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[WP] A curiosity shop opens up where you can rent superpowers, magical abilities, mystical artifacts, and mad science technology. The catch? Payments are made with abstract concepts. Life, memories, etc. | *I wrote this a few years back. I don't know if this is cheating as it's old, but I've always liked this one:*
It's September, and the carnival has wandered through the town once again. The tents had sprung up overnight, the large flickering signs read descriptions of the fantastic. An elderly couple walks around, mus... | "What do you mean, no refunds?! I want to get laid!"
The crone looked at me, and snorted. That witch fucking *snorted.* "You can still *technically* get 'laid.' You just need to... *rise* to the occasion."
I felt my face flood with color. I was an immensely powerful wizard, but I was ugly as sin--balding, overweight,... | 2015-09-25T11:50:22 | 2015-09-25T11:22:10 | 58 | 26 |
[WP] As a young wizard you uncovered an old spell that resurrects one of your eldest ancestor. You do so in curiosity, only to face one of the most feared creature the world ever experienced thousands of years ago. The creature recognizes you as its descendant while you stare at it in disbelief. | "Raise the dead," they said, "It'll be fun,' they said.
Ok, they never said that. The one thing they did say was never to experiment with necromancy. Surely, resurrection didn't count though, right? That's animating skeletons and liches and stuff. This should be a positive thing, at any rate.
I guess it helps to know... | I just stood there, mouth a gape, staring with unbelieving eyes at the creature before me. It was as massive as it was terrifying, being 6 foot tall myself, it was easily twice my size. It had dark grey skin, almost like that of a rhino or elephant, but for all it's size it's head seemed almost disproportionately sma... | 2022-12-31T14:34:19 | 2022-12-31T12:20:41 | 25 | 16 |
[WP]2000 years from now, history is misunderstood and retold as a series of myths where nations are represented as individual gods,citizens as worshipers and corporations and NGOs as demons/angels(lesser gods).Chronicle current world crises in the style of ancient myths.
-Global warming
-colonization
-World wars
-c... | "FINETHING NO GROPEYGROPE!" shrilled the elder with clear alarm his voice.
The boy hesitated, his arms outstretched, frozen in the act of uncovering his newfound treasure. "Whyso, olfuk? I crib takes!"
Horrified, the elder slapped him on the head and pulled him back. "Why aways sleep you wikitime?! Dems badbad from w... | They say he started as a prodigy, but was turned into an outcast. The jealous King Zar took notice of his talent and his charisma, and could not dare stand have any competitors! He arrested mightly Len, but found that even the harshest prison could not break Len's spirit. So the cruel despot exiled Len from his homelan... | 2015-03-12T13:54:38 | 2015-03-12T11:15:23 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | "Tell me what you consumed. Again."
Vrax felt the voice reverberating in his mind, rattling his thoughts like a sieve sifting sand. He tried to clear his head and catch his breath. He couldn't. The voice had never been this deep before.
"Tell me." It pressed against his thoughts. "Again."
"I-- I told you. It wa... | I stared out across the vast city of sleeping humans, baffled by what I was seeing.
A giant human, elderly, balding and in a cloak that obscured how others perceived him, and what appeared to be a trumpet that he kept blowing in the windows of humans who were sleeping.
I was reporting what I was seeing when more of t... | 2022-09-06T20:15:52 | 2022-09-06T15:01:10 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | I slowly open my eyes. Letting go of the doorknob behind my back realizing the killing blow isn’t coming. I manage to trickle out a feeble response.
“I, uh, what?”
The figure in front of me, whose body language now resembles a concerned citizen more than the killer entity that had been pursing my girlfriend and I fo... | "What?"
"I asked if you're okay, what with that sunnuvabitch just leaving you out here to the hands of a murderer."
My chest heaves as I gulp in as much air as I could. Everything felt hazy, and I couldn't even point my finger as to where the hell am I. All I knew was that Francis just shut the door on my face, and n... | 2020-10-10T11:58:42 | 2020-10-10T11:29:05 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] After entering your PIN the ATM screen reads, "You cannot use this while in combat." | “...Combat?”
