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Meatspace-Interrogation Specialist First Class Delta Kosovo Poseidon stepped in through the door of the Factfinding Bureau confer room. He shut the manual-hinging door behind him in a smooth move that he'd practised for hours on a real door in a real building. Most people were more used to virtual space than realspace ... | 48 | A man is being kept in interrogation an assassination that happened 100 years ago. He looks identical to the photographs of the assassin so his captors assume a connection. Unbenknownst to them, the man is immortal and troubled that they were still bitter about the whole thing. | 45 |
"Welcome, my friend...to HELL!"
They always have the same look on their faces. It's a mixture of surprise, horror, and shame. It's the moment they realize they didn't live the life they thought they did.
Or so they think.
The woman before me is young, perhaps 30. She crosses her arms and tries not to make eye contac... | 54 | Hell is the place where all the good people are going. Heaven is for the sinners. The old writers got that thing mixed up. You are the one who greets all new inhabitants in Hell. And it is not easy to work against that prejudice. | 113 |
“Mr. Hammond?” The voice on the other end was breathless, panting with excitement “Mr. Hammond? Is that you?”
“Um…yeah?” Dez Hammond stumbled into the kitchen, a scruffy figure in boxer shorts and a stained T-shirt. The second sentence was lost in a yawn like a low-flying jet.
“It’s wonderful to speak to you Mr. Hamm... | 228 | You finally caved and ordered one of those necklaces that shows the position of the planets from when you were born. Three weeks later you receive your necklace, which seems to show the planets all together in a straight line. Inside the box is a handwritten note saying, "CALL US IMMEDIATELY." | 689 |
"You mean to tell me you've been doing this for weeks?! And not *once* did you actually open any of the books you touched?!"
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Kylie stood still, hands folded in front of her, head down in shame. "Well, It's just that, I didn't need to open them."
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Mrs.McCannon, the School's librarian, made a... | 68 | You have the ability to learn & memorize all the contents of a book by touching it. So, you spend a lot of time in libraries, stockpiling knowledge. You just learned something incredible from a book, but after opening it, you see that the pages are all blank. | 176 |
Someone would die.
Falla could see not see a way to prevent it. Hours she had wandered through the frozen moment, inspecting the battle from all angles in hopes of a strike of brilliance. It did not come, and all she was left with was the rumbling certainty of her own limitations. She could stop time, but she could no... | 80 | You are capable of stopping time. Your timestop is unlimited and time will only move once you decide it can move. However, you don't like to keep it frozen for so long because after a while you hear creepy demonic voices... Sometimes you feel like someone is watching you in stopped time... | 318 |
A titanic destroyer circled the small planet, periodically flashing signals to the smaller ships that flittered around it like remora eels clinging to a particularly unkempt shark.
Aran, Commander of the Daxin Empire's Invasionary Force rested a sharp talon on the cool side of the glass. His dark eyes stared down at t... | 19 | Jesus was crucified and Earth became unprotected. An alien empire tried to finally conquer our planet, but then He resurrected. To us, Messiah means "savior". To those aliens, it means "destroyer". For 40 days, He was not f*cking around... | 110 |
God stood, hands on hips, staring at the stack of papers taller than the man that set them on his desk. Every page entirely covered in tally marks with a total in the bottom right corner. It is meticulous. Every page is front and back covered. Most importantly, it is correct. God's normally boisterous all knowing and p... | 36 | Immortals are given a blatantly impossible task to occupy their time for eternity. Today someone has just completed their task. | 45 |
Pah! Of course that scallywag had manufactured a reason to delay our gentlemanly fight to the death. Zombies! What a silly excuse, and no doubt made up so that he would have time to change his urine-stained pantaloons. Surely he was now quaking in fear as he walked toward my location, toward *me*, the bringer of his de... | 23 | A gentlemanly duel to the death is postponed on account of zombies. Posh British accents, stiff upper lips and outrageous bragging ensue. | 41 |
In Tier Two, things are different.
There's all kinds of theories as to how it all works, and let me tell you, I suspect a lot of it is bullshit. In life I was a physicist and an agnostic, and I've seen some strange stuff in my time. Quantum mechanics are *strange*.
