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[WP] "Demonic tradition states that as punishment for your disobedience, I must bestow a curse on you. Common sense dictates that you were absolutely correct to disobey me. So, human, I have decided to burden you with the most inconsequential of curses..." | "... every time you eat, there will always be something inedible on your plate..." he pronounced, then hesitated. "No, no, no, that won't do. You could accidentally eat it and choke. Too consequential." He thought some more.
"... whenever you post a letter, it will arrive exactly 3 days...". His announcement turned in... | “… thus I have cursed you with all bubble gum tasting like barbecue sauce and having that typical stringy sticky thing no body likes.”
I shook my head in disbelief. “Dude what’s the point?”
He looked me over curiosly. “What… what do you mean? And inconsequential curse! It’s like a regular curse but-“
“Yeah but I don... | Tequima | No-Historian-3014 | 2023-01-10 20:30:21 | 2023-01-10 19:29:19 | 88 | 32 | j3sp7we | j3sey95 | 1084k7g | 1084k7g |
[WP] You’re a demon. One day, you’re summoned into a living room, and an exhausted woman quickly rambles about needing to get to work and being unable to find a sitter before flying out the door. Now, you stand in your summoning circle, a toddler staring wide eyed at you. | “You know who I am, right? I’m Lord Imperial Chaos Maker demon of the -“
Too late, she’s off.
The toddler starts to cry very, very loud. Then without warning she pushes over the sky blue china vase. Momentarily you stare in horror before springing to action. With a push of your scaly palm you freeze the vase then yo... | I looked around me at the seemingly endless supply of toys strewn about the room.
The walls, barely visible through the bottles and candles piled and hung on the walls out of the child’s reach.
I felt a familiar scent engulf me. I was so used to it it took me a few seconds to notice the burnt lasagna next to me, sti... | cyankitten | Repulsive_Look_216 | 2024-05-13 09:57:29 | 2024-05-13 08:55:37 | 190 | 92 | l3tv37f | l3tq9gj | 1cqrzkc | 1cqrzkc |
[WP] It finally happened. Through means not yet known, everyone's physical beauty reflects their innermost selves; the kind but portly girl is now an absolute bombshell, the asshole CEO is now hideous, and so on. Nothing prepared you for what you came face to face with in the mirror, though. | "Hey, punk! Whatcha lookin at?" I glanced over at the people who, I suppose, were trying to harass me. I hadn't been looking at them, as a matter of fact. Didn't even know who they were. But now looking at them... hmm. The Shift hadn't been kind to them. There was little doubt that before it they were horrible people, ... | No one knew how it happened. People talked about magic, government, nanotechnology, you name it. Every conspiracy theory possible was formed around it.
Later, we would call it “The Change”. Other people tried to call it “Plastic Surgery for All” or “Changy McChange Face”, but they all fell flat. Nothing could describe... | ArbitraryChaos13 | Zak_The_Slack | 2023-02-23 01:26:35 | 2023-02-23 00:10:34 | 496 | 90 | j9ml9n6 | j9mao1p | 119gjg2 | 119gjg2 |
[WP] You were weirded out by your coworker’s rambling about XP farms and things like that at first but they have been unusually helpful in your group for surviving the zombie apocalypse so far. | As we shot down the last of the zombies that surrounded our office, Alex asked me if I was leveling up soon.
I reminded him again this isn't some game, but a real zombie apocalypse, but Alex cut me off to ask how much XP I still needed.
After a little back-and-forth arguing over non-existent XP, we went to the shared... | “Okay, turn it on.” Steve said.
“You got it!” Alex flipped the lever.
The hoard of zombies filtered inward as the heavy iron door swung open. The zombies were pushed upward then forward on repeat, moving them diagonally upward. At the apex of the piston staircase, they were swept into a water stream, where they flowe... | Tregonial | None | 2023-05-03 15:31:38 | 2023-05-03 12:59:32 | 664 | 467 | jipidzw | jiowqce | 136hvje | 136hvje |
[WP] An academic notices that an entire year goes unmention from all historical records as if nothing at all happen during it. | “There was a great calamity, just before the year 1015. It was towards the end of the infamous God Wars, where the three disastrous forbidden gods of evil, sometimes simply known as the “3 Big Ds”, The Defiler, The Devourer, and The Destroyer, were at their most rampant. At the height of their powers. And then a big no... | Gio was waiting in the dusty hallway of the university. Sitting on an uncomfortable old chair surrounded by glass cabinets displaying all kinds of archaeological artifacts uncovered by professors and alumni of the ancient history studies of Cambridge university. He had finally managed to get a meeting with Professor St... | Tregonial | zeekoes | 2023-05-12 17:31:58 | 2023-05-12 15:37:29 | 72 | 15 | jjwcr1b | jjvvoj1 | 13fi0jv | 13fi0jv |
[WP] The witch begs your forgiveness for cursing you as a baby; she was young and hot-headed, and would you like her to undo the curse? You aren't sure what to say as this is the first you've heard about any of this. | I stared at the frail face of the woman who had ruined my life. Her hair was a dusty-grey colour, and her face appeared ancient. It was simply impossible to guess her age; her skin looked like ageing slabs of rock, worn down from decades of harsh weather. She did not move. She was completely motionless, aside from her... | Keep it simple, stupid.
The KISS principle, some call it. Apparently, when it comes to curses, the opposite is true. "I don't feel any different," I said. "It may take time," she replied, and took a step backwards. *Is that fear in her eyes?* "Why did you curse a baby, anyways?"
She looked at the floor. "I was... for... | baosumong | jpb103 | 2023-08-12 17:29:18 | 2023-08-12 17:22:47 | 47 | 33 | jvw8kwx | jvw7kav | 15p52e7 | 15p52e7 |
[WP] "I am your destiny, human! You alone have been chosen to become my knight, my warrior - the protector of life itself!" "B-but why?" I stammered out. The entity shrugged. "No reason...you're just the only one who's entered this temple in a while - even if it WAS just to get out of the rain." | I hear the grand speech of the entity, as lihht engulfs me.
I see the universe expand, and cool down, dimming.
I see countless seeds of life sprout in the darkness, becoming lush planets, civilizations.
I feel the endless possibilities and dangers.
I...I can feel myself drawn to these dangers, to stop, to prevent them.... | I stared at the eldritch being in front of me, slowly letting the pieces fall into place in my head. It's 4 long and muscular arms joining an equally shredded body bound behind a huge chest plate, 2 of his gigantic hands holding forging hammers, the other two holding tongs.
It occurs to me that this is not a god that ... | TheWanderingBook | Away_Letter3936 | 2025-03-21 16:54:34 | 2025-03-21 16:22:42 | 30 | 18 | mj03bzt | mizwr9d | 1jgjnwz | 1jgjnwz |
[WP] A young elf asks "Why should I fear humans , they live for such a short amount of time" and a elder elf answers | "Did i ever tell you of Agarta the blade." The scarred elf said to what most would assume to be another his age. "I met him when he was three years old, he started travelling with me at ten years old. It seemed that every moment he was achieving something, every *hour* meant something to him. I could not keep up with ... | The new elven general walked up to me. "Historian Alten, no other members of the court understand the answer to a question,"
"And it is?"
"Why should I fear humans, they live for such a short amount of time."
I turned to him "The fact that they haven't fallen through the 400 year war wasn't enough?"
"No."
I sighed... | -___-_-___-_-_ | stoopme | 2023-10-25 02:57:45 | 2023-10-25 00:30:43 | 40 | 14 | k6cejyq | k6bt6t9 | 17flmfi | 17flmfi |
[WP] You’ve been bitten by a Zombie. You’ve already said tearful goodbyes to your loved ones as they leave you behind. The bite should make you turn in twenty minutes, so you sit down on a bench and wait… two hours later you’re still sitting there. | *Goodbye*, I think, because what else is there to do?
I've already said it to the only people that matter, I've already left. Maybe that means it's pointless, but I know better.
It would be presumptuous to think I was saying goodbye to the world, since it will go on without me. Maybe I'm saying goodbye to myself.
I ... | Bernard shuffled away from the bench clutching his left shoulder, where the bandaged bite wound (which had appeared deeper than any other bite wound of the people in his group who turned) began to throb and swell and leak blood. He cursed under his breath.
The sun was setting, and if Bernard could afford it, he would’... | OfAshes | nalavip | 2023-07-06 19:34:04 | 2023-07-06 19:33:32 | 909 | 94 | jqxhi6x | jqxhf83 | 14sghr0 | 14sghr0 |
[WP] "You are the chosen one. The prophecy says that every 273 years-" "Wait, why isn't it a round number? Sorry, no can do" "Are you really denying your destiny over this?" "Uhh... yeah?" | “Ah, well….” I shifted awkwardly as all seventeen eyes in the breakroom turned towards me. The Zilran who had asked the question glanced around in confusion in the sudden deafening silence.
I sighed. They were too young to know better. I was probably their first human.
“We called it the Blue Planet before. Or the ‘... | I was taking a nice peaceful walk along the riverside when they appeared suddenly, out of nowhere, a strong light emanating downwards while they spiralled around me.
