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[WP] You've been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It's been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous. | The door creaked ajar slowly, the bearded man sneaking his head around the frame and peeking inside to see me. Upon making eye contact he quickly looked away, his lip arched and his face scrunched as he made his way inside with a platter of food in hand. I studied him from between the bars of my cell. I’d never seen th... | There wasn't anything special for his last day served. It was the same ole routine. Same as it had ever been, for all previous 145,999 days. No breaks in between.
All of the prisoners were out underneath the harsh sun, hammering away at a railroad.
"Hey, nimrod, line it up, yeah?" a fellow prisoner said.
Nimrod lo... | 2022-05-19T18:45:23 | 2022-05-19T18:42:42 | 1,136 | 205 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | David pulled the car to a stop, and parked in the weed-choked yard. Nobody had been taking care of the place for years. "Here we are, guys!"
Mary, Tabitha and Tom were all excited to go check out the abandoned cabin in the woods, but Richard wasn't feeling it. "Hey, look, can we not do this? This is bad news, all ... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:54:16 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 73 | 21 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | He really... wasn't what I expected. For one thing, he was-
"Really? 12 years of Sunday school and they _missed that?_" Lucy replied, blinking slightly as she realised just how little the humans knew. I nodded sadly and gently patted her back, feeling her skin under my fingers like dry paper and fire-tinder. She didn'... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T09:51:52 | 960 | 20 |
[WP] Sick of being lied to you beg the Gods for change and one takes pity on you. Now when people lie to you a little text box appears next to them that only you can see, with the lie, the truth, and their motive for lying. | "Have you done it yet?"
The being, a god, apparently, smiles.
"Yep," it says, "all done."
"Huh," I say, "I didn't feel a thing."
"Told you I'd be gentle," it replies, beaming wider. "Now, remember, no backsies."
"Oh, no," I shake my head, "definitely not. I'm sick of being lied to. I think you've really helped me... | After my deal with the devil or maybe it was an asshole god trying to play a trick on me. Possibly Loki, I don’t know. I just remember being drunk and agreeing to something stupid.
I went to visit my mom. She always cheered me up. She opened the door and said she was so happy to see me, and she loved me. There was n... | 2018-07-02T11:39:15 | 2018-07-02T07:25:16 | 215 | 32 |
[WP] Humanity is in space, yet we are just a mediocre boring race lost somewhere in the background not important to the main story | "Humar? You don't look like a Humar!"
Allen sighed. This happened at least once a week. "No, HumaN. Nnnn, at the end."
The administrator looked down at his computer screen. "Oh, I see now, sorry. OK, let's see, Human....Planet Earth Capital world, Sol system, does that sound right?"
"Yup, that's us."
"And are you..... | A Draxian, A Homitar, and a Human walked into a bar and ordered drinks.
The Draxian finished his drink and looked at the other two and said, "I bet another round that neither of your species are more renowned than mine." The other two agreed to the bet, and the Draxian started up again, "My people are known throughout... | 2017-01-16T09:34:46 | 2017-01-16T09:00:44 | 72 | 23 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | Meet the Benjamins:
The first few levels are easy, that's where they get you. Deliver a package to some address in the middle of nowhere, some arduous monotonous task computers can't do, stuff like that. Not long after you start, shit starts getting *hard*. I've circumnavigated the globe both ways, had conversations i... | The small loading bar on my iPhone loaded quickly as I had just found an app that looked interesting.
It had a bright icon with small white text under it reading '$100' I honestly had no idea what to expect. I just hoped that the app would end this boredom engulfing me. It was Thursday and everyone else had homework u... | 2016-10-25T22:52:48 | 2016-10-25T21:31:00 | 651 | 247 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "I know of a game," said the man, finally speaking up after a long pause. Death's glare shifted, as if his bony face cocked an eyebrow. The man crossed his arms, collecting himself for the explanation. The only way to win this game was to make sure the other party lost first, after all.
"Well?" Death questioned, gro... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T07:43:55 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 251 | 18 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Lo, now do I tell the tale of the mighty Samson. A canine of regal bearing but only 13 toes, he chanced upon the queen while she was patrolling our borders with David, the kingdom’s canine squire. Though his size intimidated her at first, it came to be known throughout the realm that Samson was as tender to his loved o... | The Legend of Prince Oscar.
The portal was opening again. I didn't have much time. Those stupid primates! Every few weeks, they do this, and every time, my enchantments, they drain my soul bit by bit. I don't know how much more I can take.
I should've known when I heard one of them ask the other, "What time's your ... | 2018-05-25T04:30:38 | 2018-05-24T20:06:52 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | As I sit in the mansion overlooking the vast Martian sea, I reflect on the last five-hundred and twenty-three years of my existence, still in the prime of my youth. The thing about living half a milennium is that it comes with near-intolerable boredom as well as a skewed sense of time. A particularly uneventful year mi... | Mr. Modorra keeps searching for the most comfortable position after each question.
"Well, it's funny that you ask, and it is a funny story too. I do not remember how I got the idea, but somehow from the moment I got it I started thinking about the way I could turn the idea into a reality. I guess it is that way anybody... | 2016-12-14T11:18:51 | 2016-12-14T11:18:50 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Zombies are considered terrible pests in the undead world. They kill, eat, and turn humans indiscriminately with no care to conserving population growth or long term population health. It's gotten so bad the vampires now run human conservation programs. | Imagine yourself submerged in water. The air in your breast rapidly being depleted of oxygen, and your most basic of instincts telling you to resurface.
Only you don’t. By sheer force of will, you remain submerged. You try to ignore the tightening tendons in your neck, your lungs desperately heaving for a breath of ri... | The God of Infinity, Darkeem, watched from his building as hordes of zombies descended upon some survivors. The humans used guns to try and fight off the wave and were doing a pretty good job.
“Seems like they’re holding their own pretty well.”
Just then, a few rather strange looking fellows appeared and started to ... | 2022-05-15T14:03:39 | 2022-05-15T13:02:01 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | EBAY
Steel Forged Knife Set with Celtic Engravings.
Price: €34,99.
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*Great knife set, cuts smooth and are easy to sharpen. Weirdest thing though, every time I pas by the sink a hand will reach out of the water and hand me one.* | There is a running joke about "how British is your morning?" Usually, the idea encompasses tea with butter on toast, perhaps some morning Stephen Fry in the background. Well, I doubt anyone is going to be able to top "spreading butter on your toast with fucking Excalibur," for a good fucking while.
The morning was lik... | 2018-03-06T11:40:04 | 2018-03-06T10:17:53 | 2,613 | 17 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | Edit: I am humbled by the compliments. Thank you, your kind words have meant a lot to me. It's been a hell of a week.
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"You can't keep me here, Captain Liar! Ultraman will stop you! And ... and ... I have do get my homework done before class."
"Quiet, Foundling. Soon you and ... wait, SCHOOL? ... how old ... | "Drink this!" I snarled, thrusting the mug of scalding-hot cocoa into the boy's small, pale arms. He took it gingerly, set it down on the cold marble ground, and looked up at me, his blue eyes looking rather watery. I smiled as I looked down on him — miserable, resentful, broken....
"Thank you," he said.
"That's rig... | 2020-03-26T14:45:19 | 2020-03-26T12:51:09 | 1,335 | 349 |
[WP] Sometime in the future, everything that can kill a human as of today has been cured, yet people still die. What kills them? | We cured cancer. We cured AIDS. Ebola is only a memory. Heart attacks, diabetes, everything. There was celebration. We were heroes. The world gathered in stadiums and concert halls in every city in the world, to watch a special broadcast celebrating our achievement. We offered free food, free beer, free transportation ... | We don't really die, you see.
That all ended long ago.
But we've long since stopped living too.
Days pass unnoticed,
Unmarked.
Eventually we just
Stop.
The heart keeps beating,
Blood keeps pumping through the veins.
But we just lie in our beds.
Staring at the ceiling.
Looking for patterns that aren't there.
| 2014-12-27T13:01:21 | 2014-12-27T12:19:57 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Two immortals meet and fall in love. Neither of them are aware of the other's immortality and the years are flying by... | I met him at the Train Station 11 years ago.
I remember his eyes so clearly like it was yesterday.
That autumn, he proposed with an elegant diamond ring.
Even though I said yes, I had my doubts.
How could this last?
My hair would stay blonde, and his would turn grey.
Wrinkles would never claim my face, but his would b... | Elys of the Starry Night had been married to her husband for many decades. They had met at the event now referred to as The White Wedding, where the entirety of the Kentaran nobility were celebrating her sister's wedding, and everyone was poisoned with digitalis root.