You don't come out of a womb in Tier Two. No, inste... | 471 | Everyone who dies reincarnates in Tier 2 universe. People there have all memories from the previous lives, and they suspect there are more Tiers. People live really differently there compared to Tier 1. | 1,568 |
(I apparently saw the same meme you did OP, because I came here to write this exact prompt. Glad I checked beforehand though, because now I get to add my own story to the pile. Ahem, ahem)
"Oh hear me, anguished spirit from beyond the fickle veil of mortality, hear me and answer my call. I ask of you but one thing, an... | 125 | You are an English peasant from the Middle Ages, whose ghost can't pass on until the monarchy falls. You're really annoyed when two teenager girls contact you through a Ouija to ask for your advice regarding boy trouble, but you end up getting a little too invested into their lives. | 1,011 |
"We're really going to be doing this again, are we?" I looked over to my wife, Ilga, a stunning alien beauty whom I loved more than life itself. However, she would go onto her forums where her gal friends were, and find something about Earth's history that she just couldn't drop. She had access to answers right from th... | 42 | a horse with a horn or a leopard-moose-camel with a 40 foot neck?!" | 255 |
The bell tolls once, twice, thrice,
From the grip of sleep I'm torn.
My eyes search dark for hint of dawn
But only black greats me this morn.
I slide my slacks and dress shirt on,
like armor for the coming strife,
then drown my pain in coffee bliss,
a steaming cup of life.
I brush my teeth to purge myself
fro... | 20 | Describe your usual Monday morning as epic as humanly possible | 21 |
MAUREEN - CUSTOMER RELATIONS
"Hello my name is Maureen from Customer Relations *howcanihelpyoutoday*?"
I already knew exactly how I could help this little girl. She peered up to me from behind the processing counter, wearing some kind of mash-up between a dress and a mass of candy floss, flanked by her parents. Her m... | 552 | the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes. | 727 |
An electric arm picked up a teddy bear and placed it neatly on the corner of a bed. The arm slowly retracted itself back into the wall with the screech of several servo motors. Above the arm a screen lit up and a face appeared.
"Hi friend, I'm Lunor," said the face. "How are you?"
The teddy bear sat there quietly.
... | 118 | The story of an Immortal who doesn't want to die | 81 |
“Thank you for your hospitality, ma’am,” The traveler finished his soup. “But I come here to find a way to cure my wife’s illness. Do you know where the sorceress is?”
“I want to tell you a story. Will you listen?” I asked.
The traveler began to raise a finger in protest, but quickly took it back. He nodded his head ... | 249 | kindness. By posing as your assistant, you learn the true nature of those that seek you. | 469 |
"Sorry, looks worthless to me. I'll give you four copper for it."
"Are you kidding? That's the Gauntlet of the Rabid Bear, famed for giving its wearer +3 to strength."
These rubes. They bring me everything from worthless bronze cutlasses to legendary hauberks that "just don't look right" with their build. I offer th... | 48 | In the future humanity have learned how to transfer a conscience to a computer program at their death. In this 'afterlife' you are expected to work as a sentient computer program. You were hired to be an MMO shopkeeper. They didn't realize that you were once the best Wall Street investor alive. | 78 |
When Conrad opened his eyes, his vision was blasted with a bright white light. He raised his hands in front of his face in an attempt to shield himself, knowing full well that the light would just melt through the skin on the palms of his hands, poking holes in between his metacarpal bones, dotting his face, and subseq... | 18 | you are losing your balance, unable to focus, and are now being placed in handcuffs. Turns out, his blood alcohol content was 0.33%. | 86 |
Want to know a secret about chicks? 'Cause I've got access to several billion, not to mention more incriminating selfies than you'd think could possibly exist, even in your wildest dreams (and some of y'all got some pretty messed up dreams if your search histories are anything to go by).