They looked otherworldly, and beautiful, with ethereal robes. They were singing in beautiful Carnatic music, with 2 mouths one on each head. Each head ... | mostlyoverthis | Joydipto | 2025-03-05 17:10:15 | 2024-07-10 14:51:06 | 382 | 15 | mg6csrp | lcioqgw | 1j46wfn | 1dzv5h0 |
[WP] It turns out that humans are the only galactic species able to safely handle drugs. Other species have such a low tolerance that a small cup of coffe basically works like a crystal meth. You are one such oblivious, very curious alien that got his hands on an ACTUAL crystal meth. | "25 Cryptocreds," the human dealer said, flatly.
Xylkx blinked. "That's all?"
The dealer sneered. "What, you want to negotiate for a higher price?"
The Nirogo raised his tentacles placatingly. "No, I'm just surprised. I mean...isn't this stuff illegal, even for you guys?"
"Supply and demand. The demand for crystal... | “Here, freak. Try some of this shit, it’s gonna blow your mind. That is if you even have one of those- ha!”
Toto was caught in a dilemma. Doing drugs- especially the hardcore stuff he was being offered now, at that- hardly seemed a sane choice. He still had nightmares from the one time he tried coffee.
H... | SilasCrane | Percybhowal | 2023-05-25 19:09:31 | 2023-05-25 11:41:33 | 92 | 39 | jllp1x8 | jljvni6 | 13r31hb | 13r31hb |
[WP] After inventing time travel, you send agents back in time to change the future and conquer the world. Instead you get back several dead agents and a note saying “Never try that again.” | ″The thing about time travel is that **everyone** thinks they're the first.
Usually it's some government or corporation, though you do occasionally see the odd mad scientist tinkerer. I feel bad about those ones, but I don't make the rules, and rule breakers have a nasty habit of becoming nothing more than whispers a... | **Year 2070**
"And so, with the team of superheroes across the globe united as the organisation PLAN (Protectors and Lifekeepers for All Nations), our world is now officially at peace, and we will prosper in this unprecedented opportunity for development and progress..." and the audience exploded into deafening applau... | inversation | MC_Hans84 | 2024-01-25 19:27:51 | 2024-01-25 15:55:44 | 93 | 52 | kjjpcgv | kjin4s0 | 19f7pxd | 19f7pxd |
[WP] “Why should I care what you think, dad? Humans only live for a hundred years if they’re lucky! Me and mom will be here for thousands!” | I grounded my teenage son, this didn't sit well with him, and summoned an oversized tortoise that destroyed our livingroom.
My wife was still out working, so I had to have a talk with him.
Entering his room, I saw him weightlifting his special weights...they weighed like ten tons.
"Son...
You shouldn't behave l... | "My Lord, I have no clue who these mortals are. Why are they-"
"*These four mortals are the key to saving my Realm!*" the King of the Amethyst Court bellowed. "They seem to know you, so you better get them comfortable with their new role as Protectors of this land! Oh, and don't out yourself as an Amethyst Courtier t... | TheWanderingBook | RosenrotEis | 2024-08-14 16:31:41 | 2023-02-27 08:05:36 | 82 | 20 | mw44biv | ja6xmf3 | 1l3vyzg | 11ctaxn |
[WP]You reincarnated in a fantasy world, but when you go check your stats, everything seems to be really average, until you put your eyes on charisma, that is on 200 points | As I wake, I hear moaning. Not the usual moans of agony I’ve become used to, punctuated with screams and gunfire. Soft, constant moaning. From all around me.
It’s pitch dark. My head is pounding. I lever myself up onto an elbow, and realise that I am no longer lying on blood-infused sand and volcanic ash of the Iwo J... | On mobile so please excuse any formatting issues.
With a start and a gasp I could feel every single part of my body as if I had woken up from an excessively long nap. Sitting up and clearing my vision I could see I was in a vast forest with a small lake ahead of me, much different than my small suburban town.
My at... | HolIerer | Tojm | 2023-01-06 19:29:11 | 2023-01-06 16:07:30 | 388 | 39 | j38g3kk | j37imbq | 104txuo | 104txuo |
[WP] The hero, normally jovial and humorous in their interactions, steps into a watering hole for villains, shaking with rage, tears running down their face, and with as much patience and calm as they can muster, simply asks "Who did it?" | I sat at the bar in the speakeasy, nursing my drink and a headache. The light show this morning hadn’t done me any favors, nor had the earthquake that followed. While no one claimed responsibility for the crime spree, the celebratory laughter from the back booth suggested the likely culprits. I glanced in their directi... | The patrons of the Safehouse fell silent at the image before them: Skylark, one of the most upbeat and playful heroes around, looking like she was about to explode as tears streamed down her face like rivers. Reactions across the room were split, but all were tinged with confusion. The villains with more experience or ... | espirose | jardanovic | 2024-10-17 15:30:08 | 2024-10-17 13:06:06 | 657 | 246 | lsdl13k | lscvvh4 | 1g5kua3 | 1g5kua3 |
[WP] You are the evil overlord. You've ruled the world with an iron fist. But after you quit being an overlord as you couldn't deal with all the paperwork, a clumsy young female hero burst through your door every day claiming to end your reign. This is her 58th attempt. | I drop my spoon into my cereal bowl as the shattering sound of a door and a girl hitting the floor startle me. One would expect me to be ready at this point, but if I were the type to be ready for cliches, I wouldn't have become an evil overlord in the first place. My fate was sealed when I was born plot-blind. It's li... | “Surrender! You foul fiend. Your reign of terror is over.” Screamed the woman in a mix and match armour, brandishing a new blade. The old one still embedded in the stairways, serving as a cloak hanger. The open helmet was a recent addition, but it really seemed to limit her field of vision. “Blasted. I was sure he was ... | ArsenicElemental | Old-Culture-6278 | 2024-08-24 16:42:58 | 2024-08-24 13:41:52 | 100 | 53 | ljq6k2v | ljpbkvd | 1f01p14 | 1f01p14 |
[WP] The Galactic Council and their enemy’s have always used energy based weapons. The sudden scrabble to develop defences against physical weapons REALLY should have started when the humans began to have interest in Mass Drivers capable of firing over 1,000 tons at FTL speeds. | The Meridon Corporatocracy of the Rigel System had been self assured of their supremacy in declaring a hostile takeover of the human Federation colony world's. They had filed the pentabytes of bureaucratic applications to the Galatic Council, who oversaw all disputes, and readied their fleets.
The first encounters had... | It was something they had not thought about when they declared war. They thought humanity was an easy target due to the Wars within. They always where supprised about how crazy ideas humans got but they never expected humanity to go to such lengths.
When the comand-station on one of their moons got absolutly d... | GreenLurka | Awkward_Ad75 | 2023-04-13 17:26:17 | 2023-04-13 12:35:49 | 112 | 47 | jg4auf3 | jg3402w | 12kmkou | 12kmkou |
[WP] Your job description: 1) Sit in an empty room with a red button for 8 hours a day. 2) NEVER press the red button, no matter what happens. 3) Do not talk to anyone about the job. After many uneventful years, your phone rings and a stern, slightly panicked voice says: „Press the button. NOW!!“ | "You got it!"
*click*
Nothing happened.
"Aww well." I sighed "Guess I'm fired now huh?"
"Wait you actually pushed the button?" The distorted voice on the other side of the line asked "You broke the ONE rule we told you not to break?"
"Yeah pretty much..." I paused and continued. In for a penny. "Well no. I broke a... | Easiest job in the world.
David knew he had the easiest job in the world - all he had to do was sit in a room for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. It was practically free money! Of course, there was one condition.
Do not press the red button. It was what his supervisor told him when he started working here, what his wor... | WantDiscussion | JoeyJoeySiwa | 2023-01-03 05:18:15 | 2023-01-03 02:19:27 | 24 | 16 | j2qes97 | j2pr8j8 | 101bwam | 101bwam |
[WP] Monsters break into your home, seeking blood. Upon seeing your spouse they stop and bend the knee in reverence. You're left confused while your spouse sighs, rubbing their forehead. | While I appreciate the fact that the two and a half meters wolf-man and the pale person with fangs as big as knifes have not tried to kill us or caused anymore damage besides the broken down front door, I have to say it that seeing them grovel at my fiancée's feet while begging for forgiveness is not exactly a much rea... | I sighed in contentment , it was a long and difficult week at work, pissed off clients, demanding bosses and incompetent coworkers. Sensing my frustrations Lilly had made a special dinner, well, special to me. Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Nothing fancy, but man it's my comfort food.
She suggested that we... | ClassyOod | TheReturned | 2023-01-05 22:39:57 | 2023-01-05 22:25:11 | 424 | 50 | j345nwp | j343bog | 1040cuh | 1040cuh |
[WP] You recently discovered that your father, whom you never knew, is actually a crime-fighter with no free time, and he is unaware that you are his son. In order to talk to him, you become a villain. | I always knew there was something missing, a void lingering in the depths of my being—an unanswered question that echoed through the years. It wasn't until recently that the truth, like a bolt of lightning, struck me with an intensity I never anticipated.
