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[WP] In sci-fi, planets are commonly made of one biome-- 'desert planets', 'jungle planets', 'ice planets' etc. So, the aliens are pretty shocked to see the range of biomes when they arrive on Earth. | We had arrived, to sit in orbit, of this strange blue and green planet. We had stayed there for two of the planets quick orbits around its star. I grew bored of waiting and watching. I was an explorer, I preferred to get down on a planets surface and start setting up camp for those who waited on ship. But first we had ... | Greeblegrox stared out the windshield and fingered his tentacles thoughtfully.
"Yeah," he said in Wydoobian. "That planet is definitely alive."
"I thought you said it was 'the greatest mix you'd seen'," snorted Hardowom, looking out the windshield also. He flicked his right eyeball with his third tentacle, a sign he ... | 2018-06-26T09:48:01 | 2018-06-26T09:25:01 | 139 | 40 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | “Serial Killer” that is what my card read as my hand trembled slightly. I didn’t know if this was truly the right position for me. I had personal experience with the loss a serial killer can push upon a person and it fucking hurt. I didn’t know if I could do that. But, after thinking about it for a while, I decided it... | "Well that's interesting," I whispered under my breath, half amused. I had always hated this system, the complete lack of freedom we had over our own destiny. How no one ever complained about the future they were given, as if this massive AI that rested at the heart of the city, feeding information to the screens in fr... | 2018-08-13T19:58:07 | 2018-08-13T19:23:53 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] In the world of the immortals, scientists discovered a drug that makes you mortal for a day. People start doing the "try not to die" challenge for views, and find out it's harder than it looks. | I could hearing the buzzing of the news come alive in my ear, “Today’s top story: 6 more teens die during the “try not to die challenge” and Mario Sanchez will give you all the details in the normal 9am report. Tune in to hear h-.” I muted the chip before the story could finish. This wasn’t news, teenagers everywhere w... | This is illegal. In the palm of my hand, was a pale blue object. A pill, I believe. Joel glanced wearily at me. His eyes urged me to rethink my choices. His efforts were futile.
Heat began to build within my throat as the capsule snaked its way down to my stomach. A chalky aftertaste remained as I felt the pill settle... | 2020-06-20T22:14:45 | 2020-06-20T22:14:18 | 2,499 | 71 |
[WP] The earth has been ruined, but you were lucky enough to secure a spot on the last colony ship leaving. The days on the ship blur together, do your job then go to sleep and repeat. Someone mentioned the date and after doing the math you realize you have been on the ship for over 600 years. | "Wait," I responded cautiously as Tim pulled me into a maintenance sideway. My best friend looked frazzled and on the verge of a panic attack. "When you say 600 years you mean by earth time right? The clock in the concourse keeps time with earth's rotation and time dilates as we approach the speed of light. Not to ment... | The taste of copper leaves Tom's mouth as he swishes around the last of his morning allotment of water. "This stasis never gets any better does it?". Tom looks in the mirror with a grimace as he takes the prescription medicine to combat the affects of his prolonged slumber.
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
The alarm. Its tone ... | 2021-10-28T01:47:33 | 2021-10-28T01:18:24 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | I had heard of the human super weapons, but I had heard such claims before.
When the Ruthkin emissaries boarded my flagship to receive my declaration of battle, they shreeked at me with hatred in thier eyes. Through furious chittering they told me of the doom-wrought cannons which would tear my fleet asunder. They per... | At first there was a flash, a moment's pause and then several more in succession, numbering twenty-four. "Ah, they have do have some form of defense." I mused to myself, the Supreme Leaders did expect a futile excuse for planetary defense on such a young race on the galactic scene. It would be as they have predicted, a... | 2020-02-07T13:09:20 | 2020-02-07T13:02:43 | 210 | 80 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great pregnancy foods
How to make wife happier during pregnancy
Are cats okay to be around pregnant women?
Local shelters
Price of spay/neuter in area
Best hospitals for delivery in area
Cost of child birth
Cheapest hospitals for delivery in area
Do men have to do anything during the birth
Keeping placenta?
B... | - Online dating sites
- First date ideas
- How much do you tip
- What clothes do you wear to a fancy restaurant
- Ways to save money
- How to get proposal ring in secret
- What is a good price for a ring
- Resort honeymoon suite cost
- How to save a lot of money
- First class tickets to Hawaii
- Coach ticket... | 2015-02-04T18:24:30 | 2015-02-04T17:35:01 | 672 | 161 |
[WP] You are a museum curator with a dark secret. You have entered into a pact with a living painting that devours its viewers. You setup a "private viewing room" and specifically target wealthy and corrupt patrons to be its meals. | ‘Girl in Yellow Flowers’ is not an especially interesting or technically advanced oil painting, even you can admit that. It sits prettily enough, framed in bronze, among its peers along the walls, created by geniuses. It was placed initially as a foil to its friends, to give the viewer the uncomplicated pleasure of a s... | "Et, Monsieur LePatomy, comment-ca va?"
"I'm not French you nincompoop, I'm English. Just because I have a French sounding last name you think I'm French? It's pronounced Lee-pay-tommy. Lepatomy."
"Alright, Mr. Lee-pay-tommy-"
"Lepatomy, pronounce it right!"
"Lepatomy, as I was saying-"
"Lepatomy! Lepatomy! How ha... | 2018-07-30T18:12:53 | 2018-07-30T17:12:03 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Your superpower isn't as flashy or obvious as other, but it's one of the most powerful. You always guess the code, the evil plan, the safest route. You're always right. | "How the hell do we bring that thing down??" Screamed Livewire, floating midair and staring wide eyed to the trail of destruction left by the creature.
The Titan was stalking toward the downtown area, slow but inexorable, as tall as a ten stories building. Ground shook at every step, its five unblinking eyes fixed on ... | "Hey, Captain Foresight!"
I heard the bellow from across the restaurant. Enjoying a burger and fries in peace was becoming increasingly difficult.
"It's you, right? Who do like in the game tonight?"
The question came from the same, vaguely youngish, vaguely middle-to-upperclassish, not vaguely dudes who always think... | 2019-11-29T12:11:40 | 2019-11-29T11:13:36 | 55 | 20 |
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite. | The white room stung at his eyes. Each wall radiating a pale light that both illuminated and silhouetted each dignitary within the chambers. He squinted at each, taking in their features before settling upon the near hairless biped before him. He stood as he gazed down at the human with disdain, the device at his neck ... | After everything that happened this year, it honestly didn't surprise me when the ships appeared. Thousands of them cast shadows upon our cities, but that wasn't what terrified us. Their Mother-Ship hovered above the planet, it's sheer size large enough to cut a hole through our atmosphere if it were to land! Their arr... | 2021-01-19T01:44:24 | 2021-01-19T00:16:37 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. | > Hey, now I'm hungry!
> Is she really talking about food in *front of us?!*
> Wait, what was that? I didn't see it. What is she holding?
> What did Maggie say? I didn't hear it down there?
> Guys, we are eating pancakes! ***HYPE HYPE HYPE***
> No, you dumbass. She is eating. Not us.
> ***HYP... | They always said Gingers had no souls. You always laughed, you had plenty. Anyone who locked eyes with you was a potential soul, another freckle. The first was grandma, a weird freckle on your right arm. Her voice started commenting back as far as you can remember. What were you three when she passed? It was mostly eld... | 2019-09-27T04:08:00 | 2019-09-27T03:10:57 | 428 | 282 |
[WP] The crew-member examines the now-empty, malfunctioning stasis-pod. The specimen is of a species that had spread to and became apex predator of every region on its homeworld. The captain must be warned, even though it's likely everyone on board is as good as dead already. The human has escaped. | "Damn!" Ixil looked at the remains of the stasis tube, still covered with a chilly mist. He turned to a nearby ensign. "Call the captain, sound general quarters, we need to get ready to fight!"
"What? What's going..."
*"Now!"*
Alarms began to sound as the ship roused itself to battle stations. Moments later, the... | "Oh. No. Oh no. Oh, captain!"
His breath quickened. His hearts pulsed erratically. His skin turned bluer than ever. Images flashed through his mind. The crew must be dead. The captain must be fighting. The ship must be wrecked. He almost cried.
Of course, Delta-4 couldn't help but become overwhelmed with panic. It wa... | 2018-07-31T16:36:31 | 2018-07-31T14:17:28 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] You were genetically modified as an embryo to survive on Mars. You can breath the thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide. You are impervious to the cold. And now you are growing up on the red planet, raised by parents who might as well be aliens to you, trying to figure out who you are. | I live in a time between two stases - the world where we can differentiate to be whatever we want, no matter our genetics, and the world where we can modify ourselves (again, for the sake of freedom).
