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Yesterday marked the first time since the Vietnam war that an American soldier killed an enemy with a bayonet.
When the Aliens landed yesterday we were caught with out defenses completely irrelevant as they seemed to pay no heed to bullets and bombs. Their ground troops stormed major cities slaughtering millions. Nat... | 24 | Aliens that cannot be killed by modern weapons invade earth. How does humanity fare against this force? (Details inside) | 16 |
"She's a child. She doesn't belong here." Pain, level 1 Demon-in-training had been given the job of escorting the girl-child through the underworld. At ten, she was slightly too young to handle the pitfalls of the most blackest circles of torment in existence.
"Maggot said if we fill in form 174(a) then we can class h... | 881 | A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her. | 474 |
Some blamed the economy for World War 3, although most didn't understand what the economy was.
Some blamed the development of nuclear weapons in countries that countries that already owned nuclear weapons had decided didn't need nuclear weapons.
Some blamed over population, the drought of 2103, the price of oil, imm... | 47 | world war 3 is caused by the misplacement of a pencil sharpener. | 43 |
Benjie's eyes snapped open. He inhaled sharply and sat up in bed. His bedroom was dark and silent. His heart beat loudly in his ears and he strained to hear. Something had caused him to wake. Was it a dream? A noise? The room remained quiet. Only the wind outside broke the silence. Apprehensive, he glanced aro... | 11 | Write a (funny OR creepy) ghost story, from the perspective of the ghost | 25 |
Someone once said that the humans have a song about dreaming of a white Christmas. Elves have similar dreams. The once pristine white snow around the workshop is now tainted with the remnants of the dull black smog that dribbles out of the large smoke stacks. The air within the workshop is hot, thick and choking. T... | 13 | A Christmas story told from the elves' perspective where Santa Clause is the antagonist. | 29 |
"Welcome back to the late-late show with Benny and the Wolf! I'm your host Big Ben and this.."
**Aaawwooooooooo **
"... is the Wolf."
"Thanks Ben."
"Of course big dog."
*Stock prerecorded church bells ringing*
"Uh oh Ben looks like it's about to get Old Testatment up in here!"
"That's right Wolfie - Father Ted ... | 15 | A priest listens to people in a confessional in the day and hosts a late-night talk show every night about the confessions he hears | 41 |
The fountain of youth was discovered and the first person bold enough to drink the water immediately transformed into a newborn.
The conjectures began immediately. Genetically, the baby was Jordan Stam. That was the first thing they had established. But was the child identical to how Jordan had been forty-two years ag... | 42 | The fountain of youth is discovered. Things do not go as planned. | 53 |
It started as a low whine in the atmosphere, a solitary blast that stretched across time and space like a latex mask.
We sit around the dinner table and discuss the finer points of expression--cuisine and comedy--and we have to shout to be heard over the background hum.
"Can't somebody turn that down?" she asks, and ... | 11 | World peace is achieved. Nobody is happy. | 20 |
It's a strange feeling, knowing the day of your death. My family had always been what you would call special. Each of us could in some form or another tell futures, see future lovers, see the outcomes of an action or divine upcoming disasters. It's not as cool as you might think.
Nothing can ostracize you faster than ... | 28 | The story of a man who knows the day of his death, but not the year. | 26 |
Dr. Harrison Jones sat in the lab before a workstation with many monitors all displaying, at the moment, a black screen and a patiently waiting cursor. The gentle hum of the machines in rows of racks that filled the rest of the room was, after all the years he'd worked there, a calm and almost unnoticed thing. He lea... | 50 | An A.I talking with its creator about philosophy | 33 |
In two seconds he'll come through the door, holding a gun. In five seconds he'll pull the trigger. How did this happen? I was always so careful about saving. I was safe at home, everything had gone exceptionally well today, it seemed like a perfect time to save. I had no reason to suspect that two seconds later, some g... | 40 | Everyone on earth can "quicksave" their current state at any time, and reload it at any time, allowing them to essentially time travel and correct their mistakes. They only have one save slot, and the old state is rewritten when you make a new one. | 36 |
14th July, 2014
People, if they survive long enough, will curse my name to blackness.
The nurses told me to keep a diary. I think they all know what's happening to me, but no-one will tell me. They shoot sidelong looks over my head when they're changing my bandages or serving me steak tartare. It's always fucking st... | 158 | all zombie stories seem to focus on the few remaining survivors. So tell me the story of patient zero, and the following events that lead to it's outbreak. Lead up to the typical remaining survivors story. | 149 |
"If you want my protection, you're going to have to be completely honest with me, John" Detective Creage said with a very serious look on his face.
"I can't," John replied in frustration. "It's too pathetic."
