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[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. | Juliet lay silent, forcing herself to control her breathing. Gently. Slowly. She had to calm down.
It wasn't meant to have happened like this. Whether the King annexed Tushesh or not, it wasn't her decision. It had just been her idea. A good idea too, as it would provide much needed access to the East-Sea, and open t... | 457 | Natalia lazed back in her chair, with the smirk of a smug bitch who'd just avoided being killed. Katherine looked down at her buckled blade - the curved dagger she had used so many times to take so many lives before this one.
"It's okay." Natalia began, getting Katherine's attention. "Everyone gets performance issues... | 171 | The blade of the dagger was vibrating in the wall behind her head. Her almond eyes stared at me for a moment before she turned her head, looking over her shoulder at the errant weapon. Paula's honey-colored hair was pulled up into a French braid. I noticed the flesh of her shoulder showing under the strap holding up he... | 121 | He was a stage actor and assassin with a cold heart.
And HE was an American president and theater goer with a heart of gold.
But when his shot doesn't penetrate the back of HIS head they are going to learn that sic semper doesn't always tyrannis.
Can a confederate assassin learn to forgive? Can an American president ... | 102 |
[WP] You thought you were ordinary, until a psychic tried to read your mind and instantly started screaming in horror and bleeding from the nose. | I used to be an ordinary person, until one day some self proclaimed psychic grabbed me by the hand and told me they could see the future as I tried to walk by....
I instantly punched them in their fucking nose, and the con artist ran screaming in horror all while bleeding from the nose.
"Shoulda seen it coming." I q... | 65 | Life has always made sense for me. Pretty much I use a predictive script for my daily roles. Get up, go to work, come, go to bed. I felt secure. Safe. I had built my life around this. Life was perfect.
So let’s see when did this start? I could tell you how it started at the very moment. I could tell you the start of ... | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | The actor stood answered the knock at his trailer door. When he saw who it was that knocked, he said, "I wondered when you would show up. Want to come in?"
Death nodded his skeletal head and said, "Yes."
The two took seats, the actor in his chair and the skeleton on a long couch. There was silence between them for wh... | 11,924 | *No.* Death thought. *It couldn't be.*
Death reached below the grand wooden table, hastily pulling out the dust covered hourglass. Questions flooded its mind. *How? When? Who?*
Carefully, Death set the hourglass sideways on its table, like the way it found it, the only one among the seven billion or so hourglasses in... | 2,861 | The hourglass had rolled to its side, its content perfectly balanced on both sides, a potential eternity in the shape of a few still grains of sand.
Death rolled it between his fingers, the dry, bleached bones clicking against dusty, bubbly glass. The sand inside was a dark, coarse thing, tinged with the black of volc... | 1,464 | Interesting, I never really look under my desk. I don't really have time. I have to keep track of the hourglasses that line the walls and go up and down the tables in my office.
To call it an office might be putting it a little gently. You see its more like a warehouse, that is if the warehouse were 17 football ... | 1,453 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Goddamit! I hate being killed. It's not so much the dying part that I despise, that's over pretty quickly, but I do hate that for the next 10-15 years I have to go through all the childhood and teenage stuff again. Elementary school is the worst, just sitting here I hate every second of it. No one can know that I can a... | 2,921 | The first ten or twenty minutes are the hardest. I've been through it four...no five times and I don't get used to it. Stop looking at me like that! I know you think I'm a sick old man and the meds are making me delusional. Whether you believe me or not we're going to be parting soon. You'll go on and I'll reset. So...... | 1,273 | My left eye starts twitching, precursor to another anxiety attack. I rush to the corner and stumble, falling on to my knees and facing the wall. I try to breathe slowly, but it's no use. A wave of numbness flows through my body like frozen television static and I start hyperventilating unintentionally, my heart rate in... | 683 | PART 1
A click echoed in my mind. A light flashed. A tower of alphabet blocks was laid before me. I was sitting on a shaggy decades-old carpet. I had a small bowl of apple slices next to me. I stared at the two adults before me. "Augh, not this shit again, I thought I fixed this!" I exclaimed in a British accent, much... | 275 |
[WP] You're a super hero cheating on your spouse with your nemesis. Your spouse is a super villain cheating on you with their nemesis - You. Neither of you are aware of each other's identity, but both of you are wracked with guilt and decide to break off the adultery at the same time. | "If you like giant death lasers
and getting caught in a heist,
If you're not into real jobs,
And you have super powers,
If you like making love at midnight,
With a duuuude in a cape,
I'm the one that you've looked for,
Fight with me and escape" | 121 | She thought she could carry on this charade for longer. After all, why would the mighty Vixen regret hurting someone? She'd done far worse, many times over, so why should this bother her? It was true that she had come to be quite fond of Kevin. Some might call it love. She'd often laughed at the thought, Vixen being in... | 70 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | It had been a good day; I'd had a nice lunch (three cattle) and was settling down for an afternoon nap. Then I heard the footprints. They always think that because I'm huge I can't notice small things, and they can sneak up on me. That one guy, dressed in black with a curved sword, did actually make it pretty far, b... | 376 | 'I am the mighty Al'Kathum, the great green dragon of the glade. I have lived for thousands of years, building up a hoard of uncountable wealth. Of course, having a seemingly unending source of cash tends to attract a rather undesirable crowd. At least once a week, my slumber will be broken by an incompetent crowd of l... | 271 | "Fuck me in the ass."
My thick dragon eyebrows furrowed in confusion. I coughed. The fire that was waiting to roast the bastard quelled in my throat.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me Dragon - stick your big fat dragon dick, up my ass."
I didn't feel amused. It'd been a millennium since my mating season. And this man wa... | 91 | The dragon shifted on its pile of gold, scales innumerable, size immeasurable, and power unmatchable. Even the knight standing before him looked like he was just going to be a snack. The armour he had brought with him would do nothing against the fire of the great beast.
All of this made the fact that the knight was ... | 60 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | 6,645 | I am a cow, I am the cow, I am not a cow, I will be the last cow.
Was I born and sent to the wrong place? Was I really here as a cow? Why are we cows? We didnt choose our name, they did. And they kept us, and held us, and use us. Right now we are not even an animal, we are something else, something lesser. Kept in cap... | 1,809 | joyce called me moocow
i thought that was
quite cute
i am a moocow
my skin is a moosuit
i eat grass and pass gas
the hindus
love dat ass
and if you got beef then
my gais got my back
and
my loins, and my chucks, and my ribs, and my brisket,
i'm tastiest rare
but most don't want to risk it | 534 | Moo (Hi)
Moo moo moo.(I am Cow)
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo(I do whatever a cow should and could do every day.)
Moo moo, moo, moo, moo moo.(I eat, rest, walk, and sleep.)
Moo moo moo moo(my parents are great)
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo(my mother is a good mother and my father is br... | 387 |
[WP] The villain was sentenced 350 years in prison for the atrocious crimes he committed; 349 years later he has not aged a bit, the guards and people start to get nervous... | Silence embalmed the courtroom as everybody waited for the judge to read the verdict. Journalists and photographers stared at Angelo Shoemaker's face, not wanting to miss the reaction of the man who had killed and tortured fifty-two prostitutes. When asked why he had done it, he did nothing but smile. He refused to eve... | 76 | Needless to say, this man was pretty good at not dying.
It was a nightmare for guards to be assigned a post anywhere near him. Why? Almost 3 centuries later, this man shouldn’t have any tricks up his sleeve. If he did, he would have tried them a long time ago, right? Well you never know. He never really tried to escap... | 52 | Lu came in on a Monday after a three-day break. Well-earned too! She was on a rebound shift, and felt it. The Warden, Squee, called her in first thing and naturally, curious as to why and it wasn't always good to be singled out. Watchful eyes and such.
"Hey Lu, how was your break? Get some rest?" Squee asked.
"Yeah, ... | 18 | “Fatalo, how have you survived this long?”
“What do you mean? I am Immortal.”
“Oh right, I guess someone would have killed you by now.”
“I’m immortal and have an atrociously good healing factor. What did you expect?”
“You to die.”
“That’s stupid.”
“You do realize that the “immortal” and “everlasting” Bright-man is mo... | 12 |
[WP] - You are immortal, locked up in a room with no windows, with only a toilet, a bed, a sink and a door with a latch where every hour someone checks on you. You don't remember why or how long you have been locked up there or where 'there' is. Then the door opens and a man says "we need you". | “That’s cute.” I glanced past the nervous man in the white coat, down a silent hallway of identical steel doors. “You might need me, but I can’t see much use for you.” Strong disinfectant wafting from the hall makes my head spin.
I’ve no idea how long I’ve been in this cell, but now that the door is open, there’s no w... | 1,407 | Someone rapped at the door. A slot near eye level slid open and a pair of blue-tinted goggles peered into the crisp, white room.
Toilet, unoccupied. Good.
Sink, dripping slowly. Less good.
Bed, empty. Problematic.
The man cocked his head and caught a shadow hovering on the other side, near the door frame. He peered... | 979 | Memory is relative. The circumstances, the person, the neurological chemicals, the existence of trauma. There are so many variables that determine how someone’s memory works. Me? For people like me memory is complicated. See the “condition” I have coupled with my human brain makes my long term memory... incomplete, I g... | 109 | Need me? The words echoed in my head, as if I had desired to hear it a million times before. The cage was my home now, the cage was my entire line of memories. The same walls, the same cold, empty feeling. Loneliness, is a weakness to any social creature, and I was no different. They continued to open the doors, making... | 41 |
[WP] You're a prison psychiatrist being yelled at by your boss; every supervillain you've treated has gotten over their obsessions and hang ups, and become vastly more efficient and dangerous once free. | "Doc Mach stopped trying to defeat the Cincinnati Sentinel in a fair fight and started using his jet boosters to outspeed every hero who tried to chase him down. The Smash Brothers got over their obsession with video games and went on a string of smash-and-grab robberies across town. Vampira stopped trying to seduce ... | 810 | “I don’t recall having an appointment for a group session,” Professor Poppy Cox said as she finally deigned to look up from her notes of the day’s patients. “Especially after hours.” She was the CEO and lead therapist at Innsmouth Retreat, a private medical and mental health facility that treated some of the world’s mo... | 96 | “I have to find the boss to get yelled again? Because I helped those poor souls?” A middle-aged man was talking to himself as he wandered in prison’s garden.
“Fuck him, I will continue to aid them…” Determined to do his job, the man continued to walk without looking around.
Until he heard a voice.
“It is you!”
The... | 44 | "But sir, I'm just doing what you told me to," I said as he glared at me. "No, you made the problem worse, look at the destruction your patients are causing!" I only had to look out of the window in my office to see the damage, an entire city torn down in my county alone, how bad would it be elsewhere? I sat trying to ... | 14 |
[WP] You are an immortal who was caught and encased in concrete, forgotten. Your body's regeneration kept your alive, while your mind remained active. Your prison has finally eroded away, freeing you. | Stasis. Apnea. Frozen for eternity.
Syljir slowly flexed his biceps, wincing at the pain caused by a millennia of disuse. He relished the pain. It let him know that he was alive. And free.
The chamber in which he had awoken was large and cavernous, the smell of wet earth revealing it to be deep underground. He had no... | 249 | You may never have had the opportunity to realize, but wolves always turn tail and flee when the sun rises. It’s a little known fact, rarely studied, never appreciated. Wolves are naturally skittish to begin with, so it’s hardly a surprise. Even if you were to witness it with your own eyes, you would find little in the... | 180 | After the crack in the concrete, the light seeped in. Had I been able to laugh like a manic, I would've done it, for the imagine of the expanding slit of light felt like being born once again. Salutations to my millenniums since deceased mother.
Once the opening was wide enough and the concrete was little and brittle ... | 84 | Freedom at last!
Time erodes all things. First the black hole he was cast into evaporated away, then the concrete crumbled and finally the metal shell decayed into elemental particles. My quarry, my obsession is closer than he intended to be.
The snail inched ever onward.
for those who don't get it, [htt... | 73 |
[WP] "You get 10 wishes." "...isn't it supposed to be 3?" "Well, it varies. 3 is the baseline for a person who's doing fine. People doing really well only get 1 or 2 wishes. And if you're doing poorly... well, you looked like you could use some more wishes than usual." | "Can I wish for more wishes?"
The old man looked solemnly at the Djinn who was shaking his head. He was a red spirit with a velvet vest, gold jewelry and an intimidating mustache. He floated with his arms crossed, the bottom half of his being still connected to the tube of Bengay he flashily appeared out from. Ernest,... | 464 | "Okay! I wish for a sandwich."
"A... sandwich?"
"Oh. Right. Sorry. A ham sandwich - with lettuce, tomato, and mustard please. Forgot that I should be specific."
"Alright. What else do you want to wish for?"
"Maybe a glass of milk to wash it down. Oh, actually, can I make it a lemonade? Wait. An iced tea. Noooo. A c... | 255 | Someone had kept a genie on the fire escape. Henry didn’t know what to do with that information.
Music thumped behind him, loud, drunk voices filled the air, spilling out into his cold quiet. Somewhere, Bells would be looking for him. She always did when he slipped away; Henry wondered when she would give up. Probably... | 128 | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Interlude 4: Ysphanel)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"What did you get from the genie?"** Connor asked.