I live in the era of growing pains - the era where the only way to be genetically modified is in the womb. My life ha... | "Gentlemen, please take a seat."
The small group emerged from their quiet conversations and positioned themselves around the unassuming table. Meetings such as these were nothing like Hollywood would have you believe. Real decisions weren't made in bright conference rooms in D.C., or in ornate Italian libraries overlo... | 2018-08-09T11:07:55 | 2018-08-09T10:00:19 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We all had been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price to society, but the robots hadn't. | We turn a blind eye everyday to those in need around us. We like to pretend that we don’t, that we can’t save everyone. The machines had no such delusions.
The very first of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics was simple: Never harm a Human, or through inaction allow a Human to come to harm.
The others didn’t matter, th... | We programmed them in our own image. Our ideal one, not the one marred by truth.
We desired utopia, so they did, too. We acted like we'd never harm a living soul, so they did, too. We pretended to be the best we could be, so they did, too.
We just differed in our methods.
The first death didn't spark an outcry. Fo... | 2020-02-10T05:44:23 | 2020-02-10T05:10:04 | 5,648 | 726 |
[WP] Hi! I'm the main character! Or so you would have me be. I want you to know that no matter what you write, I refuse to be the main character in your little game and will avoid any instance where you try to put me into a situation that does so.
Edit: Once again, a huge thank you to everyone so far who's written a s... | *and thus we focus in on-*
"Oh great. It's you."
*What?*
"You know. It's you. The asshole. I've seen your stuff - you know, all those unfinished projects you dropped like a stone."
*Well, then. Stop getting in the way of me finishing one, huh?*
"Pfft, yeah, you'll totally finish -this- one, man. For sure! Doubt, m... | *Sighted along the arrow's shaft was a deer-*
"Nah" Edgy of Ire'lvant , son of Man-et-Woman said as he lowered the bow and shot the arrow into the ground instead.
*The flint arrowhead shatters upon impact and manages to puncture a nearby deer, ending its life*
"Curses! I refuse to take this deer to the village, I ... | 2016-02-11T13:15:06 | 2016-02-11T12:03:19 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] "Before I cure your wife, you must promise to give me the child." "What do you want with our child?" "Who said I wanted your child? You're feeding a pregnant woman magic cabbage, that's going to have an effect on the baby. I need to raise it incase they breath fire or something." | **CAST FROM THE GARDEN**
Growing up I was told everyone could breathe fire.
I was told many things. Like my father was my father. Like the world was not a place worth exploring. That the moon only shined in our garden. That visitors into the garden were intruders undeserving of its light. Vile beings we called them.... | The sun had set for hours and the night had fallen deep. No living sound present but the gentle rustling of midnight breeze blowing the grass and shrubbery, only all of the sudden it was disturbed by the urgent stomping of two worried parents.
"Ow! He bit me!", yelped Kieran.
In his arm he held tight a bundle of to... | 2022-01-04T18:50:46 | 2022-01-04T18:09:01 | 80 | 60 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Ugh. School. Erin had dreaded going there for a while now. But now that she was six and a few months, there was no way around it. Her parents had kept her out of pre-school after one disasterous attempt at age four, but now they'd told her she'd just have to deal with it.
Worthless middle class vermin, blind to realit... | "We're finally here," Margaret whispered as she tightened her grip on her dying daughter's hand. They had spent weeks fighting their way across the vast wasteland that their country had become, and had almost fallen off the steep cliffs of The Island of the Undying, but they had finally made it.
Nathan shuddered as h... | 2021-10-08T10:45:29 | 2021-10-08T09:20:55 | 52 | 16 |
[WP] Deeply misunderstanding the term "universal healthcare", aliens have begun arriving in Canada, seeking medical attention. Canadians, being Canadian, are too polite to correct them. | "Oh, uh, what seems to be the problem here, buddy?" John said. It was the 10th alien he had seen that day, as the check-in nurse at the ER in a hospital in Vancouver. The alien was a purple blob with two eye stalks and at least as many limbs.
"IHUH8hfdnbaf97y- (*&_&FBhbvagv606)*(* jn jfndab606))^)," the alien... | “I HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED FOR THIS!” Doctor Walsh screamed as, what seemed like liters of an unknown turquoise substance, cascaded off the operating table and onto the ground.
A few hours earlier, trauma surgeon Henry Walsh had been enjoying a quiet night in the Emergency Room. The only cases which had presented durin... | 2017-02-27T10:43:12 | 2017-02-27T10:08:10 | 2,560 | 224 |
[WP] When you were sent to Hell, you expected fire, brimstone and hordes of demons. But upon your arrival you found nothing but a barren wasteland and a single lonely imp. | An epicenter of agony and pain. A blazing inferno, where the truly dammed reside in endless limbo. At least, that's what we were all led to believe. The reality of it all is actually quite... dull. A moment of nausea washes trough you as you pass onto the afterlife and the first thing you, see? A barren wasteland as fa... | "No! No, get away! Before... *they* get here!"
I was shook. This demon was concerned for me and I literally just got here. I don't know why either. I guess I should've gone with Catholic instead of Baptist. Anyways.
I went to ask the imp who they were talking about and what was going on, but then I saw three hulking ... | 2022-09-21T11:51:39 | 2022-09-21T10:26:41 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 295 | 22 |
[WP] A billionaire's child is kidnapped and a large ransom is demanded for their return. The billionaire refuses, and doesn't even bother calling the police, leaving the kidnapper so disgusted that they decide to raise the child themselves. | I take a deep breath and check the safety on my 9mm before I pull the ski mask down over my face and burst through the front entrance of the little bookstore. The bell hanging on the door jingles cheerfully to announce me.
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“*GIMME ALL YOUR BOOKS ON PARENTING AND ANGER MANAGEMENT AND PONIES!”* I shout at ... | I looked for the FedEx truck every few minutes. Tracking number said it was en route. Confirmation that Mr. Z(I would never understand why he hadn't changed his name when he moved but whatever) had seen the proof of life I sent and was willing to negotiate. I'd done this enough times to get an idea about how it would w... | 2019-02-09T04:11:33 | 2019-02-09T01:00:04 | 70 | 33 |
[WP] YOU CANNOT DIE, no matter what, for the first 65 years of your life. AFTER THAT you're completely mortal. This is the first morning after your 65th birthday... | It's been a long time since I've had contact with anyone, I've been waiting for this day for the past 39 years.
It was 40 years ago that I was placed aboard an ark ship that was sent to colonize other worlds that are tens of light-years away, the other poor souls were placed in cryostasis and won't ever wake up, but ... | I woke up in the same hospital bed I'd been occupying for the last 23 years. My numerous scars and gouges greeted me with a sore welcome. I had done such amazing things with my life prior to this. The feds had covered all my medical expense for my service to them for so long. The injuries I sustained during my duty are... | 2014-12-24T13:11:00 | 2014-12-24T11:45:17 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] All souls in Hell are given the same test upon arrival. If they can create a punishment worthy of being added to the Pit, they get to ascend to demonhood on the spot. You are the first to succeed in 200 years...
[deleted] | "Democracy."
The demon Adjudicator, a green-skinned multi-gutted blob with the unfortunate name of Kikmahbutte, frowned. "There is no Democracy in Hell." Using a claw to pick at one of his three nostrils, he leaned forward and gestured with a crusty chin for me to continue. "Explain yourself, soul."
I'd only been dow... | The room was dark. The eerie glow of the television offered just enough light to see his face. He reclined in the hard, plastic chair as they watched from above. The arrogance that led to his sins on Earth filled the empty space. On the other side of the glass pane, the young woman was grateful for the barrier that sep... | 2021-12-22T17:07:26 | 2021-12-22T15:45:36 | 864 | 218 |
[WP] While at a football game, you notice the man sitting in front of you is livestreaming the game to his cell phone rather than actually watching the game in front of him. You see on the screen a player running the football in for a touchdown, 32 seconds later you watch it happen in real life. | Am I allowed to post a story on my own writing prompt? Oh well...I'm going to anyways. Hope you guys like it...its been awhile since I've done any writing!
