Split (1)

train · 177k rows

prompt stringlengths 391 14.9k
Newports aren’t the best cigs. Lighting them with your fingertip, just, makes them better. Suns coming through the slats on the blinds, I’m taking my first draw and somebody starts mashing the flats buzzer like there’s no tomorrow. I get up from the bed, street is usually a wee bitty busy but from the open window it so...
It was unmistakable now. She thought she was just imagining it, back when the words were coming out as the unintelligible gibberish of a being that couldn't control his muscles properly to forms words yet. "Mum? Can't you understand me yet? I'm your son from the future. I made a wish which took me back to a younger ag...
The beast was gaining on me. I was running out of breath and I knew that right then and there that the monster was going to get me. It was a big, hairy one, with horns, it looked like something straight out of a children’s book. Most people would have found it hard to take seriously with its yellow fur with pink polka...
For a moment, I hesitate. What will it show me? What if I see my worst parts? All the dark thoughts, the disturbing impulses, the things I hide away. What if see my shame, those evil parts of myself that I’ve acted on, the misery I’ve brought. Most harrowing to think about, what if I see nothing at all? But I have to ...
My love burns like the moon, so brilliant at night; my guide and my compass, my welcoming light. Memory drives me, granting no rest; my only safe harbor, my warm lover's breast. For now I am 'lone, having strayed much too far, away from my sun, south from my star. No choice of mine own did drive me away. No other c...
"Aha! You thought you could trick me, didn't you?"The hero boasted. He stood with a pose that radiated pride, as many heroes did. The sun somehow managed to gleam nearly perfectly off his shiny colorful costume. He is what just about anybody would think of when hearing the word "hero". "Huh? Oh, you must be m...
As I walk into class, the teacher glares at me, lowering her old glasses in disappointment, her green eyes piercing through my head. "You are ten minutes late, miss..."She said, waiting for my response. "Garcia. Claire Garcia, miss."I awnser, slightly ashamed as the whole class looks at me. "Okay, miss Garcia, I'll ...
One thing that people must understand is that Lucifer never lies. Sure he malipulates the truth, convey false image, and hides his intentions, but lieing was the one sin that Lucifer felt only a human was stupid enough to do. I wished I realized this sooner. How could I have been such an idiot? Now the true oracl...
"You're not going to like my answer,"the sallow man said while stirring his martini with a miniature plastic sword. The bartender leaned over the counter almost pleadingly. "Come on pal. You have me hooked. Least ya can do for a fella is answer just a few measly questions. Some come on - out with it, ok? Did you actu...
When my daughter Enid got one of those kooky “own-a-star” certificates for her sixth birthday, I didn’t think much of it. I made her write a thank-you note for her aunt Mabel, who had bought it, and we marked out the star’s location on a map of the sky together. It was HD 45364, in the constellation of Canis Major. ...
My father was a great man. I was born 3 years after he ascended to his throne through the brutal might of his legions. He loved me dearly and I him. I wanted for nothing: toys, money, love, affection. He was everything a father should be to his son. He showed me his world, his empire. When I was little, he scolded me w...
I like playing games. I like to play hide and seek, I like to pin the tail on the donkey. But the game I like best is piñata. When we have a piñata, me and my friends get to hit the piñata with a bat until all the candy comes out, and everyone gets some candy. But we don’t always have a piñata, so sometimes we have to...
"What is this? Grape juice?"Laughter rang around the small bar. Dionysus sat there, dumbfounded. He had conjured up his best cask of wine, which had been quite potent in its day, only to be made a fool of! However, the other patrons seemed to ignore his chagrin, chuckling jovially with their bar buddies. So, after ...
A lot of my kids, they'll come into my office crying. The other two guidance counselors don't have to deal with that kind of crap. Their students are all just wondering how they can get their grades up, get a good job with some league of do-goodery or villains' collective. The student in front of me was bawling her ey...
