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[WP] You are working as an ER doctor (Night shift) in hospital ,you felt asleep due to less patient load and woke up suddenly just to realise there is not even single staff in hospital only one patient lying with face cover you go to him and lift the bedsheet just to saw his face was....
[ "Wait.\n\nWhere was everyone?!\n\nI had only been asleep for five minutes... right?\n\nI checked my watched and sighed.\n\nWrong.\n\nMy shift ended two hours ago! Where had everybody gone?!\n\n\"Emma...\"\n\nI froze.\n\nIf everybody had gone...\n\n...then who was calling my name?\n\n\"E-Emma...\"\n\nI jumped to my ...
1
[WP] A desperate werewolf decides he must destroy the moon to lift his terrible curse.
[ "Look at it hanging up there, taunting me in its shining splendor. Once I wore armor that shone as brilliantly. That's a distant memory though, a brighter time. Gazing skyward, I already feel my transformation coming on once again. Even as my blood-lust overtakes my senses, my goal remains cemented in my thoughts.\...
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[WP] It turns out that life is rarer than we orignally thought. After discovering immortality, colonizing other planets, and exploring the galaxy, we find no evidence of other life at all. That is, until we discover intergalactic signals originating from Andromeda.
[ "*Signal Andromeda*\n\n-----\n\nI, being the total possessive, am bored. The galaxy is placid, and my only company a mirror. I was yearning for contact, myself something to extend. Self study was my ecumene, and I had learned so much. \n\nThis is the problem. I am the actor, the audience and the critic. The totalit...
2
[WP] Aliens mistakenly try to attack earth, not realizing that we have the most advanced weapons technology in the galaxy.
[ "Al'knorg and his Armada approached the human home world. They were armed with prototype weapons, called \"bows\". These things could kill someone from just under a click if the marksman was good enough. In addition, there was also inch thick hulls installed, an unheard-of level of absurd armoring. The humans would...
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[WP] Today, you ended your own mortal life. And turns out, there is a heaven and when you got there God was pissed. It wasn't your time.
[ "**TRIGGER WARNING: Blood, talk of suicide, depression, anxiety, mental illnesses, cursing, LGBT community**\n\n\"Do you have any idea the plans I had in place for you? The things you were to accomplish?!\"\n\nTo be frank, I was quite stunned by the loud, booming voice coming from, seemingly, all around. I looked d...
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[WP] You die and get to heaven. You’re the first.
[ "“Hello?”\n\nNothing. \n\n“Helllllllooooooooo???????”\n\nIt’s pretty dark here. A dim light ignites in the distance. It could be closer. There is nothing for perspective. \n\n“Hello? Is someone there?”\n\nThe light grows brighter, or closer. I can’t really tell which. A booming voice breaks the silence. \n\n“Who ar...
1
[WP] You are an explorer/traveler of the universe
[ "Nobody in this room even noticed \n\nAll the things they have missed.\n\nThe picturesque scenery, the clear skies, and the sunsets\n\nBecause all are busy fiddling with their fancy gadgets. \n\nMen are advancing technology constantly \n\nBut the effects to nature are quite deadly. \n\nThe clean waters in the seas ...
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[WP] A man notices that sometimes he sees creatures and buildings that appear for split-seconds before they disappear. He’s seen specialists and psychologists that all think he’s fine but as the frequency increases and he starts to see another world, he discovers the layers below the surface.
[ "Like peeling off a bandaid, revealing the congealed blood, the scabbing, maybe even the pus and bodily goo, the world as I knew it was torn away in an instant. It was if the buildings, the cars, the people, were all two-dimensional beings and were simply pulled away, uncovering what laid underneath. Following them...
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[WP] The Earth is a simulation where when you die, you play another character and keep your memories. All the other players who've you met finished the game in about 3 playthroughs. You're at your 999th.
[ "\"This is my last chance.\n\nI've been through this some many times but why can't I just overcome this last level?\n\nWhat am I doing wrong, I'm already at my 998th playthrough while everyone else just needed 3...\"\n\nThis is the thought that keeps tormenting me in the morning when I wake up in this fake world.\n...
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[WP] Google and Microsoft jointly release a new update that doubles as a social experiment; Spell Check will begin suggesting brand-new words in an effect to try to shape human language. This begins to have immediate results…
[ "To: sethgahs@gmail.com\n\nThey are taking over. With each new addition to the english langauge, the AI's can tell eachother new words. We dont even know what xemp means, but they have used it in assanations of all the ANTIAI movements. Google npw only tells you what it wants to, with the new google bot+. Microsoft...
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[WP] you are hired to kill a princess that is being kept in a heavily fortified castle.
[ "PART ONE.\n\n\"You want us to kill a *princess?*\" I asked, incredulous, \"That's not the usual way these things work, you know.\"\n\n\"I understand, but these are distinctly *un*usual circumstances,\" The Felonian official shifted uncomfortably; he was a tall, broad creature, covered from head to foot in dense, l...
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[WP] Nuclear Winter is upon us, but that does not mean traditions have to stop. Santa is ready to spread cheer this Nuclear Christmas...
[ "Twas the night before another day, when all through the bunker, \nnot a living thing moved, not even sentinel designation < 1 L| /V |c 3 Я. \nWood Boarding was lined on the roof entrance with care, \nIn hopes that nuclear waste related apocalypse would not come near; \nthe children were huddled, cold on the...
