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94 | 1,660,251,611 | 2,456 | "I don't wanna fight you, low-level bandit." Says the Lv.100 Hero, who killed the embodiment of space-time. "I wouldn't want to fight me, neither." Says the low-level bandit. | "I don't think you understand," the Hero said. "It's not that I'd lose, it's-"
"You'd win, yeah. I know," the bandit said defeatedly. "I mean, of course."
"What do you mean?" asked the mighty hero, vanquisher of all evil.
"I mean come on. You've killed dragons, monsters, gods. Obviously, I know who you are. I just t... | 1,203 |
6 | 1,660,252,210 | 57 | You, a demon, have been trying to convince a person to sell their soul to you. Unfortunately that person possesses actual common sense and refuses every time. | “Hi this is Marco calling about your—“
I hear a heavy sigh on the other end of the line.
“Marco The Demon?”
I clear my throat, “uhm uhh yeah that one.”
“I told you to stop calling. PUT ME ON YOUR DO NOT CALL LIST.”
I hear a click and the line is dead.
For months I’ve been stuck on this human. No matter how many... | 30 |
19 | 1,660,254,580 | 119 | "Does anyone else find it weird how we always burst into perfectly choreographed song and dance and then carry on as if it never happened?" | My ears flicked to attention as I heard Aiden speak those words. I slowly lifted my head from my book, turning to face him. He didn’t notice my tired gaze as he and the others conversed on and on about the issue that I had been trying to remedy for a week now.
“I think that’s the fun of this school,” Madison chimed in... | 69 |
4 | 1,660,255,622 | 34 | "NO, That's the stupidest plan to have ever existed, there's no way the humans will fall for-". "Sir, the humans have fallen for it" | "So, we act scary," I said.
"Yes." I blinked at my second mate, trying to keep calm. He grinned at me.
"That is a ridiculous plan. Does anyone have any other suggestions?" Scanning the faces in front of me, my heart sank a little. They were all staring at me with blank expressions. At the back of the room, one ... | 18 |
13 | 1,660,266,650 | 542 | It's hard being a professional henchman. Hench too hard, the hero has to kill you on his way to save the day. Don't hench hard enough, and your boss will kill you for failing your job. It all abut finding the right balance between harmless and useful. | I hear footsteps pounding down the hall as I place the a cushion against the wall and cover it with a flimsy metal crate. "Perfect," I exclaim with a sigh of relief, turning to face the incoming threat.
I'm a profession henchman, you know the ones. The mooks, grunts or cannon fodder that get tossed aside as the heroes... | 160 |
2 | 1,660,274,568 | 20 | You live in a world where your entire life is based off what role you are assigned. (Protagonist, antagonist, background character, ect.) In a family with the history of only getting important roles, you are assigned background. | My father was an antagonist, my mother a protagonist. My older brother was a villian's sidekick, my little sister a major character comic relief. My uncle and aunt were both born as side-protags, becoming the best friends of two protags.
Everyone in my family wanted a new protag. Everyone except my dad, of course, but... | 11 |
84 | 1,660,279,392 | 2,567 | The use of human soldiers stopped with the rise combat droids. To make them effective the memory engrams of veterans were imprinted onto them. However one droid outperformed the others and went rogue. The military and the droid seek the veteran they used to imprint to understand what went wrong | Mr. Matthews was a slobbering mess of the trained killer he used to be. Sixty years ago, he was one of the top soldiers of the military, but now, he was just another old man withering away in a nursing home.
"He's doesn't appear to be all there, sir," a young man dressed in green fatigues spoke into his phone. "He wo... | 1,825 |
29 | 1,660,296,307 | 916 | Widely disliked by the rest of Hero's Heroic Party, they're surprised when you (ironically) heroically sacrificed yourself so that the day could be won. The only problem? You survived certain death. Now things are just awkward. | Everyone in the League of Eight wasn't fond of Backlash, and she knew it. Somewhere deep down, they all knew she knew.
Being the only member without powers, or possessing some kind of object with abilities, she was just a glorified mercenary. Every year on 8Day, she has the least amount of fans parading around. When t... | 306 |
12 | 1,660,297,386 | 260 | s you walk in a park, one of the ducks whisper; "Pssst, pretend I'm not talking, I need your help..." | I stared in bewilderment, frozen. I couldn’t even move as the duck kept talking.
“Looks, I get the situation, talking duck and all, but just stay mum and maybe we can help each other out. I see yous in the park everyday. Everyday. I figure 'Hey, this guys looking for something too.' Missing companion? Exercise? Drugs?... | 132 |
8 | 1,660,304,475 | 62 | In a blinding flash, a square mile of downtown Manhattan reverts to the natural state it was in tens of thousands of years ago. | "This is Chris Roberds, reporting from Channel 7 News..."
Crowds of reporters, emergency services, and panicked businesspeople clamored around the scene.
