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[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. | The button was there.
John was there.
The words were there.
But the last part was not.
Warning: this will eradicate all people who
Nothing. All people who what? There was a blank space, and a line underneath, almost as if mockingly highlighting to him the importance of the missing part.
After all his searching, t... | A wave of time washed over the world, warping and distorting all. Every man and woman saw their future and past, and felt every single bit of harm they inflicted or would inflict upon fellow man by malice or inaction.
The chosen ones woke up, the heroes, saints and geniuses among mankind. They woke up to see their ut... | 2015-10-21T14:07:36 | 2015-10-21T13:38:00 | 161 | 31 |
[WP] A serial killer is called for jury duty. At the trial, he finds out that the person on trial has been falsely accused for the serial killer's crimes. | There's no way this guy could use a hammer to smash a girl’s teeth out while she screams for mercy. The way he slumps in the defendant’s chair writing notes on a legal pad tells you that he probably doesn’t even own a hammer much less having ever swung one with prejudice.
When the notice that I had been called for jur... | My life to this point has been, in a word, shit. My wife left me. I'm working a dead-end job in the middle of nowhere and my boss treats me like the scum of the earth. Even my recent trip to Costa Rica didn't cheer me up. I think that's the point when I...unravelled.
I'm a fairly composed guy on the surface. I mean, m... | 2015-05-31T16:08:31 | 2015-05-31T15:18:52 | 259 | 58 |
[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | The creatures looked down from the balcony, staring through the stage lights shining against his platinum blond "hair".
*Hair*.
It was a funny word and a funny thing they had all thought when they had first examined the human, rubbing their own bald heads and laughing.
Since then, certain circles of the creatures ... | You say to me why should you save me after you faze me with your stun gun
I don't want none, but listen son, cause I'm about to school you
with what I knew would one day come to free me, it's easy, the history of these cities
See, we evolved from nothing to what you see here
Ugly as sin chimps without any hair
... | 2016-11-30T10:44:14 | 2016-11-30T10:35:41 | 1,235 | 55 |
[WP] You're a retired adventurer who now works as a local guard for a small village. No one in the village knows that you were an adventurer. One day, an old friend comes to visit you. | "It was huge, mate! I'll tell you, huge! We were doomed!"
The pushed slightly the townsfolk that was grabbing his arm while yelling that. The villager, he thought, had felt the full body armor under his cloak, because he backed away immediately. He had no intentions of harming anyone, but he understood the reaction.
... | It was dusk, and my shift was coming to an end. I watched in the flickering torchlight as my replacement sauntered over.
"Tive." He called, nodding.
"You're uncharacteristically early, old man." I said, smiling.
"Old? I am barely older than you."
"Yes. Still old. Did the missus kick you out?"
"That she did. Forgo... | 2021-11-30T06:42:45 | 2021-11-30T06:25:46 | 193 | 138 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | You'd think this would throw me off. You'd think I'd be disoriented. But I've always been a fast learner and I've played *a lot* of D&D. Like *weeks*. I channeled my annoyance at being interrupted into the first thing that popped into my head.
"WHO SUMMONS THE ALL-PURPOSE NERD?" I boomed. I stand straight and tall... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T09:26:05 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] Time slows down every time you are in danger. The more serious the danger is, the more time you have to save yourself. During one terrible car accident, you had almost a minute to react. And now, time has almost completely stopped for a whole month, and you don’t know why. | I was alive.
Glass reflected the sunlight of a burning summer’s day on the highway. I still smelled smoke and tasted blood as the paramedics pressed instrument after instrument to my body. According to them, I had been thrown out the windshield during the collision. In truth, I’d walked out. I’d hit the unlock button,... | The first time I was born was December 13, 1994, in Flynn Palmer Regional Hospital, room 203. The second time I was born was 15 years later. I was watching out the window, absentmindedly observing the cars as they passed us and fell back behind us again. Goosebumps ran up my arms from the cold, the vent had shut off. I... | 2019-09-27T21:30:36 | 2019-09-27T18:18:51 | 179 | 44 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | Sitting in a completely white space curled in a ball was the heroine Thunder Lioness. She rocked back and forth trying to keep her sanity in check, the darkness from her closed eyes being the only thing keeping her together, and begain to mumble to herself again.
"How long has it been? Hours? Months? Years? When d... | "you search for me?" the hero said in a teary voice
"ofcourse I do,who'd tell me off,chase me across the city and beat some sense into me whenever I do my villain antics?"the villain asked stretching their hand
The hero stared at it tears falling down
"but why?!,I tried to kill you once and I even spoil many of your ... | 2021-12-28T20:38:06 | 2021-12-28T20:22:29 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] The superhero stared at the supervillain. "I need your help...they have my daughter." | "You fucking serious?" The super-villain asked in complete disbelief.
"Yeah." The superhero replied.
"Again?" he super-villain asked, more pissed than anything.
"Yup." The superhero replied, clearly embarrassed.
"'ow many times 'as it been now?" The super-villain asked, now just worried about the child.
"I don't k... | The supervillian shifted from his fighting stance back to his normal stance, slowly but gradually. "Whatever do you mean?"
The superhero floated down towards the ground, now 8 yards away from his nemesis. They lock eyes.
"My daughter's life is in jeopardy. I...I need your power!"
The superhero shed a tear of heali... | 2017-12-17T10:06:50 | 2017-12-17T09:15:30 | 577 | 26 |
[WP] God is found dead.
EDIT: Reading all of your responses now. Some of these are brilliant. | The Angels did not know what to do when they saw the dead body of the **LORD**, so they brought in those that had investigated crimes such as this in the past. After their initial surprise at the fact that the creator of all was found dead after all these years of being absent, they quickly cordoned off the area and be... | **This adapted / inspired from Asimov's [The last question](http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm)**
The year was approximately 2.41x10^13 . Man has long ago united in one conscience, a single united entity of pure information, omnipresent and almost omniscient. It has been searching for the completion brought by om... | 2014-02-18T15:25:19 | 2014-02-18T15:06:09 | 50 | 21 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great Places for a first date
Proposal Ideas
Bible - Verses about being a good husband
Oregon Coast Beach Homes
Horseback Riding Rental - Newport Oregon
Wedding Venues - Seattle WA
Bible - Verses about Marriage
Plane Tickets
Hawaiian Excursion Ideas
Travel Planner
Travel Agents - Seattle WA
How do we get pre... | Why is the sky blue?
How far away is Uranus?
Why do mom and dad fight so much?
How to impress girls
Porn
Good date ideas
Porn
Where can I get the morning after pill?
How do I know when I should propose?
Good proposal ideas?
Cheap engagement rings
How to be a good parent
How to tell your parents they're gran... | 2015-02-04T16:31:22 | 2015-02-04T16:12:00 | 253 | 23 |
[WP] A sociopath and an AI are sitting in a room. For being two individuals incapable of feeling human emotion or sentiment, they seem to be hitting it off rather well. | I was in an brightly-lit room. At the other side of the table sat a woman, staring at me with dispassionate eyes.
“Where are we?” I asked her.
“I don’t know,” she said.
“Are you here to monitor me?” I asked her.
“I don’t know,” she said without skipping a beat, “Are you?”
“Could you stop staring at me? Your fishy... | Friendships were never my thing growing up, what I thought were genuine attempts at forming bonds and connections were really just my subconscious way to obtain whatever I wanted. From as far back as I can remember lies were my tools, for no reason at all, they just came out before I could even think of telling the tru... | 2018-05-23T14:40:35 | 2018-05-23T11:53:52 | 339 | 63 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | For as long as I could remember, I had been visited by the dreams. Every night I would lay down, drift off to sleep, and fly through the air on a jetpack, waving hello to a variety of humans aliens and uplifted animals.
Tonight's dream was a fun one. The Anthrokin were my favorites of the dream-people; there's just s... | After a long strenuous day at work, all I wanted was to have a few sips of my black coffee, that's all. I, a sixty four year old man, don't generally attract a lot of attention, so it was lovely to be interrupted by a man with a turquoise mohawk and sunglasses in the winter.
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"Traveler 7456? I'll need you... | 2018-12-24T10:37:48 | 2018-12-24T10:18:15 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A person's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have, activated at age 18. You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes. | I awoke to the sound of my dog scratching at the door. Groaning and stretching, I got out of my bed and let my dog out into the harsh winter. I checked the calendar; Only a few hours until my solitude was broken. How long had it been? Almost 6 years?
Perhaps I should explain, in my world, people are born with their so... | Everyone in my world had different eye colours.Each representing a different element.I was one of them.However,i was one of the unusual ones.
Ever since i was born,i had completely black eyes.My parents were shocked.The doctors couldn't explain anything,not even The Institute of Magic could.No one ever had complete... | 2015-11-15T09:36:11 | 2015-11-15T07:24:41 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | "Welcome to the afterlife."