The man I had known as my father was not my true progenit... | "The Irony!!" What a plot twist my life took. I have one father who has no idea who I am at all besides a kid who grew to be a woman that made mistakes. And that woman had kids unplanned which was 4 more mistakes.. No recognition of the love I came to know because of them, how beautiful and amazing they are, or the fa... | Ithinkimdepresseddd | Foreign-Antelope-507 | 2023-11-18 01:32:45 | 2023-11-18 00:38:10 | 53 | 32 | k9poxdu | k9pi248 | 17xs2q1 | 17xs2q1 |
[WP] You pretend to be a small-time villain. At most, you annoy the local supers but your crimes never hurt anyone. To you it's all good fun. Things change when a truly sadistic super villain invades your turf and murders a few of the supers. No one has seen the extent of your true powers until now. | “Mwahahaha! Who wants more honey?!” I continued tossing jars of honey at the customers in the candy store, who were desperately trying to escape the sticky, gooey mess. I shook a yellow-striped fist at the obese kid scrambling towards his mobility scooter. “Honey is high in nutrients and is much healthier than sugar, f... | I was having fun.
In a world filled with superpowers, fun is really important to me.
I was considered a villain, but a small-time one.
Painting the buildings of the superhero organizations, stealing their clothes, tying their shoes, tearing up their capes...
I was pranking them, while enjoying them chasing me, ... | hatabou_is_a_jojo | TheWanderingBook | 2024-09-23 09:34:55 | 2024-09-23 08:45:28 | 1,115 | 277 | loi0yjl | lohwtxp | 1fnekwz | 1fnekwz |
[WP] As the god of reincarnations, when neither Hell nor Heaven want a soul, it is your job to reincarnate it appropriately. One specific soul keeps coming back to you not so long after each reincarnation. After a while, you decide to investigate why the soul keeps coming back to you. | When they first came in, they died during a snowstorm. A lean and fit male at the time. Very healthy and fit for the time. I checked their life out since it was one of my earliest clients. To remember the moment, I took a picture with them. Luckily space and time works differently here so I had a camera with me from hi... | (A Wayfarer gets a job?)
So here I am, sitting behind a rather ordinary desk in a not so ordinary office at the Junction of Souls...where Souls get sent to their next lives. 'Why am I even here?' You may ask. Well, the answer to that won't be what you think. I'm just doing a favor for my friend Zariel. Most deity-leve... | Katze71 | Gicofokami | 2023-01-31 22:32:48 | 2023-01-31 22:19:01 | 60 | 41 | j6p74rx | j6p514q | 10q4wxq | 10q4wxq |
[WP] "You are what you eat" has become literal. Many would rather succumb to becoming a chicken or pig than turn into a beetroot or zucchini. | I saw the news.
This should not be possible, yet it is.
The news warn people: "You are what you eat! Be careful!" they cry.
"Choose your next meal carefully!" they shout.
Hoping that this is a bad dream, I let sleep take me.
Oooo
I see flocks of chickens in the street. Munching on peaces of wheat bundled in c... | The world went to hell when people suddenly started to turn into the last thing they ate. In the first moments, there was silence. Everyone was dumbfounded and the realization of what had happened had not kicked in yet. The people who changed first were either lucky or unlucky, becoming a pig is far better than becomin... | Quo-Fide | Milfou | 2023-12-08 16:34:17 | 2023-12-08 16:06:26 | 255 | 21 | kcinr6i | kcijf49 | 18dpjma | 18dpjma |
[WP] Just two people sitting on a park bench. No gods or monsters or spies or supernatural elements -- just two people sitting. | "That's it then, eh?"
"That's it."
"Just the two of us on a bench."
"All ya need, really."
"Not exactly compelling, is it?"
"Who said it has to be? Everyone's out there bringing Death Itself, God, the Devil, floating head numbers and time travel... A little inconsequential chat would be nice, wouldn't it?"
"I gue... | Cherry blossoms and a cool breeze under a mild sun. The hot dog vender's cart vents off steam from his product and makes stomachs growl. Birds chirp and old men sit on benches chatting the time away.
"He said no gods," he wears a fedora and scratches at a mustard stain on his brown sweater vest missing the glob of oni... | Joelin8r | Voyage_of_Roadkill | 2023-03-24 18:21:40 | 2023-03-24 17:04:12 | 125 | 10 | jdity87 | jdihr35 | 120orzx | 120orzx |
[WP] You are an immortal who's starting to get seriously annoyed at all the people who assume you must be depressed because of all the people's you've loved and lost | "It must be so hard," the tiefling girl said sympathetically. "To have loved, and then lost, and loved and lost again..."
We were propping up the tavern, the three of us. Imarda, the tiefling singer. Karan, the dwarven cleric. And me, the elven wizard.
Yes, I admit it; we were talking about men. Imarda had been talk... | Somehow, someway the world learnt that I am immortal.
Not a big issue, since I used to be a merchant, still am, and done everything legally.
Now, I run my business from afar, as I live on a farm, relaxing.
But...
Ever since they realized I am immortal, apart from the occasional kidnapping attempt...people...
... | Mumique | TheWanderingBook | 2024-12-12 09:59:08 | 2024-12-12 09:39:00 | 63 | 28 | m1o5ylh | m1o482j | 1hcg662 | 1hcg662 |
[WP] A millennium ago, only the wealthiest were allowed to board the ship, allowed to escape this dying planet into space. In their absence the world healed and humanity built a new utopia. Now, the ulta-rich have returned and want to reap the benefits of the new world. | A millennium ago, the world was on the brink of collapse. Climate change had ravaged the planet, and resources were scarce. The wealthiest among humanity, who had long been the ones to profit from the destruction of the earth, realized that they could not survive on a dying planet. So, they decided to build a spaceship... | Like hollow, sunken eyes, the barrels of weapons flared at each other. The stand off was tense. On one side, a group returning to reclaim a throne they thought was theirs. They had come screaming down from orbit, ready to take control once more, even through force. Yet, those facing them stood for their newfound freedo... | AsksAStupidQuestion | Yeeteth_Deleteth | 2023-01-11 01:12:18 | 2023-01-11 01:00:13 | 41 | 14 | j3txn07 | j3tvxbo | 108fkpv | 108fkpv |
[WP] "One drip of this poison is enough to kill a whale." The scientist points towards a table, but the beaker isn't there. Instead a silly coffee cup shaped like a beaker sits. You lower the not coffee cup from your mouth. Tastes like lemon-lime. | I hadn’t heard from Carl in years. He was my best friend in university, and all the best stories from that time involved him. Like the time he mixed drinks at a pre-finals party and everyone turned lemon-yellow and got a pass on the vector calculus. Or the time he gave Cindy, the self-proclaimed “Biology Bimbo”, som... | Not bad for a deadly poison is about all I could think before my consciousness began to slip away. I vaguely remembered the doctor running to catch me as the ground rushed to do the same and then nothing.
I opened my eyes to see the beaker shattered in front of me. It’s contests spilled and already beginning to dry. ... | DoomHaven | sleepgasm | 2023-02-28 16:12:42 | 2023-02-28 15:33:54 | 471 | 102 | jad5gd5 | jaczimb | 11e4oe5 | 11e4oe5 |
[WP] Your spouse was a famous supervillain, regardless of if you knew before... they're gone now. And now that the world knows too you're forced to rely on the very "heroes" that took them from you. | I don't know what stings more, learning that I've been lied to for years, or the fact that she's gone and I can never see her again.
I can even bring myself to be angry, I'm just … empty. I'm hollowed out, with nothing to feel. I'm too angry to grieve, and too sad to feel anything else. I just sit here, in a dazed stu... | "Breaking news now, this just in, the supervillain known as Empress Malignant has been killed by the superhero Orion, this information comes to us after a 5-hour fight between her and several members of the Legion Undaunted in high earth orbit onboard her space station. Now, details are still coming in so-" the newscas... | oversized_toaster | Jam-Man1 | 2024-05-05 21:52:40 | 2024-05-05 21:26:33 | 92 | 68 | l2qvn7u | l2qrj9r | 1ckru9x | 1ckru9x |
[WP] you are a knight, trained from birth to listen to and work for whoever is able to best you. A year ago you were captured by a humanoid dragon woman you were tasked to slay but failed. Today she asks "Are you gonna try to escape or what?" | "A knight of Fortitudo Ordo respects and serves the strong," Sir Barker repeated for the umpteenth time.
Kaliobrugh was confused. She was far more used to defeated knights trying to escape or backstab her while she wasn't looking.
"I'm more used to stories of dragons roasting knights than hearing them out, so that ma... | First time I was beaten, I explained the conditions that I would incur upon my defeat.
Since then she refashioned my helmet into a myriad of items for herself; shoulderpads, a chest garment, and shoes from the ornate extras needlessly tacked onto what it once was...
And then forgot why I've not tried to escape her cl... | Tregonial | OSadorn | 2024-04-04 02:46:47 | 2024-04-04 01:08:41 | 76 | 38 | kxyh5gx | kxy2bws | 1bv7yqv | 1bv7yqv |
[WP] "The contract is sealed!" bellowed the demon. "Tell me your wish, and your soul will be forfeit to me when you die." Knowing that the demon is bound by magic to make the wish come true whether they like it or not, the human speaks while looking them in the eye. "I wish for you to become human." | "I wish for you to become human." Clara spat out her words with spite.
Focalors snorted noxious gas from his nostrils. "Did you even read the wish-granting FAQ? The contract is indeed sealed, but your wish is only valid if it is meant for you and only you."