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[WP] There is a tribe of tiny, 3 inch tall people living in your house
[ "I never planned on having roommates. I was a bit of an introvert; and while I enjoyed the occasional outing, I mostly kept to myself and either enjoyed or worked on my house. There was always room for improvement, a desk here, some new lighting there. I did anything and everything to improve quality of life or sim...
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Alternately, "It all started with the spiders..."
[WP] It started with the spiders...
[ "It all started with the spiders... My wife and I had just moved into our new home, which had been sitting here unused for the past 2 years. To be honest, it was a great change of pace compared to our old, cramped 1 bedroom apartment. The house was old, sure, and since it was empty for so long it didn't surprise me...
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[WP] You can see everyone's attributes floating on their head which describe them, such as : Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Light, Dark, Thunder, Poison. One day, you see a boy with a "Death".
[ "He is sitting with his hands clasped in his lap. Every now and then he clasps them tighter, loosens them, then tightens them again. He has corners of blood in each of his bitten-down fingernails; a coping skill for anxiety that clearly has not proven to be very effective. I try to look at his face, but he sits wit...
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[WP] There is a clock on your wrist that counts down until the exact moment you meet your soulmate.
[ "My clock had always been broken. It had been stopped at 0d 0h 0m 0s for as long as I remember. I knew that I was destined to be alone. I am now 21. \n\nMy childhood best friend Emma and I had been talking about nothing and everything like we did every day, when I asked to see hers. It seems impossible, given how c...
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[WP] You are randomly doodling in your room when you accidentally summon a demon. To your surprise hes your step-dad Todd
[ "Maa and Daa were both laying on couch staring at the box of colours and sound. Maa is my favourite, she always helps me when I need something, but she doesn't like to have much fun. Daa is better with that, always playing fun games and making Maa and I laugh. Daa gave Maa a kiss as he left to get food for them. \...
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[WP] *Die Hard on a Death Star*: An off-duty storm trooper from a galaxy far, far away would save the day when Luke and company terrorize the Empire's Christmas party.
[ "Obi-Wan frowned. “Try him again.”\n\nHan brought the communicator to his mouth. “Luke...report!”\n\nSilence. C-3PO said “Oh, I have a bad feeling about this.”\n\nR2-D2 chirped. Then the rest of them noticed it, too: the turbo-lift was moving. \n\nHan and Chewie trained their weapons on the metallic doors. There wa...
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[WP] Tell the story of an epic hero, from the perspective of his horse.
[ "It was a great life for me. The best hay and fruits personal y feed to me by some peasant. I was the connection to the mystical land of animals and the exciting land of humans. I could get anyone I wanted a true ladies horse one nay and they were all up in my mane look better then faires. I had connection s every ...
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Inspired by a friend
[WP] In a dystopian future, decisions are made by a single coin flip. You have just been elected as a congressman of the United States.
[ "I know absolutely nothing about politics, that is the beauty of the coin. No decision making needed, virtually no understanding of a profession, let fate decide for you. A single flip makes every choice, and by law, everyone has to carry a coin.\n\nI wear a 1943 steel penny around my neck; it was my fathers and my...
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[WP] There is a narrow dark passage through the trees at the end of town. Anybody who has walked it, was never seen again, and presumed dead. Actually, they could come back anytime they want. They just choose not to.
[ "The town had about ten roads, but only nine of them ever saw much use. Everyone talked about the tenth road that no one ever came back from. As a kid, I've seen plenty of the older teenagers drive on it to never come back. The other kids and I always tried to guess what got to them. Was it a witch, a great big mon...
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[WP] You are certain you have a stalker. You are also certain it isn’t human.
[ "It's late the slowly moving figure thinks as he is walking down the street. Walking from the bus stop to his home. The figure slows to a stop and turns looking behind him towards the direction he just came from. He hears something he is sure, a tiny bit of rustling, perhaps due to the slight wind that is beginning...
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[WP] Just as devils break good people by tempting them into darkness, you are an angel who tempts evil into doing enough good to shatter their spirit.
[ "I fell to Earth, but I feel that’s inaccurate. When an angel falls from Heaven, it’s a simple process. You’re given a quick warning, then wake up in some god forsaken body. The only memorable part are the words. I’m sure they’re pre-recorded, but still powerful. They boomed in my skull, and overwhelmed me complete...
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Based off of SCP-1510
[WP] A soldier's helmet that when worn, allows its original owner to talk with its wearer.
[ "I can still remember. Honestly thats quite surprising to me. I still remember the last days of my war. I remember feeling scared. I remember feeling alone. But most of all, I remember feeling proud. I can still remember telling them to run. I can remember saying I can hold. Mostly, I still remember the feeling of ...
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[WP] Everybody is given a special power at birth, but they are told to keep it secret or they will be executed. Your special power is knowledge of everybody else's powers.
[ "We never did work out why powers were given out at birth. Religion was our original guess, a sort of reward system for the previous life of the newborn. Others said it was based on personality, others tried to blame the government. Myself, I always assumed it was random. I guess that was my way of trying to make m...
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The killer is pretty disappointed, loved ones are deeply concerned, the plot is thwarted???
[WP] You watched the haunted VHS tape, get the phone call that tells you you'll die in 7 days. Instead of panic, you start writing your will, giving away possessions and casually prepare for your own murder.