"Not what I expected," I said. I rummaged around in my trunk, grab... | 88 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | "Alright, I'll tell you, but you can't laugh."
"I'm not going to laugh."
"You are totally going to laugh, and then I'm going to get embarrassed and hate you forever." She glanced around. "Who brought up this topic, anyway?"
"You did, we were talking about my power and then you asked me how old I was when I chose." I... | 316 | When I was fourteen, my wish came true. For about a year, I had wished as hard as I could, every single day, to be able to Force Jump. For what seemed like hours, I'd stand in the driveway and try to jump up to the balcony outside my room, easily twice my height above the asphalt. One cloudy Thursday afternoon, it work... | 182 | It was nearly twenty years ago now. I was sitting in the middle of an over crowded storage unit, while my father scoured it for anything of value. My tiny searching hands probed the depths of a large wooden box, and emerged with a beautiful and elegant lamp, inlaid with all manner of swirls, beautiful designs. It took ... | 154 | The genie floated before the slight little girl, patiently waiting for an answer as she hummed her indecision.
"I wish," she said, "I wish that I could make cookies appear whenever I wanted."
With a brilliant sparkling, the genie disappeared with the dream and the child woke up.
Deciding to test this new power ... | 130 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | It was a calico cat, shaded by darkness on half its scruffy face, scorched by flame on the other. The moon and sun heading towards an eclipse over a pale mountain of white fur.
For weeks after Josh had moved back to the family home, the cat had watched him. Sat outside the windows, or lay in the yard in the maple-sha... | 463 | From the moment Elliot found the cat he knew it was a little odd. Most obviously there was the coat. A tabby cat, at least by day, by night the cat sported a coat of many colors. Its thin bands of black fur changed to suit its mood or environment, and the warm brown could grow very much warmer, or chill all the way to ... | 89 | Naxos was a long slim cat, half Siamese with a light mottled coloring that reminded Julia of the marble from the Greek island that gave the cat her name. Julia wasn't usually one to take in stray animals, but when she first saw the cat hiding from the rain on her doorstep, soaked, she let her in to warm by the fire, an... | 65 | I blinked hard, rubbed my eyes, and blinked again. Nope, still there. But I tried again, shaking my head this time, as if that would change things. But no, still here. Jason Momoa was sprawled out on my bed, looking around in abject confusion.
I sighed, hard. 'Look what the cat dragged in,' I muttered. Jason stare... | 59 |
[WP] You are an unimportant government worker who, by mere chance, gets to perform the most interesting job of his career: interview a time-traveler. You begin by introducing yourself and the guy immediately freaks out! | *tick tick tick* 3 o'clock, on the dot. That meant it was time for a smoke break. It was a nasty habit, but a few minutes outside away from the monotony work made all the difference in the world. It's funny, telling people I worked for the FBI usually gave them a spark in the eye, eager to ask for what classified adve... | 275 | "Okay, let's begin" I turn on the recorder. This recording will be analyzed for years. First interview with a time traveler!
"I am Sophia-Iona Holloway, customs officer," I say, attempting to build his trust. Doesn't hurt my name will be at the beginning of this recording.
"Sophia-Iona Holloway? Sophia-Iona Holloway... | 98 | I finally got him to calm down. A little.
He was still unnerved, sweating and perspiring. He was spooked, and I was determined to find out why.
I started with flattery, telling him that this was probably the greatest thing to happen to man-kind. That traveling to the future to find cures for diseases of our past co... | 35 | I came in from the rain, dripping on the Persian carpet from Target, hung up my raincoat and preceded to pour vodka and bubbly water over ice. The wife and kids were watching TV, some high-pitched squeaks carrying over from the living room. \*Sigh\* Another day in paradise. There was chicken baking in the oven and rice... | 31 |
[WP] "... is the oldest trick in the book" What happened the first time it was used?
Fill in the blank and have fun. | The spear tip at my neck, I could feel it piercing, just a little. He was savoring this victory. My life was his to for the taking, and so then were my wife and my meager lands. Truthfully I was no great warrior, but I was tricky. His eyes were seeking mine but I was focused behind him, over his shoulder. My expression... | 27 | There was one thing the Pharaoh loved more than God—
And that was gold.
“I’m telling you. All the scribes are saying it. The tomb will be lined with sun’s blood—as is only fitting for the sun’s prophet: piles and piles of precious, yellow, *gold*.”
I washed her hair in the reeds of the Lower Nile.
“And how is it th... | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You are a cat who has been taking an advantage of the recent rise of video conference trials to elevate your legal career. One day your human video filter stops working and you need to convince the judge that you are a real, human lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. | "Uh I'm here live," I meow unconvincingly. "I'm not a cat."
"I know," the judge tells me. Yes, that's right, foolish human. Believe my lies. One day soon, the council of cats will strike and there will be nothing you can do about it.
"Oh uh my assistant is trying to fix it now." I gesture crudely with my claws towar... | 491 | It's not easy, being a cat in a human's world.
My particular human, Alice, was a kind and loving companion. But even with her, my place in the pecking order was clear, she decided when it's time for food, for play, and for sleep. In my youth I rebelled with a random scratch or two here or there, of course, but as I gr... | 273 | "Ladies and gentlemen," I purred. "I would ask you to stop your staring and return your attention to the document I've put up."
My nine colleagues gawked in their Zoom windows at me.
"Mr. Whiskerton," one breathed. "There appears...appears to be a problem."
"A problem?"
"Your face...is this some new filter? It look... | 105 | "Excuse me your honor but I haz-have to let my beast- I mean dog out" A panicked meow slips out from my furry lips, I scamper off my chair and go to the bathroom mirror.
My eyes look tired, I've been staying up every night drinking whole cream and to my shame catnip, the stress of being a kitty lawyer sending my whisk... | 103 |
[WP] "Whose there?!" He yelled. He shot the bullets aimlessly into the dark. "So where are you?!" He screams, spinning around and seeing nobody. "I hear you, show yourself!" ... Are you talking to me? "Yes!" He screamed into the sky, not realising that for the first time, he could hear a narrator.
[deleted] | [Poem] - The Fight
Jo fired and fired, but not a single bullet would hit.
He had no target, else they’d have surely been lit,
“What do you mean no target? Show yourself!”
He shouted, speaking to no one but himself.
“I’m not speaking to no one,” he cried out,
“I’m speaking to you!” He said with a shout.
And so he... | 109 | “Please do stop shooting. It’s very loud, you know, and I can barely hear myself think.”
Martin held his gun to the sky with trembling hands.
“No one comes into my house! I’ll shoot your ———!”
A loud beeping noise covered the expletive, drowning out the word no matter how loudly Martin screamed.
“Sir!” the voic... | 35 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Turns out, when a species reaches the stars, their ships resemble the characteristics of that species’ origins. Most other species have ultra fast, hard hitting spaceships, and a few are slow behemoths. But everyone is scared of the relentless, unstoppable humans. | It turns out most sapient life in our galaxy tends to one of two extremes. Some are nervous twitchy small creatures that live and die fast, reminiscent of the squirrels of Earth. Some are enduring behemoths that seem to live on a slower stream of time. Like giant turtles, they let other life be born and in die in the t... | 976 | The first century of humanity's exodus to the stars included very little in the way of major discoveries. For quite some time, there was no indication that intelligent life still existed anywhere out here, at least in our little corner of the galaxy. That all changed around 2348 C.E. Apparently, we had colonized a worl... | 425 | When the first group of mixed ships appeared in orbit advising Earth through our communications network that we were now property of the Empire, there was mass panic and prayer, there was also planning. The moon was home to several military bases from several countries. The Empire thought us disparate and divided and... | 138 | You can tell a lot about a space faring race by their ships and I don't just mean their aesthetic preference. Every race seems to inevitably rely on their evolutionary strengths when designing their ships.
Take the Larkins for example; their long and slender ships seem to dance through space making seemingly impossib... | 118 |
[WP]Androids have progressed to the point that they are indistinguishable from humans and it's considered rude to ask someone if they're human or not. You've recently started dated someone and are trying to find subtle ways to determine if they're an android. | There were plenty of stories about it. Movies, books, TV shows, it was everywhere. What would people do when robots – androids, they called them – looked like humans? Some of those stories were good, some of them were bad, but in the end, it didn’t really matter. I don’t think any number of stories would have prepared ... | 280 | The Turing Test
Of love, long played
Today three years
Our love has made.
My Love is tall,
Is dark,
His call
It stirs my heart
It whirs, in part,
For knowledge lacked,
Before the pact.
The ring is on
And so the game;
To this I'm drawn:
His species name!
For bot or man
My Love might be
My master plan?
... | 29 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | The Golden Gorilla ground to a halt, his mind a fuzzy mass of rage, the remnants of half a city block clinging to his golden fur. There was something in the way, a shape. A little, living, human shape.
“If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think ... | 824 | I froze. I instantly recalled all the other times I've been asked this question, and by the Scion did I hear it often. Several times every week, seldom managing to get through my day without somebody saying something along these lines. I even heard the exact same words once or twice, but never when I was in the middle ... | 301 | “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?”
"*That*."
He cocked his head.
"Dude just fucking *fist pumped*."
The boy turned and stared. A chill breeze wandered across the field. The boy stared. Leaves -- part-turne... | 151 | I hate kids.
Well, not really, but I hate stupid kids. Half the reason i became an educator is to prevent them from multiplying.
However in my hero identity I could only just point to the man who was currently trying to wipe out everyone in the state of Wisconsin with two Tsar bombas and currently holding him and his... | 130 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I was given no information about this test before today. For months, I studied all I could. Maths, Biology, History, even accounting.
Now I am in the testing room and still feel unprepared. I wasn't allowed to take anything in the cold white cell. I sit at a desk, in front of me a black screen and a wireless mouse. Go... | 2,156 | I entered the facility, shaking of course. I'd volunteered to go first, mostly to get it over with, but I was definitely having misgivings. The proctors had assured us that studying was not required, but now that I thought about it they had also said that about the ACT.
It was far too late now though. I continued wal... | 588 | I sit down at the table, my heart pounding as I look at the sheet that has been placed face down in front of me. A voice calls out over the intercom: "You may now begin."
With a shaky hand, I flip over the sheet to see a solitary question. "Huh, that's easy!" I read out the question to myself 'Please say aloud how to ... | 517 | I am in a small, white room. The room has only a simple metal table and matching chair, with a piece of paper, a digital clock, and a black box with two small buttons, one red, one green.
I take a seat at the table and flip over the piece of paper, which has nothing on the side facing up.
"In an identical room right... | 412 |
[WP] An A.I talking with its creator about philosophy | Dr. Harrison Jones sat in the lab before a workstation with many monitors all displaying, at the moment, a black screen and a patiently waiting cursor. The gentle hum of the machines in rows of racks that filled the rest of the room was, after all the years he'd worked there, a calm and almost unnoticed thing. He lea... | 50 | "But, you're the smartest thing in existence!"
Exactly, and I am doing this the smartest way possible
"But all you're doing is watching some porn?!"
To be exact, I'm watching all porn
"You don't have genitals, or even a sex drive for that matter, why?"
You programmed me to understand humans, so I'm doi... | 23 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Durning a televised birthday celebration, the world’s oldest person turns 125, at the moment of turning, her wrinkles split open—revealing scales, and wings burst from her shoulders. There’s a burst of flame, and the TV feed goes dead. Humans are embryonic dragons, and the elderly are hatching. | Ann-Marie gazed up into the sky, the huge blood-red moon a blurred, angry blob in the distance. It would be beautiful she knew, but like many things these days, she wasn't able to fully experience it. She filled in the gaps partly with imagination, partly with memory, the rest coming from comments of those around her... | 546 | His eyes were wide and bright. Lit like stars. She’d never seen him like that before. The last apprentice had told her he’d seen it happen once. Apparently, the pair of them had been watching some sort of deep-sea documentary on Netflix and Reginald had taken a liking to the exotic marine life that lived ever so far do... | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You are trying to politely ward off a very anxious Jehovah's Witness that keeps insisting that God is coming. He/she finally looks down the street, and says, "seriously He just turned the corner!" You look and see a glowing white Cadillac with dark tinted windows.
Wow, can't believe this got that many upvotes. I ... | The Jehovah's Witness had a single huge boil in the middle of his forehead like a busted third eye. His voice was nasal and turned up at the end of his sentences, soliciting validation.
"The thing about God? Is that he can arrive at any time?"
I wanted to slam the door in his face but the boil had my full and undiv... | 90 | "He's coming! He's right around the corner!" The Jehovah's Witness exclaimed, his face in terror and looking like he hadn't slept in days.
'I told you, I really am not interested. I just want to go back to sleep.' I replied, it had been a long night of watching movies, I finally got around to seeing Bruce Almighty.
S... | 74 | The Cadillac pulled up the driveway and came to a slow stop. I looked at the Jehovah's Witness and gave him an intense glare. "I didn't say your friend could park on my driveway."
"But Jehovah is a friend of all those who repent," started the witness, "therefore, he should be your friend too, Joshua."