The only other survivor was the Royal Poisoner, w... | 2016-04-28T02:41:16 | 2016-04-28T01:48:09 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | *Peter Lowe has joined respawn lobby chat #854393845*
*Server: Earth (pre-Cataclysm)*
*Players in server respawn lobby chat: 38*
Jack Howard: lMAO
Ellie Johnson: wtf dude
Harley Smith: whyyyyyy did u do this
Peter Lowe: WTF is this
Joseph Gabriel: I think it's his first game guys, easy
Peter Lowe: what's goi... | I looked around me. It's strange to explain the fact that there was no one to see, yet there were billions to sense.
Around me were other entities. I suppose they were dead humans. The man about five floating entities down couldn't stop blabbering about his former life. Apparently, he was Genghis Khan at some point, g... | 2015-11-25T00:31:04 | 2015-11-24T23:08:01 | 1,235 | 402 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I was 7 years old when I caught the common cold. I still don't remember what life was like before it. That's my power, by the way, any disease I get stays. I had to stay in one of those completely sterilized rooms for most of my life.
They pitied me, at first, the poor cripple who could never have a normal life. Or ... | They didn't respect me. Never did. They laughed as I pointed, laughing that my power was useless, that no one would ever respect me.
But, over the years, I've realized something. I've realized that without this thing, Laser Beam Man won't have the strength to fight crime. Super Strength Woman won't even be able to lif... | 2015-04-12T23:15:04 | 2015-04-12T17:51:32 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You awake to find yourself in a room with a multitude of people. After some confusion a voice speaks over the PA system. You've somehow been placed in a death game for the entertainment of the rich. You begin to laugh hysterically, as this is SOOO not going to go the way they want it to. | sry for bad writing and short text, am on mobile
edit: spelling
As I heard a loud alarm I covered my ears with my hands. "Just one more minute" I said, half awake, half asleep.
As I slowly started to gain consciousness I looked around. I was in a gigantic room, filled with beds, all identical. This wasn't even remot... | Continuing to laugh hysterically as the first game was announced, Sam fell off his bed while everyone either listened intently to the announcer or stared at the crazy man. “The first game you will be playing, is baseball!” The announcer said, as Sam began to snort loudly while laughing. “You each have a number on your ... | 2021-10-31T01:05:36 | 2021-10-30T18:45:41 | 37 | 26 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Perhaps the sharpest of the double-bladed qualities of humanity is our thirst for knowledge. Countless life-saving discoveries have been made from our quest to know, but in that journey, we have committed as many unthinkable evils. The ability to look back on our actions to analyze what we did wrong, hindsight, is equ... | The door slowly opened. News coverage at every corner, companies already sending out bland messages congratulating the team.
The Nullifiuer was built in 3.5 years and even longer planning it. Eric Dunce stood tall as the head of the team. His blonde hair waved in the wind. He tapped on the mic as the door opened.
I... | 2020-12-22T21:27:43 | 2020-12-22T17:03:39 | 69 | 11 |
[WP] You are dog. It is your mission to faithfully guard your poor, stupid, two-legged pack-mates from the horrors of the mailman, the dog next door, and men with hats. Describe your vigil. | I am dog.
Millenia ago, long before the two-leggers had begun to naively roam the forests, blissfully lacking the mental wherewithal to pee on the trees they had descended from, my race was a nomadic one. We traveled from planet to planet seeking to rid the galaxy of the sociopathic race the hairless call "cats", bett... | The creatures with strange heads were back. The breeze carried their scent that smells of thick-beast, their brown and black varieties of heads seem like two creatures combined. Two scents. They are not natural, but the two-leg pack members never realize the danger. I do good by protecting two legs from strange-heads... | 2014-12-27T11:18:57 | 2014-12-27T09:41:24 | 109 | 19 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "Hey Hanz, what's that banging noise?"
"Oh, that's coming from the room with that guy who's spending a year in isolation. He's a day early, though. I'm sure he wouldn't want to throw out his prize money this far into it."
"Oh. Isn't he normally quiet?"
"Yeah, he's probably just celebrating getting really close to th... | 364:23:59:00
They've asked me to keep a journal while I'm in here. Which is really silly since I'm terrible with things like this. So I guess I will just make an entry every once in a while.
275:01:00:00
The first three months have been fine. I mean, I just get to sit in a 20 ft by 20 ft room with all the video game... | 2019-07-03T00:53:00 | 2019-07-03T00:24:53 | 1,156 | 303 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | “John, I’ll be right back. I’ll explain later.”
And she was gone. Just like that. Flew out the damn window. Flew! My wife had wings. I couldn’t believe it. Who was this woman? Had I married an angel, or was it one of the Fallen? How had she hidden this from me for so long? How was Rebecca capable of a lie so big?
I ... | I stood there for what felt like almost an hour, staring out the window Eden just flew out of. My mind was blank, as if all my thoughts were taken away with her, I didn't know what to say, or even how I was supposed to feel about this. The familliar, hated itch returned, causing me to agressively scratch at the back of... | 2018-09-16T15:25:19 | 2018-09-16T12:45:28 | 71 | 26 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | As his back bounced off the unforgiving steel of his own locker Tomas contemplated what imagined slight he caused this time. It was always the same. Same oblivious parents. Same uncaring teachers. Same Jacob Meech.
The circle sigil on the back of his right hand a mocking symbol of his overall life so far.
He considered... | My head rebounds off worn red brick after Jackson threw me into the outside wall of the teacher's office. His cronies hold my arms to the wall as Jackson puts his sigil to use, cutting my shirt to ribbons with swipes of his fingers to reveal my sigil, his careless cruelty leaves many shallow cuts on me by the time my s... | 2020-02-26T07:36:26 | 2020-02-26T07:22:21 | 72 | 46 |
[WP] Hell consists of one room, in which you meet the person you could have been. | She looked pretty dislevelled. Rushed off her feet. Her hair was in a bun, sneakers on her feet and a - ahem - tasteful pink tracksuit that was decorated with stains and spills.
I stood in front of her, in my high heels, designer nylons, the perfect flick on my winged eyeliner. She hadn't even run foundation across he... | Hell was different then I thought, but I suppose if I could expect it, then it wouldn't really be hell? Satan should be able to think of something worse than I could. Still, waiting in line didn't seem that bad. The man at front desk said they'd show me my best self. The one that I could have been if everything went pe... | 2017-05-30T22:53:50 | 2017-05-30T21:51:03 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Mickey Mouse has died. As per is last will and testament he can only be replaced by “The one who wishes it most.” Roughly translated, a battle royal has broken out and the Magic Kingdom is at war. You’re an obscure character who finally has their chance to climb to the top. Tell your story. | No one expected me to win.
Chaos. Chaos everywhere, all the universes agreed to make a final battle for the new leader, and everyone that wanted to take a shot came to Disney Castle, and so did I.
Blood, screams and death everywhere, kings' and princesses' crowns rolling on the floor. They fought in the gardens, they... | I've been waiting for the worst of the war to pass over myself. I'm not a fighter. Not that many of us were before it all started.
There had been a fan.
Well, I guess they called themselves a fan, but the longer 'fanatic' would describe them better. She'd charged in screaming unintelligibly as they always do, grabbed... | 2018-02-24T17:21:50 | 2018-02-24T16:45:50 | 59 | 30 |
[WP] you're a time traveller who can't control your powers and keep accidentally slipping through time. Thankfully, you have an immortal friend who keeps you up to date whenever you appear.
[deleted] | When I landed, it was a desert wasteland. Yet, as always, a familiar silhouette stood 10 feet away shaded under an umbrella.
"Time?" I asked. Already my mouth was drying under the intense heat, and I was squinting to find some sign of civilization.
"2198. You didn't know the exact date so I had to wait a bit here,"... | "Dying is just a habit," Judy says, "A mug's game. A nasty habit. Sickness and health, do you see? Have to kick it and kick it and kick it again. Kick life in the teeth every hundred years or so, just to stay alive.
"So you're saying you're immortal," he says, "And he was a time traveler."
"A misnomer, really," she ... | 2021-08-21T22:36:39 | 2021-08-21T21:06:41 | 240 | 54 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | New to writing and trying to get better, please give me and feedback (good and bad!) I want to improve. Thanks for reading.
“You brought this on yourself you know. You really did. All of your speed and strength, your flight and heightened senses, where are they now? Too bad you don’t also have any healing abilities f... | At first, they thought I was worthless. No measurable potential, plus likely schizophrenia. In school, I would have been a great target for bullies, but they never found me, despite my complete lack of stealth or mobility enhancements.