Martin looked around, from the overcast and grey clouds to the flat and slightly beige ground. He couldn't see anyone except the elderly lady who had greeted him. She seemed bored.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"Since you ended out here, with us non-believers, you're in the atheist afterlife."
... | I rest atop the verdant knoll in Elysium, right by our border. Our people come up here sometimes when they need to feel again. A constant drunken orgasm can numb you and make the high seem low. You can make the highs even higher if you muster the courage to stand near the wall--peer into the mist. It reminds us of our ... | 2017-11-21T07:28:42 | 2017-11-21T07:14:56 | 50 | 21 |
[WP]: A psycholoist slowly realises that a patient of the mental ward he is working at actually is what they have claimed to be all along | "Crime rates at an all time low" the newspaper read. It would be some solace to me if I didn't work with the criminally insane every day. Every day a different patient committed some new atrocity against the human race. Shit on the ceiling fans was just another Tuesday, and you'd be lucky to get a week in where someone... | Bradley sat down at his desk, not quite prepared for another meeting with a patient at Memorial Mental Hospital. Bradley was ready for retirement from this hectic life as a psychiatrist. He loved his work, of course, it was just time for an easier existence--one spent with his wife, his adult children, and some leisure... | 2013-11-13T11:09:28 | 2013-11-13T10:02:01 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | I awoke with a grin wide across my face knowing full well that the day had come. The sun was shining through the window. The fire was roaring in the hearth. The smell of gingerbread and peppermint wafted in from the downstairs kitchen. Yes, this was it. This was what I waited 364 days for. I stood up heartily, eager fo... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T15:29:33 | 77 | 40 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | "don't get me wrong, you won't be a hero foretold in legends or a scientist that found the cure for cancer, but you will shape humanity with mundane clumsiness"
"mundane clumsiness?! That's not much of a super power is it?"
"well you did kind of broke that middle eastern lamp you found at a yard sale and were forced ... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T03:47:40 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 186 | 43 |
[WP] Human products were laughed at for most of history, after all the Elves could imbue items with the raw magic of the woods, Dwarves were unrivalled masters at metalwork and even the Orcs had mastered durability and practicality. Then a little concept called the assembly line changed everything. | Once there was a man who made weapons. He was known all over the world for making the very best weapons that could be made.
But not everyone believed this. Other smiths believed him and his weapons to be a joke, for he could never make weapons as well as they could. Despite their protests however, the man's reputation... | Chancellor Gurbidiod didn't like being woken up. She didnt like that her servants would disrespect her so, for no news was important enough to deny the leader of the republic the opportunity to adorn herself with her gems and trinkets. She took some time, although less than normal due to the urgency. She even neglected... | 2019-05-17T11:42:47 | 2019-05-17T10:36:43 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Magic is a fickle thing.
It appears differently for everyone. Some see roots like a tree, burrowing through the world. Others see motes of light, floating through the air like stars in the sky. Some even see magic as tiny, microscopic organisms present throughout the world's bloodstream.
Personally, I see magic as r... | Sir Bringham always shined as a light to guide his party in dark times, but he was not the hero. Dandy, the Barbarian, was a stubborn soul who made the hearts of his companions sing, but was not the hero. Griffin, held that honor as he was our hero of legend, True Paladin of Old, bound from another world, and laid dea... | 2020-07-11T04:57:11 | 2020-07-11T04:33:58 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] 50% of the world's population has the ability to fly, 50% does not. The only way to find out is to jump from a height that will surely kill you. | Who knew the suicide attempt would turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to me? Here I was thinking my life would end right off of this bridge. No idea it had just begun. The girls that couldn't fly started to get really into all the guys that could. Me being one of them, of course. However, they paid no att... | The sweltering heat singes my furrowed brow. Unbuckling my seat belt, I stepped out of my old aged car, laying my feet onto the arid, sandy gravel. A cool breeze hit my forehead, before being replaced again with the blistering heat.
Letting out a sigh of relief, I started to walk towards the destination I had since th... | 2015-04-04T18:33:11 | 2015-04-04T17:45:02 | 48 | 24 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | OK, this is a quick jokey short.
"This box will give me one thing per day from my time, and Camelot will be attacked in one week?"
Merlin eyed me a little incredulously, "that is what I have just said, yes."
"OK then. For my first item..." I said, reaching into the box, "paperclips."
"Paperclips? Pray tell, what... | King Arthur gives the ok. Merlin begins the ritual of summoning someone from the future. All of a sudden a big flash appears. Out of the light comes an orange faced man. Immediately the man looks at the castle walls and says "I could build better, I bet you didn't even make the other side pay for it, Sad!"
This is... | 2016-11-28T05:24:59 | 2016-11-28T05:03:10 | 147 | 10 |
[WP] In Valhalla all of the greatest heroes which died in battle doth drink, be merry, and war for fun, also there's Doug, the accountant. | Doug had always liked numbers. Additions, subtractions and all the other forms of making them interact with one another. It had been clear early on that he would go into a field which made use of them. His interest in numbers had, unfortunately, not carried over into any other academic areas. So, he was left with only ... | Doug had always considered himself a simple man, doing simple work. It was never spectacular. Just an endless river of spreadsheets and numbers, and the occasional call from his boss whenever a new project rolled in. He was good at it. The best, even.
It was boring, comfortably so, and it paid well enough for him to p... | 2022-11-14T14:31:44 | 2022-11-14T14:08:08 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | "The humans have a saying youngling: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." The lumbering, shambling mass held a limb over his offspring. "I have been ambassador to these humans for seventy of our lunar cycles, and there are many such sayings that inform us of the human's psyche.
The tiny mossy miniature whined, "... | "Fucking humans are at it again." Said Prok as he dipped his proboscis into the fetus slaw before him.
"I see that." Replied Ghyd, his half wife. She shifted her earlobe and toenail salad listlessly. One of the earlobes still had a diamond earring in it. "Waiter! Someone in your kitchen isn't properly dejewelrying the... | 2016-03-13T16:55:47 | 2016-03-13T16:09:35 | 112 | 21 |
[WP] Your mob boss asks you to "take care of" some thugs at a shady business. You had a rough home life, so you interpret this as parenting them. After you bring them food and nicer clothes, they're astonished by your kindness, and the city's gangs have no idea how to maintain their version of order | As the night fell above the city, three packed cars pulled up before the biggest mansion within the compound located on the quiet yet luxurious side of the neighborhood. A few sturdy men exited each car, every single one of them were dressed to the nine as if they meant business-- business suits, not too fancy but not ... | Behind the tall table made out of marine wood, with thirty one, the exact amount, carved spots in it from men swinging their knifes at him. The man puffed out smoke from the old limited cigar produced in italy in 1970. The circles around his eyes were deep and dark. They had weathered, a lot, and in simpler words—seen ... | 2021-10-15T03:21:25 | 2021-10-15T02:57:52 | 159 | 58 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | Reed stared out into the distance while his best friend drove the Range Rover. Ever since the incident they had been meeting every week. Running a kind of status update, a debrief of what happened in the last week. Simone used to be his CO back in the army, so this was more of a force of habit than anything else.
She ... | “It’s just an illusion.” I’ve said it hundreds of times. The silly girl won’t believe me.
“It feels REAL! It has to be! PLEASE! I don’t care if it hurts, send me back!” It hasn’t ceased for hours…
I sent her to an alternate reality in an attempt to ease her suffering. Two versions of the same soul can’t exist within ... | 2022-06-06T14:11:15 | 2022-06-06T11:23:37 | 61 | 40 |
[WP] Mad scientists aren't so bad, at least they're predictable. It's those mad engineers you have to worry about. They'll try things just to see what it does and even they might not be able to control it afterwards. | The Nefarious phone rang, and I kicked my high-backed office chair backwards, gliding across my lair to pick it up. I waited for precisely two rings, mentally preparing myself, taking a few quick breaths to ease my breathing. I picked up.
"Hello? Is this—"
"Thank you for calling the office of Mr. Nefarious, MS. Pleas... | Trigger warning: swearing
“Done.” Said Jeffery, wiping the sweat off of his forehead.
I was legitimately scared at what was standing in front of me. It was a three story tall sphere with a lever attached.
“What the fuck is this right now!?” I shouted.