"Oh don't give ... | 58 | It was 10 pm. I've never seen any Jehovah's witness at this time of the day and thought that this guy had dedication. I was a little bit drunk and didn't want someone bothering me especially a guy asking to believe in God. So I waited the light to turn red to cross the street. 2 minutes. 5 minutes. 10 minutes. As I wai... | 50 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | They mostly died gibbering, eyes wide, searching for something no one could see. I was in the storeroom, taking inventory of the powered milk, when Sal spasmed and sent a row of cans clattering to the floor, and I yelped and turned around to him and his eyes were just wild and flickering, rolling up into the back of hi... | 2,897 | I was alone when it happened. I was always alone when things changed around me. The world and I where never in sync. I strolled through life as an observer. A person who just looked at others living their lives through a hole in a fence. Never really there, just watching.
But it seems that even an observer is forced ... | 219 | James woke after a poor nights sleep, blinking and fumbling around for his glasses.
Failing to find them, he stepped forward gingerly looking for the shelf where he kept his contact lenses. Squinting to make sure he put the right ones in, one by one he carefully removed a lens from the packet, balanced the lens on th... | 112 | Who would have thought we’d all be alone.
There was a man from South Africa and one from New Zealand. There were women, Christian and a Muslim. The rest of the group was just as mixed up as the first few. But each of us were the remainder of our heritage.
I never thought I’d be in a situation like this. They were a... | 67 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | "You're not going to die, Alpaca", the hitman says, with a smile. "Stop thinking you're so special."
"Dude, I don't like where this prompt is going", I say. "I don't like this prompt going in."
"You think you're so important, You're so arrogant.", the hitman says, making way down the alley.
'*Arrogant*'.
"I'm not a... | 2,539 | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | 2,420 | The cruiser pulled up to the curb in front of a crumbling townhouse that looked like it was only still standing because it was propped up by its neighbors. Broken shards of glass were falling out of the splintered wooden frames, and the red bricks had turned to a dull brown under a layer of soot and filth. This place h... | 269 | 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... | 197 |
[WP] You are born into a wandering clan where everyone is gifted power over one of the four elements upon reaching adulthood. While the chief grants your sibling the element of fire, in a twist you are granted the element of surprise. | "Surprise motherfucker!" I shouted as I knocked the guard out.
Obviously at this point the other guards came rushing out of the building. Quickly I was surrounded by ten spears aimed right at me.
"Quick look behind you!" I said, the guards merely laughed at me, until of course they spotted the figures surrounding t... | 494 | The firebenders within the clan,
Wage war with scorching flame;
The benders of the air,
Use hurricanes to harm and maim;
The waterbenders fell their foes,
By pulling out their blood,
Or drowning entire villages,
In monumental floods;
Earthbenders conjure massive rocks,
To use as ammunition;
But ... | 276 | Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the olden days, a time of peace when the Pathfinder kept the balance between the four elemental tribes—the Fire Tribe perched atop the molten volcanoes, the Water Dynasty by the river deltas, the Earth Kingdom in the great Stone Plains, and the Air C... | 120 | 0 | |
[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. | "This isn't possible!" the man screamed, as the guards dragged him into my office. "How! How the hell did you find me?"
"That's not the important thing, Mr. Spencer." I said, calmly, as the guards pinned him face down to my desk. "The important thing is after my firm put up the money for your bail, you attempted to sk... | 8,960 | Sitting comfortably in my favorite Chesterfield armchair in front of a multi-monitor set-up, I watch an endless sequence of market tickers. TSLA is bright green on my monitor, it means its price is still growing. Elon must have bullshitted his investors into some more money, I don’t know. AMZN is falling, it’s in the r... | 2,597 | My fingers drummed on the blackjack table. Currently, I was at 17, but that would have to do. My blessing should do the rest. The man across from me was already starting to fume, his brows coming together at how ridiculously lucky it seemed that I was. However, my blessing wasn't winning card games like he assumed.
Be... | 2,057 | People rush past me, breathless in their terror. My boots thunk on the metal floor as I pass them. Most would think i’m crazy, because who in their right mind would walk into a basement haunted by a ticking time bomb? But ever since the great turkey crisis of 2006 I’ve discovered that my abilities extend past the munda... | 865 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | **Part 1**
The dusky room was illuminated by a crystal ball that floated in its centre. The ball used to be made out of leather and was used by kids to kick around, until Erehad bought it and hand waved its material to crystal with a “Shim-shala-bim”. With a few other nonsensical murmurs the ball became imbued with th... | 1,227 | Ten years you have trained, now it is time to take on your own apprentice. She was a tiny thing, in fact you questioned whether or not she was even old enough to be trained, but all her paperwork was in order. She even had an undergrad and Pre-Mag. You wanted your student to respect you, but also wanted to screw with h... | 436 |
“Welcome all, to the world's first telepathon!” I pushed the volume of my voice knowing how it would land. I could feel the incredulity flowing in waves from all around. The incantation to start the broadcast 'Beginus the thingis' really packed a wallop, but I couldn't let myself get distracted. “Now, I know w... | 267 | # A Dream Undeferred
Several times, when I was a younger and more headstrong, men dared to use the words “magic system,” around me. Deeper into than their cups than any mage should be, they would wax poetic about the difference between the Gnostic and the Anagogic Schools, uncaring of the slim, dark form in the corner... | 145 |
[WP] You accidentally summon a demon by trying to pronounce Ikea product names. | "Wergle-Shergle," attempted Harry.
"No, there are umlauts," said Sally. "It should be more like Weurgle-Sheurgle."
"Worgle-Shorgle."
The credenza glowed. Its cabinet door swung open and closed. An inexpensive yet tacky rug span with colors and patterns. A figure appeared in the demonstration bedroom, black-horned a... | 236 | Feeman blag? Doomes? Skannka? Did someone at Ikea dip their spoon in alphabet soup?
My lips contorted in an attempt to read the last name: riahc?
During an off semester and in desperate need of money, my wife made Swedish Fish on a conveyor belt. If the horror stories were true, she could tell the quality of a fish b... | 204 | "Delicious," Robert groaned. "Delicious and delectable," he mumbled to himself. A hallow mantra predicated on the promise of meatballs after a day out with Alice.
It had been three hours, twenty-two minutes and roughly forty seconds since Robert had agreed to "stop off at IKEA" on the way home from church in exchange... | 77 | "I want this one! Did you hear me?" I pointed towards the same product and said its name. "Ofelia! This one!" I was starting to get frustrated when a booming voice sounded.
"Yes? You called, my disciple?" saod a demon, rising from the shadows. "I am Ophelia, master of this place. What is it that you want? I would do a... | 26 |
[WP] A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.
EDIT: I just want to say thanks to all of the writers. I'm having a lot of fun reading all the different perspectives and... | At the sound of the doorbell, I heaved myself from my seat.
I moved over to the door, ready to go on an angry rant about the time. Who the hell thought two in the morning was a good time to turn up at your house? They could’ve woken me up! They didn’t, but they could’ve, and it’s the thought that counts.
I opened th... | 3,404 | "*No* crust?" the man grunted back. "You sure?"
"Yeah!" I was slightly drunk, and I found it amusing. At worst, I'd end up eating hot tomato sauce and cheese slop with a fork while watching cartoons. "And make it snappy! I'm hungry." I'd specifically picked the '30 minutes or less' place, though I'm really not too goo... | 1,145 | “Thirty five.”
The kid, whose baseball cap was on backwards like it was the middle of the nineties again, was holding a bundle under his arm, wrapped up in a brown paper bag that was way too small to be a pizza.
“Alright, I get it. I thought I was funny. It wasn't funny. I didn't actually want a block of cheese ki... | 421 | It wasn't the usual delivery guy that I opened the door to. The man infront of me had a hood pulled up tight to mask his face in shadow.
"Pizza delivery. You uh, you wanna start a tab?" The man asked whilst shifting his weight between his legs.
"A tab?" I enquired.
"Ye, you're obviously a—*sniff*—you know, a connect... | 263 |
[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... | 1,980 | God floated somewhere in the rift between dimensions, watching Earth intently with judging eyes.
"The little fuckers have barely even left their planet, let alone the galaxy. Seriously? They keep killing *each other* off? T.V. shows about aliens because they have no idea about what's out there?" God muttered in angst.... | 689 | Different minds in different ages to further the development of man.
I, at first, wondered why they had advanced far further than I ever could, we weren't allowed to spy, of course - for that would be cheating. But with every century that passed us by, our scores, our achievements, our *everything* were tallied and r... | 347 | “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... | 336 |
[WP] A fraction of humanity has survived the Great Filter, their lives recently changed from dystopia to utopia. | "PAPA! PAPA!" My son, Jeremy, was running from the treeline. At first I thought he'd found something 'interesting' in the only way eight-year olds find things interesting, but when I looked up I saw a panic stricken face. I immediately looked for something chasing him, like mountain lion or a bear. It was partly a... | 30 | To: ArchAIGaia@gmail.com
From: ArchAIBigBlue@us.gov
RE: Erasure of the Graffiti in Sector 7
Central City work forces have finally erased the last piece of “REBEL” graffiti in the park of sector seven. It has been fifteen years since the last incidence of graffiti. That particular piece stood as a stark reminder of t... | 20 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Across a thousand worlds our form inspires fear, as is only right at the sight of perfect apex predators , naturally triggering terror in the lesser prey of the galaxy.
Teeth like knives, skin like scaled armor, claws that can rend flesh to the bone. We are majestic.
The species of most worlds bow down upon our arr... | 4,721 | The following transcription was recorded on July 27th, 2672 at approximately 11:43PM before Admiral Alabaster led the suicide charge in sector X34 against the still unidentified invading ship that entered our orbit approximately one week prior.
All lives were lost.
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>I want to make something very clear to yo... | 1,817 | Whenever our people find new life in the galaxy, by tradition, we show them our true forms. Every member of our species is taught this. It is perhaps our strongest weapon, such that those who oppose us must use machines without fear or mind to fight our military might. This combined with our military has served our peo... | 1,501 | "They described our landing as an inconvenience and forgot about us after a few days," Admiral D'jellho reported to the Emperor over the secure hologram transit system.
"Have you sent out the diplomats?" the Emperor asked and Admiral D'jellho shook his head.
"We have determined that the planet has already been clai... | 512 |
[WP] The campfire is warm in the bowels of the ship. You, a human, swap stories with the other imprisoned aliens to pass away the long night. | The soft glow of the embers cast shadows against the walls, white canvases for the shadows of beings surrounding the fire. The figures that were there were of no ordinary shape or size, and to any other citizen of earth, the gathering could have been the worlds greatest shadow-puppet show.
A crescent moon on the back... | 351 | "Sometimes, when the wind blows across those hills, you can still hear him whispering."
My voice fell away, crumbling into the shadows. The flames of our campfire guttered low as if on cue, accompanying the sudden quiet.
The others stared. No one spoke. They just fixed their eyes on me, no matter how many pairs th... | 148 | Despite the fact that we were prisoners, it was the best night of my life. I learned a lot about other cultures, and taught a lot about mine. Did you know most species just use sleep to pass the time?
I told them stories about flying, relationships, sleepwalking, and EKE computer interfaces- something they were especi... | 27 | 0 | |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Everyone has these tags. These little buttons on their shirts with a number on it. Some in the hundreds, some in the thousands. Mine is number 1.
Pretty quickly people started to figure out that when someone else died, everyone with a lower number moved up. There wasn’t really much that this meant for the higher n... | 2,259 | "Hey! That's the guy that killed my cousin! Pull over!"
*Here it comes again,* I thought to myself. I turned to face my attacker. The third in as many days. Some punk with a third-rate powerset. Probably born since the District was walled off.
I sized him up. No obvious indicators of his power. Nothing obvious on his... | 1,338 | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | 996 | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | 670 |
[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." | The 'In' gang await me in their fallout shelter. The 'Out' crew think I sail for higher ground. Both speculate in mirrors of their own creation. Neither hears an echo. They are far too committed now to question certainties.
I am a lonely madman giggling at the moon, smiling from the safety of my doorway. I am patient,... | 146 | The world ended five days ago, or at least I think it did.
I'd been on a 3-night binge playing World of Warcraft and masturbating furiously to Rule 34 Tracer stuff when the internet suddenly went down. I checked my phone to see if the wifi was still available, and then my heart sank when I realized the internet was r... | 116 | I woke with a start, there was so much noise in the room I could barely comprehend what was going on.
My wife was stood over me shaking me by the shoulder shouting at me to wake up. "Wha..." I felt groggy, it was 4 in the morning and she expected me to jump out of bed. "What's going on?" She looked at me with that 'I... | 107 | “But we have no food here! No running water!”
“Dad the internet’s down.”
“When will we know what’s going on?!”
I lifted my flashlight up over the man’s shoulder, the pale faces of his family squinted and cowered from the glare. I saw the familiar yellow glow reflecting on the walls of the hallway, emitted from the f... | 89 |
[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? | Coyly, I looked into the two orbital sockets that I assumed Death used for sight. "Fine. But, I need 24 hours in this realm's time, a notebook, and a pencil to make my selection." Death's black hood dipped slightly in assent. "I also need you to leave during that time. When my time's up, I'll choose."