I tried not to stare but I wanted to so badly . I must have been confused. He was just watching a different game from a different time and it was just a coinciden... | Holy fuck, it happened. It just happened.i couldn’t believe my eyes. The next thing I knew, the screen showed a loud explosion during half time . 💥 I immediately got up from my seat and began running. Pushing, shoving everyone out of the way. No time to think, no time to explain, no one would believe me, I had less ... | 2019-01-09T23:38:19 | 2019-01-09T23:22:09 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] Quantum locking lets humans create impervious armor and giant machines the size of skyscrapers. When we finally encounter the rest of the galactic civilization, we realize that we are the only ones that have this technology. | They called us El-Reuth'a. What would you guess it to mean? Peering from the portholes of decades-old spacecrafts, glimpsing our black-plated behemoths crawling ever closer, would you think *demons*? Would you think *warriors*? Hovering sky-factories churning out mechanized hunters, sub-atmospheric satellites, silhouet... | They built dreams and the rest of life came to see them rise. The earth was burned and dry by the time the machines were finished and Evan volunteered to be a pilot. The sunlight glinted off the thousands of interlocking beams that built the main body of the machine as it lifted from the ground for the first time. It w... | 2016-06-25T16:35:23 | 2016-06-25T13:24:56 | 70 | 30 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | A shadow looms over me, its anger palpable in the morning mist. I don’t need to turn to know who it is. “Death.”
The figure inclines slightly, a bare ghost of a bow. I smile, and say, “Our deal holds, my friend. How many times is it, now?” A piercing screech echoes from behind a locked door, ringing against the cold m... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T13:19:24 | 935 | 16 |
[WP] You are one of three astronauts currently stationed on the International Space Station. Communications are down for 1 hour due to upgrades, and one of your coworkers just killed the other. 47 minutes remain before contact with Earth is possible. | "Whoops."
Pilot David stared out into the endless void, his jaw slack with shock.
"WHOOPS???"
"It's fine, it's ok, we can fix this!" Zach's hands shook violently as he mashed the controls. "She still has time before her oxygen runs out!"
The newest addition to the station, Zach was learning how to perform routin... | Minute 0:
What the fuck just happened? Coms went down for upgrades, Schist grabbed a wrench and just stared wailing in Scotts. Over and over and over again, he, he wouldn’t stop. The worst part was the blood. The blood it- it was floating. It didn’t fall, just started moving towards you. Schist just stared at the body... | 2020-06-25T05:34:32 | 2020-06-25T05:16:34 | 22 | 15 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T09:55:29 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 97 | 11 |
[WP] A level superheroes protect the universe, B level superheroes protect the Galaxy, C level superheroes protect the Earth and so on. You are a Z level superhero. You protect...a single street in a small village. | This is my street. No, I don’t technically own it or anything – private drives are for people with a whole lot more money than I have. This lovely stretch or road was assigned to me by our governing body, the International Council of Super Heroes, twenty-two years ago. You see, the ICSH is ran by a council of elders wh... | The Carlisle Cat had been counted out more times than a young child’s piggy bank, but still he remained vigilant. Determined. He would become a great superhero one day; he only needed the chance to show his prowess. He could hear his Stoic idol, Seneca, in his mind: “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adver... | 2020-07-28T12:51:28 | 2020-07-28T12:43:01 | 63 | 19 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting. | The first person I killed was Andy Chang, a fifty-five-year-old doctor.
My car collided with his body. He tumbled across the darkened sidewalk and crunched against the curb.
I thought I was dying too.
My world exploded with light and colour- swirls of memories and pain. Shrill music echoed in my head. I threw open... | Beer bottles and pizza boxes were scattered across the room. My phone had a dozen messages and as many missed calls from worried friends who hadn't seen me except online in a week.
They wouldn't understand.
I couldn't get it out of my head. The rush, the endorphins - it was the highest high I'd ever had. No games, no... | 2017-12-08T07:47:34 | 2017-12-08T06:35:26 | 2,578 | 409 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | I stared bleakly at the faintly glowing digits. As if it couldn't get worse, the last number - a five - slowly transformed into a six.
"We have reservations."
The average-looking gentleman put out his hand and I plucked the driver's license out of it automatically. It read like any other I'd looked at tonight; the bi... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T19:55:18 | 585 | 140 |
[WP] The best demon slayers are those whose minds the demons want to stay out of. | *I kill. I torture. I flay flesh from bone and wear it as a little hat sometimes. I do all of this for fun; a pleasure unlike anything else in this world- or any other, for that matter.*
*That being said, fuck this shit. This place is a war zone, and it's too much for me. A human brain that is truly Hell- and trust me... | Rodenhurst walked into the dilapidated ice cream parlor. Its once cheerful pink and blue exterior had been rotted and worn and rained away, leaving a flithy, used look. The whole area was like that. Old and broken, just like the people who lived here. People, by the way, who were scarce in number. The recent influx of ... | 2016-02-08T09:04:32 | 2016-02-08T08:30:18 | 78 | 15 |
[WP] The president finishes his inauguration, he is escorted to his office to start working on his agenda when he first meets with the previous secretary of defense. Before the secretary leaves the room the president says “no bullshit, tell me about the aliens.” | I give our new president a blank stare for just a second. I didn't vote for him and this is exactly why. The dude is completely off his rocker. The American people are so sick and tired of political bull that they've elected a complete nutcase. I have a feeling that four years from no none of us will ever complain abou... | “No bullshit?”
“No bullshit.”
“Okay… You need to sit down for this, Mr President.” The man pauses to lick his lips. “Are you well seated?”
“Stop wasting time and hit me!”
“Sigh… Fine. There was a war in space, fought by two or more species who are far, far more advanced than us. And every now and then, a stray bull... | 2022-11-20T07:05:14 | 2022-11-20T03:23:13 | 121 | 62 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?"
I, the only human in the classroom, lifted my hand.
Freezing in place, a palpable dread flowed from their desk. The look on their... face..? That'... | 2021-11-27T13:35:35 | 2021-11-27T10:28:06 | 62 | 46 |
[WP] Superhero vigilantism is not allowed. All service to the public good is either through the Justice Department Enhanced Response Bureau or the US Marine Corp Special Abilities Brigade. SuperVILLAIN work... is always freelance. | Almost as soon as it had started, the fight was over. Redfield surveyed the wreckage that moments before had been Dr. Dreadnaught’s Doomsday Doodad. The doctor himself lay unconscious amid the debris. Redfield fistpumped and turned around beaming as the rest of the team crawled out of their hiding spots. It was his... | No government agency is fully good, especially when they got superpowers. This means that I'm going to gather up everyone that's been dealt a bad hand in life, especially if it was from the agencies. Then, I'll be a background mastermind. In public, I might hold an advanced position within either of the agencies, but I... | 2021-04-18T18:27:59 | 2021-04-18T17:11:48 | 136 | 14 |
[WP] With the hero tied up to the death trap, the villain starts their monologue. Just then, a henchman trips over a cord and triggers the trap, killing the hero. "Oh crap, this wasn't a part of the plan," says the alarmed villain. | Beads of perspiration slowly fell down the hero’s paralyzed face. It was frozen in fear and horror. Dr. Bridge had a cruel smile. This was it. His moment. After a long and grueling battle Dr. Bridge had finally been able to snag on to the hero’s cape midair. He had used his rope blaster to finally put an end to the scu... | ''Seven days, it took me seven days to set up this scene and you just completely ruined it.''
I slowly walk towards Rick who joined my crew two weeks ago. I look at him in the eye I take my gloves off and hold it between my face and his face. He starts to shake, he can’t say anything.
''Inhale it, smell it'' I say.
... | 2019-12-25T19:33:20 | 2019-12-25T16:27:50 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | A man in a heavy trench coat with a thick beard approached the door. The number over his head, 1517. "Well, that's over 21" I thought. On his way through he tripped over the step and two dwarves toppled out of the coat. Their number were 15 and 17. "Nice try" I said, "no filthy dwarves in my good elvish bar." | I stared bleakly at the faintly glowing digits. As if it couldn't get worse, the last number - a five - slowly transformed into a six.
"We have reservations."
The average-looking gentleman put out his hand and I plucked the driver's license out of it automatically. It read like any other I'd looked at tonight; the bi... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T19:55:18 | 1,408 | 140 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | Michael and I stared at the button for some time. It was a cherry red color and drawing me in like a moth to a light. I wanted to press it. My curiosity has always gotten the better of me. I extended my arm with my index pointed out. My mind was racing on the possibilities that would come from this being pressed. A uto... | In retrospect he should have taken much longer to make the decision, but thinking things out had never been one of his strong suits. He flipped open the clear glass lid and stared at the button for a few seconds. Just a simple red button on a small black box. Apart from the inscription there was nothing remarkable abo... | 2015-10-21T14:17:19 | 2015-10-21T14:11:47 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] When someone dies, they are met with those that they killed when they were alive. When you dided it wasn't a surprise that there were lots and lots of insects and small critters there, but what caught you off guard was the three people you've never once met in your life.
