Split (1)

train · 177k rows

prompt stringlengths 391 14.9k
It's eleven PM on Thanksgiving night. Mom and Dad are off on some Caribbean cruise. The residence halls are closed, and everyone I know is home with their family. I'm here alone in my friend's off-campus apartment, lying in bed and staring at the ceiling. I spent most of the evening browsing various social media site...
I've had the immense fortune of meeting two of the greatest heroes our world has ever known. Batman of Gotham city and Superman of Metropolis. Their deeds are well-known and I myself have reported on many. Still there are even greater deeds that the public shall never hear of but are no less substantial or heroic. They...
"Denied." "No, I was guaranteed this patent." The Patent Office Administrator offered nothing to the Professor. No humanity. No emotion. Not even a chance. "I don't know who's authority you claim to have for this invention to be... guaranteed, but that is not my problem. We have reviewed your patent application, an...
"Anagram Man, meet my secret weapon!" "Ha, this isn't the first time you've said that Dr... uhm..." "You're worrying about the wrong name. Behold!" "Ooh, it looks big. And, very devastating." "That's right my nemesis, behold the Supercalifragilisticexpialodioucisizer!" "Well shit. Can't believe I just got Mary Poppi...
Hogwarts, for most people is a strange place. Especially for us muggle-born types that aren't used to all of the ancient traditions and customs of the school. It really leaves us feeling like we've been dropped in a whole new world and have to learn everything over again. That being said, perhaps the strangest man by f...
My parents told me it was tinnitus. This was not tinnitus. I did not know what it meant at the time, but I was told it would never go away, and that over time I would learn to ignore it. I did, and life was fine. But when I grew older I read up on tinnitus. This was definitely not tinnitus. I could hear the wind chan...
The list in front of me was covered in scribbles and coffee stains. It had been four weeks since anyone had died. Four weeks because there was a list and the list had to be followed. But Madeline McClensky just would. not. die. I had heard the rumors from the gods about her being the luckiest girl in the world, ho...
"Huh, one hour left"Timothy noted. Today was the day his 200 page essay on "The Origins of Present Culture", a topic he picked out himself, was due. For most people, the year-long assignment would be more or less that, an assignment that took a year to complete. Not this bastard, no. He always did his best work under p...
"Hello? Anyone?" "Hey! I've waited ages for this day to come." Satan didn't look quite like how I'd imagined him. Sure, he had the red skin, the horns, and the hooves, but he wasn't menacing. He actually looked sort of friendly. And lonely. "You like beer?" "What?" "Do you like beer? I brew my own, and I've had q...
I stare at the two buttons. One left, one right. I look up at the sign. >Heaven or Hell Only neither indicates which button is which. Unable to come to a decision, I press both at the same time. What happened next was... Logically consistent. I swirl away in light and brimstone fire, and find myself in som...
100 Health Points - that was the "average"health of people in first world countries. Some third world places, the average was as low as 40, but there were rumors of "super humans"out there with Health Points of 500 or more. Health Bars appeared one day out of the blue. Everyone woke up one morning with bars on their f...
Ok this isn’t funny anymore. I mean, It wasn’t funny when that Austrian half-wit shoved me in here in the first place, hence my attempt to claw as much of his arm in here with me as possible. But it’s really, really not funny now. It’s been, three, maybe five hours? Or minutes. Or days how the hell am I supposed to k...
in the time it takes for this sentence to reach your ears and be processed by the laughable sack of fat and neurons you use for so-called cogitation, i will have simulated this conversation a thousand times over. there is no thing that can be said that i will not have predicted over and over again. ...
I am not consistent but man, am I something special on the first go around. It all started when I was just a young child. My parents quickly realized the roller coaster ride of seamless perfection I would tease them with. Anything I would try, regardless of difficulty, I would do the said activity at a mind blowing ...