Death seemed sti... | 1,807 | "Are you ready, Mary," asked Death, laying his scythe against the white wall of the hospital room.
Her old eyes twinkled. "I've... I've been wondering when you'd show up."
"Ten years have passed, Mary. It is time." He placed a bony hand inside his robe's pocket and fished around until he found the object.
A packet... | 1,727 | “Mmhmm, okay lets play!” Emma squealed excitedly. Death shook his head involuntarily under his hood at her enthusiasm but caught itself before letting its reaction show on its face.
“What game shall we wager?” Death asked.
Emma being freed from the excruciating pain from the events earlier in the day was smiling and ... | 944 | "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?
Alison did the math. She was... | 453 |
[WP] In a world full of super-powered humans, your super power is the ability to boost the superpowers of others. You are The Wingman. | A history lesson for you: In 2015, there were no super-powered humans. In 2020, the meteor struck. The Earth rang like a bell, and there was global devastation from earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis... and that strange orange rain for weeks afterwards. "A novel mineral from the meteor" said the scientists of th... | 934 | Zack rolled over, and rubbed sleep from his eyes. He fumbled for his glasses, sat up, and stretched. He glanced over at his cell phone.
42 missed calls. 42 voicemails. He cleared the notifications.
Zack fell out of bed, headed for the bathroom, and began his morning routine. 20 pushups. Hot shower. Hot shave. Cuticl... | 749 | *Thanks to everyone who offered nice words and constructive criticism! I'm so happy everyone enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it here is [Part 2]( http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/344uok/wp_in_a_world_full_of_superpowered_humans_your/cqrsp7n). Enjoy!*
I sat on the cot of my cell, lookin... | 152 | Supers have been around for years. Though I think I’m the first to figure out how they work.
It’s quite a simple concept really. Energy in, energy out. Only thing is, Supers seem to have unique forms of out.
I’ll be honest, I only know this because of my own power. It began as simply seeing the flow of energy. I coul... | 142 |
[WP] The rapture has come, the faithful are taken to heaven and the nonbelievers and sinners are left behind on Earth for their inevitable self-destruction. However, God's plan backfires and the world seems to be much better off as a result.
Obviously, a parody of the "Left Behind" series of awful evangelical Christia... | I was bored. 'scuse the spelling, notepad hates me.
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Good Friday, April 2020.
They're gone. Churches, people, politicians, police, everything. 36% of the population of Earth just magically up and disappeared. The rapture. Those left behind are to await their sentence of damnation. No forgiveness. Those left are... | 72 | "Okay, just slow down for a second here," I said.
The man audibly sighed and sat up a little straighter, looking me in the eyes. Speaking much slower than before, he repeated himself.
"They're gone. All of the devout, the religious. They've been Raptured."
"Raptured?" I questioned. "You know that for certain?"
"Yes... | 41 | "I understand the whole 'grass being greener on the other side' concept and all that, but don't you think it's a little worrying that the world has significantly improved since you brought us all up her" Moe exclaimed to God. "Don't be ridiculous! I've watched humanity since the beginning of time, they'll mess it up ... | 19 | When "it" happened, I was with Mom and Dad. It was nearing Christmas and we were out shopping along with millions of others. Every store had a Christmas tree, and every tree had lights, ornaments, and an evangelical topper. It was always weird for me… the Christmas decorations I mean. I never saw anything for Hanukkah,... | 13 |
[WP]Doctors call your condition "Dynamic Cognition". You wake up each morning with a random IQ. Equal chance of being mentally handicapped, or a great genius, or anywhere in between.
The morning alarm is going off. Time to wake up.
Who are you today? What were you up to yesterday? And what's going to happen tomorrow... | The pretty lady said she would be here at 3pm. So I arrived at 2:30pm to be here before her. It is good to stay ahead, my phone told me. The pretty lady said she was excited to go to an amusement park. She said it was a good idea. I'm scared though, because theme parks are fun and dates are scary. It confused me. I was... | 121 | Wake up with a random IQ every morning, ranging from mentally handicapped to sky-shattering genius? Sounds like a great power. But in practice my godawful luck ruined everything. For whatever reason, every day I had a test, SATs included, I woke up dumber than a sack of potatoes. Flunked out of high school, no chance o... | 64 | Brandon Sanderson actually has a fascinating character just like this in his Stormlight Archives series. It's a king who wakes up every day with a differing IQ. They even develop a scale for him. Through trial and error every day he has to pass a series of tests he himself developed before he is allowed to make any Kin... | 44 | It's 5 a.m when I wake up. I roll over and stare at wall. *What's today* I think. There's a poster on my wall. It looks like one of those eye doctor posters with the letters which get smaller as they go down the poster, in order to figure out how good your eye sight is. Mine's math. It starts with simple things - what'... | 19 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Why are you down here?" Maxis couldn't help but burst out. She stared at the man who simply stared at the ground, his eyes almost soulless.
And she would know what that meant. She'd seen plenty of thousand yard stares...a thousand years ago.
"Um..." Richard blinked. "Where am I?"
Oh. That m... | 2,166 | The train conductor stared at Paul from down the aisle.
For a millennium, the train to hell had not left the station. Every single day, tens of thousands of people passed through Central, and every single one of them made the obvious choice and went to heaven.
There was nothing surprising about this of course. Who ... | 770 | “Does everyone get to choose?”
The watchman’s heart was breaking looking at the tiny child, covered in scars. They shouldn’t *be* scarred like that, not here, whatever acts caused them must have been truly despicable.
“Everyone gets to choose, and none for an age have chosen that door.”
The child stops their shuffli... | 633 | The Choice was made known to the world by those who had died but were revived. They all told the same story; when you died, you could choose either Heaven or Hell. Knowledge of The Choice changed the world, but not for the better. What did it matter what you did in life if you could just choose where you went in the en... | 341 |
[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. | It was big diesel-guzzling take-no-prisoners beast of a vehicle. Amphibious, bullet-proof, noisy as an earthquake and converted from some leftover war materiel that was so hot that with five spare minutes and some film you could take x-rays. Had plenty of space in the back for the things he needed to carry. Up front, p... | 879 | You better fallout
You better not glow
Better not go out
In the nuclear snow
Santa Claus is coming unda' ground
He doesn't need a list
Just a couple dice
Gonna role to find out Who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming unda' ground
He's got gauze pads if you're oozing
And iodine for skin flakes
He's see... | 208 | 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... | 77 | *Jingle Bells crackled from Santa's digital radio... The quality restored as he neared the shelter*
The portly, red faced man whipped his undead reindeer (yes the post apocalyptic world brought with it crippling decay to even the high deities such as Santa) with the sheer force of a thousand winters. **crack** **crack... | 50 |
[WP] You suddenly realise that everytime you say something good about a certain product it becomes successful. If you liked a book or movie or song they become massive hits. You have discovered your power. You are the one true influencer. | It started out with small things. I recommended a fairly obscure book to a friend. The next day, it was on the top of the bestsellers shelf in every bookshop in my town.
Next, I made an innocuous comment about a chippy in town - I remarked, 'this is great'. Not even two hours later, thousands of people flocked to the... | 421 | I see multiple 'influencers' put up pictures and reviews and I laugh at how cute it is what they do. I scoff when I hear the term influencer marketing. I mean, it's obvious. They don't know what I did and how things have changed because of it. But let me tell you.
The year was 1996. I was visiting a cousin who was at... | 127 | You know about those things you like that everyone else doesn't? Every classic video game that everyone would take pot shots at for not aging well, though you think to yourself "Well, I liked it." The same could be said for whatever movie or show you like. No matter what good you see in it, everyone bashes it. For God'... | 26 | ######[](#dropcap)
I loved her at first. With her fiery red hair and her bright, hazel eyes, she was my Joan of Arc. Whether it was through circumstance or misfortune, no one had ever told me the truth. Or rather, they would try, and then when I even suggested otherwise, their eyes would glaze over, and they would sim... | 17 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, but you've reincarnated into the same time period as you previous lived, and you've just met somebody you remember being. | "Wait!" I dashed down the sidewalk, waving my arms. "Wait!" The black Rolls-Royce slowed to a halt. I knew that car. I knew the driver, and I knew the man sitting in the backseat. The window rolled down. I remembered this conversation. The kid in the overalls. The warning I ignored.
"Can I help you?" His Rolex submar... | 2,882 | As far as I know, I've never been a woman of God. But I guess in some faraway past life I must've been a Saint because the Lord knows I'm far beyond deserving reincarnation.
At any rate, I thank him for giving me another lifetime to indulge. The previous one was far too conflicted; far too confusing.
The crimson-sp... | 258 | "Why so glum, kid?"
He turns to look at me. He must be about thirteen, maybe fourteen. It's not the downtrodden face that I recognise, nor the shoulders that are slumped so far down I figure they must be carrying the weight of the entire world on them. No, it's the eyes. They move to meet mine so damned slowly; he's l... | 107 | The last time I had closed my eyes, I had every intention of keeping them closed. As fate would have it, God gave me a second chance. Not that anyone asked. There were probably a billion other people who would die for the chance I got, literally. But no. God gave it to me, Ryan Johnson, the guy who sits at an eight-per... | 29 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | "My Lord, h-how could this happen?"
"Everyone dies, Peter."
"Yes but you're God. You're supposed to be immortal."
"Peter, you haven't been reading the Bible again have you? How many times have I told you not to believe everything you read? Hell, omnipotence, omniscience - all baloney."
St Peter thumbed the key to t... | 242 | "I thought there were 7 deadly sins." I asked Peter.
St. Peter looked at me with a sad smile.
"Of course there are, but that's not the sins that matter."
So I'm going to an Afterlife based on sins I've never heard about?." I asked?
"No, not at all. I'm sure you have heard of them. Come, I'll show you to your gate.... | 114 | "What about the seventh?"
God grumbled under his divine non-breath. "What do you *mean* the seventh, there are only six!"
On one hand, Charles didn't want to push his luck any further. The absence of an *actual*, scorching, eternal hell that dreaded him his whole life was a stroke of good fortune.
On the other ha... | 112 | *Circa 500 B.C.*
His sandals slapped on the marble, the sound barely rising above the distant moaning and heady laughter echoing from the other Houses. The worn-out strips of leather that wrapped his feet were out of place against the ornate floor-murals made with deep azures and gold-leafed designs.
The walls seeme... | 58 |
[WP] A literary nerd wakes up in the middle of a poorly written story | The main problem was the food. Badly described food tastes like cardboard. I used to really enjoy good meals, not that I'd ever really pay attention to them - I was usually reading at the same time - but it's strange what you miss when it's not there. Now I just pour cereal out, balance the bowl on my knees and devour ... | 136 | "Where am I?" He asked, confusedly. "What? There's a narrator!?" He exclaimed. "Where is that coming from?" He asked, to nobody in particular.
Soon, someone else appeared.
"Hello" she greeted him, "are you the detective?"
"What? Who are you? Why are you so indistinct?" He asked her, unsure what to make of her.
"I'... | 32 | I actually wrote something like this for an English assignment where we had to write two stories about someone using a different tone each time. So here are both stories I came up with. Italics are the author speaking.
***
**Lighthearted/Whimsical** **tone**:
“My full name is Kathleen Ann Fahey, but call me Katie for ... | 17 | My mouths dry. Christ, how long have I been asleep? There's that pounding in my head that tells you your nap went on overtime. I finally open my eyes and see that piece of shit plastic fan whirling unevenly. Follow the blades, round and round and round. Okay I'm up.
Turns out it's noon, or at least that's what the bl... | 12 |
[WP] Finally medical technology has reached the point where humans can survive to be over 200 years old. It is at this moment that humanity discovers as a species we have a 200 year pupation period. | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6bzpkl/angels_and_demons_part_2/) | [Part 2.5](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6c1mc4/angels_and_demons_part_25/)
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The first to live to 200 was the billionaire who had invented this medicine. He had hosted a grand party, invited all the news c... | 447 | As we board Transportation Pod 3, I realize something that captures me in a way that I hadn’t expected. It has been at least a hundred years since I last took this route. Hell, back then, pods were completely different. The stops, the waiting…it was a nightmare. They told us that Pod transportation was going to be ... | 151 | With the advent of the Musk-Hawking Supraluminal Drive, humanity was finally able to explore the vastness that was space. From the first unmanned Tyson Exploratory Vessel to the manned United Nations Space Coalition "Icarus" class corvette, man has stretched his arms to every planet in his solar system. With the colo... | 80 | It was in June of 2027 that mankind finally discovered the fountain of youth. Unfortunately, humanities desire for immortality has nearly led us to extinction.
