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[1 Chronicles 11:22](https://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/11-22.htm)
[2 Samuel 23:20](https://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-20.htm) | [WP] The Lion, the Pit, and Benaiah - the story of Benaiah going down into a pit and killing a lion on a snowy day. | [
"Down into the pit, Benaiah goes, \n\nOiled in night, glowing pride, \n\nThe envy for the lion's bride, \n\nCoiled tightly in his belly. \n\n.\n\nBenaiah whispers to his god, \n\nI will take and I will win,\n\nFor war is just the way of men, \n\nAnd silence is his strength, \n\nFor even words cannot stay,\n\nThe ha... | 1 |
[WP] You’re in charge of assigning every child on Earth the monster under their bed. One child in particular has caused every monster assigned to him/her to quit. You decide to assign yourself. | [
"We stare at each other across the room. Her in her fuzzy pink pyjamas. Me in the black suit I had chosen for such a momentous occasion. An occasion that has yet to come.\n\nHow in the name of all that is frightening am I supposed to scare a child who is a monster in her owm right? She just sits there. She sits the... | 1 | |
[WP] A meteorite falls into your yard and you go investigate. What you see is a strange orb and when you reach in to grab it turns into a warm light that goes into your veins. You now have the power to control gravity. You later find out you aren't the only one with powers now. | [
"I was like *\"Hold on, hold on.... is this warm light-goo stuff is a part of me now??\"*. Not only my beautiful grass and flowers were destroyed from the impact, but I got this infection stuff too. I was thinking *\"Let's go inside and calm down the little brother\"* as I rushed inside the house. I opened the door... | 2 | |
Can be as a joke (4chan) or a corporation who wants tax benefits or something. Completely your discretion. | [WP] World Peace has been achieved - Earth is now a single "country" under one government. There is a global vote to pick the new capital of the world. There are some who want to swing this vote... | [
"The decision to form a single world government to represent Earth as a single entity was inevitable and necessary. Earth already had the UN, so it was decided that the UN would be the world \"government\" with each country on earth sending representatives to it as it always had been before. However, the US now had... | 4 |
[WP] You're a package thief, going door to door looking for your latest score. You nab a small cardboard box tucked away behind a few shrubs. You come home, and open it to find several pounds of heroin inside. | [
"You get grand visions of selling on said heroin and retiring rich to some south Pacific Island. You shop the idea around, but as a low level thief, you only know low level fences and incompetent middle men. Having some intelligence, you realize you've bit off more than you can chew, as organized enforcers and cart... | 1 | |
[WP] The enemy of your enemy is a tribe of sentient squirrels and you need their help. | [
"Luna spent all afternoon snooping arround in the woods. After almost a month, she expected the trail to be cold, but not THAT cold. She did this in wolf form, after all, but she couldn’t smell anything. She so wished Jim was here, why on earth did he want to work as a travelling salesman? As if that job was so muc... | 2 | |
[WP] YouTube implements a new feature in which when you watch an ad, you’ll never see it again. Determined, you make it a goal to sit through every single ad. Eventually you succeed, but what you see on your screen afterwards is all too shocking... | [
"I stared at my bright computer my eyes strained and back aching, this was the 7789654th add I had watched. One more to go. I clicked the next button pressed something to prove I was awake and watched with anticipation the last add and i'll be the first too do it. My screen flashed red and white blinding me it grew... | 4 | |
[WP] "I... I need to tell you something, and I know it is going to sound crazy. This is my second time through this life." | [
"“Kaski, Pedro, Diego don’t enlist in the marines” *Nick said with a serious tone seemingly out of place for the characteristics of his personality* \n\n\nPedro: *laughs a little* “oh relax, we’re all going reservist, we’ll be fine. Just grind through half a year of boot camp and uncle same is going to set us up fo... | 1 | |
[WP] As you lie on your deathbed, you reflect on everything you've accomplished in life. You take your last breath, and your surroundings dissolve into darkness, with a dim light in the distance. Upon further inspection, the light is a screen offering two options: "New Game + or Quit" | [
"Well...this was unexpected.\n\nWhen I woke up this morning had I expected to die? Had I expected to end?\n\nFuck no.\n\nYet here I am, laying in the darkness. Suspended. Floating. Thank god I can't feel my body anymore. The car that smashed into me clearly did some damage. Reflecting back on what happened though, ... | 2 | |
[WP] Suddenly over night on the 25th of December. Every gun turns into a candy cane | [
"\"Here's your change, sir. Have a happy christmas.\" I forced a broad smile onto my face as I handed the man his coins. He grinned back, then turned and exited the shop. A bell jingled as the door swung shut, shoving a gust of frigid air into my face. I shivered, then returned my gaze to the clock hanging on the f... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have surrounded earth and declared that they will kill the most intelligent species in less than a day on the planet to reset the balance of the universe. Twenty-four hours later, humans are still left and the earth is now missing jellyfish. | [
"It was, perhaps, insulting to know that during Earth's first alien invasion, it was not the humans they targeted, but the jellyfish. \"What sort of backwards thought process did they have doing on in those swollen heads?\" they cried. \"To value mere neural nets above fully-formed cortical brains!\" Even the mollu... | 2 | |
[WP] We beat pollution. We beat disease. Humanity was rising up, when they arrived and brought us low. I lived to see my home world brought to its knees.... But I will not go out on mine. | [
"I suppose that this was the end. I never thought I'd meet it here, on Luna, with the backdrop of my home planet under siege, the last of the Protectorate's fleet being blasted to smithereens. I never thought I'd ever meet my end, to be honest, and I definitely never thought I'd meet it alone. \n\nFor the past few ... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to make people trip. You use this power to become an expert assassin. | [