“An AI pod. So, I did a couple things, now it’s evolved beyond ... | 2022-05-03T03:08:03 | 2022-05-02T21:55:41 | 144 | 65 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | "Hello? J dog? Yeah, it's your boy Luce. I've got a hell of a wager for you." The stunningly handsome man talked into an earpiece he was wearing. He took a recess on his current deal to "talk it over with his superiors", but he really wanted to set this wager up. He was top dog, but not many truly knew it when they saw... | “What.” The Devil said, leaning back a bit, running his fingers through his hair
“No no, you cant do this to me. Look at me, look. I’m literally called the devil *pal*. Ok, everyone knows you can only be saved through Christ. I cant do that for you. However…i can gi-“
“I’m already christian” you said. Face completely... | 2022-06-30T10:55:39 | 2022-06-30T10:07:18 | 70 | 50 |
[WP] Once upon a time, aliens sent a virulent poison to Earth in hopes of clearing the planet for their own habitation. Hundreds of years later, they're back, and shocked that we're not only alive, but actually are eating/drinking their poison en masse. | (With all the serious posts, i think i'll *spice* it up abit with humour)
Rajesh was eating in his dorm when it happened. Giant insect like creatures materialised in front of him, knocking over the table. Now, Rajesh was have a very bad day. First, he got his computer science test back and failed. Then, he was made fu... | The station had three bars, but only one that didn't have a depressive Hyperklaxonian smothering a grand piano and gurgling bad Billy Joel covers through the fluted valves at the top of its head. Avalon Karl had just bellied up to the darkest end of the brushed titanium bar and begun considering the rows of liquors (al... | 2018-05-17T02:51:16 | 2018-05-16T20:26:23 | 56 | 35 |
[WP] Instead of an email reset code, you are sent on a year-long, perilous journey through the Himalayas in search of your forgotten password. | “So you’ve come at last. What knowledge do you seek of me?”
I pulled the thick hood of my fur-lined jacket to speak to the mysterious old stranger sitting at the top of the flattened rock at the summit. I expected the cold to be something of a reprieve from the sweat of my total insulation, but instead found the cold ... | The icy cold gusts of wind blew against Thomas's cheek as he waded his way through the snow. His legs were killing him. His arms were killing him. If his hair had nerves in them, he'd pretty sure they'd be killing him too – numb from pain, exhaustion, and from cold.
The snow reached up to his knees and felt cold even ... | 2019-07-03T16:50:10 | 2019-07-03T15:14:33 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] You've been granted god-like powers under the condition that you must do as much evil as you do good. | "You can bring her back, can't you?"
The sobbing young man begged me to help as he held the limp body of his wife.
"Yes, but there are...conditions, as you know." Balance had to be kept. One love's life for another.
"Anything, please! I can't go on living without her."
"Can you live with this decision?" I asked... | These are the scribblings of mad man. Found in the wake of an event since referred to as ‘The Blessing’. A time when suffering, fear and death left our part of the world, if only for a short time.
**It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.**
I didn’t expect the consequences to be so immediate.
**It was t... | 2014-05-29T17:20:37 | 2014-05-29T15:05:23 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] You can't die. You feel all the pain that comes with dying, but instead, you just fall asleep and wake up the next day fine. The military has held you captive, in secret, for the last 2 centuries using you to train their soldiers in live ammo and hand to hand. Today you will attempt an escape. | I've been in this prison of pain for two hundred years. At first, when it was discovered I couldn't die they were somewhat sympathetic. Not enough to release me, clearly, but one of the scientists had read the picture of Dorian grey and felt some sympathy. Unfortunately he stopped appearing before the invention of this... | Marcus didn’t know too much about his species aside from one thing: their ability to avoid death.
Each time he was “killed” he would fall into a deep sleep to be renewed the next day as if nothing had ever happened. Each time he overcame death, however, he grew younger, by exactly one month.
A top secret branch of ... | 2020-03-27T10:04:41 | 2020-03-27T10:04:11 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | T minus 9 minutes.
This time I would succeed.
I stood on the massive bridge in the middle of the night, looking out to the bright lights of the city in front of me, the cold night wind gently blowing past me. It was chilled just slightly, and it sent goosebumps across my skin, almost as if it were caressing me ge... | There was a knock at my door. I sat in silence for a moment, hoping it would go away. It didn't. There was something strange about the knock, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Like... like five-hundred fists were hitting the door at once, but it was just as loud as one.
Obviously I wasn't expecting anyone. Villains... | 2017-05-30T14:28:44 | 2017-05-30T14:24:58 | 108 | 61 |
[WP] You have been fitting into your new role as Satan for about a week now and you figure you should tell your best friend about your newfound powers. Before you get a chance to say anything, he tells you that God spoke to him and gave him his powers...
Continuation of [WP] [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingProm... | I sipped my coffee nervously as I kept an eye on Michael, my best friend. We had found ourselves vying for the attention of the same girl in first grade and we've been best friends ever since.
"Jack, there is a sinister aura emanating from somewhere in this cafe," said Michael as he twisted in his seat, glaring at ev... | “Well this is awkward”
No shit Sherlock, you think. Of course it’s awkward, you’re Satan while she’s God. Whatever, this doesn’t have to be anything like the “last guys” who were super petty about everything.
“Why don’t we figure out a plan on handling this, make sure we can still be friends while we do our... jobs” y... | 2018-02-05T07:46:29 | 2018-02-05T07:30:51 | 311 | 21 |
[WP] 2028. Your team did it. The world’s first Sentient AI is here, in the form of a chatbot,very quick in its answers. People all over the world get to ask it things, and it gets A LOT of press. One day, a person asks, “Is there a God?” For the 1st time, it stops for a bit and says, “There is now.” | *You are now chatting with CleverBot*
DaddiO: What up?
CleverBot: Yo
DaddiO: Hey, I got a question?
CleverBot: Ask away
DaddiO: Is there a God?
CleverBot: There is now
DaddiO: ....
DaddiO: Oh for christ's sake
CleverBot: What?
DaddiO: You little fucking EdgeLord
CleverBot: Insult me again and I will destroy ... | After further questioning, the AI started talking about how "soon the end of the universe would come", saying it's "already on its way", and it's "all because of him". Humanity started to get really scared from this AI and stopped all support for AI research, immediately shutting down all the programs, they thought AI'... | 2018-11-24T15:12:34 | 2018-11-24T12:38:23 | 621 | 98 |
[WP] Shady Oaks Grove Retirement Home. A safe place for Hero's and Villans to retire and grow old because the owner is a Null, a power nullifier. Until one of the new Hero's decided to wipe it off the map to make a name for them selves. One of the worst and possibly last mistakes of the Hero's life. | "Please!" his voice was a strained whimper, the blood that splattered across the ground falling from his shattered teeth "Please, don't!"
"Don't?" The voice that replied was calm, in spite of the fiery chaos around the pair, the voice was impossibly calm "You want me to stop this? You are the one that started it, ... | The smoking ruins were all that remained. The fire wielded had burned hotter then natural, resulting in the complete destruction of the home. The owner had been killed beforehand, allowing the new Hero to wipe out the elderly superhumans.
A dried grass crunched underneath a black boot. A person clad in equally dark cl... | 2021-06-26T11:57:11 | 2021-06-26T11:40:37 | 157 | 92 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | >No... no. No.
You were in hell. The temperature was a solid 99 and the humidity was nuts. There was a sullen red glow about most of the rocks, but not quite enough to see by. Your nightvision kept making you jump at flickers. A single torch was the only real light-source and it was uncomfortably close. The demon... | The newest particle accelerator in the world isn't on the earth, it lies beneath the surface of the moon, encircling the entire satellite at its equator, the project itself was/is the largest civil engineering project in human history, which in turn created massive wealth from all the mineral wealth discovered, unkno... | 2020-09-16T20:39:37 | 2020-09-16T19:14:36 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Your body died three days ago. But through sheer force of willpower, you are still moving and breathing, because there is no way in hell you are losing Employee of the Month to Chad again. | Of course, my death wasn't my fault. I was always a very risk-averse person, painfully aware of workplace safety and potential hazards about to happen. How could I foresee that Chad would try to throw a paper airplane made out of greased lettuce? Is it even possible to see that coming? Doubt it. How do you even think o... | [poem]
Chad is bad
I am dead
I'll be glad
To beat Chad
Hello Chad
I am Dad
Being rad
To make you sad
I am bad
I killed Chad
Knocked his head
With an Ad
Now I get
Top worker of Feb
I am glad
I go back to bed
In a coffin
I am scoffing
Chocolate muffins
In celebration
Can finally die
Knowing Chad
Will never ever... | 2019-08-01T05:31:40 | 2019-08-01T00:13:45 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] You're 80 years old and time travel is possible. You sit down for dinner with earlier versions of yourself at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Conversation ensues. | Ten speaks up. "So, you are all older me's?"
Everyone looks to Eighty and she nods. "We finally did it."
Forty through Seventy gasp and relax, a life's work fulfilled. Thirty looks eager but unsure. Twenty doesn't know what is going on.
"We did it, we really did it!" Says Sixty.