"What transpired here this morning is confounding city officials. The state department, as well as the Pentagon, has declined to offer a statement. This is what we ... | 14 |
3 | 1,660,304,864 | 148 | After the zombie apocalypse, the rate of natural deaths drastically decreases, as the zombies turn all those they kill. Distraught, Death works to protect the surviving humans—so they can live, breed, and die a natural death. | I hadn't revealed myself to them before now. I hadn't had to but this was it, a decision was being made that would destroy the last remaining members of the human race. Fate had told me as much. They were 1000 in number and had walled themselves into a small city, relative safety from the hordes of my cousin, Undeath. ... | 14 |
23 | 1,660,304,868 | 376 | Elves are attracted to Magic Quality/Quantity. You are trying to convince someone that your spell casting equipment/accessories are to improve your combat abilities, not to "pick up chicks". | "Your majesty, I assure you that this equipment is intended only to improve the effectiveness of my magic. I had no idea this would happen."
King Durlan, the newly crowned ruler of the wood elves looked at me with suspicion and distain. Can't say I blame him. I wouldn't bee too happy either, if I found my sister cling... | 218 |
171 | 1,660,308,967 | 2,275 | or three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | After a long day in the field, you head inside your front door and after turning the lock closed, breathe a sigh of relief. Working the field alone is brutal but gives you a sense of purpose; keeps you from going insane.
Your resolve had been tested mercilessly the last two years. After Sena left you alone with an in... | 1,382 |
20 | 1,660,320,818 | 455 | You work under an evil emperor, but you want him to fall. As such, you've been wandering the countryside committing atrocities in hopes of causing someone's tragic backstory. | Darien beamed a broad smile at the young shop hand, "Worry not my friend, I am here on behalf of your Emperor, to extend his mercy to his loyal subjects" he gestured to the sky as though the sun itself was the emperor. "Your traveling stall here is full to the brim with wares that any number of bandits might kill you t... | 124 |
17 | 1,660,321,216 | 208 | “You want to switch jobs for the day?!” Satan laughed. “I’m a King! My responsibilities are infinite! This will be a vacation! How hard can working in retail be?” | Phonecall 12:00 :
"Hey, it's ya boy Satan. Listen Sarah, about this switching jobs deal... Um... can we switch back? Please..."
Sarah: "Nuh uh.. a deal is a deal. You've got another six hours of my shift left buddy. Eight if the boss wants 'us' to work overtime. Oh yeah.. and don't let him get you alone on the pre... | 72 |
7 | 1,660,324,035 | 51 | Her eyes blazed with fury as she wiped the blood from her sword on the tatters of her ruined silk gown. She was no longer the demure princess he thought she was. She was a force of nature. | Harvey's breath came in short gasps, as he ran through the gore coated hallways. Guards and invaders alike littered the floor, the price paid for conquest. He knew if he stopped he would probably recognise some of the fallen. But he couldn't let that stop him. He had to go, he had to find the Royal Children.
His foot ... | 12 |
5 | 1,660,329,176 | 228 | An AI and golem meet and fall in love, two creations of humanity that found their other half. Now they are making a creation of their own, a child of magic, science, and true love. | For years they had toiled, Dana handling the assembly of the biological matter. Working tirelessly through countless iterations in the attempt to create a blank template in which to instill the totality of her collected information. She angled her visual receptors towards her love, Grish. The golem had been working jus... | 27 |
5 | 1,660,333,066 | 56 | You're a sentient animatronic restaurant mascot. You love walking around at night and scarin' the living daylights out of the security guard. You'd never hurt them, of course. Right? | Quiet again. The day is so loud. Children run and scream, but with excitement and happiness. I love the children. Being around them feels right. They love me too. During the day, they watch me dance and sing, and they dance and sing too.
At night, the children and their joyful sounds leave. Nothing left but the empty... | 23 |
5 | 1,660,335,909 | 33 | After his death superheroes discussing villain realize everything he put them through actually trained them in the skills they needed to succeed. | "Is that your best?" Ultimaster asked mockingly. Tae Kwan Dope's super strong kicks weren't leaving so much as a dent in the villain's battle armor. When Dope made his third attempt, Ultimaster effortlessly caught his leg by the ankle and sent him spinning into a stone pillar.
"You'll have to do better than that if... | 13 |
7 | 1,660,344,849 | 191 | the hero always has armies at their back to fight the dark lord but the mad hero, who wears no clothes except a pot on their head while weilding two katanas, says only a single sentence before the fight "Let me solo them..." | You’ve heard tales of valiant heroes, brave folk taking up arms against the darkness. We know their names and their faces. But let me tell you of another.
His name is unknown, as is his face. He wears no armor, merely a loincloth, and a pot upon his head. He wields two katanas, sharp and true. He scorns any assistance... | 68 |
55 | 1,660,346,046 | 1,245 | A human male recently saved the life of a female werewolf. Grateful for what the human did, she convinces her father (the chief) to make him part of the tribe. He wholeheartedly agrees, proclaiming that the pack will grow strong due to his skills. | Bells chimed outside waking me from my sleep. It was early, earlier than I was ever used to waking; evidence given by the deep grogginess I now felt. Outside I could hear footsteps, one pair first, then two, three, more and more passing by until they all blended into one noise. Hearing them pass by I let my eyes peek o... | 291 |
5 | 1,660,348,626 | 50 | You are a miner in a low-tech world. You've been tunnelling for days through oddly strong rock, before you reach a cavity, and inside find... an enormous mecha suit? | The beat of a lone pickaxe rang at the end of a dark stone tunnel. A muscular arm rose and fell without rest. The dwarf's beard was more coal dust than hair, his dark eyes glittering like obsidian in the dim lantern light.