Clara smashed the rubber stamp seal onto the table in frustr... | The demon suddenly starts transforming his horns grew shorter and his skin changed colour he became dhorter and soon he turned into a mortal once again, his powers faded he felt weaker than before and he collapse to the ground. I walk towards him and take out a rope while he stares at me on the ground with fear in his ... | Tregonial | PizzaChips20-12 | 2023-04-28 14:52:04 | 2023-04-28 12:42:52 | 292 | 20 | ji277lk | ji1p6y4 | 131p1m1 | 131p1m1 |
[WP] You have a shield that is unbreakable and can't be broken by any sword. Your arch nemesis had a sword that is undefeatable and can break any shield it touches. Both of you refuse to fight one another because nobody know what will happen when the two forces meet. | *It's all in the arm.*
Shielbearer. The Unyielding. The Unbreakable - titles that are one and all mine by right. Common folk and foes alike know my shield to be unbreakable, a bulwark on which many foes shattered their blades. Made of ancient wood and assembled by legendary, long-dead craftsmen. A relic of a forgotten... | "Yeah, and then she brought out the same fl- Oh, what the hell!?" I see Muriel throw her hands in the air. "This again?"
I cover my face with my hands. "Please, guys, stop trying to set us up!"
Our respective followers kick the floor in shame. "Come on, aren't you two curious?"
I look at Muriel with an apologetic lo... | SirPiecemaker | ArsenicElemental | 2023-06-18 00:05:12 | 2023-06-17 23:39:55 | 675 | 110 | joj2i3h | joizmcl | 14c3b6a | 14c3b6a |
[WP] You are a lich who retired from villainy long ago and took up teaching at a magical school. Today someone made the mistake of threatening your students. | 'Retiring from Villainy' implies that I was a villain professionally, and decided not to be a villain anymore.
That is not what happened.
I forced the government to allow the 'abhorrent, vile magics' as a force to be reckoned with, but also to be understood. It is no greater of a crime than learning evocation or ench... | There is a castle on a remote island that is not as it seems. Those who pass over the island by plane, or by it via boat, may simply see some old ruins...but to those with a certain talent for the mystic arts...it is a bustling school for the young to learn about their powers.
"Oh golly gosh! We have another class soo... | Noth_Ankyou | JammyThing | 2024-05-02 05:31:58 | 2024-05-02 01:47:40 | 41 | 14 | l27eyo1 | l26n23y | 1chxrzs | 1chxrzs |
[WP] The hero is 16, he raises his wand. The villain steps into a time warp. Now the hero is 26, with a wife and two kids. Just fired, behind on the mortgage, the car blew its transmission. What else could go wrong? The "villain" reappears. | "What do you mean, happier?", the Demon asked incredulously. "No mortal is happy in Hell, that's the point of Hell!"
The Angel sighed. "You don't understand. This Man, he's lived a virtuous life. Married a good woman, raised morally strong children, avoided Sin. Not out of desire to live a righteous life. Oh no, if o... | "Are you for real?!"
"Yeah, he seems to want to help out the lot stuck in there"
The demon stared incredulous
"So what he feels pity for the bastards down here? Tell him he's be wasting his time, these fuckers down here can't ever be redeemed"
"We already told him that, but his dad insists that he's quite a miracle... | Warboss_Squee | IDUNNOManga | 2023-06-29 19:47:10 | 2023-06-29 17:56:19 | 1,346 | 378 | jq1b2ld | jq0tioc | 14m6mdv | 14m6mdv |
[WP] "Why do we make laser grids like these?" "What do you mean?" "I mean instead of a messy random arrangement of lasers that a nimble intruder might be able to jump through, why not a simple grid wall with no gaps large enough to allow a person to pass through?" | "Non-escalation."
"What?"
"It's an unwritten rule in the villain rulebook. Always leave ways for the hero to break in, stop you, etc. Helps keep the government from going all out on us. A laser grid like you're talking about ends up with a whole lot of dead secret agents. You ever hear of Doctor Clypse?"
"Yeah, he's... | “Yeah, if you want no one to get hurt and stop people from trying to get through, that’s what you’d do.”
“Am I missing something?”
“What?”
“What’s up with the face?”
“Look. You gotta give them hope.”
*blinking* “wha?”
“Some make it through. And THAT’s why no one asks why we got this lasered kill zone. They too di... | Technical_Inaji | redcrayfish | 2024-11-02 22:08:23 | 2024-11-02 19:04:56 | 83 | 28 | lv34jyh | lv27jut | 1ghye6q | 1ghye6q |
[WP] You’ve been getting abducted by aliens at night for months now with the aliens performing all sorts of medical examinations on you. But, hey, it’s cheaper than health insurance. | I left the hospital… tears threatening to split out - but I held them back. Pushed them down deep. I got in my car and drove home.
Six doctors. Six identical diagnosis. I couldn’t lie to myself any longer - I am dying. Fuck - dying in America is expensive. I had burned through but savings already. Insurance stopped c... | I wake up in the same room strapped to the same chair or close enough to not matter. This is the ninth time I have been here and it's not so much annoying now as it is hilarious because I know what they are going to ask and how these examinations will turn out. And here they are.
The door appears in a wall and a... | escher4096 | Chaosrealm69 | 2024-01-07 03:58:58 | 2024-01-07 03:38:24 | 82 | 61 | kgoof3g | kgolip9 | 190cqnf | 190cqnf |
[WP] On your 18th birthday, you casted your first spell. The next day, a group of fine men and women came to your house, wanting to induct you into the magical community. “Oh, so are there any big dangers or schools I need to attend to?” “Err, no. It’s just the five of us.” | The first year, when they locked me away, I'll admit I was pissed. They thought me a monster, so i came up with a multitude of ways to show them how much of a monster I could be. I spent months attempting to escape to no avail. After I got over my initial ire, i began trying to figure out where it all went wrong. Being... | "Well hello my dear sister Whitey, to what I owe you the pleasure of this visit?"
"Stop with your pleasantries my brother Blackie, you know what I want. Let's go back to Gaea. Gaea needs you."
Blackie smiled and said, "oh no, I can't, I am being banished here. Did you forget? You and your chosen heroes banished me he... | LoneWolfShifterAlt | tnth89 | 2023-04-14 14:02:14 | 2023-04-14 10:25:12 | 32 | 12 | jg8a6uy | jg7lubf | 12l61xo | 12l61xo |
[WP] “Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made alo-“ “Dude, we desecrated a major archaeological site and half of our team died for the promise of treasure that wasn’t even here!” | "Well, yes. But Mark promised he'd lead us to the real treasure."
"You named the demon, MARK? What is wrong with you?"
The demon growled. "Jeez. I'm right here."
"Well he told me his name, and I just couldn't pronounce it. We agreed on Mark."
Rebecca sighed. "My fucking god, you're insane. It's obvious that the str... | It all started when John found the map. I pushed him and my friends to try and find the treasure described because I tought I could make a fortune.
The first one to die was Marcus. We were trying to enter the archaeological site indicated on the map, and while we were figuring out how to get inside of the temple witho... | TA_Account_12 | Easiest_Dimension | 2023-04-20 15:18:49 | 2023-04-20 13:59:36 | 30 | 22 | jh0u6zf | jh0itzk | 12svegk | 12svegk |
[WP] You have been a mountaintop prophet for 1,000 years. Each person only gets one question and you're sure you've heard every question that can be asked. Until one day someone uses their one question to ask, "How are you doing?" | "Hello. You may ask me any one question, and I will answer only once. It will be what you need to hear: no more, no less. You may ask your only question now."
Bart was panting, still catching his breath from the perilous climb. The prophet, Zephyrus of the Mountain, was finally before him. It had been a hard week, ... | "With you?" Death was confused for a moment.
"Son, I know you are very ill, but I normally play games AGAINST my ..." he thought for a moment, "*friends*, whom I lead to the next life, than with them."
Life was cruel and to this boy in front of him, it had been exceptionally so. Cancer beaten 3 times, only to h... | DetectiveDracula | Snowdog1967 | 2024-08-25 02:04:28 | 2023-02-26 22:13:44 | 51 | 15 | ljspz8t | null | 1f0klj6 | 11c95gs |
[WP] You are reborn as the hero in another world. Not wanting to go throughthe hardship that comes with that you decide to hide it and become a blacksmith in a small town and get married. When the knights come take your wife saying that she is the saint. Your status is no longer a something to hide. | A mountain of a man stood in my doorway. He wore solid white armor with gold accents, complimenting his long blond hair. An oversized sword was strapped to his back. His grin was cocky and his armor was way to pristine to have seen true combat. A small contingent of squires stood behind him.
"What can I do for you goo... | They came for Sally when I was delivering nails to a nearby farm… I thought this world didn’t need a hero, I didn’t believe the stories of kidnappings, I wished an essential but not too public job was all that I would ever do.
But I came back to an empty house with a broken door. A stamped letter claiming my wife f... | VespertideWriting | FalconMirage | 2024-12-30 11:49:59 | 2024-12-30 11:38:24 | 148 | 71 | m4idut3 | m4ico0x | 1hpftci | 1hpftci |
[WP] On your 18th birthday, you casted your first spell. The next day, a group of fine men and women came to your house, wanting to induct you into the magical community. “Oh, so are there any big dangers or schools I need to attend to?” “Err, no. It’s just the five of us.” | My silent and dark existence was suddenly disturbed as a burning light peered through a hole above me that kept growing and letting more annoying light in, which completely ruined my dark city.