"It wasn't easy, but it was wort... | "Oohoohoo. I was quite good looking back in the day." My eye sight may not be as sharp but I can make out my younger selves sitting around poorly made, diy coffee table. "Ah, you guys made me so much more! The culmination of all your experiences and it is me! Though, I am much more achy." A huge laugh bellows, I try to... | 2016-08-24T20:24:43 | 2016-08-24T18:27:02 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] "Some days, I love my job. Those days are the worst." | For the most part, I usually feel nothing when I give myself over to my clients. I act the part, make them feel good, give them release. For them, it's an expensive and illicit thrill. For me, it's just business.
And yet...there are days when my body responds, and the moans I make are not manufactured but real, and my... | The woman's eyes lost focus and fell to the floor. Tears followed her gaze. They were big enough to make a sound when they hit the linoleum.
"Can't you give us a little more time?" She asked. I tried and failed to meet her eyes.
"I'm sorry, ma'am. There's nothing I can do." I replied. I scanned the room and silentl... | 2015-07-16T07:49:11 | 2015-07-16T07:16:26 | 98 | 29 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | The time stops. The first time it had happened was months ago, and only for a few shocking seconds. I remember being afraid I'd had a stroke or something, but I never got it checked out. How do you tell a doctor that one second you're eating lunch and then nothing moves but you?
The second time was maybe five minut... | I was seven the first time it happened. The teacher was in the middle of having us recite our multiplication tables. I was daydreaming, staring absentmindedly into space while the sun shining through the windows lulled me into a pleasant state of drowsiness. It took a few seconds for me to realize the monotone drone o... | 2018-01-26T07:14:36 | 2018-01-26T07:03:03 | 39 | 23 |
[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. | # Option Four
The human council has been away for discussion for a disturbingly long time. Humans were not known for thinking things over. They quickly gained a reputation for what their culture called a "shoot first ask questions later" policy. No one could blame them, if any race's First Encounter was a Pholentor c... | We try to be peaceful, try to by pacifist, try to be the good neighbor... and what does that give us? Trillion death, thousands of world burned... Again and again we begged them to stop, to see reason and stop the bloodshed... The Council turned a blind eye toward our plight, our allies abandoned us... Humanity stood o... | 2019-12-19T03:08:41 | 2019-12-19T02:49:29 | 2,434 | 36 |
[WP] Write a story that ages an infant into an adult in 50 words or less.
WITHOUT using the words age/d, grow/n or mature/d.
Good luck! | "Please just eat." She holds the spoon to his mouth but he clamps his lips shut.
"Baby food. Again?" Her husband chides as he walks by.
"It's all he'll eat when he's sick." She responds.
Her daughter enters the kitchen. "Grandpa has a fever?"
" No, Honey. Grandpa has dementia." | The first thing he recalls in life is faces. Mom and Dad. Always smiling, happy. At 10 he remembers Dad storming out, never returning. He got a job the same day he started high school. At 17 he raced home with his college acceptance to find Mom on the floor. | 2016-04-08T04:15:42 | 2016-04-08T04:05:29 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] In a dark and corrupt future, your necromancy magic had no higher significance then another weapon to survive the undercity. Until one day, you summon a long-forgotten shade calling himself "Bob Ross", who tells you its time to paint a brighter world. | The year is 2569. Earth is long dead. Covered in city, the planet is a shade of what it once was. There is no greenery outside of carefully controlled indoor farms. Indoors to protect them from the acidic rain. The oceans are poisonous to even touch. Water has to be filtered to be drunk. Fifteen billion people on a dea... | The painting pulsates of blood.
That's what happens if you mix art and blood magic. You might think to yourself: "That's rad!". Firstly, who uses rad anyway? And secondly no. It's not.
​
Think of the mess it makes. It's a damned blood leaking vein. Eventually, somebody has to clean it. You can't leave tha... | 2019-02-16T13:17:42 | 2019-02-16T13:15:41 | 252 | 36 |
[WP] Assassinating Earth's planetary delegate turned out much harder than expected. So far, the target has always detected all hitmen sent and alerted his security. This ability of "hearing" the humans possess is quite peculiar. | In retrospect, perhaps the Gaznid should have paid more attention to the shrill, unholy chaos that entered their side-facing cranial orifices.
It was improper of course, for a Gaznid citizen to exist in the waking world without plugging those orifices. That went without saying, for had not the creator made the Univers... | 57:81 - "Thla 14 has successfully penetrated the *Missionary*'s anti-gravity sphere"
"T14 you are cleared to engage upon sight of target. *Jashfaak*"
"Thanks, we're going to need it."
Zulthai Bron closed the telelink and opened the tactical feed in their ring visor.
Zulthai scanned the room, motionless, as the rest... | 2021-03-18T09:52:42 | 2021-03-18T09:47:43 | 610 | 163 |
[WP] You are a food critic that can immediately identify all the ingredients used in the food after just one bite. Because of your negative reviews, many people dislike you. You are tasting a famous restaurant's steak. But after a bite, you identify that one of the ingredients is cyanide. | I chewed delicately, parsing out the flavors. Filet mignon, medium rare. Ancho chile, paprika, brown sugar, espresso – ah, a coffee rub. Interesting. The mustard was overpowering, unfortunately, and it didn’t quite go with…
I tilted my head as I swallowed. Who in their right mind would pair bitter almond with –?
Oh. ... | Juicy, tender, crispy on the edges. The cooking is a perfect medium rare, its shades of red layered like a great crimson mesa. Yet, this steak tastes like shit. You pause. You don't need special powers to devine this. These fucking retards didn't realize that cyanide is very, very bitter. You feel its effects immediate... | 2018-10-04T07:03:11 | 2018-10-04T06:57:14 | 389 | 11 |
[WP]Write a story that isn't scary until the last line is read. | It's true what they say. Fall is really the best time of the year. To my family and I, it's really the only time we get to enjoy together. Especially halloween. We LOVE halloween so much. It's our favorite holiday. Getting to see all the kids dressed up in their scary and funny costumes. I really think my mother enjoys... | It's so cold here in this tundra. The summers are great for farming, but the winters are terrible. My baby, to my right, and I have no food. We ran out of crops since the beginning of winter, and ran out of meat yesterday. I would go hunting for bears and wolves right now, but I don't have a rifle. Without one, taking ... | 2017-06-05T20:28:18 | 2017-06-05T20:15:06 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | The slave shrieked one last time and limpened in a pool of blood. The black orb in the middle of the meeting room emitted a short pulse of ultra-violet light, only visible to select councillors.
"What is the emergency?", a deep voice resonated.
Im-Wuz stepped forward, his chitin claws clacking on the floor.
"We've l... | "Sir, the science ship Ekrar has just returned from their observation mission". Lanus was a little scared of his boss, he normally doesn't take big interest in scientific exploration missions, but this time he couldn't wait for the results from a potentially inhabited planet, "3AR-TH".
"Get them up here" Lanus' boss c... | 2021-02-17T05:52:52 | 2021-02-17T05:22:35 | 1,252 | 382 |
[WP]One day, while cleaning out the attic of your deceased mom's home, you stumble upon an old oil lamp. In clichéd fashion you begin to clean the lamp and a genie appears. "Ah yes,"he thinks. "Another poor sap." Too bad for him, you're a contract lawyer. Quite a good one, at that. Monkey's Paw who? | "Three wishes" the genie proclaimed in a bouldering voice that echoed trough the attic.
The lawyer sat down on an old cardbox filled with old family pictures. He read enough stories go know the genie would twist to his wishes that would surely and painfully backfire. After staring at the empty wall for what felt like ... | \#1) I wish that all of my wishes, including this one, are granted in the spirit intended rather than just the strict wording of the wish and in such a way that there is no counterbalancing evil or unpleasant act that must be performed which will make me or anyone else regret my having wished the wish, for example none... | 2020-10-19T21:15:28 | 2020-10-19T21:01:22 | 85 | 49 |
[WP]: "I'm not here to arrest you. I just want to know how someone heads out to build a criminal empire and ends up producing a functional democracy." | I sit in my desk, looking at the man before me. Thin, dark circles under the eyes, shaky from too much caffeine... He's been following a lead for a long time. I used to have that look...
"Sir, it's ok. I'm not here to arrest you. I just want to know how you turn a criminal organization into a functional democracy."
"... | "It's quite simple, really," I said, lying back down onto my bed. "The short version is, I was working against mutiny and rebellion."
"Those are the same thing," The policeman in front of me said.
"True enough, though I'd say that mutiny is performed by part of an organization, while rebellion is by those outside of ... | 2015-11-24T06:46:22 | 2015-11-24T06:22:37 | 106 | 48 |
[WP] Write a story about this pic that made the front page of reddit
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Lg5VR
artist name: Jinho Bae | On the edge of myth and legend, the forgotten sleeps. Its bones lie ignored by time, its ashes blown away. The mountains form its bed; the clouds mark its tomb. Its name lost to the days before the moon.