A birdcage hung from his half-filled mine-cart, and a little yellow canary sang encouragement to... | 11 |
5 | 1,660,351,555 | 331 | Homeless and starving, you feigned amnesia. Convinced, they admitted you into a psychiatric facility for treatment. Without an ID, no one knew you were. After a year of food and shelter, a family you don't recognize appears and claims you as their son, with photos and documents to prove it. | Thus far his plan was proving to be one of his better ones... Belly full, tucked in, warm and cozy in a stentch-less room. Albeit the bed was made of wood and the mattress like a thin slice of ham, at least it wasn't a folded blanket on a slab of concrete. As he closed his eyes and began to drift, outside his bedroom d... | 39 |
4 | 1,660,351,787 | 32 | A professor creates a fiendishly difficult puzzle to act as an entrance exam to their class, so only the most intelligent students can get in. Ten years later, no one has made it into the class—nor seen the professor. | Dear Mr. Davidson,
I am writing this to you as a thank you, for the effort put in by you and your team, in order to solve the entrance examination, and eventually, to join my classroom. However, despite the effort you contributed, and the wonderful results you and your team have presented over the last few month... | 24 |
2 | 1,660,354,528 | 33 | Bomb defusal and dragon slaying have something in common. Either you get rid of the problem, or it's not your problem anymore. | So no shit, there I was, face to face with a dragon. A dragon that spoke an honest-to-god posh English accent... in the mountains of *Afghanistan...* and she wanted me to remove my bomb disposal protective suit so that she could see me for who I really was. At that point, I had just had it with life. The thing about EO... | 11 |
3 | 1,660,355,928 | 60 | Lately, the many people have been critical of your adventuring group of friends. You may be "The Chosen One", but your team has been equally powerful, smart, and as vital to your efforts as you have. You decide to let them take the lead for a day, to prove to everyone how capable they are. | It's true that my friends and I have been in news circles. Pushing boundaries means toppling the status quo.
Like that time we defeated "Damn Dammer" the giant beaver blocking the river, or the Vegetable Lord (with my magic sword). You see, people like believing that just one person can do it; they choose. But, it's n... | 27 |
25 | 1,660,357,304 | 80 | Before recorded history, six humans discovered themselves immortal. Bound in friendship and history, they have existed throughout the rise of mankind. Yesterday, one of them died peacefully in their sleep. | (Part 1?)
During the summer, in a dingy bar in Little Italy, a cast of five people fidgeted quietly as the window outside showed the sun starting to set. The bartender, Tom, glanced at the group of five, noting how these five all came within 10 minutes of each other around 5, though separately, and greeted each other ... | 18 |
81 | 1,660,364,427 | 1,201 | Reincarnation is real. But since time is not linear, other lives can be before, after, or at the same time. You come to the startling discovery that all the lives on Earth that ever were or will be are all just YOU. | She touched the bruise on her cheek as she leaned closer to the mirror. I watched from behind the two-way glass, studying her face. She was young, no older than 20, with thick brown hair down to her shoulders. These days I didn't get so emotional, but it was still hard when young ones came through.
I turned to the ot... | 147 |
3 | 1,660,385,233 | 38 | At work, your colleagues approach you with very concerned faces, asking you: "I'm sorry, but we need you to to solve this captcha while we can see it." You're starting to wonder if they've gone insane, but then one of them nervously adds: "None of us have been able to get past a single one" | You roll your eyes. "It's just a captcha. It can't be that hard or I'm writing recommendation letters for you to go back to elementary." you say as you gesture one of your colleagues to bring a tablet with the captcha.
Upon looking at the captcha, you blink in surprise. You blink again, as though it would dispel some... | 12 |
199 | 1,660,392,730 | 3,395 | The magical races enslaved magic-less humans centuries ago. To expand their empires, the magical races travel and conquer different dimensions. They soon stumble across and try to conquer a magic-less world full of humans. It did not go well. | The Infinite Imperium began aeons ago on a world of powerful magic. There, it started as a unification of the Elven races under one Hegemon, who promised the immortal race of elves a civilisation that would never falter, never fade, never cease to expand and grow. The elves of the wood, the elves of the dark, and the e... | 913 |
9 | 1,660,393,095 | 91 | You grew up a typical child with a loving family but never really had friends over since you lived further away from school. As you now visit home with your SO from uni, you open the door and hug your parents as per usual and turn around, only to see your SO staring at you with horror. | "Listen, MK, this is gonna be your first time meeting my parents. Promise you won't do anything stupid?" I said, talking but also keeping a stern eye on the road.
"Alright fine, I promise I won't make a scene." She said, in a frustrated tone from what I could make out.
...
I knock on the door, me and my wife keep... | 13 |
30 | 1,660,399,362 | 367 | The demon lord that conquered the world 3000 years ago is now free to lead once more his terrible army... of 3000 spearmen and 200 carriots with bronze-age technology | Izidem awoke inside a cool, damp chamber. He thrust open the door to his tomb and quickly went into shock catching a glint of light out of the corner of his eye. He cowered back and remembered the dagger, the servant who came straight for his face. He felt the scarred skin of his cheeks and felt an emptiness inside.