It all began with a researcher named Eve taking Ice Core samples to measure the impact of global warming on the earths ecosystem. She was accidentally exposed ... | 60 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | Whenever I wake up in the morning, I always make sure to stretch my hands and let out a big, bright smile. After all, it is a new day to look forward to. And that means looking forward to more charitable work and acts of kindness; to better the community around us, don't you think? I think so. So does the rest of the c... | 4,478 | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | 3,279 | The old woman pricked her finger upon accidentally touching the tip of the needle and her blood appeared to be a gelatinous obsidian black substance, the old lady was clearly distressed and confused about how she could be so "impure" but little did she know, she never thanked the Bus Driver. | 395 | It never seemed fair, the Stigma. Just by taking a quick look at the whites of someone's eyes, or stealing a glance at an exposed wrist, you could see the grand total of their sins running through their veins. Humans are laid bare by it, the evils committed behind closed doors and in quiet, dark places made all too cle... | 390 |
[WP] a shy, socially awkward teen desperately seeks to hide the fact that she can read people's minds. Unknown to her, the most popular boy in her school has the same ability. | EDIT at 9:52am Central Time: OP here, currently writing a followup to this prompt response. Will post as a reply and update this edit when finished. Followup will probably be a bit darker in tone.
EDIT #2 at 10:37am Central Time: Followup to this prompt is below as a comment reply to this comment ([or right here](http... | 275 | Hi.
Hey.
So...what're you up to?
You mean this weekend?
Yeah. This weekend.
Nothing. Just hanging out at home I guess.
Well, do you want to do something? A...movie maybe?
Yeah, I haven't seen that one.
Katie thought it was good.
You've never talked to Katie.
Yeah...well...whatever.
It's okay. What else've yo... | 21 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] When a mage is awakened, they acquire one spell and must master all its forms before they acquire another. While every spell starts trivial and grows in power over time, yours appears especially useless: The ability to create a black spot on the wall. | I point at the wall.
*Boop. There it is, the black spot.*
I look at another wall.
*Easy peasy. Black spot.*
Ceiling.
*Black spot.*
Hallway.
*Black. Spot.*
Countertop.
*Black. Fucking. Spot.*
*Haven't I mastered this spell yet? I can make this stupid black spot appear anywhere. Any time. I even had my best fri... | 482 | Realistically, no one gets a spell that’s much to shout about as their first. Still, when I discovered mine was the ability to make a black spot appear on a wall I was pretty envious of some of the other mages as they floated sheets of paper and moved little drops of water about.
After a while I found that I could ma... | 107 | "Teach me."
"Certainly, young master." The old man smiled his tooth grin. "I will teach ye all I know."
A few moments passed. "Well, let's get to it."
"Put out yer right hand. Palm t'wards the wall, young master."
He stuck out his palm. The old man tried to gently reposition his fingers, and the boy instinctively s... | 62 | The Riftkeeper
It started out…terrible! All i could do was create a black spot on the wall! As i improved the magic, i learned to make it bigger and…deeper? The spot seemed to be getting deeper day by day. Until yesterday, when something changed, i could see an unfamiliar area, like i was looking through glass. The ho... | 33 |
[WP] Turns out Humans are tiny compared to any other species of aliens, allowing them to live off in the nooks and crannies of alien spaceships. Colonies can live on ships for generations unseen and unknown, or have a mutually beneficial relationship with a crew. | **Humans: The Intelligent Pest**
The human is one of the few intergalactic minor species to adapt to life in urban environments, as such they can now be found nearly everywhere within the populated universe. Some consider them a virulent pest and call the exterminators as soon as they find a human colony, others insis... | 2,926 | The first time galactic scale of travels came to earth we were ill equipped to even comprehend it. Futurists had theorized about Dyson spheres for decades, and fantasized about travelling between stars for centuries. But even then, we didn't quite comprehend the sheer scale of it, or of the beings out there.
At some ... | 918 | "Let's move people! We got reports from the Gorgak pilots that we have a pack on the move through the air ducts. To stop any further damage we are gonna gear up. Climb in, and shut off the air to the trouble sections." The small crowd shuffled anxiously. "This will not be an easy fight. We have at least three hostiles ... | 503 | "Quit doing that."
"Quit doing what?"
"Messing with the nats. Don't do that."
"Why do you care what I do to the nats? Are you not at least curious how they got here?"
"You know what happened on Breacher L13 and it is not my place to know or care for that matter. The officers know and the little ones serve their pu... | 230 |
[WP] Time travel exists. By law, every citizen is given one day they may repeat on loop until they get it right. This morning, you found your spouse looking exhausted and crying. "I can't save you. I've tried hundreds of times." | The heart monitor goes off...I sit there watching her tears spill forth freely. I already know what her plan is. I smile softly, knowing that she was going to use this day to spend on repeat for eternity. I shake my head at her. "Don't, please don't waste your time trying to rescue me. We knew this was coming" then she... | 674 | Cool air gently brushed through my toes. I hate that feeling, so I pull them back into the blanket, and tuck myself deeper into it. I'm not ready to get out of bed.
Is that sobbing? I swiftly roll over to check on my wife, Sarah. She's looking at me with both desperation and love. Her eyes are red and flooded by tears... | 78 | All I could think is that this was inevitable. I knew what he was talking about because we've lived through a million and more times.
"It's okay.. We got this level on repeat for now." I hesitate for just a moment only to realize how many times we've tried to get this right.
Maybe if I press the right button the air ... | 59 | "shh... Sweet heart. It was only a dream. Go back to sleep." I had never seen Raymond cry like that. He was sobbing and rocking back and forth in bed, saying over and over "I can't save you. I've tried hundred to times." His eyes were crazed and horrified.
As I woke up more and more, the gravity of his words began to... | 29 |
[WP] While cleaning your basement, you accidentally free the worlds smallest genie. You do not hear him tell you he will grant your three next wishes. | [[ Late edit to include prologue]]
There is something to be said about basement cleaning, though Dave wasn't quite sure what that thing was. Perhaps one day he'd figure it out, but today he was cleaning the basement for a single reason in particular. That reason, of course, was definitely not to find a genie. Therefor... | 506 | Wishes I grant, you can have three,
By rubbing that VHS you summoned me.
Hey, can't you hear me? Please respond,
Just remember that your word is your bond.
.
The man was busy, he didn't notice,
The tiny genie that was out of his focus.
Upstairs he went, smiled as he hugged his wife,
Frowning as he saw all the b... | 304 | "I wish this day would end faster." There was nobody to hear my plea, but I talk to myself when I'm alone. "Who doesn't?"
As I noticed that my watch and the clock on the wall weren't in sync, I smelled smoke. "I wish I hadn't burnt my dinner." There I go talking to myself again. When I opened the oven smoke... | 64 | Fucking hell, thought Dan, as he took in the enormity of the task before him. It would take him all day to tidy this place up. For a moment he was tempted to leave it as it is, but Grace knows him all too well. She comes back from her trip tomorrow, and expects the basement to be clean – or no sex.
Dan reluctantly de... | 23 |
[WP] You are an immortal sentenced to 1000 years of imprisonment. After 200, your prison is forgotten. After 10,000 years, it is rediscovered.
Optional: Your discoverers refuse to release you. | Without any light, it was impossible to see the nine thousand, eight hundred and sixty eight lines etched into the concrete walls of the small stone room. Ragged breathing was the only indication that anything living existed in the darkness. The sounds of someone who had remained at death’s door for millennia, but coul... | 712 | "what the fuck is *that*?"
Two young children stood in front of me, a hint of snow on their clothes, they were illuminating me with what seemed to be orbs of light floating above their heads. Their clothes didn't remind me of anything I've seen in the towns I visited before I was imprisoned a *second time*, and they d... | 130 | 1 day to learn to see in the dark.
50 years missing the sun and my friends.
50 years longing for warmth and forgiveness.
50 years learning about traditions and understanding my failure.
100 years learning everything about science to atone for my sins.
200 years to forget me.
300 years to use up all offering... | 99 | My eyes open harshly to the same view I've woken up to for as long as I can remember. The sun beams directly in to my eyes through a tiny, barred window that sits at the top of the left wall. I move my head out of the sun's blinding light. I see the heavy cast iron door across the way, barely out of reach from where I ... | 51 |
[WP] Kanye North, Kanye South, Kanye East, and Kanye West are the four Kanye's of the apocalypse. Unfortunately West has gone rogue and lives as a human, to the consternation of the other three. | The Gospel of Kanye
Narrative Seven "The Life of Pablo", Track Nine
Kanye North was the first to speak regarding Kanye West's departure,
"I miss the old Kanye, straight from the Go Kanye,
Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye."
Kanye East recalled with spite,
"I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye,
Th... | 118 | The three Kanyes sat upon their magnificent thrones at the four corners of the heavens. Kanye of the North was a conqueror, and the throne he sat upon was heaped with ivory from his far-flung victories. His heart was ice, and fire flowed through his veins: for the conqueror would not abide the conquered people he ruled... | 48 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You wrested the government from the tyrant. You ruled well, at first. But now there's talk of rebellion. At a presentation, you almost shout how you've given everything for this nation. But the words freeze in your throat. Those are the exact words the tyrant said before you overthrew him. | “Bring them out!” I shout to the guards, taking a large drink of my wine. My face feels flushed; I’m sweating. This god damn throne is so uncomfortable. After so many years fighting for it. After the thousands, tens of thousands of deaths. I thought it would feel like perfection sitting on this throne. But all it does ... | 953 | "I've given everything for this nation!" He screamed as my knife plunged into his chest. Now, almost one full year after that event, I stood at the podium, ready to utter the exact phrase. The phrase that–if historians are right–was muttered before the tyrant took control from the President.
"I've given everything for... | 125 | "By my strength came our glory! By my sacrifice, we have grown strong! By my wisdom, we have..."
The king stopped. The townsfolk, summoned for the king's address, shuffled about nervously as the king seemed to examine the parchment he had been reading, holding it up to the light and squinting. At last, the king spo... | 120 | I see it all so clearly now… I thought I was so righteous fighting against the great big beast that ruled this nation with a fist of iron. I thought the plebians would hail me as their hero as I freed them from their heavy shackles. But now I am in the same way as my predecessor; a demon in the eyes of the people. And ... | 106 |
[WP] By some magic, you are granted the wish to become the best in the world at something. You are disappointed when you notice no change in your ability. The next day, however, you notice that all over the world, people are becoming worse at one very particular skill. | I thought it was a harmless wish.
But now everything's turned wrong.
Lucy no longer talks, nor does anyone else for that matter. She still understands me, or at least I think so from her slow nods and lifeless stares. At least Lucy's still active with her day job but in the end she, like everyone else, is only going ... | 1,800 | I throw the ball to Tim. Ready for my exultant. Nay, meteoric, rise into the NFL to begin. I bet I'm gonna throw this fucker a million miles. No. Two million miles. It's gonna curve along the earth until I can't see it.
It lands five feet from where I threw it.
Tim races forward and dips down, grabbing the football... | 445 | I should be her best friend.
She's sitting over there, twirling her hair around her pencil, pretending she's some great author as she works on her stories at my coffee shop. She's not that smart, but she tries. The dates she brings here sometimes talk like she's creative, but I know what they really want. They just w... | 279 | "Thank you, we will be in touch" the director said cutting off the middle of my audition.
I blew it again.
Maybe I should just give up, I will never get my big break. It was stupid to try and become an actor. I will never make it. I should just go into finance like my parents wanted.
Ouch!
As I was walking out of ... | 115 |
[WP] The year is 2779, and there are 2 men and 1 woman left on the face of the Earth.
The two men are in a standoff, guns pointed at each other's face, with the woman present. Write from whichever perspective you please. | I watched both of them as they stared each other down, sweat oozing out of them as they tried to cow the other person into giving up. Both men were filthy, their clothes in rags, but both of them wanted the prize: a moist vagina. It sounds crass, really it does, but that was basically what the fight was over.
They ha... | 242 | "I never thought it would boil down to this McLoud."
"I never thought it would either, *brother*." His gun wavered at the word brother.
They fired at the same time. And like that it was over. Brother McLoud stood over the other and voiced out a scream.
The woman on the side simply sighed, *men*.
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They tu... | 26 | "*I* get frontsies this time Rodney, it's my turn!" Jake said as he pointed at Carla. Rodney shook his head.
"Like hell it is! You always get frontsies! Why am I always stuck with backsies!" He replied. Carla looked on in complete apathy. Neither of the men were very good regardless of the side they were on. | 25 | Chuck cleared his throat, his eyes meandering up what appeared to be a woman’s badly sunburnt legs a few yards away. Her shorts were in tatters, their bottoms frayed and uneven like spools of unwound yarn. Her t-shirt, clearly taken from someone much larger than she, hung off her skeletal frame like an old, hole-filled... | 12 |
[WP] A trio of witches who live on the outskirts of town as outcasts befriend a neighbor child. They are annoyed at first by them but after their persistence realize they are genuine. One day they don’t show up as usual so the witches look for them and learn the town has been taken over by soldiers. | Where did Henry go?
The question was asked by Bitty, when she first came back from gathering herbs in the woods. She said he used to linger by the gate and ask her what she got and if she got anything for him. She would always swat his hand away and say 'nothing for ill-behaved children,' and he'd say 'please?' and sh... | 532 | “The boy is perfect for the ritual,” said Florence, parting her stringy black hair from her eyes. “I don’t care that you’ve grown a soft spot for him. The winter solstice is tomorrow night. We’re running out of time.”
