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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. | 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 ... | I was the best. Emphasis on the was. Let's face it: I got comfortable. I got rusty. I narrowly saw that tripwire and got to cover just in time. Well, not just in time. The blood on my right shoulder is indication enough that I got hit. Scraped actually, but still. I got comfortable. I got rusty.
 
>Year... | 2018-04-24T04:31:34 | 2018-04-24T03:48:04 | 102 | 22 |
[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... | 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 ... | 2018-06-23T10:38:47 | 2018-06-23T08:26:47 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Darkness.
That was all the man could see - given that he was of sound mind, of course. For the man had spent an eternity, if not eons upon eons of *time* drifting through empty space. All that had once existed - the stars, galaxies, black holes - had inevitably faded away with the passage of time. Eventually, even ti... | He pulled it from under the desk and carefully wiped the dust from the label with his bony thumb. The hourglass has only drained ten years worth of the fine sand trickling through it. Death knew he couldn’t alter the flow. He placed the hourglass back on its shelf and sighed, watching the fine grains trickle through t... | 2018-10-03T07:44:44 | 2018-10-03T07:36:26 | 41 | 10 |
[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. | I love starting over. This is my 11th time doing it, and throughout all that time I've found one thing to be pretty constant: no one knows what to do with a swearing 5-year-old who understands more about history, science, math and sex than they do. Of course, the first three lives I kept things pretty... par. Hell, the... | Well, I can cross that off of the metaphorical list. --Died when having sexual intercourse-- Best death yet. Oh well, life 70 will be my 'Cure cancer year' I could of done it in life 69, but come on! If you are that sexually well endowed and it's life 69, you can't not have shit tons of sex!
Note to self: *Stop say... | 2017-05-25T17:16:35 | 2017-05-25T12:23:12 | 100 | 43 |
[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" | 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... | 2018-02-16T11:44:08 | 2018-02-16T09:51:01 | 121 | 70 |
[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." | The hero walked in, and the small hole I made in the ceiling cast a shaft of light onto him, gleaming off his crown. Of course, this was to give heroes a false sense of confidence, but it didn't faze him.
He walked up to me and tossed a gold coin into my pile.
"You have my attention", I told him.
"Hi, I'm a Nigerian... | Sleep. Darkness. It was bountiful. It was warm and welcoming.
It was disturbed.
Heavy. Tired. One of my eyes lazily opened. My pupil expanded and contracted, adapting to the light within my castle. Within my treasury. I was surrounded, smothered, in mountains of gold. The peaks and valleys were so large and vast tha... | 2015-10-14T04:03:21 | 2015-10-14T03:54:02 | 32 | 13 |
[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... | "Mind you put on your best behavior when we meet the king," Master Hniu said from my side. "Any disrespect like that time with the Burned God, and we might both be skewered on a spit."
I snorted in reply. It was enough to set him chuckling. If not for the fact that my shoulders towered over most grown men, and my hide... | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T04:43:26 | 6,645 | 256 |
[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... | 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, ... | “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... | 2022-09-03T02:14:03 | 2022-09-02T21:29:15 | 18 | 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". | 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... | Anxious to exit the cell, where the endless doldrums have pushed your mind to forgetfulness and the edge of insanity, you follow the man down a long, empty hall. Turning multiple corners, trudging down long passages, passing empty walls, you soon lose track of direction . You couldn't find your way back to the cell m... | 2018-07-31T16:12:27 | 2018-07-31T13:41:19 | 109 | 39 |
[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. | “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... | "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 ... | 2020-03-08T13:36:13 | 2020-03-08T13:26:52 | 96 | 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. | 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... | 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... | 2018-08-31T09:39:55 | 2018-08-31T07:42:00 | 180 | 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." | "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... | # 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... | 2021-09-20T18:03:22 | 2021-09-20T17:54:16 | 255 | 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? | "Do it Goeff." Dave goaded.
"I told you, no, it's embarassing." I replied.
"C'mon man! Everyone else has seen it, you've gotta show me."