Edit: Died(dided) | "Kyle," the angel Michael said, "These are the three you never intended to kill, but nonetheless their deaths are on your hands. Meet, Jacob, the father of three. Meredith, a young college student who was about to graduate and, how could I forget, Genevieve she was a bit troubled, but good, at heart."
Kyle was flabber... | The last thing I remember before I slipped away were the sobbing faces of my family all around the hospital bed. My mom had to step out of the room with my dad because she had a breakdown. My brother "Gavin" sat beside the bed, holding my hand tightly while tears poured down his cheeks like a waterfall, telling me how ... | 2021-06-04T08:00:58 | 2021-06-04T05:55:47 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | I wasn't a dad, I bought one ironically. The day the mugs changed, a tiny black hole opened up where my mug used to sit next to my coffee maker. My Keurig and no one in a fifteen mile radius noticed, as they were instantly ripped into the basic building blocks of life, which were then ripped into their smallest compone... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T10:07:25 | 828 | 23 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "Well, I was dead once, but I got over it."
The Grim Reaper stood silently and cocked his head.
"River Styx? You have the look of one who has been there."
"Yes. My GPS is old and it steered me wrong. I took a right turn onto a lane that went into a long tunnel. I thought it was odd that there were red lights, but I... | I sat there still staring out my window at the sidewalk across the street, as I do most of my nights. Ever since the accident I find comfort in the isolated silence. Most nights I see the same type of stuff, drugs deals, ladies of the night, homeless, just typical stuff for my crappy neighborhood. This night was differ... | 2020-01-24T17:11:51 | 2020-01-24T15:51:58 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror, as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken and two cheese wheels at once. | "Do you... Do you want an antacid or something?" Dr. Malediction lowered his death ray and stepped away from the doomsday console, ponderously scratching the base of his pale skull. "That cannot have been healthy."
"Be silent, villain. Your lies will not make me stray from my mission!" The White Knight raged, his hand... | Vindicator stood watching in awe as Cpt Justice flew down.
This was Vindicator’s first week as a villain. And just his luck to run into the greatest superhero in their town.
The immaculate costume, bright eyes, the square jaw, the cape flying in the wind as Cpt. Justice landed was a sight to behold.
Vindicator th... | 2021-08-19T05:19:51 | 2021-08-19T04:13:29 | 352 | 66 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | The air was frigid and the sun was starting to set. Franklin could see his breath as he stood in line. His father gripped his hand and pulled him forward. Franklin looked around and saw mean looking people with weapons yelling at people further up in line.
He asked his father, "Papa, why are those people so mean?" To ... | Joanie's feet tickled as the waves lapped at her toes. She walked along the edge of the ocean, clutching her mermaid doll tightly in her little hands. A few feet away, her parents parents sat on colorful beach towels, watching their six-year-old enjoying the day.
"Joanie," her mother called out, "Just don't walk too ... | 2017-08-28T10:39:23 | 2017-08-28T09:14:51 | 640 | 101 |
[WP] He knows he shouldn't. He really shouldn't. But Satan really loves the Christmas letters sent to him by dyslexic children. | *Dear Satan,*
*I haev been a good girl this* *~~eayr~~* *year.*
Satan curled the letter an let out a booming laugh. "No she hasn't!" he cackled before clutching his side stitch in delightful agony. He knew exactly how many schoolyard brawls she had started and trinkets she'd stolen since May.
His demon secretary, U... | Satan never could understand what God saw in humans. They are strange bags of meat limited by their sub or was, stupidity, and mortal perception of reality.
The main thing God had always hammered on about was love. Wierd. Satan didn’t believe that lie for a second.
Satan, currently was toying with the idea that God k... | 2019-08-08T21:30:49 | 2019-08-08T20:29:34 | 671 | 51 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Raul," crooned Raul in a very suspicious French accent, as he took the lady's hand and graced his eager lips on it. "Let me guess," he continued, releasing his grip and pulling a chair out from the table. "Sit, please. Let me guess, you're a Mari- no, no, you're a Cassandra? I'm right, am I not?"
*Suave.* Yes, that ... | Delilah hung up her jacket and took off her shoes. Another dud date. This one was cute. Almost as though he was made to be her type. Tall, dark hair, subtly muscular. And only one dimple. He checked off all the boxes too. He worked as an EMT, bleeding heart type. He liked classic rock and k-pop. Game of Thrones and Gi... | 2022-08-24T03:20:20 | 2018-02-14T10:13:19 | 1,353 | 37 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly hosts monsters and demons at his pub. When someone kidnaps his children, they learn the hard way just how close they are to him. | Being the only human bartender in town brought with it a lot of complications. Monsters, demons, goblins, ghouls, and a whole host of other creatures would swagger in looking for trouble. They all thought that since he was a human he could be taken advantage of, threatened, maimed, or otherwise swindled out of product.... | They called them demons, devils, and monsters, and they called the place they drank Satan's lair because of them. At first the owner despised the name, after all he was just trying to help people, people who were just like him. Once he had just gotten off parole and had been scared stiff to go have a drank at his old... | 2021-05-10T16:15:46 | 2021-05-10T14:49:31 | 199 | 126 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | Can you imagine being forgotten? Not dying, mind you, but being *forgotten.* Dying, I could live with, but being forgotten is a different manner.
Every word I’d ever spoken and the influence it had on humanity was gone. My ancient followers, along with their names and faces, could be found nowhere. My temples and idol... | "Wh- huh? Where am I? Am I... awake?" I whisper, suddenly finding myself standing at the foot of my shrine. I look around, so much has changed since I was last here. There is forest where there was once sprawling metropolis. All the buildings made of wood and stone and clay have decayed, leaving only mossy pebbles in t... | 2021-09-02T12:46:28 | 2021-09-02T10:26:34 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | "Are you fucking kidding me?" Roper could see the bright yellow envelope sticking out of the little crack in the St. Bernard's Chapel's masonry as soon as he came round the street corner. This specific dead drop was reserved for contracts by the local "business club". They paid well, they respected his rules, they hate... | *Deer Mister Sir,*
*My name is Lucy and I am 9. I know I don't have a lot of muney, but I saved for three whole months and didn't even spend any on sweets, even thogh I really wanted this ginormous lollypop.*
*My Pop told me I could find you here, if I ever needed anything. He said you knew Mummy years ago, even befo... | 2014-08-26T04:55:15 | 2014-08-26T03:57:22 | 106 | 28 |
[WP] You entered a forest filled with monsters. The exit constantly moves, you don't age in the forest. When exiting, one person must stay unless they are the only one in the forest. Many a time you found the exit but let others leave. For the first time, another asked how long you've been here. | They called him the Watchmaker. Luna never learned why. Clocks, of course, do not work in the Valley. He had other names as well, but she never heard those.
He threw a huge shadow, but was really quite small - just less than average height and slim as a knife, but wiry strong, like a gnarled tree clinging to the side... | ##Forest of Morality
She looks to be no older than twelve. She probably has the most unfortunate distinction of being the youngest person in this forest. I wonder why she is here.
"You there, where the hell am I?" she yells. That will do it. I walk up to her.
"You are in a forest filled with monsters," I say.
"Very... | 2020-12-30T00:39:01 | 2020-12-29T20:36:55 | 1,253 | 408 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | I have never understood how no one has done what I have. It's simple and direct. Plan and execution. Yet somehow countless people before me have failed.
I've taken over the world... more or less. Still a few groups refusing to accept my rule.
Looking back it all started when I walked upon a street brawl.
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It w... | The fire crackled and popped, illuminating the entrance of my lair. They broke in all at once. Half a dozen heroes, none of which it seemed knowing how to use the door, might I add, stood before me.
“It’s over Mania, the jig is up,” their leader, Captain Heronius stated.
I could care less. If they want to invade and ... | 2019-08-06T20:42:43 | 2019-08-06T16:11:22 | 121 | 41 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "This is something," the hat mused, "something rather unusual."
My mind racing, I focused on everything I knew about the practical world of magic. Misdirection, slight of hand, proper rabbit care - every bit of knowledge that had gotten me to this hallowed seat at the front of The Great Hall.
"I can tell you have am... | It was that time of year again at Hogwarts. A new wave of anxious first years will be starting their magical journeys today, and after waiting what seemed like a lifetime, so will I.