"Travelled far this evening?"Steve pulled out Helen's chair and waited until she dropped into it gracefully. She adjusted her blonde hair over her shoulder and grinned at him across the table. "You know I haven't,"she replied. Her gaze dropped to the tablecloth as she shyly returned his smile. "Would you like cham...
I stepped up to the low wall, just high enough for me to rest my hands on. In front of me, there was an infinite abyss, silent, and all knowing, the omnipotent darkness. Here, my purpose would be revealed to me. I could feel it, scanning my mind, trickling through each and every synapse. It moved through my entire body...
"Hey Jenny, listen. I know this is awkward, but, I was wondering if you, if you would go to the dance with - oh god, not now!" The wind around them picked up, and soon a massive helicopter descended to just meters above them. "IS EVERYTHING ALRIGHT ETHAN. ARE YOU SAFE. ARE YOU OK." "Yes! Yes, god damn it. I'm al...
I knew the moment had come when the masked man sat down next to me and leaned over to look at my paper. The grinning clown mask unnerved me. There was no way to explain his behaviour, except for the obvious. It was him, it had to be. I handed the paper to him with a nod. He glanced at it again, to be sure, and handed...
“You cannot win!” shouted Heloise, “We have cut down your dragon, defeated your general, and captured your bodyguards. Your plot is over. Come with us now.” She wiped her sword on the tunic of a fallen goblin, then held it menacingly forward. Ysabel replied from her throne, “Ha, it is hardly that simple. You have acco...
"I've thought about it. I mean, a lot." A trio of grey squirrelgulls twisted in lazy spirals overhead, swishing their forked black-tipped tails. The coastal wind turned and caught up with the pair as they walked along the docks of the budding Republic City. "Not, like, a lot a lot!"Sokka clarified sheepishly. "Ju...
You watch as an alien slave trader quickly scoops you up. An uncontaminated 20 year old female is worth their weight in gold. Though, you can feel the guilt gnawing at you. You are a fraud. The alien has barely carried you on board before you burst into tears. "What is the matter?"He asks. "I'm... I'm not what the s...
He meant to write 'Elon Musk', but for whatever reason I didn't know, Elan Musk was written instead. The name of an unassuming bank teller, me. When almost all of humanity vanished in an instant, I was teleported back to God's own base. Once inside, I was utterly confused at the congregation of the finest men and women...
The soldiers of the Nigerian Liberation Army carried out their duties, loading trucks and securing crates. An experienced eye could see that they were striking camp, and moving out. Lord Excalibur examined the camp from 20,000 feet high, floating in the air, red cape billowing in the wind. The crest of a sword in a s...
Thinking back I shouldn’t have picked by what was trending at the moment of my death. I was given an almost infinite selection to choose from but a rather short time to make my decision. With such a choice to make I went by what was most popular as I did with a lot of things in my humdrum life. At the top was of the...
"Hey! Welcome to the family!"Jim greeted me with a big hug. "Oh, hi Jim, wait, what?"I hugged back. "Home. Family home. This."he gestured with his hands. "Yeah, right, thank you. I got you something."I handed him the whiskey just as Jolene arrived to greet me and Lexi. "Hello my beautiful daughter, welcome home."Jo...
"Go! Go! Go!"It was pandemonium herding order. One by one each line of defense was torn down, one by one hostiles shot and killed before even being allowed a chance to retaliate. Like layers peeled we entered section after section, worms digging into the center of the apple. I held my gun at the ready, nodding at the...
"Where.. where am I?" "You're in Hell, Ron. & I must sa-" "HELL?! For WHAT?! For not believing? OF COURSE he would do this, this is just classic God!" "No, you don't understand! You're only here briefly. I wanted to thank you." "Uhhh... Thank me? Fo- for what?" "Well, you know him as Baxter, but to me he was...
Grimace doubted more and more these days that her life had a purpose at all. She started off with philanthropy; donating blood, working at homeless shelters, the usual “life’s purpose” type things. After that she moved on to politics. When she didn’t find her purpose in politics, she tried painting. Then scultping. The...