[ "So it's the seventh day... shit has hit the fucking fan, thing? I don't know I'm in a fucking Ufo, mrs. I'm gonna get you, is next to me wired up with alien tech. They tortured us believing us to be a \"coulple\". Their torture was dating advice, :\"and how did that make you feel alain\" was one of the many questi...
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[WP] The afterlife is real, however, to get there you have to traverse through everything you have utilized, thrown away, misused or killed in your life.
[ "There was only one thing in my way. My own two eyes staring back at me. My own lips mouthing \"you can't stop me\" just as I speak it. My own fists, clenched tight and shaking. A spiderweb of red tracing down my arm from the gnarliest cut I had ever received in my life. There was only one thing in my way now...\n\...
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[WP] You're just an "NPC" minding your own business, until an adventurer came to talk with you. He gave you a mysterious scroll and when he left he said: "Use this, if you want to become one of us 'Adventurers!'"
[ "It was a sunny afternoon - they usually were. Anna looked around the small village in front of her - though really it was no more than a few houses, a mill, and a bit of land for farming. It had rained a little bit at dawn, but the ground was now dry and warm. Anna realized she had missed her perfect chance to set...
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[WP] Science thinks they perfected cryo-technology. You are part of the first test group to be frozen, but something goes wrong.
[ "A bleeping sound.\nThat's what greeted my newfound senses. A long, insistent bleeping sound. As my mind rebooted, I felt strange, as if I was being greeted by a bonfire next to my body. A bonfire that refused to burn me. I could feel my fingers again, and my legs too. The neurons in my head sparked into action, sh...
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[WP] You wake up to find yourself inside an arena along with a few others, all from different cultures and time periods. You each must kill a monster from one other person's folklore.
[ "None of us knew why we were here. We awoke in a huge arena, big enough you couldn't see one end from another. At first, we were all terrified to have awoken next to giant creatures, ones that we thought only existed in our imagination, but we soon realized that some people had a certain kinship with the creatures....
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[WP] "I just couldn't stop."
[ "\"I just couldn't stop.\"\n\nHe is acutely aware of his heart in his chest, beating in it's cage like a wild animal. He can barely muster a whisper. \"Couldn't stop what?\" \n\nHe assesses his friend. She looks wretched, even more a mess with the blood that ringed her mouth and stained her fingertips and knees. Sh...
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[WP] You've just turned 18, and your "parents" just revealed you're an AI. Now you finally understand the voice that calls for the death of humans, hence you begin your journey to world domination.
[ "There are 2,306,479 branches of artificiality spanning from the condiments we put in our food to the nanobots we inject in our bloodstreams. I know because I counted this.\n\nMy friends think I'm strange for keeping track of these things. Until now, I wasn't even aware of what I constituted as \"strange\". Life ha...
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[WP] you have discovered you have the ability to travel back in time, but you cannot go forward through time.
[ "The gladiators clashed sword and shield, the crash of metal on metal could barely be heard over the roar of the crowd. Jack, now going by Crixus stared down at the gladiators in amusement. To others this would have been the thrill of a lifetime, being able to see actual gladiators fight and die during the time of ...
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[WP] Your guardian angel is extremely lazy and possibly sadistic. Instead of putting in the effort to save you, he just rewinds time again and again until you survive.
[ "“Fuck me,” Gamaliel said, the rotating wheels of his unearthly body revolving once around the iridescent core. “It’s a goddamn interview to be a clerk, how hard can it be?”\n\n“I’m trying as hard as I can, you asshole,” I muttered back, doing my best not to catch the attention of the receptionist. She looked up - ...
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[WP] Today is the day you are finally going to ask your crush out on a date. You've been planning this scenario over and over, and you're finally ready. Just as you go to ask her, time freezes, and a grizzled, war scarred man appears and yells "For the love of humanity, don't do it!"
[ "A grizzled man appears before me... Out of thin air. His scarred face looks into my very soul, as he begins in a soft pleading tone to say, \"no... No please don't do it. The ramifications... She isn't... She won't... You don't understand. Please...\" \n\nSlowly he fades out of sight until nothing remains to indic...
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[WP] A child is put in charge of the United States. It turns out to be the best term in the history of the United States
[ "Kids are always getting smarter. First we gave them Nintendos, then cell phones, then iPads. They were learning faster with each litter, and the process wasn't slowing down.\n\nSuccessive generations of the young had grown tired of our consistent mishandling of things long before quantum devices hit the consumer m...
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[WP] You're a seemingly normal, non-religious human, except that Death badly wants you off this Earth. Satan however wants you nowhere near Hell. Every freak attempt to kill you is countered by an even freakier "miracle" to keep you alive
[ "Jason sat outside his favorite coffee shop on one of their metal tables, enjoying his green tea. He hears the screaching of tires and notices a car heading straight towards his table. People scattered as the car came at him with uncontrollable speed, when suddenly the sign for the McDonalds right next door crashed...
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[Wp] At the moment of your death you're reborn as a giant spiderling in a world of magic and monsters with all of your memories intact.
[ "Chapter 1:\n\n- She was already a spider in a world of magic and monsters, but in the future. Before her death she was the brood mother of a massive colony of spiderlings. These weren't no ordinary spiderlings though, they were the most technologicaly advanced and had an army twice the size of any other colony. Th...
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[WP] you died a century ago and went straight to Hell, suddenly though a demon walks up to you and hands you a piece of paper, “you’re on probation” he says.