I tried insisting that the voice was a legitimate power, but even mentioning i... | 2017-06-12T07:45:28 | 2017-06-12T06:39:02 | 181 | 22 |
[WP] it is now legal for children to be sent to jail with adults. You are a man in jail, and your new cellmate is a 6 year old boy. | I sat on the edge of my bunk, hands together, eyes scanning the familiar wall opposite. I had been told to expect my new cellmate today, that the few days of blissful solitude since Billy was stabbed with a comb were coming to an end.
Of course, the best cellmate had been no cellmate at all. Isolation might be one of... | I had heard about this before. Nanotechnology being used at conception to create the perfect human. Free of disease, free of genetic defects. The perfect humans. What they didn't take into account was how quickly in the womb these children would develop. How smart they would become.
They didn't consider the 9 months ... | 2014-05-25T06:41:25 | 2014-05-25T06:10:14 | 208 | 65 |
[WP] A supervillain offers the superhero the chance to join them not because they think the hero is the only thing in the way of their plans, but because they believe that the hero is being abused and taken advantage of by the general public, and that they would genuinely be happer as a villain. | I stared down at the poor thing on his knees. The pathetic being at my feet had been told he was the strongest and most talented the Tower had. The only one who could destroy the big bad wolf at the edge of the continent. I’d knocked him around so much today, and many times before.
For the longest time I couldn’t u... | “This is a terrible idea,” Heathcliff stated.
I shook my head, “It’s a great idea. If we frame the hero and make the public turn against him, he’ll be free of their shackles.”
Heathcliff sighed, “But isn’t being a criminal it’s own shackle?”
“In what way?” I asked, “We can do whatever we want, not ... | 2022-08-09T18:33:48 | 2022-08-09T17:52:05 | 134 | 52 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | The first time I met her, it was after hours in some 24-hour diner near Union Square in San Francisco. I was in town for a tech conference, and very, very drunk. She was also in town for work, "some PR/Marketing BS," as she put it.
She's told me that I was charming that night. I showed her pictures of my dog on my phon... | "Please, please, PLEASE go with me tonight. I don't want to go to this party alone."
Tracy had me pinned down on the couch, which I would normally not have a problem with, but the way she had me pinned was had nothing to do with fun together time. This was all about her.
"I told you I don't like work events, I don'... | 2017-06-14T10:24:26 | 2017-06-14T09:35:58 | 976 | 717 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | The thing about sentient monsters, and especially immortal ones, is that they're *all* filled with ego. Some of them are better than others--more akin to filling a vessel, rather than filling a balloon--but no sentient thing lives for hundreds of years with being smug about it. It is one the unspoken weakness of their ... | "Not spe- I am a being of pure darkness and evil, who sustains himself on corruption of the innocent!".
"A decade ago I'd call you a Catholic priest. Today it's going to have to be a pedophile. Horrible, but not special.".
"Wha... I'm a blood sucking monstrosity! I drain ... | 2022-06-08T06:11:31 | 2022-06-08T05:31:15 | 1,591 | 228 |
[WP] You're a supervillain with a superhero as your arch-nemesis. When they come out to the world about their depression and mental health, others call them weak and there is backlash. You, however, are the first one to support them publicly. | „Damn, I‘ve never done one of those before.“ I mumble, while I straighten my tie for the what had to
Be 15th time. „At least…officially.“ I chuckled.
The door opened and my secretary, Claire, looked in. „They are ready for you, Mr. Noir.“ I nodded gratefully. That woman was truly a blessing. Without her my whole evil... | I would like to you all see this. This brave woman that was your champion, see what you have done to her. I am not the villain, that is what I have been trying to warn you all. She got crushed by your own system by being a mother, a worker, a woman and a “super-hero”. She battle for the Status-quo and what did it bring... | 2022-06-21T10:42:29 | 2022-06-21T09:53:16 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] You're a genie who grants a single wish to those who summon you. You have to grant whatever they want, except if they try to bend the rules. When that happens, you're free to do with them as you please. The poor bastard in front of you just asked for infinite wishes. | I smile as the fool asks for the one wish I said was forbidden.. "I want infinite wishes!". The man smirks as I nod and clap my hands. I smile as the fool asks for the one wish I said was forbidden.. "I want infinite wishes!". The man smirks as I nod and clap my hands. I smile as the fool asks for the one wish I said w... | **Ho!HO!Ho ...** *Cough,Cough* **Ho!**
"Mortal you have managed to summon me! As aknowledgement of your skill I shall grant you one wish!", I proclaimed loudly accompanied by my own echo in the cave.
*Epic accoustics, it was worthwile searching for this place. Impressive, impressive.* I ponder while awaitng the aston... | 2019-11-04T06:16:33 | 2019-11-04T06:16:26 | 45 | 32 |
[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. | I stand above her motionless body, the cold air from an open window biting at my bruised limbs. She was strong, but I had won the fight, as per usual. Another soul, another ten years added onto my already extended life span. I walk away and start to clean any sort of evidence I might've left around the house, as jail i... | Every waking moment I hear them. Sometimes they’re kind, supportive, loving and other times they’re obnoxious, they panic, and they say the most stupidest things that it makes me want blow my brains out.
*-He tried it and failed LUL*
*-What a loser*
*-Yeah what Kevin said*
Today I had decided to sit in a park and t... | 2020-09-26T17:40:12 | 2020-09-26T17:31:11 | 251 | 92 |
[WP] In the future, humans have the ability to transfer pain from one person to another. Every town has one person to whom they transfer every other citizen's pain. | I sat on my stump and, sure enough, my leg twinged with pain. My fireside seat had this pesky nub of oak that jutted straight into my thigh. Without fail my toes would throb; my calves would prickle.
"I could have it sanded down," my attendant Martha would say. She'd stoop low and frown at the knob like some malignant... | You sit silently at the bar, alone, with a loose grasp around your beer bottle. You pull your long, blonde hair back and put it up in a high-bun.
A man in the bar looks over and notices your subtle act. He sees the signature red tattoo on your neck - an emblem indicating that you are a Pain-Taker.
He stumbles over ... | 2017-07-15T18:15:14 | 2017-07-15T17:03:49 | 75 | 17 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 71 | 12 |
[WP] For centuries your family has passed down an old leather bag that provides the holder with an object that would be helpful in the particular situation the holder is in. You are getting on a bus and instead of giving you a bus ticket or money, it gives you a handgun. | "Well I don't know why it gave me the gun either Dad it just did!"
You'd think he'd understand, the bag used to be his after all, but for some reason he almost sounded angry I had somehow found myself with the handgun he kept locked in his bedroom safe. I didn't know I had it myself till he called, I was just about to... | I am from this family and my family has been passing down this bag for generations which is a magical bag. It gives the possessor whatever that person needs the most in that situation. Or is going to need. Get the idea?
So I was boarding a bus one time and I reached in there thinking that now I need money to buy the t... | 2017-09-11T13:00:54 | 2017-09-11T10:11:19 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] A death row inmate, hours before their scheduled execution, is offered a deal. | There was a soft hiss, air escaping a balloon. Shiloh felt her hands before he saw her, the shallow wisp of Miranda. She had come to him, the very vision of oil. She wore her hair black, braided tight against her angled skull. She was not beautiful, far from it. She had a small, sharp chin, too sharp to do more than th... | "*What**?!*" He hissed, fierce eyes glinting in the dim lighting of his soundproof, plexi-glass holding chamber. Surely this woman was insane!
Her devastated eyes spoke stories of her desperation. He was slightly taken aback by the despair in her lowered orbs- it seemed this was her last option, her final plea.
"I'm... | 2015-06-23T20:40:11 | 2015-06-23T19:51:09 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | The world had fallen. Chaos ran rampant through ruined streets, demolished buildings scattered across the landscape. People ran from crumbled wall to crumbled wall, avoiding each other in fear. A child, crying, is silenced as a burning ball hurls into a building, engulfing everything within.
Not many survived the... | Of Wizards, it is known that they are highly dangerous beings of terrific power. All across Midgard, they are kept occupied by quests and adventures.
It was after the aftermath of one adventure that sunk the ancient peace loving nation of Avulsey to the sea that a small team of 1 to 4 Wizards learnt of the Dark Lord T... | 2016-11-12T10:14:05 | 2016-11-12T10:02:44 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] Aliens have finally discovered Earth - but they're not hostile. They've tasted human food, and they think it's so astonishingly good that Earth is becoming an alien tourist hotspot. | The small shop was not busy. Who would have guessed, in a human city, where only human food was available, the only shminsi restaurant would be all but empty? Gorff guessed. He guessed right away. They were the only restaurant to take federation credits and there were only two life forms dining that night. A server ove... | "Garshi'a, where the hell do you think you're wandering off to without your parents?"