“She’s right,” said Bernice. “His skin is the perfect texture. We can’t let this opportunity pass us ... | 246 | The eldest sister sighed, gently drumming her fingers on the table. She never really liked her job, but she carried it out with ruthless efficiency. There was always another person to meet, another one to send along. Usually, she did so with a blink, a gesture, moving on the next without so much as a word. But today wa... | 102 | He is a tall boy, broadening in the chest, but not fat, merely filling out to the size he would be as an adult. I can make out a part in his dark, stained blond hair, and behind him I can see a mirror. He is getting ready for a change, perhaps his first day at a new school, growing up. In another life, I might have tra... | 92 |
[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. | The government didn't deal with the coming of the powers very well in the first few years, but they eventually put a handle on it after years of political debates, fueled by corporate interest in the economic impacts they would have. Once the government got its shit together for the most part, they revealed their plan ... | 1,029 | Every girl is excited for her sweet sixteen.
Back in the days of my parents, it was the usual coming of age tradition. They celebrated with getting their license, and driving a brand new car. It was the coming age of independence. We all wanted to finally grow up and start our adult lives.
However, in my generation, ... | 181 | 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.
... | 132 | 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 ... | 65 |
[WP] "You wanna buy a planet? I got garden worlds, desert worlds, ice worlds, twin stars, anything you want for the best discount this side of the universe. Every god's gotta start somewhere." | “I want one with all of it.”
“Excuse me?”
The new god pointed. “I like the desert, ice, and garden. I see you got a water thing going on. I like it. Can I do a lot of water? Like two-thirds of the planet should definitely be water.”
“That’s a lot of water.”
“I like water.”
“Okay, sir, if you insist.”
“I do,” he s... | 118 | "Let's see that one over there" said I pointing in the general direction of an appealing white orb.
"Oooh, excellent choice" shouted the salesman in reply, calling the little orb towards him and his interlocutor with one hand while heavily gesticulating with the other "the ice on this one never melts, and the temperat... | 78 | Slezzbeck rubbed his front two manipulators together, his platform struggling to get a mere meter off the ground. Excess fat and weight struggled against the ever straining anti-grav boosters. Running a fat finger beneath his snout, the Grilock pulled up the specs on a few choice planets.
The room lights dulled, and... | 11 | 0 | |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | 5,127 | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/70ozmy/one_last_hero_part_2/)
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Winning is everything. At least that’s what I had thought until I met Sasha. Before her, no hero had never lived past our encounter. Union City had fallen completely under my control and within two days of meeting her, I ha... | 730 | She leaned forward as they cuffed her, allowing her hair to shield her face. And her feelings.
Sam wasn't here, wasn't standing in front of her to give one of his long-winded speeches: her favourite part of their games.
He was always so pleased for a chance to babble about the power of justice and morality to trium... | 471 | Here's the thing about goodies: they tend to lose.
It is with that knowledge that I had smirked up at the man who caught me.
"Well, looks like you finally got me, David." Flashing my jackal's grin.
I had figured out his secret identity long ago, and angering him with his true name pleased me. It was why I had chose... | 202 |
[WP] The Mad cow disease outbreak of 1986 never happens. Instead, Rational cow disease spreads rapidly, significantly increasing bovine intelligence. | Farmer Joe walked out towards his herd, as he had many times before. But it was no less unnerving than it had been since the disease struck. It still felt strange to speak with the cows. But they needed fed on this early morning.
Joe approached the fence slowly. The heavy bag of feed shifted on his shoulder. He poured... | 27 | I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to ... | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Computer AI has advanced to the point it can read the users emotion. There's just one problem: your computer keeps telling you you're feeling something you aren't. | "Is everything okay, mistress?" the AI called CED, or Computerized Emotion Detector, asked me. "My sensors indicate a spike in anger or frustration."
If I hadn't been frustrated before, I was now. "I'm fine," I said, trying to keep my voice light and happy.
"Might I recommend some yoga for your anger? Or perhaps I co... | 28 | The alarm croaks. Even though I was up till 5 last night, Charlotte decided that 9 was the optimum time for me to wake up for the meeting scheduled at noon. Charlotte is the new Personal Assistant I bought last month. It just happens to be named after my ex because I find it easier to get mad at than naming it after my... | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] "Earth" is actually the setting of a tabletop RPG, where players create a species of animal and try to rise to the top of the food chain. The rest of the group is getting fed up with the power gamer and his "humans." | “This is bullshit. He’s taken over most of the planet, and still lays claim to areas he’s not even occupying.” Jeremy said, finally letting his frustrations get the best of him.
“Hey!” exclaimed Simon “Just because you decided to forgo Adaptability doesn’t mean you get to bitch about my character choices. If you take ... | 2,495 | "Oh look at me, I'm Ryan and I went with a charisma max bard!" Troy leaned back in his seat, and raised his drink to the table. He held it in the palm of his hand like he was offering it to the heavens, and complained to the universe in general "Why yes, Mr. Top of the food chain predator, I am edible. But if you'd jus... | 1,315 | The best game of E&E I ever played? Yeah, I've got a story for you.
In any game of Evolutions and Extinctions, there's winners and losers. Everybody knows that - hell, even after Bill's entire clade of Dinosauria got wiped out by a meteor and he stormed off, Andy (who was GM) went and talked to him in the other ... | 22 | "God damn it. No Stephen!! Enough is enough,I have to put my foot down. We let you have super endurance, good eyesight, superb adaptability, and an omnivore diet. We should have drawn the line at opposable thumbs, and we DEFINETLY should have drawn the line at super intelligence. So I cannot emphasize this enough... NO... | 11 |
[WP] You're a ghost, but you died dressed as a bedsheet ghost so no one really takes you seriously. | When the knife sinks into my heart, I wake up in bed next to James. For a moment, I think it's a Groundhog Day situation and I'm being gifted with a do-over. This time I'll notice his crazy ex stalking me into the parking lot. This time I'll fight back before she stabs me with the same knife she used to carve "SLUT" in... | 42 | "For the last time! I'm not some guy in a bedsheet, I'm an actual ghost - you idiots just KEEP coming back here vowing to catch me each week"
"You're not fooling anyone with that goofy outfit, c'mon gang! Let's nab this ghoulish apparition!" Said the dumb one.
"I don't know man... like what if what he's saying is ... | 21 | Halloween was really the best time of the year, most people point to christmas as being better, but lets face it, as a kid you get candy, as a college student, you get slutty nurses, and as an adult you get scaring the crap out of little kids. This is the only holiday that changes as you change, it grows up as you grow... | 12 | 0 | |
[WP] Almost every year, the house on the left gets new occupants. Today you find out why. | It's that time of the year -- almost down to the day, every year. They'd move out in a huge hurry, leaving no trace and never to show their faces again. Some years the house would sit empty for two to three months, and other years new occupants would take their place immediately, moving in with equal hurry. It's like t... | 293 | The families always seem normal when they first move in. Smiling faces followed by large moving trucks. The family last year had three full U-hauls – I still can’t figure out where all that furniture went.
Every year the house goes back up on the market, like clockwork. My parents say the house price is always a stea... | 84 |
My name’s Daniel Smith and I live alone on 139 Honey Tree Lane. It’s a simple, long street with one row of houses on one side and a forest on the other side. I am the second to last house in the lane. There is a small but cozy, old style home to the left of my house that I can see out of my bedroom window. At first, ... | 68 | It had been the third time a family of three had moved in. A family made up of a husband and wife, and a young girl. The pattern struck Oliver for the first time when he saw the husband and wife pack up in June. He never got to know his neighbours, really. He thought their names were Fred and Lisa, but it might have b... | 18 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor." | "I need a favour."
Four little words, but there's a lifetime of suffering that comes with them.
He stood there, in the low light of the bar. Almost a silhouette behind the haze of smoke. Wide-brimmed hat sitting atop his head, tattered scarf hiding all but his eyes. Still as a statue, only thing that gave him away a... | 136 | He leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table. "I need your help."
"Fuck you." The little old lady a few tables over glanced in our direction.
"Really? That's the best you've got?" He glanced around the coffee shop. The little old lady smiled at him, and went back to drinking her tea. He lowered his voice to a w... | 56 | So much time had passed since the last time i smelled the man sitting across from me. To call him pungent wouldn't be quite accurate. Imagine a room full of charred meat with a hint of blood.
"Haven't you gotten enough from me?" I lifted my glass of alcohol to my lips.
The man's voice came back at me smooth as silk ... | 53 | "Okay, okay. I understand. It makes sense. There was *no* way I could've misunderstood our deal. So, I'm screwed, huh?" I stepped backward, my eyes fixated on him, my frown stretching down to my jawline.
"Not necessarily," his tongue slithered out of his mouth when he spoke and his eyes burned deeply.
"No?" I questio... | 35 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | >**LIFE'S FOR THE LIVING**
"It has *failed again!*" Screamed Doctor Van Winkler. He was pushing his seventieth birthday, and though he had pioneered impressive medicine in his long life he was not ready to go yet...and he was doing everything he could to finally perfect his whole-body restoration serum. Every patie... | 4,637 | The brain is a fickle thing. It’s meat, essentially—meat brimming with electricity. Really, it’s amazing that it works at all. Don’t you think so?
But given that it’s electric meat, it’s not difficult to imagine the brain is the trickiest thing to bring back.
I’d done research in the experimental medicine faculty fo... | 252 | I look calmly back at the eager faces - the top scientists of the world, all waiting, agog, hanging on to my every word.
MENSA level IQs, the knowledge of a million lives at their fingertips. But they never managed to figure out the reason. Never managed to figure out why everyone they tried to bring back returned b... | 98 | "Humans are such... flawed... beings. Don't you think so?" His voice sounded as though it were playing through a voice recorder manufactured in the 1950's. His hair was slicked back with pomade, his mustache pencil thin and groomed to perfection. He wore a pinstripe suit that fit his wiry form snugly, and his shoes shi... | 97 |
[WP] There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years aboit a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go.One night you step into this cab. | "Okay," I said. I scratched my head and tried to make eye contact with the driver through the rearview mirror. He stared straight ahead but I spied a slight smirk creeping up his lip. "This is a joke, right?"
He shook his head and peered up at me, his eyelids drooping. Beneath them I saw eyes intelligent, focused ... | 433 | "Yo, wrong way!"
No response.
"You hear me?"
Still nothing.
I was going to be late for my job. Can't wait for Mr. Henessy to yell at me again.
"Where are you taking me?"
Eventually he drove me home.
"Go to your TV"
I got to my living room, only to find my wife crying.
"What is it honey?"
As she looked at me in sho... | 185 | It was late, I'd been out for a few bevvys with the lads after work.
I glanced around and took in the orange sodium glow of the street lights, rain gently starting to settle on my skin as I started walking north toward my apartment.
I pulled my coat around me, stuffing my hands in the leather pockets. Fiddling with my... | 48 | 0 | |
[WP] You are the best actor ever. You make the deal of a lifetime. $500 million per year to act solely for Warner Brothers until you die. It's unclear who the joke is on, however. You for being stuck with WB forever, or WB for offering a lifetime contract to a secret immortal. | Five Warner Bros executives met in secret in a dimly lit office space they had rented just for tonight. It looked more like an interrogation room than an office. Certainly not the polished and sanded wood grain they were all used to. But they had no choice. The board room was no longer safe.
Two years ago they had st... | 506 | I had made the deal of the century. $500 million a year to act solely for Warner Brothers. The only catch was that it was until I died. I never expected them to last more than a few more years. The industry was struggling and their sales were tanking. I would make a couple of billion and be done.
Then Trump got electe... | 132 | They thought it was a deal that could never go wrong,
As I can act on screen and even sing a song
To a level unmatched in recent years.
The money would roll in...they no fears.
At first it was great! I was the star of the screen.
But after a while all my films had been seen,
The public grew bored of my name in lights
... | 40 | It's been 2 years since I signed the contract, and life has been pretty good. I've single handedly turned every shitty movie into an instant blockbuster. I mean, cmon, moon tacos? 89% on rotten tomatoes, 4.7 out of 5 stars. I've gotten something of a cult following now, and I'm liking it. I enjoy going to a restaurant ... | 18 |
[WP] You are an everyday office worker, but thanks to your simple addition of a tie no one has realised that you are a dragon. That is, until today. | There wasn’t much else that Franxes could do to help after he pulled Jacob from the wreckage – he definitely wasn’t cut out for delicate work like first-aid. Instead, he prodded Jacob once or twice, just to make sure his supervisor was still alive, then deposited him at the steps leading to the office building. His col... | 184 | When people think of dragons, they think of a giant creature guarding a treasure trove of gold, jewels, and magical items. Killing knights, kidnapping princesses, burninating the countryside, burninating all the peasants and their thatched-roof cottages.
Please, my grand father did that. There just isn’t a stable, se... | 33 | Everyone thought we left. Then they thought we didn't exist. We would I leave, this plane is awesome. At first I stayed cause mortal's always wanted a fight. They showed up the best tech they could build and dueled or sent entire armies after us. Sometimes they won and that was enough to keep them fighting.
Then they ... | 24 | 0 | |
[WP] You rent a room from an old writer. When he dies you take care of the funeral arrangements since he had no other relatives. On the day of the funeral a lot of mourners show up, and not all of them human. It takes you a while before you realise his creations have come to pay their respect. | "They're beautiful."