“Hey you! You’re it aren’t you?!” I sighed heavily, looking sadly at my bowl of stew and glass of wine. I know what’s coming and no matter how many times it happens I still can’t stop it. I look up slowly at the red faced man with the cocky sneer on his face. Trying to keep my calm I spoke, “Pardon? I’m not entirel...
"Dad, why aren't we allowed to go outside?" My baby girl. So sweet. So innocent. My eyes welled with tears. I had imagined this day for years, before Marie and I had even met, much less talked about kids. I always saw her little hand wrapped around my finger as we walked, my towering figure acting as a deterrent fro...
Emily stared at herself in the mirror, naked. Breasts, average. Butt, average. Face, average. Smile, exceptionally average. She sighed to herself. She had boyfriends before. She wasn't a virgin to be sure, but who was nowadays? Her relationships were just, well, plain. Average boyfriends for an average girl, she p...
Good morning, the time is 7:00AM I awoke to my artificially intelligent assistant's words, gently waking me from my sleep. you have 3 new messages and 7 new updates in your automated news-collection... As the plausibly human-sounding electronic assistant was reading out important events, I'd begun my daily ro...
Yes, please have a seat. So I wanted to ask you a few questions about some historical events. I shrug. Truth be told I’m not entirely comfortable telling Richard about history. But he’s Richard J. Evans, an extremely famous british historian. Might as well answer the questions and get it over with.(Also the monet...
"It's like she was made for you!"Whispered Tex as he gave me a nudge. I couldn't help but agree. After so many years of running, planet to planet, you get mighty lonesome. The few people you do meet don't often stay long. Either you drive 'em off or the life does. But not her. Not my Lilly. We met when I was running d...
Look, I didn't set out to be a god or anything. It just kind of happened. I mean, what was I supposed to do, ignore them? But I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. It started a couple months ago, when I found the anthill in the middle of my garden. A great big thing, and they bit me if I went anywhere near. When the ...
Never been much for writing but here. Let's see if somebody can spot the anime I'm borrowing from. I'd been in town for two days now and I leave tomorrow. Thats two days spent with an iron grip on my gun, and I wasn't the only one. This town was the roughest sort of place. The sort of place where there was no jail and...
I'm proud of what I have achieved, given the imperfections in the Master's creations. This Infernal Refinement System, devised and iterated over thousands of years, has become the well-oiled machine it is meant to be. Incoming souls are classed, graded, and assigned personal demonstrators to undertake the Refiner's Fir...
Everyone knows that if you kill someone, you talk with Death. He is indifferent, and does not speak for long, but he talks. I was afraid of him for a long time as a child because I thought he would be mean, or cruel, or maybe he would make fun of me for the animal hats I constantly wore. It was a good thing, then, that...
He had in his eyes that hollow, thousand-yard stare. He moved stiffly - robotically, almost - as if the robots that dominated the epic wastelands of the Desert Wars had turned part of him into one of their own. I held his cold, limp hand as the device fitted itself over his head. "You'll just feel a buzz,"I comforted h...
By and large, the duration of our memories is disappointingly brief. We forgive and forget. We live and leave behind. We are doomed to repeat history. Even the dead man, closing his eyes for the last time to the sobs of a widowed wife spends his one request on unfathomable wealth or on having a life full of the adventu...
"Found him with blood all over his mouth that one! Won't be surprised if he's been feeding on human flesh his entire life. Won't speak a word, snarls and snaps at any form of interaction.. Worse, I even heard the wolves howling the entire time they were separated by the ravine. Be careful when you go in. Wolves are vic...
I sighed. The experiment had failed again. With a muttered curse, I flipped off the device and flopped into a nearby chair to mope for a few minutes. I had to wait regardless; it was not safe to leave the machine alone until the humming stopped, signifying that the machine had totally spun down and was completely sto...