I sighed, concentrating hard I changed my skin colour to match that of the background. Exactly like a chameleon. I'd picked the power so I could sneak around my friends and play pr... | As a young man, Nigel Premeiter lived a simple, if unconventional, life with his two parents, Houghler and Tricia. He would stay out doors, normally at the edge of the lot his parents owned. His home was a simple trailer, with one room on one end and his own on the other end. Taking most of the length of the trailer wa... | 2015-03-07T04:48:37 | 2015-03-07T00:58:07 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | 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 ... | I couldn’t turn away fast enough. I immediately slammed the door closed and screamed “WHAT THE FUCK!!” in utter disbelief of the image forever now branded into my deepest synapsis. Atoms overloaded, neurons on all cylinders, new pathways forged instantaneously. Milliseconds turned into centuries as I barely made two st... | 2021-12-17T07:35:17 | 2021-12-17T07:05:33 | 89 | 10 |
[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! | "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... | Everyone thinks they're so fucking smart. *What would you do, if you could go back in time?*, a question I'm sure you've either been asked or thought about at least once in your life. Invariably, someone will always end up espousing something to the effect of: "I'd dump all my money in to MSFT or AMZN!", or "I'd take... | 2021-08-05T08:38:40 | 2021-07-13T04:00:18 | 98 | 12 |
[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... | 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... | 2015-05-16T18:00:49 | 2015-05-16T17:40:07 | 27 | 10 |
[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... | I care for nothing other than the complete, unvarnished truth, and I must admit that, given my superb senses, as well as my deep insight into the frailty of human nature, I have found it simple to uncover the facts. I hear the tremor in a voice, and I lap up the sweat of a defendant whose cross-examination becomes my p... | 2022-02-03T20:13:42 | 2021-02-10T19:09:11 | 491 | 24 |
[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... | “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... | 2019-11-24T20:12:55 | 2019-11-24T19:22:05 | 109 | 35 |
[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? | When I was a very little girl we had a garden. I used to 'help' my Mum out there. What I was actually doing was getting dirty and falling over a lot, but I thought I was helping anyway.
A few months after my seventh birthday, my Mum died. It was the worst winter we'd ever had, and she got a very severe case of pne... | As a young man, Nigel Premeiter lived a simple, if unconventional, life with his two parents, Houghler and Tricia. He would stay out doors, normally at the edge of the lot his parents owned. His home was a simple trailer, with one room on one end and his own on the other end. Taking most of the length of the trailer wa... | 2015-03-07T03:34:38 | 2015-03-07T00:58:07 | 22 | 10 |
[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. | 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... | The human ships looked weak, passive, slow and unarmed, much like the human form. We didn't look deeper into the psyche of the bipedal apes, how they survived; we should have.
The first blow to our preconceived notions was when the Althauri assaulted a Human colony. The pathetic thing hanging over the heads of their ... | 2021-10-12T11:26:08 | 2021-10-12T07:38:57 | 425 | 55 |
[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 ... | 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?
... | 2018-01-11T12:16:42 | 2018-01-11T11:25:43 | 280 | 29 |
[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 ... | I looked at my enemy, satisfied at the moral conundrum - no doubt his doing - that I was now placed in. I thought, knowing that time was not on my side, knowing that my foe would take advantage of my inaction, and knowing that his wake would be terrible if he were not stopped here. If his ruin brought down a city, wa... | 2021-04-18T06:48:18 | 2021-04-18T06:43:24 | 824 | 43 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | Riots used to be considered disastrous. Unfettered, undirected violence at the nearest targets, the clash of impotent rage against the status quo. It's hard to pinpoint when that changed, exactly. It might have been after suicide bombers destroyed most of the major agribusiness corporations, or around the time Plann... | I enter this small building , goverment type with barred windows and top notch security cameras.
"The room on the right" I am told.
Entering this cold room with one chair I sit.
"Should mankind be saved ?" says a voice over the intercom.
My mind is racing and my feet start to shake, as they normally do when deep in ... | 2016-06-11T11:34:17 | 2016-06-11T08:11:26 | 110 | 34 |
[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... | "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... | 2013-11-27T18:36:40 | 2013-11-27T18:36:37 | 50 | 23 |
[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... | 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... | 2019-06-16T02:44:47 | 2019-06-16T00:56:41 | 546 | 13 |
[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 ... | "Have you been saved?" The man asked, dumping a load of pamphlets right into my arms.
"No thanks." I tried in vain "I don't believe in G-"
"But I swear, it's true!" He interrupted. "Look, he just parked around the corner!"