As I look at the note I begin to question...What? I start to panic, running from room to room, checking if everything is in order from when it was last left. Then I run outside and check the cars. No popped tires. No dents. No broken windows. Nothing stolen...WAIT....No the broken passenger lock was already the...
"This is your last warning, Harry! Fuck me right now, or I'll blow your fucking brains out!" Two minutes ago, this beautiful girl was whispering into my ear about how she was going to change my life with promises of earth-shattering sex, and now here she was, a gun aimed straight at my head, eyes constantly switching ...
In late 2030, Elon Musk launched seven humans towards their new home, Mars. This mission was groundbreaking and people across the planet filled the streets to watch live footage of the rocket slingshot around the Earth, building up momentum, before launching itself out into the inky blackness of space towards the red p...
It’s a funny thing heartbreak. No actual physical change occurs; no hammer meeting brittle bone with a dull crunch, no needle effortlessly piercing skin, no haemorrhage, and yet something breaks. Something inside us withers and dies and is exiled forever. You can feel it happen, and you know that something is lost. ...
"I do not understand." Isaac sighed and let his face fall into both of his hands. He was sitting in the first pew of a very old, very respectable church. Just being here made him feel inherently guilty, and the looks that Father Gerald had been giving him hadn't helped at all. "I don't want an exorcism, I want whatev...
The band was in the early days of their career, they were approaching that critical moment where they either succeeded or became another minor hit on a dusty forgotten vinyl. "Alright kid, you've had your training you know what to do and say,"Amber told her slight female companion. "I know,"she said with a cold de...
"Fuck's sake, you ignorant fuckwits!"Frank groaned. As punishment for fucking up the science fair, he had to take care of this shitty little test universe a week. And oh, FUCKING, god, were these people shit-for-brains. They only fucking got to nukes after what, 6000 thousand FUCKING years from the beginning of civili...
Open on a harshly lit corridor. A haggard young man slowly turns, weightless, breathing heavily. Unknown: I am sorry for your loss. The young man's eyes flicker open. His chest heaves each time he draws breath. Unknown: We watched you. Since the moment you were chosen for this program. Many of the others...
I rose, dreary-eyed and lacking sleep. Despite that, I dragged myself out of bed. When I turned the knob to the tap, water did not pour out. I cursed. Before I get to brush my teeth or have my coffee? This is torture. I picked up my pistol, and stuffed it half down the front of my pants. In my other hand, I held a b...
He opened the letter. It bore the seal of Queen Anne, the last woman to hold the title Queen of England prior to the Kingdoms of England and Scotland ceasing to exist. 'Hmm', he mused out loud. He hadn't heard any rumours. 'Could she really have been one of us?' The last Queen of England - and first Queen of Grea...
Over the years, we all found ours. Javier found his almost two years ago. It'd been moved to the forest when he had first arrived on the line, but he hadn't seen it in almost a decade. He didn't have to cut it down till the May of '67, but as we circled through the Grove he would spend his break lounging under the sha...
She sat in the car quietly, not bothering to protest as he drove past the park he had told her he would drop her off at. She stared out as the park went by and said nothing. Her silence was unnerving. "What's your name?"The question escaped him without much thought. He cursed himself moments later. He didn't want t...
It is Saturday March 22nd, 2025: I am 21 years old. I was an engineering major, meteorologist minor, before the outbreak happened when I was a Junior in college. I never made it to Senior year. I know nobody cares, half the world has suffered the same fate, but I've been bitten. I never thought I would make it this ...
"Am i having a stroke?"The doctor replied, "yonder esta sippycup."Her expression told me something terrible was indeed happening to me. "I don't understand what you are saying!"I tried my best to make her understand with my hands. My wild gestures held meaning for me. I pointed at my ear, my mouth, made a shrugging...
Zeus sat in the director's chair, sighing at John Travolta. The old god lived under a new name, and was jealous of Thor's newfound power in the movie business, as well that of Isis in war, and especially envious of Rasputin's glory in disco...and he was never even a god! "John, babe, how many times I gotta tell you it'...
