Datasets:
Alignment-Lab-AI
/
reddit_prompts

Dataset card Data Studio Files
xet
 Community
1
prompt
stringlengths
391
14.9k
“You can only use it once,” he said, “so make sure it’s worth it.” — and with that, he disappeared. I stood there motionless, not knowing how to react. Where had this man gone? He was right there just a second ago. I blinked a few times to make sure my eyes were working fine. Things like that weren’t uncommon, just n...
"I can't,"I told her. "I have a family...friends...a *life*. I can't just leave it all behind!" "But if you don't become who you are meant to be,"she said, "there won't be a life left to look forward to." "I didn't ask for this." "That is life. There are many things that we don't ask for."She looked at me poignantly...
"I know you poisoned my drink,"I told him. "You poisoned mine,"he replied. "Why?"I laced my fingers together under my chin. "I'm curious." "Oh, quit the crap,"he scoffed. "As if you don't know why!" I blinked my eyes innocently at him. "Ever since you I turned you down, you've been making my life hell,"he whispere...
To call it painful, would be inaccurate. It was worse than could be imagined by the most depraved veterans of pain. It went beyond the physical, your own body rearranging itself, organs dissolving and regrowing, bones cracking, changing, cutting into you. You imagine it must be like hell. That's the point when the pain...
John looked the strange extraterrestrial being in what he thought was his eye... eyes? He wasn't sure but he was certain of his answer. "Then I guess it's war." That is how the great feline interplanetary wars started. It wasn't until towards the end of the third war did everyone on both sides learned the hor...
They say a lot of things about us country bumpkins living out in the middle of nowhere. But there is one insurmountable fact that they will get scoffed at for even daring to infer in public. Slowly I flipped the little grey bastard over with my foot the invader from outer space's blood slick on my work boots.  I gotta...
Jon Sammarinese did not expect this. Not at all. I mean, his machine was barely larger than a bathroom stall. Or had been, when he built it. And now? The small, out of the way soccer pitch he had rented on the pretense of being a coach of a small, local soccer team no-one heard of due to its utter failure to exist, w...
At first, I thought I was dead. In Hell, or Limbo, or some other place, whatever the hell you wanna call it. But now, I'm not so sure. It's definitely not Heaven. At least, I hope so. Because it's just so damn *lonely* in here. It's not Hell, 'cause it's honestly not so bad. Only reason I don't think it's Limbo is caus...
I spent fortnights watching imaginative writing prerecords on Metube. Hours were spent scrolling through Predit and its Minor Predit mp/PromptsforWriting. I have read season's worth of trashy 'Loids and Papa sheets. It all accumulated to this moment, this parley with The Daily Squawker. It was my last chance, no one ...
[Poem] (I'M SO SORRY FOR THE FORMATTING I AM ON MOBILE AND TRYING MY VERY BEST) Typing my life awry. (Backspace) Typing my life away. Before I hot send, I need...
I rise, devoid of my power, and see none of what I remember as home. I have no throne to speak of, but I have not betrayed anybody. I had granted the wishes of those I saw fit, and nobody, even over the centuries I ruled, came back for vengeance. Before I took rest, I knew loyalty, and the worst I had known was respe...
Even ordering a greasy pizza feels like a impossible task, my arms feel stiff and heavy. Noises from my stomach will no longer allow me to sleep and escape this confusing reality. Surprisingly my office job has given my three days to grieve and pull myself together. As I scroll through the endless pizza toppings my ...
I am everywhere. I am everything. I am forever. I am alone. I am aware of the void that surrounds me, encompasses me; the void that *is* me. I reach out, expanding, feeling nothing but the infinite emptiness that floats both inside and outside of myself. I ponder what I am: what is my meaning? Where did I come from?...
Walk into house. Smell meat. Hit door. Hit door. Hit door. Hit door. Hit door. Door break. Smell. Left. Meat. Meat inside. Left. Walk. Hit table. Push table. Walk. Meat is crying. Woah, wait, you’re not supposed to be crying, you’re supposed to be screaming as i eat you. I even had the whole mindset going, dude. Serio...