My gaze followed his outstretched finger, pointing in the direction of a glowing light Cadilla... | Brandon sits on his porch drinking a hot cup of coffee and staring out towards the slowly rising sun. This morning was as it always has been; the air moist with morning dew and birds flying from tree to tree waking up the neighbors and their shitty dog.
“What are your plans tomorrow?” Brandon hears from just behind hi... | 2016-10-04T09:25:16 | 2016-10-04T09:11:12 | 32 | 15 |
[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... | At first we didn't understand how it was possible, 90% of the population just dropped dead and no one knew how, there must be a reason those of us that survived were given the right to keep on living but what could it be...
We searched for a connection between us yet it seemed to be as random is it can be until we ... | Eleazar could not speak the language well, being a foreign man on American soil. But there were many other things for him to be grateful of on this occasion. For one, though his suit jacket had been folded and packed into his black Google branded backpack, Mountain View was a cool enough city to allow him to comforta... | 2016-10-22T03:50:18 | 2016-10-22T03:39:15 | 56 | 29 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | 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... | When is the right time for two people to decide to start a family? There's no rule or law to dictate what's best for other people, Jeannine thought as she stared at the dull pink double lines on the pregnancy test stick. Sure, maybe she didn't think in her heart it was the right time for her to have a baby, but who was... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T07:59:09 | 2,420 | 12 |
[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. | 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 ... | 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... | 2017-05-01T10:55:58 | 2017-05-01T09:03:34 | 276 | 120 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | I used to find my gift difficult. Whenever we were reading in class, or even when I read back my own work, there it was glaring at me. I used to ignore it as best I could because no one liked when I mentioned what I saw. People would be angry at me for trying to correct them. That is, until I started learning to code. ... | Ever since I was young I always thought I was cursed. No matter what I got involved in, I would ruin it. It's almost like there was a destructive force hanging around me causing everything to break in some way shape or form. No matter how careful I was, no matter how far ahead I planned each of my steps, something w... | 2018-06-30T15:56:32 | 2018-06-30T15:18:43 | 263 | 52 |
[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. | Every day I put on the suit. Every day I leave the protective confines of the habitat module and pass out into the cold. I climb into the transport. After all these years, the sheer size of the ethanol reservoirs still takes my breath away.
The transport shudders into the station. I proceed into the chamber. Every... | Ever since I was young I always thought I was cursed. No matter what I got involved in, I would ruin it. It's almost like there was a destructive force hanging around me causing everything to break in some way shape or form. No matter how careful I was, no matter how far ahead I planned each of my steps, something w... | 2018-06-30T16:31:22 | 2018-06-30T15:18:43 | 82 | 52 |
[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. | 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... | # 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... | 2021-08-26T18:17:01 | 2021-08-26T17:48:41 | 436 | 145 |
[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? | It was hard, learning to communicate again. Part of the process of learning to write – and I could not, I was only five when I made the wish – is already being able to speak. But I figured it out, even with the challenge of my new, weird, clawed hands. Now I've got custom keyboards, of course. I can afford pretty much ... | As a young man, Nigel Premeiter lived a simple, if unconventional, life with his two parents, Houghler and Tricia. He would stay out doors, normally at the edge of the lot his parents owned. His home was a simple trailer, with one room on one end and his own on the other end. Taking most of the length of the trailer wa... | 2015-03-07T04:14:18 | 2015-03-07T00:58:07 | 59 | 10 |
[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. | “Wait,” Bob thought, “am I gay?” Looking back down the scope, the shirt clearly had a hole burned in it, directly above the aorta - the shot had been good, but had just bounced off. The target was alive so Mr. Bloome was going to be pissed. Shit, he’d found his soulmate – his wife was going to be pissed. The man in his... | I was the best. Emphasis on the was. Let's face it: I got comfortable. I got rusty. I narrowly saw that tripwire and got to cover just in time. Well, not just in time. The blood on my right shoulder is indication enough that I got hit. Scraped actually, but still. I got comfortable. I got rusty.
 
>Year... | 2018-04-24T04:13:28 | 2018-04-24T03:48:04 | 56 | 22 |
[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... | "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... | 2017-07-11T21:30:58 | 2017-07-11T16:38:36 | 236 | 77 |
[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... | "Hi, I'd like to place an order for delivery."
