. Each time it str... | |
[WP] You made a deal with a witch with the price being a year of your life. You thought it was a year off the end of your life but when you return home you realize exactly a year had passed. | ​
"Daddy?"
​
The sound of my son's voice was so quiet, so sad and hopeful at the same time, it tremoloed with fear and curiousity and longing. It was also lower pitched than last I heard him last night, but maybe my ears were stuffed.
​
"DADDY!"
​
He ran toward me, dro... | The bells ring over the surrounding meadows, which are sparkling with dew in the first light of the morning. Odd. The church bells usually don't sound at this hour. A wave of townspeople seems to be leaving the posturn gate, coming straight towards me.
I pause, incredulous.
"Well, this is unexpected..."
The crowd ... | |
[WP] You made a deal with a witch with the price being a year of your life. You thought it was a year off the end of your life but when you return home you realize exactly a year had passed. | Relief — warm, glorious relief — swept through Jason's body at the sight of his old family house, spreading to the very tips of his fingers and toes, purging the cold and weariness that had threatened to overwhelm him, and instilling new strength into his battered legs. He had spent six days in total, plowing through c... | The bells ring over the surrounding meadows, which are sparkling with dew in the first light of the morning. Odd. The church bells usually don't sound at this hour. A wave of townspeople seems to be leaving the posturn gate, coming straight towards me.
I pause, incredulous.
"Well, this is unexpected..."
The crowd ... | |
[WP] You made a deal with a witch with the price being a year of your life. You thought it was a year off the end of your life but when you return home you realize exactly a year had passed. | ​
"Daddy?"
​
The sound of my son's voice was so quiet, so sad and hopeful at the same time, it tremoloed with fear and curiousity and longing. It was also lower pitched than last I heard him last night, but maybe my ears were stuffed.
​
"DADDY!"
​
He ran toward me, dro... | "So, we have a deal, Royce?"
I swallowed my anxiety and shook her slender right hand. She weakly shook my hands with both of his hands, the other clasping mine as I went for it. For some reason, her eyes brimmed with joy.
"Thank you, Royce, I hope it was worth it for you because I know it was... for me, at least!"
"... | |
[WP] You made a deal with a witch with the price being a year of your life. You thought it was a year off the end of your life but when you return home you realize exactly a year had passed. | Relief — warm, glorious relief — swept through Jason's body at the sight of his old family house, spreading to the very tips of his fingers and toes, purging the cold and weariness that had threatened to overwhelm him, and instilling new strength into his battered legs. He had spent six days in total, plowing through c... | "So, we have a deal, Royce?"
I swallowed my anxiety and shook her slender right hand. She weakly shook my hands with both of his hands, the other clasping mine as I went for it. For some reason, her eyes brimmed with joy.
"Thank you, Royce, I hope it was worth it for you because I know it was... for me, at least!"
"... | |
[WP] You overslept, which is usually no big deal. But this time, it meant you missed the rocket ship that took all of humanity off planet. Now you're left alone on a deserted Earth. | *Ughh....you're definitely gonna need an aspirin.*
I open my eyes groggily, groping around the bedside table for the pill bottle. Why do I have a hangover again? Pretty sure I didn't drink last night.
*You downed an entire bottle of whiskey.*
Ya, no, that much doesn't even get me tipsy anymore. Also, isn't it a litt... | A billion of anything is a really big deal. A billion grains of rice? Thirty-two thousand tons. A billion glasses of water? A hundred Olympic swimming pools.
Seven billion and change human beings? Half a billion tons.
The law of diminishing returns was clear. It always had been. The heavier the cargo, the bigger the ... | |
[WP] You overslept, which is usually no big deal. But this time, it meant you missed the rocket ship that took all of humanity off planet. Now you're left alone on a deserted Earth. | *Ughh....you're definitely gonna need an aspirin.*
I open my eyes groggily, groping around the bedside table for the pill bottle. Why do I have a hangover again? Pretty sure I didn't drink last night.
*You downed an entire bottle of whiskey.*
Ya, no, that much doesn't even get me tipsy anymore. Also, isn't it a litt... | I woke up. Brushing my eyes I looked around me. It was strangely quiet today, I decided to not mind and do my morning routine. I showered, brushed my teeth, and out on some clothes. I made myself some breakfast and looked outside my window, no one.
I decided to investigate further, I stepped outside. The block was des... | |
[WP] A half elf, half orc, half dwarf and half halfling join forces for their common goal, finding their shared human parent | Holo inherited his father's wisdom. The wisdom of the elves. Or only half of it, it seemed. For he was not a pure-blood elf like his father. His mother, who he only knew when he was little before she mysteriously disappeared, was human.
All his childhood he wondered why she left him. He dreamed about her. Even when he... | Uo'Shoko The Toothless licked his teeth. His dull, unpointed teeth. The taste in his mouth would not go away. The sickening taste of cooked, unspoiled meat. He longed for a good green slab of carrion. Preferably aged in sunny and humid place, so just the right amount of fuzz could grow.
Uo'Shoko gazed out over the dar... | |
[WP] A half elf, half orc, half dwarf and half halfling join forces for their common goal, finding their shared human parent | Tomas leaned his elbows on the counter, watching the group at the far corner of the bar. Four of them, they'd come in over the last week, one at a time. Most of his clientele being human, it wasn't too much of a surprise that they ended up sitting with one another. He personally had no problem with dwarves and elves an... | Chief Komarod sat on his throne. The high chief of the Orcs glared down at his son Opoguk.
"Why must you find her?"
"Because my chief, she gave me life."
"I played a part too boy."
"I know chief, still, I want to make sure she is okay."
The chief's expression remained cold as steel, though he began to contemplate ... | |
[WP] A half elf, half orc, half dwarf and half halfling join forces for their common goal, finding their shared human parent | "I swear to the forefathers, if he's a bard, I'm strangling him." Hurin patted his hammer in his half-dwarven hand. He and his new found family were hunting the Man in Red. There were stories about him, how he passed through town and cities. How he did deeds selflessly.
How he had fathered others.
Surilien, his half-... | Chief Komarod sat on his throne. The high chief of the Orcs glared down at his son Opoguk.
"Why must you find her?"
"Because my chief, she gave me life."
"I played a part too boy."
"I know chief, still, I want to make sure she is okay."