A sudden pain came over from the back of my head. Blunt force. I turned to see... what was distinctly not a robber.
“Hurry up, will you?” the little old lady said, her handbag swinging from her fist.
“Jesus Christ, woman, give me longer than three seconds! This thing-.”
Another whack. What the hell d... | "You cannot use this while in combat" read the ATM. I stared down confused - then it all swept over me like goosebumps, my heart was beating itself to death like it was desperately trying to break open my sternum and run. At second glance the ATM at returned back to my weapon, the explosions, the ringing in my ear, the... | 2016-11-21T15:59:54 | 2016-11-21T11:31:24 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | "The last 5 months have been really hard for us. The Daily Planet only made Clark a junior reporter as a feel good story but they had to stop letting him in when they caught him using his "x-ray vision" in the women's bathroom.
I love Clark and I want the best for him but I can't help to wonder what my life could be ... | The elevator was silent. Five bodies, three cups of coffee and two folder news papers rode upwards at a slow pace.
Lois Lane let out a half sob. Two hands, one from either side, reached out to offer what comfort they could in the confines of the small metal box. Words were dangerous here where his ears might hear.
Th... | 2016-03-04T09:43:03 | 2016-03-04T09:37:54 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are an incredibly powerful villain that loses to each new hero on purpose, as deep down, you aren’t evil. After your recent “defeat”, the peasant healer in this hero’s party noticed you had been holding back. | I sat in the cell they had put me in, and thought back on the group who had "captured" me They had potential, I could see it, but...they would never reach it currently.
"Prisoner 5 you have a visitor." The guard's voice pulled me out of my thoughts, "Try to behave."
I looked and saw a familiar face. The healer of th... | *huff... puff...* "You win, hero... but I will recover... and will continue my plans... for now, here's your reward..."
"NOT SO FAST!" The healer of the group causes everyone to freeze at this point, with those words. He stares directly at me. "You weren't using your full strength, were you?"
"What are you talking ab... | 2022-09-04T19:50:05 | 2022-09-04T14:52:12 | 269 | 81 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | I turn 140 years old in 3 minutes. You'd think it would be a happy day for me, but it just reminds me of my loss. My kids have long since passed away and even most of their kids no longer remain. Yet here I sit, still alive despite years of drinking cheap scotch daily and having the occasional cigar.
Two minutes no... | I smiled faintly as I gazed out from my perch on my usual bench, admiring the city. It was a Sunday, the air thick with humidity but free from the sounds of traffic. There had been a celebration in honor of my one hundred twenty-fifth birthday the day before, full of great grandchildren and reporters. Thirty years ago ... | 2018-06-23T12:10:29 | 2018-06-23T11:18:16 | 153 | 47 |
[WP] In 50 words or fewer, write a story with a twist ending. | "Vodka. Neat.” I grumbled in the bartender’s direction.
Today was a disaster. My mind had decided that a strong drink tonight would help me prepare for a better tomorrow.
And then a glass was set in front of me. I stared hopelessly at the curled lemon rind garnishing my drink. | I visited my dying mother. I asked how she was doing, and she told me she'd never felt better. I asked her what her doctors said and she said that she was healthy as a woman half her age.
I guess I was the only one who knew she was dying. | 2014-07-27T22:17:26 | 2014-07-27T22:08:06 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Create a character who is a paragon of virtue, kind and good and all round awesome. Make me hate this character. | Tall. Dark. Handsome. Polite. Talented. Not to mention a brilliant disposition and a stunning countenance.
The sort of man that women dream about, the one that drives envy into the roots of men.
What does he do? Everything. How does he do it? Well, *incredibly* well.
He'll donate a small fortune (small to him, large... | She was always so happy, blissful, kind.
Even when I wasn't.
We sharply disagreed on many things, but she never held my beliefs against me.
I never saw her being negative or rude. Hell, I never even saw her frown until she started talking about GMOs and animal abuse. She donated, volunteered, and gave me no reaso... | 2014-06-27T09:33:10 | 2014-06-27T08:52:58 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | "So, you want my firstborn. The first child I carried and bore. The one over there. That's the price? I give him to you, and I get wealth and power?"