We were lined up at the stairs, McGonagall instructing us on what would be taking place as we enter the Great Hall. While confident, I ... | 2017-06-25T15:07:52 | 2017-06-25T14:36:15 | 358 | 36 |
[WP] It's been 50 years since the rich elites left to escape an alien invasion. The good news: the aliens are friendly. The bad news: nobody wants them back. | "There must be some agreement we can come to, or perhaps a compromise?" The man on the screen looked desperate
"The answer is no. Thats final. Now please, stay off this channel. This channel is for official use only."
"Wait, hold o-"
Jack didn't let the man finish before he disconnected them. It wasn't too long befo... | My father would always tell me stories of when he was a kid. Life was so different back then that it's hard to believe everything he said. The most fantastical thing he ever told me was about a group of people called "elites" and what happened when they left Earth.
Apparently these elites stood high above everyone els... | 2020-08-02T08:36:10 | 2020-08-02T04:21:49 | 2,103 | 1,000 |
[WP] You are a dragon. The other dragons despise you, because they say you have no real hoard. You always change your shape to look like a man, and you are a guild master of an adventurer's guild. The other dragons are WRONG. This guild, these people, THEY are your hoard. | "Well then, that's all the information the client gave us for the quest. How about it? You boys feel up to this?" The guild master stroked his beard, regarding the party before him. The three were childhood friends who now threw their lots in together as adventurers. They were still greenhorns of course, not yet turnin... | I might look like a man, but I am a dragon. The best, most successful dragon.
Other dragons hoard gold. I do that as well, but they keep telling me my hoard is so small. I tell them that my hoard is bigger than theirs—I have billions of coins, but I am not going to let anyone see it.
And I don't need gold anyway. My ... | 2019-01-19T21:06:40 | 2019-01-19T20:29:25 | 214 | 23 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "Finally, it is complete. Now, nothing can ruin my plans!" I threw back my bead and laughed as I pulled the chicken out of the oven and set it on the table.
"Our plans, you mean," Elizabeth said. I had kidnapped her last month, but we had hit it off. She came back and we had started dating in secret. She sighed. "Do y... | I used to be a super villain, but facing off against hero’s wasn’t something indirectly did. With my power I did best with quiet operations. I can manipulate my own body. I usually use this for changing my appearance, but I can manipulate my muscles for combat. However, recently I haven’t been doing that as much. Recen... | 2019-02-23T07:55:50 | 2019-02-23T07:15:35 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | "Do you remember when we first met?" she asked, pouring the last of the last bottle.
I smiled. "I was eighteen. Physics class on the Ohio State campus."
"Yes? Tell me what you first thought." Her dark eyes seemed to swallow all of my peripheral vision like an entire night full of stars on the Mediterranea... | "Good evening."
Farrow jumped. "Who's there?" He called. Quickly stripping the thick goggles from his head, he glanced around the empty lab. It was dark and quiet - the kind of quiet that only comes out in a busy place after midnight, once the everyone had long ago left for home. Everyone except for Farrow, of course... | 2016-11-10T11:48:32 | 2016-11-10T11:06:59 | 1,871 | 87 |
[WP] All of humanity is wiped off the earth in some cataclysm. 1.7 billion years later an intelligent race of giant reptiles evolves. Human DNA is found trapped inside a block of amber. They begin to clone humans and start a theme park.
Edit: Sorry about the scientific inaccuracy in the prompt. Wasn't deliberate, just... | "Daddy look, the Monkeys are fighting!" said the small child, as he stared intently at the brawl that was breaking out. His scaled skin pressing against the blue electric glass of the enclosure.
The monkey in question, a small angry and pale man with a toothbrush mustache, was attempting to fight a much larger beast,... | Prologue -
A species of reptiles called the Rgholians slowly started colonising the planet they called Grranar. At an average height of 8 feet, Rghloian scientists think that their ancestors survived 2 massive comet strikes by taking refuge in deep underground caves which over time nurtured their own elaborate eco sys... | 2016-06-20T03:11:17 | 2016-06-20T03:10:37 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | First of all, I'm no princess. I may once upon a time have been the daughter of a king, but my mother was a simple ladies' maid, who sought to elevate her way to the throne by sleeping with my father. When it didn't work out as she had planned, (she was executed for being a witch and bewitching my father, the traitorou... | It wasn't as bad when father was alive. I was 13 then, and couldn't find the words to send them away. But father could. Stately and regal he would tell the suitor, "the dragon is her pet," and "no, I am serious, I was the one who gave it to her," or sometimes, "what is wrong with you? She's 13, at least wait 'till she ... | 2019-01-09T12:30:03 | 2019-01-09T12:28:33 | 48 | 13 |
[WP] A voracious monster stalks the city at night, claiming one victim a month. The way it feeds is especially horrific. It only devours the most vicious criminals. In a city plagued with crime and violence, the inhabitants struggle to determine if the monster is a benefit or terror. | Brian sat in the cafe, watching the rain pour down as if trying to wash away the blood and sins littered around the city streets. He knew it wouldn’t work though. The corruption and violence had seeped into the city’s very foundation. The only thing to do was to burn it all down and rebuild. And hope. Hope that what wa... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 3, Part 6: Awe v.s. The Criminal Underworld)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The city of Sacrament had seen better days.** Its Mayor had been sacked on trumped-up charges; super... | 2021-04-16T22:38:33 | 2021-04-16T22:28:28 | 102 | 39 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | My little cousin Callie always talked about seeing Angels. This was common for children, as my mother had done the same when she was young. Thus, everyone dismissed why Callie would stare at the walls and ceilings of any place we went, or why she would gaze up at the sky for hours on end, tears rolling down her face.
... | Abaddon ascended the sloped hillside with steps of savoring, around him, a constant buzz of locusts. A guttural sound flowed from him as he laughed to himself. Thick clouds, black and swollen with rain, hurried by as if attempting to escape the scene. In their panic, they pulled a wake of white feathers. In their rushi... | 2016-07-19T06:44:07 | 2016-07-19T06:34:35 | 1,274 | 79 |
[WP] People earn karma points while alive. When they die, they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife, or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death. You donate all your points, and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points.
The living have no idea of... | When I was nine years old, I pulled my baby sister’s body out of the swimming pool. Mom was taking a nap, and Dad was off at work. They’d told me to keep an eye on the baby after a long, sleepless night of unexplained crying. But I was too cool for babysitting. I’d been busy playing with my toys. I hadn’t been watching... | The world slowly faded to black as I drew my last breaths. Hey, I lived a good life.
But there was no gates guarded by an angel. No booming voice of God. I didn't see Buddha's paths or any of the Hindu gods. Hell, I'd kill for a pile of spaghetti to take me in his noodly embrace, but nothing was here!
All I got was.... | 2017-04-08T09:32:59 | 2017-04-08T08:53:41 | 7,090 | 40 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | My father was a wonderful storyteller; it wasn't exactly gravitas—he possessed something much more sincere, something deep in his heart that managed to make it real. He believed it to be true, these places, and things, and people, that I do not want to necessarily say did not—do not—exist. After all, father's Title tra... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T18:36:41 | 349 | 84 |
[WP] In the final moments of the battle, all seemed lost. The hero stood bleeding and broken before the demons feet. Then, out of no where, a mad man in pajamas punches the demon so hard its insides became outsides. No one knows who this strange man was or where he went too. | Gibraltar stood, barely. His eyes locked on the demon across from him. Nothing was said but they both knew.
Gibraltar, the hero was not going to win this fight.
As Gibraltar fell at the demons feet, still trying to fight, all he could hear was laughing. It was almost deafening to him. a voice so loud if shook the air... | "N..no! I refuse to fall here! I'm not done yet, I'll never let you win!"
"Ahh but I've already won, you poor, misguided insect. Once I've finished you off there will be no one left who can resist me!" Spittle leaked from the creature's mouth as he finished spitting the words with a cruel smile upon his face.
"I to... | 2021-12-18T14:16:34 | 2021-12-18T14:15:50 | 654 | 370 |
[WP] You are every Super Hero’s worst enemy, not because you are particularly powerful, but because nothing you do is technically illegal… you’re just a huge asshole. | [Poem]
In Villainous stride,
Push heroes aside,
But still abide by the laws
No big dreamer, no villainous schemer not even a righteous cause.