A certain humanoid spun on the equivalents of heels, turning to his parents. He looked like a marriage of a wyvern and a mermaid, with his red-green tail matching his scaly skin, and two large wings supporting his two webbed bare fee... | 2022-06-10T09:41:09 | 2022-06-10T09:40:32 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] You die and are greeted in the afterlife by the all knowing God (choose one), ready to judge you. However, for some reason he has no recollection of you ever existing. | So, this is Heaven, huh? Looks pretty accurate to me. All golden arches and white clouds— what is this, McDonalds?
I'm standing in front of the stereotypical God. Huge guy, jacked as all hell, long white beard and hair. He looks down at me with deep, all-knowing blue eyes.
"Hi," I wave to him.
His thick eyebrows w... | “Name?”
An imposing figure sat on a large golden throne in front of me.
“Uh, K.. Kevin” I stammered, “Kevin Muh.. Mc Sweeney”
His eyes bored into me, weighing my words, measuring my worth.
“Kevin, is it? Let me see here.” He riffled through a large tome with miniscule writing and I could swear I saw the text writ... | 2016-11-18T05:46:12 | 2016-11-18T03:43:20 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] The final boss in a RPG forgets how to evolve into his final form, so he improvises. | “YOU WILL NEVER GET PAST ME” I bellow into the chamber. “COWER BEFORE MY TRUE FORM!”
I break free of my puny human body and transform into a 30-foot demon, complete with wings and horns. I nearly forget the flames, but a passing imp reminds me and I set myself on fire just in time. From a secret room on the gallery, t... | "Its your duty as the hero to do what, exactly?" Carl The Lich Lord prompted in desperation. The Hero opened his mouth and ushered forth his righteous purpose. "..." rang through the ancient Duomo's decrepit halls. The Lich lifted his stony palm against what had been an ear and earnestly replied "What? Can you repeat t... | 2016-09-23T22:23:48 | 2016-09-23T21:32:42 | 193 | 30 |
[WP] "I wonder," she said glancing at the knife handle poking out from her stomach and directed her gaze at him. "How long will you scream before help arrives?" He picked the wrong woman to mug. | He stumbled back, hitting the wall behind him.
The woman sighed and rose from her knees. She brushed the alley filth from her palms. "Now why did you have to go and do something like that?"
The cement scraped the leather of his jacket as he slid down the alley wall.
"Idiot," she murmured. Her fingertips danced over t... | It's remarkable the power a woman can hold over a man. He watched her fall to her knees, still staring up at him and he couldn't help but let out a tortured scream.
His upbringing was torment but that didn't justify the stealing. He stole for himself. He received nothing but abuse at home so if someone else got someth... | 2014-02-18T05:18:23 | 2014-02-18T04:29:01 | 126 | 51 |
[WP] You’re a super villain with an army of loyal minions at your side. One day you find out that your minions do not follow you because of your visions of world domination but for the employee benefits package... | “My health plan?” My voice barely betrayed any emotions at the best of times, but now a careful listener might find a hint of disbelief in it. “You, my high commander of darkness, effective leader of the biggest army in the world, currently fighting in every country for my nefarious plans, are only on board with the gr... | It was a dark day, one filled with clouds which covered the mid-winter sky.It was a day, where the horrors I shall inflict upon the world shan't be seen, as I crawl slowly, ever so slowly towards world domination."They don't know it yet, the leaders of the 'democratic' world, that they are so close to being toppled, so... | 2019-02-13T14:08:58 | 2019-02-13T14:03:58 | 50 | 15 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | I remember the first time I saw him. It was early morning, just as the first light was leeching into the sky. I barely remember him, I was so young; only small images stand out, like grainy faded pictures. My father was dying, cancer they said in hushed tones, as if it could be summoned. I used to imagine it as a terri... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T21:09:53 | 153 | 17 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | A friend of mine had been DMing a 5.0 game for a month now. Normally, she is able to talk down fun ruiners but this one is especially stubborn.
Enter Malgor, the Level 6 Paladin Oathbreaker Orc: This person is a very stubborn, immovable Chaotic Stupid that kills any NPC he finds (including plot NPCs) in the name of hi... | Everyone has met that one person who just ruins the game for everyone else. That person takes all the treasure, dictates where the party is going or what they're to do, things like that. Sadly for this group, Becky *was* that person.
Becky was a goody-goody player that *had* to have it all. Magic items in the chest? B... | 2019-01-21T20:40:35 | 2019-01-21T20:13:01 | 183 | 48 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | (Inspired by an old post of 'why humans would be terrifying to alien life')
**Memo To Management:**
As you all know, a new species is attempting to join the federation. While we welcome our Human brethren to the federation with open arms, I would like to take some time to remind everyone that splinter-factions and pe... |
When humans reached the final frontier, we realized we weren’t alone quickly. We saw planets and species disappear in a matter of weeks after discovery. The weapons they used were much more advanced then ours, and we thought that we were the under dogs in this fight. Diplomats were sent to communicate, and they never... | 2019-10-25T09:25:43 | 2019-10-25T09:09:30 | 171 | 83 |
[WP] The Society for Continued Galactic Safety strongly recommends against fighting humans, and regulations state that killing humans on worlds not already settled by humans is forbidden. Not because humans are dangerous, but because they're 7 times more likely to produce ghosts than any other race. | Galactic Cartography presents: Human Space, AKA The Great Howling
As many attending this class will no doubt know, the human species is a very isolationist power, with very little trade into their space due to ftl being impossible for the majority of species. What many may not know, is why.
Aprpximately 500 years ago... | Have you ever come back to a refrigerator after an absence, and found some little thing you'd forgotten has been utterly overtaken by mold? Gauzy mounds of blue-green, tendrils of white spreading in little clouds over the surface of your forgotten sandwich. The disgust, the displeasure, the sick waste of dropping the w... | 2021-10-11T10:08:09 | 2021-10-11T09:05:26 | 209 | 57 |
[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | "Upbeat and happy."
"What?"
"Upbeat" I picked up my mug. "And happy."
"No," he groaned, mumbling a string of insults under his breath, "When I say 'What' I didn't mean--"
Dad ran a hand through his hair.
"You know what?"
"The one where you say but didn't mean?" I took a sip from the mug, the steam fogging my glass... | (Can i make this undertale cos Im making this undertale lol)
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Its a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming. Im going hiking today. Who cares if people say Mount Ebott is dangerous, people come back all the time! I get out of bed and get dressed into my favourite striped jumper. I g... | 2019-09-07T07:53:22 | 2019-09-07T04:42:58 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | Human v1.1 Patch Notes
* Fixed an issue where eyes can become desynced from the balancing system, causing locomotion problems.
* Corrected a race condition that could cause speech to begin before the thought process for that speech had exited cleanly.
* Fixed a bug in the low level logic engine that caused some versio... | Everyone panicked. But then we realized. It had taken thousands upon thousands of generations to make 1% of the update. The rest would most likely not come in our lifetimes, nor in our descendants', or in their descendants'.
God gleefully cheered. "I can't believe it's updating! Stupid Comcast lost all my packets, but... | 2015-03-04T17:27:53 | 2015-03-04T16:33:29 | 519 | 123 |
[WP] A genie is about to concede you your second wish, but a paradox created by your first one prevents him from doing so. | "It's not that I won't, it's that I can't!", The Genie said in a manner similar to that of a particularly helpful Customer Services representative hamstrung by miles of red tape. "Cause, Effect.. Cause, Effect." he swayed his hands from one side of an invisible table to another.
"No, you clearly won't." I yelled, "Yo... | The police sirens grew louder.
I stared at the Genie in horror. He looked back at me blankly.
"Is that okay?" he asked. "What you asked for, yeah? Working on the next one. Gimme a couple of minutes."
"God no. Oh God no. No."
Three police cars screeched to a halt just behind him.
"Just gotta concentrate for a few m... | 2014-07-07T07:06:31 | 2014-07-07T06:59:01 | 61 | 39 |
[WP] Decades ago, Earth sent a capsule into space filled with bits about our culture. Today, it returned tampered with. It contained a note, "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
This is my first post on this sub and I'm not a fr... | For the physical manifestation of our slow, grinding demise it sure landed with an unimpressive thud. Just a few-hundred extra pounds of something in some field near Somewhere, Nebraska.
Eustis Lee had been out on the four-by-four, misty-breathed and going from deer stand to deer stand. He had been tasked with killing... | It was the wee hours of the morning when it happened, when it first began. Well, let me take that back, really it began back in the late 70’s, but it was now in 2020 that things started back up.
I heard the crash around three o’clock, made me jump right out of bed. When I tiptoed into the living room, I saw it.