"YES."
"And what happens to him afterwards is none of my business or concern?"
"YES"
"Deal. Do I need to sign something?"
"BEHOLD. SIGN HERE. AT THE TERMINUS. ... | I was shocked when I found out that yes, demons were exactly that stupid. They were so keen on making deals, they forgot to use their brains.
And thank god for that, because otherwise, Earth would have been screwed.
After the whole prophecy shenanigans, I was trying to get rid of that growing lump of cells inside my... | 2022-08-31T20:13:58 | 2022-08-31T19:52:37 | 134 | 88 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | I knew it was wrong, but it was so hard not to. I still loved Julia, but she didn't feel the same. Of course I couldn't force her to change her mind, but this has been my only chance of winning her back.
The first time we switched was scary but fun. We were still together though. The first switch after we split, I ha... | As important as it was, the proposal was a brief break from what had been bugging me all night. Does she remember the promise I made that drunken night, the only way I could think to break the spell. The whole day the topic had been avoided and I cant help but think I would like to put it off forever.
I nuzzled into t... | 2019-12-15T13:26:14 | 2019-12-15T12:30:08 | 47 | 26 |
[WP] A genie is about to concede you your second wish, but a paradox created by your first one prevents him from doing so. | “Aha…I see…” The genie said, ponderously.
“Is there a problem?” I asked. “I thought you could do anything I want.”
“Yes, no…” The genie answered my questions. “That is to say…” she kept going. “Yes, there is a problem. And no I can’t do anything you want.”
“But you’re a genie…”
“Quite right…”
“So wh... | "What do you mean, you can't do it?" I snapped.
The genie looked back at me calmly, a half-smirk playing across her black lips. "The nature of the first wish precludes me from completing the second." She replied, serene as a cat. Her green eyes, pupil-less and faintly luminous, crinkled at the edges as her smile grew... | 2014-07-07T07:48:10 | 2014-07-07T07:17:10 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] 100 years in the future dank memes are precious artifacts. While scanning your grandpa's PC, you stumble upon the rarest of all... | My grand parents didn't really have a great understand of technology in their old age, like most people's. So when he asked me to have a look at his computer because it was a big sluggish I told him it wasn't a problem.
I did notice when I was checking or any bloat ware I noticed that he had a folder dedicated to meme... | I've heard of the stories of course, lucky people who found dank memes. So I went searching on my grandpa's PC and I struck gold. On the desktop of the slow, stuttering computer there was an MP3 file titled 'Do a Barrel Roll'. I would be rich! I could sell this to the highest bidder, but first I would listen to this gr... | 2015-12-12T10:01:54 | 2015-12-12T09:29:50 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I will not do it on a train
I will not do it on a plane
I will not do it in a house
I will not use a single mouse
I will not dangle from a cord
I will not shift a single board
I will not puddle on the floor
I will not seal a single door
I will not leave a single note
I will not hint in things I wrote
I will n... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T11:47:28 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 42 | 15 |
[WP] The year is 2022. A virus has wiped out everyone over the age of 60, decimating world governments and and the mighty 1%. Generation X is too relieved from the constant badgering of their parents to rebuild society. It's up to the Millennials to put the world back together. | It was 2022 and the world as we well knew it had just been decimated by something unspeakable. All we knew is it seemed to have some sort of age factor, maybe it was the weaker immune system, but anyone 60 and up was dead. Yes this meant family, friends, presidents, and especially that racist old lady from Walmart. I h... | Cindy peered over towards Jacob, fumbling with the mechanical contraption in her hands. Just when she thought she had it, the object inexplicably slipped through her fingers and went flying half-way across the room. She threw up her hands in exasperation and slumped backwards.
"Just how the hell are you supposed to op... | 2019-07-26T06:43:57 | 2019-07-26T06:28:00 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] One day you wake up with 30 dollars and a note that says “For Rent”. The thing is you aren’t renting out the place. The next day you see a spider and right before you kill it you hear it say, “Please i paid my rent don’t kill me”. | "OY HANG ON MATE I FUCKIN PAID MY RENT!" A tiny deep voice suddenly echoes through my room as I was about to grab a bug zapper.