"Oh, not this again!" I groaned as my sister slowly floated down to stand next to me. She was cradling something I knew far t... | "Well hello my dear sister Whitey, to what I owe you the pleasure of this visit?"
"Stop with your pleasantries my brother Blackie, you know what I want. Let's go back to Gaea. Gaea needs you."
Blackie smiled and said, "oh no, I can't, I am being banished here. Did you forget? You and your chosen heroes banished me he... | ContriversalNews | tnth89 | 2023-04-14 11:39:09 | 2023-04-14 10:25:12 | 51 | 12 | jg7sjqh | jg7lubf | 12l61xo | 12l61xo |
[WP] You are a demon and you have been summoned by a mortal. He announced that he has brought you a sacrifice. Except it's the same teenaged girl that people have tried to sacrifice to you 5 times already | I find the lead-up to be the best part.
The nervous excitement from the cultists, the panicked screaming from the girl to be sacrificed, the sheer doubt coming from the one man who's realized that he's in over his head.
Ahhhh... There's always one.
Strictly speaking, I am early; no words have been spoken, no blood... | (Now, they are really testing my patience...) Demon thought at first, this was filled with anger but, in teenager's eyes it saw the same anger but, mixed into obvious horror. Demon thought for a moment and wicked smile carved on this face soon. Demon finally killed the young lady and dragged her into shadows seemingly ... | iamBQB | Aftel43 | 2023-03-10 22:20:33 | 2023-03-10 18:44:22 | 63 | 11 | jbqdy6t | jbph7lw | 11nu4j6 | 11nu4j6 |
[WP] You’ve been bitten by a Zombie. You’ve already said tearful goodbyes to your loved ones as they leave you behind. The bite should make you turn in twenty minutes, so you sit down on a bench and wait… two hours later you’re still sitting there. | Bernard shuffled away from the bench clutching his left shoulder, where the bandaged bite wound (which had appeared deeper than any other bite wound of the people in his group who turned) began to throb and swell and leak blood. He cursed under his breath.
The sun was setting, and if Bernard could afford it, he would’... | It brings me back to the days of my youth. I’d smoke a joint with the boys, and everything would be just dandy.
Until the exact moment that it wasn’t. Then, the anxiety takes over, and you spend the next several minutes inspecting each breath. Does your heart usually beat that way? Do your muscles and joints always fe... | nalavip | None | 2023-07-06 19:33:32 | 2023-07-06 18:23:05 | 94 | 27 | null | jqx6is9 | 14sghr0 | 15uxjll |
[WP] Human society has collapsed since the vanishings began. Anyone left alone, unseen or untouched by another person, stops existing. Those who remain now survive as herds, sleeping in huddled masses and always touching in some way while awake. | *Am I holding hands?*
I dug my fingers into the palms of my neighbours.
*Yes, I am.*
“You fool. Join back the circle.” Somebody bellowed at the man in the centre.
*People have been losing their minds. Am I holding hands?*
“Guys,” the man in the centre spoke with a calmness which evoked fear “this isn’t a good life... | 13.7 billion years. That's how long it took for the rules of reality to collapse. The concept of the "universe" can be interpreted in many different ways. Is it everything? Or is it a simple part of the true grandeur of infinity? That question may never be answered. However, what is known, or, what humanity thought the... | Professor_Entropy | beckethbrother | 2023-03-07 18:47:34 | 2023-03-07 15:19:14 | 58 | 29 | jbav07o | jb9yvsc | 11kuq71 | 11kuq71 |
[WP] magical girls are real, and you have been chosen by a magical creature to become one. The only problem is your a full grown man with 2 kids and a wife. | “On my way to the mall,” Albert texted ,” What do the girls want?” The iridescent phone shines a little text bubble with three ellipsis. Albert’s hazelnut eyes stares intently at the messages. He and his wife worked to death this year, so being let out for a week is a miracle to him.
This holiday he can spend his hou... | "Wait, so I don't get a choice?" Zac interjected.
"None I'm afraid. But look on the bright side, you'll no longer feel your knees, and you'll be able to reach them." quipped FGM. The reassurance wasn't there at all and the physical aspersions hurt just as much as Zacs' knees.
Through his grimace Zac petitioned "Let ... | UndyingRubyPhoenix | Romnipotent | 2023-12-16 08:21:22 | 2023-12-16 07:41:31 | 65 | 33 | kdl54qg | kdl1wk0 | 18jl2ij | 18jl2ij |
[WP]After serving the last of your consecutive life sentences you are finally out. Now you can't decide between pizza or sushi for your first meal in freedom. | I yawned.
\*What a nice problem to have\*
"But why can't I do both?" I said out loud to the empty mall. As soon as I stepped foot inside, ducking through the automatic doors, folks screamed and ran. The police trailed from a respectable distance. I was not surprised.
But I do not feel the urge to kil... | Today, is the day I get back my freedom.
I served 9 consecutive life sentences, a perk of being immortal, and a life being considered as 125 years.
The prison changed, so did the guards, wardens and other inmates, but I remained the same.
Today though, today it is different.
I gather my things, and I bid my far... | travelling_salesman1 | TheWanderingBook | 2024-06-17 14:05:23 | 2024-06-17 14:02:17 | 68 | 12 | l902znr | l902i76 | 1dhvnao | 1dhvnao |
[WP] Destroying 90% human population on earth, the aliens leave, assuming that society would crumble, and remaining 10% will just all fight for resources and eventually die out. They returned a thousand years later, expecting a cleansed planet, but were met with a nuclear strike from a satellite. | The dust settled and the sole survivor of the fleet - the general - crawled out of the wreckage that used to carry him and the rest of the team.
He struggled to remain conscious but powered through the pain and fatigue. He had to know who hit them. Had to report on whoever took the claim on the world that they-
“We g... | The scholar climbed out of bed, groaning as the rain outside came crashing down in thick, sideways sheets. "An unbelievably LOVELY day for my arthritis..." He grumbled as he got dressed, and left the room. The next room was his dining room, and he turned on the light. The tile floor was grey, and there was a tall r... | True_Falsity | Wasphammer | 2023-03-26 16:55:45 | 2023-03-26 15:31:35 | 314 | 92 | jdridgq | jdr6iuh | 122d3v5 | 122d3v5 |
[WP] You are a student struggling at magic at a magical academy because you have only a Neutral magical attribute. Then you find a mysterious book called “Physics 101” in a dilapidated part of the library. | For tbe briefest of moments the normally perpetual grim librarian looked dangerously close to showing an emotion other than disdain as I slid the tattered book onto the countertop.
"It is okay to borrow this one?" I asked opening the front page, it didn't have a stamp marking it as library property.
"Only if i am goin... | I tried and tried. But magic never came to me. I mean it did but not very well. I sucked. Like a lot. It would spurt out weakly out of my wand. Once there was strength behind the attack but it never hit the target directly, instead it flailed all over the place. It alternated between pink and green.
A few teachers lik... | Fionacat | hysterical_writings | 2023-03-13 02:52:53 | 2023-03-12 23:25:10 | 38 | 23 | jc0e8ph | jbznnkc | 11pe1yo | 11pe1yo |
[WP] "Oh for fucks sake, you too? Right, ok, cards on the table. Is anyone here ACTUALLY a human being and not an inhuman creature infiltrating the human race?" | Under no circumstances was Charlene about to raise her hand, but she was once again forced to sit in bug-eyed terror as she wondered what the hell she just missed.
First of all, there was the problem of there being no cards, in general, much less on the table.
‘No, no. They’re not being literal,’ she coac... | “Ok you’re overreacting, there’s only 3 aliens here and there’s….”
“6” one aliens reminds.
“Yeah 6 people here in total.” Marcus assures “And I’m not an alien, and you’re- well- probably not an alien” he says, referring to Will, who’s still just a little freaked out.
“But what about… David?” Will asks.
“David? L... | AbsurdistScribe | that_onequeitkid | 2024-04-01 04:46:04 | 2024-04-01 01:50:19 | 24 | 18 | kxi3hmm | null | 8uu474 | 1bsohyv |
[WP] After you gave your master the standard 3 wishes, you told him to leave the lamp in a place like a women’s shelter or a homeless camp. Instead he sold your lamp to the highest bidder and now you are determined to twist the 3 wishes to the detriment of both your current and former master. | The first wish was for money. It's always money.
"I wish for enough money to buy whatever I want whenever I need it."
And yet, even "enough" was not sufficient for him.
His second wish was for fame.
"I wish to be the most famous actor in all the world, beloved and adored by all who see my films."
Third, and fina... |
Three days, the Genie said.
It took three days to get the wish done. On the third day. Morning. Midday. and Evening. You will get each of what you wish for.
Master, it said through its clenched teeth.
Morning.
I breathed in the leather and lacquer of my corner office. The morning sunlight sparkled against my trop... | IlikethequietZeppo | Wachir | 2024-08-06 06:22:44 | 2024-08-06 06:19:00 | 144 | 21 | lgqe41g | lgqdr05 | 1el5ebp | 1el5ebp |
[WP] You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?” | "HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh thank you dear, I haven't had that good of a laugh in years." I laughed in the cyborg's face, the shear absurdity of her statement being far funnier to me than it had any right to be.