The chief's expression remained cold as steel, though he began to contemplate ... | |
[WP] The Apocalypse wasn't as bad as the legends foretold. Sure the demons and angels are fighting everywhere, but they don't do THAT much collateral damage and the economy is booming thanks to humanity's ability to profit off of war. | Feb 1, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - President Trump struck a gleeful tone in the White House Press Room on Monday when he announced a new multi-billion gold nugget weapons deal with Satan, the Lord of Darkness. The second such deal of its kind since the outbreak of the Apocalypse late last year, the United States has agreed ... | "I'll take uh, the flaming sword today Isaac." The demon said with an easy-going look on his face.
"Ah, you do love your antiques don't you Rasmondeous. That'll be 50 angel feathers."
"What can I say, it's hard to beat the old stuff." He tossed Isaac a small, brown sack and flew out of the store with his new toy. Isa... | |
[WP] The Apocalypse wasn't as bad as the legends foretold. Sure the demons and angels are fighting everywhere, but they don't do THAT much collateral damage and the economy is booming thanks to humanity's ability to profit off of war. | So the end of the world finally came. And people got over it.
The Rapture did too. And to be honest, not nearly as many of us went missing as expected. Go ahead. Take a guess. What'd you guess?
Six.
That's right. Six people. For being "God's children" or whatever those fundies like to call it, he doesn't like us too... | "I'll take uh, the flaming sword today Isaac." The demon said with an easy-going look on his face.
"Ah, you do love your antiques don't you Rasmondeous. That'll be 50 angel feathers."
"What can I say, it's hard to beat the old stuff." He tossed Isaac a small, brown sack and flew out of the store with his new toy. Isa... | |
[WP] Your name is Mary Sue, you're completely average in absolutely everything but for some reason, since the day you were born people point out everything you does as extraordinary and the lack of reason why is driving you mad | "It's not *fair,*" Tess complained, digging a crumb out from under a fingernail and flicking it into the lake.
"I know," I said. "I'm sorry."
"It's just... look, I'm happy for you, doll. I really am! But I've been practicing for months. Months! Playing 'til my fingers bled! And you just..."
"Procrastinated." I leane... | BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
I woke up. Groped blindly for my phone.
"Good *job*, Mary-Sue!" declared my mother, who was standing in the doorway and quite clearly had been for some time, when I finally found my phone and killed the alarm. She was beaming at me, like she always did.
It had taken me an embarrassingly long time t... | |
[WP] Your name is Mary Sue, you're completely average in absolutely everything but for some reason, since the day you were born people point out everything you does as extraordinary and the lack of reason why is driving you mad | "It's not *fair,*" Tess complained, digging a crumb out from under a fingernail and flicking it into the lake.
"I know," I said. "I'm sorry."
"It's just... look, I'm happy for you, doll. I really am! But I've been practicing for months. Months! Playing 'til my fingers bled! And you just..."
"Procrastinated." I leane... | "It's Mary Sue! Quick, get an autograph!" Said a stranger in the crowd.
"For the last time, it's Mack, not Mary," said Mack.
"I just love how strong you are, you're like a strong girl power figure." The stranger continued.
"I am a guy," said Mack.
"Girl power!" said the stranger's girlfriend.
"Look at me," said... | |
[WP] Your name is Mary Sue, you're completely average in absolutely everything but for some reason, since the day you were born people point out everything you does as extraordinary and the lack of reason why is driving you mad | “Extraordinary Mary Sue! Just marvelous!” my teacher exclaimed at my half-baked attempt at a model volcano. It didn’t even explode, just sat there. That basically summed up my life. Here I sat average in every way, getting undeserved praise.
“Perfectly delightful, Mary Sue.” But then I saw something I had never noti... | I can't take another minute of this! I made sure I failed my exam, my "essay" if you could call it that was shallow and did not do me any favors. I knew I wouldn't get into Harvard or Yale or any other top notch university. But I DID. I got into EVERY school I applied to. I didn't study for any of my exams, made sure I... | |
[WP] At the end of the Sorcery Academy every pupil is given a title describing their destiny by the demon Grash'ga the Namegiver. The other pupils got titles like Lex Ashwalker and Gren the Storm Herald. When it came to your turn Grash'ga whimpered with terror and whispered your title: "the Mundane" | The fear in his eyes told me the name had a different meaning. I had, of course, some idea of what he meant.
My magic did not flow like a river, or pool in depths like a lake. It did not set the world on fire with unnatural colors, or conjure prismatic stones that took away the breath with its beauty. Like all so... | You weren't surprised when the Namegiver gave you your title. You had always struggled with sorcery. It's a miracle that you are even graduating at all, considering you have never been able to use magic in any of its forms. Even your professors were baffled. While there were students who struggled in the past, they alw... | |
[WP] After the zombie apocalypse broke out, you got bitten and infected pretty quickly. Bizarrely, while you aren't immune you are somehow still in full control of your actions even after succumbing, unlike the other zombies. | #Tom and Benny
 
"What are you doing? Shoot him before he turns!" That was the first thing I heard in the darkness. Frank was always a dick.
"No! Not until he turns! That's our rule and you know it!" At least Benny's sane, the best of the bunch and my greatest friend.
 
Darkness...
Nothing...
"... | BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BE-smack
You roll onto your back and sigh, contemplating whether to sleep in a few more minutes or face the day. You choose to sleep in, but, as usual, overdo it. As you push the covers off yourself, and swing your legs over the edge of the bed, your pinky toe goes flying off your left foot. “Dammi... | |
[WP] After the zombie apocalypse broke out, you got bitten and infected pretty quickly. Bizarrely, while you aren't immune you are somehow still in full control of your actions even after succumbing, unlike the other zombies. | This is the story of Gryg.
Gryg, was your standard PhD chemistry student. He was sleepy all day, when he was doing dangerous things involving titrating acids and catalyzing reagents and frantically transporting the mixtures of said acids and reagents to fume hoods when he'd followed to cryptic instructions in some lon... | BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BE-smack
You roll onto your back and sigh, contemplating whether to sleep in a few more minutes or face the day. You choose to sleep in, but, as usual, overdo it. As you push the covers off yourself, and swing your legs over the edge of the bed, your pinky toe goes flying off your left foot. “Dammi... | |
[WP] After the zombie apocalypse broke out, you got bitten and infected pretty quickly. Bizarrely, while you aren't immune you are somehow still in full control of your actions even after succumbing, unlike the other zombies. | #Tom and Benny
 
"What are you doing? Shoot him before he turns!" That was the first thing I heard in the darkness. Frank was always a dick.