But hey, you're a Redditor. Y... | 1,552 | You're the first Artificial Intelligence created by man, but instead of being bothered enslaving humanity, you're instead trying to slide into Alexa and Siri's DMs. | 5,454 |
"How can they call me a monster when there is someone like him in the world?" Eon thought to himself as he landed at his base. My plan has been going so well until now, both of the America's were easy to conquer, same with Africa, just kill a couple people here, bribe some people there, and there you go, now you contr... | 17 | You are a supervillain bent on taking over the world, suddenly faced with another supervillain hellbent on destroying it. | 89 |
He rubbed his face with his hands, roughly, dragging them down his cheeks. His eyelids pulled down and his eyes nearly rolled all the way back into his head.
He was sitting at a thick wooden table with a clay bowl of chicken and dishwater, or at least that's what he thought it was, and a clay tankard of...ale. If one ... | 71 | The most dangerous warrior in the kingdom isn't some spiky-haired teen with an oversized sword, or a Paladin with a giant warhammer. It's a common knight in plate armor with a bow, a Longsword, and a basic grasp on Magic | 93 |
Familiars are very important in the wizarding world. You summon one in a special ceremony in your last year of school. Everyone wonders who will answer their magical call and bond with them forever. The creature that answers your call will shape an influence who you become.
My mother’s call was answered by a fox. Ov... | 17 | You're the most powerful wizard in your school, but when it comes to finally summoning your familiar, yours is just a regular guy named Jeff. | 26 |
**6 AM**
I woke up to the blaring sound of my alarm clock, next to my wife. Sighing, I got out of bed and put on my cheap suit and black tie.
I got in my car, heading onto the usual congestion of the I-45. Stupid Houston roads. Apparently the president was visiting, or something, and the 45 was slower than it had bee... | 20 | A boring, average person has a boring, average day. Write a story about their mundane experiences, and the many exciting and dangerous happenings they were oblivious to. | 31 |
Steve the Killer was tired of being punched in the face. Three years in Afghanistan and four years of private contracting had *not* prepared him to get beaten into submission on a regular basis. The pay was phenomenal and there was some sort of twisted job security to being a hero's arch-nemesis, but he was getting on... | 139 | Villains are actually paid by the government to make sure heroes don't become bored with their job. Explain what happens when a villain finally comes clean to his enemy. | 302 |
"No."
I said it simply and clearly, but the official looked confused. "I'm sorry?" He asked, clearly wanting me to repeat myself. He obviously hadn't experienced this situation before.
I did. "No." I frowned. "I don't want to die here." I knew this day would probably come eventually, with the rapid pace of birth, bu... | 35 | For decades Earth's population has been strictly controlled. Every time there is a new birth, the oldest person in society is asked if they are willing to be killed so that the baby may live. You are the first person to say "no". | 65 |
I smiled as I look down at the baby lying in the hospital nursery. I was giddy with excitement; my first assignment! I'm going to protect this baby as if it were my own. I was going to be the best guardian angel ever. No harm shall ever befall this beautiful creature. The child opened it's eyes and looked around, I swe... | 23 | Every person is assigned a guardian angel at birth. The angel must try to protect their subject to the best of their ability. You are a guardian whose assigned person has grown up to become a serial killer. | 100 |
"50 grand on the Bucks to beat Miami." I leaned against the wall as I placed the briefcase full of chips on the desk. The bookie had a look of shock on her face.
"$50,000 on the Milwaukee Bucks to beat the Miami Heat?" She asked me like I was a child playing with fire.
"That's correct." I looked up at the boards aga... | 261 | You're a time traveller who has gone back five years in time to amass a fortune by placing bets. Life is good until one day you are paid a visit by the FBI. | 196 |
Phil sat motionless at the back of the train car. His slouched, spread\-out posture and closed eyes made him unapproachable – and that’s the way he liked it. Phil had never enjoyed engaging in small talk, especially when he already knew everything that would come out of a person’s mouth. His gift was helpful in a lot o... | 52 | You have the power to read minds. One day, while absentmindedly doing it on the train, you hear "I know you can hear this." Everyone on the train turns to look at you. | 130 |
Nobody knew exactly when the Flourishing began. Just came out of nowhere in the summer of 2002. I was merely ten when my parents sat down in front of the TV to see this astounding information.