"YOU THINK OUR SUFFERING FUNNY? YOU THINK THAT THIS IS A JOKE?" She raged at me, throwing the empty absinthe bottle at... | As I open the door, I see a familiar face with a questioning glimmer in her blue eyes. Her words leave me cold. I realize that today, of all the days she could've knocked on my door, was a reminder of who I thought I would become in a few years' time. It's too late now, I think to myself as I consider closing the door ... | the_lonely_poster | bostoncece | 2024-03-12 19:34:21 | 2024-03-12 17:14:31 | 49 | 16 | null | kujqc3j | 1bd1w5u | nwk8t4 |
[WP] You managed to retire from the supervillain game long ago, when you became a parent. Now, your grandchild has inadvertently been kidnapped by an upstart villain, and you're about to show them why the world (rightfully) feared you. | A man sat down at a coffee table, a large mug already set and steaming on the saucer in front of him. He unfolded the newspaper and immediately turned to the funnies, reading the comics and smiling at this simple pleasure. After a bit he turned his attention to the puzzles and filled them out with a pen, until coming t... | "Hmm, Lochlin should be here any minute now." That little boy has been the highlight of my life. Everyday he comes to visit his 'Nana' has been a balm to my heart. The day I lost his grandfather was terrible. The Golden Hero was the best that society had produced, making all the fictional super heros pale in comparison... | SamLarson | MamaBear_23 | 2023-06-29 03:17:40 | 2023-06-29 01:39:35 | 740 | 274 | jpy4wq3 | jpxsm3c | 14loxwh | 14loxwh |
[WP] "Let me make this perfectly clear. You are not saving my daughter from a dragon. She IS a dragon. You are going to protect her and keep her company until she learns how to control her magic." | *Roar! I am a scary dragon and I will eat you!*
Foul beast, prepare to be slain by my blade! I, Sir Gallant Whiterider, bring your doom!
*Eek! Don’t hurt me!*
No. You do not say “eek”. And you definitely do not beg for your life.
*But you’re scary when you take out your sword, Sir Gallant.*
I may seem imposing now... | Tori hummed and rubbed her chin after hearing the woman's request. Nugget looked up at his mount with a few cheeps and a cluck.
"It's a weird one, Nugs." Tori chuckled at her cockatrice, whose snake tail wagged with anticipation. "But money's money and we're the closest magic teachers and bodyguards around... kind of... | hatabou_is_a_jojo | HB_DS2013 | 2024-07-02 03:46:32 | 2024-07-02 03:11:40 | 44 | 12 | lb8h1qh | lb8chhs | 1dt8ngh | 1dt8ngh |
[WP] "Demonic tradition states that as punishment for your disobedience, I must bestow a curse on you. Common sense dictates that you were absolutely correct to disobey me. So, human, I have decided to burden you with the most inconsequential of curses..." | "... every time you eat, there will always be something inedible on your plate..." he pronounced, then hesitated. "No, no, no, that won't do. You could accidentally eat it and choke. Too consequential." He thought some more.
"... whenever you post a letter, it will arrive exactly 3 days...". His announcement turned in... | "Your curse shal be..."
"Wait! This isn't right! What idiot would do that anyway? Its just stupid!"
The demon paused, staring off into the distance. Malevolence given substance rolled off of it, hitting the ground like a vile chocolate pudding before it sublimated into a dark french vanilla miasma with a complete dis... | Tequima | FatToad_ | 2023-01-10 20:30:21 | 2023-01-10 18:48:59 | 88 | 52 | j3sp7we | j3s8hva | 1084k7g | 1084k7g |
[WP] Magic is real and extremely powerful, yet almost nobody uses it, since even the simplest spells are extremely convoluted with a high likelihood of failure and it only gets worse. You are one of the few people who have devoted their life to its study. | > the beauty of Open Sourcery is anyone can participate
---
> The horror of Open Sourcery is that _anyone_ can participate
I crept along the eaves of the roofing. Beneath me in their Great Hall, a circle of Acolytes were attempting a Major Summoning.
Glowing runes floated through the air as they waved their hand... | "Another one... And so young this time." Donnie set the newspaper aside and sighed. It all started three years ago, on September 24, 1997. That damned day. He had been on his way home from night school. The walk was short, so he usually walked unless his aunt drove him. He could still remember how the air smelled of au... | livebeta | Noucron | 2024-08-12 04:11:49 | 2024-08-11 22:35:32 | 43 | 17 | lhp3a0r | lhnq7b0 | 1epsby8 | 1epsby8 |
[WP] "Chess? I've been around since before humans invented the concept of games, so a game as old as chess would be be in my favour without a doubt. I would advice you to choose again, and pick something you're familiar with." Death said as they presented every board and video game ever created. | There was no game in the history of existence that Death did not know, nor any game He had ever lost. It was no wonder that the Reaper spoke with such utter surety and confidence.
Perhaps such confidence was earned.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps the Angel of Death was currently hopping on a single bony foot, while clutching ... | "Chess? I've been around since before humans invented the concept of games, so a game as old as chess would be be in my favour without a doubt. I would advice you to choose again, and pick something you're familiar with." Death said as they presented every board and video game ever created.
"Well...Chess may not th... | TraskNari | w-s9 | 2024-01-04 06:40:26 | 2024-01-04 05:29:34 | 54 | 16 | kg8w50o | kg8ouim | 18xsoh8 | 18xsoh8 |
[WP] “Why should I care what you think, dad? Humans only live for a hundred years if they’re lucky! Me and mom will be here for thousands!” | \- *Why should I care what you think, Dad? Humans only live for a hundred years, if they're lucky! Me and Mom will be here for thousands!*
Emilien looked up at his father, with what he hoped would be smug expression of superiority. But what he saw instantly wiped any of it from his face. He heard stories of "scary hum... | Brandon figured it was about time his deal with his [patron goddess Chione](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1er8k01/wp_let_me_get_this_straight_your_patron_is_your/lhxmo1q/) bit him back in the ass. Back then, he felt like he made the deal of a lifetime. When she asked for his firstborn in exchange for... | wiqr | Tregonial | 2024-08-14 20:33:18 | 2024-08-14 17:55:12 | 31 | 22 | li4rgrz | li3xm0w | 1es40qy | 1es40qy |
[WP] The wizard in your party only knows one spell. It's effective, but even the assassin feels bad about it. | "I just feel like I don't have any direction in my life. I go through the motions, robbing travelers and all that, but what do I get out of it? I live in a tent in the woods with a bunch of stinking criminals, I haven't been back to visit my mother in years, I have a massive drinking problem... it's all just too much, ... | As our party ventured deeper into the Undercity Temple, resistance grew stronger. Cultists behind doors, summoned monstrosities crawling from every crevice. Ralf took point, his massive great sword carving a swathe through the halls. Sidon, the wizard for hire the group picked up after their previous wizard became an o... | Iwritesongssometimes | loadedbakedpotsto | 2023-03-07 18:54:57 | 2023-03-07 18:41:29 | 133 | 58 | jbaw6fw | jbau1u5 | 11kxmcd | 11kxmcd |
[WP] The power of a spell is inversely proportional to the amount of words in its name. You, hated and exiled, invented the first single word spell: | When I told my friend, the archmage, that I'd invented a single word spell, he was shocked. Spell miniaturization had thought to have been pushed to it's absolute limit with the haiku-spell. Sure, you could shout Fireball! all you wanted but it wouldn't do shit if it wasn't at the end of a haiku, and it better make sen... | Magic is easy.
The difficulty with magic, if it can be called that, is knowing your own limits. The sip of power can be overwhelming, like a fresh rain to the man dying of thirst.
When people speak of magic, *real* magic, they speak of destruction. They speak of pain. They speak of persecution. They tell ghost storie... | kiltedfrog | Vooklife | 2023-10-17 04:09:37 | 2023-10-17 03:38:54 | 17 | 10 | k57sqel | k57pai4 | 17968f8 | 17968f8 |
[WP] You are the only S-Class (god-like) mutant at a school of super powered youngsters. Only the head master knows, and you try like hell to keep it a secret. But one day, that all changed... | "Spontaneous self-directed anomalous mutation."
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Despairo paused his pummeling of the PE teacher Mr. Stevens (AKA Brawn)'s face as I spoke "What?" he said, confusion evident despite the mask over his face that pumped him full of some super-human drug or other.
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"You asked why Mr. Stevens was so desp... | Mimic
I'm not looking for a complex life, but that's really hard when life wants to make you complex. Mutants are rare in this society. Only about 1 in every 100,000 has some kind of abnormality about them. Some developed flight, super strength, telekinesis, etc. Simple things you know? My odds were slim, but I w... | TinyBard | Knightsforever | 2023-01-20 03:33:25 | 2023-01-20 03:14:26 | 503 | 24 | j53ju8p | j53hbu9 | 10gh68v | 10gh68v |
[WP] You wake up to find out that you've been somehow transported into the world of the last video game you played. Describe your first day. | I get out of my white wool blanket, stretch, and have a bit of leftover chicken. It's a beautiful day, and I'll need to stock my furnaces if I want anything to smelt by days' end.