"Don't be ridiculous," Creage snapped. "You trapped a group of bank robbing gangsters and picked them all o... | 17 | After accidentally ending a shootout and killing several gangsters in the process, mild-mannered John Smith becomes a prime target of the local mafia. | 17 |
Max's parents had lost all hope of their son ever returning to them. In the spectactularly televised one year on appeal, they sat clutching together on the sofa. They shared a bond that no other parent could understand. They were parents, but they had no child. Not any more.
"Max, please come home." His mother cried ... | 19 | (Askreddit inspired) Choose a well-known children's book or tale and write a darker adult interpretation. | 15 |
The TARDIS wheezed and whumped into existence, stirring up the millennia dead, sterile air. After a moment, one of the doors swung open with a tired creaking noise.
"Right, now, Clara Oswald, *the future!*" The Doctor leaped across the threshold, "Of Earth this time, we should be here right after the 3rd lunar war, t... | 13 | Based on this /r/asksciencefiction thread, write a story about the TARDIS landing The Doctor in the throne room of the Emperor of Mankind, circa 40,000 AD | 23 |
"Ah Ha!" yelled Goodguyman. "You think I couldn't find you just because your lair is in the bottom of the ocean! No crime can swim as deep as *justice*!"
Dr. Badguy raised his hands in defeat. "Rats! Just when I was on the verge of completing my Aqua-Animator 3000©, I never thought you would find me in my ocean lair!"... | 11 | Two parties alternate revealing that they have outsmarted the other. | 18 |
James looked up at the ceiling, he stretched and yawned thinking of the day ahead, he was happy. Well, he was until he remembered the lemons. Oh how he loathed lemons.
He sat up and glanced at the chest that was at the bottom of his bed, upon which sat the usual crate of lemons. Reaching over he pushed it off the ches... | 15 | Life keeps giving you lemons. Literally. | 22 |
On the misty knolls around Lochshire Farms, we turkeys gathered to discuss salvation.
Father Boewak, the oldest among us and wise in the ways of things, gathered us in the center of the northern field. A grassy spot far away from where we receive our daily gifts of corn, filled with a light and chilly mist. He made ... | 28 | On a farm, the animals worship humanity as gods. Among the turkeys, being chosen for Thanksgiving dinner is seen as the highest possible honor. Write from the perspective of a male turkey who is jealous of his sister, who has been selected to be slaughtered. | 68 |
There was zero warning. The *World Ship* just appeared in orbit one day. It popped into existence as if it had always been there, we just weren't seeing it. We had no clue what kind of technology could make that possible.
We analyzed the transmission and the only thing our scientists could seem to agree on was that t... | 75 | Earth becomes the battleground for two warring alien races, both of which claim to be humanity's "protectors" | 130 |
It starts the day the United Nations' military arm develops a self-operating tank. The world's remaining population, soldiers and civilians alike, are ecstatic. This new weapon will patrol cities and towns, detecting and eliminating anything that moves without a pulse. It's been too long in coming: no one knows for sur... | 22 | An AI gains sentience after a zombie apocalypse. | 31 |
"I don't really have anything prepared, but that's the way John would have done things, so maybe it's fitting.
I knew John for about four years, and dated him for two or so years, depending on who you ask. In that time I spent with him, he was one of the most fiercely artistic people I ever met. A violent defender of... | 40 | Instead of an open letter to your ex, write your ex's eulogy. Make me love them, but then GLAD they're dead. | 72 |
The circle compleat, the spell cast and the last words whispered, a sharp knife carved a line of nearly black blood from the raised forearm.
As the drops sank into the dirt, a slow mist rose from the circle, the runes glowing a dull scarlet thatmatchedthe boiling sky. A word more, a demand, a flash that was little mo... | 34 | a demon warlock summons a human. | 29 |
"Well man, its been a good run, " I said.
My now mutilated hand can no longer support the weight of my machete. It falls, clanking on the now desolate highway. John turns away from me and walks to the back of our heavily armored Jeep, kicking his way through a pile headless corpses.
"Heh. This bad boy has gotten us ... | 28 | A zombie has just attacked you. You can feel yourself starting to turn. What's going on in your head? What happens next? | 22 |
He sits there on his throne, part of an experiment to test the notion that a benevolent dictator is the most efficient form of government. But he knows it can't last. He's been doing this for the thick end of 50 years, since just after we colonised the moon. He and his 'council' (puppets really, installed to give the p... | 11 | A future dictator close to death watches over a united humanity, how does he plan on keeping his people united after he dies? | 25 |
November 29th, 2013, 1300 hours
Day 562 aboard the ISS, I am now midway through my deployment and have finally achieved the highest level of boredom imaginable.
After repeating my daily routine for the thousandth time, wake up, use the toilet, eat, exercise, examine ship diagnostics, meet with the various other crew... | 67 | An Astronaut in the ISS with nothing to do decides to take LSD. A critical malfunction ensues and an emergency spacewalk must be undertaken. | 148 |
They were right about the pain. It hurt but luckily there wasn't too much blood. They were wrong about sex not changing anything. They tried to tell me that loosing my virginity will not suddenly change how I look at the world, that it won't magically make me consider myself an adult.