H... | 69 |
5 | 1,660,409,329 | 283 | The villainess stares at the magical girls in their untransformed states in their school uniforms. "Why would you let them use you like this? Of all the candidates they could have used, they enlisted children?" she screeches. | I looked up at the woman, clad in dark cloth stylized in that stereotypical villainous fashion, with spikes and shadows that grew from her form. Her purple and green makeup and seams were top notch, I had to say. A shame I hated the color scheme and the spikes. The shadows were cool, though.
Looking to our leader for ... | 57 |
65 | 1,660,410,305 | 582 | The rapture happens. All dogs go to heaven and are interviewed to decide the fate of their owners. One good boy says "What about my cat friend, Mr. Mittens?". The angel replies "The what now?". | ("Buddy," Part One)
"The cat, Mister Mittens," the dog replied, staring up at the angel with unabashed worry across his canine features. "My human may not have been the best owner, and I forgive him for that. But Mister Mittens and I were like brothers."
The angel, Andaphael by name, was puzzled: A dog, wanting to kn... | 344 |
31 | 1,660,412,224 | 404 | You ask about magic and learn every mage class has a totem that affects the spells available. You peruse the list: Staff mage, Wand mage, Scroll mage, Sword mage, Bow mage, etc. Nearly anything can be used as a totem, so you begin rummaging in your backpack to see if it survived the trip. | I dug through my belongings, hoping. It had been a rough trip, my bag had been thrown around an awful lot. It had been fine the last time I checked, but that was a few days ago. Recently I hadn't had the chance, too busy focusing on getting here. My hand touched a familiar handle, and I withdrew it.
In my grasp was a ... | 119 |
12 | 1,660,417,198 | 106 | fter a few minutes at a stoplight your partner turns to you, "Feels like this light is taking forever". "It does seem to be taking a while" you reply. A quick look at your phone and you notice the calendar says several years has past. | "Feels like this light is taking forever." Betty's emerald eyes broke from the stoplight and, with a turn in my direction, I could detect the slight annoyance on her expression.
"Yeah." I sighed, making sure to keep my hands on the steering wheel. "It does seem to be taking a while.
"This highway's pretty creepy." sh... | 39 |
8 | 1,660,423,289 | 197 | By accident, you stumble on a movie set during its final take. When the film comes out, your insignificant “role” saves the movie. Now you’re a star. | You ever hear the words, “Act like you know?” It’s a famous saying and I often live by it. Ever since I lost my cozy but boring job, I decided to walk onto the sets pretending that I am supposed to be there. I’d go talk to my casting agency and apply to be an extra then I would show up in the middle of an important sce... | 57 |
3 | 1,660,423,298 | 44 | "Welcome to Smith's Retroactive Shipping Agency, for when you literally need your package there yesterday! Where and when is your package destination?" | “One plunger, an hour ago,” Manny said to the frazzled customer. “Coming right up.”
Manny entered in the order and gestured to the payment terminal. “$641.99, swipe when ready.”
“That’s a bit much for a plunger, isn’t it?”
“Plutonium ain’t cheap. It’s less than a shop-vac and you don’t gotta worry about the smell. W... | 13 |
15 | 1,660,435,485 | 61 | When intelligent life discovered the Voyager probes, they assumed from the information in the golden records that we were a peaceful species, and therefore easy to take down. They were very wrong... | *"Fire!"*
From out of the apertures in the mass of alien flora and metals that was the spacecraft, railgun-like artillery sputter out another volley of subatomic particles at an imperceptible velocity... though, the fatigue that bore down upon the ion cannons *was* quite perceptible.
Not to mention the fatigue that w... | 18 |
6 | 1,660,437,168 | 40 | You are a demon and this is the story of your first possession. You have chosen poorly, however, as your choice of possession is an astronaut who is currently heading into outer space. | We drifted. Every few minutes there was a tell-tale jet of air indicating his onboard-stabilizers were still working, but for the most part we just...floated.
"Kinda puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?" his voice croaked, vocal chords wracked from all my screaming earlier.
I nodded. For my part I'd had my f... | 11 |
6 | 1,660,437,819 | 60 | Someone appears in front of you with a time machine; the world's going to end and only you can save it. At the same time, a wizard appears; he's from another world, and he says you're the Chosen One. The time traveler and the wizard fight over who gets you. | After hearing them argue for a few minutes while I wrapped my head around what is currently happening in front of me, I had to step between the woman whose hair is somehow still smoking from whatever future they just came from and is currently waving around a gun that looks to be straight from a science fiction book, a... | 36 |
143 | 1,660,444,044 | 5,580 | Aliens always respawn minutes after death. It's a common prank for aliens to kill each other for a laugh. When they discover Earth, they kill millions of humans, thinking it's a humorous way of greeting this new species, but for some reason, the humans aren't laughing... | Death.