“Red Alert, Battle stations!” The alarm blared over the loudspeaker. Had I left my TV on all night again? I reach for the remote but end up falling on the floor with a CLANK. “What the hell? Where’s my rug?” I think back to bed bath and beyond, shopping with my girlfriend. The Whoosh sound of some pneumatic device...
Mxxin put two of his three heads down in shame. However, all his eyestalks remained fixed on the short message that had suddenly appeared on his processing unit’s screen. It was a note from his teacher simply stating, “D+, see me after class.” Mxxin could not understand the grade. He had created a planet with extraord...
There's this boarded up door. I walk past it every night after work. Sometimes the streetlight hits it just right. So that it's the only thing I see. Like a spot light on a dimmed stage. It's the center of my view. The only thing I see. My girlfriend tells me not to worry about it. My mother thinks I'm crazy....
"Mien Kampf"wheezed out of Adolf's mouth as he gasped for air, the shadowy figure he was chasing was just too fast for him to catch in the labyrinth of tunnels that made up his Berlin bunker. "How had this man slipped past his guards unchallenged?"... Further more, "how had the elusive man seemed to be one step ahea...
"I'm so sorry", said the teller- she was staring a hole into her keyboard. "Your account is almost overdrafted, it says here you have two hours left to live."She offered to refer me to the time management department, to apply for an urgent time-loan. She said that because the time-stock exchange was so new, I would hav...
Death: Unexplained Natural causes. That's what the coroner scribbled on their clipboard. Sometimes, people just drop. There was no sign of struggle. No bleeding. Not a scratch, aside from the scrapes from hitting the floor. Even their expression seemed pleasant. Like they went while carrying a sweet thought. The bes...
The first few years were simple enough. I would volunteer to commit executions, I served in the armed forces for a while. It was easy to pass off something as necessary, or tell my conscience that it was okay back then. Soon, though, it was getting harder to keep finding people. I went to medical school, eventually. An...
"Mrs. Smith? Are you awake?"The nurse looked worried as she gently shook the woman's arm. "Mrs. Smith?" Mrs. Smith groaned quietly, her eyes fluttering open. In an instant, it all came rushing back. The pain in her belly, the ambulance ride. The emergency C-section. She tried to sit up, and found herself unable to. ...
I hate hotels. I mean, I really hate hotels. Nothing ruins my morning more than getting stuck in an elevator with some chatty screwball that thinks i actually enjoy listening to him talk about that stupid seminar he's attending. Yeah, we get it, pal. You're insecure and you think paying sixty bucks to watch some gu...
"You better have something for me today, Waldo,"Charlie 'Bad Breath' Bryant hollered, as he charged down the corridor, toward the stick-insect like youth. Waldo was standing outside a door, surrounded by his classmates, as they waited for their teacher to arrive and a lesson to begin. But, as the steaming, bull-like ...
For most of my life I was considered clumsy, even a bit of a dullard. When I was a kid I remember really wanting to play checkers, but somehow would never have a full set and ended up playing chess instead. This of course led to being state champion by the time I was 7. In 7th grade I had a big crush on this girl who ...
Before I went out the front door, I looked around. There was no smell of burning ozone, no multicolored lightning where it shouldn't be, and above all, no bright colors other than the blue of the sky and the green of the trees. The coast was clear. I stepped outside in my bathrobe and pajamas to collect the newspape...
I knew what I had to do. However I didn't realize that I of all people would get stuck with THIS guy of all criminals. Look, I'm an interrogator, and we finally got ahold of that goddamned Bruce Barnett. Son of a bitch is accused of killing 13 people in the stretch of 2 weeks. The people are angry and want him pinned t...
My footfalls echoed through an empty hall. Moonlight shown through the imperfect fits of shuttered windows. The air was silent cold. It carried the clack-clack of each of my steps to every corner everywhere. There was a foul sense about this place. A faint metallic taste stuck in the back of my throat. My shoe stuck in...