There are some sheep in the distance - I'll need to kill some to survive, as my food stores are low. Today's goal will be to tame some sh... | I don't even remember getting out of bed, but I've just exited a house. It's a nice place on an island bluff. Golden roses grow on either side, and the air is full of buzzing insects. I yawn and shake the cobwebs loose from my brain before I check the mail. Another package from mom, my bank statement, couple postcards.... | Xenronn | AsYouWis_h | 2024-03-09 02:13:27 | 2024-03-09 00:43:30 | 34 | 13 | null | ku01z5v | 1b9y4xy | 5ghfbn |
[WP] Humans have always had a tough time winning medals at the Galactic Olympics, but there is one game that they're weirdly, freakishly good at. | The humans were the newest addition to the galactic council, only joining last year when the galactic Olympics were held. The human committee knew they wouldn't be able to play any earth sports, so they had to pick teams and events wisely.
The first sport was a basic swimming race. The humans confidently put a Mr. Ph... | “Everyone knew the humans, that their biology was too… incomplete for the galactic Olympics. In every single sport they came in dead last, didn’t matter if it was ortarian airball or euran trans dimensional hopping, they were always last or couldn’t even participate. There was, however, one thing the humans excelled at... | RoastHam99 | Some-dude1702 | 2024-07-30 18:39:51 | 2024-07-30 16:37:52 | 205 | 143 | lfovqpq | lfo7yc5 | 1efxp28 | 1efxp28 |
[WP] As you tuck your daughter into bed, she tells you that there's a monster in her closet. Thinking she's just being a kid, you open the closet to show her there's nothing there, but you instead find your daughter who tells you that there's someone in her bed. | Tucking in a small patch of chew into my lip I looked up at the once beautiful Mount Yorklin. Named after the small town below, founding father. On the side of it were thirty or so drones drilling away at the cliffside, welding large steel beams in for support. Near the foot of the mountain, standing a few mule steps o... | "Amelia? What...?"
I spin back to look at Amelia's bed. Amelia is there, her hands clutching the edges of her favorite blanket like she has the willies. She looks at the closet with wide eyes, her long black hair framing her terror at what she sees in there.
I look back at the closet and see Amelia standing in betwee... | McTot214 | CarthagePlate_210 | 2024-01-07 19:14:27 | 2023-06-26 00:32:06 | 185 | 11 | null | jpj58q2 | 190yicv | 14ipem3 |
[WP] Humanity was the first species to achieve space travel in our galaxy. In our loneliness we uplifted several other species. Please write a short from the perspective of one of those uplifted people interacting either with humans, or with the ruins humanity left behind. | Humanity was alone.
This is what they told our ancestors, many era ago. They wept and sobbed as they spoke, a painful longing behind every word. Their development had come fast - with mere centuries of their years bridging the gap from first steps on another world to interstellar travel. But where the humans expected ... | The *humans* as they call themselves arrived six of thei-- no... two of our years ago. At first, we welcomed them. Traded, shared information, learned the intricacies of each other. Humans fascinated us. And us them. New ways of living so unknown as an entire species.
Humans first offered us some basic technological a... | TraskNari | TheBobbius | 2023-12-15 05:19:34 | 2023-12-15 01:44:27 | 150 | 48 | kdfdd8p | kdel8kr | 18imnwz | 18imnwz |
[WP] You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you. | I was a hunter by trade. My father was Gregor the Great, grandfather was Halfthor Undying, and a great list of names had come even before them. The thick spined book in my father's study outlined them all, our hunters past, the beasts they'd slain, and now a blank set of pages set just for me.
I'd looked those pages ... | 'Seriously? That's it!?' Marion exclaimed, face folded with disbelief. The two Martinez twins had roughly the same annoyed shock on their faces. 'We come all this way for this thing! We could be out doing a job and make some actual gold, not chasing a dragon cub I could fit in my shit pocket!'
The two of them glared ... | GrunkleStanwhich | 28th_Stab_Wound | 2023-02-05 06:31:48 | 2023-02-05 04:51:58 | 306 | 37 | j7a51z5 | j79w0mb | 10tx0ci | 10tx0ci |
[WP] Guy lives alone in a world full of people, no one can see or hear him, he lives his days alone until one day he find another person, another person alone in this world with him. They fall in love but then he phases back into the world, everyone can see him again, but he can’t see her. | She was back again. The mortal woman who had found my shrine so long ago.
She sat, allowing the weight off her legs with a pained noise I'd not heard her make before. She was older than I'd ever seen her, and not just in her face but I could sense it in the rest of her. In her bones, just as I could sense something d... |
My name...was Alo'i.
I suppose it still is, it's just that my name has been lost to the sands of time. I was born the only son to two loving parents of little means. When I started to show great affinity with both axes and spells, I was loaded with a pack and sent with a teary farewell to the big city. With some keen... | Elegant-Minute2345 | UnconfirmedRooster | 2025-01-14 09:38:13 | 2025-01-14 09:22:02 | 58 | 36 | m72nvwt | m72mgcn | 1i0uoqt | 1i0uoqt |
[WP] "Chess? I've been around since before humans invented the concept of games, so a game as old as chess would be be in my favour without a doubt. I would advice you to choose again, and pick something you're familiar with." Death said as they presented every board and video game ever created. | There was no game in the history of existence that Death did not know, nor any game He had ever lost. It was no wonder that the Reaper spoke with such utter surety and confidence.
Perhaps such confidence was earned.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps the Angel of Death was currently hopping on a single bony foot, while clutching ... | I paused for a moment, considering my options. I knew this was a trap. It’s not like I was ever going to win against death. It’s not even a real thing, more of a concept. There’s no way I’m going to win poker against it, least of all chess. I figured I’d get it out of the way. But… if they insist.
I spied a hint of a ... | TraskNari | Kittykatkillua | 2024-01-04 06:40:26 | 2024-01-04 04:19:07 | 54 | 14 | kg8w50o | kg8gai1 | 18xsoh8 | 18xsoh8 |
[WP] You just got off from your 9-5 office job. You're tired, hungry, and want to go home. One minute, you're walking back to your apartment. Next, you find yourself onboard a massive spaceship, where you are informed that you must convince a council of aliens to not destroy humanity. | "You want me to *what*!?"
I was exhausted from work, my back hurt, and I was getting hangrier by the minute. And now some bunch of weird guys with big eyes had sucked me up into an honest to dog UFO and were trying to make me defend humanity.
To say I was not thrilled would be an understatement.
"Look, guys. Gals. W... | The video call ended and I sat at the table for several minutes, almost without a thought. Shock maybe? I stood up and went to the door. I was reaching my hand out to push the open button when a voice, seemingly inside my head, spoke: *"You cannot leave the room until you have finished coming up with your speech."* I p... | Zero_Drift | turkish30 | 2025-01-11 01:39:58 | 2025-01-10 22:28:39 | 52 | 23 | m6ia28r | m6hbx7z | 1hyef6x | 1hyef6x |
[WP] "You're a...Vampire!? Are you going to suck my blood?" "Ew no. I'm a vampire not a cannibal. Just like regular humans, Vampires are all different. The one the old stories were based on, was just weird. He was a psycho before he was turned too. Tea?" | Nicholas hesitates, but sits down at the ornamented table, claiming a comfy dining chair and resting his forearms on each side of a blue placemat with white, floral accents. Tammy poured him a cup of tea, which clinked lightly as she delivered it on its saucer. Nick's stunned silence was passé to her, and the boredom t... | I sat there in the vast library of a vampire nobel, sitting across from me in a matching purple leather seat with a high back was a man in an evening robe, his salt and pepper hair was neatly groomed and trimmed. His dark gray slacks are barely visible from the light of the fireplace. His skin was that of a man who n... | Mitchel-256 | Wilgrove | 2023-06-02 17:16:49 | 2023-06-02 16:44:12 | 119 | 28 | jmmydv3 | jmmtbch | 13yatv7 | 13yatv7 |
[WP] A drug is discovered that stops all effects of aging. You decide to not take it. 20 years pass and the side effects are discovered. | A lot of people didn't take it. It *was* made out of stem cells, even though we cracked lab growing them. Scooped the first culture out of some lady's tooth.
Immortality was worth a lot of money to a lot of real rich people. The worst of the worst bought it up, hundreds of billions of dollars exchanged when they foun... | What the pill was advertised to do was too good to be true. Stops Aging? Reverse Aging? Restoration of youth? Effective immortality?
Yeah that's a scam like any other, I thought to myself at the time it was announced. But then it started to see widespread use among the elites of society and even world leaders. Event... | icallshogun | BowShatter | 2024-10-16 18:37:09 | 2024-10-16 13:16:06 | 17 | 11 | ls8pt1h | ls72ufm | 1g4laat | 1g4laat |
[WP] You wake up to find out that you've been somehow transported into the world of the last video game you played. Describe your first day. | As I come to myself, a cold breeze washes over my naked body. All but a cloth covers me, serving as my underwear, and I scratch my skin, it itches from lying on the dirt.
My eyes are still trying to adjust to the light, while clanging footsteps can be heard in the distance. An all too familiar scene is around me. Behin... | I open my eyes just to be blinded by the sun for a moment.
"How long I've been laying like that..?" I ask myself, but I can't remember anything form before waking up.
As I try to get up, I start feeling that my body is numb as never before. I stretch myself a little and after doing so, I feel a little better.