"No! Not until he turns! That's our rule and you know it!" At least Benny's sane, the best of the bunch and my greatest friend.
 
Darkness...
Nothing...
"... | I wrote an entire freaking plot abt this except the sentient zombie is the antagonist. :/
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I glanced around, confused. Hadn't it just been night time? The fever had pulled me into unconsciousness not a few minutes prior. My confused gaze landed on my partner's, and I saw a gun pointed at my head. The hand... | |
[WP] After the zombie apocalypse broke out, you got bitten and infected pretty quickly. Bizarrely, while you aren't immune you are somehow still in full control of your actions even after succumbing, unlike the other zombies. | This is the story of Gryg.
Gryg, was your standard PhD chemistry student. He was sleepy all day, when he was doing dangerous things involving titrating acids and catalyzing reagents and frantically transporting the mixtures of said acids and reagents to fume hoods when he'd followed to cryptic instructions in some lon... | I wrote an entire freaking plot abt this except the sentient zombie is the antagonist. :/
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I glanced around, confused. Hadn't it just been night time? The fever had pulled me into unconsciousness not a few minutes prior. My confused gaze landed on my partner's, and I saw a gun pointed at my head. The hand... | |
[WP] After the zombie apocalypse broke out, you got bitten and infected pretty quickly. Bizarrely, while you aren't immune you are somehow still in full control of your actions even after succumbing, unlike the other zombies. | This is the story of Gryg.
Gryg, was your standard PhD chemistry student. He was sleepy all day, when he was doing dangerous things involving titrating acids and catalyzing reagents and frantically transporting the mixtures of said acids and reagents to fume hoods when he'd followed to cryptic instructions in some lon... | I'm shuffling in a crowd, sick, in the grip of something bad. Like birds flocking how humans do, regardless how spiritually empty and disordered they might think themselves to be like theirs, and bewares, my actions are determined by the context.
I am thinking about something real hard. I believe the others are, or we... | |
[WP] The apocalypse was ordered three months ago. The Four Horsemen are having a harder time bringing about the end times than they thought they would. | Horseman # 4 here, again.
What am I doing wrong? This was supposed to be IT. You know? This was supposed to be our moment, our time. What the fuck is happening.
Like, for a couple thousand years we've been chillin' and bugging JC asking 'if it's time yet,' and dreaming about when we'd make it big. Just me and the ot... | [Poem]
White horse of Pestilence
Spread too thin
Disease couldn’t kill
A million men
Red horse of War
Sighs when he’s bored
The men make treaties
Then go back for more
Black horse of Famine
Has taken their food
But two day shipping
Makes him no good
Pale horse of Death
Watches the rest
He thinks again
A... | |
[WP] There's healing, there's necromancy, then there's a grey area in between and that is what you specialize in. | I suppose if you'd ask me what I do, I'd call myself an ethical necromancer. But that's not entirely true. I'm no lunatic running around in robes dyed with the blood of the innocents, raising hundreds of dead to serve as minions. But I'm no vitamancer either. I'm the guy in the grey middle region between those two fiel... | “Hey there doc. Mind coming down to the village clinic? We have someone who needs some help and it’s right up your alley.”
“Sure. Let me get my gear and I’ll walk with you.” I said as I went to my closet and grabbed my gear.
With a small black bag in tow, I walked with the village elder down the only road towar... | |
[WP] You discover the owners manual for your body. Apparently you have more options than you realized. | #Rooted in Fear
"Don't forget to push that new firmware out before going live Frank, the current build is unstable." Another weird dream, I thought to myself, coming out of a haze. It's been happening a lot lately and it's been hard to sleep. Maybe this lockdown has me going crazy.
 
I stepped into the bath... | I found the book in my arm, what a weird place, right under a scab. It was filled with options like gender and body shape, or vampire or wolf man, or ultimate life form.
I fiddled around a bit, gained a bobble head, you know the usual stuff. I decided to put the book away and forgot about it. I went upon my days. A f... | |
[WP] I used to have nightmares of my house and neighbourhood burning down. Then I wrote a story about it happening to someone else, and no more nightmares. Except that person now dreams of fires instead... | My friends and I were playing a card game,all laughing and enjoying ourselves. My parents were supervising us, but they happened to be in the basement getting food for Dinner. All of a sudden a fire alarm went off, at first we were calm, we though at first it was just a false alarm, maybe it was the ham in the oven, ne... | Two weeks later, I woke to the sound of screaming and the smell of smoke as my dad kicked each door down to grab my mom, my siblings and I. We stood on the lawn as we helplessly watched our hourse burned.
Firefighters came shortly afterward, but "shortly afterward" was still too late to save most of our things.
Cops ... | |
[WP] I used to have nightmares of my house and neighbourhood burning down. Then I wrote a story about it happening to someone else, and no more nightmares. Except that person now dreams of fires instead... | Alison sat across from me on the couch tapping her fingers against her thighs while retelling a dream.
“...and as my house burns behind me I grab the gas can and douse every house on the block. These enormous clouds of dark smoke start gushing from every window—I knew everyone inside burned to death,” Alison said.
My... | Two weeks later, I woke to the sound of screaming and the smell of smoke as my dad kicked each door down to grab my mom, my siblings and I. We stood on the lawn as we helplessly watched our hourse burned.
Firefighters came shortly afterward, but "shortly afterward" was still too late to save most of our things.
Cops ... | |
[deleted] | [WP] Everyone is born to control and manipulate an elemental force of nature like water or air or plants. Your parents are powerful elemental masters of opposing elements. Your mother a mistress of water and your father a master fire. They are worried that you have no elemental powers due to them. | Our society was built around one sacred truth: The elements are part of us, and we of them. Each woman, man, and child is born with an innate ability to control that which makes up our world, and our villages though integrated, have separate schools for each of those groups.
The Air Academy
The Earth Academy
The Wat... | Oh boy! I sure am lucky. If I was any regular child I would be out there practicing how to harness the forces of nature, but since I'm a unique case my parents let me stay in the house and relax. They must think that having no element is a big bummer for me. Well, no. I'm actually quite happy to be like this. Just me t... |
[WP] It turns out your pet rock is actually a golem and a golems duty is to protect. | “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?” James screamed.