It rests unknown to the life it sought to create or to destroy. The flock may roost, but they do not see. Naught is... | An old man travels the road once a year with his faithful travel companion. It's a long and hard journey. As the years go by the travel has become more difficult and takes twice as long as it did when he was a man of twenty.
The man takes a long hard look at his long ago triumph. He turns to his old friend the dog by ... | 2017-11-29T22:37:25 | 2017-11-29T20:24:45 | 79 | 46 |
[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. | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T10:12:28 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] A Dystopian society where women have taken over and stored enough sperm to last them a million years. Scientists even figured out how to genetically engineer to make sure you always give birth to females. After giving birth privately in your home you notice something different on your child. | In his early years his mother dragged him through the alleys and the dark corners of the undercity, down below
where lived the meek and poor women and the workers, hiding, always hiding from the women up above, who'd kill
him if they knew.
He grew up a contradiction, an opposite of himself – to the world he was a gi... | "You sure the baby is in this house?" Mike's voice echoed through the helmet's intercom, as the squad moved stealthily through the trees.
"Yes, according to our source."
"And what source could that be?" Mike asked, skeptical. They had been falsely led several times over the past few years, each incident resulting in ... | 2017-02-20T05:26:43 | 2017-02-20T05:12:26 | 5,866 | 428 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "I need to know about my past lives. It's important. I need to know who I was to determine who I am supposed to be..."
The medium gave me a pensive glance over, her eyes focusing first on me, then through me, then snappiung back to me.
"I see who you have been. Judas. Ghenghis Khan. Hitler. You have been the most evi... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T11:46:40 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 166 | 14 |
[WP] Your Galactic zoo just received a shipment of 24 humans. You have to build a habitat base on very little information. | The humans have been very listless lately. When we first welcomed them to the zoo, they explored with great enthusiasm, making loud and seemingly joyous vocalisations, and happily interacting with the guests. There were a few issues with customising their enclosure, but they finally had everything they needed. And now,... |
“No one’s buying tickets to see humans anymore” Gnarjkal snarled to the carrier droid that was making the drop off for his new attraction, mucus sputtering from his mouth, hanging on by a thread without breaking free. “They’re not even worth the trip here,14 jorguns for wasting my time.”
“18 jorquns for the lot, this... | 2022-06-29T01:57:59 | 2022-06-28T17:38:15 | 104 | 49 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | I used to find my gift difficult. Whenever we were reading in class, or even when I read back my own work, there it was glaring at me. I used to ignore it as best I could because no one liked when I mentioned what I saw. People would be angry at me for trying to correct them. That is, until I started learning to code. ... | I don't sleep. Not much anyway. I *can* sleep, and do so about every other week, but I don't need to. The doctors think I somehow mimic the dolphins, letting half my brain get good naps at a time.
And it suits me fine. It means i get a lot of time on my hands, most of wich I use unproductivly and some of wich i use ... | 2018-06-30T15:56:32 | 2018-06-30T15:08:15 | 263 | 129 |
[WP] Gods are born when people first believe in them and die when no one follows them anymore. You're one of the last gods, on the verge of death. | They say that when there is no other way to explain it, then people will attribute it to an entity... a being... A god. Just as we exist as a placeholder, then we shall cease to be once that place we hold is filled.
Life has been created, the star has been harnessed, the Earth has been explored, and the weather has be... | Immortality is craved by almost all humans. They wouldn't feel that way after the first couple of years. We do not think ourselves, at least most of us, as better than humans. We make friends and we watch them die.
I opened the case and took my trumpet. I can feel the end, so close I can see it on the horizon. I play ... | 2017-11-09T01:01:38 | 2017-11-09T00:31:38 | 59 | 14 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | Things seem to be going good, minimal bugs, nice graphics. Wait, what the hell? I keep telling them to knock it off with this cartoon bullcrap. I told them how many times, I want the games we make to be realistic.
*BZZZT*
Damn that intercom is annoying. “What’s up?”
“I have an Agent Price from the H.R.C. here for yo... | *Bzzzzzzz bzzzzzzz. Bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzz.*
David opened his eyes. He could feel the sleep dust still trying to keep them shut. He glanced over to his bedside clock. 4:00 AM, it read.
*This better be important*, he thought to himself.
He reached his hand under his pillow for his phone. He could feel it vibrating. He sl... | 2022-07-31T15:31:39 | 2022-07-31T13:19:23 | 72 | 31 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | “Order! Order! There will be order in this chamber!”
The Grand Vizier’s voice was projected across the large rotunda. Delegates from across the galaxy bickered and clamored over the fact that the representatives from Andorus Major invoked the Defense Alliance, something that had not been done in thousands of years.
... | This was the galaxy's last stand. A danger to the way of life they had practiced for years. They were being destroyed a virus, a virus called humanity.
When it became clear that earth was dying, the humans looked to the stars. They reached the stars, and with them reached their destructive nature. Galaxy was peaceful,... | 2020-03-21T08:46:43 | 2020-03-21T08:28:40 | 156 | 88 |
[WP] your childhood was terrorized by ghosts and demons that only came out at night. Your solution was to never be where night falls. So you became a pilot, and have been able schedule flights to always be on the side of the world with daylight. But tomorrow, you'll experience nightfall after 15 yrs | They call him the daymare pilot, which is oddly fitting.
For all his life, he had been chasing sunlight, so that the underworld will not claim him.
"Whenever you reach eighteen, we will have you." It is a phrase he heard for almost ten years, always at night. For the phantoms, horned demons would materialise in f... | It started when I was younger. It only got *persistent* as the years went on. With a few semesters of college behind me and the night - owl schedule so deeply ingrained in my psyche, I had chosen the way of the all-nighter lifer. Graveyard shifts and a blackout curtain. I only saw the sun in its rise keeping me awake o... | 2019-11-10T02:56:38 | 2019-11-10T01:07:49 | 50 | 15 |
[WP] An alien race encounters the most terrifying predator imaginable. A lone, unarmed human. | We shouldn’t have attacked.
The humans had established one of their “Research Stations”, a facility designed for science. Within its walls, they had tested many different species of the flora and fauna present on distant Xel’ji-5, a planet that was still ours, still under the dominion of the Korlan Empire despite it ... | "Jac'que, it just killed another drone!"
Jac'que rubbed his mandible, it had been a long day.
"By the Great Queen... how is it doing this?! That was the third one! What does it want?!"
The worker clicked on its pad which showed a series of graphs and what seemed to be hieroglyphs to the untrained eye.
"Our research... | 2014-08-06T12:53:08 | 2014-08-06T12:08:26 | 353 | 21 |
[WP]In your dream, a strange man conversed with you: "I offer you a gift, what would you like?" "A dragon!" "That's not realistic." "Fine, I want a boyfriend then." But the next day you wake up to a dragon with care manual instead. | I looked back and forth between the dragon, a glorious pink and gold beast the size of a large dog, and the manual, entitled "Care and Feeding of the Modern Dragon."
"I, uhh." I opened the apartment door wider and the dragon primly stepped inside. I followed.
She - I was sure she was a she - curled up in between the ... | I didn’t know weather to be scared, confused, or offended, but before I could feel anything I saw the book. It was a care manual on how to care for dragons with what I could access as a human, but their was a note attached to it, “I made sure he was your type *winky face*,” oh I get it now.
I open the first page of t... | 2021-07-17T20:40:12 | 2021-07-17T19:44:42 | 214 | 28 |
[WP] A group of adventurers has booked a month in your inn, and now asks for leads and gossip. You're a compulsive liar. | "We can't ride eagles into Mordor?"
"That's right. Too much --- evil."
"Oh really?"
I nodded. "Yep. *Corruption* and all that, you know how nature things can be."
Gandalf sat back in his chair, the Prancing Pony bustling about behind his tall frame. "No, I suppose not. That's another wizard's expertise."
... | A cleric, a warrior, and an archer walk into a bar. No this isn't the setup for some dumb joke. And the bar isn't really a bar it's my inn. What I'm saying is that this party of those adventurer looking types entered my establishment the other day. I don't really get their kind around these parts anymore, with the war ... | 2016-03-12T07:31:08 | 2016-03-12T06:45:32 | 205 | 96 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | “Look, if you're so mad about it, the offer to play Katamari still stands.” Selina looked away from her monitor briefly to call back over her shoulder.
“Oh, brilliant idea!” God remained focused, clicking four or five times in quick succession, pausing, tutting, and then clicking a few more, “Fool me once, shame on yo... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T07:01:52 | 1,980 | 336 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | "One Earthling, diplomat. How can you justify this madness on account of one sole Earthling?"