"It wasn’t intentional that I became an assassin. My boss tripping and falling on that umbrella was an accident. Yet it was glorious. The feeling of joy I was so wonderful. Very few have known my able, but they were easily taken care of. Mister Simmons just tripped in front of that speeding truck because he was get... | 5 | |
[WP] To create a peaceful utopia everyone lives in their own holographic version of reality populated by holographic variants of real people. You and your S.O. realize at the same moment that neither of you are holograms, your love is real. | [
"“Violet?! You’re….”\n\n“Um, aren’t you supposed to be,”\n\n“real?” said Burton, as Violet said “fake?” simultaneously. \n\n“Well that was cute,” said a third voice neither recognized, words bookended by a chuckle. The confused couple looked up and around, trying to identify the speaker. \n\n“Hello?” Violet called.... | 1 | |
[WP] a hive queen/mother alien gets reincarnated as a human mother and has to adapt to raising a human child | [
"The man who’d claimed to be a healer waved me goodbye. I flipped him my middle finger. After all, he’d charged me two hundred bucks after failing to heal my incessant hunger. \n\nI’d just entered the bus and found a seat, when something very, very weird happened. Like a broken reflection you realize isn’t a reflec... | 2 | |
[WP] "I am here for a good time, not for a long time." The more fun you have, the shorter your lifespan. | [
"People used to live for a long time. Back when life was full of struggle and an endless amount of tedium. That was just the way it was, no questions asked. Time continued its persistent crawl forward and sooner or later these struggles and tedious chores began to disappear from everyday life. People began to enjoy... | 2 | |
[WP] The USA is taken over by superintelligent dogs and becomes the Republic of Beethoven. You are a human tourist from China who is very excited about visiting the Republic of Beethoven for the first time. Your flight arrives at JFK. | [
"---PART 1---\n\nFIRST CONTACT\n\n\nThe moment he stepped into the arrivals terminal, he noticed the pungent odour that governed his surroundings. It snuck into his senses like a silent predator pouncing on it's prey from a hidden stance to get a kill on the first try. \n\nFor a split second, a shiver of regret ran... | 1 | |
[WP] In the far future, you can change your genes to whatever you want. You work at a clinic that does this and the requests just keep getting stranger. | [
"I browsed through the day's projects with Jesse, the new programmer, sitting beside me. He was fresh out of some tiny college that had strict limits on outside communication. Some of those would have been cults or extremists havens; his was just a human purist commune. Somehow he'd gotten a good education and brou... | 1 | |
[WP] You're driving home, flipping through radio stations. Even though you're changing frequencies in the middle of sentences, jingles, and songs, you notice a coherent message. And it's talking directly to you. | [
"The red light blinked on and off on top of the radio tower as you drove towards the outskirts of town. It always blinked on and off, but it was brighter at night. \n\nYou turn on the radio in your car. There weren't too many stations -- there were only two towns close by out here in this part of the desert. You le... | 2 | |
[WP] Pilots start off with a basic hovercraft and, with the help of a personal mechanic, steadily modify it to become a unique racing machine, forming an intimate bond between them. After a race through a thick ion storm, your pilot crashes into the hanger with fire spewing from the engines. | [
"The air is thick with the scent of rubber and hot metal, escaping the dimly lit hanger from wall sized sheet metal doors. The soft voice of Skeeter Dixon wafts from a radio on a desk. Trumpets match the tone of her words, calling out to a lively melody played on a piano. Polished wood panels border dials emitting ... | 1 | |
[WP]You're a U.S. Army chaplain summoned to the CO's office. He tells you, "Very soon, we're going to be fighting, well, monsters. The undead, unholy, minions of Hell. We need good clerics and holy men on the front line." | [
"I snorted. Couldn't help it. \"Padre I'm about as far from a holy man as you can get. I smoke. I drink. I fucked General Abernathy's wife before we left on deployment. Or haven't you noticed my absence at your sermons?\" The priest looked at his hands, and then back at me. His eyes full of resolve. \n\n\"Dark time... | 2 | |
[WP] One day, you are abducted by aliens. They bring you before a multi-galactic tribunal and explain that ‘your primitive species’ is up for judgement and you have been randomly selected to argue humanity’s case. The only problem is that you have only believed in/seen the worst of humanity. | [
"\"Humanity stands accused of damaging the intergalactic space by having inflicted self-harm, that requires constant supervision by the intergalactic compliance officers. We are now red-tagging humanity, and ordering operations to cease and desist. What are your defenses?\"\n\n\"Your honor, may it please the interg... | 1 | |
[WP] A despotic regime controls its populace not by coercion but through illusion. | [
"The Grand Emperor laughed gleefully, cutting a cake for yet another well done job by the capital's workers. They cheered, with the sound so loud it made the TV's speakers crackle ever so slightly, and proceeded to line up to receive their own cake slices.\n\nI sighed. Another boring day, another celebration by the... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story based off your last gaming session | [
"Click. Lock. Load. Fire. \n\n*Why are you still fighting. The Light is gone* \n\nClick. Lock. Load. Fire. \n\n*The Traveler has been taken. The City was lost. We are lost.* \n\nClick. Lock. Load. Fire. \n\n*Just give up*\n\nClick. Lock. Load. Fire. \n\n*Even with the Traveler, we could barely stand against our ene... | 2 | |
[WP] You collect knock-off magic weapons like Excali-blur and Meow-olnir, tell us about your favorite one. | [
"I collect magic weapons from across the multiverse. Unfotunately I tend to only be able to find what some would consider lesser knock offs/ Amoung my collection:\n\nMeow-olnir, A hammer that sounds like cats when swung. \n\nExcali-blur: Whenever you carry it, it’s hard to remember what happened. I think I won it... | 2 | |
[WP] You have slept for time unknown, you have existed long before the recorded histories of the world. Sleeping through eternity, until you stir, awake. “Who dares disturb the rest of Motarion The Ashen one?” A small voice answers meekly, “Uhm, sorry, I’m k-k-Kyle, I touched this shiny stone oops.” | [