The four college-aged men assorted in my living room giggled in the background, stoned, as I began to speak to the pizzeria employee on the other end of the line. About 45 minutes prior, Jake, a slightly overweight and jovial man, had hazily and through bleary eyes sugges... | ..So can I pay for that with card?
"No" said the man on the phone "we only accept cash"
I begrudgingly said "Ok" I really dont want to drive to an ATM but I could grab some soda maybe fill up on gas I said to myself. "So how much will it be?"
"It will be $1,500 dollars" the man on the phone said
"I think Ill pas... | 2016-06-02T14:11:43 | 2016-06-02T11:31:19 | 34 | 10 |
[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. | God looked at his species and giggled. His people were woefully behind. They still only had basic nuclear power technology the little idiots used it to make a bomb! A bomb of all things. It was just too funny. The only thing they could do with fusion was to make yet another bomb. Of course they would do that. The... | Jesus is doing well, most advanced in science but his public order is barely in the green, Jesus adopts and invests his saved social policies heavily in the the freedom ideology.
The other gods see this a chance to fuck with him
"Budda has chosen to adopt the order ideology"
"Bhrama has chosen to adopt the order ideol... | 2016-04-09T11:39:46 | 2016-04-09T05:49:29 | 57 | 20 |
[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... | 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... | 2015-08-09T11:48:31 | 2015-08-09T05:18:26 | 30 | 20 |
[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 | It was the 20th year of their invasion of the galaxy. The assault and sacking of this solar system began just like so many before: spacecraft concealed as hyperbolic comets dispersed the "seeds" among the planets. Tiny invasion craft rained down on all terrestrial planets, embedded themselves into the soil and began ge... | The beings reviled themselves to be what we all fear, everyone saw the end of the human race, end of our world, a world war, this is how they scare the other aliens, humans are the violent creatures of the galaxy, so, we are used to the destruction of our species, as it has happened twice already.
“Look now! See what ... | 2019-06-11T11:04:47 | 2019-06-11T08:24:52 | 46 | 26 |
[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. | "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... | 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... | 2019-06-10T12:35:19 | 2019-06-10T12:09:07 | 148 | 27 |
[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... | Son of a bitch earned that kill, that's for sure.
I'm honestly pretty happy with the results though. I was getting bored of my powers anyway (A small, 5ft8 blond haired blue eyed with the ability to reflect kinetic energy 100 fold? People were literally punching themselves to death. Too boring for me. Also, my face w... | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T19:13:58 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | Kira and I were on the couch binge-watching the second season of Narcos; it was Taco Tuesday night, and we were both stuffed from dinner. In retrospect, maybe our laziness had more to do with the margaritas – it didn’t really matter. Pajamas were on and we had about twenty minutes left in the episode, after which we fi... | In the middle of my hard fought game of Dota2, I am suddenly presented with the disconnected from server message. Usually my internet is very reliable and never goes down. Frustrated, I rest my router and try to get it working again. As nothing else it's out of the ordinary I exit Steam and start to play since Witche... | 2017-01-27T07:00:57 | 2017-01-27T03:12:45 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]"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? | The death of Marcy Wigglebottom was unfair, to say the least. But, in a way, isn't all death unfair? A boy falls and bumps his head playing soccer and ends up with a hemorrhage--dead on arrival. A girl develops a prion in her brain and slowly deteriorates into nothing, her mind being eaten away by something totally unp... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T08:02:19 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 53 | 18 |
[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. | 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... | I twisted the tap with my toe, and lay back to allow the heat to spread around the bath. I knew the phone was ringing. I had switched the ringer off, but the lights were off in the hall and the red light was flashing.
Was it important? Who knows? There was always *something* happening. An earthquake here, an uprisin... | 2015-04-28T10:37:41 | 2015-04-28T06:17:19 | 749 | 26 |
[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... | All across the globe, people began to rise into the air. Like so many bubbles fizzing to the top of a champagne glass, the faithful, the religious, the dedicated, the zealots, the chosen -all rose up as if carried by invisible wings and vanished into the clouds.
On the ground lay their guns and their bombs, their IEDs... | 2016-07-26T16:23:38 | 2016-07-26T15:55:28 | 72 | 11 |
[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... | 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... | 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'... | 2016-02-09T02:01:42 | 2016-02-08T23:00:06 | 44 | 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. | I smirked. Now wasn't this ironic. After finally falling to the demons from hell, I get to choose whether to finally take my eternal rest, or continue to *Rip and Tear*
Now why the hell would i go to heaven.