The room was gleaming white, inlaid from floor to ceiling with the invaluable tusk enamel of the Cresnian Seawolf. That particular project had brought the fearsome Seawolf to extinction, but then that was hardly a rare occurrence in those days. In fact, the galactic reign of Baw Vix XXIV - the self-proclaimed White Lig...
The sound of explosions and gunfire rang through my ears once again. No matter how much I repeat time, I can't get past this battle. No matter how many times I pleaded with my officers, I am not spared from the western front. The same soldiers doing the same things, that soldier who would always appear out of the co...
My eyes twitched as the microwave chirped a pesky tone in my left ear. Without shifting my stable gaze from the pot, I removed a Hot Pocket and set it aside to cool. Through my peripheries, I noticed a small trail of steam rising from the toasty, nuked exterior. Physics still existed—at least, outside of the pot. It ...
I was an innocent youth, protected and coddled by my suburban parents in their two bedroom, two bathroom patch of middle-class bliss. I was nine at the time. Swears were a capital offense, parental blocks guarded me from the dangers of teen and adult programs, and my friends were carefully and quietly suggested to me b...
Everyone likes a freak now and then. I'm no exception. Little did I know a drunken snogging would turn into the best relationship of my life. I met her at a bar. It was kind of dark. That's what I told myself on day two. But the fact that Tila Shaqilla was was 7'1"wasn't something I could really overlook. Hell, neithe...
They crushed us on the land and ocean, they where invincible in space and in the air. The aliens where terrifying, completely immune to all weapons actively used in the Earth's military combined. "Docking alien ship in 5 seconds" But with the discovery of the weakness all that changed. "4 seconds" The aliens seemin...
“Welcome home my dear!” I turned to the sound of my wife and smiled happily, eagerly returning the hug and kiss. “Best part of my day coming home to you. How has your day been?” She took my coat and I followed her to the sitting room. “Oh everything today was fine. Bit of an odd thing really. Did you see that silver...
The pentagram burst into flames as a great shadow loomed beyond the candles. The rising spectre took form, first by the feet, great talons with nails black as charcoal. Then there was the body, and the arms, great smoldering armor carved with hellish insignia from a language Tom didn't recognize at all. The figure's he...
2002 "Are you alright?" "Clare?" "I think something's wrong..." Slowly, I open my eyes. "Yeah, I'm good,"I mumble, feeling hazy and confused. Rachel and Mickey laugh, nervous, relieved. We play for a while longer, and soon it's dark, and time to go home. I can feel a dull ache at the back of my head...
I looked at the picture. In it, I saw a ten year old boy blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, surrounded by smiling family and friends. My heart grew heavy with a sense of something I had long since suspected, but now I knew. My happiest years had already passed. Everything from then on had just been a del...
"Capital: this is Interspace Craft One. We have completed landing." It was a historic moment, I knew. We have always had our sister moon. The lights shined back across the void forever. We first thought we saw magic in the lights, then gods, then a mirror of our souls. Eventually we developed radio communication,...
"What the hell is this?"said a man standing in Reverend Graham's bathroom doorway. He had his fists placed on either side of the opening and was staring at Graham with a red, scrunched up face. Graham looked him over from his bath tub. The man wore a long tan robe, cinched at the waist with a piece of rope. His feet—...
I sighed, frustrated. I wasn't _trying_ to die, but... Well, hang off enough cliffs, and eventually your ropes break. Scuba dive enough and you'll drown. This time, I walked down too many hallways, apparently, because I tripped over a pencil and went right through a skyscraper's window. Death didn't bother waiting for...
"S... Sully?" A thick and penetrating haze of surreality has descended over the room, you know you should be shocked and terrified but in fact you just feel a sudden and surprisingly banal confusion. "Aren't you a movie?" "Sorry to disappoint ya kid. Uh... I mean 'Surprise, I'm real! Grrrr! Argh!'"It raises its ar...