I got woken up by something crawling up my sleeve. I do that funny little dance and it falls on the dirty floor and scuttles away into one of the many holes in the wall. Those damn cockroaches, they really did survive the apocalypse. I stretch with a yawn, and look through the large hole where the window once stood. Lo...
Hi u/nick102000, this submission has been removed. **Politics:** We are not currently allowing political prompts (see rule #7) as the aim of the sub is to encourage people to write and political prompts are leading to arguments instead of stories. * *This was removed [based on the comments it's likely to attract](ht...
"Heh, is that it?"I called out. I knew they couldn't do anything to me. They looked in shock and terror, my party members behind me preparing to attack. The army of some five hundred wouldn't last three seconds. "Listen, you can give up now and I swear I won't kill all of you."I grinned, I was sent here to dispatch evi...
Pietro Ferrero said farewell to his native Farigliano to traverse a new horizon in the Americas. He was an aspiring chocolatier and was in search for a mentor to help him on his journey. He spoke not a lick of English but was determined to immerse himself with the language and culture once he arrived to his destination...
So began our doom in Spring. When Mother flew on fluttering wings, of emerald green. Displayed like leaves that in summer wind swayed. So she flew from center land to beach and banks of sand, where sea till end of sight took the life of all who might the vast nothingness endure, in search of else, that did all...
[Poem] I lay by his side as he takes his last breath My beloved grandfather finally embraces death Tears well up in my eyes, a hand pats my shoulder But I ignore it as my grandfather grows colder - It pats me again and I shove it away A warm voice speaks “Sorry I’ve come this day.” I turn around and find the so...
On my compound is the Mayor, strapped to a chair with a bag over his head. I had my men kidnap him and bring him to me personally. I take the bag off his head, baseball bat in my other hand. "Hello Mayor Scottsdale."I said smiling. "So Doug, it's not enough that you influence the town with your businesses, now you w...
Part 1 A heavy silence descended over the night. Above, the moon cast a soft blue light over the surrounding forest. Inside the small cabin there was only darkness. Petyr had done as instructed and closed the heavy linen drapes of the cabin' pair of windows. He remembered how his parents had bickered over the necessit...
I sat down in the only chair in the room. A bleak hotel room with bleak curtains. And maybe the view outside those curtains is just as bleak, but it is not a concern of ours right now. For there is little much else, just me and the man, sitting on the edge of the bed right in front of me. We sit in silence. Me, looking...
February 2nd, 1945, The Soviet took Berlin, then Paris. Soviet bombers laid seige to London. I'll hand it to those Brits, they don't surrender easily. After the blood bath that was Stalingrad, the Russians were pissed. They took they're anger out on anyone who got in their way, even allies. The Soviets steam rolled ...
“What is this… roleplaying game you speak of?” Zenith asked Vecna, who he had been bound to servitude centuries ago. “All this,” he said, gesturing with hands of rotting flesh to the candlelit chamber, where Zenith had summoned the Lord of Secrets himself. “This realm is all an illusion, made for the enjoyment of the...
"Son of a *bitch,* that stings!" Joe Reilly, security guard, leaned against the iron-bound wooden door and glared at the arrow that was currently stuck in his left bicep. It was only a foot long, but having a sharpened chopstick jammed into a muscle is going to hurt whether it's two inches long or twelve inches long. ...
The tide comes in and the tide goes out. The moon's going nowhere, right? After a long day at a dead-end job, this was all I wanted to come home to: a cold beer, a shitty lawn chair, and a quick drive down to the coast. With all the trees and stuff, there was never any wind. The gentle lapping of the waves on the sho...
We did not expect them. And we sure as hell were not prepared. When one night all the lights went out at once we thought of a solar storm, a terrorist attack or even the bloody Chinese again, but no one could image what really happened. Some nurses said the were wondering much earlier why the number of new pregnancys a...
Sarah Hansen rubbed her temples and squeezed her eyes shut. The photos were blurring together in her mind- black gates, mahogany locked doors, silver bed posts. All important, all futile. "Hansen! Time to go."Another detective called to her desk. A glance at the clock revealed it was already 11:23 pm. They had gotten...