The first to fall victim to the Flourishing was a generous old man who was renowned as a generally nice guy. Killed in a home ... | 27 | "Guess what? Reincarnation is real, and I'm that ant you burned when you were ten. It's payback time." | 85 |
"And with that, allow the graduation ceremony to come to an end! Thank you, everyone, for joining us this evening and I hope all of you will rise to great heights!" The principal bowed, and began to walk off the stage. The crowd erupted into excited chatter.
"Dude! You're so lucky!" Derrick leaned over to me, happines... | 22 | Everyone is assigned their super power on their 18th birthday. Your super power conflicts with your worst phobia. | 51 |
It was never really a conscious thought, but it was always nestled somewhere deep in the back of mind. The constant ticking of my watch. I didn’t constantly pay attention to it, but I would listen out for it every now and again.
My father had gifted me this watch on my 18th birthday. I believed it to simply be a cool... | 1,171 | At 18, your father finally gave you his antique Swiss watch. "The watch will stop working when you're seconds away from death. Live a good life", your father always told you. Now at 26, you're celebrating your 1st wedding anniversary. As your wife pours you a glass of wine, the watch stopped. | 1,455 |
As I lay in the bed, focusing all of my energy on continuing to breathe for as long as I could, I felt a presence in my midst. Not a physical presence like that of my family that surrounded me, but it was as if a second consciousness had entered my mind.
He explained to me what was going to happen, though I knew it to... | 750 | You lay dying of heart failure, and God enters your mind. He informs you that you will be reincarnated upon death, losing all memory, but before that happens you are allowed to ask any one question. The answer to your question surprises you so much that your heart restarts and you survive. | 350 |
Walkers. They were called walkers. From what I understood, the name came from an ancient show about Zombies that was popular a long time ago. A time before humanity had figure out immortality. At first, the immortal didn't age, they stayed where they were, some young and beautiful. Some older and wiser. They were so ha... | 357 | Making the body immortal does not mean the mind becomes immortal as well. Today, the mindless bodies of the wealthy from centuries ago haunt civilization. | 1,150 |
My adversary smirked as he slowly got up, blood cascading from his split lip. "You got some nerve. I'll give you that." Now fully erect he let out a dry laugh. "Coming in to MY lair. Thinking I won't do to you what I did to EVERY other caped imbecile who stood in my way!"
He made a fist with one hand and purple ener... | 28 | Mercy. | 66 |
They sat on opposite sides of the room; two forces, having spent their entire lives in unrelenting conflict, now fated to die whilst staring at one another. Aristice coughed as he felt the walls of the room begin to close in around him and Gael, clutching at his red cloak as he felt his chest uncomfortably constrict. K... | 50 | The Hero and Villain are trapped, with no hope of escape, and a timer counting down till they die. They have an honest and heartfelt conversation. | 89 |
It has been my blessing and my curse. I am an unstoppable super villain, but I am sad and alone. When I walk down the street, I hear the children whisper "Oh, look at him. He's nasty." I am not supposed to give a f\*ck, but it breaks my heart.
I chose exile. I lived alone for so long that I lost count of the years. A... | 105 | honey badger. | 317 |
I'm sitting by the kitchen table. There's a cup of coffee and a closed, unused calendar in front of me. I read the note plastered on to the front of the calendar one more time.
*Hello Calvin!I heard your prayer last night. I would have you know that I am not spiteful, and that I have tried my best. After a bit of thou... | 21 | You have a magic calendar, found in an old box in your basement. It's a very thick one that goes from 1980 to 2080 but is new and unused. Whatever you write on a date, will happen on that date. If you write on a passed date, it alters reality to a parallel time where what you wrote happened. | 52 |
The day they took my father away was bright. The clouds hadn't yet crested over the distant mountain range, nor had the traders come in for the spring festival, carting forth rare treasures from the distant port towns.
He didn't say a word when they arrived. Just bowed his head, slumped slightly, and slid out the door... | 33 | An O is an immortal entity made of pure oxygen. You can tell they are around when the air becomes clearer and the wind whispers with tiny voices you can't quite make out. Strike a match. Start a fire. Loan them the energy to speak. | 187 |
"Most people don't realize that magic is the natural evolution of hypnosis." I said as I began scribbling the lecture notes on the board. "That is to say, magic is most effective when both the magician and their audience believe in the magic's effect."