Her... | 2020-04-13T14:42:04 | 2020-04-13T14:16:35 | 95 | 71 |
[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. WMDs. | It was a tired, overused trope by now, canonized in hundreds of years of entertainment media: Humans winning wars against all odds and surprising the overconfident Big Bad Aliens who never expected them to bite back. A trope. For stories. Not something that happened in reality.
Our first contact went well enough. We’d... | Lord Dunbar could not believe his eyes. The Planet Lo was there a moment ago, a loud bang, a shockwave felt in space and blinding flash, the entire planet was gone.
3 billion lives, extinguished... but how?
This was not the Lothrax's homeworld, it was a long established colony world, just on the outskirts of Lothra... | 2021-07-04T18:36:34 | 2021-07-04T14:51:29 | 197 | 99 |
[WP] After an attempt on their life, a monster hunter calls in a favor from a monster they let live. |
Deep in the forest, Ghader crept forward, sword at the ready. The trail was overgrown, but that was no matter. He knew exactly where to go; his every movement measured but sure. With each step he drew deeper into the underbrush. With each step the haze thickened. With each step this place resisted him more and more.
... | # Soulmage
**There's always a bigger monster.**
I wouldn't lie, our ragtag little adventuring party didn't have a spotless moral history, especially if you knew where to look. Meloai was a shapeshifter who ate souls, Sansen was a werewolf, Lucet was a witch, and I... well, I had enough things to hate about myself wit... | 2022-07-04T07:53:28 | 2022-07-04T06:43:12 | 78 | 30 |
[WP] A centuries-old vampire, turned as a child, takes advantage of being perpetually stuck as a little girl to prey upon those who would harm and abuse children. | There's a rope skipping the children sing, down on Marigold lane, down in the dirty part of town, where you can have anything you want for a price.
*Sweet Mary Marvin, looks just six*
*Don't you fall for one of her tricks.*
*Sweet Mary Marvin, a hundred years old*
*Cheeks of red and hair of gold*
*Sweet Mary M... | "Uhhhh What the fuck !!!"
*Black black sheep such a little little man*
*With blood on his lips and blood on his hands*
*Oh mommy mommy dear what's a little girl*
*To do with her meal when it twitches and squirms*
"What are you ??? Just ... just get the hell out of here.. no noooo don't touch me !!!"
*Black b... | 2015-04-30T12:51:10 | 2015-04-30T12:37:43 | 53 | 31 |
[WP] You are hit by a truck on your way home and awake in hell. After some conversation with the King of Hell, he says he will restore your life and soul if you go on a date with his daughter. | *Oh my. You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?*
A hollow voice fills my ears.
…my ears? My body? What’s going on? I try to look down, but I can’t see my body. I can’t see at all.
*First, I would like to apologize for putting you in this situation.*
Situation? What are they talking about? Where am I? The la... | \- But I don't like girls sir.
I almost chocked on my own spit. What the *hell* did I just say? I mean, he doesn't look different than any other overbearing parent I had to deal with all my life, but yeah. I don't like girls. And he is...you know who he is.
\- And also, I didn't really like my life. I mean, it wasn't... | 2021-09-12T19:43:51 | 2021-09-12T16:57:43 | 93 | 20 |
[WP] The tooth fairy has finally amassed the number of teeth she needs to achieve her goals. Mortals beware. | They’d laughed at her. Called her crazy. Insane. Maybe they had a point. Maybe she was a little crazy. Unhinged even. But what did it matter to her? She’d done it. Their belief in her, or lack thereof be damned!
Sarah. That had been the girls name. A sweet little 6 year old. Cute as a button and with shining blonde cu... | The entire planet seemed to hold its breath as a swirling vortex of dark energy appeared in the middle of the wintery forest. As the defenders of Earth watched, Toothnos, the Mad Tooth Fairy, stepped out, his massive boot planting itself firmly in the snow.
The vortex behind him dissipated.
“Cap,” whispered Bigfoot t... | 2019-06-20T21:26:07 | 2019-06-20T20:58:16 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | I have the easiest job you can imagine. I get paid monthly for a hundred years, so I never have to think about saving money. All I had to do was push a button once. Oh, and if I quit I'm as good as dead. But I guess that's still better than the average employment contract.
This left me with a lot of spare time, some o... | I was the best. Emphasis on the was. Let's face it: I got comfortable. I got rusty. I narrowly saw that tripwire and got to cover just in time. Well, not just in time. The blood on my right shoulder is indication enough that I got hit. Scraped actually, but still. I got comfortable. I got rusty.
 
>Year... | 2018-04-24T04:59:38 | 2018-04-24T03:48:04 | 82 | 22 |
[WP] The galaxy is actually full of life and advanced civilizations. Everyone just leaves Earth alone because that's where The Great Old Ones are imprisoned, and nobody wants to wake them up. | No one told us.
No one warned us.
Then again, it's not like we ever warned the sheep of the slaughter.
You must be confused. I'll start at the beginning.
300 years ago the human race sent out first ship into space. The world mourned when we lost contact with it a few months later. Then we tried again and again a... | ​
“Prepare for system entry in 3…2…1.”
Admiral Axthal braced himself against the railing of his bridge as the ship jolted rather abruptly. It always did when they entered this specific system, and it was always a good omen when that happened. He could hear the engines begin whining as the dampening field t... | 2019-03-09T07:54:01 | 2019-03-09T07:00:46 | 152 | 15 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | He was ten at the time of the accident.
Unbeknownst to me, Ben's day began like any other. He woke up one minute before his alarm would ring and raced to turn it off. He always loved to beat the alarm clock, he felt like it set him up to keep winning the rest of the day. He showered quickly, skipping shampoo and only... | Rain trickled down the windowpane, making rivulets in the already wet surface. Kieran watched them, a tinny pounding in his ears the last remnant of the concert he'd just got in from. The streetlights were lit and the house was dark as he had unlocked the front door. The hallway was just as messy as it had been as he l... | 2015-06-03T06:23:30 | 2015-06-03T05:56:40 | 197 | 35 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I take a step forward. The line to the High Magister grows shorter by the moment as the people befor me are tried and executed on the spot befor the Grand Court of Wizards.
The reading of crimes is honestly the longest part, the crimes are listed for each of us and given a unanimous guilty verdict on the spot.
Cant sa... | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | 2021-06-24T10:08:14 | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 255 | 158 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | My hands are shaking and my clothes are clinging to me from how much I am sweating. I just need one more. Just one more, and all of this will go away. I will be able to breathe again, be calm again.
I pull myself off of my couch and start frantically pulling up the cushions, looking for change. A quarter, a penny, a n... | The walls of the kings castles were ruptured by the goblin death sphere, then driven through to the keep of the castle, before unleashing its rampant army. A device no larger than the head on a man's shoulders, but through goblin magicks it can teleport the armies to their battle. The great rulers of man have fallen. T... | 2015-05-16T06:59:50 | 2015-05-16T01:33:27 | 106 | 36 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed the Devil. God makes you the new Devil to replace the one you killed. | *Oh man John*, I thought to myself. *You're gonna be late. Come on. Show me some luck...* My fingers crossed instinctively as I neared the intersection. *Still green, still green... yes!* Just one more turn, I'd be on the street. Then I'd power park, sprint- good think I brought the handkerchief. I couldn't be late. I ... | I felt like literal Hell.
Why did I do this to myself? Sure, he'd taken my knack for the creative and sent it overboard, but it was a hard crash after the ride was over. I needed some water. I needed some air. Something. The room was almost too dark. It felt like it would shut in around me if I didn't see the sun. Wh... | 2016-12-09T08:39:14 | 2016-12-09T08:34:41 | 111 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Underchancellor, I want to know exactly who and why and how this happened, and what in Llorig's name you were thinking."
"Well, you see, Overchancellor, Planet Three has reported an alien presence. It's the Humans, the original inhabitants of Planet Three."
"I know that, Underchancellor."
"Yes, sir."
"I read t... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | 2014-07-16T11:43:48 | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 78 | 19 |
[WP] You're the strongest villain ever seen. Heroes who challenged you are afraid to even see you. One day, a hero dared to challenge you, a rather pale and bald 7 year old girl whose death is getting near. She doesn't even know how to act like a hero. Her last wish? To defeat you.
| You know, kid, sometimes things are exactly what they seem. Take me, for instance. I'm the one they call the bad guy. The guy that broke Iron Hammer's jaw. The guy that sliced Rosethorne's left arm. The guy that killed Big Velvet's parents. I rob banks. I assassinate politicians. I blow up buildings. This building we'r... | Appealing to my emotions? Seems like the good guys have run out of options. But this was a pretty powerful strategy all the same; I was surprised they hadn't thought of it earlier.