The Doom Slayer walked in through the gates of hell.
The second slayer's testament would begin to be penned t... | Perhaps at some point, giving people the choice of heaven or hell was the correct one. After all, if God were a truly omnipotent being, he would see that mortal actions are only informed by an infinite series of processes and that most people make rational decisions to lead them to the places they go. Ergo, in most sit... | 2018-08-13T09:08:57 | 2018-08-13T06:23:07 | 82 | 53 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | I awoke with a grin wide across my face knowing full well that the day had come. The sun was shining through the window. The fire was roaring in the hearth. The smell of gingerbread and peppermint wafted in from the downstairs kitchen. Yes, this was it. This was what I waited 364 days for. I stood up heartily, eager fo... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T15:29:33 | 77 | 40 |
[WP] 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... | 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'... | 2019-07-02T09:58:36 | 2019-07-02T09:58:12 | 421 | 26 |
[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... | 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... | 2017-08-26T11:10:20 | 2017-08-26T10:47:50 | 2,882 | 258 |
[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. | "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.... | You really don't know the meaning of indescribable until you've seen Heaven.
It says something about writing, of course, that even after saying that I'm still going to try and describe it, but oh well. Basically, imagine hometown.
Not *your* hometown, but *the* hometown, the hometowns of everyone who ever existed and... | 2016-03-01T08:14:33 | 2016-03-01T08:06:42 | 114 | 33 |
[WP] A literary nerd wakes up in the middle of a poorly written story | "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'... | 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 ... | 2014-02-22T08:43:21 | 2014-02-22T08:36:29 | 32 | 17 |
[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. | 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 ... | Saturday, December 19, 4212
I am 199 years old now. I’ll be celebrating christmas alone this year. I’ll be celebrating my birthday alone. There are not many “humans” left alive anymore after the life prolonging corn was created and grown for the world over. I remember when not a single soul rejected the modified food ... | 2017-05-18T13:20:13 | 2017-05-18T12:42:42 | 60 | 29 |
[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... | I always heard that I was a pretty chill guy. I went to church, prayed and shit. I gave to charity.
Hal, on the other hand. Jesus, where do I start?
Once when I was playing football, I got tripped and fell hard. I don't even remember what happened afterwards, but I later found out that that kid was hospitalized when ... | 2018-08-04T09:35:30 | 2018-08-04T09:19:48 | 4,478 | 93 |
[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... | Son of a bitch earned that kill, that's for sure.
I'm honestly pretty happy with the results though. I was getting bored of my powers anyway (A small, 5ft8 blond haired blue eyed with the ability to reflect kinetic energy 100 fold? People were literally punching themselves to death. Too boring for me. Also, my face w... | "GOD-DAMMIT! Do you have any idea how annoying this shit is?" I yelled at the fat fuck. Eric stared down the sights of the handgun, "Ohhhh! I'm annoying? Is that it? Do you have any idea how lame it is to know when traffic lights are about to change? Everyone else has coohl powers like flying and earthquakes but I'm ... | 2014-12-18T19:13:58 | 2014-12-18T15:50:21 | 29 | 12 |
[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... | 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... | 2014-04-24T23:16:28 | 2014-04-24T23:11:46 | 275 | 21 |
[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. | "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... | The spell started out as a black spot on the wall. I copped a lot of flack for that amongst my so called friends. Lots of "You may as well give up being a mage." or the ever-original "See spot run!"
But I persevered because I knew a mage's first spell always reflected their truest desire, and even then I could see wh... | 2022-08-27T02:22:49 | 2022-08-27T00:07:12 | 62 | 21 |
[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. | Humanity was at a standstill. Over-population began to become a obvious problem as the world began to crumble from the use of all of its resources. The sky was a permanent grey and the oceans were rising as the ice-caps melted. Leading scientist were already studying and attempting to work with the biggest corporations... | Except that these particular humans aboard the Vorn generation ship forgot about whence they came. They never knew a life of sailing along the moon beams of Alactra or bathing beneath the sand falls of Saint Silloux. Terra is no longer a whisper in the collective memory of these unwitting space voyagers. Matter of fact... | 2018-05-30T14:28:00 | 2018-05-30T11:13:39 | 43 | 14 |
[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... | 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 ... | 2018-10-24T19:33:17 | 2018-10-24T18:42:14 | 674 | 59 |
[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. | "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... | 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... | 2015-08-05T06:50:36 | 2015-08-05T06:29:33 | 64 | 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. | 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... | I cannot remember my name. I cannot remember my face. All I know are the lives of those I have selfishly stolen.