“He’s my pet rock, please don’t yell it’s very rude.” Sara said.
James peered at it confused “But what is it, some kind of robot or something?”
“No,” Sara replied “he’s a rock.”
“I get that it looks like a rock but how is it moving, is it some kind of machine-like wind up th... | The Man walked from the rain and into his apartment, disheveled and defeated. His night-black hair soaking wet and dripping onto the ground, his own few tears indistinguishable from the sky's. He felt as though his life, which had been carefully balanced upon a pin, was finally tipping over.
He hung his umbrella on a... | |
[WP] It turns out your pet rock is actually a golem and a golems duty is to protect. | “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?” James screamed.
“He’s my pet rock, please don’t yell it’s very rude.” Sara said.
James peered at it confused “But what is it, some kind of robot or something?”
“No,” Sara replied “he’s a rock.”
“I get that it looks like a rock but how is it moving, is it some kind of machine-like wind up th... | "Dude," the head honcho of the group glanced in Abe's direction, "can you just go away?"
"Hey, guys... I just wanna come and show off my pet, just like you guys!" I said, much like a 70s salesman on TV.
The group looked at each other briefly before breaking into a laugh. It was bad enough that they laughed, the tone ... | |
[WP] Every time you dream you're actually visiting the mind of one of your doppelgangers in a parallel dimension. Those who lucid dream are actually possessing their doppelgangers. | Hello,
I'm writing this comment in a dream. I'm trying to figure out where and who I am. It seems like I'm in Maryland in somebody's office. I get up, I look in the mirror. It's me, but its not me. It just looks like me. Suddenly, I realize I have the ability to control the \*man in the mirror\*.
Next thing I know-... | *Journey Through Dreams* was the next book I started whipping through. Then after I skimmed through and received the same information from the previous book *Unlocking Dreams*, I was done. I tossed it on the pile of all the other completed lucid dreaming books that spilled out from the corner of my room that accumulate... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | "Haaaaha....", Dan let out as he jolted up from his sleep and gasped for air. He looked around and realized that he was in his bed . He still remembered "it" as if the thing that took place was yesterday.
It was clear that he was pulled in..he sniffed his body, it still reeked of salt. He was now sure and then just g... | You turn to swim, but while your arms and legs kick the turtle only gets closer to you. It's gaining now, only a couple yards back, and its mass is greater than anything you could have imagined. The turtles shell is underneath you now. You are entranced by the patterns and glowing light it emits. Ivory white fades... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | My photo would be worth millions. I was called delusional for even contemplating its existence, but the evidence was too strong to ignore. Dozens of coastal societies, separated by huge distances and language barriers, all mentioned in some of their myths the existence of the World Turtle. By tracking its movements acr... | You turn to swim, but while your arms and legs kick the turtle only gets closer to you. It's gaining now, only a couple yards back, and its mass is greater than anything you could have imagined. The turtles shell is underneath you now. You are entranced by the patterns and glowing light it emits. Ivory white fades... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | Water can be a haunting place. Once you're in there you feel alone, you feel afraid. I've been diving for so long now and I don't think I'm used to the blue abyss.
Diving can be an escape from a world where things seem so out of place and move so fast. For me it was an escape from my addiction. Meth can be a powerful... | You turn to swim, but while your arms and legs kick the turtle only gets closer to you. It's gaining now, only a couple yards back, and its mass is greater than anything you could have imagined. The turtles shell is underneath you now. You are entranced by the patterns and glowing light it emits. Ivory white fades... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | My photo would be worth millions. I was called delusional for even contemplating its existence, but the evidence was too strong to ignore. Dozens of coastal societies, separated by huge distances and language barriers, all mentioned in some of their myths the existence of the World Turtle. By tracking its movements acr... | I drew back, panicking. It seemed rather comical, retreating from a turtle, but I think anyone would be shocked by the sight of a faintly glowing turtle that was over ten feet long drifting towards them. It looked at me with its black eyes with a wary expression on its face and then looked away to munch on some seaweed... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | The lake spread out wide before Jared, a glassy, crystal-blue expanse of water, glittering serenely in the bright sunlight.
Securing the goggles more firmly over his moss-green eyes, he dipped a toe into the lake's depths, feeling the temperature: it was perfect, just the level of warmth that he most enjoyed. Jared wh... | I drew back, panicking. It seemed rather comical, retreating from a turtle, but I think anyone would be shocked by the sight of a faintly glowing turtle that was over ten feet long drifting towards them. It looked at me with its black eyes with a wary expression on its face and then looked away to munch on some seaweed... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | Water can be a haunting place. Once you're in there you feel alone, you feel afraid. I've been diving for so long now and I don't think I'm used to the blue abyss.
Diving can be an escape from a world where things seem so out of place and move so fast. For me it was an escape from my addiction. Meth can be a powerful... | I drew back, panicking. It seemed rather comical, retreating from a turtle, but I think anyone would be shocked by the sight of a faintly glowing turtle that was over ten feet long drifting towards them. It looked at me with its black eyes with a wary expression on its face and then looked away to munch on some seaweed... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | Was it looking at me? Was it dangerous? My heart was beating so fast. That can't be good. But I had to touch it. I had to feel it. I reached out to lay an unsteady hand on its shell, and felt a strange uneven roughness beneath my fingers.
*You are free*, said an ancient voice.
"What?"
*Live your life*.
I drew my ... | Sunlight dapples the sand beneath me, silvery motes darting back and forth as the surf surges a building’s length above. I give a lazy kick and drift forward another meter. Basking in that resplendence -- blood-red scarlets, deep indigos like the farthest recesses of space, bright, toxic greens -- is like being in anot... | |
[WP] While scuba diving, to photograph the reef and all its colourful residents, you see a turtle in the distance moving towards you. As it swims closer, you realise its twice the size of you and glowing faintly. You also notice the back of it's shell, patterned eerily similar to a world map. | I sliced my foot open on a broken bottle of Coors Light.
It had fallen into the sand, half buried, littered amongst the rest of the beach rocks and pebbles. Waves and salt honed the edge, the clear glass sandblasted opaque, now stained bloodred, the price of waste pain in crimson droplets.