"“OOPS?” I thundered. “WHAT WITCHERY IS THIS? BACK NOW, FOOL! Take back your spell of the ancient OOPS or I shall end you!” \n\nI wiped some dirt off my arm. Hmm. I was smaller than I remembered, a bit wimpier. But it was human form, as I’d always had a liking for this form. \n\n“I’m sorry, um, I have a rock collec... | 2 | |
[WP] You can bring inanimate objects to life but with a catch. The object’s personality depends on yours when you animate it. If you’re angry when you animate it, so will the object. You are the angriest you’ve been in your entire life and you happen to be standing next to the Statue of Liberty. | [
"\"YOU DID WHAT??\"\n\nThe world is red. I'm screaming, but I can barely register the sounds coming out of my own throat. They sound far away, like they're the shout of some other madman locked in a place where he can't ever find the key. The anger is real, though, and close; it sings a battle cry through my veins.... | 1 | |
[WP]You live in an action movie, not as the hero or even the henchmen, but some normal civilian trying to get to work. You’re keeping a journal about how tired of seeing gunfights and car chases you are. | [
"---\nAugust 14, 2018\n\n\"There's no way a pistol holds that many bullets in one clip,\" Bret says.\n\n\"What the hell? That is physically impossible? There's no way he just shot that guy while falling from a car that just miraculously jumped over a burning fuel truck! Are you kidding me?\" Bret cries while we're ... | 1 | |
[WP] In the far-off future, a floating city is built, designed to drift through the seas, occasionally docking to the coast to resupply. It went missing. A story passed down from your grandparents, you never really believed it...until you saw it on the horizon. | [
"*“...And every 100 years, Amaryllis will return to the shores of this island, to take what it may need, and who it may need. Then, back into the skies it goes.”*\n\n*“Wow!” Five-year-old me smiled, taking in my Grandma’s story with eager eyes. “Is that stuff real?”*\n\n*“Yes, dearie,” she replied. She looked out o... | 1 | |
[WP] After serving 17 years for a crime you didn’t commit, your conviction is overturned. While you were incarcerated, the laws on compensation have changed and you are now entitled to commit crimes worth 17 years behind bars and keep the ill-gotten gains. | [
"Did you know there are at least 2,602 inmates currently on Death Row? How many of those cases did you watch on TV? How many has your newspaper reported on? \n\nWe’re America’s trash, chewed up by society from birth and given a home behind these walls. We come and go. Every time worse than the last. A few years or ... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re hanging at your house with your best friend over 12 years. He suddenly stutters mid sentence & falls over. You rush over to check on your friend, but notice a red blinking light on their neck. You call 9-1-1 & before you can say anything to the operator, 10 people bust into your home! | [
"“Hello...? Are you there?” \n\n\nI could hear the operator speaking, but it didn’t register in my brain. I lowered the phone from my ear and rushed over to my friend. I raised the phone to my ear again to finally speak, but I didn’t get a single word out before I heard a loud crack and saw a huge chunk of my front... | 2 | |
[WP] You're a supervillian who has captured your nemesis, but your monologue for them is different this time. Its an apology. | [
"\"Let me go, you witch!\" Aldous strained against the ropes holding him down. Unfortunately, his muscles only threatened to break through his shirt rather than the enchanted ropes ensnaring him.\n\n\"Always with the names,\" Braith sighed. She walked around to the front of the fallen hero, bent over slightly to ge... | 9 | |
Apperntly *italics* did jack for the title, so yeah. | [WP] You turn a corner and accidentally peer through the fourth wall only to see... *them.* | [
"\"Hi Daddy,\" Jill said to me, her voice wobbly as the sounds rippled through the thin cloudy wall in front of me. A wall that seemed to be billions of miles thick, and on the other side, my family, and Mr. Haply, and the others that came to see me wake from my year of Trance Work stood just an arm's length away.\... | 1 |
[WP] A mobster uses their city-wide influence to better people's lives. Typically in small ways. | [
"George bit his tongue to keep his teeth from clattering together. A primal fear squeezed his back in a vise and pulled his eyelids back. His heart ricocheted around his chest like a cannonball and his breaths were short and fast. Each blink of his too-wide, involuntary gaze caused the roar of blood in his ears ... | 9 | |
[WP] As the last of the settlers exited through the mountain pass to safety you stayed behind. You only had to hold off the barbarian horde for a few hours. You've held the pass for 3 years. It seems they will break through at any moment... | [
"The last three years had been strange for the Spearman.\n\nHe marked the notch on his year tree and double checked it to make sure. Three years. Such a long time to be alone without his family and his people. \n\nAt least his God was still with him.\n\nHe felt the hand of his lord upon him from time to time. It re... | 1 | |
[WP] Humanity sends a generation ship to explore the nearest star system. 200 years later, scientists discover faster means of space travel and catch up to the original ship who hadn’t reached its destination yet, only to discover that it has changed its destination and is heading back to earth. | [
"James never kept his eyes open during a jump. There was no good reason, others had and reported beautiful tricks of light and shadow intermingling, but James felt it was unnatural moving through space after it was disconnected from time so his stayed closed. He never told anyone, who could imagine a navigator trav... | 2 | |
[WP] A loud voice goes over the intercom of an office building, stating that "The next ten people to leave this building will die." There are 11 people currently in the building. | [
"First there went Johnny, terminally sick.\n\nThen they threw out Terry, who was kind of a dick.\n\nElaine went out next, having lived a long life.\n\nAnd Joe was persuaded by way of a knife.\n\nMary volunteered, as she had no kids.\n\nAnd with straws being drawn, soon they kicked out Sid\n\nMeg took her chances an... | 1 | |
[Wp] Exactly one year ago the jury acquitted you of the murder charges. Today you received a thank you letter from a young child. You decide to write back. | [