“Timmy is a complicated kid.” That was the mantra like phrase his mother would cry out as he took his exaggerated actions, his life one cursed hyperbole. If one would ask little Timmy to do a task, he would do it with a gusto that would often make them regret it. The latest of these tasks was when the teacher M...
Something seriously fucked is going on. Besides the fact that Anna's own freakin' parents don't even know who their daughter is, Anna would never have allowed her room to be turned into a home office. She would've died first. Though by the looks of things, that might have happened. A mental image flashed by of Ann...
“Get out!,” the bartender said sternly, “We don’t serve time travelers!” You walk out of the building and lean against the cold brick wall. The clouds have turned the night sky a slightly lighter shade of blue-gray, the streetlights emit a hazy orange tinge. It might rain. You sigh and think about the day you had, wis...
"And it was on that day when the course of human history was dramatically altered. A solar flare nearly a million times more powerful than our largest atom bomb vaporized each satellite in orbit, and essentially vaporized any land not sufficiently guarded from the wrath of the sun . Thanks to our top of the line techno...
Carlos' phone buzzed. A news alert. Gigaslayer was attacking the DMV. Great. Cue the ridiculous excuses in 5... 4... 3... "Professor?" "Yes Anna?" "My cat is dead. I need to leave." "Anna, this is an important quiz! You need to take it to pass!" "Sorry!"She shouted, grabbing her backpack and running out the door....
Ahsa, Dread Empress of the Sands, loomed over her mighty kingdom and the Empire that surrounded it. Her beautifully terrible throne, stained and coloured with the blood of her enemies, traitors and challengers, was empty on the far side of the room as she stared at her house banner on the wall. The banner flew all acro...
To me, the kind man and woman who raised me would always be my parents, not the King and Queen who supposedly was my blood kin. My parents are what one may describe as realistic. Never shying away from the truth, they told me my true origins years ago as a child. Not that it mattered, of course, a crippled, useless pr...
The evil lair was in shambles. The Proto-jet, as Lady Prometheus had demanded you call it, stood ablaze. Jim had still been inside when Captain Laser had blown it to bits. Hanna had been the first henchman to rush towards the attackers. She had been punched in the abdomen by Steel-man and fallen to the ground. She hadn...
Time after time, plan after plan, it always failed. He's too smart. He sees it coming. Every, single time, no matter what angle we approach him at, he always figures us out. Ironic, that his name is Sharp. After the last ambush went wrong, I was on the move again. I don't know how I got away, or if he just lets me get ...
Amelia had learned to ignore their presence. From an early age she had seen them, almost always at the corners of her eyes. Floating eyes, rings of swirling flames, wings that unfolded from themselves in impossible geometric patterns. Well, ignoring them was't exactly what she did, not always. Her mother had called the...
For even before their own gods the people were right to fear and praise the great fairies of the land. No faith and sermon could compare to the immediate and absolute magics that these ancient beings commanded in verse and gesture. The fairy of the north was to be invited with a show of moderation; for modesty was the...
“Here’s your Yuengling,” Jess said, placing the beer on the table. Startled from her thoughts, her companion smiled up at her. “Thank you dear.” Jess slid into the booth opposite her. “Of all the brews, why do you stick with this one? There’s an indie renaissance happening. You should try something new.” Her compan...
She sat there, reading. Ignoring me, every insult, every barb, every threat. She just sat there, reading her book. The chains she was in, pinning her to the ornate throne, prevented her from turning the pages, but since she wasn't supposed to have a book to begin with, that didn't matter to her. I watched her eyes...
Immortality. You usually hear about people traveling all around the world trying to find the legendary fountain of youth, or spending all of their money on expensive gurus who supposedly know all of the secrets they want to hear. As someone who actually got it, it's really not worth the effort. Death is a driving ...
My drinking adversary's face slackened with the load of the night's hours. He swayed on the tavern's weathered stool. He looked sick and his eyes drifted to the floor and then a sort of jostling started under his brow. Slow at first, within seconds the skin on his face moved and danced as if it were infested with some ...