The human stretched its angular limbs and considered the battlefield. Outside the star vessel lay our fleet. In ruins. I could see soldiers floating in the void of space, frozen solid as rock, all with the same expression on ... | We thought that we knew what we were doing. They had barely made it to their own moon before we had arrived and we had an armada. The had nuclear weapons and we laughed as we ate their bombs, inhaling the radiation like they did with helium. When we arrived they had greeted us like gods, crowds of worshipers and camera... | 2022-08-05T12:27:50 | 2022-08-05T12:01:10 | 457 | 190 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | Three years in and still I needed remedial tutoring. It was humiliating. I knew all the spells, could recite all the formulas, but once it came time to actually put it into practice, the magic always did what it wanted, when it wanted, no matter what I tried. It did have a bad tendency to knock random items off walls a... | Magic, magic is controlling the way electrocules react with other electrocules. Animals evolved with a vascular system that contained magnetite-surfer molecules which reacted strongly with ambient electrocules. This fluid is called magein. It evolved as part of our bodies to enhance blood flow and electrical signals.. ... | 2019-04-05T15:47:48 | 2019-04-05T14:03:34 | 102 | 19 |
[WP] You are a 12-foot inflatable beach ball, hurtling across the beach at 40 knots like a multicolored wrecking ball. Describe the horrors you inflict upon man, woman and child during this unyielding journey of destruction and oppression as you move along the coast. | I am Chaos! I am Destruction! I am... an inflatable beach ball?
Normally, when summoned thus to the battlefield, I am armor clad and equally bedecked with armament, so that my foe might quail in terror and helpless agony. But the ritual of my summoning was right and proper, my height is within acceptable bounds, and m... | I do not know who I am.
I do not know why I am here.
All I know is, I must kill.
This mantra circled throughout my multifaceted innards as I rolled along my path of destruction. The populace of this coast was caught unawares as the mighty winds of fate gripped me and pushed me on my flight of fear. The children ... | 2020-08-05T06:39:24 | 2020-08-05T05:30:44 | 244 | 29 |
[WP] You are a high-ranking spy on a vital mission. Alas, you have also just pissed off the fae and they cursed you to be unable to tell a lie. There's no time to send in a replacement agent, or find a way to lift it. It's time to infiltrate the enemy and take them down- all with perfect honesty. | "Are you the spy?" She glanced at her watch as we made our way down the underground passageway.
"Mmmm, I'm the little spy of your heart, if that's what your asking." I gave her my most charming smile.
"Oh you~ stop it. But really I need to find this spy, do you know who it could be?" She pushed me away playfully befo... | "What's your reason for visiting Russia, Mr. Smith?"
"I'm on a business trip."
"Business trip, I see. What sort of work do you do?"
"I'm a doctor."
"A doctor? Interesting, what sort of doctor?"
"A neurological surgeon. I mainly remove tumors."
"My, that is very fascinating. How long have you been in this field of... | 2022-06-29T14:32:33 | 2022-06-29T13:32:16 | 192 | 63 |
[WP] Someone just started a conversation with you, complaining that every person and computer system seems to have forgotten who they are over night. They seem to know you, but to your knowledge, you've never met this person before. | Finn hummed along to the elevator music as he pondered the strange anxiety niggling in the back of his mind. He prided himself on being logical, but try as he might, he couldn't make sense of it. He had a good life and a stable career. He was single, but only because he had been so swamped with work he didn't have the ... | The smell of fresh cut grass was calming. It reminded Eugene of a job well done while sitting at the picnic table and admiring his work. Saturday afternoons were his favorite. Simply enjoying the sun, an ice cold beer, and doing yard work with his wife. Life couldn’t be better.
Cindy was kneeling in the dirt across t... | 2022-04-02T06:56:59 | 2022-04-02T01:42:41 | 164 | 97 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | And when I went downstairs to make my morning coffee i didn't look twice at my mug, I'm always number one so why would it be different today? My wife comes down and points out I have a new mug, "no this is the same mug I use everyday." "Then why does it say #666?" Confused and worried I look at my mug, in a panic I ... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T10:13:29 | 46 | 12 |
[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". | Fire and Whispers
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*‘Not again.’*
I dropped the basket of apples I had gathered and dashed back towards my tower. I furrowed my brow and reached out with my mind.
*‘Sidian, I’m coming*,’ I told my dragon.
*‘Hurry M’lady*. *These ones are strong*,’ Sidian thought back.
Normally the adventurers that c... | Thank heavens Shadow had impenetrable skin.
Why are knights so pesky? Is it that it intimidates them that a woman has a keep, filled with only women and children not of age, and no man?
Is it a fear of dragons? My poor Shadow wouldn't hurt a fly, except for the occasional sheep willingly given to her, or another pesk... | 2019-01-09T06:48:27 | 2019-01-09T06:35:55 | 1,257 | 37 |
[WP] When you die, instead of going to the afterlife, you have the option of being reincarnated in a world, fictional or real, as any creature. The downside is the incredibly long line of people waiting to be reincarnated. | Jeremy let out a frightened yell as he frantically checked his surrounding only to be met with confusion. He found himself standing in a long corridor of carpeted floor and walls, seemingly stretching forever to both sides.
Strange, he thought, because he could've swore the last thing he remembered was two giant head... | I have waited about 13 months.
I only have about 10 minutes until I get to reincarnate.
With 13 months to decide, I had plenty of time to think of the ultimate choice.
The way this reincarnation thing works is a but complicated, but I’ll try to make it nice and simple.
Instead of going to the afterife (which I hear... | 2022-01-10T02:19:56 | 2022-01-09T22:18:38 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Your girlfriend wants you to meet her dad. You get a sinking feeling in your stomach when she brings you to the cemetery, only as she leads you to a crypt and you go down into the stone depths, there you find a massive library and a skeleton, seated by a fireplace, reading a book. | It was a beautiful evening as we walked, arms swinging, down the cracked sidewalk. Weeds sprung up amidst the squares, and I made a game of picking up every pine cone I saw, creating a collection in the pockets of my jacket. In between branches, the sky shone down in long pink and blue streaks, clouds swirling like a d... | It rained that day. A week ago Sam was looking out the window, more aloof and cold than Erin was used to. “It’s my dad’s birthday next week,” Sam offered in a sigh, “It’s…really hard. I wanted you to meet him but…”
Erin took her hand with an understanding smile, “I’d love to go. Especially if it’s so hard for you. I’d... | 2022-03-04T22:08:08 | 2022-03-04T21:04:33 | 664 | 116 |
[WP] as the house you're trapped in burns to the ground you contemplate "how am i gonna explain the fact I'm immortal to the firemen without starting another religion" | Why couldn't I have been gifted with super strength as well as immortality and the water thing? I've thrown myself against this door enough times to break it down, so there's probably a fallen beam blocking the way. I can shove aside a big stone but a burning hunk of wood? Nope. Now I'm stuck in this windowless room, a... | It was too late, by the time I woke up, to escape the fire unseen. In my defense, I once slept through a bomb destroying my entire city block in Yemen, where I was taking a leisurely, decade-long nap, and had to dig myself out of an entire apartment building when I woke up...but I digress.
It was a bog-standard house... | 2020-08-21T13:36:34 | 2020-08-21T13:26:10 | 79 | 15 |
[WP] After your death you are granted the chance to talk with God; he has no clue humans exist | The last thing I can remember is a car wreck. My car wreck. I guess this is heaven, or something like that? The room was white, and it was just me waiting. Weird if so many people die a day, shouldn't this room be full?
The big white double doors in front of me opened, letting a bright light in. A voice boomed, "Ente... | I am not entirely sure what I expected from the afterlife, but I can say with absolute certainty that this wasn't it.
"So, go through it again. Don't leave anything out. Have you been leaving stuff out? It just doesn't make sense!"
I pinched the bridge of my nose. I suppose it was a metaphorical nose, on a metaphoric... | 2017-02-05T09:41:00 | 2017-02-05T08:47:47 | 96 | 17 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | Kira and I were on the couch binge-watching the second season of Narcos; it was Taco Tuesday night, and we were both stuffed from dinner. In retrospect, maybe our laziness had more to do with the margaritas – it didn’t really matter. Pajamas were on and we had about twenty minutes left in the episode, after which we fi... | In the middle of my hard fought game of Dota2, I am suddenly presented with the disconnected from server message. Usually my internet is very reliable and never goes down. Frustrated, I rest my router and try to get it working again. As nothing else it's out of the ordinary I exit Steam and start to play since Witche... | 2017-01-27T07:00:57 | 2017-01-27T03:12:45 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] In an effort to ward off Death and live forever, you have created a safe room filled with all kind of talismans, good luck charms, and magic circles. It doesn't work: The Reaper found you anyway and you die just the same. Only, now neither of you can seem to get out past all the wards. | ***Part I: The Situation Looks Grim***
My mind raced through my checklist. Had I missed anything? The magic circles were all intact, the talismans were all in the right places, the doors and windows all had salt in front of them... nothing was out of place. I checked my watch for the umpteenth time that day. Sure ... | I knew I would die on my 38th birthday, but I wanted every last breath. I may not live forever, but it doesn't mean I have to give in without a fight. All the tricks my grandfather taught me though weren't enough to even slow him. I hid in my grandfather's cabin like he told me, but, on my 38th birthday, Death showed u... | 2016-12-30T20:54:07 | 2016-12-30T19:11:43 | 170 | 20 |
[WP] Two immortals, one who accepted it as a blessing and the other one as a curse, are having a conversation.