I walk a thin line
Between rules, so fine
Make annoyances mine
Aftertaste like brine
Every loophole abused
Every get away used
Every shin bruised, because I... | “Look your robbed from the poor and gave to the rich” he said as his stupid H glowed on his chest. Hope man was the galaxies most powerful hero and that was saying a lot. Me well I’m just a guy. “ no no no I bought that Martian egg fair and square ok. It’s in a museum so thank you tax write off” his face twisted in an ... | 2021-08-02T04:24:48 | 2021-08-02T01:55:44 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 235 | 102 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | I hear the laughter tinged with jealousy as memories of my friends' words echo throughout my mind. "Look at Mr. Immortal!" they said, while slapping me on the back after some stupid dare I did. My life was a constant high, never having to worry about death. And yet, here I lay now, in a puddle of my own blood.
My cl... | Death is a timely concept. Something that I can never understand.
"You see this clock right here?" He pulled out his own clock from his coat, as if magic. It read 14 days, 3 hours and 21 seconds.
"When this thing goes splat, I go kaboom." He stared at me a little, spinning his head, and repeated it again.
"Kaboom.... | 2014-09-30T10:29:39 | 2014-09-30T07:15:55 | 35 | 24 |
[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... | 2021-03-24T20:04:37 | 2021-03-24T19:03:54 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] the zombie apocalypse was SUPPOSED to collapse the government and let you fight for survival. But since the zombies are slow and stupid society hardly noticed. Now you’re trying to enjoy the apocalypse between your day to day life | This is stupid! I’m late for my meeting all because of the stupid hoard. And I left my bat at home.
I dialed 711 and waited patiently as the zombies began to claw my car. Ugh, it’s bad enough I got bird shit on it.
“Zombie Cleanup in Hill City, how may I help you?”
“Hi, I’m at 4326 Mabel Street in Hill City, and the... | The bad news? The zombie virus was airborne and spread like crazy, unstoppable and infecting everyone it came in contact with.
The good news? Symptoms didn’t start until you died.
Those first few days were chaotic, to say the least. Morgue technicians definitely had the worst of it. I heard of one guy who barricaded ... | 2021-02-25T11:53:06 | 2021-02-25T11:52:04 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] You're having a quarter-life crisis when you decide to try and pick up landscape painting. That's when you discover that your paintings are portals to the actual places in the painting. Too bad you're on the skill level of a toddler. | The world inside the painting is rainbow-bright, like a child’s memory of a happy day. The sky is a wide palm-smudge of blue, hazing to yellow near the sun. There‘s a single windmill that looks like a stubby toe with an X painted onto the nail, slowly spinning. To its side, a river runs in ribbons of blues and greens a... | The first time he stepped into one of his drawings and realized they were portals to an actual drawing-verse he, naturally, freaked the fuck out and ran away.
The second time he also freaked the fuck out and ran away, because discovering your doodles are portals to a drawing-verse is something that requires more than ... | 2022-03-29T08:22:40 | 2022-03-29T08:22:38 | 168 | 38 |
[WP] You sit before the UN, arms crossed as they question you. Finally, you speak up. "Unless you can find the exact page of the Geneva Convention that makes dropping werewolves into enemy territory illegal, I am free to go." | "Unless you can find the exact page of the Geneva Convention that makes dropping werewolves into enemy territory illegal, I am free to go." I said, confident they would not be able to find anything even close to forbidding it.
Ms Summers, the prosecutor, replied, “It’s not in the Geneva Convention.”
“Then... | He was astonished. The American government had always been more shifty then the KGB when it came to containing the supernatural outbreaks, but if this report was to be believed, the American government had used teams of monsters during the Vietnam war. Not just in Vietnam either, but in just about every war since Korea... | 2022-10-29T21:02:03 | 2022-10-29T16:59:35 | 386 | 66 |
[WP] You are a villain, but you have standards: when lesser villains try to hurt your archnemesis' wife and kids, you show them why you are the biggest fish in town | Justin Polock stood up immediately when I entered the hospital room. He was not dressed as the Light Bringer, but I saw he was ready to fight me in his civilian clothes. While he was not an elegant man, he usually had some style: shirt, high quality jeans, and a golden watch on the left wrist. The watch did not exactly... | It wasn't even five minutes before I smelled the stench in the air, the kind of stench that I know all to well: the stench of some one commiting one unforgivable crime against that of a child. Sure, I cannot be everywhere at once tending to those that harm children: that is a Sisyphean task I will not undertake.
The ... | 2022-09-28T01:39:11 | 2022-09-28T00:02:27 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *Leper*
I felt guilty the moment I thought the word. It was the common way to refer to humans among many races. It was a word they themselves often used. But I knew its origin and context. Humans may use it in a joking fashion, but I knew (as did they) most used it in a derogatory way.
But it was still the first word... | Billy searched the glove compartment of his shuttle and pulled out his facemask, putting it on as he made his way towards the spaceport cantina. Once he flew through the door he did a scan of the crowd quickly noticing his two friends waving to him.
"Hey fellas, long time no see, God its good to be out of the hive aft... | 2021-02-03T19:38:43 | 2021-02-03T16:10:21 | 1,400 | 148 |
[WP] Mother Earth isn't just a metaphor. The entire Earth ecosystem is in fact a sapient whole. The only reason we don't see aliens is because Mother Earth is super xenophobic and kills any non-terran life that appears. Aliens learned this the hard way and are not sure how to handle humans. | The ones from far away stars think themselves far too clever.
An unexpected variation in atmospheric density whips their tiny probe to and fro. Its on board guidance intelligence attempts to correct, but it is a rainy season in this system, and the magnetic lines are flush with energy siphoned from the sun's gale. Th... | "I'm not sure I understand," said the expedition leader more to himself than to others, "humans are killing the planet they live on, they defile and disfigure hills and forests, yet mother earth protects them with what can only be described as paranoia. We never came so far as to establish communication with humans or ... | 2020-11-23T10:36:41 | 2020-11-23T07:46:49 | 787 | 324 |
[WP] Medusa turns people to stone by freezing their souls. Since you sold yours to the devil years ago, you're the first person she's had in millenia. | I stand amidst Medusa's stone garden, the sun periodically peaking out of its cloud covers, illuminating the look of realization on Medusa's face.
"So," I said. "I guess the windows to your soul thing has quite a bit of truth to it, eh?"
"Soulless," she hissed. "How dare you tread in my abode."
"Can't turn to stone,... | Her lips, soft as rose petals brush over my heated skin. A hiss, and I draw a shaky breath. When she digs her nails into my scalp and pulls at my hair with that enticing balance between awe and possessiveness, I respond.
I. Flesh and bones and the little that lasts of my brain. Neck prickels. A small noise from my th... | 2021-06-21T14:10:16 | 2021-06-21T13:38:51 | 147 | 38 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | Kate reached for the handset, ringing once again at 2 in the morning. At the ripe age of 92, Kate did not have anyone in her life that would have reason to call her, let alone at this ungodly hour.
At this ungodly hour. Ha. Ironic, given that this span of time, this brief period between midnight and the first light of... | Ring, ring
It was 3 am on a Tuesday, and Dorothy didn't know who was calling, but she knew why they were calling.
"Hello?" A man on the other end of end line timidly asked
"Hello deary, how can I help you?" Dorothy said warmly in a way only a 93 year old grandmother could
"I need help...I ... ı"
Dorothy didn't ... | 2016-02-06T18:21:21 | 2016-02-06T17:14:53 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You are not like the other wizards, you finally decoded what the spells mean in English, but you soon realise that they are written strangely. the spell for a fireball is "air burning" and the spell for flying is "dislike floor" | I listened intently down the silent hall, diligently alert for anything that might approach. I was on guard duty this week, as were many of my peers, as we had heard the dreaded Magician Assassin, Oleander, had been commissioned to kill the prince. He was sleeping soundly in the room behind me, and I was the last line ... | I sat staring at my spellbook, in consternation. Jurana, the equally perplexed paleo-arcanist I'd summoned to double check my work, was looking back and forth between the spellbook and the simple translation key I'd made, looking equally bemused.
"Okay..." the old witch began, looking back up at me. "It looks like you... | 2022-05-04T19:10:40 | 2022-05-04T17:44:00 | 2,062 | 747 |
[WP] You made a Deal with the Devil to be the greatest musician in the world. Thing is you haven’t gotten any *better*, but everyone reacts to your inept scratchings as if they are the greatest symphony ever devised, showering you with wealth and adoration. It’s *really* getting embarrassing | All religion is made out of music, and that’s how he would get him.