Something we've seen hundreds of times by the time we were younglings, most likely having experienced it ourselves by that point. Something that was so natural and normal to us that we would often kill each other for no reason other than to pull one over our comrades. Usually it would take a few minutes at most... | 1,573 |
6 | 1,660,447,843 | 149 | Humanity is long extinct. An alien race scours Earth for clues leading to understanding the mystery that is human history. Their searches proved fruitful when they discovered a long lost book depicting the epic of what seems to be humanity's most important and prominent figure: Florida Man. | ID Reference: e0f8d8d7-76b8-4bba-1e5e-ec1dee19ebf7
Cultural Genome: Late Floridian Sand Culture
Title: Liminal rites of Sun Worshiping Cultists of the Late Floridian Sand Culture
Discussion : Many studies elaborate the cultural genome of the Late Floridian Sand Culture existent 100 Million PGA (Post Galactic Period... | 15 |
3 | 1,660,449,757 | 27 | You planted a universe in your yard while you were a kid, but then forgot about it. Today, it has grown considerably, and one of the planets, Earth, even managed to evolve intelligent life, which is amazing. The growth is incomplete and uneven though, so you wonder if you should take charge. | *If you do something right, they'll never know you did anything at all*
A wonderful sentiment surely, but it left me utterly unmoored in my current predicament. Creation and destruction shared the same fingers, and my intrusion at this stage would be tantamount to extinction.
**Day One:** It's just...look at al... | 12 |
6 | 1,660,453,872 | 38 | You dreamed of being a starship captain, but the training is too expensive. When a distant relative leaves you their mortgaged Bantam-class cruiser, you face a series of choices: Sell it for tuition, assume the existing cargo contracts, or investigate the offer made by the local cartel. | Hydra station wasn’t the kind of place that anyone came to without good reason.
There were the scientists, the miners, the navy, some freight crews and those few poor sods who had been born to the misbegotten rock.
For the first 19 years of my life I had been forced to accept that I would always be a me... | 10 |
33 | 1,660,459,293 | 861 | You are the first person to actually read the 'Terms and Conditions' of your deal with the devil. They are a thousand pages long and you plan to finish them all as the devil watches in increasing annoyance. | The medical machines clustered around Fiona's hospital bed beeped and clattered and whirred as they kept the bed's occupant alive. Wires and tubes snaked out from the machines and embedded in various places in the body of a small child, perhaps ten years old, who lay pale and motionless but for shallow laboured breaths... | 232 |
20 | 1,660,467,892 | 207 | "No, humans love it when dragons steal their young. You get a companion for ten or twelve years, so everyone wins. You gotta remember though, when the knights come get the young back you've gotta play dead. And make it look REALLY good, because that's how humans choose their mates." | “I think my human is defective.”
“What?”
“You know how you were saying that after a decade or so, the knight comes and there’s the whole battle thing and then the human chooses their mate? Well, mine won’t choose one.”
“Well, are you really selling it? You can’t half ass the death scene. You really gotta give it a g... | 118 |
78 | 1,660,486,878 | 2,816 | In a universe where war is fought by remotely controlled armies of war machines, War is now more a sport and entertainment for the masses. Until the Humans were invited to compete, resulting in major upsets. No one knew humans were crazy enough to pilot the war machines directly from inside. | "Think about it," Melo can remember telling the board of executives as he rounded a faux leather seat to stand directly in front of a table. "They are mostly unknowns, and it will drag them into the wide galactic community; and the Vahoom are a small economy; it will be the war of the underdogs."
Yavis, an executi... | 983 |
20 | 1,660,487,061 | 401 | Lately you’ve been dabbling in necromancy, and you really were intending to become the first goodnatured necromancer in history, but your necromancy projects all seem to go in the opposite direction for some reason. | My room was colder than usual. Not the sort of natural cold that creeps in with changes in the air, but rather a fast moving, devious cold that signals something amiss. It felt like this was becoming a more common theme with my work. More often I felt as if something was wrong before it was. Premonition, I had chalked ... | 107 |
17 | 1,660,494,038 | 776 | Aliens abduct a random group of humans. Instead of experimenting, the aliens take them to their intergalactic resort. It’s opening day, and the aliens hope that the reactions from the humans serve as a sign of support for their business. | It was a brilliant pitch, the alien thought. Open a resort and then abduct a group of a... simpler species. Introduce them to the resort; watch as they are beyond amazed by its beauty and luxury; use it as marketing. *The Best resort in the Galaxy* has a good ring to it. Everything was going well, the investors were ni... | 272 |
12 | 1,660,498,084 | 295 | A manipulative cult leader is surprised to find out that everything they made up is completely accurate. | Mark Wallace, better known as Master Wu, found that people tended to trust him, which, admittedly, wasn’t something he could recommend. Mark had convinced several hundred people in his life—neighbors, landlords, coworkers, etc.—that he was a Chinese martial artist who had immigrated to Atlanta following the Tiananmen S... | 66 |
3 | 1,660,500,494 | 28 | Quitting your corporate life, you've set to become a digital nomad and visit all 195 countries. 194 countries later, you've come to a profound realization. | “It’s… not real.”
There I sat, Looking at the map. I was on a quest to go to every single country, and i was almost done. My final destination, Brazil.
“It just doesn’t exist?! Wh- What!? This is bullshit!”
I was *pissed*. I was robbed of the one thing I had left. I spent multiple years on this, and I end up unable ... | 11 |
54 | 1,660,507,912 | 963 | What do you mean? taking candy from a baby, makes me look like a villain, babies should NOT eat candy! | “It’s okay for a baby to have a piece of candy once in a while,” my friend said. I looked at him in disbelief.
“Have you seen how much sugar the average candy bars have?”
“About twelve grams of sugar right?”
“No. Twenty four.”
“Okay. Twenty four grams of sugar won’t kill a baby still.”