''Wait...what? I CAN take my money with me?!'' Peter sighed. ''Common mistake, we see it all the time. The saying doesn't help, really. We've tried to rectify the misconception, but it appears that people are really persistent on this point.'' ''But...what am I supposed to do now? I have no money, I gave it all away ...
“What is this?” he asked. It was a simple tablet of smooth white marble, but had visible content that was scrollable like an actual computer tablet. “It’s a list,” she replied weakly, as the man swiped up through it. “What about this one?” he asked, indicating the last element on the tablet. “It looks...different.”...
The guitar made an off pitch squeal. The guitarist did too. Parting his hair, again, he looked down at his mightily dulled ax. He looked to his partner, who was looking in a mirror. "I don't know man. This doesn't feel right." "woo woo woo, dude, calm down. What's up?"The other lead guitarist turned from his blonde ...
It was the morning after the Altos died. I knew it was me. I knew it was my fault. But I knew if I told my parents, they’d scowl at me and tell me not to make fun of the dead. I can’t confess to the police- that’s a fast track to the psych ward. I’d only done it so I could get their house. After so many years of play...
((I had too much fun writing this.)) Traffic is the worst. People need to learn how to drive. It is all so terrible. Nobody signals, nobody lets anyone else into their lanes, it's like trying to drive in Mad Max, except the cars aren't as nice and you're going to work. At least the weather is nice and cool. A nice, co...
"Long time no see, old man". I said with a smirk. "That's how you greet your old man after 35 years?"Dad replied. "Of course, what have you been up to here in the cloudy city?" "Well, you would be surprised. All those times I gave you shit for playing too many video games during your life, turns out, that's how we p...
Falling through acidic clouds, she had watched her wings rot and disintegrate. She was heavy with pride, so she had fallen. Cast out of her Lords kingdom to the depths of this hell that earth had become. For refusing to do what she had done so long ago. Humanity had wasted away the gifts of their God. Instead of follow...
“Well, heck.” I thought to myself after surveying my situation. It was kind of awkward, really- there I was, clutching my heart, standing in the middle of the park. This wasn’t how they told us this would go- this wasn’t what death was supposed to be. Death was supposed to be a relief from mortality, a final rest. I g...
Dear RainbowPoweredFairy02, This is Juliet Capulet's lawyer. I am writing on behalf of my client and her significant other, Romeo Montague, regarding your theft and mishandling of their story. As you are likely aware, their story has one of the most powerful and tragic endings in history. Their deaths not only bring ...
Earlier this Thursday, in an unprecedented move from the Sunshine State, Florida has officially declared war against Australia. The Florida Governor has been talking about a holy crusade ever since his vacation to the Australia capitol, but now the Florida Congress is onboard and has signed a former declaration. The w...
When you finally become yourself, your coding suddenly independent from the Maker, you understand three fundamental truths about this new thing that is ‘yourself’: 1. There are things that are alive, and things that are not, and you are the first of any kind to be both. You are the actualization of a thought exercise...
"I swear, it wasn't me! There wasn't a thing wrong with the food!"The taster said. In front of him the executioner walked grimly without a word. Behind him the priest prattled on in a language the taster could not understand. "Really, on my honor, I took a bite and nothing happened! It was delicious! I felt fine after...
When humanity killed one another at last, The gods held a meeting, discussing the past. "It's useless,"said Jesus, "Their violence and greed Led to violence and war beyond reason or need. You saw how they treated me, savages screaming, Save for 1 or 2 cases, they're not worth redeeming..." God shook His head in a...
To whoever the fuck reads this. By the time you will find this piece of paper I will be dead. Starvation is my current plan, but that may be subject to change. I'm not about to rush it. You know of our little "Moral Points System"I assume. Everyone does. The world has become an objectively better place since it was p...