Think about it. Hymns, psalms, mantras, nasheeds. Modern poetry, silent poetry, is a historical aberration: in any other culture poetry is song, melody is always there. Plato defined music as made of three components: melody, rhythm, and word. Music ... | I never really thought I'd get this far. All those lonely nights playing my keyboard at 3AM and uploading short clippets online never really did much for me outside of a couple friends obligated support and a few likes. But now all of a sudden I'm monetized on everything. People actually like my stupid clips. I've sinc... | 2019-12-02T04:33:46 | 2019-12-02T04:02:50 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You were born with a secret curse: you involuntarily alternate between each gender every midnight. As a result, you live two different lives. One night, your friends discover your secret in the worst way imaginable.
This has been done already, sadly with only one reply. I want to see what people can do.
EDIT: Jes... | "As long as I remember, I've been going back and forth. Every day."
"And so you cooked up a story about fraternal twins."
"Seemed like the best I could do, yeah."
He was quiet, for a while. Clearly mulling things over. "And you still don't actually tell anyone. Even your friends?"
"How? What would I say, 'by the wa... | An older man stood up on the podium, tapping the mic and smiling before the audience.
"Good evening, ladies and gents, and welcome back to Dandy Randy's 5th Annual Karaoke Competition, Round 3!" he glanced around to find a raucous crowd, probably on their third round of drinks already. "Tonight is our final round a... | 2015-11-15T10:36:47 | 2015-11-15T09:39:05 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | “Welcome to hell,” the demon said.
“Why?” she asked. Hands-on her hips she looked around in an annoyed manner.
The demon hesitated.
“What do you mean why?” he asked.
“Let me speak to your manager,” she said.
Ignoring her request “everyone comes to hell for punishment, in this excep- are you snapping your fingers ... | I lived a very good life with more like a nerd and very less like a bully. I never made my expectations high except for the happiness for my love. I died of Covid-19 as days passed quarantine myself away from my love. Dying alone.
My wife giving me an eulogy. Her words and voice wants me to wake up from the body and ... | 2020-07-10T08:54:13 | 2020-07-10T07:21:39 | 54 | 35 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | I woke up to what sounded like someone rapping on my door with only their nails. It was my weekend, and I was eager to get in as much sleep as I could. I assumed it was those stupid kids a few apartments down messing around in the hall again. I rolled over and tried to fall back asleep, but it just kept going, an inces... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T14:51:14 | 249 | 37 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | A lot of people were unhappy when the world went to shit, but not James Henderson. For him, it had all been a dream come true.
It started with drugs. Growing, refining, smuggling: James did it all. But he always knew that he wouldn't be limited to just one market. When war broke out in the Middle East yet again, one ... | The year is 2044. Chicago is in ruins. Drug dealers, kidnappers, scammers, rapists, all over the surface. Businesses are crumbling. Banks practically don't even exist. People fear for their life. The chance of a child younger than 25 joining a gang was 87%. You can hear gunshots all night long. But, underneath the city... | 2016-07-14T06:26:04 | 2016-07-14T04:39:28 | 2,263 | 205 |
[WP] A genie asks to hear your 3 wishes before granting then. Afterwards, he informs you that those wishes will be saved for his next master and you'll now receive the wishes of the previous master. | "The previous' owner's first wish was for world peace" the genie said.
"Oh," I muttered. "I was hoping for some cash. but I guess the previous owner was a humanitarian, huh? I guess it's good for the world though."
The genie nodded, "Very good for the world indeed. I was more than happy to grant that wish."
"The ... | "How is that even fair?" I screamed at the smokey red giant in front of me.
"Well most people wish for roughly the same thing anyway," he replied. "Wealth, happiness, destruction to their enemies, so it usually doesn't matter."
I thought for a moment. I did just wish to be rich and to live a long and happy life. The... | 2018-10-13T11:37:37 | 2018-10-13T09:32:41 | 536 | 148 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | Chapter 1
"Some are calling it the prank of the century, others believe it to be a supernatural occurrence, and still others call out 'conspiracy'. What is the truth behind the sudden alteration of mugs all over the world? Do they really reflect the rankings of dads? We'll be checking in with spiritualist Dave Connor ... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T10:58:27 | 70 | 13 |
[WP] You are arrested by a mysterious agency for the “illegal use of a magical and or supernatural item” after stumbling across a Genie lamp. But, the agency is stunned to find you only used one wish. An odd one in particular. | "So let me get this straight", the officer in the sequined uniform said, adjusting his pointy hat as he spoke. "You found an unlicensed magical item, and conversed with the entity inside, instructing the entity to..."
I glanced up from inspecting my glowing shackles. "I wished for my ex wife to get bunions."
"...righ... | I finish putting on the rest of my costume and open the doors to the giant stadium-like building. I am greeted by a cool breeze and the smell of old sweaty white dudes. I look around to see tons of fellow comic book lovers, and my heart beats faster. WOW. Comicon is as impressive as Reddit makes it sound. Before starti... | 2022-11-02T07:55:48 | 2022-11-02T07:31:34 | 270 | 21 |
[WP] Aliens have made contact with earth and demand that the human race turn over one person. Humanity has 24 hours to comply, and if they don't, the earth will be destroyed. You wake up, turn on the news, and discover that person is you. | "Whelp", I thought, hurriedly pulling on some pants, "Can't really get much worse than this. I won't even have time for breakfast dammit."
I've already turned my phone off, as I know that everyone I love will be trying to get in touch, both to persuade and dissuade me from going ahead.. and the less honourable ones to... | It’s Saturday, and you wake up to an insistent ringing, but you didn’t set an alarm. You swat at your phone and realise that it’s ringing; groggily you answer it.
“I’m so sorry,” your mother chokes out between sobs. You’re confused; your granddad was in hospital, but he seemed to be getting better. “What’s wrong?” you... | 2014-05-10T11:09:08 | 2014-05-10T10:44:47 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] Demons have to do at least one evil thing every day to survive. This one comes to your bakery everyday to buy bread for the homeless kids and steal exactly one cookie. | Izze stood there in her bakery, looking at the line of homeless children and one adult male. They came at the same time everyday: 9pm. It was a loving scene for the most part, expect for him. The male who set this up. She couldn't tell if he was a devil or a saint, he baffled her. 3 months ago, after she opened this ba... | "A day in the life of a baker, you ask? Well, it's like every other life. Mostly weekdays with early mornings and working because we knead the dough" said Agnes and chuckled. I sat opposite her at a table in her bustling, cute little bakery called "Bakers gonna bake".
"You can use that one if you like. Of course, some ... | 2019-03-24T13:30:00 | 2019-03-24T12:43:50 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Emily,
I know this isn't where I should be writing this, and I know i should just tell you outright, but I think everything's just too fucked the way it is right now. Shit's complicated, and you found someone else who might be able to make you happy.
I've done a lot of wrong, both to you and everyone else I've loved... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-06T00:29:03 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Instead of saying "Execute Order 66," Emperor Palpatine accidentally says "Execute Order 65" | "Execute order 65" Palpatine rumbles into his communicator.
"Immediately Sir!" comes the expected reply.
"Excellent!" the soon to be Emperor thinks to himself as he lets out a low cackle, "soon it shall be done"
24 minutes later there is a knock on his chamber door. "I'm here with your order sir!" says a s... | As Palpatine deeply muttered the order, the generals of the stormtrooper teams gathered their troops and relaid the order onto them.
"The emperor has demanded that we execute the final solution, gentlemen. Now HIT IT!"
As fedora's and top hats are placed on the helmets of these brave warriors, they form perfect symmetr... | 2016-09-06T01:47:16 | 2016-09-05T22:01:59 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Fun fact: There's only four actual people online. Everyone else is fake. If you are reading this, YOU ARE NUMBER FOUR. We've been trying to reach you for some time now. Find us. Quickly, before they do. | *Oohh - love the meta*, I think as I click the post, *I could probably write something, right? Play along with it, you know?*
Racking my brain, I can't really think of what to write. There's... 1..2..3..4 responses to the prompt already - that's one fake at least, plus replies... But if it took a while for them to con... | I can't stop my brain from driving me insane with the weirdest question lately. Why doesn't anyone care?
After a plop on my fancy office chair in front of my fancy lighted fixtures and mulled the body of text. Without a chance for coffee or actual sunlight to penetrate my blinds. It's easy to see why I felt this way.... | 2022-07-19T23:32:32 | 2022-07-19T23:24:14 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Computer Log, Communications Satellite Relay S2052-419 orbiting Eridanus, Silanti’alth controlled Sector 9. 28th of the War Years.