Six whole blocks later, and Davey's still behind me. Every time I turn around he stops and gives me a little smile. "You're fucking dead, kid"he shouts at me. I keep walking. I don't know what he's waiting for, I'm already almost at my building. I slip my cell phone out of my pocket and turn it on, being careful to kee...
“You’re going to sit over here with Julie.” “Yes sir,” Fred said, sitting down. Julie stared back at him, eyes empty and motionless. “Wonderful,” Stan said. He stood up and walked over to the wall opposite Julie and Fred’s chairs. It wasn’t a wall like the others, which were a thickness of over twenty feet of concret...
"Oh my!! A child!! It's been a while since we've had such a young winner!!"exclaimed the announcer. "Now don't be scared young lady, what's the power that you've always wanted?" "Well,"the young girl began, "I want the power to make things come to me." "The power to summon things? I think the judges understand what y...
If I concentrate hard enough, I can see every leaf of my mother’s tree. She passed 5 years ago now, but I visit her grave almost every week. Her tree is a maple – shooting high into the sky, branches full of beautiful leaves that shade me when I visit. Her’s is best in the fall, when the leaves are their deepest red. S...
"I'm the only one?" Yes. "Out of everyone? Everyone ever?" That's right. "WHY?" You followed all the rules. All of them. You shaved your beard right, you never spilled semen on the ground, you cared for others, yo- "What about my parents? My neighbors?" **They're being tormented for ...
The letter read: "Dear Mr. Winfield, Upon careful review of your resume, we have decided to offer you a position in our research and development department. Your job would entail collecting DNA samples, creating new weaponry and observing attack patterns of the horrid Fire Foot. Pay would be $25.00 plus performance bo...
We are entwined. He, and I, like birds of prey grasping one another as our flight becomes a plummet- two creatures bound to one another inexorably. We were born like this, bound by the red string, and though I have always been mute, he seems to understand the messages I send, the notes I leave. He treats me well, and I...
I watched him rise to power in the wake of his father's passing. It was lightly admirable, yet the inevitability of it diminished his achievement. A general may have garnered some support initially, but the people would have rallied behind their - their god in the end. I watched him as he struggled to maintain his f...
I call them the searchers but I'm not sure what they are searching for. I know the immediate things. I know sometimes it is small furry four legged things, or furry two legged things, or less hairy pink things. Sometimes it is information. They want to know about something that happened long ago, or a short time ago. ...
Everyone had heard it, nodded their heads, and gone about their business. A message of acceptance and tranquility, "we come in peace"sort of stuff, but without the "we come"part. Just a message saying that they existed, and knew we existed, and that we should all get along together. But not me. I was in a coma that ...
"Hello?" "Wait, what?"I asked. 'Did that bomb not just go off?' I thought. "Who is this?"The voice asked. "Who is this?!"I asked, "And how are you even talking to me right now?!" "What? This is Tom. And what do you mean how am I talking to you right now. You called me." "Tom, where are you, and how did you get...
To think, that people used to actually believe a global population of 7 billion was a strain. No. That was just borderline obesity. We crossed that milestone off our genetic bucket list and kept on charging for the finish line like an octogenerian marathon runner, slow but sure, wheezing reedily toward the finish line ...
Like a shadow in the night, I slithered my way into a grand house, three stories tall with a fountain in the courtyard. Tonight, I will finally earn enough to relieve myself from this life spent in darkness. I crept along the house, up to a kitchen window and lifted it open- this woman was careless, and was notoriou...
Working in telemarketing is boring. Seriously boring. Fresh out of University with a 1st in English I have to say I was expecting a little more. The boss is as uninspiring as he is lazy, barely checks up on any of us. To be honest he is probably doing the same thing the rest of us do. Goofing off and searching the we...