"Definitly not the best but I was bored at work and thought \"why not?\"\n\n​\n\nThe letter made me cry, picking it up again I looked at the childish drawings and I remembered the past I had tried to forget. \n\nI had been only sixteen at the time, I knew it was only a little while ago but it felt like a... | 1 | |
The idea of the multiverse represented as an infinite archive guarded by giant, omnicidal arachnoids had been bouncing around in my head for a little while now. | [WP] After a night of drinking, you wake up in a very large library, at your feet, a gun and a hastily written note stating 'Run, the archive keepers will kill you'. You then noticed the horse sized arachnoid staring at you. | [
"Thud.\n\nThud.\n\nThud.\n\nFor the moment everything in my world is a blinding thud in my brain. No time, no weight, only pain. It is in these moments I really detest my decision making skills. I wrack my mind in between thuds to figure out exactly what happened last night.\n\nAfter a few excruciating, and unhelpf... | 2 |
[WP] You were separated at birth and 25 years later find out your twin is a famous actor. You’re going to kill him and take over his life. | [
"\"I mean, aren't you? You'd be rich and famous and no one would suspect a thing,\" said Bill.\n\nAnd that was when I realized Bill was not a good friend. Friends don't tell friends to kill long lost siblings in half baked plans. I paused for a second before answering.\n\n\"...No. That would never work. For one thi... | 2 | |
[WP] The nukes fell. You stare down at the wasteland that was once your hometown, thanking your lucky stars for all the lead and asbestos in your apartment's walls, which has shielded you from the radiation. Somehow, your cell phone rings. It's your boss. Je wants you to come into work tomorrow. | [
"I'm huddled tight against this low hanging concrete wall shiverring furiously as my eyes stare locked unable to waver at the charred corpse of my wife in front of me. The fumes fill my nostrils and a red hood of darkness blankets the sky. \n\nEverything is dead, I guess I won't have to worry about what to cook for... | 3 | |
[WP] A race of angel-like bird people whose intelligence was greater than human was said to exist on Earth, but they're only legend. You find a clutch of eggs hidden in some bushes one day and decide to incubate them, when they hatch you realize the Avians are more than myth. | [
"The scrabbling on the inside of this egg kept me up. Claws scratching? Several dice rolling around inside? I had kept a torch beside my bed cabinet, flicking it on when another episode erupts. Perhaps this creature had slitted eyes and poisonous teeth. I could imagine the shrieks I would say when looking upon that... | 1 | |
[WP]After your puberty started, you discovered that any sense you deprived yourself of, applied to others in regards to you (e.g you close your eyes, nobody can see you). One day, as your eyes are closed, somebody taps your shoulder and asks "Why is everybody acting like the can't see you?" | [
"Lying on a bed, a boy finds feeling.\n\nHis eyes are closed, and he is daydreaming. He dreams that he is floating in the most majestic sea. Here he stays, alone and content, like he always has. Escaping the harsh and cold truth that was this reality. This tomb. And this reality had certain rules, rules that held e... | 3 | |
[WP] You are one of the most popular horror novelists in your time. One by one, creatures from your books start appearing in your dreams. One day, as you wake up, you notice your room door is open. | [
"Carlos was so beautiful in his sleep. The moment I knew I had really fallen in love with him was after we had spent the night one summer during grad school and I lay awake watching his chest rise and fall as he slept. Something inside me clicked...I could easily imagine giving up the rest of my life for this man. ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are born at your maximum age and progressively get younger until you die at age 0. Based on your age when you are born, you know exactly how many years you have to live. You are born at 15. | [
"*04/14/2100*\n\nIt's my birthday today. Exactly one year ago I emerged from one of the cells of the Prism. I remember the moment so vividly, how I awoke gasping for breath and shivering in my nakedness, of being unable to open my eyes which were stunned by the bright white of the walls. I was bound at my wrists mu... | 1 | |
[WP] Each time you have a dream and wake from it, something of that dream becomes a reality. It started as little things, that made you think it was Deja Vu, but now, some really drastic things have come to pass and you're afraid to go back to sleep. | [
"It started with what seemed like coincidences. Someone would gift me something I obtained in a dream or a school would do a renovation, much to the controversy of the town. Eventually, things like a warehouse that warped the space on the inside, or a house in the woods that made the ground float around it, convinc... | 2 | |
[WP] You are part of an insurgent group. Thing is, you're insurgents in an anarchic country, and you're all desperately trying to get arrested. | [
"“You think it’ll work this time?” My friend looked over at me, gun in hand. \n\n\n“Definitely. This crime is impossible to simply walk out of.” I said, preparing a device. \n\n\nWe climbed the building and slipped into the Penthouse. The Penthouse was where our ”ruler” lived. Well, to be fair, he doesn’t rule all ... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist has prematurely died to an unfortunate (and rather embarrassing) accident. The rest of the story isn't quite sure how to react to this -- this wasn't part of the script. | [
"\"Jack was happy. His promotion was ensured, days away and he needed it. With it, his dream of slipping on a banana peel, falling onto a spike that killed him instantly hang on. That wasn't his dream, why is this here? That happened? His promotion was based on his ability to not slip on banana peels, and he's DEAD... | 1 | |
[WP] you’ve seen the signs, you did all the calculations and they all point to one idisputibel conclusion. Tuesday’s don’t exist, and they never have. | [
"\"What great thing happens on Tuesday anyway ? Maybe your salsa night, but let's be honest, you didn't went that often, and, actually, you can't remember the last time you went. You're probably pretty sure that your 18th birthday was a Tuesday, but, actually, that was a Monday, and the party was during the weekend... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re the head of an alien race’s space program. The rover you deployed 10 years ago has been endlessly exploring sandy dunes on a planet. Your rover just transmitted a video message it has captured. You play it and hear “What’s this little robot doing here in the middle of the Sahara desert?” | [