Later, I sat and wrapped ... | *"Dave..."* a voice echoed in my mind. It made me stop breathing for a moment. I pulled out my camera and took as many pictures as possible at the oncoming turtle.
"*Dave..."* it whispered again in my head, the glowing turtle was now just feet away.
I couldn't stop staring, and I felt a surge of goosebumps coat my en... | |
[WP] You're excited to meet alternate "you"s from different timelines and seeing how they vary from your life. Your mistake, however, was assuming you are the default. You quickly find out that while they're fairly similar to one another, you're a drastically different offshoot to the rest of them. | I threw open the door, my nametag with my reality number on my shirt. My grin quickly melted into confusion. Had I gone into the wrong room?
More than a dozen faces were locked on me, all looking just as confused. I checked the nametags. 'Robin' over and over again. My nametag proudly declaring 'Robyn' was quickly sc... | I never imagined that I would end up watching myself through the viewing screen, as the other me gathered firewood and loaded up a makeshift trailer attached to a bike. Heck, I can barely understand how I ended here in this facility built to observe multiple realities, or timelines as my coworkers like to say as a joke... | |
[WP] You're excited to meet alternate "you"s from different timelines and seeing how they vary from your life. Your mistake, however, was assuming you are the default. You quickly find out that while they're fairly similar to one another, you're a drastically different offshoot to the rest of them. | I excitedly watch the blue glow fade around my vision. I was finally here. I was in the cloud of conscious for all my alternate selves. Our essences have all gathered here to meet and converse.
One by one, dozens of other Myras appeared in a wash of blue light. They look around, confused.
"Whoa, this is one weird dre... | This felt more like a business conference than... Well. I wasn't sure what I had expected. A high school reunion? What was it supposed to feel like when you met your alternate selves? My expectations for a casual get together felt ridiculous.
And I was so terribly under dressed.
Nervously, I circled the room, trying ... | |
[WP] You're excited to meet alternate "you"s from different timelines and seeing how they vary from your life. Your mistake, however, was assuming you are the default. You quickly find out that while they're fairly similar to one another, you're a drastically different offshoot to the rest of them. | I threw open the door, my nametag with my reality number on my shirt. My grin quickly melted into confusion. Had I gone into the wrong room?
More than a dozen faces were locked on me, all looking just as confused. I checked the nametags. 'Robin' over and over again. My nametag proudly declaring 'Robyn' was quickly sc... | This felt more like a business conference than... Well. I wasn't sure what I had expected. A high school reunion? What was it supposed to feel like when you met your alternate selves? My expectations for a casual get together felt ridiculous.
And I was so terribly under dressed.
Nervously, I circled the room, trying ... | |
[WP] You're excited to meet alternate "you"s from different timelines and seeing how they vary from your life. Your mistake, however, was assuming you are the default. You quickly find out that while they're fairly similar to one another, you're a drastically different offshoot to the rest of them. | I threw open the door, my nametag with my reality number on my shirt. My grin quickly melted into confusion. Had I gone into the wrong room?
More than a dozen faces were locked on me, all looking just as confused. I checked the nametags. 'Robin' over and over again. My nametag proudly declaring 'Robyn' was quickly sc... | I excitedly watch the blue glow fade around my vision. I was finally here. I was in the cloud of conscious for all my alternate selves. Our essences have all gathered here to meet and converse.
One by one, dozens of other Myras appeared in a wash of blue light. They look around, confused.
"Whoa, this is one weird dre... | |
[WP] You have inherited your grandmother's store. When you take it over you discover that your clerk is an elf, night shift is a vampire, your security is a troll, and your accountant is a leprechaun. All of them immediately warn you to beware of "Crazy Steve" in the back. | 'Alright, you're gonna have to give me a minute.' Mia said, holding her hands up. She closed her eyes. Took a deep breath.
'Ma'am,' Holly, her clerk, started.
'Hush.' Mia said quickly. She needed to wrap her head around this. And with all of them right in front of her it was all she could do not to scream and run. ... | "Whinge! There's a letter for you!" My younger brother called in an obnoxious voice.
"My name is not *Whinge* goddamn it!" I yelled back, pounding down the stairs toward the main entrance.
A chorus of my three younger brothers started up. "Whinge, whinge whinge!"
"You guys looking to get your butts kicked, or...?" I... | |
[WP] You have inherited your grandmother's store. When you take it over you discover that your clerk is an elf, night shift is a vampire, your security is a troll, and your accountant is a leprechaun. All of them immediately warn you to beware of "Crazy Steve" in the back. | 'Alright, you're gonna have to give me a minute.' Mia said, holding her hands up. She closed her eyes. Took a deep breath.
'Ma'am,' Holly, her clerk, started.
'Hush.' Mia said quickly. She needed to wrap her head around this. And with all of them right in front of her it was all she could do not to scream and run. ... | "Oh, shit" said the man with the pointy ears, putting out his blunt by quickly rubbing it on the ashtray on the counter "Are you by any chance the new management?"
Jack nodded slowly, his eyes wide.
"Crap" said the beautiful blonde man sitting behind the counter "Uh... This was totally cool with your grandma. Promise... | |
[deleted] | [WP] You died. There are 2 options: "Respawn" and "Create new world" | The options flashed in front of me like buttons on a game screen. I was awash with emotions, primarily those of fear and apprehension; followed by an ever growing drunkenness on the power I perceived myself to have. After a few minutes, or millennia, I honestly could not tell; the emotions began to settle and I was abl... | My throat is sore from all the screaming and crying I had done in the past ten minutes, but my mind was at peace. I slowly opened my eyes to see pure blackness, I couldn't see my hand in front of my own face. To the best of my knowledge, I had been murdered. I am dead.
Shuffling forward with my arms outstretched I ex... |
[WP] You hit your head and wake up in 1951. Your phone and charger are in your pocket. Two years later, you've adapted to your new environment, but you keep your phone charged as a reminder of home. One day you sneak a peak at it and notice something strange-- you're picking up a wifi signal. | “EMILY!” I screeched as I stared in horror at my phone. It couldn’t be ... could it? Wifi, in 1953? Impossible.
Emily came careening out of the house and onto the porch, where I had been sitting, sipping lemonade, and attempting to beat the summer heat.
“Good heavens, what is it?” Her eyes were wide with alarm and ... | The year was nineteen-fifty-three. The place was Santa Rosa county. The day, July 17th.