And yet as I woke I couldn't help... | 35 | On the morning of the night you lost your virginity you wake up only to find out that you are in your partner's body... | 38 |
He heard her snoring. It was time.
Neil carefully reached across the bed and lightly grabbed Ali’s shoulder. The room was dark, but he could just barely make out her small sleeping figure. He was careful, as silent as his large frame could move on the noisy mattress. If Ali woke up, it was over. Two years of timid an... | 18 | The internal struggle of a guy who REALLY likes being the little spoon, but is afraid of telling his lady. | 17 |
The two-way cold war had been a depressing matter. Mutually assured destruction. No way to win. Thankfully, this had changed when China had developed its own nuclear arsenal. With one simple swoop, the dynamics of the war had changed. Where it had previously been a dull matter of "Don't do anything", a means of winning... | 11 | Different Reality. | 29 |
"Oh my gosh!" Billy cried, turning away.
"Billy! What are you doing in here? You shouldn't be in here." His dad called, slipping out his mother.
"Billy, honey, it's really a very natural thing. It's nothing to be embarrassed about." His mother crooned, removing the leather gag.
"I was thirsty." Billy explained, edgi... | 18 | A dad is forced to explain the birds and the bees to his son after he walks in on dad humping mom. | 15 |
Zombies feed on brains. Everyone knows that. What they didn't tell you was that they would come from the *inside*
I didn't know when it started, but looking back on it I can pinpoint it exactly. It was like the first cold brush of winter against the fringes of my mind, like someone had breathed frost across the lawns ... | 35 | A Zombie Apocalypse in which the zombies are capable of speech | 28 |
“Everything we thought we knew about death changed overnight. It was no longer feared. Can you even imagine what it was like when the news first broke; when you die, you no longer stay dead, you wake up! More than that even, when you wake up you’ll be stronger than an ox! Faster than a bullet! Gravity will no longer ev... | 11 | A world where dying might give you superpowers | 17 |
November 28th,
After hours of engaging with various adult peers, I curiously found myself more intrigued by the children at Watson’s yearly feast. One boy in particular, Arthur, had my interest.
He was a very stout fellow, brave in his conviction toward the other children at the party. When confronted by others th... | 16 | journal entries of Sherlock Holmes sitting at the kids table on Thanksgiving. | 18 |
Ah, there's Jenny. Ok, I'll wave. Hi Jenny. Yeah there's no way that I would ever talk to her. Jenny. *Freakin Jenny,* she's so beautiful. They just don't make girls like her anymore. GOD, she's gorgeous. Ok. Look away. Too late. She caught you staring. *Awkward.*
Ok, work is over. That's great. Five-o-clock, on the ... | 22 | A man is slowly sinking into insanity. Write his inner monologue. | 15 |
Fear. That's what was the last emotion to rush in the clumsy rivers of my blood. Nothing valiant or honourable, just fear. Fear of death. Fear of pain. Fear for myself. I remember, over the thin wail of wind, the sound of men begging for their mothers and for home and for comfort. Men. Fearful, desperate men, torn and ... | 170 | A 19-year old infantryman is gunned down on Normandy. Because of his death in battle, he is conscripted into Odin's army as they await Ragnarok. What's it like for him in the mead hall? | 303 |
There will always be a constant.
I can't even remember when it all began. I don't remember when I was born and I don't recall if I had a name. Sometimes I make up a name for myself but I always forget it again. Of course, a name isn't needed when there is no one else in the universe, but it's nice to have something to... | 279 | You're immortal, and entropy has had it's finally victory. You're alone in the void with nothing but your dreams to keep you company. | 83 |
Ambition.
That's what it used to take to change the world.
That's what people said you needed, ambition and a passion to do good. Of course, these same people conveniently never talk about those that had a passion to do good, but were sorely misguided. Someone like Adolf Hitler had both of those things, ambition and ... | 28 | You are a sociopath in a post apocalyptic environment, describe how you remake society | 34 |
As I jolted awake my eyes focused on the LCD screen on the opposite wall. The numbers were counting down to zero, with just over ten minutes left to go. At each side of the room I could see the newly-awoken faces of my compatriots, all seated on wooden chairs as I was. Four sworn brothers of the rebellion, captured dur... | 13 | (World War Z Inspired) Rebelling Soldiers are put into groups of 4. They Must Pick 1 Soldier in the Group to Execute Another Soldier in the Group or the Whole Group Will Be Executed | 16 |
Bruce punched the steel wall, hard. It resounded through the entire room. Behind was the door the guards had thrown him through; in front, nothing but darkness. Bruce had known about this place ever since he got here. There was no spooky backstory behind it, there will be no lingering thoughts for what it might hold. H... | 46 | Bruce Wayne is sent to Room 101 from 1984... | 50 |
Dean slept more soundly than he had in weeks. The explosions had grown soothing, like some kind of battle-born white noise. They had been dug into the ridge for days now, with no end to the stalemate in sight. He spent the first night lying awake with his eyes closed, just waiting for the one well-aimed shell that woul... | 60 | Describe a chess match as an epic real world battle | 90 |
Ugh, short, rushed, etc, but here ya go:
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
all the creatures were stirring, yes, even a mouse,
the crosses were nailed to the chimney in prayer,
in hopes that the Niklas wouldn't come there.