"\"What's this little robot doing here in the middle of the Sahara Desert?\"\n\n\"What's this little robot doing here in the middle of the Sahara Desert?\"\n\n\"What's this little robot doing here in the middle of the Sahara Desert?\"\n\nKalgan sighed and rolled his eyes. \n\n\"Replaying it a million times is not g... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to a rapid, unexplained genetic mutation, water now causes an intoxication effect similar to alcohol. Humans must now balance their water intake to stay alive, but still keep society functional on some level. | [
"\"Thank god\" I spouted in between the spray of vomit \"I have been waiting for that for so long.\" \n\n\nAbout 5 miles to be exact. You know PT used to be a lot less nauseating until **δ** day. It was already bad enough having to run hungover almost every morning, but now \\*water\\* gets you fucked up? God I... | 2 | |
[WP] Meet Bob. Bob is immortal but not in the usual way, he is actually blessed by luck. No matter what happens, Bob can never be harmed, without his knowledge, reality will bend so that nothing bad happens to him, like a gun jamming if it's pointed at him. He is blissfuly unaware of his power. | [
"It’s a normal day at the office and Bob from accounting is busy as a bee with tax season just around the corner. His desk, being next to the break room, is a hotspot for over hearing gossip from all over the office. \n\n“Ruth in HR is dating janitor Mike.” \n“Oh shit really! Mike is way to sexy for Ruth.”\n\nBod t... | 2 | |
[WP] It is the year 2060. Humanity has prospered in a utopia where individuals are entitled to privacy of their intellectual property and data. However, that all changes today as you stumble across a viral link to a dead website: Facebook. | [
"\"Facebook?\"\n\nHunter remembered when he was a 13 year old over five decades ago.\n\n\"Hey guys, I'mmmmn late!\" read his first Facebook post.\n\nHe remembered the first words he typed for his own post as if it were yesterday. Despite being rebellious, he always had exceptions. Meeting the minimum age requiremen... | 1 | |
[wp] like many legendary musicians before you, you sold your soul to the devil. In exchange for iconic status and fame you agreed the devil could take your soul by the end of your 27th year. You just woke up....on your 28th birthday. | [
"So there was that. The afterlife. Hell, from what I could gather; it was hot, I was in pain, and I felt something deeply wrong with my body. My head throbbed, and my eyes burned. I craved for water. Come to think of it, that feeling was quite familiar -- I should have realized sooner that I was just terribly hungo... | 1 | |
[WP] An astronaut and cosmonaut are on the International Space Station when their countries go to Nuclear War with each other. Their last orders are to eliminate the other... | [
"\"So this is how it ends,\" she said, tears streaming.\n\nThere was nothing left to say. My entire world had fallen apart.\n\nJust days before we were madly in love. She completed the world for me. Months before we were in that flirting-anything could happen stage, and a year ago she was the brunette at that comp... | 2 | |
[WP]You are visiting your grandparents' house in northern Illinois for the 2018 Thanksgiving. You just found a worn down $100 confederate bill tucked away in a shoebox. You dive into the animus to find out how your ancestors came into possession of this bill. | [
"As Abigail walked to the Animus, a million thoughts filled her head. “Perhaps my ancestor killed a confederated soldier at Gettysburg and found the bill on his body. Maybe he was a medic that saved a confederate who repaid him for his kindness with the money. Or maybe even he was a statesmen sent to the south to f... | 1 | |
[WP] Walking in a field under the full moon, you look up. A dark cloud passes and you catch a glimpse of an ancient shadow that has pursued you across lifetimes. A soft foot falls beside you and you feel a cold wet nose in your hand... | [
"Life is full of little mysteries. Everyone believes that your life is from point A to point B with absolutely zero deviation. You're born and then one day you die. Zero deviation. Regardless of what God you may or may not believe in, what morals and ethics you choose or not choose to follow, the constant remai... | 1 | |
[WP] “Hello dad? Yeah, I locked myself inside the storage room. The armed men don’t know I’m here yet. But they’re looking for me. Please help me. All I have here is a fire extinguisher, some zip ties, a box of pencils, a bar of soap, and paper clips. What do I do?” | [
"\"Alright, son, here's what you're going to do.\"\n\nI breathed a sigh of relief. Dad's plans were nothing if not inventive--and always foolproof. \"I'm listening, Dad.\"\n\n\"Okay... Remember what your mother and I told you about pencils? You *never* stick them into an electrical socket. They flare up, get hot as... | 1 | |
[WP] You go back in time and spend your life eliminating all mass religions from the start, convinced it slowed mankind dramatically. Finally, after decades, you made it and travel back to the present, year 2018. | [
"When we materialized, I immediatly knew something wasn't right. This was a heavilly populated area when we embarked on the mission, but now we were standing in tall grass, surrounded by nothing but the local wildlife. Our wherehouse simply didn't exist anymore.\r\n\r\nJames checked our coordinates, and turned whit... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, while exploring deep in the woods, you find a rusty mailbox, with a single letter addressed to you... | [
" I stood there staring at the letter. All the envelope read was Riley D. Ryder. This couldn't be. Everyone who knew of this place was dead, I knew that, I was there when they died. Who knew that name? \n\n\"What did you find?\" called the commander, a hard man about as warm as a glacier. \n\n\"Nothing Sir\" I call... | 1 | |
[WP] An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon. She mistakes him for her gothic-phase teenage grandson and takes care of him. The demon decides to stay at his new home. | [
"Why Florence never bothered to label her spice rack correctly has been bothering her family ever since the incident. It was such a simple mistake, but the price was terrible. 'Chicken and Chorizo with paprika and red wine' was on the menu tonight, and Florence was wholeheartedly looking forward to it. And this is ... | 2 | |
[WP] There's a girl in your dreams who always looks sad. Eventually you learn she isn't supposed to be in your dreams. | [