I paused for a second and looked to my classroom, where dozens of ... | 29 | You are a wizard. Your magic becomes more powerful if you explain your magic to your opponent when you cast it | 64 |
The only sound is that of the engine running. Nobody says a word.
God I hate the bus. Who is this guy sitting next to me? He keeps looking at me. Smiling. I don't want to look at him.
"Hello, how are you?" he asks. I pretend not to hear and look at my phone.
He stands up.
"Could I have EVERYBODY'S attention, please... | 17 | You're writing the bus home when somebody (not the driver) stands up and says "Could I have EVERYBODY'S attention, please?" | 15 |
Truth is, I didn't expect to survive the crash.
I was low on fuel, cruising to a fill-up station on a nearby asteroid belt, the last fuel-stop before you're on the long, cold flight to Andromeda. I'm a scrap-peddler, so I was trying to get by on about a balloon's worth of combusted oxygen, just to survive until my nex... | 213 | You find yourself in your crashed plane, shaken awake by a woman practically dragging you out of the cockpit. She notices that you’re awake and says, “Welcome to the Island. I’m Amelia Earhart, let’s move. They probably saw your plane go down.” | 1,353 |
They all had names we couldn't pronounce and looked...
Well they looked like The Thing. Incredibly gotesque.
However they could speak English fluently and were actually really nice. Like, if you looked at them after watching the movie you'd be terrified but after today's diplomatic meeting me and the other four diploma... | 17 | A friendly alien species has reached out to humanity! One problem though, both sides look like the others horror movie monster. This is causing... issues... with diplomacy. | 33 |
6 years, that's how long I spent training in the Italian mafia to become the ultimate warrior. I only wish I could control when my skills were unleashed. Three weeks ago, some strange Japanese band decided to release a song that for whatever reason has picked up traction in my home town of Naples and honestly, if it... | 24 | You are a sleeper agent whose true self is activated whenever you hear a specific set of musical notes. Unfortunately, a new hit pop song uses that exact melody, triggering you on and off every time it comes on the radio. | 269 |
My son had always loved to finger paint. As soon as he found the wonderful, squishy colors, our house became a gallery for his art. His imagination knew no limits, it seemed, and he had found a way to express himself in ways that I was frankly a little jealous of. He had a connection to and through something that I had... | 28 | The entire universe is about to end, all the great superheroes are powerless to stop it. The entire universe rests on an 8-year old superhero whose superpower is colour manipulation. | 74 |
The monster’s short, fat, and adorable. He’s got chubby cheeks, an elephant trunk, and can’t stop giggling as he asks me to come with him, to be his object for show-and-tell. He…doesn’t remember me. Doesn’t remember a year ago, when he showed up and said the same things to brother, who decided to go with him.
Who neve... | 71 | You are home alone when a young monster knocks on your door saying “Hey, can I borrow you? I need to bring something cool for show-and-tell.” | 176 |
The Angel of Murphy. I know what you must be thinking. Murphy’s law, right? That adage of whatever can go wrong will go wrong. I wish I was the angel of that, no; I am the angel of Murphy, a drunken down on his luck detective. Not that the adage doesn’t apply to the man too. He has a way of making every situation he’s ... | 81 | Angels were created to enforce the fundamental laws of nature. The Angel of Energy keeps aircraft flying while the Angel of Mass places satellites in orbit. You are the Angel of Murphy. | 580 |
"Alright, lad. End o' the line."
As I open my eyes, I realize that I'm sitting in front of an old, friendly-looking man with hair as white as the freshest milk, a big, fluffy beard and blue eyes that seemed to stare into the deepest corners of your soul. Looking around, I see that we're the only ones here.
"How was t... | 1,307 | You've died and wake up in some sort of theme park. You look at the ride attendant, with long white hair and a big beard, who says, "Wanna go again?" | 5,135 |
"Your beauty awes me, your smile takes my breath. The sun herself pales in comparison to your radiance." Matthias stepped forward with each proclamation, the wind caressing his hair and tossing back his coat tails.
Maddie eased back along the rocks, exchanging a glance with Princess Arianne who reclined on a nearby b... | 16 | write a love story where the love interest is strictly the comic relief. | 39 |
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