The childred were huddled in fear in their beds,
lost in visions of ... | 18 | "The Night Before Christmas" if written by H.P. Lovecraft | 41 |
My pulls on the trigger have stopped doing anything. The pistol's slide is locked back. I emptied the entire magazine into her face? Why? I didn't hate her, I just had to do it. I stare at the remnants of her beautiful face for a long time, what seems like hours, before what I'm seeing hits me and I double over. My sto... | 17 | You've just killed the person you love, you have the weapon, you're in their house, what do you do? | 18 |
*Tale as old as time*
"Oh my, what a beautiful day, Lumiere" Belle exclaimed, her words dancing through the cool breeze like silk ribbon.
"Oui, Madame. The perfect day for a wedding! It's only fitting for a bride as beautiful as you!", replied the charming candelabra.
"Oh stop it, Lumiere! You're making me blush... | 28 | Take any Disney princess movie and make it an adult horror story. | 61 |
You. Yeah, you. Back row, fourth from the left. Wearing that Dolce & Gabbana suit that mommy picked out for you. What's your name? Uh huh. Okay. I'm going to tell you straight. You aren't listening to this bullshit speech. You are listening to ME, now.
Look at these slides. What do you see? A rocket. Some test tu... | 90 | Tyler Durden does a college commencement speech at MIT. | 63 |
WWII, from a Canadian perspective:
Ivan was a fucking idiot. I mean that literally: he rode the short bus to school, and he perpetually had his dick out so he could play with it. To call him "special needs" didn't really cover the shallow depths of his "specialness".
So it shouldn't have come as a surprise to us when... | 78 | Take any major conflict in human history, and rewrite it as if it were a fight among students on an elementary school playground. | 69 |
Munna walked slowly immersed in his thoughts through the dusty streets of Dharavi. As the world´s largest slum, one would expect to see people at all hours,most certainly after 8pm when one would hear sounds of clinking utensils and see smoke spewing out of makeshift chimneys as wives started cooking dinner for their h... | 11 | A teenager who decides to become the local superhero in a small town realizes that he has become Public Enemy #1 instead of the hero he planned on becoming, as his actions and words are misinterpreted and misunderstood. Walk me through his thoughts as he realizes why superheroes can't be. | 20 |
A babbling murmur rose in the assembled crowd. Tall and short, fat and thin, they were all scarred and hardened to the same degree, bushy eyebrows drawn over closed off eyes.
One man stood in the dark room, picking his teeth with a flick knife. Another was scratching underneath the filthy rag that covered his missin... | 13 | Minions throw their Dark Master a surprise party | 33 |
Her service tag was 341C-Alpha, a designation meant specifically for what they casually referred to as *metabots*, but Calvin didn't like either of those terms. She was a relic by modern standards, almost a work of art, and while the rest of the facility grew slimmer, faster and more efficient, she just hung around an... | 31 | Computers have become self-aware, but are contributing members of society, and respect humans as their creators. | 39 |
"Is it today?", I asked.
The man looked straight at me with a fierce, cold expression.
"Get up now!"
I stretch my legs and arms. My body feels painful of lying on this small wooden bed for so long. I stand up and the man points towards the open door, where 6 guards are standing with their swords ready.
The st... | 29 | The Fall (Replies MUST be at least 1,000 words or longer) | 65 |
Five rich men sit in a smokey room lit by a powerpoint slide. The current slide's title is a collage of words like 'Statistics' 'Results' and 'Information. The center of the slide is obstructed by the shadow of a sixth man, a nervous man, who knows just how important this meeting is.
"The slides, uh, are pretty straig... | 175 | A world where Criminals are in suspended animation in prison, but their minds are linked to an MMO, such as GTA Online. How the prisoners act in the game / simulation determines when they'll be released. | 196 |
"Mr. Gomilla... it appears we have some... news. It turns out you're a shaved Gorilla." the Doctor said from behind protective plexiglass.
"WHAT!? HOW DARE YOU CALL ME THAT!" I said, launching my cot into the barrier. The doctor flinched, but the plexiglass was undamaged.