"**Forget Me**\n\nA bottle on the desk. The bed neatly made, but rarely used. The idea of willingly trying to sleep was beyond him. Every night instead, a desperate fight to stay awake. Online videos. Video games. Chatting with old friends. Maybe if he had more booze, she’d finally leave him alone. He’d of course e... | 1 | |
[WP] the inhabitants of sentinel island are so aggressive because they have been charged with protecting the world from a terrible secret hidden there | [
"Buried deep within that grassy hide \nAre shadow-stones wrought from Keldonyde.\n\nTo He these are treasures to admire, \nfruits of the Giants’ ancient ire. \n\nAye those of the island Sentinel \nkeep us safe and guard us well, \nbut if they care no one can tell. \n\nFor inhabitants there, indeed, do breathe\nbut ... | 1 | |
[WP] After years of being mistreated by her step-family, a young woman is visited by her fairy godmother. But she is not sent to the ball. Instead, the young woman is given control over fire and sent out with a new purpose, to burn down those who would hurt her, and a new name: Cinderella. | [
"I should have realised when my sister received the first lashings across her face.\n\nAt the time, I wanted nothing to do with it. I covered my eyes, rushing toward my room and cleaning up my toys, staying hidden and out of sight as she got beaten for not doing things we should have cooperated on as a family. As h... | 1 | |
[WP] Identical twins, one a super hero, the other a super villain with the exact same power meet up home for thanksgiving | [
"I sit it a wheelchair, legs unable to move. My hands are cuffed together, shacked as I am with despair. My long brown hair tied back in a ponytail as is the standard regulation. I am in a small room with a large metal table in front of me. The walls are bare of decoration. Uninviting to the eye. Of course, it is m... | 3 | |
[WP] An amendment was made to the Constitution. Citizens can now only use firearms and weapons that were around in the revolutionary war. A group of criminals with modern weapons breaks into your house, hoping for an easy score. Little did they know you were prepared for this moment. | [
" Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. \n\nFour ruffians break into my house. \"What the devil?\" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a basketball ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entire... | 3 | |
[WP] You check your Fitbit app one day, and it shows you were awake for 5 hours in the middle of the night last night. In fact, it shows long periods of activity every night for the past week. That's odd, you don't remember any of this... | [
"Day 2:\n\nI woke up at 6:45am as groggy as usual, another exciting day of Accounting. Yay. At 25, I really thought there would be more to life than this - work, sleep, repeat. Determined not to punch snooze again and risk being late for work like yesterday, I forced myself to sit up...and then stand up. The bed ca... | 1 | |
[WP] After arriving for your first deployment in a middle eastern country, you're confused when the opening helicopter door reveals not a desert, but the humid jungles of Vietnam. | [
"\"What the hell!\" I mumbled under my breath\n\n\"What'd you say Airman?\" Commanded the Captain\n\n\"I said, what the fucking hell!\"\n\nMy enlistment was almost over, and I spent the overwhelming majority of it in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, AKA Minot Air Force Base. Years went by, and I saw deployment slot a... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an emperor, resting on your bed. As you're lying there, your extended family enters the room. | [
"So comfy\n\nLying on a bed\n\nSo happy\n\nChewing on bread\n\n​\n\nCRUNCH!!\n\nThe bread is too hard\n\n​\n\nThen, the voice of the guard:\n\nHark!\n\nWho goes there?\n\n​\n\nIt is I, your cousin and nephews\n\nand your nieces\n\nOur potatoes, it decreases\n\n​\n\nBegone... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a student in high school, your class has been put in detention, however the teacher has added a twist, the student who can come up with the most ridiculous excuse to leave can leave. | [
"\"I have to take a shit!\"\n\nThe classroom erupted with laughter, echoing off the bland concrete blocks that lined the inside the room. I saw the teacher planting her face in her palm and shaking her head, undoubtedly already regretting her silly decision to trap us in this hellish prison.\n\n\"Of course someone ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the world's first human born with edited DNA. You were born with no defects and had a healthy, happy childhood. It was only when puberty set in that the glitches started happening... | [
"The first time I knew something was up was when I woke up at 3 AM, my head throbbing from\nsome obscenely loud noise that I could not quite\nplace. And there it was again. A constant pulse, something fuzzy and resonant that I seemed to feel with every atom of my body. \n\nThere was more. A hiss that sounded like I... | 1 | |
[WP] One day an old aquaintence texts you "6". You think it was a mistake and ignore it, until the next many old contacts and some unknown numbers text you "5". | [
"I get a lot of accidental text messages, that's the biggest problem when your name starts with an A. Since I'm the first in their contact list, I'm the first for their butt to select when it wants to send a message. Usually it's just a lot of junk, random letters but with the invention of autocompletion I sometime... | 1 | |
[WP] The library says you have an overdue book. You ask to take a look at the records. The check-out date is before you were born. The signature is yours. | [
"First ever try, so feedback is very welcome (btw not a native English speaker).\n\nI checked it and checked it again. By now I looked at the records at least ten times. \"There must be something wrong.\" I protested in my head. But I was feeling oddly uncomfortable, I was getting this odd feeling you get when your... | 2 | |
[WP] They joked over Alabama, but little they know that in Alabama there are other type of species disguised as humans. | [
"The small towns are vampire colonies, the woodland cabins are werewolves homes, the high rise apartments are demon clans and the cities... that’s where the monarchy live. \n\nMost people think Alabama is a US state, but it’s not, it’s where the creatures of the night live, hunt and breed. The reason you never hear... | 1 | |
[WP] In the future those that grow to an old age are given a pill that makes them young again only for their final day alive. | [