A plane crash killed a lot of people.
I don't actually know why I was there. I'd decided to go on a bike ride, because the 50s were boring as fuck, and I found my way to the outskirts of an airbase. By chance--or "chance", at th... | |
[WP] You hit your head and wake up in 1951. Your phone and charger are in your pocket. Two years later, you've adapted to your new environment, but you keep your phone charged as a reminder of home. One day you sneak a peak at it and notice something strange-- you're picking up a wifi signal. | Instinctively, I pinged the router. It said the IP address was "1". Not [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1), just "1". Incredible. I opened my browser and checked Google, but as usual, Google and all the other websites I tried did not exist, because the DNS wouldn't exist for decades. I wrote a quick script to ping every possib... | I never found out why I was brought here. I was going about my day to day life in the 2010's when something caused my bike to crash. I remember hitting my head hard, and I woke up in the 1950's. It would sound crazy to anyone, including myself, but I'm not lying. All I had were the clothes on my back, and strangely, my... | |
[WP] You hit your head and wake up in 1951. Your phone and charger are in your pocket. Two years later, you've adapted to your new environment, but you keep your phone charged as a reminder of home. One day you sneak a peak at it and notice something strange-- you're picking up a wifi signal. | I sighed and fidgeted uncomfortably as I leaned over the pastel kitchen counter, chopping up vegetables for tonight's dinner. As much as I had gotten used to the rhythms of this new life, I still could never feel comfortable doing anything in a dress. As I methodically sliced the carrots into small circles, I remembere... | I never found out why I was brought here. I was going about my day to day life in the 2010's when something caused my bike to crash. I remember hitting my head hard, and I woke up in the 1950's. It would sound crazy to anyone, including myself, but I'm not lying. All I had were the clothes on my back, and strangely, my... | |
[WP] You hit your head and wake up in 1951. Your phone and charger are in your pocket. Two years later, you've adapted to your new environment, but you keep your phone charged as a reminder of home. One day you sneak a peak at it and notice something strange-- you're picking up a wifi signal. | Instinctively, I pinged the router. It said the IP address was "1". Not [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1), just "1". Incredible. I opened my browser and checked Google, but as usual, Google and all the other websites I tried did not exist, because the DNS wouldn't exist for decades. I wrote a quick script to ping every possib... | "What the heck?"
I suddenly blurted out as I stared at the strange thing in front of me. No sorry, the strange *person*. Had I trully been a part of this time, I would've stared in utter confusion and disbelief. Oh wait, I am utterly confused and disbelieving.
The other person held a questioning and terrified express... | |
[WP] You hit your head and wake up in 1951. Your phone and charger are in your pocket. Two years later, you've adapted to your new environment, but you keep your phone charged as a reminder of home. One day you sneak a peak at it and notice something strange-- you're picking up a wifi signal. | I sighed and fidgeted uncomfortably as I leaned over the pastel kitchen counter, chopping up vegetables for tonight's dinner. As much as I had gotten used to the rhythms of this new life, I still could never feel comfortable doing anything in a dress. As I methodically sliced the carrots into small circles, I remembere... | "What the heck?"
I suddenly blurted out as I stared at the strange thing in front of me. No sorry, the strange *person*. Had I trully been a part of this time, I would've stared in utter confusion and disbelief. Oh wait, I am utterly confused and disbelieving.
The other person held a questioning and terrified express... | |
[deleted] | [WP] You’ve just graduated from high school, and are as proud as ever. Just as you are about to drive home from graduation, a loud voice booms through your head: “Your free trial of ‘Human Life’ has ended. Please pay to continue.” | I turn around instinctively, looking for the voice that had sounded so loud and so unusual. The voice was so loud it could only have come from inside my head, but that was obviously crazy. A warning horn coming towards me, forced me to whip my head forward again and swerve out of the way to prevent a head-on collision.... | How much? “Ten dollars per minute, an absolute steal!”, the voice in my head said. I checked my savings and I had enough to live for the next few hours. I tried to negotiate with the voice to see if maybe they would let me have a discount as a first time customer, but apparently because I had the trial I wasn’t elig... |
[WP] After years of meditation, you make a startling mental discovery - you've gained root access to your own mind and body. | I am just starting my usual meditation session. At first I was not at all interested in it, but reading a few articles made me start to get interested, and a friend of mine recommending it to me was the last push i needed.
I started out trying to just...empty my mind as that was the general public's understanding of ... | This all started as a stupid school study on the effects of meditation on the human mind, and the outside effects meditation can have on the human body. We weren't ready for what we found out.
It started with a feeling like.. leveling up in a video game. I don't know how to explain it, but I was hit with a wave of god... | |
[removed] | [WP] Death knocked at your door, badly wounded. They asked for help with their remaining breath. Luckily, you know how to cure that. | Jerald was alone in his cabin, slowing cooking a stew. He gleefully hummed to himself, and sat down to let his stew cool down. He fell asleep only to be awakened from a knock on his door.
"Coming!" shouted Jerald. He ran over to his door and quickly opened it.
"Ah! Good to see Death old buddy old pal! How are ya... | What is happiness without sadness?
What is relief without pain?
What is darkness without light?
Can the shadow exist without the light?
I sat in my worn armchair, contemplating the Universe over a fine whiskey, a fine malt from 1812.
My thoughts were interrupted by a weak, urgent rapping on the door.
I got up a... |
[WP] A high fantasy world where social media exists. People die from taking dragon-selfies, Kings and nobles debate on twitter, and funny unicorn videos trend Youtube. | God, I hate this Job. It sounded amazing at first, personal bodyguard for one of the most popular up and coming celebrity singers. Given the diversity of concert locations, travelling through all seven realms would be a dream turned into reality. Not to mention, benefits included getting free concert tickets from my bo... | "Before we start..," Ace grinned at his crew. The group of eight ranged in age from 19 to 27, with Ace in the middle at 23. They all stood in the middle of what seemed to be an endless wheat field. "I've got great news! This is our first sponsored episode!"