“Have you seen the obesity ... | 293 |
4 | 1,660,523,986 | 30 | Your walking down the aisle but you don’t see your groom but instead his twin brother. When you reach at the end of the aisle the twin tells you a terrifying secret. | *At last….My love has come along….*
The dulcet tones of Etta James echoed through the church’s chambers. Sarah, the bride, took one last deep breath and turned to look at her father whose arm was locked with hers as they stood in front of the sanctuary doors.
“You ready?” Sarah asked her father with a smile. He seeme... | 29 |
6 | 1,660,530,166 | 71 | A destined chosen one is joining the adventurers guild and on his first mission gets paired with a child of darkness destined to bring the end of the world. And they quickly become best friends | There's something sweet about friendship that bloomed out of innocence.
"So you're my new partner?"
"Yeah.."
"Let's be best buds! I'm sure the first mission would be easy."
"Alright."
But innocence last until you get tainted by the hard truth.
"He was not your friend, Hero. He is an enemy. He killed all the peopl... | 11 |
41 | 1,660,532,183 | 696 | Awakening in a small valley, you struggled to survive for years until finding a hidden passage to a civilisation. Although you suspected you were in a fantasy world, it was shocking when your vision filled with thousands of messages and unspent points once you learned to access the System. | "Good God, I am an idiot" the sudden self realization gave me a sense of nausea. I had tried to climb out of the bowl, as I affectionately called the steep mountains that surrounded my cabin, many a time. I had fallen and gotten hurt, nearly dying just as many. I thought I was in hell, after all the only things I could... | 258 |
11 | 1,660,532,906 | 1,220 | The demon knows all your insecurities and won't hesitate to prey on them. But instead of resorting to typical horror tropes, you just start venting to the demon like it's your therapist. | The blank eyed girl stared at me from across the kitchen in her stained bloodied dress and flashed an unnatural grin. I sighed. The demon was getting petty now, throwing in the fact that me letting the ball slip on a few dates was because I was intimidated by intimacy.
“Yeah, yeah I get it I’ve been a little more nerv... | 403 |
5 | 1,660,536,044 | 164 | You are accidentally sent back in time to the caveman era without any tools or technology, and the only way you can convince the ancient humans not to harm you is with your incredible talents as a chef | Getting transported to another time period made me feel like those isekai protagonists bringing modern technology to an ancient world.
Though except for inadvertently disrupting natural scientific progression and possible creating untold negative cascades a la butterfly effect, I memorized lottery numbers.
That w... | 54 |
9 | 1,660,536,706 | 256 | You are a high ranking commander within a consortium of alien races that have banded together to fight an entity only known as "the horror beyond the stars." You have recently discovered Earth and have been ordered to get the primitive humans battle ready by any means necessary. | "Primitives," Logos sighed as he helped his team unload tech printers from the arriving ships.
"Excuse me," a human said. Humans were a hairless bipedal species that wore a mixture of synthetic and naturally occurring fibers in a mix of protective layers over it's naked body. Logos examined him carefully as he appro... | 99 |
30 | 1,660,545,000 | 573 | The Heroes politely knocked on the door of the Dark Lord. There was a side quest over in the nearby forest and they were rather lost. | The aroma of fresh brewed coffee filled the kitchen as the Dark Lord Aglod the Unyielding went about his breakfast routine. He flipped a large dragon egg omelette before making his way over to turn off the coffee pot. As he was adding a bit of paprika to his omelette, his ears perked up at the sound of…footsteps approa... | 330 |
17 | 1,660,548,978 | 236 | You are Satan. A fanperson of yours dies and goes to Hell. No matter what torments you put them through, they love it, and you, because you are the subject of their fandom. You are running out of ideas. | Contrary to popular belief, Satan wasn’t very exposed to humanity. Think of it like how the green crown of a tall, billowing oak tree never sees its own deep-seated roots.
But for Mabel, death was just another step in getting to Satan. Tall, red, and generally regarded as the embodiment of temptation, the Devil still ... | 84 |
10 | 1,660,552,367 | 251 | An elderly woman whose husband just died is so lonely that she befriends not one, not two, but seven demons who regularly come to see her, who are actually the seven stages of grief. | The old lady passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday night.
Natural causes, the doctor said after a cursory examination. It was simply her time at ninety, he told me while packing his tools away as I watched her lay unmoving in bed.
Getting her affairs into order wasn't too hard. Granny Shannon, as I'd affecti... | 27 |
2 | 1,660,558,848 | 31 | Modern technology has made summoning demons quite safe. Having one around can be pretty useful too—to scare birds away from crops, as part of your Halloween decorations, or even just to entertain the kids while you duck out to the shops. | In 2025, Scientists were finally able to unarguably prove the existence of the soul, and within a few years, create an artificial one. After the ASC (Artificial Soul Container) became an affordable household item, everything changed.
For about $200, you could buy a soul contained inside of an ASC, and simply say "I wi... | 10 |
6 | 1,660,561,645 | 82 | You and your best friend have superpowers, but instead of fighting crime you put on show fights to entertain the masses. You are disliked in the hero community, but when a new villain emerges they need all the help they can get. | People will often tell you being a superhero is one of the hardest jobs in the world. They're correct. The responsibility, weight of all the lives on you, terrible pay, and the public turning on you every time a shapeshifter robs a bank in your form can crush a man. That's why my best friend, Thomas and I don't do it.