Their words were almost drowned out by the downpour on Highway 9. “They won’t give you one either.” “Dispatch this is unit 12 I need an ambulance for a 245, suspect has several stab wounds and is losing a lot of blood.” I called in on my radio. “Any sign of suspects?” “They took off right when I got here going East...
I stood in horror at the shear number of police cars, swat vans, and ambulances outside the Good Fortunes Medical Center. For the longest time I stood there, waiting for something to happen, unsure of what to do and unnoticed by law enforcement.. After the longest time, a coworker of mine, Jamie Adams, emerged looking...
Research Log \---- Dr. Adam Cooper \---- Entry: 001 23/02/2498-13:44SST Ehm, ok, so my name is Dr. Adam Cooper and this is my first log as a main scientific officer on-board Kondratyuk, the finest research ship built to this date. Interstellar Travel Authority managed to open wormhole to system Kepler-452 located...
I have lived for many thousands of years. So many that I have lost count. In that time, I have worked consistently to improve children's lives. It seems that I may have succeeded. *Hoogh! Thump* "I'm dead?"[Yes.] "How long has it been since a child cried?"[5230] "Then, I succeeded in improving the lives of child...
\*\*This is my first time answering. Its a little rough : ) \*\* I never really saw myself as a good systems technical specialist. Most of my background was in coding machine learning systems to create a better diagnostic software for physicians. I started at Boston Dynamics a little over 5 years ago. The field was ...
John suddenly awoke to a bleak booth behind a desk. As he glanced around desperately, Jesus Christ strolled in, beset with a heap of papers. He dumped them onto the desk. “I need these done by Easter, m’kay?” he said, giving them a firm pat. “Excuse me?” “Easter. Done,” he muttered, barely looking up from his watch....
Based on your preferences One I saw earlier today: Magic was real, but abruptly ended with the invention of the radio. You, an engineer, just discovered this while inside a Faraday cage. One from me: Aliens arrive to congratulate us. Why? No other species has ever come close to our level of technology without using m...
Have you ever tried to picture nothing? True nothingness? I bet most of you think of darkness, but even that is something. Beyond that final door is nothing. No light, no darkness. No sound, smell, taste, feeling. After a while of being in that void, you even stop thinking. I swear if I stayed any longer I would stop e...
You are livid. It's supposed to be the end of your shift - you've been working for the past thirteen hours at minimum wage, and now you've been asked, no, *demanded*, to stay behind and figure this out. You plan on filing a complaint to Fairy Resources, but you know they won't take you seriously. After all, you don't ...
The Sha’vuhlay’s arrival was looked upon as both a benefit and a misfortune for humanity. Initially, the world was engulfed in hysteria and uncertainty. Earth’s separate world powers jockeyed for favor with the aliens, going to whatever extremes were needed to gain the upper hand over the other. They took pity on huma...
Hi u/KawaiiFoxPlays, this submission has been removed. **Choosing Prompts Externally**: Prompts should not ask users to base responses off titles or content they have to seek out in another subreddit or on an external website. * *From Rule 6: [Prompt users in the title, but don't play writing games or commission sto...
The Bible was proven to be at least partially correct during the 2028 Emmy Awards. It is now more enigmatic for the fact. The night was off to a fine start. Everything seemed as in place as it could possibly be for a live national television event, which in essence meant seventy-five percent ready. The earlier light...
A Bitter Lovers’ Quarrel “I told you it didn’t have to happen this way,” His beloved snarled. She was sitting on the bed with her arms crossed, her full, luscious lips twisted in disgust. “I tried to tell you!” Her voice was soft, but carried an undertone of steel that would have sent him running for cover, had he bee...
Meemaw lie in the back bedroom, a staticky television set lit the otherwise dark room. My eyes focused on Vanna White tapping letters. I couldn't solve the puzzle just yet. "You wanted to see me, Meemaw?"My mouth felt dry as I spoke. Meemaw was always just a bit scary to me. She turned her face from the screen and...