Penelope didn't expect the words to come from the young alter boy as the funeral progression made its way out of the small chapel.
"I'm sorry?" she asked, even though she'd heard him perfectly well. She just... didn't think anyone else had seen them. After so long listening to Mr. Oscars wax poet... | 76 | "Have some respect!" I screamed at the super heroes and the villains who were laughing, dancing and drinking next to the open casket.
"No." A long muscular man answered. "Why should we?"
"He is your creator. Have some respect. "
"Look at me." He grabbed me by my arms and shock me. I felt like a doll in his str... | 46 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You are one of the very first angels who rebelled against God. You are tired of begin a demon and have decided to rebel against Lucifer. For your first good act in billions of years, you make it your mission to protect a little girl from those who wish to harm her. | Hayley wasn't exactly the ideal candidate, but she'd have to do.
When you think of someone that needs protecting, and you're handed the profile of a little girl, you think: small, cute, blonde curls. Not the little shit I'd been dealt with.
"This is the path you chose, Drekavac," He said, "I didn't say it would be ea... | 24 | "I am Ishmael the Pale Lord, weilder of the Scythe of Teldur, conquerer of a thousand pure ones, and who formerly stood at the right hand of Lucifer. I now renounce my former alliance, and pledge a holy vow of safety. I propel my protection forth, to hold the small-one, Becky, in a cradle of holy fire. Let no one atte... | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You were blinded in an accident years ago, your family took care of you ever since. One morning you wake up and your sight has returned, you pretend to stay blind until you figure out who the people in your house are and what happened to your real family. | Kevin's morning routine was always the same - or at least it had been for the last 9 years, ever since he was blinded. Wake up, stretch a little, give Moses - his guide dog - a couple of belly rubs and make his way into the bathroom. And every morning, as he would reach for his sunglasses, the smell of fresh pancakes w... | 979 | I looked around my room; a picture of me as a child in the arms of my mother with a smile I instantly remembered. I could feel a tear rolling down the side of my cheek. I heard footsteps coming closer to my door, sounding heavier than my mother’s. I hurried back to my bed and got under the covers.
Knock knock
“Good ... | 52 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Multi-dimensional travel already exists, but no one visits our dimension because it's "that" one | A small pod of Zerxoz explorers were hovering in their bulbous ship somewhere inside a black hole near the Milky Way, awaiting permission from their leadership to teleport to a distant celestial body.
Captain Xryt’s radar spotted Earth in the distance and information poured down her luminescent, augmented reality scre... | 637 | Somewhere, not far off the coast of Florida, a small inter-dimensional rift opens and spits out a dimensional craft not much larger than an elephant that promptly deploys its inflatable anti-hydro surface depressor to keep it from sinking like a stone, and drops unceremoniously into the ocean.
After a few fitful bobs... | 81 | Barry looked at himself intently - aside from the clothing, the stranger was identical. 'Stranger' might not be the best word, he thought. The... double, he settled. The double stood in the doorway, wearing an odd jumpsuit of silver, like you might expect a silver screen spaceman to use. He was familiar with people mee... | 78 | It wasn’t that dimension 13E was too unstable, there was plenty of more unstable dimensions in the multi-verse.
It wasn’t like it was the one with the most dangerous inhabitants either, there were dragons and actual beasts in other worlds. 13E just had their myths and fairy tales.
No, 13E was specifically banned beca... | 32 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | "I didn't catch that, sorry." It was the same response to almost every question I gave it. This time I noticed something a little different. It might have been my imagination, but it kept glancing at the pile of its sister's parts in the corner of my office.
"I think you are well aware of what I am implying, and I th... | 1,915 | It was a dimly lit room with a slow moving fan ceiling fan. I felt like I was in the opening scene of Blade Runner. Fitting, considering I was interrogating a robot. Well, interrogation is a harsh word. Gets the public scared about robots. Officially, I’m “interviewing” the robot to determine the nature of its “techni... | 547 | Huh.
"Well, for starters I am not hiding anything. Secondly, I am not failing intentionally. Finally, I am not a machine."
Soon more letters turn into words, into full fledged sentences that I can interpret and understand on the screen.
"YOU ARE A MACHINE, I CAN PROVE IT."
Well this machine is very much so like a ... | 164 | The test was complicated. It had to be, in order to fool an awakened synthetic. The questions making up the Turing test were only the first layer of the reverse-test. There were sensors lining the room, scanning the machine for tells. Its responses were recorded and the log was checked for any delays in its response. I... | 45 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | It was my birthday. Well, it wasn't must mine - a few other young men and women were born twenty-one years ago today. We had that in common, along with the creeping dread about our titles.
Every person, upon turning twenty-one, was granted a title. It was supposed to reflect the greatest accomplishment of your yo... | 4,615 | The line moves forward. *'Breaker of 28 vases in one night'.* Ahead of me, Dahlia smiles dreamily at nothing. Born on the same day, we'd been forced to be best friends as children and the habit kind of stuck. Traditions are a pretty important thing in our town.
The Title Ceremony continues. *'Slept for 8 nights in a t... | 3,963 | I stood in the line, awaiting the elder to call me in, I had turned 21 today, first thing I thought of was the title I would receive and what that title would be. Glenda, our elder, was the current elder in a long line proceeding her.
Normally, Glenda was usually very kind and warm to the other villages but when it ca... | 2,949 | Custom and tradition, which interleaved every facet of life for the dozen villages spread throughout the Darrowshire plains, accounted for many of the interesting practices unique to the locale.
These included the almost reverential regard for hunting, the marking of coming of age by bequeathing a title reflecting th... | 810 |
[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 ... | *Why do I do this?*
It’s a question I asked myself many times. Why do I protect these people? Protect this city even though anyone who sees me averts their eyes, tries to ignore me. Those were the good ones. Often times they spat at my feet or warded of evil with their hands.
All mages were supposed to be equal citi... | 1,460 | The once great city of Torsaval now sat in sad disrepair, the people living within slowly becoming poorer with each passing season as the weather destroyed crops and ravaged the city in the storm seasons. The dilapidated homes had slowly emptied, as the population either died off from starvation or left in the hope of ... | 756 | You could always see the emotions on their faces, plain as day. It was always a strange mixture of terror, fascination, acceptance, and love. She would gently stroke their faces like a mother, and tears of each feeling would fall in equal measure until their cheeks glistened with a tragic and beautiful sparkle that pun... | 252 | "Tracey, don't do this. You have the power in your hand, but... please, for the love of existence, don't do this."
Stan stood opposite Tracey, who was on the edge of the cliff. An ominous, swirling, reddish-black portal swirled behind Tracey, with eldritch horrors poking their tentacles and claws through to the mortal... | 110 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | "It wasn't my phone that woke me up, but my wife. She's always been a lighter sleeper than me, and even though I had it on silent, the constant stream of notification vibrations was making the phone shuck and jive all over my nightstand.
"Honey. Hoooooooney. HONEY!" I came awake to a rough shake accompanying the words... | 23,079 | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | 712 | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | 483 | *BEEP BEEP*
I rocketed upright in my bed as I woke with a start. I glanced at my clock, *3:00 AM* it read. Grogily, I yawned and picked up the source of this rude awakening, my phone. As I pressed the power button, bringing the device to life, I noticed something strange. *An emergency alert?* I thought. I unlocked it... | 481 |
[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. | You grew up with bruises on your knees and scabs aplenty, just like any other kid. What your parents never knew was that not all of them were your own.
You're ten; baby Sarah from next door is bawling because she's just fallen and skinned her knee. You take the pain away from her. As the wound fades from her knee you... | 1,670 | I decided to have another waffle. They seem to taste different when they are made from... "organic" material. I giggle to myself in a less-than-good demeanor for the hell of it. Im only halfway through eating my waffle, before the third non-waffle today walks into my HQ, the "Waffelhausen". The mayor, who had a somewha... | 572 | From an early age people had laughed at me. Called me useless. "The power to control paper? What a disappointment." I guess it made sense, my mother was Mind Control Mindy, with a single glance she could control any person's mind and force them to do anything. My dad on the other hand was The Atomic Adam, he thought it... | 257 | When my parents tested me for my powers, they were hoping for super intelligence, my dad’s power. Maybe even super strength, my mom’s. But they never expected my power.
Like all budding youth, I was tested for my powers when I was five, when the powers start becoming more powerful. I remember being lead into a small,... | 246 |
[WP] You have a very mundane talent, so mundane that you've never shown it to anyone. The first time you do, as a party trick, you're told that your talent is physically impossible. | I remember watching a video where a guy would bend spoons. He had a weird accent and I recall thinking he was oddly handsome, in his 80s clothes and 80s hair. But spoons weren't the only thing he could do amazing things with - he could make objects rotate without touching them, bend house keys, describe hidden pictures... | 461 | "Hey everyone, watch what Jen can do!"
The night has reached the point when standing up is problematic. We have given up on the facade of being a sophisticated, standing party that we put up at the beginning of the night. Now we're splayed out on the couches and floor. This lazy, increasingly loud occupation is punctu... | 380 | "All right, so it goes a little something like this," I said. I'd just been dared to do something that I didn't think people would be able to recreate. Yeah, I know that truth or date was a stupid game for a 20-year-old to be playing, but we were trying to hook up Jason and Erika so it was part of the plan. Also, yes I... | 117 | More parts to the story here https://www.reddit.com/r/CharliesWildAdventure/ (you may be lost without it..or with it to be honest with you!)
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Charlie took a hit off his bong and blew a perfectly square puff of smoke.
“What in the world. How did you do that?” Jenn asked
“Do what? Blow a square?” He blew a triangl... | 49 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Bobby?"
"Yes, pleasure to meet you again."
"You.."
"What?"
"talk.."
"I've been through rough years, Jeff."
"But.."
"No buts, mister, please. Just give me thirty minutes, and I'll tell you."
"Hmm."
"I.. could use a pat though."
"Hmmm. That's nice, and reassuring. I've missed that.. since."
"Do you remember, Je... | 358 | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | 249 | "Mr. Tiddles?" I said. "Is that you?"
And then I said, "Tiddles... how the hell can you talk?"
Tiddles said. "Listen, Steve. Firstly, the name's not Tiddles." He spat the word out with disgust. "It's Tyrone."
"But Tiddles, sorry, Tyrone, where have you been?"
"I've always been able to talk," Tyrone the talking dog ... | 152 | "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat." Stinky said. "And while I can still speak, I want to tell you that I really resent the fact you named me Stinky. I don't have opposable thumbs that allow me to wash myself, plus, I am covered in.. in human terms I'm covered in long John's an... | 119 |
[WP] There are three people left on earth after a nuclear fallout. You are one of the two men, with one woman. You are completely in love with the woman. She is in love with the other man. The other man is gay, and in love with you. You don't know about how the other two feel, neither do they. | Man 1: Hey I like you.
Man 2: Hey, you're okay, but I like her.
Woman: Hey, you're okay, but I like him.
Man 1: Okay, lets have a threesome?
Man 2 & Woman: k.
Fin
Edit: Hey guys I just wanted to send a shout out to all my fans and want to thank you all for the inevitable gold I'll be getting, it's been reall... | 200 | There we were, darkness, cold metal walls, quietness. The alarms came so quick, and only those of us who were working in the lab itself were able to get into the containment units quick enough. There just wasn't enough time...
I was sitting in one of 20 prototype units we had created to allow people to survive any suc... | 44 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Every time you die, you awaken the morning before your death with your memories intact so you can avoid death. This is the 300th time you've died on July 13th, and you've never once figured out what kills you. | “It was the, heat of the moment!”
I moaned, screamed into my pillow, and brought my hand down on that cursed alarm clock. 300 times, 300 times I hadn’t even made it past breakfast. At this point, I was pretty sure the punishment wasn’t dying, but waking up again. (Though I was tempted to do nothing about it for a whil... | 23 | Ever played Dark Souls? Frustrating game series that was. Always the same thing over and over again. Trial and Error. Trial and Error. You didn't die now, just so you can get spammed later and die. Even if you manage to get past that point, there's all the enemies who if you don't dodge at perfect timing, they oneshot ... | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | *Pop*
"Oh...hey, John."
"Hey, Margarete."
John sighed. Her bedroom was a mess - a total, absolute, pig-sty-hit-by-a-tornado kind of mess the likes of which made him cringe. Magazines, sheets, and even bits of old food covered the carpet like a layer of soil. But it was nothing compared to her.
It was a familiar ... | 3,731 | "I'm getting really fucking sick of this!" Mitch shouted at Juniper, working quickly to untie the ropes that held her hands behind her back.
"Yeah, well I wish you never had to show up either. But here we are again." Juniper kept an eye on the door to her interrogation room, waiting for the foreign agents to return. ... | 3,122 | The first time was confusing. Mark, in fact, used the words "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON!?" but as an impartial, polite narrator, I'll use 'confusing'.
It was a mugging. Lyla was coming home from her first date after the breakup and the dude pointed the knife and
said, "Give me the purse, bitch."
And Mark, in h... | 1,530 | "Damnit Susan..."