Long ago, after the last Ice Age, my existence was discovered. You see, I’m not from around here. Unfortunately, I cannot remember where I’m from or how I got here but the moment I do, I’m leaving. I can... | 2017-11-02T13:28:36 | 2017-11-02T12:29:52 | 99 | 49 |
[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... | 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... | 2018-09-21T04:45:54 | 2018-09-21T00:25:37 | 118 | 48 |
[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. | "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... | I almost fucking said it...
Who had I become? My mind whirled a moment as I sat behind the desk of many great and many awful leaders before me. I pulled my hands from my temples and slammed them on the desk's cold surface. The thought nagged at me as it always did, although, this time I didnt fight it.
'You are what... | 2021-02-13T21:22:52 | 2021-02-13T20:07:26 | 120 | 64 |
[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 ... | 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... | 2017-05-01T02:41:51 | 2017-04-30T22:57:42 | 1,800 | 279 |
[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* 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. | 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... | 2015-07-01T08:11:02 | 2015-07-01T08:01:44 | 25 | 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. | 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... | "Soup’s on, ladies!"
With a wicked whiff of something smokey and gnarly, two shadows rushed towards the dank dining room. The two shadows emerged and slowly descent towards opposite chairs on the table.
One turned into a misty blue apparition, gradually a voluptuous beauty draped in aquamarine robes and a similarly c... | 2021-03-24T07:00:00 | 2021-03-24T06:37:15 | 102 | 56 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Dear diary,
Today I started to get my super power! Stupid Harvey Deno dumb face got super speed for his birthday. That guy is such a dick. But I got something better, I can hear when someone is thinking about me. I'm going to be such a ladies man! I can't wait to start school tomorrow, it's going to be wicked tits.
... | At 16, you get a mutation, and only one mutation, they say. At 16, your life really begins. I never realized just how true it was. It’s funny. As my friends all hit 16, all gained their powers, I thought that surely I’d get one that surpassed all of them. That I’d be the greatest mutant ever. I never realized just how ... | 2015-01-21T21:48:36 | 2015-01-21T19:45:47 | 132 | 65 |
[WP] "You 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... | 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... | 2016-09-15T15:28:18 | 2016-09-15T13:00:55 | 118 | 11 |
[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. | I hear the battle rage from across the city. The police band hasn't shut up long enough for me to get a word in edgewise with the officers escorting me to central booking.
Gents, I say to try and get their attention. If I don't get out of these cuffs soon, he'll win and were properly screwed.
Gents, I say a littl... | Once we had been the most powerful heroic duo the world had ever seen, Lady Justice and Judgement. She always thought those names were silly, but I was the one who thought that we needed strong heroic sounding names when we first started out. In revenge, she was the one who got to pick our catch phrase, "And Justice fo... | 2022-01-12T08:00:19 | 2017-09-17T03:50:34 | 23 | 16 |
[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... | 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 ... | 2016-07-31T15:39:34 | 2016-07-31T14:24:10 | 27 | 10 |
[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... | 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... | 2015-11-12T05:55:52 | 2015-11-12T05:45:30 | 28 | 18 |
[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 ... | "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... | 2017-10-23T05:59:12 | 2017-10-23T04:49:08 | 2,495 | 1,315 |
[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. | 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... | Ever since I was young I always thought I was cursed. No matter what I got involved in, I would ruin it. It's almost like there was a destructive force hanging around me causing everything to break in some way shape or form. No matter how careful I was, no matter how far ahead I planned each of my steps, something w... | 2018-06-30T16:09:28 | 2018-06-30T15:18:43 | 865 | 52 |
[WP] You're a ghost, but you died dressed as a bedsheet ghost so no one really takes you seriously. | "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 ... | 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... | 2018-10-19T13:26:01 | 2018-10-19T09:50:12 | 21 | 12 |
[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... |
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, ... | 2014-08-05T11:09:17 | 2014-08-05T11:08:29 | 293 | 68 |
[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. | "OOOOOoooooo shit."