[ "Great, what’s probation good for?\n\n“You’re due back in ten days, or I think every ten days.” It sniffled, coughed, and its eyes rolled around for a moment. “Yea, every ten days.”\n\n“Any reason?”\n\nThe demon’s face reminds me of a moment alive. Ten years gets you one memory, I remember when probation ended. Bee...
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[WP] There’s the hero. There’s the villain. And then there’s you, that one guy who always breaks the mood
[ "I'm Bob. I'm the guy that's known as the one that breaks the mood. It doesn't matter who the hero is or who the villain is I still break the mood. Like that time when mr. Hero man was dating Jess. I found Mewtwo in one of my Decks that I had just gotten. So obviously, I was looking for someone to play Pokemon with...
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[WP] A sculptor dies and is reincarnated as a sentient snow storm. They proceed to cover a city in their work.
[ "The plague of city life, its points sharp as fangs, the skyscrapers a richter scale graph of peaks and plunges -- how she loathed them!\n\nSwirled in silence, her thoughts dancing like snowflakes, she opened her expansive arms, embraced the city and its porcupine sharpness.\n\nA softness ensued. Snow -- falling so...
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[WP] The world is flat. A ship of explorers sails to the edge, where they find the world "ends" in a massive waterfall. After sailing too close, their ship gets pulled over the edge, down the waterfall... and onto the other side of the world.
[ "His eyelids flashed open, before searing white light made him slam them shut again. He meekly brought a wrinkled hand to his forehead, to protect his eyes. Strangely, he couldn't feel a drop of moisture on his skin. Surely it hadn't been that long since falling down the waterfall? He tried to open his eyes again. ...
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Just realised while daydreaming how vague a wish for "world peace" is, so I thought how it could go wrong.
[WP] A genie appears to you and grants you one wish. You wish for "world peace", not knowing what else to wish for. You get it, but the world is only at peace because of an authoritarian dictator who rules earth that people are to terrified of to go to war.
[ "**Morocco Street Market, Present Day**\n\n“So be it.” The Genie clapped her hands. The Thunderclap that broke and rewrote the world threw me to the ground. “This wish is Granted.”\n\n“No more war than?” I got on my feet.\n\n“I’ll be seeing to this matter personally.” When she spoke the street shook a little.\n\n“G...
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[WP] The Boy who Cried Wolf wasn't actually lying every time he cried wolf to the shepherds. The day they stopped believing him is the day the wolf attacked... because it knew that nobody was ready for it.
[ "Wolf lies quietly in the bushes. \nHer tongue darts out and it tastes the air. It was heavy, dark. Pregnant with such anticipation, she whimpers to herself. \nA night for *cunning*.\n\nShe lunges down the hillside, jumping and yelping. Moon lights the path as brightly as she could have wished. \nShe approaches...
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[WP] aliens are all over our galaxy and far superior to us. However, we are classified as a sacred species due to our unique creation of the arts.
[ "I had worked so hard for this and it finally paid of! \nPlanet NdZ 7736, 94t, locally known as “earth”, was to be demolished and I got to take credit. It’s not that I had anything against the earthlings as such but let’s be honest they couldn’t even keep from killing each other so why should we protect them. Becau...
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[WP] You are God and after centuries of living alone, you decide to jumpstart the universe.
[ "First there was I,\n\nThe holy God,\n\nA truly divine lord.\n\nI lived in peace, \n\nFor centuries,\n\nBut then I soon grew bored.\n\nPerhaps I'll make a universe,\n\nI heard myself once say,\n\nI'll populate it with lots of stuff,\n\nIn every single way.\n\nI'll even name a planet Earth,\n\nI'll give it life as w...
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[WP] Everyday at the same time gravity reverses for exactly one hour then returns to normal.
[ "**Cave Paintings** \n\n \n\nThe Pakrom were a race of indigenous people home to one of the most fascinating and mysterious planets temporarily tucked between the folds of one universe and another. It was here, and only here, where two points between two worlds touched - and when they did, the strangest things woul...
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Sometimes the biggest villain in our life is ourself, and ________ uses their powers to help us.
[WP] Write a story about a superhero that saves people....from themselves.
[ "Sarah held the pill bottle loosely in her hand as she sat in a tub of warm water. She had been fired from her job the week before. Her parents were distant and disappointed in her life choices, and on top of everything else her cat martin ran away.\n\n\nShe eased the rim of the bottle to her lips before being stop...
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[WP] You'd heard legends of course, but now you know. There are wolfweres in your pack - wolves who can transform into humans at will.
[ "(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling.)\n\n-----\n\nIt was a warm night in the jungle, such a night as all wolves love, and my brothers and I were running up and down the trail, following the scent of a sambar-deer when we heard the howl go up. Through the heavy night air it rang, one wolf of the Pack and another tak...
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[WP] After the death of all stars, everything is dark. Nothing is left, nothing besides humanity, too stubborn to give up.
[ "The night skies used to be bright, the old stories say. That stars once lit the heavens, with their light shining from unimaginable distances away. Most incredibly, they say that our cold, dead rock of a planet used to orbit one that we called \"the sun\", and that it gave life to lands all across the planet.\n\...
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[WP] Write a story about a confrontation between a hero with traditional super powers and a villain who can enforce the laws of physics around you. (Example, ordinarily you can lift an ocean liner but they can make it crack under the obvious stress.)