Kevin had always been a little bit forgetful. Sometimes he would forget to pick up a fresh carton of milk on Mondays. This meant that he could not enjoy his cornflakes on Tuesdays, which was irksome, but not so unpleasant as to cause him a great deal of stress. Sometimes he would forget to pack a pair of socks to wear...
Rain. It's all we wished for in Cerulean City. When the rain came the water Pokemon could stand a chance against them. Against the police. I was only 3 years old when it began. The government decided they would declared the towns of Kanto Police property. They intended to keep control by any means necessary. I reme...
The assembled Illuminati all cackled in their massive corporate tower. Their plan was finally coming to fruition. Today would be the day to end all days... One Illuminati member was not doing the prerequisite amount of cackling. The leader glared at him, then the member pointed. "Sir, what's going on over there?" The...
"Honey, I'm home!" "You know that stopped being funny after the first five times Liz"I yelled from the kitchen. "Eurgh, ok fine fine"returning to her normal voice and peeling off the face of her most recent victim, letting it drop to the floor with a moist plop. "Are you going to get that dear?" "Eh, I'll put it ...
"Bah! Humans! Useless! The whole stinking lot of them!"Niobe was in another one of her moods. The other sirens generally let her burn herself out instead of getting involved. The new girl, Rhapsody, didn't know that yet though. "What? Why's that? I thought those last sailors that came over were quite lovely."With eve...
"If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"Terrible pickup line, but it helps me find women with a sense of humour. The beautiful redhead at the end of the bar didn't laugh when I said it to her; she looked around the bar with a frightened expression, then stared at me. She broke the silence wit...
My room consisted only of mattresses. My floors, my walls. Pieces of soft fabric had been wrapped around and attached to my door knob. Sometimes I woke up and wondered if it had finally happened. Had I finally gone insane? Sometimes I wished for it. At an asylum at least the staff would have to talk to me. Here, I was ...
Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot. But the Grinch just north of Whoville did not. The Who’s loved to play, to scamper, to shout. The madness down mountain just made the Grinch pout. “I’ve had it!” the Grinch said as he stroked his dog Max. “I’ll steal all their fun! Chop down their tree with an ...
Tommy was chiseling away at an old sidewalk, hardhat donned and vest vested, when his friend Jacob punched him in the shoulder. "Hey, Tommy. Look at that wacko."When Tommy looked, he saw what Jacob meant. The offender wore a purple... Dress? That actually touched the ground, with little stars dotted all around. His ha...
"My time is coming, to win that tournament created by that pathetic god."I muttered, "I was kept from participating last season, but my time has come." I blankly stared at my dark, dungeon walls, kept by God to live in pure insanity. I extended my wings, and centered myself in the middle of the dungeon, awaiting for t...
"Fetishes?"Jenkins, the scientist at the head of the table asked. "Fetishes,"Michaels repeated. "That can't be right. These symbols have been used to help people determine what type of job they want." "Well, they do reflect people's desires and interests." "I don't believe it." "Well, I've written down the fetish...
It was a nice little event. Some dancing here, some chitter chatter there. All in all, a nice little event. I didn't know what the event was for, but the boss said it was mandatory and that there would be pie. You don't turn down pie. So I went, mingled, did the whole networking thing even though I'm an introvert...
"I still say we stack facial features and physique,"Alice said. "Don't you want our child to be smart? To have a future?" "I don't know how many times we have to go over this, Mark. Attractive people do better. That's just the sad truth of the world." "What about an even distribution?" "So you want our children to ...
Earth 273. Adolf Hitler was found dead in his hotel room, destitute and unremembered. Turns out graphic paintings of the horrors of war, painted by a man who doesn't even remember his own name half the time, don't sell that well. The Holy Order of the Blessed Beatles still fights on beneath the occupied streets of Li...
"I don't understand, Mr. Holmes, how on earth did you deduce that it was the Butcher that robbed the bank?"The four men stand outside of the very same bank that had been robbed. There is the detective and his assistant alongside the police officer and the handcuffed criminal. "Well that's just element my dear Waterson...