"Looking around I try to get a sense of my surroundings. The room looks all too familiar, from a time long passed. \n\nAttempting to sit up, I’m pulled back to the bed by thick leather restraints. They dig into my skin causing me to gasp in shock. \n\n“Where am I?” \n\nMy voice was audibly higher pitched.\n\n“You’r... | 1 | |
[WP] You're earth's first ambassador on a mission to - what you heard is - the most peaceful planet in the galaxy. When you meet that planet's ambassadors you notice their peculiar greeting: licking a doorknob on your ship. Suddenly you remember that Spongebob quote and wonder who they really are | [
"I had thought from the moment i stepped aboard their shiop, something was off. This had only confirmed it “Okay, who hell are you really? Do you expect me to believe extra terrestrials weigh 200 pounds and quote spongebob?” The “alien” snickered and looked at me, replying “Well..for a normie your pretty smart” Tha... | 1 | |
RPG can be tabletop, video game, etc. | [WP] You're playing an RPG when you hear a knock at your door. You open it, and your character is there. | [
"It was Super Mario because if you're like me, you haven't played any video games since childhood. The only thing that rolls off your tongue is, \"Mario, where the fuck princess is now?\"\n\nAnd you wake up, realizing that your interaction with Mario was all a dream, and then you more deeply realize that being a hu... | 4 |
[WP] A great evil power was sealed away. 1,000 years later, the great evil is reawakened to combat a new evil. | [
"*Kinallis, Kingdom of Orellia. 884 B.C.*\n\n**\"YOU FOOLS! MY POWER IS UNLIMITED! I POSSESS THE POWER OF THE SHARD!\"**\n\nThe lich known only as the Colin stood triumphant in a field of debris, mangled corpses, and slightly less mangled undead. All that remained of the magical vault in Kinallis was a magical crat... | 1 | |
[WP] Two writers are locked in a battle to bring equilibrium to the universe. One writes wholesome stories, the other writes depressing ones. | [
"I have a mortal enemy. I know it sounds really melodramatic to say that but this time it's actually true. We have been at war for centuries now, and people have died over it. Let me explain to you how it all started, it will be easier to understand this way. It all started when she transformed a mom into a wolf an... | 1 | |
[WP]A holy figure comes down from the sky. He raises his hands enthusiastically. "I'm back!" | [
"\nA holy figure comes down from the sky. He raises his hands enthusiastically. “I’m back!” News agencies around the world begin filming. Government officials from around the world fly in to see the validity of this so called “Second Coming.” DNA tests are done on the bearded fellow, and they all show he is the one... | 1 | |
[WP] Growing up, you remember the time when a songbird took up residence in your attic. Many years later at a family reunion, your sister informs you that your old home never, in fact, had an attic. | [
" She paused, hand stalled in the air, lightly clenched. This was absurd, ridiculous and a bunch of other words that she couldn’t spell. Of course there was an attic, she hadn’t needed to come back to the old house, she’d just be disturbing whoever lived there now. This was stupid.\n\n “You alright there?” A frail... | 1 | |
[WP] One day while touring Antarctica, you notice a shiny round object sticking out from the snow. You pick up the coin and see the inscription "SPQR". Everything we knew about the Roman Empire is about to change. | [
"I look down into the snow and see something else flirting below me. \nI kneel down and brush as a the snow, to reveal a device that resembles pistol of unknown design and origin, also engraved with the letters 'SPQR'.\n\n I pick it up, and, on a whim, point it at a nearby hill and pull the trigger.\nThe blast send... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re working on a railroad, you go to put a metal rod in its place and an explosion occurs. You’re knocked out for a bit and when you come too you find that you have a hole in your head. | [
"\n\nyou wake up disoriented and confused and realize youre in the 1800 hundred and your name is phineas gage.\nThere is an overwhelming desire for you to find your tamping rod and get everyone back to work. Here it is nearly 25 yards away, my old trusty tamping rod. Something is bothering you though...weren't you ... | 1 | |
[WP] It is 3 am and you are alone in your house when you awake to an unusual thirst, you walk the corridor guided only by the moonlight when you suddenly stop before the kitchen's door, your body is desperately urging you not to enter that room... | [
"3:21am. Another 3 hours before work. My mind could’ve woken me up for something more interesting: like a raccoon in my trash, or a bear looking through my fridge. Instead, it was just a full bladder and a dry throat. \n\nMy bedroom door creaked as I closed it behind me. The moonlight shone through the kitchen door... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a college student who has accidentally created the world first sentient AI. You decide not to share this, so you go through college with an AI as your best friend. Today is the day you graduate and the day that it gets access to its body, and most importantly, the day you reveal it. | [
"Months ago I created life. Not in it's more traditional form, but a living being made of non-biological parts. I have kept him hidden, not sure how to approach exposing him to the outside world. Yes, I said him. I've ran too many social simulations to doubt his consciences. He started as a program, then I was able... | 2 | |
[WP] You have been transported into a video game. A disembodied voice says the next room holds the first boss fight, and a screen asks you to pick your class, armor, weapon, and abilities. The choices are unconventional... and less than helpful. | [
"The hell was I? All was inky black in every direction.\n\n\n*Welcome to AS online. Please pick your character class*\n\nThe voice seemed to come from everywhere at once.\n\n\"My character class? Is this some kind of game? I'm a fucking accountant with 3 kids and a mortgage. I don't have time for stupid-\"\n\n\n*Ne... | 2 | |
[WP] You are his reflection. One day you overslept, and didn't get to the bathroom mirror in time. Now, you must explain your mistake to the 'High Reflections Council'... | [
"\"Oh come on, it's not a big deal. He didn't even notice!\"\n\n\"Not a big deal? NOT A BIG DEAL!? Do you have any idea what kind of jeopardy you put us in? If the Firstlings find out about our existence can you begin to imagine what they'll do to us?\"\n\n\"I know, I know. I'm not an amateur. But do you have any i... | 1 | |