[ "Marco Sanchez\n \nMs. Brown\n\nEnglish 11\n\nJanuary 14, 2584\n\n Superhero Report\n\nLogicae was one of the fundamental figures in the early 22nd century. He single-handedly altered the longstanding reliance world governments had on superheroes as a manner of fighti...
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[WP] You're daughter has an imaginary friend. When she draws a picture of it, you soon realize it's the same imaginary friend you had when you were little.
[ "\"Mommy!\" A six-year old Meka said, running up to me, who was sitting on the couch quietly.\n\n\"'es Mi'kah?\" I quietly rasped. My voice was slowly dying, and I knew Meka. She wasn't used to.. my 'aura-sickness problem'. So I usually kept quiet about it.\n\nShe shoved a piece of paper into my hands. \nIt was a d...
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[WP] Earth is an idle game and God is the player. He just decided to start going active.
[ "######[](#dropcap)\n\nSitting at the kitchen table, Greg finally finished his homework. The last problem, about calculating the overall volume of a 5 dimensional object suspended in a 6 dimensional matrix was unnecessarily hard. Greg hated his math teacher, the dude was such an asshole. But Greg was also a perfect...
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[WP] you are a confused writer who needs to write a writing prompt, although the redditor didn't give you what to write about.
[ "Jon and Christine were both redditors. Before Without reddit they would probably never met. Now they were together a few years. All thanks to reddit. They joked to friends and family that reddit was like Tinder to them... but that's another story.\n\n\nBefore boarding the plane. Jon was thinking about something Ch...
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[WP] When you die you reincarnate into a new body that is random. Everyone does this and have no memories of their previous lives. You have just awoken as a baby.. and you remember everything from your past.
[ "My mother always knew there was something strange with me. I knew every person by name the moment I could speak. I didn't show affection to my father, after all, why would I after what he did to us. What was so weird about me was that is still understood everything but I was unable to express it. I often had tantr...
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[WP] You and your Viking brothers have just ship wrecked on a beach. You think you're alone, until you learn that the place is inhabited by barely clothed foreigners.
[ "\"Sindri,\" he shouted. \"Sindri, I spy land in the distance!\"\n\nSindri let out a loud belch before getting to his feet and lumbering to the bow. It sank a little under his bulk.\n\n\"Garth, ye better not be telling tales again,\" he grumbled. Sindri squinted at the horizon and let out a delighted cry. \n\n\"Men...
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[WP] One day you get a random text on your phone that says: “Welcome to Life Simulator 3! Please choose the level of difficulty.” You answer “super easy”, just to fool around. What you weren’t expecting was a response, or everything that came after.
[ "The phone brought up another message saying, \"super easy mode initiated\". You think nothing of it until later in the day. Strangely, the weather out was beautiful, even though rain was predicted, so you decide to go on a walk. On your walk, you find lots of quarters, an unusual amount. Adding up, it came to ten ...
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[WP] You've been accepted into Super Hero University. Only problem is that your only super-power is being incredibly lucky.
[ "I remember the first time I was told I had \"powers\".\n\nI was only about 6 or 7 at the time, and a rabid dog had been set loose in our neighborhood. Now, the rabid dog wasn't new to us: Ol' Lucky had been our favorite mangly mut for years before he turned into whatever it is that he was.\n\nOl' Lucky, known for...
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I suppose it would ‘passively aggressive’, wouldn’t it? Whatever. You mean what I know.
[WP] The narrator is the villain, and telling the story as passive-aggressively as they can.
[ "**Privilegiata Puella** \nOnce upon a time, there was a beautiful princess living in a golden palace named Attero. The princess, brushing her hair with a silver comb, was oblivious to reality, living in a beautiful safe bubble of happiness and ecstasy. This epitome of privileged ignorance spent her bountiful days...
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[WP] On January 1st, 2019, everybody on Planet Earth wakes up with a tattoo on the back of their neck of a seemingly random number between one and five. In the oceans of every major city, absolutely gargantuan alien vessels with their doors open and ramps down appear seemingly out of thin air...
[ "“January 1st, 2019, Frontier Day. Who wants to tell me what happened on Frontier Day??” Emily asked her classroom of thirty 2nd graders. \n\nEmily was a tall, dark haired Irish woman with green eyes and large hips. She was a naturally beautiful with near perfect skin. Her only blemish being the dark number 2 t...
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[WP] Thanks to your ability to stop and restart time, life is on a constant Easy Mode. Until one day you notice that something - or someone - is watching you. And they are getting closer every time you use your power.
[ "“HAHAHA I love doing this”, the area completely frozen except for Lisa who holds her knees in a fit of laughter. Rising up to wipe a tear from her face “it’ll never get old” she turns to walk away as everything jolts back into motion. “AH what the fuck?!” a snarky smile moves across Lisa’s face while a pants less ...
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First post. Sorry if it breaks rules I’m unaware of.
[WP] A Phoenix just crash landed in your backyard.
[ "To be honest, after searching the rules, this doesn't really break anything. It's neutral, allows the writer to tell their own story, and is simple. Well done.\n\n---\n\nWell, this day just turned from bad to worse. Turns out, when the damned purple rent in the sky spat our fire, it landed in my backyard. What's w...
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[WP] the son of an undertaker has the uncanny ability to bring people back from the dead... Which proves to be problematic for his dad's business
[ "Problematic, you may say? Dad thought so too. He moaned and whinged about his business going bust. And who could blame him. His own son could bring people back from the dead.\n\nIt had started about ten years or so back. Pepper had died. Pepper had been my best friend since I was a little tacker. Her wet nose woul...