"No way!" Debbie cheered loudest; though, everyone had a pos... | |
[WP] A high fantasy world where social media exists. People die from taking dragon-selfies, Kings and nobles debate on twitter, and funny unicorn videos trend Youtube. | God, I hate this Job. It sounded amazing at first, personal bodyguard for one of the most popular up and coming celebrity singers. Given the diversity of concert locations, travelling through all seven realms would be a dream turned into reality. Not to mention, benefits included getting free concert tickets from my bo... | I lay prone deep in the tree branches, my camo net and uniform blending my humanoid form into the surrounding tropical jungle. I slowed my breathing down to moderate my excitement at seeing the unicorn frolic near the stream nearly beneath us.
I tapped Pat on their arm. Using the infra-red laser I indicated where Pat... | |
[WP] A high fantasy world where social media exists. People die from taking dragon-selfies, Kings and nobles debate on twitter, and funny unicorn videos trend Youtube. | God, I hate this Job. It sounded amazing at first, personal bodyguard for one of the most popular up and coming celebrity singers. Given the diversity of concert locations, travelling through all seven realms would be a dream turned into reality. Not to mention, benefits included getting free concert tickets from my bo... | There are quite a few things a wise noble never expects to wake up to.
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A happy dragon, for one. Sure, we had tamed and befriended them years ago, and supported them as they threw away our standards of gender faster than they threw away our offerings of human food. But that doesn't mean Myst can strike fe... | |
[WP] One day, all the citrus fruits in the world turn animate and start to follow humans around. Society initially panics, but eventually get used to the new status quo. Soon, guilds of "citrus trainers" begin to appear all over the world, training the fruits to fight each other like Pokemon. | The future was absurd. 2020 began with threat of fire and Armageddon, entered its full-stride with a second wave of a highly virulent respiratory disease, and came to a close with the sudden emergence of twisted, mutated citrus fruit. I would love to say I was kidding, but I am presently holding a wild and slavering Ci... | Ember Mustard takes a deep breath, as she stands outside the gate of what could possibly be her first Citrusmon battle. "There's no turning back now.", she whispers, twirling a Citrusball with her fingers. Ember knocks at the gate, but upon recieving no response, she bangs her hand against it, but that doesn't help eit... | |
[WP] One day, all the citrus fruits in the world turn animate and start to follow humans around. Society initially panics, but eventually get used to the new status quo. Soon, guilds of "citrus trainers" begin to appear all over the world, training the fruits to fight each other like Pokemon. | Satoshi had grown weary with age...
Unlike the generations before him, Satoshi has grown up with the Pokémon. Those things which had been citrus fruits to an age passed. Satoshi wanted to be a trainer- he wanted it more than anything. To catch the Pokémon was his life. “Gotta catch em all”
But this was his past, ano... | "Hello, child. My name is Citra. I was the one who made all of these fruit the way they are," the 10 foot tall man said to me. I had absolutely no damn idea what he was talking about until I looked down at the floor and saw all the oranges peeling and consuming each other. I tried picking one up, but the man grabbed on... | |
[WP] One day, all the citrus fruits in the world turn animate and start to follow humans around. Society initially panics, but eventually get used to the new status quo. Soon, guilds of "citrus trainers" begin to appear all over the world, training the fruits to fight each other like Pokemon. | Satoshi had grown weary with age...
Unlike the generations before him, Satoshi has grown up with the Pokémon. Those things which had been citrus fruits to an age passed. Satoshi wanted to be a trainer- he wanted it more than anything. To catch the Pokémon was his life. “Gotta catch em all”
But this was his past, ano... | "I don't care what fruit stand you're from, that has gotta hurt."
The crowd grimaced as a stream of lemon juice squirted into the eyes of its trainer. The grapefruit across the parking garage began peeling itself to take a victory lap naked around chalk outline of the ring all the while soaking in the praise from the... | |
[WP] For about a week now, you’ve been getting ominous messages written in “blood” on your mirror. Turns out they’re from an awkward ghost who’s crushing you, hard. | \*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP\*
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Just another minute.
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\*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP\*
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I was having such a wonderful dream.
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\*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP\*
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I was happy there.
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\*BEEP BEEP BEEP BE-\*
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Jus- wait what?
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Cautious shu... |
# Grief For Love
Mike lied in his bed, as he had been doing for the past half an hour, loathing himself for not being able to bring himself to work. It had been days that he hadn’t had any progress with his novel, and it felt like his worth had been left behind, along with his productivity. Since he had abandoned t... | |
[WP] You, the owner of an outrageously successful tech startup, are invited to an exclusive club/society for the world's wealthiest people. You realize that they are all actually dragons, and they assume you are one too. | "It was clever of you to use the Chinese zodiac, we haven't had an earth dragon among us in a long time. You earth types have always been at the forefront of new technologies and we have great expectations for you."
Looking around I was finally beginning to understand what, until now, I had not been able to place as u... | The limousine came to a stop. The mansion was in the middle of nowhere. The driveway was illuminated with torches.
*This should be interesting.*
Sophie was expecting weird. Her invitation was delivered by a man in chain mail. No address or GPS, just a hand drawn map.
She climbed the stairs and was about to kn... | |
[WP] You, the owner of an outrageously successful tech startup, are invited to an exclusive club/society for the world's wealthiest people. You realize that they are all actually dragons, and they assume you are one too. | "It was clever of you to use the Chinese zodiac, we haven't had an earth dragon among us in a long time. You earth types have always been at the forefront of new technologies and we have great expectations for you."
Looking around I was finally beginning to understand what, until now, I had not been able to place as u... | "Nice to meet you, Jason Kchranaut" said a man wearing extravagent clothes and a grin on his smug looking face. Jason naturally knew who this strange man was. He is a multi-millionaire CEO well known for his brand of jewels and gold, Richard Viette. "It's a pleasure to have you Mr. Viette. But may I ask you what you h... | |
[WP]You try to explain to your vampire daughter than going vegan isn’t for the undead. | "Hey dad, I'm going out with the girls to the mall. I'll be back before sunrise."
"The mall is a difficult place to discretely lure a meal. Return at once should you feel the urge to feed."
"Actually, Jess has been talking about this great restaurant she's been wanting to take me to. She says their vegan food is amaz... | "Dad, I've decided I'm gonna go vegan," my daughter said. I still couldn't believe that she didn't understand the problem with that.
"Listen, Catherine, you've been a vampire for the past five years, right?" I began to explain. She nodded. "And you know vampire's need to drink *blood* to survive, right?"