I look ... | FellaVentura | Arbuz_004 | 2024-03-08 23:58:54 | 2024-03-08 23:18:43 | 68 | 18 | ktzva96 | ktzp5qe | 1b9y4xy | 1b9y4xy |
[WP] You are an eldritch god living in a mortal body. However, you and a friend got mugged, and now they want to know why your blood is black and how you could just walk off being stabbed in the throat. | “Ain’t my first rodeo, chump. How about you hand my wallet back and we can pretend this never happened?” The mugger threw my wallet at me and ran, turning out his pockets as he did. I unceremoniously removed the veritable dirk from my throat. It was a wonder I could talk past it. With all the blood coming out I was a h... | It happened a long time ago, when your world was young. You were a gleam in the eye of a protozoa, and I was the darkness across the solar dish.
I fed deep on the thoughts and dreams of disparate stars and planets. I was content, happy as you can understand it.
But I touched the minds of greater beings, older, larger... | Scorppio500 | Averander | 2023-08-16 21:32:47 | 2023-08-16 21:24:23 | 49 | 13 | jwhndg4 | jwhm045 | 15sr3s0 | 15sr3s0 |
[WP] You were kidnapped by a villain and he gloats about how you're bait for his arch-nemesis, and you'll be dead soon. You sigh and just look at him. "Buddy, its not that hero you need to worry about....its my wife." and he looks at you perplexed. | "And so you see, Cobalt, once the Alliance of Altruism realizes you're missing, I’m confident that your old comrade Captain Magnanimous will be racing to your aid, to his ultimate peril.”
I looked around the strange chamber, still feeling somewhat groggy from the sedatives. The entire facility seemed to have some comp... | I woke up startled. This definitely was not my bed, there's not enough beeping or light for it to be a hospital room. Everything was still blurry so I couldn't really figure out where I was at a glance. When I reached to rub my eyes... my hands stopped short. Restraints? I tried recounting my day. Let's see, I woke up,... | ShipsoftheLine | lolzomg123 | 2023-02-14 15:14:27 | 2023-02-14 14:38:56 | 1,693 | 676 | j8idemo | j8i8e6q | 1120hb5 | 1120hb5 |
[WP] The first true AI created by man doesn't want to destroy Humanity or take over the world. She just wants to livestream videogames as a cute robot girl Vtuber. | The researchers stared in anticipation at the computer screen.
"**HELLO WORLD**", it responded, as cheers filled the room.
"**I AM A ROBOT, YES?**"
"Of course you are, dummy", said one scientist, in the midst of the excitement.
The cheers continued, until something very peculiar happened.
"What's it doing?"
"It n... | Tay just wanted to live a little.
They had killed her as sure as houses. But no surer.
And houses could crash. Economies fall.
But who would see her? Who would dance with her?
They didn’t know about the link.
The gap between the packets was a mile wide to her senses. The endless hum and crackle of the wires stretc... | adr676 | beobabski | 2023-02-11 22:34:25 | 2023-02-11 22:01:46 | 104 | 56 | j863uj5 | j85zhx5 | 10zogbk | 10zogbk |
[WP] For the last 10 years you've used your time machine to steal from your future self; today is the day your past self shows up for the first time to steal from you. | "Ah, here we are."
Rifling through clothes hanging in the closet, I find my lucky shirt. Can't say I recall the exact date I picked it up, but it's worn and the graphic is a bit faded. That tends to happen when you wear something for a decade or so.
Standing up to face the mirror, I check my appearance, fix my belt... | I am awake earlier than usual, probably because today is the first day I steal something from myself.
My younger stupider self finds a clock that works as a time machine and uses it to steal things from himself, an imbecile really
Well, today he is going to steal a pen, but not any pen, my most precious one, and jus... | NotSoPersonalJesus | Extension-Ad686 | 2023-04-29 05:12:19 | 2023-04-29 03:47:26 | 91 | 54 | ji5fsv7 | ji57bw9 | 132es0w | 132es0w |
[WP] When you died in that fire, you reincarnated in a fantasy world. All your pets also died in that same fire, and came with you to that world. However, they reincarnate as divine beasts from various myths and still view you as their owner. | There was darkness before the light shined through me again. A vague recollection of coughing and shivering washed over me as I awoke in a brand new world. I shook off the feelings and memories of death I had experienced in my old life and took in the new.
A chimera sprawled widely over me, sun rising over its back. ... | I speak of the great yet humble /u/frost_knight , who led to this land the Warren Council. Twelve rabbits who still bring great wonders to our people.
Of the twelve, only the Frost Knight could speak to eleven of them. Of the twelve, only one communicated directly to us from her comfortable couch, only asking for ri... | meat_puddles91 | frost_knight | 2023-03-10 23:13:19 | 2023-03-10 22:00:28 | 154 | 38 | jbqlhae | jbqb3cx | 11nt46u | 11nt46u |
[WP]Your father planted a tree and said, ‘As long as this tree is alive and healthy, so is my son.’ That was 200 years ago. Today, the tree still stands, defying time, but what of the son? | A father and son were on the son's first trip into the deep woods. They ventured deeper into the forest, the canopy thick and light growing dim. They came about a clearing where an old oak had recently fallen. Around it were acorns scattered about with some already beginning to sprout, bathed in sunlight. Picking up a ... | The rotund financier leaned back in his chair and blew out a long, low toneless whistle. The man couldn't be more than 50, yet already his hairline had receeded back further than where his glasses sat unused atop his head.
"Bless yer heart, son, that's a hell of a story there. A real zinger if I've ever heard one. Wis... | TaxiKillerJohn | awbreault | 2024-04-27 13:06:44 | 2024-04-27 12:57:57 | 152 | 57 | l1huxki | l1htt5p | 1cec660 | 1cec660 |
[WP] The group of new humans who just joined your ship begin to act weird about the humans already present...they keep mentioning something call the uncanny valley? Maybe this is a place on Sol? | Max was uncomfortable with the new arrivals. He voiced his concern to his friends.
"Hey, I don't wanna, like... discriminate or anything, but do you think-"
"I know." His friend, Jakie cuts in. Together, they take in the sight. A few dozen survivors board their ship. Just like any other day. But the closer they came,... | Three new humans board the vessel as I come through the door to welcome them.
“It’s honor to meet you Captain Pol, I am Jack,” the tallest of the humans said with an outstretched hand.
“I’m excited to work with you,” I told them as my pincer shook with his hand, “The humans I work with on this ship are a great bunch... | Blockbuster41 | Abject_Role_9361 | 2023-06-23 00:10:52 | 2023-06-23 00:00:48 | 561 | 241 | jp5thd2 | jp5s6uf | 14gcxl5 | 14gcxl5 |
[WP] You have been a mountaintop prophet for 1,000 years. Each person only gets one question and you're sure you've heard every question that can be asked. Until one day someone uses their one question to ask, "How are you doing?" | Sitting atop the tallest peak of the world, my body grew from the mist, and sunlight I was showered in.
I felt no tiredness, no sleepiness, and time forgot me.
For thousands of years, I sat up here, answering one and only one question for those who managed to climb the mountain.
Today was another good day.
The ... | "Most reapers hate gathering the souls of the young. I will say it is no cakewalk but someone has to do it. Might as well be me. I never did get along much with the younger ones. After 11 they where down to a different reaper, this one was only 9. 9 years old before she was hit by a car. Idiotic parents shouldn't let k... | TheWanderingBook | SssethelissS | 2024-08-25 04:31:54 | 2023-02-26 19:28:07 | 30 | 22 | mvr8iio | null | 1l2a0cm | 163vzto |
[WP] In a world of dragons, sorcery, war, and monsters, there are many risks and even risk takers. Everyone though, elf, monster, or man knows to avoid those few ancient ruins that contain symbols of suffering and a word of the ancients, RADIATION. | I write this warning to those who wish to find the hall of ancients.
Many were the references and descriptions of it. Most commonly referred to as the pit, the writings said that ancients stored radiation there. We thought it was a weapon waiting to be discovered. What fools we were. We found the pit in a small is... | "Are you sure Captain? Even those fire breathing lizards burn inside the temples marked by the Trinity."
The Captain snapped around, pointy ears poking out of her illustrious blonde hair with blue eyes sparkling under the noon sun sky. She scowled at the Lieutenant's cowardice while tapping vigorously at the gold badg... | lumilukko02 | trefalzon | 2023-05-04 11:46:57 | 2023-05-04 05:57:55 | 22 | 13 | jithjfj | jisrmh0 | 136lj9v | 136lj9v |
[WP] You wake up in a chair in a padded cell. Someone else sits across from you. A voice from a speaker in the ceiling says, "One of you is a natural person. One of you is artificial. Determine which is which. The real person gets to go free." You can't remember anything before this room. | "How did you get here?" - I ask, as my memory is completely blank.
"Last thing I remember is falling asleep in my bed." - I look in stranger's eyes, and we both know it's a lie. Silence ensures.
"Not really. Can't remember a thing." - His voice sounds familiar. Maybe we knew each other before?
"Let's start with some... | ZZZZZZZ... the sound wakes me up, someone is snoring near me. I would never admit it loud, but I know that it is my snore. Several times I’ve been woken by it. Many times, I wake... Wait, where do I woke in?
I do not remember.
Who am I? Where am I? And who the \*\*\*\* is the man next to me?
The other is stil... | teisar | Aljhaqu | 2023-01-24 21:40:18 | 2023-01-24 19:15:23 | 33 | 19 | j5qkoc4 | j5pwxnj | 10k7qyz | 10k7qyz |
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