... | 35 |
25 | 1,660,565,889 | 376 | Tired of all your failed romances you design a robot to love you. However its AI code leads it to taking over the world for you and now you have to act like you know what you are doing next to a Yandere AI super genius. | In this life, we choose our own paths. Or, at least, that's what conventional wisdom might tell you. The truth of the matter is, many of us arrive to paths closed; condemned. The paraplegic, as they are, cannot become champion runners. The blind, as they are, cannot become a painters.
Myself, as I am, cannot be loved... | 68 |
129 | 1,660,569,477 | 5,366 | The Magical Girls were defeated, but before their capture, they released their instrument-weapons. Formerly, they always landed in the hands of either J-pop, or K-pop girl bands but this time -for some reason- the weapons choose a Finnish Death-Metal boyband. They were PAINFULLY efficient. | It always happened, eventually. Such was the fate of the warriors on the side of light- they were granted powers, but they were mortal. They would age and they would pass their tools and duties onwards.
Not this time.
The monster sent to them was a living nightmare, and an old one at that. It ... | 1,486 |
4 | 1,660,578,842 | 67 | You’ve captured the hero. They’re completely at your mercy. Now, you can finally ask them out on a date without either of your cohorts listening in. | Lady Death could hardly believe her eyes when she saw the state of God's Hand. The warrior in black had fallen completely into her trap, looped rope wrapping around his ankle and suspending him in midair. It was actually fairly surprising, a very simplistic trap for a hero to fall into.
Now, gazing at the hero through... | 28 |
3 | 1,660,579,661 | 18 | Your friend lets you know that they are trapped in a time loop. You realize that from your perspective, this is the last loop and they will manage to break free. | "So... if you kiss the prettiest girl at our school.. the time loop will end.. but won't I die?" I scratched my head, trying to make sense of everything I was being told. Kissing a girl to end a time loop? What sort of C-list movie was this?
"Well, no" Kurt retorted, cracking open a beer as he sat down across the tabl... | 14 |
4 | 1,660,580,863 | 49 | As a Teleporter who's just died, you're really pissing off the Demons of Hell by continuously Teleporting back to Earth. Lucifer keeps sending envoys to hopefully bribe you back but none are working. | The telltale signs of my power waft off me scenting the air with fresh ozone like an approaching electric storm. Static tingles across my skin as I settle into my new location. For just a moment I was tempted to stay and listen to the succubus. Then I saw that hunger in her eyes. But really it was the salivating drool ... | 16 |
5 | 1,660,581,254 | 33 | You're an Angel who discovers a dangerous loophole that shouldn't exist. It began with a question "What happens to Souls that die in Heaven or Hell?" It should be impossible but it happens and such Souls return to Earth as monsters. You now must report this to God and Lucifer. | Lucifer walked into the empty warehouse flanked by a few of his Fallen. They unfurled their wings and horns. This was a neutral zone, no need for disguises here. Wards prevented humans from even noticing the building, much less enter. To mortals, it was just a partially collapsed building.
Morningstar approached a ... | 16 |
4 | 1,660,590,677 | 73 | Scorned by an arrogant King, a lowly hermit loudly curses them with plagues upon their kingdom. Now plagues ravage his lands, the King begs the hermit for forgiveness. But the hermit's no sorcerer, they're just some guy who yelled idle threats, and they're not really sure what to do now... | It was odd to see the once haughty expression on the mans face completely gone, replaced by a mournful one, trembling lips and all. It was practically pleading: jarringly incompatible with the ornate crown he wore on his head, bedecked with the rarest and costliest jewels. Half-crouched as if considering kneeling, he s... | 20 |
15 | 1,660,591,174 | 512 | You are a goddess, or at least you were. Condemned to fade into oblivion as your last worshipers were long dead. You mustered all your remaining strength to curse the grave robbers who dared defile your long buried temple, except this group, these "archaeologists," have begun repairing it... | Esmeralda gently blew the dust off an old tome, and the paper went with it. She chuffed in annoyance, though her companion got a kick out of her efforts.
“They’re all dust,” Inigo said. “Doesn’t matter how gently you try and open them.”
He was right, unfortunately. This temple wasn’t built with preservation in mind. ... | 244 |
58 | 1,660,591,471 | 1,688 | Turns out that the main thing that sets humanity apart isn't speed, or violence, or even art. No, what sets humanity apart from all other space-faring life is *not being a crab*. | This is a challenge where I'll spend 30-some days writing a micro-story based on a combination of whatever catches my eye at r/writingprompts that day plus the theme of the day as predetermined by a list prebuilt out of my friends' suggestions.
Today's theme is "The main character is tied up" and the writing prompt is... | 271 |
8 | 1,660,594,843 | 39 | The personification of the Seven Deadly Sins are at war with each other. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride all use humans as their pawns. For reasons you don't understand, all Seven Deadly Sins want you as their champion. | There I stood, all Bullets spent from my smoking pistol, clothes full of claw marks and holes, my skin covered in grease and dirt and goo I'd rather not name. Every building on the street behind me burned. Black clouds of smoke filled the air, turning the evening into a deeper kind of night.