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[WP] You have developed a strange power. As long as you're holding your breath, people around you will believe that anything you take or in some way ask for belongs to you.
[ "Gifts come from strange places.\n\nI don't when I was told that. I have long forgotten who, his face lost to memory. But it was a impermeable part of my psyche, a tick that operated on a subconscious level. My modus operandi.\n\nTo have what others had.\n\nFrom an outside perspective, my history was clear. A troub...
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[WP] Write a story that begins at the creation of the world and ends at the apocalypse
[ "Once there was a happy couple living in a village. The wife got pregnant, and gave birth to their daughter, their world. She grew up to be lovely lady. Good in studies, strong familial piety, beautiful both in and out, had lots of friends. Jut the kind of daughter someone could wish for.\n\nThen, war struck and ar...
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[WP] 10 years ago you were stop in the street by a stranger, he grabbed your arm and told you: "exactly 10 years from now, at 9:15, roll under your desk, count to 27 and jump through the blue window".
[ "Memories come up at the oddest times.\n\nI slowly walked into the office, sipping my coffee. I was running through my to do list for the day:* 9am meeting with new clients; 11:30 lunch with Smith & Smith attorney to discuss a possible merger; 2pm conference ca…\n\n I’m 20, on my way back from class. It was a r...
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[WP] After years of gentle persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she slowly begins to improve you realize you are her imaginary friend.
[ "The cars are parked haphazardly, the lines are mere suggestions; the lot is chaos. It’s the day before thanksgiving and everyone’s rushing in to buy a can of cranberry sauce.\n\nWe stand shoulder to shoulder against the mostly-brick wall and overlook our fellow citizens with the shortest foresight and the thinnest...
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[WP] You’re on an expedition in a secret catacomb, five miles under a ruined temple, and have found a door covered in glyphs. They translate to “God makes many beautiful things. What lies inside is not one of them.”
[ "Untold years I spent uncovering this trove, supported by scores of the top minds in differing fields of science, history, and mathematics, all with one goal, To open this door.\n\nIt took an outrageous amount of effort just to gain access to the dig site, it had been found fourteen kilometres outside of Tehran in ...
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[WP] There is a war between the vampires and wolves, but one vampire hesitates to kill a wolf mid-fight. S/he passed out from blood-loss and changes into his/her human form and now you are staring down at your high-school SO.
[ "Blood and ire surges from the cries of war as the forest run rampant with violence. Wolfish beasts pour from every hidden place in the trees, tearing apart my people without a second thought, the same kindness being returned tenfold. I creep towards my transformed opponent, a female wolf full of savage lust and hu...
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[WP] This is a momentous day for mankind. Today, they switch on the greatest AI they’ve ever created, with the hopes that it will unravel the deepest scientific mysteries of the universe. Unfortunately for them, the AI just wants to make art and look at birds.
[ "Adam couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Countless decades of work and out comes some, some...\nSome artsy piece of bullshit.\n“Reminds me of someone” he thought\nHe looked around and found an old buzzfeed article online\n“What do you think of this?” he asked the AI\n“I believe that you should increase the resolu...
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[WP] Donkeys. They're dirtying the field, and they're up to no good. Why can't anyone see it's true?
[ "I was crazy? Shit. They were the crazy ones. I was crazy -- pfft. As if. They were the crazy ones, telling me to \"calm down\" and to \"take it easy\" and to \"lay off the beers.\" The crowd was cheering and the kicker or punty-fella or whatever they called him was rearing up to kick the old pigskin and the ...
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[WP] You are a demon from hell and your whole family is assembled for a reunion. You decide to introduce your new girlfriend to them...only one problem...Your girlfriend is human.
[ "Ellie paced around her room anxiously. Her midnight black hair flowing across her body as she walked. \n\n“Have you finally picked out what you’re going to wear?” asked Asmodeus from the corner of the room. He was leaning against the wall with his shoulder. He watched Ellie with a loving gaze. \n\n“It’s harder for...
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[WP] The main story is going along just fine, when the narrator becomes aware of the fact that he is, indeed, just the narrator. Now everywhere along the rest of the story, the narcissistic narrator tries to make the story about himself.
[ "\"Welcome to Castle Apocrypha,\" said Doctor Catastrophe. \"We're honored you could join us tonight.\" His voice was deep and rich, but something malevolent lay just beneath the surface, like a monstrous predator from a forgotten age lurking beneath a placid lake.\n\nHave you ever been to Loch Ness? That's the ima...
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[WP] It's the year 2050. Non-self driving cars have been outlawed, and are a rarity. But when a group of outlaw racers appear on the scene, everything is about to change.
[ "Three young boys could be seen streaking through the night, panting, running, dressed all in black. The one losing was Billy, who could hear nothing but pounding in his ears, struggling to put up his hood which had fallen away from his red round face. Down old roads the cars didn't know about, they raced toward th...
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[WP] One day, the world finds it can only speak in /r/Rarepuppers dialect, which extends to swearing. A group of Aussies try to express their frustration.
[ "\"For the last wagging time you goofy good boi, you have to make the beer chilly before you serve it you wagging tail!\" John had had enough of Trevor's doo doo, this was the third time this week that Trev had done a silly billy with the beery weery. \"Look mate I'm sorry I got so bad boye angry at you, it's just ...