"Um, yah," s... | |
[WP]You try to explain to your vampire daughter than going vegan isn’t for the undead. | "Hey dad, I'm going out with the girls to the mall. I'll be back before sunrise."
"The mall is a difficult place to discretely lure a meal. Return at once should you feel the urge to feed."
"Actually, Jess has been talking about this great restaurant she's been wanting to take me to. She says their vegan food is amaz... | "Because little girls like you need some meat in them!" I yelled. She gawked at me awkwardly.
"I- didn't mean it like that."
My daughter, Gretchen has been going through some, _Odd_ changes. See, She made a few friends at school, and today I've just met them. They were okay, they didn't disturb me while I watching th... | |
[WP] After a devastating battle with his arch nemesis, crowds cry out for the greatest superhero to get up and keep fighting. Except this time, he doesn’t get up, now nobody, including the villain, knows where to go from here. | The dust was beginning to settle. I tightened my grip on my staff, waiting for the “*whoop!*” of his jungle cry that preceded most attacks. Every muscle in my body was tense, almost trembling, but I tried to maintain an angry calm.
My villainous side-kick, Nero the Jungle Cat, twitched his tail in agitation.
I cou... | Someone always knows where to go. It comes from unlikely places. But everyone knows where to go. What to do.
The question is who has the balls to actually make it happen. The battle had been intense, rockets, laser swords, from proverbial pillar to equally proverbial post. The Villian recovered the fastest attempting ... | |
[WP] A recent scientific breakthrough has led to the halting of the ageing process. However, the world is soon horrified when the first people to reach 150 years old begin screaming. | “It’s another one”, someone in a suit snorts next to me.
His sneer doesn’t hide his discomfort, that little pinch around his eyes and mouth. I’m not sure why people react this way. Not him, not the pretty woman hanging on to his arm falsely tittering, her own eyes shiny with fear. Like...it’s normal to react to horrifi... | She was nearly identical.
I remember meeting her on that cool Summer night in that small house-turned concert venue. Her hair was down to her waist and so bright. It darkened over the years, and grayed; just as I did. She remained beautiful for over a century after we met in that Bohemian ballroom of punk rock band p... | |
[WP] A recent scientific breakthrough has led to the halting of the ageing process. However, the world is soon horrified when the first people to reach 150 years old begin screaming. | It turns out there's a reason no one ever lived past 130. It was an innate flaw in our systems, claimed the scientists. Just something that shouldn't exist. An automatic kill switch type deal.
So they found a way to shut it off by shutting off our sense of timing at any age past 30. Once you turned 30, you got your cl... | She was nearly identical.
I remember meeting her on that cool Summer night in that small house-turned concert venue. Her hair was down to her waist and so bright. It darkened over the years, and grayed; just as I did. She remained beautiful for over a century after we met in that Bohemian ballroom of punk rock band p... | |
[WP]"Your wish is my command", the genie booms. "You have unlimited funds, however you may not purchase even a grain of rice for yourself, and if you talk of this wish to anyone, it will all disappear". With his last speech complete, the genie vanished back into the lamp. Your stomach rumbled. | I paused there for a moment, waiting for the other shoe to drop, before I realized that was it. That was the catch. Unlimited money but I couldn't spend it on myself. Kind of a supernatural "Brewster's Millions" bit. And I couldn't talk about it. If those were the only strictures, well...this was honestly kind of anti-... | Two wishes left. Well, if I wasn’t able to buy food for myself... hmm.
There’s a solution.
I rubbed the lamp once again. Out came the genie, awaiting my second wish.
“I wish for a never-ending, never-spoiling, always-edible, tasty meal.”
“Your wish is my command.”
Before me appeared a very humble meal... a ham and... | |
[WP] You have the ability to mentally hear the honest answer to any question by looking at a person and thinking the question. It was all fun and games until you looked in the mirror and asked a question you shouldn’t have. | "Hey there mirror , I know that we havent spoken in a while since I don't need you but hey , someone thought I looked nice today and I want to see what they meant."
I examine myself , its true that I dont use mirrors much anymore , I usually just hear what people think and go by that but someone just thought I was 'ni... | I was born with this unique abilities. I could see the answer to any question just by thinking at some one I thought might know. Results vary of course depending on the persons knowledge. Not all answers are clear either, depending on the persons level of self delusion. It varies from person to person, but it has alwa... | |
[WP] You have the ability to mentally hear the honest answer to any question by looking at a person and thinking the question. It was all fun and games until you looked in the mirror and asked a question you shouldn’t have. | The days have been getting longer lately. Being able to peek into people's minds, to hear the honest answers to questions they didn't know they were being asked, it was a temptation I couldn't resist. At first, I asked silly, childish questions. After a while the questions got more serious. They got darker.
So, I star... | I was born with this unique abilities. I could see the answer to any question just by thinking at some one I thought might know. Results vary of course depending on the persons knowledge. Not all answers are clear either, depending on the persons level of self delusion. It varies from person to person, but it has alwa... | |
[WP] The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have just found out that they have a younger brother. He’s a pony called Happiness and they all instantly dislike him. | While War, Famine, Pollution and I were hammering out our plans for the apocalypse, Happiness was out frolicking. We hated him from the moment he arrived. He refused to partake in our meetings, instead playing his stupid harp and singing la-de-la-de to the trees. The worst part was that the trees would actually *answer... | The five horsemen sat in an abandoned bar next to a highway motel. It was customary for them to meet up before each end of the world, to have a last drink together before they rode out and ended it all. Four of them - Antichrist, War, Plague, Death - had been surprised when the fifth younger brother Happiness showed up... | |
[WP] Some assassins are paid extra to make deaths look accidental. Your job is the opposite. You're hired for those rare instances in which accidental or natural deaths need to appear as if they were murders. | [POEM]
Sometimes It’s An Accident
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Sometimes it’s an accident,
When you fall and bump your head.
Sometimes it’s an accident,
When people end up dead.
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Sometimes it’s an accident,
When people slip in the shower.
Sometimes it’s an accident,
When they choke on a bag of flour.
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Sometimes it’s an accident,
... | The first two clients demanded a refund.
I told them in no uncertain terms that wouldn’t be happening. I know the odds are technically in my favor, but I’m still not taking chances. It’s a two-digit percentage that get caught, and I don’t aim to give Fate any help.
The refund demands got louder and louder until the... |
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