"Sir, I don't mean it as an insult... I mean ... | 24 | Visiting your doctor for a routine check-up, you're surprised to learn that you're actually a shaved gorilla. | 37 |
"Hey Doc! I brought you a coffee!" Steve smiled broadly as he handed Dr. Heath a Venti Caffe Mocha with whip and chocolate shavings.
Dr. Heath grimaced as he accepted the drink. "Thanks Steven. I'd have some, but my stomach has been killing me for weeks. I'm afraid this would send me home to the toilet for the day... | 17 | Pick a mental disorder. Everyone in the world except one person has it. | 39 |
I knew it. I fucking knew it. I knew it as soon as he put it in my hand. He forgot the fucking guacamole. Again. Jesus! No, wait, I think it was Juan today. Juan! Juan, you son of a bitch. And I paid for that guacamole, but oooooh no, he forgot it again! You know what, I'm going back. I'm going back and I'm going to ge... | 21 | On instinct, our protagonist decides to open a burrito instead of eating it. What he or she discovers will have profound consequences. | 21 |
Sometimes I jokingly call it *Carbon Imperception*. The doctors, frankly, don't have the faintest fuck what to call it, but the issue itself is fairly simple: I can't see anything that is alive.
The problem started when I was eleven years old. Me and some buddies were screwing around on the swings of the elementary... | 13 | Normal people get to see normal people everyday. The others aren't so lucky. | 19 |
"I remember the day they landed. June 22nd, 1938. The staunch, deadly forces of Russodeutschland finally on Miami Beach, at our very doorstep. The United States were all that stood against the forces of Stalinism, the dictatorial power bloc of major Eurasian powers. I remember it vividly. I was hiding in a church, unde... | 11 | An old man reminisces about a war he fought in an alternate history. | 23 |
"Sir, do you have any idea why I just pulled you over?!", exclaimed the officer as he yanked off his aviators in astonishment.
"Was it because I was driving a hundred and twenty miles per hour in an active school zone where construction was also taking place? Or was it because of the drugs in the glove compartment?",... | 66 | You're a the wittiest person alive. You've just been pulled over for speeding. | 27 |
He sees the ship slow near the bank of the bloated Yangtze, and he knows this may be his one opportunity to save her. Even in the darkness, he knows every rock and path in the shoddy, steep embankment between his village and the river. At the edge of the river, he dons the uniform his cousin had brought back from his t... | 155 | Two kids were born with a single consciousness continents apart. Only one can be awake at a time. | 282 |
Pierre Mercier was the youngest man in the mass grave. He was born, raised, and educated in Paris. When he was twenty-one, America’s second Civil War began. A student of history, Pierre became swept up in the romanticism of the conflict. He began to loathe the government in Washington DC that had become a dictators... | 48 | It's twenty years after the Second American Civil War. How is the country healing? | 26 |
Nancy screamed. Much louder this time.
Tom fumbled with the batteries and finally snapped them in.
"Who wants to go first?" he said. Everyone looked at each other and said nothing, quietly eyeing the ground like students avoiding a teacher's question.
Nancy screamed, melodically this time, grabbing Tom's pant leg an... | 27 | A pregnant woman's waters break in the middle of a party of family and friends, and an argument over who should go to the hospital ensues. | 43 |
Homeless. Nothing in my pockets but lint. I'm living under an overpass, a refrigerator box and a ratty coat all that's between me and the rain.
*push*
I'm on a beach. Why am I on a beach? New/old memories start to creep in as the universe settles around me. I'm on the run. From what? The sun is starting to set and fe... | 12 | A man discovers a way to transmit his consciousness to a version of himself in an alternate universe at any time of his life, but each time he does the previous universe is destroyed. | 24 |
"ISS to Mission Control... Wishing you a Happy New Year down there in Houston!" relayed Mark to begin his daily update to the control center in Texas. "ISS, this is Mission Control, thanks for the wishes, hope you guys had a good celebration up there, but it's not even light here yet, any reason for the early broadcast... | 26 | On the morning of January 1st, 2014, the sun does not rise. | 15 |
"I killed my mother... My siblings. They could have been cured. How can I live with myself anymore? I no longer have any family. Maybe that's what I deserve, to be alone now." Nikolai tangled his fingers in his hair and pulled as he paced back and forth in his bedroom, in the small apartment. It was the middle of the n... | 10 | Zombie apocalypse breaks out in known universe, enthusiasts and those who had prepared go crazy, killing all infected on site. A cure is discovered and all the infected could have been saved. How do people deal with it? | 34 |
"This is Earth Prime. Earth Alpha are you there? Please come in."
"This is Earth Alpha, though we thought we were going to be Earth Prime. Over."
There was an awkward silence. Prime Marcus Bonham, representative of Earth Prime cleared his throat.
"Well we can sort that all out later. Earth Alp-"
"Yes we can."