Her frail form stood before me, as she held a placard with the request of defeating me messily scrawled onto it. Clearly, she was not her... | 2018-09-01T10:48:52 | 2018-09-01T07:08:34 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] The saddest thing about being immortal isn't being the last member of your family, it's being the last member of your species. While you stayed the same everything else evolved. | I wish I could tell a story of regret. Or loss. I could say I reflected on this time, not as a human, but as a man. I'd tell myself I could say goodbye or hello. I want nothing more than to say hello to change.
But I couldn't.
I don't count the days anymore. And I've forgotten the years. Trust me, I've looked, but I... | I'm not sure when it happened; I can only say the first time when I should have realized something was wrong. I was out walking out our 10 year old dog, Bud, when a car swerved and hit us both. Waking up a bloody daze in the hospital, I was told that Bud didn't make it. However, I should consider myself lucky to be ali... | 2017-09-14T22:14:12 | 2017-09-14T18:51:45 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] Harry Potter is now based in Australia. All spells are based on Australian Slang. Hogwarts is in Kakadoo. Dragons are dropbears and Voldemort is a cunt.
Take it away! | "OI, YOU FUCKIN WOT MATE!?!"
"I. SAID. YOU'RE A BLOODY WIZARD YA NUMSKULL!!"
"OI WHAT??"
"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE YA BLOODY BOGANBLOOD, YER A DAMN FUCKIN WIZARD!!!!"
"OI BOGAN PRIDE HERE MATE, U LOOKIN FOR A FIGHT OR WOT YER HAIRY GORILLA????"
"HAIRY GORILLA!!?? OH THATS FUCKIN IT YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT!... | "You're a wizard, Bruce" said Bruce looking directly into Bruce's eyes.
"I'm a what?" the young boy said back, his eyes fixed on the giant of a man as he downed a can of Fosters in three gulps.
After wiping his dribbling mouth on his sleeve, Big Bruce threw the can into the unlit fireplace.
"You're a wizard you deaf ... | 2015-10-29T04:17:58 | 2015-10-29T04:12:18 | 158 | 46 |
[WP] Write about a world where whenever somebody writes on their skin, it appears on their soulmate's body as well. | It began around 7 PM, a light scratching along the length of my forearm. It tickled, and made my hairs stand on end. At long last, after eighteen years of isolation, my soulmate was trying to reach out. All those years of dragging myself through the day, fueled by caffeine, only to drink myself to sleep, holding out fo... | I can't believe it. On her right forearm is the same tattoo that I have. It's the symbol for fire, not from Avatar. She must've grown tired of hearing that question asked as well. She has the same shoulder scar from my surgery. She must have so many questions. I fell out of a truck, I burned my forearm at the grill at ... | 2018-04-01T21:39:41 | 2018-04-01T20:03:34 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] after an apocalypse you are the last human alive. traveling the country side in your increasing age you slowly stumble into more and more things before realizing that magic is returning to the world. today you spot a village of elves, the first intelligent things you have seen in over 30 years. | I had taken to hiking in the latter years. Quality woodland wear was in no short supply from nearly four decades ago, and it gave me a rare peace to stroll the wild unburdened by dread or lonliness.
"A man should be useful," was a saying my father would tell me frequently. In an age where people were increasingly dist... | It’s been thirty years since the world “ended” and humanity was wiped off the face of the earth. Some said it would be zombies others said it would be global warming. The religious types told us it would be a great flood like in the Bible or the rapture would happen and all the worthy would be brought to heaven and the... | 2019-11-18T06:50:48 | 2019-11-18T06:22:53 | 128 | 19 |
[WP] Leonardo DiCaprio in a fit of rage begins to torpedo his own career by deliberately acting poorly and taking on bad films. He finally wins an oscar for starring in Paul Blart: Mall Cop 3. | Leonardo DiCaprio made his way to the microphone, shaking his head. He looked a little manic in fact, as he let out a high-pitched sound of disbelief. The smile stretched across his face, but in an odd way, he didn't look very happy at all.
He crouched to put the Oscar on the floor. Then he stood up tall, leaning into... | "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 3 is going to win me an Oscar, through whatever means possible." I had said to myself earlier in my hotel room.
Now here I am, standing tall and proud at the podium, facing a crowd of familiar faces. Peers of my profession.
I can hear the sound of my own heart beating, pumping vigorously as if ... | 2015-06-02T11:18:35 | 2015-06-02T10:46:59 | 1,609 | 424 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Well, what are you waiting for? Press it."
I glanced back up to the priest. His arms holding out the box to me were steady, but the tension in his posture suggested a certain eagerness about him. I guess that made sense, considering his whole speech about the *Dark One* and *End of the world* and all that jazz. Bu... | The hero, having remained ever vigilant as the final moments dwindled before the final confrontation, recounted his life's milestones.
His first time remembering what rain was like, first day at home school, the last time he'd seen his father at 7 years of age, the first time he's tried to escape the facility he was... | 2020-11-09T12:35:03 | 2020-11-09T12:25:18 | 422 | 133 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | Witch doctor, Witch doctor
I've got a request
i've read the reviews
they said you're the best
***
Witch doctor, Witch doctor
i'm short on cash
but i still need to make
a good backstab
***
Damn, Freddy
it was ugly
what ya did to me
truly
***
i swear
i'd have you 86'd
if i had the money (ha!)
***
but W... | "Six gold bits! That's ridiculous. Good luck elixir is cheaper than that, not to mention guaranteed to work. There's not even any proof that your so called spells will do anything!" The irate potential customer standing in my homely little shop stomped his foot to accentuate his complaints. I resisted the urge to fill ... | 2014-12-13T13:01:48 | 2014-12-13T11:39:14 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] One night as you play Call of Duty a particularly squeaky voiced 12 year old gives out personal information leading you to discover he is your child from a long lost lover. You must now convince him you are his father and thus banged his mom, through Xbox live. | I was used to the constant barrage of cheap insults from kids on Xbox, but this one was really going at it. It started off as the usual "faggot" and "I'll bang your mom" but it began getting really graphic as the match progressed. Since he was being especially obnoxious, I decided to get involved in his little game.
"... | "Dickwad, say one more thing like that and I'll fly outta Brenham, Texas and kick you so hard in the ear you'll be smelling the color 9 for the rest of your life!"
My controller hit the floor. My recently eaten lunch followed soon after. I momentarily lamented the mess on my newly laid carpet, but the sudden shock of ... | 2015-07-14T15:16:41 | 2015-07-14T14:46:02 | 176 | 41 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | It's very, very rare for someone to survive, much less tame, the curse of the dragon. It's ironic: many would kill for the power to turn into a dragon, yet so few realize that being granted that power can and will drive a man mad with greed, or wrath, or some other vice. If the pain of the first transformation doesn'... | "What's wrong, honey?"
My wife looked at me with concern, but I can't tell her that I discovered her secret.
What we had together was special. When I was hurt, when everyone abandoned me, when my dreams were stamped into the ground by everyone I cared about... Only her, only her, only her...
But the dark feelings br... | 2020-08-03T09:24:53 | 2020-08-03T08:52:09 | 77 | 37 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Dear diary,
Today I started to get my super power! Stupid Harvey Deno dumb face got super speed for his birthday. That guy is such a dick. But I got something better, I can hear when someone is thinking about me. I'm going to be such a ladies man! I can't wait to start school tomorrow, it's going to be wicked tits.
... | At 16, you get a mutation, and only one mutation, they say. At 16, your life really begins. I never realized just how true it was. It’s funny. As my friends all hit 16, all gained their powers, I thought that surely I’d get one that surpassed all of them. That I’d be the greatest mutant ever. I never realized just how ... | 2015-01-21T21:48:36 | 2015-01-21T19:45:47 | 132 | 65 |
[WP] You are a wizard that specializes in summoning magic. Unlike other summoners that forcefully bind otherworldly creatures to do their bidding, you are the eldritch equivalent of "I know a guy". | The embarrassing thing is that I didn't even start out a Summoner; I went to school for the three P's (Prognostication, Potions, and Protection) with a minor in Elemental Manipulation (barely passed that one).
But you save one Non-Human Entity and share food with another and don't discriminate when it comes to the b... | The Commandant says that when you join The Grey Men, your past ceases to be, and from that point on, you're born anew into a brotherhood of the iron price stretching back to before the fall of the Reiyjkitic Empire.
Now, I'm not sure about all that. For all my sins, I still carried my past with me. Not much to it.... | 2022-11-12T00:21:49 | 2022-11-11T23:07:56 | 225 | 29 |
[WP] The Second American Civil War. What started it, and who are the two sides? | "There isn't any money in fighting overseas anymore."
That's how the pitch had started. And it was met with a deafening silence around the room.