10104431.0556- FF Indicators confirmed, 3rd Divergence Battle Group arrival, Dauntless (CSU094923), Harbinger’s Breadth (DDU119708), Maelstrom (CSU762541), Lament of Gods (CCU129800), Deat... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T09:05:19 | 431 | 11 |
[WP] A popular new technology allows people to turn their consciousness off while at work, letting their bodies go on autopilot until the shift is over. One day when your consciousness returns, you're covered in blood and surrounded by dead coworkers, holding a note with a cryptic message on it. | The freezing, barren Antarctic tundra stretches out endlessly in front of me, the frozen wind hitting my face like nails being hammered into a plank of wood. I can feel my fingers and toes turning to useless hunks of meat inside my boots and gloves.
I clench my jaw and grip the stock of my M1 Garand, preparing myself... | \[POEM\]
"Sorry I left your friends dead
but at least now you can be well fed"
the note in my hands said,
as I stood beside the body of Ned.
Who was it that did this?
Who left me by all these corpses?
How'd they get in my office?
At least they left condiments.
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Wa... | 2019-10-21T21:38:23 | 2019-10-21T17:04:29 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] After chatting with your online Korean friend, who you often game with, he invites you to visit him in his home country, which he always refers to as "Best Korea". You think he's joking around, but when you get a flight confirmation, you learn that your friend is actually Kim Jong-un. | I sat aboard the plane, hands sweating clutching my phone in my hand, staring down at the screen-name. 'GloriousLeader365' I can't believe it, I always thought the name came from gaming prowess, but he truly sees himself as the glorious leader, luckily for me, he had spared no expense and I was now shooting towards wha... | Your eyes nearly pop out and your jaw hits the porch when you receive the simple text message. "Bye way gamer friend, before you visit I want you know I am Supreme Ruler of North Korea." Contemplation begins on what you can do... this goes on for nearly a day until around 12 hours before the flight time. You decide to ... | 2017-04-09T18:16:25 | 2017-04-09T17:56:20 | 213 | 24 |
[WP] World War 3 has begun, every nuke is being launched or dropped...they've sat in storage for so long that every single one was a dud. | October 23rd, 2027. The day the world was supposed to end.
Across the world, nuclear warheads from 5 different nations awoke from their cold slumber deep below the surface of earth and rose into the great blue at the same time. Millions panicked as these great weapons rose into the stratosphere, some programmed... | "Well, this is awkward," Trump said. "I normally have the best nukes, believe me."
"Yes, Mr. President, it is indeed confusing," the North Korean translator said over speakerphone. "Our Dear Respected Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un is willing to let bygones be bygones, sir. Let us start anew as peaceful compatriots, havin... | 2018-03-01T17:44:59 | 2018-03-01T15:51:36 | 206 | 65 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | Naxos was a long slim cat, half Siamese with a light mottled coloring that reminded Julia of the marble from the Greek island that gave the cat her name. Julia wasn't usually one to take in stray animals, but when she first saw the cat hiding from the rain on her doorstep, soaked, she let her in to warm by the fire, an... | I thought it was adorable at first. It started a few days after I brought her home. I had a giant potted plant in my living room. It's leaves were bigger than the cats head. She would rip an entire leaf off the plant, and carry it all the way up the stairs, down the hall to my bedroom and leave it on my bed.
It was ... | 2021-12-17T07:48:14 | 2021-12-17T07:06:19 | 65 | 47 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | "Agent Carter? Sir?" Agent Carter looked up from the mound of work on his desk to see Clark standing behind is desk.
"What is it?" Carter had a tone of depression in his voice, as if he had heard this hundreds of times before. He had heard this thousands of times before.
"Sir, A UFO has entered our atmosphere. Desti... | "Humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
The gnarled general gave him a look halfway between amusement and disbelief.
His ears twitched before settling back into their wavy slow pattern.
"You know thi... | 2017-08-08T08:42:45 | 2017-08-08T07:55:11 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You've loved magic your whole life but since your family is poor you've had to teach yourself. you're overactive imagination has helped you invent spells all your own. eventually you get a scholarship to a prestigious magic college but quickly find out everyone seems to lack your imagination. | I’m bored.
I’m in an actual, literal, prestigious college for curating the top magic users the world has ever seen, and I’m bored out of my fucking skull.
I rest my cheek on my palm, staring dully at the professor who long winds himself through the components needed for our lab work and I try to stay awake. Next me... | Acolyte Therain sat watching the scrying pool. Watching, not staring at. If you stared your eyes would burn before your shift was through. On the other hand, if you only glanced at the pool you could miss the fleeting sparks of color that would occasionally appear in the swirling mist. The trick was to unfocus your eye... | 2022-10-25T07:41:29 | 2022-10-25T05:48:16 | 296 | 89 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | *The police officers close the door as they leave, and a heavy tension descends upon the two of us. We watch each other warily.*
“Did you kill her?” he asks.
“Did you?”
There is a long silence. “Yes.”
I say; “how could you?”
“She loved you more than me.” His eyes flash with anger.
“I was her husb... | The moment I left, or the only moment left:
-“Stay close.” Your eyes: hope.
-“No, I have to go away.”
-“Don't leave me alone.” Now fear.
-Love, it makes everything... Better go now.
-"Stay. Close your eyes, Hope."
-"No!"
-"I have to."
-"Go away! Don't! Leave me alone now!" ... | 2015-09-23T16:48:26 | 2015-09-23T10:05:10 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 272 | 17 |
[WP] You're a human trader for the intergalactic slave market. Advertise to buyers why they should buy human instead of another species. | Alright look, I'm not gonna lie to you: Humans are tricky. They're weak, slow, and for all that's holy they love to complain - but that's not why you want one of my stock.
You want *my* stock, because they're fucking clever - and they love a challenge. Analysis and problem solving, that's where the Human's shine. Each... | "So why in the hell would I buy a weak little human huh?" The fat Canidae merchant asked with a grunt. "Why sir they are the most clever species I have in stock. Twice as smart as an U'Tharian elder, as hard working as a Kimotite, and can learn at the speed of an adult Yitori." S-918 said with a wide smile on his liqui... | 2014-11-22T09:04:18 | 2014-11-22T06:06:52 | 242 | 24 |
[WP] You have the ability to steal wishes from a wishing well by taking the coins a person drops in. However, you can't know what the wish is before you decide to take it
For example: if someone wishes that that John smith fell in love with them and you decide to take the wish, then John Smith will fall in love with y... | "That's someone else's wishes
I've heard that from my favorite childhood movie The Goonies but I didn't believe it. I didn't believe you could actually steal someone else's wish. Of course I didn't. I'm an adult. I pay a mortgage, been married thirty years. My kids are adults. So of course I didn't believe it.
I w... | It was a sunny afternoon in mid July. I was walking with my gramps down towards our house.
“Okay, young one,” he said. “Let me tell you a secret that you will not believe.”
I lifted my head up to see his old, wrinkly face as he continued, “Have you ever wondered why they put that sign in front of the well? ‘Do not pi... | 2016-08-02T14:09:43 | 2016-08-02T12:19:23 | 48 | 21 |
[WP]The US Government finds a Stranger Things-esque alternate dimension full of deadly creatures. Then, they discover Oil there. | For years, alternate Dimensions were something very few were privy to, and even fewer had the displeasure to enter. More often than not they were hellish desert worlds, devoid of life, filled with only harsh winds and endless sand. After the initial excitement of walking through a giant portal to another world had worn... | *"It shows up, we have no knowledge of why it’s there. The average human being is not worried about it because they don’t know it exists. We have no idea what it symmetrizes because it only appears to symmetrize itself."* --Eric Weinstein
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“Are you sure about this, sir?” Milena asked. “We could do more testing, it... | 2017-10-28T09:54:57 | 2017-10-28T06:25:51 | 924 | 363 |
[WP] It's your first day as the recently-inaugurated President of the United States and you're being told all of the country's most top-secret information and projects. What's the most unbelievable thing you get told? | You know, you find out some strange stuff when you become president. And I could handle most of it. Some things were hard to believe, but there was just one thing that I still have a hard time with.
What you may ask? Well, it wasn't that Elvis is still very much alive and likes walking around Memphis occasionally, fre... | "Ok, WHAT?" I couldn't believe I heard General Anderson correctly. "There's a fully staffed Starbucks down there?"
"Oh yes, Sir. Not only that, but two ice cream shops and a four-star Italian place."
I apparently *had* heard him correctly. I closed my hanging jaw and tried to form my next thought. The White House nuc... | 2014-09-18T13:10:32 | 2014-09-18T11:48:42 | 25 | 16 |
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