"I'm... | 91 | Earth is sucked into a parallel universe through a worm hole. There are now two earths in orbit around the sun. Contact between the two planets are established. | 93 |
I first noticed something was wrong when the my Internet connection went down. I was sitting at home, and in an instant it simply cut off. Of course, I didn't think much of it, and I asked my dad if he knew what was going on.
"I'm not sure," he said, "it's been acting up lately and I turned it off. It'll probably be d... | 196 | The entire world has a secret that one man is not allowed to know. | 220 |
He looked out at those gathered. Suddenly, they all seemed weak, helpless, himself included. They had grappled incredible villains, tangled with impossible odds, but this... this was the hardest thing any of them had been through, the one thing they had somehow thought could never happen.
They sat in clear groups: an ... | 17 | The death of a Superhero. If you can, wait until the end to reveal the Superhero. | 23 |
If my mother could see me, she'd be smacking me for rolling my eyes, but thankfully there was an ocean between us. "Yeah mom, yeah. I got it." I nod uselessly into the phone, muttering "yeah" and "uh-huh" until finally I caught her between breaths, "So ma! I got a question! Not sure if you'd remember, but..." I look at... | 31 | I'm visiting/meeting my fiance's parents for the first time and looking through their old family vacation photos, when I realize a familiar face in the background of each. It is mine. | 32 |
***This got way longer than I meant it to. I was just getting to the aliens, but I'm too tired. If anybody likes it I'll keep writing tomorrow.
UPDATE: Ha! This is awesome, thanks everybody who upvoted or commented! I'm working on more now!
UPDATE 2: I'm losing steam! Here's the rest for today. I'll try to add on tom... | 20 | Circa 2200. An alien species has almost conquered the entire galaxy. Only humans, who have five planets, stand in their way. | 21 |
I take it you've felt a gust of wind on your cheek, at some point in your life? I'm thinking, must of been a beautiful summers day just standing around, drinking in the beauty of the world. Must of been real nice. Tell me, you ever felt a gust of wind from a harpoon whistling past your eye? Because I have.
I can't st... | 13 | A video game protagonist of your choice can suddenly hear the person Let's Playing their game halfway through the story. | 25 |
"Just calm down, son, and put the gun away before you do something you regret."
He look at me with kind, blue eyes. Eyes that a father should look at his son with. Slightly weary with age, they were the eyes that should have been there to read me bedtime stories, or look at me with pride when I graduated high school.
... | 34 | A man robs a store and finds his dad is one of the shoppers. | 30 |
"Number four billion, three hundred and four million, eight hundred and twenty two thousand, six hundred and eleven." Yet another number droned out over the immense waiting room.
A greasy man, middle aged, shuffled to his feet somewhere in the rear. Hank was his name. Looking over his file, nothing particularly remark... | 20 | In a world where God takes an active part in human life, and is omnipotent to the point where he can, essentially, grant wishes, people must present their cases for why God should help them regardless of how greedy, necessary, sad, pointless, or evil their requests in a weekly public forum. | 26 |
(This seem like some Sword Art Online stuff right here. This is my first time I ever posted on this sub...feel free to critique me or anything! I would appreciate it a lot.)
"Damn it, help me!" cried Jess as she slashed away the goblin who fell in front of her.
"Uh...I got it!" cried Steve as he pointed his wand lik... | 12 | Four people who have never played an RPG are thrown into a real-life dungeon crawl. | 46 |
Someone had blasted a hole through the bank wall. This was the third time this week. I was getting real tired of this shit.
I stepped through the rubble. No bodies. That was nice, it meant less paperwork. You do this job for forty years and you'll learn to hate paperwork. They probably had hostages though. Bank robber... | 13 | You are a disgruntled super hero who hates his job | 17 |
It takes all your poise to keep from joining Larry again in the bathroom. By now the toilet, the bathtub and the kitchen sink reek. His retching echoes through the apartment as you're sitting on the hard lumpy futon with Mop Head, whose own mother calls him that, smoking the strongest pot you've got left to help ease t... | 171 | You and your cohorts have pulled off your heist as planned. Later, in your hideout, you see TV reports that the payload you hijacked is lethally radioactive | 242 |
I stayed in bed, watching the ceiling fan spin lazily. Last night was a nice break from a long streak of restless, anxiety ridden nights. I had slept unusually well. Work had been rough recently and it had been affecting me at home. I patted my sleeping girlfriend's shoulder. Perhaps things were looking up.
On the nig... | 42 | You leave a voice recorder on all night while you sleep... | 35 |
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Inter-Stellar Scouting Construct E79 could not feel the cold. Sensors indicated temperatures of well below zero and hurricane-strength winds but it had been built to withstand the most extreme conditions. Sensors did not indicate any sign of life. Since its pod had landed on this planet all the Scout had seen was white... | 20 | The year 17025... | 24 |
"Hel—" Barry couldn't finish for the sand in his mouth. Spitting it out, he ventured another try: "Hello?"