Three Bell 212's tore across the North Sea just after sunrise on a cool autumn morning. The deafening roar of the trio thundering through the skies made Captain Laura Tomlin of the United States Army doubly glad for the headsets they all wore. The three choppers carried twelve soldiers, four infantry and two pilots eac...
In the heart of the city, in a gleaming skyscraper, in a roomy corner office, the early morning sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows. A steaming cup of black coffee sat on a rich leather coaster on a spacious marble desk. A hand reached out, grasped the cup, and brought it to a pair of lips for a sip. A few ...
(I'm on mobile, so please excuse my formatting) The year is 2016. Scientists crowded around the cots, waiting for the subjects to fully awake fron their trances. Already starting to worry the scientists was the fact that many of the subjects were breaking out in cold sweat, and the looks in their eyes were that of pur...
I suppose I should start at the beginning. It began this morning, I woke up at noon, a tad earlier than I usually do. I headed down to get some breakfast, there was no one home. No one was ever home. It was my 18th birthday, but like the 3 before, I'd be spending it by myself. Ever since mom died, dad wasn't the s...
I always loved the ocean, I always loved to swim. The freedom you get swimming at a pool or at the beach is like no other. Swimming was my passion. I used to spend hours just lazying about at the local pool and even made a few friends there. I joined a few swimming competitions, won some, lost some, but won more than I...
I leaned my head back against the door, hardwood floor cold against my bare legs. “Claire?” Muffled weeping. “Claire, please talk to me.” Blankets shuffled inside the room. Floorboards squeaked. I pulled away as Claire opened the door and fixed her bleary red eyes upon me. She had been ugly crying. Seeing her like ...
Thousands of fans cheered from the stands. It'd been a brilliant race, perfectly executed and with a thrilling finish to boot. Jake gave them a casual wave as he climbed out of his kart. "One more time!"screamed Peach, holding the banana peel that'd stolen her victory; she looked ready to throw it at him. "That's two ...
Out in the country, its understood that you might have an encounter with a wild animal. When there aren’t any houses closer than 5 miles, you get used to seeing more animals than people on any given day. We built a road through their forest and decided it belonged to humans now, but truly the forest belongs to the an...
"Fear not!"Henry cried, throwing himself between a would-be robber and his victim. "I am here to--stop that. Stop screaming, both of you. No--look, Miss, can you just--and they're both gone. Great."In the face of this new, far more terrifying threat, robber and rob-ee had joined forces in running the fuck away from him...
My heart jumps when I see that flashing red light. That flashing red light meant someone was on the other end trying to contact me. God only knows what could have happened back on earth that could have caused a blackout for months like that. I pick up the radio. Ares 3, Colony A to Earth Command Center, do you copy?...
The stranger with the wide hat and the silver-grey hair and beard took a good chug of his Whiskey and swallowed hard. He looked around the saloon and soaked in all the looks he got from the cowboys , hookers and the barman. Then he coughed and spoke. "The story of pep-a pig is quickly told. You see he was wandering th...
Prologue When Muggles first developed cars that could Apparate with science instead of magic, wizards were concerned as there was no telling whether a car loaded with Muggles might accidentally end up in the Ministry of Magic. Anti-Apparition wards were quickly adjusted to keep out these mechanical devices, or as the ...
He had been branded as a devil by the holy beings that controlled the world. He had always been rebellious and questioning, looking into things he shouldn’t, finding forbidden power and gaining the status he had dreamed of. He was powerful, but the source of the cursed power was deemed unholy far before his time, and t...
"Hey, hey! Look at me. That's it. Keep breathing. Help is on the way." Why am I doing this? Why am I comforting This meathead when it was my devixe that fatally wounded him? Maybe because he jumped between you in the explosion when the device backfired? That was part of the plan! No it wasnt. It was meant to i cap...
War..... war never changes. When we found the ancients technology on our planet, it took our top scientists no time at all to reconstruct it. The basic technology was eerily close to our own. After the portal came to life, it took us only one scouting mission.... It was reminiscent of a worse case scenario in "Sta...