There I was, and so was ... | 10 |
12 | 1,660,598,505 | 89 | Not all vampires all inherently evil. There exists a group of vampires whose purpose is to help humanity fight against other night creatures and corrupt leaders in power. | They were always so confused when the coven of vampires was here not for blood, but justice. We learned a long time ago that mankind was much important as a food source to allow them to self govern. For years we'd intervened in all sorts of uprising, be they supernatural or human.
I touched the hilt of my sword, it h... | 17 |
58 | 1,660,609,337 | 1,406 | Your father has been the high priest, left hand of the king, for years. He retires today. Whoever passes the test of faith replaces him. The test is to survive sticking your arm in a vat of boiling oil. After several priests die, it’s your turn. You stick your hand in. It’s cold water. | I expected fire. I expected pain. For the oil to roast my arm and fry my skin, then, as it had done the others, for my suffering to kill me. The court would gossip before my body turned cold. "Even his son was not worthy. I knew him to be a heathen all along." The members of the court would speak all day, but ask them ... | 843 |
12 | 1,660,610,851 | 138 | The afterlife takes the form of what humanity collectively thinks it looks like. After humanity discovered the fact, an international effort began to transform the afterlife into a luxury resort. | After the mind blowing discovery of an afterlife based on human perception, Pedro aimed to make a little profit off the idea. What followed was an ambitious attempt to make a beautiful resort that everyone in the world would visit once a year. Pedro had the finances, the influence, and more than a million square feet t... | 43 |
30 | 1,660,617,447 | 476 | After discovering time travel, you start to "fix" history. This creates a new timeline, and in that timeline, someone else discovers time travel and decides to fix the problems too. After much confusion, a bunch of time travelers from different timelines all end up in the same room. | If Hitler never came to power, Europe would have entered a period of unprecedented innovation in both art and science. This rennaisance of thought would have produced an explosion of inspiration and competition across the globe. Instead of a Cold War, there would have been an *Idea* War, where countries would fund medi... | 142 |
11 | 1,660,623,545 | 106 | Alchemy was much safer, and only slightly less profitable, than Adventuring, so you mastered the art. While attempting to craft a Philosopher’s Stone, you have a moment of inspiration and craft something new; the Stone of Heterodoxy, which turns gold into anything. Anything at all. | I held my coin purse out in my hand and tested its weight, a frown creasing my lips. “This is going to be expensive,” I muttered as I returned my attention to the ogre lumbering towards me down the dirt road. The beast was thrice my size and dragged a misshapen wooden club through the dirt behind itself.
It chuckled... | 26 |
26 | 1,660,626,290 | 230 | In less than a second, the chosen hero strangled the first goblin with a black wire. He bored a hole into the skull of another with a strange device. The third gurgled from the knife thrown into its throat. The other party members are silent, too afraid to ask what he did in his past life. | "You're shitting me!"
"I assure you, Young Hero, that I am not using you as a receptacle for biological waste products. You are this world's only hope. Without you, this world and its inhabitants will die or become the chattel of power eviler than anything you can comprehend."
"I dunno, I can *comprende* a lot of e... | 119 |
8 | 1,660,635,817 | 79 | You're a simple village kid chosen to be the latest in a long line of Heroes, given the best weapons and training, then sent to the front lines against the Demons. After surviving longer than any of your predecessors, you've realised this war is actually manufactured. | Liolt felt like a fool as the pieces began to fall into place. Nothing about this war had ever made sense, not that any war ever did. It had all been a lie, an elaborate one that had worked for over a century now, but a lie all the same.
It had always seemed odd that the Warrior of Heavenly Grace had to be a child of ... | 26 |
15 | 1,660,640,369 | 209 | Dragons may hoard many things. A dragon that hoards books or gold or trees doesn't experience something that a dragon that hoards humans does: Grief. | When humans first learn that dragons have hoards, their first question is always: "What Kind?"
The obvious answer is gold. And it's somewhat true. All dragons, no matter what, feel an innate desire for gold. It's an evolutionary mechanics to protect the weaker parts of their armour with something stronger. And some ta... | 82 |
5 | 1,660,641,212 | 74 | You are supposed to raise a kid to have no idea who their parents are. But, the dark lord keeps dropping off presents on birthdays and holidays. | *4th of Nuul, 2nd year of the reign of Kaldrax, High Lord of the Gloomkings*
My dearest Mathilde,
Peace and health be upon you, sister. I pray to Solarius each and every day that your life will lead you not into the circus that is mine.
I have been selected by the steward to be the caretaker of a strange girl, ... | 17 |
119 | 1,660,647,301 | 2,980 | You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | A crowd of onlooking spectators swarmed the windows of the small café, looking inside in both awe, fear, and general confusion. Both Rachael and Marshall sat in a small booth awkwardly as nearly a dozen faces pressed up onside the glass, attempting to listen to their conversations. These type of people were far worse f... | 576 |
8 | 1,660,658,414 | 136 | “Depressed? Anxious? Unhappy?” The sign shouted at you, “Why not become an amorphous entity and shirk the confines of time and space? Embrace your Eldritch Nature today!” | "Am I... Sure 'bout this?" Arnold looked down at his body, his form, considering how he SHOULD feel about such a question only briefly before deciding that his... No, that wasn't quite right, thinking in terms of gender and consciousness and form and logic wasn't very befitting of a being that was about to expand beyon... | 24 |
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