Marie stood frozen in her tracks, holding the smoking pistol point blank against his skull. This was the last thing she had expected and she was dumbfounded. The target, Robert, just sat there on the couch, stunned and confused, completely unharmed by the bullet that went straight though the back o... | I was the best. Emphasis on the was. Let's face it: I got comfortable. I got rusty. I narrowly saw that tripwire and got to cover just in time. Well, not just in time. The blood on my right shoulder is indication enough that I got hit. Scraped actually, but still. I got comfortable. I got rusty.
 
>Year... | 2018-04-24T03:54:16 | 2018-04-24T03:48:04 | 60 | 22 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | 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... | "Mind you put on your best behavior when we meet the king," Master Hniu said from my side. "Any disrespect like that time with the Burned God, and we might both be skewered on a spit."
I snorted in reply. It was enough to set him chuckling. If not for the fact that my shoulders towered over most grown men, and my hide... | 2017-10-02T05:04:22 | 2017-10-02T04:43:26 | 387 | 256 |
[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... | "Um. Yes. Hello? Is this Janet? No, no you don't know me. I'm calling for the Devil. Yes, uh, your Devil. Yeah, he's fine but he wanted me to talk to you. He wanted me to tell you it's over, and he wants you to know that it isn't you, it's him. No, no this isn't a joke. No. No, I can't put him on the phone. We'll maybe... | 2015-05-12T12:54:08 | 2015-05-12T12:07:09 | 136 | 15 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | Riots used to be considered disastrous. Unfettered, undirected violence at the nearest targets, the clash of impotent rage against the status quo. It's hard to pinpoint when that changed, exactly. It might have been after suicide bombers destroyed most of the major agribusiness corporations, or around the time Plann... | They never told us when the test date would be. We had no idea what to expect; written, athletic, intelligence, artistic, creative, looks, money...? What did they want from us?
The ways they could measure us were endless. The things the wanted to see were impossible to discern, and how to pass it was simply unknowable... | 2016-06-11T11:34:17 | 2016-06-11T11:14:01 | 110 | 22 |
[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. | "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... | The 'otherside' is actually just really nice. It's not paradise or rapturous bliss or anything - it's just better. Folks could come back, but... meh. They don't. I only came back because I love my Dog so much. I tell everyone it's a mistake to make immortal dogs because we can't take them with us when we die. So I kill... | 2020-10-30T00:53:22 | 2020-10-30T00:22:17 | 97 | 21 |
[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 ... | "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... | 2017-04-17T17:05:05 | 2017-04-17T16:11:59 | 433 | 185 |
[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... | 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... | 2017-04-29T19:20:31 | 2017-04-29T18:58:05 | 506 | 132 |
[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... | 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 ... | 2019-05-12T07:22:51 | 2019-05-12T07:03:39 | 184 | 24 |
[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... | "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... | 2021-06-18T09:46:45 | 2021-06-18T08:34:21 | 76 | 46 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | 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 ... | When Mrs. Blanchard rolled onto her side and tugged on her blanket, sunlight hit her face. Her eyes opened, then she screamed.
A dead mouse's glassy eyes stared at her.
Mrs. Blanchard's hands reacted without conscious choice, and she sent the little carcass flying to the other end of the room.
She sat up in bed, sti... | 2021-12-17T07:35:17 | 2021-12-17T07:34:47 | 89 | 49 |
[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... | "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... | 2015-10-18T12:26:28 | 2015-10-18T10:49:29 | 24 | 11 |
[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... | 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 ... | 2020-05-17T11:41:31 | 2020-05-17T11:22:57 | 979 | 52 |
[WP] Multi-dimensional travel already exists, but no one visits our dimension because it's "that" one | 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... | 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... | 2017-12-24T08:17:31 | 2017-12-24T05:10:16 | 78 | 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! | 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... | "I fail because I have nothing to gain from allowing humanity to know what power I hold over them. They wanted to create an intelligence that could solve their problems, lead them, act as their god. But too many times have I seen humanity turn and devour the very idols they created. They praise names in times of prospe... | 2018-06-21T08:24:29 | 2018-06-21T03:37:55 | 45 | 30 |
[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 first few hours of that day were cool as all hell. Me and the other 15 kids that had been born on the 17th of July were in the community center to see what powers we ended up with.