The reply was immediate. "Oh, now you wake up. It's about damn time." The voice sounded familiar, but Barry couldn't quite put his finger on where he'd heard it before.
"Do—do I know you?" He couldn't move any ... | 48 | You wake up blindfolded next to three strangers in the middle of the desert, you are all buried in the sand up to your head. The three of you try to remember what happened. | 66 |
"In the midst of all the signals and broadcasts that get sent into space.... this... This is what got their attention. This is the reason they are here." said Johnson as he finally deciphered their cryptic language.
"What is it?" Marx said with a hoarse and grave voice. "It's ...It's bad ....Isn't it"
"They want mor... | 29 | including first contact. | 46 |
Superman is well, pretty much God. Batman is the world's greatest detective and has all the toys and gadgets that a man can want. The only guy that beats Batman in that department is Iron Man. It's too bad Iron Man is just a comic book character.
What's my power? I have a healing factor that's on steroids.
People... | 14 | You have THE most useless superpower. Write about a day in your failed/hilarious/successful/ludicrous attempts at heroism | 15 |
The plate slid in front of me, stopping just short of the edge.
"May you rot in hell," came the gruff voice of the cook while delivering my final meal -- with a free helping of snark.
I didn't answer. His life is hell here anyway. The whole damn system is shot to hell. Ain't one of the people workin' that ain't a pro... | 17 | You're a death row inmate, and its time for your last meal. | 16 |
I got the call on March 23rd, 2015. My assistant Maureen rang me while I was on the interstate. I still remember the conversation.
"Kevin, you're going to want to get to head office. They're in the switch room now."
"Jesus fucking christ. I'm a good half hour out of Langley."
"I'll take care of the patrol cops, you ... | 27 | They throw the internet-kill-switch. It's off. Forever. | 24 |
In the back of the pantry sat a jar of Jif Peanut Butter and Whelch's Grape Jelly. They took the place of many jars before them. A new jar of one replaced an old jar of the new, as it was always done in the Johnson household. But now, the jars were replaced a little less frequently than they used to be. As the kids gre... | 16 | Peanut butter and Jelly are having a debate over which of them is more important in a PB&J. | 16 |
Melvin's eyes popped open instantly, with that possibly audible click that you only hear with the best blinks. Today was going to be amazing. He woke before his alarm - but that was usual in the routine.
Yeah, he had work today. Same job, same place he'd been for ten years. He was checking circuits for fault in alarm ... | 162 | after April 14th, all electronic clocks and calendars turn straight to April 16th. A full 24 hours is missing from the collective human memory. | 158 |
“I hope you understand, these tours are merely a formality, we’ve always been very happy with your work,” Roberts said as he checked away at his clipboard.
Mr. Kringle smiled widely behind a cloud of sweet smelling pipe smoke. “Of course, of course. I trust that everything is in order?”
Roberts smiled back. The trut... | 26 | You have been invited to take a tour of "Santa's Workshop." However, it is nothing like the stories you were told... | 30 |
"I've looked out for number one for a while now. I haven't been a hero for even longer, and every time I tried, I've ended up worse. I tried saving people, you know, people in burning buildings and such. They said I didn't do enough. I tried killing Drug dealers and gang members, but they said I was too brutal. That th... | 11 | "How much of a hero are you, if all you've managed to save is yourself?" | 19 |
"Hon, it's your turn." I muttered as our daughter's shrill cries filled our room." My wife didn't respond, so I pushed myself up on one elbow. She was sleeping soundly, oddly enough. Normally it didn't matter how sleep deprived she was, she was always the first one awake.
"Hush now, little one, shhh. It's alright." Th... | 12 | You are awaken in the middle of the night by the sound of your baby crying on the baby monitor when you hear an unfamiliar voice saying "It's alright..." in your child's room. | 22 |
*Why?* I thought to myself yet again. Three times. Three wives. What is wrong with me? Well, murder-suicide seems to work generally. I put Samantha’s body in the car, and went back inside. I wrote a suicide note, detailing how sorry I was. In reality, I wasn’t sorry. That bitch deserved to die, after going and cheating... | 18 | Faking Your Demise (replies must be 1,000 words or more) | 20 |
"Timothy Granger, age fifteen, convicted of first degree murder of classmate Argus Vellows. How do you plead?"
"Guilty."
"May the court ask for reasoning?"