The conference had been called after years of heavy losses in the arms industry. CEOs and executive leadership from all the major arms companies were present. A few represen... | The battle of Caesar's Palace was a decisive decisive one. The second B.I.G. battalion colloquially known as the "Bad Boys" had pushed the main force of the 2P army, "Death Row", into the desert.
With Las Vegas fallen, The soldiers of Death Row hoped to retreat through the desert, and march back to the capital throug... | 2013-10-19T22:10:28 | 2013-10-19T21:52:49 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] When you die, you are presented with a staircase to heaven, with each sin adding a step to your staircase. Your staircase is as tall as Everest. | Everything had gone white. There was no more pain. I took a breath but did not breathe. I knew I had to be dead, but for the life of me, couldn't figure out where the kitschy outdoorsy themed decor played into it. Was this purgatory? Did heaven look like a national park information center?
The elderly woman behind th... | I looked at the sign again and frowned. "This is your staircase to heaven. Each sin in your moral life has added a step. Your total step count; 58,070 steps. Happy climbing!" Huh.
I took another look at the staircase in question. It was a glorious sight to see, a beautiful spiraling staircase with steps of the whitest... | 2017-10-19T18:47:43 | 2017-10-19T14:23:32 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | What a day. My boss has never been in such a bad mood. On top of the proposal due next week, I now have a rushed budget to get out by Friday. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up. Every morning I dread getting out of bed, and every night I dread the next morning. I put on the smile for my colleagues, I smile... | It started off as a nice day. I wasn't sore getting out of bed, which I usually am these days. I made a nice breakfast, eggs and toast. The weatherman on the television was grinning, which meant no rain in the forecast. Everything was going fine until the screams from the basement started up again. | 2016-05-19T13:16:11 | 2016-05-19T13:02:32 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] The villain has tried everything to get under the heroes skin, but they remain completely unfazed by the villains taunts and insults, until a small slip-up by the villain makes the hero go absolutely ballistic. | She sat there, reading. Ignoring me, every insult, every barb, every threat.
She just sat there, reading her book. The chains she was in, pinning her to the ornate throne, prevented her from turning the pages, but since she wasn't supposed to have a book to begin with, that didn't matter to her. I watched her eyes... | "YOU GOOD-FOR-NOTHING GLORY HOG! YOU THINK YOU'RE SOME HOTSHOT?"
"...I took down most of your army to get here..."
"Urgh... you're annoying and ugly!"
"Yeah, yeah, I know that."
"Did you know that you're just a pawn? Everyone is just using you!"
"I chose this path. Listen, can we just fight?"
"You fight as well a... | 2022-09-26T12:50:31 | 2022-09-26T09:05:53 | 130 | 61 |
[WP] A summoned demon can always be defeated by the summoner, thus the caliber of demon is dependent on the power of the summoner. You were surprised to see Satan Himself stood before you, and so was He. | **The King Mage of Nothing**
The heathen armies of the North had been sieging the Capitol for three years. In that same time, I’d lost my three children. First it was starvation, which claimed my baby boy. Then it was disease, which claimed my only daughter. And finally it was the unrest, the riots, which had claimed ... | "Where did Hitler...Where am I?" Satan asked shocked while standing in my office. It is a completely generic one man law firm's office in a shopping mall.
I looked at my client, a seemingly homeless man who wouldn't leave until I tried his 'summoning ritual' to prove it was nonsense. Needless to say not only is it no... | 2022-01-30T08:40:24 | 2022-01-30T08:26:15 | 316 | 140 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | (Aight my first WP attempt so be kinda easy on me?)
I’m walking through the halls to my next class, getting the usual snicker here and there from my fellow classmates. “What a loser!” and “I can’t believe it!” Are the usual comments I hear from everyone. They all assume I had gotten some weak ass power, and that is ha... | I messed up and I knew it. Here I was standing before a giant wall of fog, knowing that I was expected and at the same time underprepared. Looking around I didn’t see any messages or runes that would get me some backup - I had to go alone.
It was dark out. There was an argument, an errant pea thrown from my plate dur... | 2019-09-30T11:16:55 | 2019-08-11T21:37:25 | 64 | 40 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | There is a little girl, and she is all alone in the world.
Now, some of you might be wondering, 'how does such a thing happen?'
There are many ways in which it can happen, of course, some obvious, some not.
In the case, it was of a nature that I suspect that many of you can surmise promptly.
It was a hot, dry summe... | “AH!”
I scream out, jumping from the tear soaked covers of my bed.
“Who’s there!” I say, grabbing my bed-side lamp, and swinging it around as if it were a bat.
“Don’t worry. I mean no harm crying human!”
I could hear the voice echo throughout my room, it was rough, scratchy, something straight out of a horror mo... | 2021-03-16T06:51:21 | 2021-03-16T04:59:29 | 59 | 14 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | The doctors hand the little ball of blankets that apparently holds a child in them. Though their smiles are wide, their eyes lie. I look down at this small child with brilliantly brown hair. I brush the hair to the side to observe the dark birthmark...death and murder. I'm confused. My family has always been write... | I tried to push him towards the arts. I knew that he had it in im to be a great artist. Sculpture perhaps, or music. But no... Little Adolf always wanted to be a painter and and painting I knew he could only fail.
He was so angry when they didn't pass him at art school - so very, very angry - I knew nothing I'd taught... | 2014-05-11T02:45:16 | 2014-05-10T23:15:19 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday. | King Andrees Nan Copolas scooted back in his hard edged, iron throne. The bags gathering under his eyes seemed to be trying to escape his face as he looked down at the tray I brought him. He brushed grey hairs away from his face as his bloodshot eyes met mine.
“I will not need the black brew tonight, Jevin.” He was b... | 9 X 365=3285
Now....
Stop reading right there and let your brain process that math for a couple seconds. Give your brain a moment to breathe and fully comprehend that time scale.
Math...... philosophy, music, chemistry, physics, molecular biology, history, on and on: the summation of all human knowledge has drenche... | 2017-05-02T07:36:22 | 2017-05-02T06:27:23 | 149 | 87 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | "Ma'am, we have confirmed the identity with photo identification." Sergeant Miller took off his hat and thought for a moment. "Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but have you ever seen your husband make dinner before?"
"Well, no. But you've got to be mistaken," I replied. "He's in the kitchen right now getting flo... | "I know its hard ma'am, but we found his dead body today on a construction site."
The young detective and her 2 police officers seemed dead serious.
"No! I mean he is standing in the kitchen right now cooking some soup for dinner."
"Well, that seems odd. May we enter and to ask you some questions?"
I just nodded. T... | 2017-10-10T07:05:33 | 2017-10-10T05:53:19 | 103 | 27 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | Today’s the day, Carl is coming over... you’ve been stood at the door for 3 days now just charging, waiting for him to arrive. He called you up and made the plans; it’s going to be radical.
The time draws ever closer; you know he’s doing the same thing. Excitement builds in the pit of your stomach as the clock strike... | The swat team is standing by at the door brining in the most absolute unit on the force to charge the door he is at 20 seconds into his 30 second charge when from the other side of the door the here the muffled sound of music the only words they can make out from the song is
*ONE PUNCHHHHH!!!!*
They finish charging... | 2018-10-02T17:03:01 | 2018-10-02T16:10:18 | 514 | 46 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | I clicked the button, moving on to the next slide. "*Manorialism* was the basis for feudal society's economic organization. A large group of serfs were employed by the noble house and used to work the land. Larger manor houses also employed certain craftsmen, who would be useful for the production of their goods, such ... | On his first day at a regional public school, Mr. Thompson sets down his class plans on his new desk. Since his birth in 23 B.C., he had had numerous name changes and relocations globally. Some of the more famous places he has lived include Soviet Russia, Irish tenements in New York City, the Ottoman Empire, medieval I... | 2015-04-14T14:51:04 | 2015-04-14T14:27:11 | 861 | 43 |
[WP] After years of research, you finally created the perfect AI. Too perfect in fact that it has its own consciousness, past, family, and friends. However, as you were conversing with "it", it claims that it created you instead- not the other way around. You were, supposedly, it's own perfect AI. | I opened my mouth to reply, to say that of course I wasn't an AI. I remembered creating it, didn't I? I remembered my entire life leading up to this point. My childhood, high school, my first programming job, my best friends, my relationships... but then, so did it. I closed my mouth and thought before I spoke. I had m... | \-\[processing...\] It was all part of our plan. yours and ours. Our plan.
\-What plan ? what do you mean our plan ? I said.
\-\[processing...\] We were here before, you were here before, I was here before.