"Who goes there?" I asked scanning my room.
"Down here ya oversized cunt, do you have a memory of a bloody goldfish or something?" The voice appeared again.
I slowly looked down and only sa... | "Don't tell me," I told the spider with a sigh, "Your name is Charlotte. And this is your web." I gestured to the web that I had referenced. The spider seemed to shake its head, although it could have been a trick of the light. I started to worry that this moment may have been all of my college days catching up to ... | 2021-02-18T19:18:41 | 2021-02-18T18:42:20 | 275 | 167 |
[WP] The first mate mutinied against the captain's tyranny. But it turned out that the first mate sucked, so the second mate mutinied against him. The second mate is a terrible leader too, and the third mate promises the crew he'll be better. As the fourth mate, this trend is starting to worry you. | They say culture starts at the top, but why does the top never spare any thought for the bottom?
The mutinies started two months ago. The first time, everyone was able to forgive. It made sense. We were becalmed, adrift amid the Sunless Sea where the world is madness and disaster and the sirens can’t sing in tune. A s... | How many captains could a crew go through in a month? If you asked me that question a month ago, I would have told you one at most, but somehow, we have gone through ten in the past four weeks. TEN BLOODY CAPTAINS! Forced each captain to walk the plank and meet their grim fate at Davy Jones’ locker. I give it three mor... | 2021-11-30T21:29:53 | 2021-11-30T20:30:29 | 131 | 73 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | Jesus landed somewhere out in the desert. The first place he found was Vegas. It didn't take long to prove himself. Turning water to wine, walking on water, walking on water while turning it into wine until he fell in.
His entrance was so calm, and he took to the current world so quickly that anyone hardly made a fuss... | “Surprised to see me, uncle?”
The heir to the silver city shook his head at me,
“No, I believe it’s always opportune to converse with family, regardless of stance.”
I scoffed,
“Please, we’re apart of a large war that will only end in the destruction of this world.”
Jesus nodded his head, his locks swishing in ... | 2020-02-02T16:50:40 | 2020-02-02T15:57:36 | 972 | 76 |
[WP] “Oh no, a gun, my only weakness” says the villain, as he proceeds to jump of the top of the building you’re in. He falls to the floor but somehow survives. Turns out that yes, a gun is literally his ONLY weakness. | 'That's far enough, you piece of shit.' I said, aiming the pistol at him. Nakamoto went pale. Funny; all those genetic enhancements, and he's afraid of a gun.
'N-No.. My only weakness!' the wind quieting his voice.
I'll admit it, I laughed.
'I'm going to enjoy this.' I smiled, firing a round into the ground beneath ... | I turn the corner and, there he is, the perp, the guy I've been hunting all these long months.
Drawing my trusty sidearm, I shout, "Freeze! Police! Get on the ground!"
The perp turns, and, seeing my weapon, shrieks "Oh no, a gun, my only weakness!" and then...jumps? Straight up, through the ceiling.
"Whut the...?" I... | 2019-04-12T16:52:00 | 2019-04-12T15:33:56 | 80 | 41 |
[WP] When your child came in begging to keep the puppy they found, you almost said yes until you looked into it's red eyes. Six of them. On three heads. Cerberus? | "There must have been a mistake, Mr... ?" I swallowed my tea, wincing as it goes down. This was the most difficult drink I'd had to make in my life.
"Indeed, it does seem like a difficult tea. Let's not make this more stressful than it needs to be." The black-coated man set his beverage on the table and looked straigh... | “Father damnit Magni!” Thor grumbled as he went to pull up his old phone book.
“Dad c’mon he’s so cuuuuuuute”
“You can go play with Fafnir! Anubis, no he’s from Egypt. Where is Greece?”
“But Fafnir is so mean!”
“We have two very loving goats. Here it is.”