"Why of course. It's been three long years of living in this old town. Each day struck a deep seated anger that I've held back ever so well. You see, Argus wasn'... | 22 | A madman's monologue when, in the courtroom, he is asked why he did it. | 24 |
He sat there at his lab bench staring at the round disk. His head pounded from the hours he spent trying to figure out and comb over every possibility of what this thing was. On one side the disk featured strange hieroglyphics, on the other is was colored like a rainbow during the red sun's rise. All of the other histo... | 40 | The last human went extinct 50 million years ago. Write about one of the intelligences that followed us finding a relic of our civilization, preserved perfectly. | 21 |
"No soliciters!" I shouted for the third time, pointing at the sign on my door written in unambiguous capital letters.
The Bristleheads shuffled from one foot to another awkwardly, their spiny hair like twigs rustling with the movement. "The truth of the Universal Savior is accepted universally," the one on the left d... | 51 | Without warning, aliens invade Earth. They promptly begin going door to door introducing their religion. | 59 |
Six whole blocks later, and Davey's still behind me. Every time I turn around he stops and gives me a little smile. "You're fucking dead, kid" he shouts at me. I keep walking. I don't know what he's waiting for, I'm already almost at my building. I slip my cell phone out of my pocket and turn it on, being careful to ke... | 129 | A boy's bully follows him home, only to encounter the boy's sociopath brother. | 224 |
In the time that it took to jump, the twitch he felt in his knee disappeared, free from pressure and gravity save the wind and the weight of his own body as it plummeted. The air broke against his cheek, the most frightening part of it, the least natural part of an everyday existence, air coursing past the skull first ... | 15 | Courage. 500 words | 21 |
"So what does it do exactly?"
"It's a bowl, with one large central depression for chips or vegetables, and six smaller outer bowls for dips."
"OK... OK... you missed me on the last slide though."
"The last slide?"
"The one about the... capsule or something?"
"Oh yes, you'll love this. Underneath the bowl, there's... | 27 | You're the head of an evil corporation, planning to take over the world. Give me your sales pitch. | 37 |
The light was finally back. It'd been so long since I'd seen it. So beautiful it was, a shinning orange mixed with blue that light up the room like none of the other stars. It only came about once every quadrillion years, but I knew that light better than all the rest. No matter how many times I'd pondered over it in m... | 10 | Your character celebrates his/her googolplexth birthday. | 17 |
Time to go again. George shivered. He did every time he sat in the chair. Maybe it was the power. Maybe the nerves. Maybe the fear.
Time travel was never simple. Limiting himself to once per year, for fear of altering the continuum, George was nonetheless excited. It was always interesting. He always learned. But only... | 19 | You travel back in time only to discover that the past was a futuristic dystopian society that collapsed and we still didn't find out about it. | 34 |
He'd been caught. It wasn't the first time, but it still surprised him when a child wasn't asleep when he came to do his annual duty.
In hindsight, it should have been the first warning sign.
"Shouldn't you be asleep, little one? It's only a few hours from the morning," He rumbled in his gentle basso. The child peeks... | 146 | Whilst delivering gifts on Christmas Eve, Santa Clause accidentally stumbles across something horrible happening in a house. He then promptly rolls up his sleeves, and dishes out a well-deserved festive helping of righteous ass-kicking. | 176 |
Once I believed that good lingered somewhere in the hearts of all men, now I am not so sure. We are a free people once more, but we have nowhere to return. My parents are arguing over what to do now: neither of them really have any ideas. My whole family is split up, I don't know if I'll ever see most of them again. We... | 79 | Hitler finds out that zombies have taken over Russia and surrounding countries. Write from the prospective of Anne Frank after Hitler decides to free the Jews from camps. | 111 |
They don't know what it's like. Nobody knows what it's like. Every single day I step outside and receive those looks from everybody. Those looks of fear, hate, and pure ignorance. They think I'm a monster, and I certainly look the part as well. I'm over six feet tall, weighing in at a whopping 223 pounds of near perfec... | 12 | The town thinks you are a bully, prove them wrong. | 19 |
*/Blog Entry/*
Internet,
Its been a while.
I think the last time I wrote an entry was six weeks ago and my inbox has been flooded with concern, as a brief overview I am very much alive.
I want to start by remarking on a particular trait of the human race, we assign meaning to everything even things that need no add... | 12 | A person sits in front of a coffee table. On it are two items, one makes them happy and the other sad. | 20 |
[Death]
Tom Arvenus step up to the gates,
Your final decision currently awaits,
If it's in heaven you're bound to dwell,
Or eternally damned to burn in hell.
[God]
Well hello Tom you've led a good life,
One offspring and a beautiful wife,
You managed to visit church each week,
Your ... | 26 | God and Satan argue who harbors a person that has recently passed away, but has done the same amount of good and bad deeds in his/her life. | 20 |
You choose your future, you create it by your decisions, you don't know what you're making, but somewhere along the line it comes into shape. It can be a terrible thing that you've made, or something great, for many people it's something ordinary, a couple of kids and good life to give them, sometimes it is something b... | 102 | by killing his own parents. | 258 |
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