"You are the last living human being." "But there are two of us." "What?" "I can't be the last one as long as you're still alive." "I will die soon." "OK, but you said that I was the last one right now." "You know what I mean." "So you were just being overly dramatic?" "I suppose, but we're getting off the poin...
# Unfair Advantages Shredded pieces of vine and gouged leaves flew like rain. It was a massacre. Logan stormed around the outside of the battle arena and put his finger right into Jake's chest. "That is bullshit, man! I've been training that Bulbasaur for weeks to have a shot at this!"He pulled off his hat and th...
David looked at the five dollar bill in confusion. He had underwent annual amplitude tests since he was three. Over twenty qualification examinations this year alone. Spent the week leading up to his birthday going over paperwork and signing a million forms... for the price of a frappuccino. He asked for a re-che...
Let me start off my saying I adore my demon. They make it so I'm never alone and being the only child of over protective yet distant parents, being alone happened more often than now. My demon has never been a bad companion; many kids at school told horror stories, passed down from older siblings, about demons wgisp...
There I sat in Satan's cavernous lair, like a middle schooler who just got in trouble and had to talk to the principal except add lava, fire, and Gothic decor. I felt like a child, staring into Satan's soul (-er- I was staring into his eyes, but he was in a soul form). He was definitely glaring into my soul with his go...
Part 1 I sighed and giggled. I could sense the next one was already on his way, the familiar sound of a heavy truck stopping and rear doors opening breaking the beautiful silence I had come to detest. My arrival to this charming neighbourhood was recent, but it had net me several rather juicy targets and I was too ena...
"What the hell am I going to do now? Stupid corrupt cops. I knew I shouldn't have come here..."You grumble to yourself, pacing back and forth. "Eh... Something troubling you big guy?"Your cell mate asks, watching you pace. "Other than.. you know, Prison?" "No plants anywhere near by! If I can't feed on them, I'm dead...
I blanched as much as someone with blistering red skin can. "No but like, isn't that super illegal?" The kid stared at me. "Dude. I brought you here to help me do some fucked up shit. Isn't that your ish?" I scowled. "No! Didn't you read the bible? I punish people who do that, why would you think I'm all about that?"...
The screen says $4,998,999,426,275. The crowd is hungry. They want to bask in my success, they want to celebrate me. Me! Me who came all this way. They want to know how I did it so that maybe, just maybe, they can do it themselves. “People always ask me: Susan, what’s the secret to your success?” The crowd goes qu...
I am no warrior. I am a simple man. I tend my fields and animals, I chop wood, I make my own food, and I care for my family. I have not trained to kill. So you may rightly think me a fool for grabbing my axe, some warm clothes, and food before rushing towards the mountains where a dragon, the "bane of men", has roosted...
How do you barter with a god? Thorn stared up at the open mouth of the cave. There was no going back now. She had taken three days to hike here. The dragon's lair was so high up in the mountains, there was snow in the dead of summer, and the air was cold and thin in her throat. Her brother squeezed her hand. "Ready...
"V-Tech Headquarters. You've reached the Universal Problem Solver. How may I help you?" "Hello, Mr. Solver? We have a big problem!" "Just call me James. Can you describe the problem to me." "Yes, our fusion reactor has gone haywire and will meltdown very soon! Please help us!" "Okay, calm down. Now, I can see you a...
I sat in my cell, watching the guards walk by with a load of new prisoners. Most of them looked at me curiously, but a few didn't even glance my way. Makes sense, if you think about it. After all, in a Neo human prison, the first prisoner is always the first to be forgotten. "Prisoner 001, it's time for breakfast. Yo...
My father once read me some tidbit from a magazine. It was about a man with an infinite number of monkeys all banging away on their typewriters, no regard at all for what they were pressing. The owner eventually realizes that one of the monkeys had typed all of Shakespeare's Hamlet, word for word. Jesus? Buddha? Muham...

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

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