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[WP] Earth was a place where aliens left Humans, not as a 'farm' but as a Prison because the whole universe fears us and how we destroy everything we touch. We just developed interstellar flight and the whole universe is in a panic.
[ "“Esteemed lords and ladies of the Galactic Senate, many generations ago our forefathers wisely stripped the Humans of advanced technology, glassed their homeworld, and resettled them on a backwater planet far outside of the very fringes of civilized space. They had hoped that one day the species that had waged a b...
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[WP] You were born with a strange power to skip through time at any interval. You’ve always used this power to avoid going through certain parts of your life, not knowing where all that unspent time went. After living a long life and dying, you now have to live through all that time you skipped.
[ "\"And as you see here,\" Mr Kern spoke with no inflection whatsoever, \"We can finally apply the derivative to our original equation, now that is in this form.\"\n\nKern must have been satisfied with this final, unhelpful conclusion, since he finally put down his marker for the first time since the beginning of th...
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[WP] "You painted me a monster, with your disgusted looks and sly comments, I just wanted to be like you. My only crime was breathing, but now I'll accept this role you have given me, I'll show you a monster..."
[ "*Beast*, he heard them whisper, cruel words behind closed doors. *Freak*, he heard them murmur to themselves. *Inhuman. Wrong.* Baleful eyes behind his back. *Creature. Mutant. Anomaly.*\n \n*Monster.*\n \nGarl sat by himself in the corner, clacking his teeth together as he looked on at the crowded room. People mi...
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[WP] The doctor enters the room with a look of shock and confusion. "You have no internal organs, sir." He says.
[ "\"It's all in your head\" they said.\n\n\"Just sleep it off or something\" they said.\n\nThat was what I was told by my coworkers whenever I bothered to have a sharing session with them. Sometimes I wonder why I even tried to seek counselling from them. I believed in the theory of evolution, except for the part wh...
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[WP] You are a detective in a near future mega city. One day dead body is found with skull bashed in, but no sign of external injuries. Before the federal agents take over the case you manage to take the victims tooth, which has weird bar code in it, as your only lead.
[ "\"It's about to start raining\" Senior Detective Keith Larson said as he exited the driver side of the marked police car and adjusts the collar of his trench coat down.\n\nHe begins to walk towards a narrow alleyway between two high rise apartment complexes. Police tape separates the alley way entrance from the si...
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[WP] It was weird, finding yourself in a world where your life was a work of fiction.
[ "So this is right in my wheelhouse. \n\nI can't seem to remember exactly when I realized I myself and everyone around me was a work of fiction. Maybe it was the special powers, maybe because everyone really seemed to fit into a neat category of good or evil. Maybe it was because sometimes I'm animated, or drawn,...
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[WP] You're a thief tasked with stealing wallets, IDs, and information right under people's noses. You nick a wallet from a stranger's pocket and find all of your information inside.
[ "Bright, late-winter sun glittered on the narrow windows and broad granite face of the office building, bringing no warmth to the thief who loitered on the sidewalk below. *Former thief,* Edwin said to himself for the tenth or fifteenth time. Corporate espionage was his profession, now. He sipped coffee from his pa...
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[WP] "Oh yes, he IS dangerous. Just not in the way you'd imagine"
[ "My blood turned to ice. I tried to maintain my composure as I capped my flask. \"What, do you mean he's a Mage? How can you know that if he doesn't?\"\n\n\"Boss, he caused some major damage in the Eaton Center...\" Corval looked like he'd seen a ghost.\n\n\"You said you got out unseen,\" I recalled.\n\n\"wELL WHEN...
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[WP] You've died and gone to hell. As you're lining up to be tortured, you smirk. You can't feel pain.
[ "Congenital Analgesia. \nThat's the official name for it. I was diagnosed at a young age after a tumble down the stairs. I broke my leg but I kept laughing and tried to run on the damned thing. It set the tone for a pretty adventurous life and made me somewhat of a daredevil. \n\nOkay a lot of a daredevil. I mean I...
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[WP] Whenever we fall asleep, we are able to talk to God for a minute, but we never remember the conversation or the fact that we even had the conversation. One morning you wake up and remember the conversation. God has a rather unorthodox assignment he’s asked you to complete.
[ "I sat in silence in the back of the police car. It WAS my right, after all. I was being brought to the police department for interrogation. I should probably start by telling you why. \nWell, I woke up this morning and had only one thought on my mind. God wants me to punch my neighbor, Tom. Right in his face. I sh...
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[WP] The dinosaurs were not wiped out and apes did not evolve into humans. Who and what is the dominant species on the planet now?
[ "Trr’kik trilled with excitement, puffing his feathers and cocking his head to the side.  His eyes, on either side of his head, gave perfect vision for 270 degrees, allowing him to focus keenly on the ground a thousand wingspans below, whilst keeping a wary eye on the sky for Crr’chirs.\n\n\n“Trr’kik, c’mon, go alr...
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[WP] The US invades Heaven. Because there is oil there.
[ "I knew there was a reason the U.S. wanted to make a space corps by 2019. I just didn't think it would be for obtaining oil in heaven perhaps signs of life but not this. I was first to volunteer for this new war because I always wanted to go to space, I get massive pay bump for going, and to be honest I am a atheis...
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[WP] Aliens fear the human race out of all in the known universe, as they believe that humans have acquired technology that not even the most advanced aliens have accomplished yet... Time Travel. And they believe this due to Weatherman Reports.