[WP] you are a minion who has found a book of rules, containing how to be the best villain ever. Such as “don’t monologue, just shoot them” and “don’t make your weakness obvious. Just lie about it” | [
"It was a long day-- boss had been out doing something diabolical, very hush-hush. Usually his plans involve a few senior minions who in turn direct the lower ranks like myself, keeps it efficient and we get the job done. But today he was out by himself said something about it being too risky and dangerous. He didn... | 1 | |
[WP] In your adolescence, and struggling with depression, you hired a hitman on yourself to take you out at an undisclosed time. Since then, you've become much happier and have found yourself in a better place. This morning, you woke up with a text from an unknown number on your phone: "It's done." | [
"\"It's done\"\n\nI'm initially confused, but the memory of when I was a teen on the black web is brought back in blurs and fragmented memories. I was trying to find a way to escape my thoughts permanently, and while that was years ago, I'm at a place where I can tolerate my thoughts now. \n\nThe thoughts of death ... | 11 | |
[WP] "The bell does not excuse you, I do!" your math teacher said that over a week ago, and is doing everything he can to keep anyone from leaving. | [
"I’m not really very concerned about a detention, it’s the FAL she’s got pointed at the class that’s mainly keeping me in this room. The mad bitch just keeps repeating the same same eight words “The bell does not excuse you, I do”, I didn’t think any substitute took control of her class seriously enough to enforce ... | 1 | |
[WP] I remember the first time that I died... | [
"I remember the first time that I died\n\n‘t was the first time I went outside\n\nWhen I left my mother’s nest\n\nIt was painful, really, let me tell the rest\n\n​\n\nA mangy carcass smashed by a truck\n\nBlood, gore and awful bad luck\n\nWhen I drew my last breath\n\nI was brought back from the dead\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover a mailbox that allows you to send letters to yourself 10 years ago. | [
"*silently gazing at the letter he’d just spent the better part of a year perfecting, 2018-John drops the small white envelope into the mailbox post-marked with neighborhood graffiti.* \n \n*it doesn’t take long before 2018 John says to himself in a low voice,* \n“Ha! I’m definitely an asshole.” \n*As he sudden... | 1 | |
[WP] The new trend in personal training: literally swapping bodies and training personally. | [
"“So, what are your goals for personal training?” I asked.\n\n“I wanna look like this,” she said, holding out her phone. The girl in the photo had a tiny waist and huge butt. Probably photoshopped. I compared the woman sitting across from me. She already looked similar - dyed blonde hair parted in the middle, thick... | 1 | |
[WP] Your friend calls you after a party, desperately begging you to erase a picture you took of them there. You find the photo on your phone, only to discover that there is a completely different person where your friend should be. | [
"The silence of my room was interrupted by a sharp ring. My hand clumsily dived for the phone; missing the target in the first attempt. \"Dude\" the phone said \"I need you to delete the photos you took last night\". Memories came pouring through, breaking through my drunken faze. The person speaking was Fred, a fr... | 1 | |
[WP]When your grandfather died, he gave you his reading glasses. Feeling lonely you put them on only to discover an entirely different world. | [
"Even after all these years, I can still remember his last look, the look that carried him into death. It was, in his final minutes, a perpetual yet subtle cringe, a lessening of the width of his eyes that a lay person couldn’t have noticed. But to me, the only family by his side, the sadness in his narrowed eyes s... | 1 | |
[WP] “You’re fired!” *Turns in badge and gun* “you’re a waiter, where did you get those??” *you’re response: “you mean you’ve never needed them? How did you do this job?!” | [
"I tossed my badge onto his desk, then set my gun down next to it. I’d been fired. \n\nMy boss was visibly shaken. “What is this?” He motioned to my badge.\n\n“My badge.”\n\n“No.” He motioned again, agitated. “This!”\n\nOh, he meant the gun. I shrugged. “My gun.”\n\n“We didn’t give you a gun! F’r godsakes, you’re j... | 1 | |
[WP] The Library of Alexandria never burned. It was stolen by the greatest thief of all time. You. | [
"Here’s the thing, I didn’t steal it the whole thing was a lot easier then that. It was a hell of a thing all I needed was a Roman uniform a confident deep voice and balls as big as the colossus of Rhodes. The whole thing took one hour in and out, I did leave a fire as a gift for the Rozzers but apart from that no ... | 1 | |
[WP] The aliens' arrival was the the single biggest turning point in human history. That's still nothing compared to the chaos it unleashed on the aliens' society. | [
"Humans. Despicable creatures. They're worse than vermin. When we made contact, we thought it would be no big deal. Buisness as usual. Most species stick to their own systems, maybe have some colonies on newly terraformed planets. Not humans, though. I suppose there's something admirable about their ability to spre... | 2 | |
Please nothing too gorey, or anything that breaks rule 4. I will make sure to give some feedback on all submissions. Thanks in advance! | [WP] You've always heard the expression "I'd tell you, but I'd have to kill you." You knew it wasn't literally. One day your friend says the phrase, and after begging him to tell you, and after he does, he pulls out a knife and says, "You don't listen, do you?" | [
"\"So, what's her name?\" I asked, hoping for a response. Tim stared at his feet, grinning slightly.\n\n\"Nah, I can't tell you that. Not yet, anyway.\"\n\n\"You're not going to tell your best friend about the girl you've been dating for ages? All I know is that she exists. I feel so hurt.\" I pouted animatedly. Th... | 1 |
[WP] 2018, knowing her term in office is almost up, invites the young 2019 out for lunch at a pub to explain how the job works. At the next table 1960 is buying 1930 a meal, lending a sympathetic ear, when a gang of smart alec kids saunter in looking for trouble. Its the 1980s. | [
"The small room was stinted by depression so thick you could cut it with a knife. Last years winner of the cup sat across a small wooden table from this years winner. She was talking to her new friend about her new role in society. \n\nThe position 2019 was to fill is not a sought after position as many would make ... | 1 |
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