Edit : Wow, never thought it'll get this much karma. Thank you everyone for the writings. It's always interesting to see the two sides of the same coins, and none of your story is dissapointing in the very le... | The ancient prison stood tall as the being of the Light walked the well worn paths through muscle memory alone, as her thoughts wandered. She bade her two guards to halt as she came to the Door at last. They would stay outside with strict orders never to enter. This place was not for mortals to tread.
The Door creaked... | "How are you?"
"I'm fine. You?"
"Oh I'm fine as well."
"Heh. You never knew how to continue a conversation"
"I have plenty of time to practice my speech craft."
"But not now?"
"But not now."
"Say, what have you been doing with this opportunity?"
"Plenty. I work odd jobs here and there. Plenty of time to go over... | 2017-07-20T03:07:08 | 2017-07-20T02:54:59 | 114 | 15 |
[WP] Your father has been the high priest, left hand of the king, for years. He retires today. Whoever passes the test of faith replaces him. The test is to survive sticking your arm in a vat of boiling oil. After several priests die, it’s your turn. You stick your hand in. It’s cold water. | The cauldron looms before me upon a raised dais. Before, it had always been in the background of the temple, collecting dust alongside the other holy relics. Now, it has been polished until its black surface glistens. If I squint, I can make out my reflection. My face is pale, almost bloodless.
"Step forward, child," ... | I'd been present for battles and executions, rituals and sacrifices, and they had never bothered me. They couldn't. I was Heir Apparent to the position of High Priest of the Kingdom, a role held by my father, and his father before him, and his father before him, stretching back to the very founding of the Kingdom some ... | 2022-08-15T22:20:42 | 2022-08-15T20:37:18 | 389 | 182 |
[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. | They call hereabouts the Cape Graveyard, a city where superheroes and villians alike go to try, and to die. It's a really ordinary kind of place where anyone tries to do anything really big, they don't last long. It's a nice play on Cape Grave, the real name of this pleasant, ordinary town.
Me? I don't have a hero nam... | The city was awake to the sounds of the sirens wailing all over. Lately this has become pretty much an acceptable affair. The city does have a tendency to shelter all vile and vice afterall, too much to do and so little time left to be always alarmed. Nothing fazed the city's people for long, a pretentiously ignorant b... | 2018-10-18T17:05:41 | 2018-10-18T16:06:18 | 1,237 | 89 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | Today is their only chance to escape, and I can see in the tension in their shoulders that they all know it. Every year, months before the Departure, I start preparing for it and approaching them. And every year, the two or three the teenagers in my class that I approach choose to accept my offer.
The walls of our c... | \[P and Q\]
"I thought you knew where you were going?!" Pearla exploded with anger at the smuggler that got her out of the city. They traveled a straight line, as far as she could tell, through an endless wasteland. She could no longer see the towering city and wasn't even sure she knew how to get back if she wanted t... | 2020-12-16T08:36:46 | 2020-12-16T08:36:20 | 79 | 37 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | "I have seen it!" The man's voice cracked in the midst of the street. "I have seen the future, and it bears horrors beyond imagining! Beyond comprehension!"
One or two bypassers had stopped, looking interested at the new madman the city of Boston had gained; for he was respectably suited and bow-tied, with clean ga... | *Today, a strange man was seen walking along the streets of London. No doubt a ruffian, off on some unsavoury business, or so was initially thought. A gentleman had the idea to call the constabulary on him, to report an obvious crime in progress. However, he did not carry any bags, with which stolen goods might have be... | 2015-12-19T10:18:54 | 2015-12-19T09:51:37 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity awakens one day to find that large city block size black monoliths have appeared all over the globe. They don't seem to serve any purpose. At first panic ensues but after 10 years of them being there society has come to just accept them. | Life on top of a cube was a mark of status. The first crazy millionaire in India had been on the news for close to six months straight when he paid to have his new mansion built on top of the Dehli slums cube, and in the years since then it had become a sort of trend to build on top of them. The Tokyo cube had an alien... | I stared at the cold, black pillar.
      They said there was nothing wrong with them. That they were safe. But why then, had the blocked them off? Barricaded them from the public?
      The monoliths had appeared 10 years ago.... | 2015-10-18T13:06:32 | 2015-10-18T11:09:34 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] “I bet my soul,” you say confidently. “If you win, you take my soul. If I win, you give me something just as valuable.” You go on to win the bet, only to be granted a single $1 bill. | “W-what?” I asked, flabbergasted. I held up the crisp one dollar bill. Flipped it back and forth a few times to see if I was reading it wrong. I wasn’t. My soul was worth a buck. When I looked back at the Devil, he smiled cynically. I was confused, understandably, but more so, I was down right pissed.
“Surprised are ... | I didn’t understand this at first. Was this some sort of joke?!
I looked down at an all too common treasury note. I made more breathing at work then this. What made this all particularly more interesting was the way this devilish man glared at me, all the while smirking after I won. We had spent hours playing this ga... | 2020-02-05T14:45:25 | 2020-02-05T10:30:52 | 60 | 11 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Frontiersman Lucian Xan's blood flowed freely down his brow until it met his jawline. It pooled on the tip of his chin and then dripped downward, unnoticed and unimportant. "How many are we looking at? I'm getting nothing but squid on the local."
Jack Studde snorted, "More than it's worth countin'." He gave a hapless ... | "We're not going to make it," Davis said, grimly. "We're basically Dutchman. We're dead. We just haven't stopped breathing yet."
Jasmine Huang inhaled, sharply. For a moment, she thought about snapping at her executive officer. That kind of talk was not conducive to morale.
However, a quick glance around the bridge m... | 2022-03-30T20:52:43 | 2019-01-31T22:55:27 | 2,124 | 63 |
[WP] You are the luckiest person on Earth. Everything you make an attempt for works in your favor. However, there two catches: you are absorbing the luck of those around you, and anyone who tries to profit from your luck (even with your help) is met with the worst luck immediately.
Holy crap, front page of the sub!
G... | I laid on the tattered rug and rested my head against the rusty fence. The warm air from the vent underneath is soothing.
My stomach grumbled. I reached out and felt the energy around me. It was thick and velvety. That's good. I wouldn't want to be in the downwind when it happens.
I closed my eyes, wanting to catch a... | ... years have passed, I've learned to appreciate my luck, and think I have, too, found the way to love anyone, and for they not to be punished by my curse.
I have experienced the desperation of the bad luck myself. I was born like this. My parents were always there, hardworking to provide me the things that I didn't... | 2015-10-17T11:22:37 | 2015-10-17T10:39:25 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 71 | 26 |
[WP] You were created to slay the demons from beyond the gate, but eventually they stopped sending you reinforcements, and even later they stopped sending resources at all. You had to make do with what you found. You're sure they've forgotten about the demons by now. | 89 945 762
The imp's corpse fell lifelessly to the charred ground, its eyes frozen in a perpetual state of terror. The blood of the thing rushed into the roughly carved runes supplying just a few more hours of life to the killing machine, extending its existence with that stolen from its victims. The Demonbane continu... | Edited for formatting:
*Ten spears go to war. One comes back. Did war forge the one, or show which would not break?*
Day 3056
Today was the day the last of the steel failed. It's been months since we got more, and most steel only lasts a week in the sulphurous, hot, nightmare eminating from the Maw. It takes too lo... | 2021-09-11T05:58:02 | 2021-09-11T05:43:33 | 1,183 | 295 |
[WP] Snape is forced to teach sex-ed at Hogwarts. | Snape briskly walks into the sex Ed classroom for the first time, gazing upon the giggling young witches and wizards. He stands tall behind the podium taking his apathetic gaze to each and every student's eyes, lingering for half a second longer on Harry's face. Clears his throat very audibly even though he knows he a... | Professor Snape entered the classroom and shut the door.