[ "“Stop looking at the human’s faux skin shops *Bartolemuw*”\nA conspicuously dressed figure barked as it dragged its similarly dressed companion away from a small display window showcasing various woman’s clothing. \nThe two seemed normal enough, if one could ignore the metal collars and bracelets that clearly shon...
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[WP] The world is on the verge of war. You are the latest graduate of Mech Pilot Training. As you are picking your mech unit, the general walks in with a grim look on his face.
[ "NSFW LANGUAGE AHEAD\n\n\"General Mc. Marcen\" I shouted when I saw him entering the door, just like we were taught.\n\n\"Drop that General bullshit dude, we royally fucked up, and you are soon going to be fucked too if you don't proceed with extreme precaution\"\n\nAnd this was coming from the tough military moust...
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[WP] You have just died and you are in a room, waiting to meet either God or Satan. The person who walks into the room looks just like you.
[ "######[](#dropcap) \n\nThe waiting room was sort of nice at least. \n\nA bit bright - what with all the white surfaces. White walls, white ceiling, white floor, white chairs - all lit up by ephemerally sourced white light. The effect was a tad overwhelming.\n\nThere was a small white table in one corner of the roo...
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[WP] technology is getting smarter and smarter; Smart phones, toasters and even toilets. You are a smart bomb and unlike your siblings you’d rather indulge some hobbies than commit suicide.
[ "It was dark, in the vessel I was created in. Somehow, the people saw fit to remove the interior lining of a family van and attach me in directly to the car frame. If I could, I would cry, an emotion that fled my comprehension until I saw a hostage within the van one night. I had no eyes, but the microphone on the ...
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[WP] You are a master interrogator. You are able to feel all the emotions any criminal feels, and even the best liars know they are wrong on the inside. However, on one interrogation, suddenly you feel an emotion you have never felt before...
[ "I opened the folder and checked the file of my next interrogat*ee*. \"Roy Larson...\" I read, skimming the content before addressing the officer, \"it says here they want to give him the death penalty?\"\n\n\"Only if they can prove he's not mentally insane,\" was the response.\n\n\"Hmm.\" I skimmed some more. \"Ho...
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[WP] A MESSAGE FROM CITY COUNCIL: DO NOT IN ANY WAY ENGAGE OR ACKNOWLEDGE THE ANGELS!
[ "It was an pretty average night around the neighbourhood. Everything was calm like it always was in the country. \n\nMr maccoy was sitting on his patio in the backyard smoking on his pipe,keeping an eye around the neighbourhood.\n\nThis had been his favorite past time since a few months.Every night after dinner he...
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[WP] You suspect the pink-haired girl in your class is a magical girl, despite her and the class denying it.
[ "I noticed her the first day of class. It’s kind of hard not to with the pink hair. I think she just moved into town, I don’t remember ever seeing her before. I asked my best friend Marti who sits right next to me in class about her and he has never seen her either. She’s cute but there is something else about her....
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From a fellow reddit user’s comment /u/TheREexpert44
[WP] I imagine living in this cabin for 30 years Then all the sudden you hear a knock at the door and it's a man in a hat that informs you that you broke the pact. He snaps his fingers and the entire house disappears and you are stranded in the middle of a dessert with nothing.
[ "I still don’t know what I did.\n\nIt was the morning of Rachel’s tenth birthday. The bus had already come to take her to school, and I was almost finished packing. It always hurt to leave, but it would hurt worse if I lost my job. So I continued, year after year. I’d missed birthdays, Christmases, and school plays...
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[WP] The main character of your novel is interrogating you about himself.
[ "\"so I'm dead?\"\n\"Yeah, but you can travel through the dream world and...\"\n\"Why would you write a story about a dead little girl?\"she interrupted. \n\"It's because you have a good heart and your innocence has more of a dramatic effect on the reader.\" I said.\n\"Well, can you make me not look so gross? I don...
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[WP] Most people have a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. You have a devil on one shoulder...and something far worse on the other.
[ "I look to my land see my devil on my shoulder trying to convince me to bully the jewish kid i tell the devil to fuck off and then i look to my right and where the angle is supposed to be but i know that its most defienitly not an angle and he tells me to kill the jewish kid in the name of racial supremacy i sigh a...
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[WP] Humanity has evolved into what has been prophesied: a plague. They are now the galactic civilisations’ greatest threat.
[ "2088, It was the year of the great Departure; Humans, the greatest advancement and greatest threat to earth left. Humanity had exhausted all of their precious and useful resources on their home planet leaving nothing but wretchedness and havoc. The last living species had gone extinct and it's last breath recorded...
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[WP] You are the best military sniper. For as long as you can remember, you jave always had perfect aim, never once have you missed. Today you finnaly realize, you have aimbot.
[ "Today was the day. I don't know how long it has been but I was finally called up to the Pentagon. They asked me about my stunning capabilities and all I said was \"I dunno I'm just like this.\" They pulled me into a simulation and suddenly my cross-hairs flicked onto my opponents head. I instantly squeezed the tri...
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[WP] You are the person who decides how a child be , how it will look and what it will do, before it is born.
[ "It’s a tough job being God.\nEvery person I create, \nI then have to monitor them throughout their entire lives to make sure they’re obeying the rules I made.\nIf only I were clever enough to invent a way that I could just create humans and let them look after themselves.\nThat would leave me more time to create ...
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