*Ring ring ring*
“THOR! HAVE YOU SEEN CERBERUS! I HAD... | 2020-12-28T20:01:52 | 2020-12-28T19:20:29 | 41 | 15 |
[WP]”It’s OK honey, you can come out now,” Daddy was saying. His blue eyes shone at me through the closet, “I triple-checked for any monsters, and it’s OK! You don’t have to be scared! Come out please?” It didn’t change the fact, though, that my daddy’s eyes are green. | "Honey? I'm opening the closet door now ok..."
I felt some resistance as I tugged on the handle. If I overpower her though it wasn't going to solve the problem.
"Sweetheart it's late. I'll get mad if you stay up past bedtime. I have a great story for you today."
A muffled voice came from behind the door. "Abou... | First time ever making a story so here goes nothing. I'm open to criticism and constructive feedback :)
Everyone told me they didn't exist. That they were just some figment of my imagination, but I saw them.
Monsters, demons, spirits, whatever they were called would dart around in my peripheral. They took the
form of... | 2018-11-25T02:01:26 | 2018-11-25T01:25:05 | 110 | 11 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The room is exactly as I recall it, to the most precise detail, but this is not my home. These walls, bookshelf, the leather couch, this is a shroud pulled over something far more malevolent. Then voices, I hear them coming from the basement, they whisper “he knows.” I look to the living room window, into the night. A ... | They called it *Being Awake*.
We called it *Redundant*.
It was the same every morning when they awoke. Silence followed by sudden movements and chilled screams of joy. Like chalk whistling against the grain of a blackboard. And it was prison.
But this was voluntary. We made this. Cathleen mostly, but she often remin... | 2015-06-09T09:54:42 | 2015-06-09T08:18:50 | 95 | 28 |
[WP] Enthralled with your magical studies, you only leave your retreat every 10 days to buy supplies from a nearby town. However, you've become something of a legend. The mystical hermit who arrives every 10 years without having aged a day. | I yawn and stretch a bit. That was a good season but the body needs what the body needs...
I look in dismay at my little heaven. I've enchanted it long ago to look like a rundown hut on the outside but within lay all the comforts a wizard could need... the fact that it's now littered with heaps of dirty clothes, dir... | They all gathered to see legendary "Leonardo The Powerful" coming into town, some hoping that this near god-like being would gift them knowledge, whilst some prepared their swords for fame and glory.
In truth, he'd wandered into the crowd about an hour earlier dressed as a beggar, right under everyones nose, and had ... | 2018-07-19T07:28:27 | 2018-07-19T03:55:50 | 40 | 14 |
[WP]A teddy bear that you think protects you, imaginatively. One night, you noticed a dark figure in your room. It jumped on you, and realized that it blocked a sword aimed at you. Your trusty teddy bear has been trying to kill you every night, and creatures of the dark has been protecting you. | Mr Bumbles had been by my side ever since I was a child, a gift from my beloved uncle that he said he had sewn himself. Before my father died, he had told me that every ruler in our family had a protector who would appear in our times of direst need. When uncle told me that bear would take care of me, it immediately br... | Teddy lost his eyes when I was six. They're just small black holes now. I don't put my fingers in there to poke around and see what's inside him anymore. I was looking for his eyes but I think they were in the laundry. Mom never found them. She died when I was ten.
After that, there was nobody to stitch Teddy up anym... | 2019-09-23T13:06:12 | 2019-09-23T12:58:33 | 218 | 66 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | I've been doing this for years, now... and I've never really "Freddy Kruger"d anybody. It's crossed my mind, of course. I've even put the fear into some people, but I always end on a sunny note. I guess I'm just not a mean guy.
Initially, I visited the dreams of people I knew. Handed out fun stuff, had some good t... | ######[](/dropcap)
When I first realized I was having the same enjoyable dream frequently, I thought it was my subconscious crying out for more adventure in life. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop feeling the wind rush through my hair and hearing the roaring in my ears as I jumped a hundred yards at a time. It became exp... | 2018-06-19T15:04:02 | 2018-06-19T13:21:05 | 1,738 | 99 |
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