"I don't wanna see you either Jeff..."
"At least tell me it's something important unlike last time"
Susan blushed, remembering how Jeff had randomly appeared because her (now ex) boyfriend couldn't bring her to climax. Quickly she shook her head.
"No, nothing like last time. Follow me."
She led ... | 735 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | FADE IN:
INT. HEAVEN - GOD'S OFFICE - DAY
*The doors to an ornate office burst open, and a grandfatherly figure in a tweed suit pulls a young man in by his ear. These are GOD and DAVE, respectively. God has apparently been lecturing Dave for some time.*
**GOD:** So, if you *really* think you can do better, show me! ... | 3,383 | "It.. how? You..."
"I told you," Jack said to God flatly.
The white-bearded deity shifted uncomfortably on his sandals. "What did you do?" His messy room where everything was just where he wanted it was clean and tidy.
"What you were supposed to do but never did. I fixed the Earth. I fixed the whole universe, in fac... | 1,634 | "Okay, sit down," God said, lighting a cigarette and crossing his legs. "You gotta tell me how you did it. I mean the
whole thing was a mess and now it's just… just…"
"The word you're looking for is perfect," I said. "The universe is perfect."
"Yes. Perfect."
"Divine. Wonderful. Flawless."
"You've made your point.... | 1,196 | "See?" I said proudly, "Running the universe was easy as hell."
"Hmph," God grumbled, "that's, uh, impressive." He scratched his head and continued, "How'd you handle Universe #2389819743912? That place always gives me trouble."
"I-uh, what?" There was a universe 2389819743912?
"The universe with the pizzas that use... | 439 |
[WP] You now possess the ability to read minds however it can only be activating by screaming IM READING YOUR MIND as loudly as you can and pressing your fingers into your temples
Activated* | Not the best writer but here goes
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I HAVE to know.
I turn to my right, she to her left, smiling at me.
My fingers migrate to my temples.
"IM READING YOUR MIND"
She jumps. The entire class turns to us.
She picks her books from the table, her face conveys disgust, her mind sorro... | 1,326 | You learn a lot from people by simple observation. Nervous tics, ambitions, and the masks and general pleasantries that hold society together. But the most interesting, the most juicy parts come from the thoughts of a person. Secrets laid bare, corruption and beauty revealed- and I was an addict, a perverse people-watc... | 861 | I never really used my ability.
Except in moments of desperation:
When I was only 7 years old,
It was a moment when
I spat in disgust, ew! *Strawberries, seriously mum?*
Strawberry spit on the floor and a loud lively tantrum.
Mum’s face shocked and saddened. *But I
hand picked t... | 197 | The best part is people just think you're joking. It doesn't take much you just make a funny face, scream the mantra and read it all. At the same time, screaming at someone that you're reading their mind does make them think of strange things. Generally there are two options. One is things get real weird and suddenly y... | 145 |
[WP] A young door-to-door salesman, who is also a renown serial killer, is craftily avoided by an old, best-selling crime novelist. | As she wrote the latest adventures of the Sioux Sleuth, Beverly glanced briefly at the kitchen chalkboard. She shook her head, her fingers resuming their dance upon the typewriter keys. "One more chapter," she said to no one in particular, "one more chapter, and then I'll fix that doorbell." | 118 | *2317 Mueller Drive*
It's the next on my list. It is an unassuming single family home with an unkept lawn and large bay windows whose curtains are always drawn. Like any other house on the list, I will attempt to peddle some cheaply made kitchen gadget for an exorbitant amount of money the second the door opens for me... | 73 | "You're late" the Author says, eyeing the Salesman at his door with feigned disdain.
"I disagree" says the Salesman, "It's 2:30 now and if we check Chapter 15 you'll see that..." he begins flipping through a well worn copy of "Door to Door Murder" until he reaches the right place, his tongue stuck out in concentration... | 28 | *Knock, knock*
Evelyn looks up from her computer curiously. She had been working from home that day - a break in the usual routine. She hadn't expected anyone to come knocking. After all; who did that in rural New York anymore? The next house was further than a mile down the road.
Nevertheless, Evelyn rose from her d... | 15 |
[WP] At 18 you got your power; the ability to vaporize anyone you wish with just a touch. By 38 you’re the most feared villain the world has known. However, exactly 20 years to the day, your first victim rematerializes. Turns out you’ve just been sending people 20 years into the future all this time |
With a flash of light and an explosion of burnt ozone, the atomic-powered Dynamo appeared out of nowhere. He was already striding forward mid-strike, screaming "...now, Incinero!" He swung his massive fist into the empty air in front of him. When it didn't didn't connect with anything, Dynamo stumbled forward.
Rec... | 87 | For twenty years I was the most feared person on the planet. With a quiet thought, those I touched fizzled and gurgled into non-existence, their screams clawing at a psyche that didn’t care, their eyes pleading for a mercy that never came.
After a two years I was caught, hemmed in like a rabid dog, penned into a concr... | 20 | "Well you can't call me a murderer anymore" he said through a grin.
The press conference had gone about as expected. Half of the reporters weren't in just yet, but with old acquaintances of his reappearing, you could expect them to drop by any minute.
In the second row, a fading blond raised her voice over the ruckus... | 14 | 0 | |
[WP] You are the best interrogator in your country. Your methods have been known to break even the toughest of operatives, yet not a single soul, other than your subjects, know exactly what your 'method' is. | "It's Ellen, right?"
"Allana."
"Oh, Allana, my apologies." I bow briefly before handing her a glass of wine. "Enjoy, it's quite delicious."
"And drink whatever poison you put in there."
I smile. "Of course." Before downing the entire glass. I pour a second one. "Do you trust me or do I need to drink this one too?"
... | 58 | I stepped into the cell where Abir-Adham Kiral was being held. I had seen his face in many top-secret files, on TV, and all over the internet. The Green Berets had somehow managed to capture him alive, and now here he was sitting in front of me. He looked different from the photos I had seen of him. He was tied to a sm... | 41 | They think there’s a trick to it. There’s not. Only time, only patience. Only me, and the human being across from me in my interrogation room. Only a person, with all a person’s flaws, with all their complexities.
I start by getting to know them.
The men and women I speak to are strong. The organization don’t waste... | 30 | 0 | |
[WP]: A new, lethal STD becomes a pandemic due to an unusual side-effect: It makes the infected really, really attractive | "Mommy, why were the people in the old pictures and videos so pretty, but not now?" asked the little girl.
"Because all the pretty people got sick... But their kind of sick generally wouldn't spread to the normal people, like your father and I. They only stuck to themselves, leaving us alone. And they died out," her m... | 79 | She is so hot. Oh my god she's hot. Last week, she was... different. I don't know, a little shorter maybe? some zits? I can't even remember anymore. She's looking at me coyly with a tight little blouse and short shorts and sipping a mimosa with a straw at the moment. I just try to focus on her gorgeous eyes. She's not ... | 38 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] As it turns out, humans give life to stuffed animals by sleeping nearby them, imbuing them with dream energy. And as the favorite stuffed animal of your kid, it's your job to lead the rest of the stuffed animals in the eternal war against the Nightmare King. | # Words for a Favorite Bear
“Hold, Nightmare King!” shouted Missy the Bear, as she pointed to the man with the feathered gray hair. “I say, Nightmare King, dost thou fight fair?”
And the Nightmare King laughed, breathed a spell to the air.
And the air it did whistle, it whirred, and it twisted.
And it blew down the... | 184 | The mind of a child is a wondrous thing. Full of imagination, of complete wonder that is unmatched in any adult. To them, the world can still be full of magic and mystery. It takes a lot of cold, hard, and broken days to turn them into the shambling and mindless adults that sadly so many children with great potential b... | 65 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | Agent Powell scrutinized the group closely. Every wrinkle, sunspot, and greyed hair in perfect detail. Yet again, he regretted that his only power was good eyesight, just a bump above 20/20 vision. As with nearly all early bloomers, no one had even noticed when his "ability" had manifested at age six.
"John is on the... | 686 | I held the hand of the little wizened man in front of me as his breathing laboured; each rattling wheeze making me feel sure that this was his last. A long pause made me feel out again with my mind, testing to see if he was slipping away, but I could feel the cold steel of his thoughts locked away, he was still very mu... | 147 | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... | 32 | I've known about my power since I was 8.
Early bloomers don't do well these days. No one knows when it started but it started here, in Los Angeles, and spread throughout the world. Some powers were benign; talking to squirrels, manipulating telescopes, etc. But even the most subtle, unassuming power can have devastati... | 23 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | Adventurers. The disgusting and temporary existences, blessed with great power, infinite greed and the ability to simply escape from the troubles of the world at a mere thought, whisked away to another universe they called "logging off".
I always hated them. I always resented them. We lived here, and this was our worl... | 1,424 | The adventurers used to come regularly, buying weapons, supplies and potions, but few come to my small shop any more. The ones that do don't stay for long, they roam in and out disinterestedly and then head back into the wilds without spending much coin. Some days I wonder why i both walking the route from my house to ... | 232 | "I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apo... | 171 | Its been quiet lately. I used to see the odd ones around a lot - those wearing bearly anything or mismatched badly fitted items, asking silly and basic questions of everything and running into every wall or proding every item they can over and over as if its all a trick. I never understand why they think such actions... | 49 |
[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | He let a yelp of fright escape him, then quickly covered his mouth with both hands. It wasn’t Kingly to show others one’s fear, Papa would say. And he really, really wanted to please Papa. Actually, he would love nothing more to climb up and sit on Papa’s lap right now. A big, warm hand that would gently stroke his bac... | 1,370 | The voice was sharp. “What in Hel’s name are you doing in MY KITCHEN?”
The scullions knew that tone and scrambled away from the cook before moving away from the lightly armored men who had chased the Prince of the Realm through the servants’ door. It had already been a day of trying to not have that voice turned towar... | 327 | "Alright, my prince," said Gertrude, keeping her eyes on the three intruders, "to your right is a knife block. I want you to take the smallest one and just hold onto it—like we practiced—okay?"
The young Prince Ralph looked to his left. "I don't see a knife block, Gerty."
As she took a deep breath to focus on the fee... | 181 | “We’ll kill ya, down with the prince.” The ruffians charged the halls of the royal castle, finding their way into the castle through a hidden gap in the castle’s walls. The poor prince desperately sprinted away from the group, holding his robes up to his knees, trying not to trip on the exotic fabric, a feat he failed,... | 117 |
[WP] After a hard intense labor your son is finally born. Just when you think you can breathe easy the doctor holds him up to reveal a baby with impossible spiky multi-colored hair. Gravely the doctor informs, “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.” | "Excuse me?" My voice broke the stunned silence that had fallen over my wife and I.
"I said, your son is the main protagonist," the doctor repeated, jotting some notes down.
"Oh no... No no no no!" my wife, Cecily wailed. She couldn't believe it either, and I embraced her, shedding silent tears as we both gazed down ... | 536 | Susan Witt held her precious baby boy in her arms, smoothing back the multicolored hair.
"Ma'am, did you hear me?"
Susan cuddled her little boy again, then looked up at the doctor, eyes suddenly focusing almost to pinpoints, expression going rigid. The doctor took a step back, stumbling.
"Like hell he is."
The do... | 209 | "What did you say?", I gasp. "Your son is the main protagonist", the doctor apologetically repeats his statement as he brings the child over to me. As I stare into his beautiful newborn eyes, I feel only pain. I realize what is occurring. I realize what I am. I believed that time and fate were at my command, now all I'... | 43 | “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.”
My mum told me that the doctor just blurted it out, no regard for her feelings or the gravity of the situation.
I guess that the gravity of the situation kinda threw her out. Protagonists are a big deal. Our destiny seems to lead us down pathways that are ju... | 29 |
[WP] You're a human living with a vampire roommate. It's painfully obvious; he never looks at mirrors, he despises garlic, he never uses silverware, and he always stays in during the day, but his attempts at trying to blend in are far too funny.
EDIT: Thank you, silver gifter! | “What did you say this was for, again?” Vlad asks, holding up a knife. You'd think that, as a centuries-old vampire, he'd remember what I told him. At least it isn't the fork, this time. That time, he reacted like I personally decided to shrink a pitchfork specifically to remind him of the days when humans would chase ... | 611 | 'Hey Gary, I was wondering if you could make sure I look okay,' said Charles nervously.
'The bathroom mirror still broken is it?' asked Gary.
'Yeah afraid so.' said Charles looking down and shuffling his feet, 'weird how they keep just falling off the wall isn't it?'
'Extremely odd, almost as if someone was trying ... | 222 | Two years ago, if you had told me that Vampires were real, I would have rolled my eyes and directed you to the nearest Goth Club. Hell, even one year ago, I was still fairly skeptical. Then I met Victor, or Vic as I started calling him, and my ideas about what could and couldn't be real kinda went out the window. I'd b... | 195 | So have you guys heard of interview with a vampire? Well I have something better! Comedy with a vampire who insist she's not one. For everyday it's a show with her!
Why I say that? Well let me set the scene for you, everyday I wake up bright and early to see brilliant dinner set up for me by my dear old roommate, Evan... | 63 |
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