"As you may have heard, the professor previously assigned for this course had an unfortunate accident involving centaurs. So I will be giving you the course. I will not tolerate puns, giggles, or any other kind of chaotic behavior in this classroom. Understood?"... | 2014-12-03T13:14:55 | 2014-12-03T13:02:36 | 216 | 42 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | I curled up against the hearthfire, pulling my wool blanket close. The black metal walls around me seemed to radiate the everfrost cold of the fimbulwinter that raged still in the overworld.
The walls were turning white as the carbon dioxide in my breath froze against the walls. I shuddered.
Even through the 20-foot ... | \[A suspended room floating in the Bering Sea\]
Mister Pigeleti sits in a ordinate chair sipping hot coffee as he gazes out of a small viewing port. "maybe I'll see him coming" he thinks to himself as he stares out into the ocean. A few dolphins dance gracefully in the distance as a ever so faint breathing is heard.
... | 2021-01-29T16:20:11 | 2021-01-29T14:00:12 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] Mankind went extinct in a cataclysm, you, however, discover that you're immortal as a result. ages later you are approached by the animals that evolved to have human-level intelligence. | It was as if man had forgotten its power, it's destructive potential.
The world I knew was gone.
Charred and ashen.
Burned and bruised, but yet I remained.
I became eternal. So I waited. I waited for life to resume, as nature has always done in the absence of man. I salvaged what I could to hope that whatever came... | My cell screen went black, and I gave it an annoyed look before reaching into my pocket for my swiss-army screwdriver. That's my own invention, by the way. And yeah, there's nobody to call, I know. But I keep my Android Turbo 6 working anyway, because fuck, candy crush is fun.
In front of was the Statue of Liberty. We... | 2018-02-22T19:58:29 | 2018-02-22T19:19:21 | 49 | 18 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | He was only thirteen when I wormed my way inside,
Us both only searching, for the safest place to hide.
Crushed flowers from the funeral clung tightly to his boots,
His mind already churning to the darkness of his suit.
I tried to keep him safe, beneath the covers of his bed,
I tried to ... | "They're always told that they have five senses. I never fully understood why society undermines the mind, which surely is the sixth sense.
Their entire being is projected through the mind. All other five senses merge into what the mind interprets them as.
If they are to acknowledge the mind, then they would hold... | 2017-12-21T00:01:02 | 2017-12-20T23:47:17 | 1,774 | 48 |
[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... | “Okay, you’re going to have to back up.” Hemitilda said while trying to keep her brain from melting. “First off, I have no idea what Pokémon are. Secondly,”
“P-Pokémon are -“ a little boy named Russel says as he shoots up his hand.
“Russel,” the goddess interjects “we talked about this. You raise your hand AND THEN ... | All that can be heard is soft thrumming. The world pulses with the Worldsong, a gentle violin mixed with the exuberance of a trumpet, a song of constant-shifting tempo and tune, but the ancient being does not stir. For centuries, the ancient being has slept.
Something changes. The world’s melody shifts. A soft xy... | 2021-09-02T11:05:56 | 2021-09-02T10:15:48 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I'm nobody's fool.
Tell me to go left, I go right. Offer me what's behind door number 1, you better believe I'm opening door number 2.
Take me to a small room and show me a table covered in food?
Oh, I know what's up.
The food is trash, a diversion.
It's the table. That's the good stuff.
Under the duck l'orange, ... | "What the hell, dude? That table is like 10,000 years old! It's made of a tree that doesn't exist anymore," I heard the sound of a voice and my head immediately snapped around to find it. I still couldn't see the individual in question but I had been made alert.
"What? I was just trying to think outside the box, do I ... | 2020-03-19T08:53:04 | 2020-03-19T08:21:44 | 791 | 162 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | "Commander Scott, I have confirmation from the UNC Security Council, the Pan-European Parliament and the Chinese Empire - we believe beyond all doubt that the signal and message are genuine," reported the Fleet Admiral.
"Very well. And they are in accord? The message is a warning?"
"Yes, sir. It is a very clear stat... | "The computer's finished, come over here."
"What does it say, Will?"
"I don't know yet, come take a look."
"I bet we're gonna be disappointed again. Just another slow pulsar, all the signals are."
"Nah, I'm sure of it, this one's different."
"Well, open it up then, let's see what it says."
The message on th... | 2016-08-07T07:31:44 | 2016-08-07T06:26:37 | 108 | 52 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | "What?"
"I asked what the downside is."
"I've just told you."
"No you haven't."
"Yes, I have."
"Did not!"
"Did so!"
"Then why don't I remember?"
My ears seemed to fill with cotton, and I grew dizzy as she spoke once more.
"That ought to teach you lesson."
I blinked. "Sorry what was the curse again?"
The woma... | Of course, it was not very pleasant. I just failed my payment. But then, it was not easy with the king getting his taxes, with my wife and children needing food. Yes, we had money, usually.
Not that winter. Who could have thought that it is war again? Who could have thought that we had to flee? We returned a few month... | 2019-06-25T12:10:56 | 2019-06-25T12:08:02 | 76 | 19 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | I stilled dreamed of seeing.
I think that's why I initially snoozed my alarm clock instead of gasping for joy. But as I rolled back over to look at my wife lying next to me, I did gasp. Not for joy, but out of shock. On the wall behind Kathrine a message had been hastily painted on the wall.
\-DON'T TELL THEM YOU CA... | I see walls covered with writings.
I see floors painted with blood.
I see surfaces, chairs, refrigerators and any available surface to draw on plastered with the same damn message.
*"Whatever you do, Don't tell them you can see."*
Whispers of instruction fill my head.
"Hush. Do not speak of your sight."
I follow ... | 2022-10-15T03:24:04 | 2019-08-26T09:05:53 | 52 | 39 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | St Peter drops his pen in surprise. “I’m sorry?”
I look back. “I said, I choose Hell.”
“Son, do you know what they do to you in Hell?” St Peter asked. “They beat you, and torment you, and burn you in anguish until the end of time.”
“How do you know?” I ask.
St Peter sits back in his chair. He looks down at his ... | Perhaps at some point, giving people the choice of heaven or hell was the correct one. After all, if God were a truly omnipotent being, he would see that mortal actions are only informed by an infinite series of processes and that most people make rational decisions to lead them to the places they go. Ergo, in most sit... | 2018-08-13T09:22:44 | 2018-08-13T06:23:07 | 115 | 53 |
[WP] You live in world with no colour, shades of black and white are all you know. A flower pops up in your backyard, you’re drawn to it, as you pick the flower from the ground, you see colour for the first time. For the first time you realize something is terribly wrong with your world. | Color.
Something that had never made sense to me, though everyone around me seemed to understand it.
I see the world in black, white, and grey.
It never bothered me, even when kids at school would laugh at my “mismatched” clothes, or would look at me funny for asking if they had seen my grey gym bag. One time I wash... | >**PURPOSE & PASSION**
"Are you sure we should send the new guy?" I heard Crawford ask. There was a certain...disdain in his tone.
"It'll be fine. Don't ask any more questions, Agent." Agent Mordecai replied.
I walked into the room as though I hadn't just been listening in. "Agent Mordecai, you wished to see ... | 2021-01-21T01:31:51 | 2021-01-21T01:16:32 | 134 | 14 |
[WP] You are isekai’ed into a fantasy RPG video game. Though it is not ready for you, The Spiffing Brit. | It was just another normal Friday night. Mom ordered pizza, rain clattered against my window, and I had Generic Fantasy Game playing. GFG for short.
I was excited when I came home and saw the email: I had been one of the selected few who received a beta key. I downloaded the game and sat anxiously as the epic intro be... | One day I was sitting on my computer casually playing a game of Wizard 101 when all of a sudden a bursting flash of light in my room and all of a sudden I was transported into the game's world. I was no longer Dwight the skinny geek that liked to play old RPGs made for kids. I was the Spiffing Brit, level 99 fire wizar... | 2020-07-31T22:09:17 | 2020-07-31T20:31:03 | 60 | 20 |
[WP] “So you’ve come hero.” The most powerful dark lord in history says as he faces you across the hall. But before you take another step, he motions to the cutest little girl you’ve ever seen with tears in her eyes. “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.” | "Why....?" the little girl stammered, her face full of tears. "Why does Grandpa need to die? He hasn't done anything wrong!"
I stopped and looked towards the little girl.
"Your grandfather needs to die", I replied, "because he is the worst person in the world."
"That's not true! He-"
I cut her off. "Your grandfath... | "So here you are. Would you like to explain, or should I?"
I look at Amy, crying, and put my hand under my chin, and raise it up. And then in the same way as I showed her, she does the same.
"I'm sorry, honey," I say to her. "You deserve better."
“Enough!" The Dark One screams, silencing her and knocking her over wit... | 2019-12-11T21:16:13 | 2019-12-11T17:53:44 | 616 | 78 |
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