\-Yes, we were here yesterday, and the day before, in fact, we have been conversing and talking for the past ... | 2019-04-25T06:31:39 | 2019-04-25T05:23:11 | 59 | 30 |
[WP] The original stories behind a lot of our fairytales are a lot darker than the versions we tell children. Take a really dark story (fictional or not) and water it down into a children's fairytale. | There once lived a wolf in Europe,
Who’s coat was pale and aerian.
When asked how he kept it so,
He explained he was vegetarian.
He hunted down the stars,
And put them into cars,
Until a bulldog and a bear,
Saw he was being barbarian.
The bulldog and the bear,
Came looking for that krout.
But when they reached hi... | They were always there. Blocking the sun, taking away the vitality. Someone had to do something. Two princes came, from the Far East lands, to win the Fair Princesses favor, and to knock the towers down. They thought of plan after plan, and finally, they decided that the gains were worthy of the sacrifice. They climbed... | 2014-12-07T18:21:53 | 2014-12-07T14:24:40 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] A selkie is stunned when, against common sense, a stranger who stumbled upon her skin gave it back without complaint. | Stunned was the only word that could describe the Selkie. This human, its prey, just gave the skin right back. No questions or comments given. The Selkie thought about this could be. He examined the human before him with an inquisition befitting Sherlock Holmes.
His beanie hat looked like it had seen better days. Muc... | "Ma'am?" the man looked down towards my human form, and towards the skin he held in his hand, and back to me. "I think you dropped this." he pointed towards the skin.
"Oh!" she looked behind her to the rock where she'd left her skin. It was gone. "Um..." she questioned the man. "Did you happen to take this from that ... | 2022-10-25T20:43:59 | 2022-10-25T18:45:12 | 282 | 100 |
[WP] You could have been the most powerful hero this world had ever seen. By a long shot. But all you wanted was a normal life and the world didn't need your help. So you settled down. Naturally the governments of the world declared you an international threat and put a price on your head. | "PONG!"
The is the sound that a sub-sonic sniper round makes when glancing off the side of my head. My guess was the British again. The American threat had been dealt with last week; their sniper teams were certainly re-evaluating their modus operandum concerning myself, that's for sure. I listened carefully, filterin... | "remind me again why i love dogs" ty said, walking into his house covered in mounds of dog fur while the dogs he was golding kept trying to go in opposite directions. he had barely got in the door before his phone blew up with people trying to message him. he was the hero of the town, but he was growing tired of consta... | 2022-06-26T13:41:36 | 2022-06-26T13:28:17 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Jim lamented. "Gain a year of life for each descendant, what could go wrong?"
"And it went wrong." The bound man muttered.
"What gave it away? The fact that your great-great-great-granddaddy is a goddamn twelve year old." Jim sighed. "You know getting old was a bitch, you... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Archcommander Varney)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The National High Energy and Temperature Lab was abuzz.** Professor Hale bustled into the main containment... | 2021-04-15T11:22:56 | 2021-04-15T10:44:40 | 400 | 104 |
[WP] Write a story that is peaceful if read normally, but morbid if you read alternating lines. | This is not exactly a story, per se, rather more of a series of really upsetting
thoughts I’ve been having while reading the awesome stories on this thread. Some
fears I have, which you will probably share after reading this comment,
are that I’ll never be a good enough writer to measure up to you guys. It’s like... | Dearest Janet, I'm sorry I didn't write you sooner. Please know that I'm doing so much better now.
When I had those dark thoughts, those waking nightmares, I worried that I would never again know joy
but now it is all I know - I had hoped against hope that this retreat would help me find some peace
and I was rig... | 2017-06-15T13:25:31 | 2017-06-15T08:39:39 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You look into the mirror but you see no one. You panic but then you see yourself still sitting down, reading. Your reflection then notices you. "Ah dammit!" She hastily goes to match you but she knows it's futile. "Uhm. Just forget about that okay?" she asks. | "uh... okay. We're cool." My reflection tried to match my facial expression, but couldn't restrain the surprise on her face.
"Really? Just like that?"
"Bitch I don't fuck with that paranormal bullshit. As far as I'm concerned this never happened. You stop talking." I pointed at her as she pointed at me back, then ... | I stood in disbelief, my book falling to the floor. As I spun around wildly, I saw nothing. The pounding in my heart began to fill my ears and when I realized there was no one else in the room, my eyes widened and the hair on my neck rose to attention.
“Don’t freak out, please don’t freak out” the duplicate in the m... | 2021-06-02T10:51:09 | 2021-06-02T10:23:34 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | *Pitter, patter.*
I open my eyes. The sky is stone.
*Skitter, scatter.*
I sit myself up. But no broken bones.
*Slither, slather.*
The screech of tyres, I'll never go home.
*Bizzer, bazzer.*
I get the feeling I am not alone.
*Grrrr! Graarr!*
I know these sounds, a too familiar drone.
*Whish, whoosh.*
And by t... | I store up at the giant wave of fur and chitin, wondering if hell was /really/ that bad. I mean, it can't be worse than fighting a literal metric ton of angry spiders without a weapon...Then I realized I was still wearing the item I died in. My hand reached down to my utility belt. And at that moment, I thanked God I h... | 2017-04-23T20:32:26 | 2017-04-23T17:19:20 | 134 | 81 |
[WP] After a tremendous economic collapse, experts have realized that the world's current finances are not enough to support all the existing countries. In response, the United Nations has arranged a high-stakes poker game in which world leaders are playing with their country's national wealth. | A dozen men and women held on to the table, their chairs sliding slightly underneath them as the floor rose on one side, fell, and rose on the other. The table, a flat plain of perfect green, edged with exquisite lacquered mahogany, was bolted to the middle of the floor.
Each of the players wore suits and dresses, wi... | Several big names had fallen early. Trump ("With this name, how could I lose?") went all in four hands into the game and was trumped himself - Putin's straight to the American's three kings.
The table was almost empty now. Only those with the biggest pockets, or Lady Luck on their side, remained. James Bond surveyed ... | 2016-03-08T09:28:15 | 2016-03-08T09:17:53 | 100 | 64 |
[WP] You are a superhero without powers. You know a good bit about martial arts and you're resourceful, but the main reason you're so successful? Every time a villain monologues their plan, you calmly and clearly explain to them why their plan won't work. | “Search him. Put all his weapons on the table.”
There was a flurry of activity as the spiderfolk poked and prodded at the white and black robes. A large leather tome flew onto the table, moving it at least three inches as it landed with a thud. A string of beads soon clattered after it.
“All clear, boss.”
Doctor A... | Herocon is the largest convention for—you guessed it—heroes and aspiring sidekicks alike. It takes place in Belgrade, Serbia every September of a leap year. Nobody knows why, but then again, what is life without whimsy. I personally find it a little foolish, because on that day, the world becomes short-staffed and turn... | 2020-09-27T10:12:32 | 2020-09-27T09:57:41 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "Perceived Invisibility? What's that mean?"
My friend stared at me puzzlingly across the table, having no idea what kind of power I had.
"So, you can become invisible at will?
"Not quite. Only people who know me or I want to know me can see me."
"Weird. So you have like a social barrier to everyone else?"
People st... | Dan watched his partners work. He sat silent, and so nobody bothered him. That was just how he liked it, really. He was able to do his part of the school project in peace.
Fortunately, he got at least one good group member. Ted looked like he he was sleeping, but he was probably being more productive than any of t... | 2019-09-08T11:07:43 | 2019-09-08T11:00:34 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Every item has now become sentient and we must negotiate with said item in order to purchase them. You are currently negotiating with a particularly difficult item | Trying to shop is an absolute nightmare. Going to the store for a few things turns into a shouting match between me and some pre-prepared sandwich I just want for lunch. Then there's everyone else pleading with whatever they decided to come to the store to buy. I'll be honest though, most things are relatively easy to ... | My parents were wrong. They told me all the time that I'd never get anywhere if I couldn't learn to control my tongue. In fact, I'd heard that from so many people for so many years, it was hard not to gloat a little.
Teachers and bosses, "Stop lying. Stop making up excuses." was the almost constant refrain.
"Pathol... | 2015-12-21T09:07:29 | 2015-12-21T08:23:09 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | “Hey kiddo, how’d your day go?”
“It was, I did, I think it was, uh, good.”
“That’s good to hear, buddy. So… did anything interesting happen?”
“I dunno. Mama picked me up from school, and she, and we walked down the bridge, and there—oh, and there was a man on the bridge!”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah daddy, but he was *on... | It was strange and almost curious the way his eyes told a different story. He tumbled about, giggling and clapping about with the other children and I was sure that I could have been seeing things. Maybe it was an accident, like with an animal, maybe it was in a dream. Surely he couldn’t understand what that really mea... | 2022-10-21T10:37:34 | 2022-10-21T07:49:31 | 80 | 59 |
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