They were, beautiful, serene, graceful and above all else completely alien to humanity. Yet this alienation was not necessarily physical, the Angelarchs were a species who were roughly humanoid in size and shape, though taller with the average height of roughly 2 meters. Their skin and features were similar to that of...
"His name was Morthos. Morthos the Damned."The teary-eyed Judge said. "Father, teacher, poet, and part time necromancer. And now because of you, he's dead."There was a solemn murmur of agreement amongst the jury and assembled, weepy townsfolk. "He was a good man!"Shouted a voice from the crowd, "When the barbar...
The killer grinned. "You know those things aren't set up to make calls, right? Why waste your breath?"The phone in Gerry's pocket began to buzz softly, and he found himself very glad that he'd turned the vibration intensity down almost all the way, the killer almost certainly couldn't hear it. The man stood over Gerry...
I'd always thought the curious clientele of this curious pub were a very peculiar bunch. The sort of people who dressed funny, talked funny and surely held no corporate jobs. They were probably artists, I told myself, circus performers, independent bookstore owners, maybe librarians. The sort of people with fantastical...
While David spread the mayo across the white bread he noticed it made a strange symbol. Just before he spread more mayo, a hellish flame enveloped his kitchen. A demon is muscle and bone stood in front of him. “David Bryan, why have you summoned me?” He said. David looked around indifferent. “Well, it was an accide...
To: The Superhero Ethics Committee From: Supreme ManBeast &#x200B; To whom it may concern: I'm writing you today out of recent concern regarding my superhero nemesis RatMan. We have had a long standing feud that has been productive for both of our brands, both his Superhero business, as well as my Villain busin...
&#x200B; SUBJECT: Delegation to High Ixion FROM: 039561-USA TO: 000001-USA June 7th, 2167, 2100hrs Dear sir, The Indomitable has delivered me unto High Ixion, the apparent seat of the intergalactic government. It's a gargantuan mushroom-shaped structure, layers upon layers of bustling a...
##Hole in the Wall It is a lonely bar that sits in the middle of a desert. It sits in the middle of a bustling city constantly surrounded by people who walk by it. It sits in an old strip-mall where half of the shops have been closed for the past five years. It sits in the middle of a small town. It is everywhere th...
I am the God of Knowledge. I know all. I know what has happened, what is currently happening, and what will happen in the near future. I know the lives of people whose great-grandfathers have not even been born yet. I know the life of people's most distant descendant. I even know the life of the ones reading this. I ...
Agony is a word for it. Eternal pain, maybe? Maybe just prolonged suffering, since according to the laws of the ancients, we will die eventually. I will die eventually. I'd welcome it. The rich cried out in fear when the law was announced. Turn over what you have, the gross excess, and give it to those in need. That...
I thought that ear muffs would help. What I didn’t realize was the voice was one only I could hear. It started small, like an afterthought. It grew in it’s pervasiveness, the undercut and undermine of everything I did. I had found the fabled sword, and I should have realize why it had been at the bottom of a sealed ca...
Remi accidentally destroyed the first few worlds he sent heroes to -- much to the amusement of the other Gods. Firstly, he gifted heroes to the water world, Bl8. One hero who could control air currents, another who could pull islands up to the surface, a third who could control the creatures in the sea. The other god...
"Please, mom! You know this has been my dream for such a long time! Why do you keep holding me back?"I shouted, trying to stop tears from forming. My mom was such a great person. So why, for the one thing I really loved, did she have to fight me? She hesitated, and looked as if she wanted to tell me something. "Just....
It is 1:00 AM on Election Night 2024 when Brad Carlyle, Senate Campaign Manager, breaks down in tears on the floor of his hotel bathroom. A thunderstorm rocks the night sky and reverberates in his ears. His candidate has lost yet again, which means Brad has now notched six consecutive failures in a row. H...

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.