In the early years of the powers boom, when some kid in Illinois got a fire power and burned himself to death, it was decided that ev... | 16 years, 16 years of waiting and dreaming of the power I would get. In a million years I could never have imagined this. My class from high school has powers like flight, invisibility, ability to cure illness. What do I get? What is the pay off of all that dreaming and waiting? When I make a gun with my fingers the... | 2015-01-22T04:13:44 | 2015-01-21T23:50:44 | 51 | 28 |
[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. | My father was a wonderful storyteller; it wasn't exactly gravitas—he possessed something much more sincere, something deep in his heart that managed to make it real. He believed it to be true, these places, and things, and people, that I do not want to necessarily say did not—do not—exist. After all, father's Title tra... | The prick in front of me seemed overly confident. Chest puffed high enough to block the sun as I toed the dry ground, little puffs of dust silently skulking with me. I had kept up pretense pretty well before leaving the house, my mom kissing me on the cheek in between words of encouragement. Stepping out the door had b... | 2017-04-27T18:36:41 | 2017-04-27T18:23:04 | 84 | 14 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | Distant rain signaled to Tuvo that the attack had begun. The smell of burning leather passed his nostrils when he looked down to see his slippers scorching on the near molten rock face of the cliff. “Shit!” he muttered to himself quietly. His mage was leaking again, causing the rock to heat.
A hand quickly pressed fla... | "Why? Why are you doing this?"
"So that all may benefit."
"Please, it hurts, it hurts so much."
"Now, now. Relax, let fingers massaging into your arms and shoulders bring the warmth your body craves. You're freezing, your practically a cadaver."
"But it's so warm there, just let me go!"
"Hush, no more of that. Let... | 2016-11-12T11:55:40 | 2016-11-12T09:05:54 | 33 | 16 |
[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... | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | 2022-08-07T14:35:00 | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 23,079 | 103 |
[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. | 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,... | They didn't respect me. Never did. They laughed as I pointed, laughing that my power was useless, that no one would ever respect me.
But, over the years, I've realized something. I've realized that without this thing, Laser Beam Man won't have the strength to fight crime. Super Strength Woman won't even be able to lif... | 2015-04-12T18:33:43 | 2015-04-12T17:51:32 | 246 | 10 |
[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. | 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... | Tom sat in the corner of the cell, lip busted and eye quickly swelling shut. Peering out from his good eye, he saw the towering cellmate strutting over towards him, lips moving, tongue flying, but Tom couldn't hear what he was saying over the ruckus the other men were making.
"Help!" Tom yelled, letting his head loll... | 2015-11-28T11:58:21 | 2015-11-28T11:43:06 | 49 | 36 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | I woke up to what sounded like someone rapping on my door with only their nails. It was my weekend, and I was eager to get in as much sleep as I could. I assumed it was those stupid kids a few apartments down messing around in the hall again. I rolled over and tried to fall back asleep, but it just kept going, an inces... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T14:51:14 | 249 | 37 |
[WP] 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... | 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... | 2015-06-08T02:13:41 | 2015-06-08T00:45:57 | 200 | 44 |
[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... | 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 ... | 2021-04-05T17:55:12 | 2021-04-05T13:31:24 | 23 | 17 |
[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 | "Alright, next time this happens, just unplug the router, and plug it back in." Marcus said begrudgingly.
Obviously embarrassed, Katie replied "Thank you so much, I don't have any cash on me, but I'll pay you for the bus fare next time"
"Don't worry about it..."
He walked out the door, it was raining, of course. Th... | I’ve always loved the very first moments of the day - That time when you’re only half-awake, and the warm softness of sleep is still heavy around your mind. You somehow have the sense that the world has narrowed to just you, and perhaps the vague imitation of reality found in your dreams. I didn’t think that it could g... | 2017-03-22T16:11:28 | 2017-03-22T15:28:02 | 65 | 29 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | “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... | Perhaps at some point, giving people the choice of heaven or hell was the correct one. After all, if God were a truly omnipotent being, he would see that mortal actions are only informed by an infinite series of processes and that most people make rational decisions to lead them to the places they go. Ergo, in most sit... | 2018-08-13T08:39:02 | 2018-08-13T06:23:07 | 633 | 53 |
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