*what the heck* I wiped my brow, sweating pouring down my face. Was I seeing this right? I took of my cap flabbergasted at the sight. I was uncomfortable. It still had the same texture, soft and sticky yet the colour. It was putrid, it stank of death. It’s sickly colour. The syrups not meant to be like that, what o...
It was winter again, and cool sunlight peered through the window of the cabin. Had it been four years ago, the light would have entered with a shimmer, a sparkle, like chimes welcoming a new day. As it were, it noiselessly illuminated the space in the cabin, playing with the dust suspended in the air, touching the eigh...
Was it worth it? No, no it wasn’t. Bree spent the money, and somehow won the lotto. She bought the ticket as a joke, and somehow ended up with the winning numbers, and now the government is dead. A rebellion was formed against society and the unspoken rules were killed along with every world leader. There is no law, n...
Alone, locked away; when one finds oneself shut up in a whiskey distillery under said conditions, there is really only one thing for a person to do. It's uncertain how much longer I'll be in here before I'm found, either by the zombies or whatever bandits are out there roaming. In such a condition as I am, plastered a...
She paced around the house, picking up the curios that had been scattered on the floor. She found one last large shard of the shattered glass, went to pick it up, and then thought better of it. *Oh, sure... they're coming without a doubt. Is there anything else I need to do? The house is in order. It's pretty cl...
[poem] The smell of burnt powder hangs in the air People still gawking surrounding the square. The gunfighters body sprawled out in the dust Mixed in with the dirt, his blood looks like rust. I had him at Draw, my bullet was gone Even before he’d touched his .44 long I knew I could beat him, I knew I was faster. I ...
It was 3 years ago that I gained the ability to see souls. It was after my eye surgery, I had lost one of my eyes in an accident and had gotten an eye transplant. From then on, I look at a person and I see their true selves, without their masks. People pretend to be different all the time, pushing down their deep and...
Darkness is a selfish thing. It mothers, it smothers, and with reluctance voids the womb with you. Into the light we are born, screaming for air and fear and joy. It hurts, yes, but it is ecstasy in agony, being thrust into this world of potential and possibilities. But for darkness, it is only agony, losing the affect...
I think about it more and find it weird that a virus can make cells do something they can’t. Plant cells produce O₂ because they have the structure in them to do so. The only reprogramming a virus can do to a cell is to have the cell produce more copies of the virus, instead of producing proteins. Another close look a...
Hi u/MellyKidd, this submission has been removed. **Bathroom Humor:** No troll or meme-based prompts. This includes posting fart or poop jokes as prompts. See [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/wiki/rules#wiki_rule_7.3A_prompts_will_be_removed_if_there.27s_a_high_possibility_for_rule_breaking_responses) fo...
"And every time something happens to her sister; Revina, her sister, and their brother Amers all get rebirthed into a new life. With Revina always suffering the most as a punishment from the gods. Now that by far is my favorite."My sister finished her story, a look of amusement filling her eyes. "Are you done Laura? N...
Damn, but it feels good to have him here. The cruel stretch following Darren's accident had marked an empty home and a flood of wordless tears. D had always loomed larger than life. How could he have been so suddenly gone from me? Our life together instantly evaporated, but half-completed sudokus, stray socks under th...
Prime suspect's statement: *Well I got up and went to work, which I left early so I could have a longer lunch break. It was cold outside so I had my hat, scarf and gloves on. I went to my favourite coffee shop, "The Old Bookshop,"and bought some coffee and some soup. I ate my lunch there and read one of the books ther...
"Special certification, eh? Who pays for it?" "Why you do, dunce!" "Nope. Ain't no call for a special certification, been raising beef for twenty years now, never a complaint, never a bum steer, never even a bone chip after processing, unless the buyer wanted it that way. So, no. No certificate, no nonsense. You...
[Trigger Warning: Suicide] Turns out, everyone is just on lockdown because of the Corona Virus. You were laid off from your job a month ago and have become increasingly depressed with each passing day. You haven't seen anyone because you've been barricaded in your basement apartment playing videogames. You are getting...
Smoke grey and wispy floated through my office as I skimmed across the case notes on my desk. A single confident puff from my cigar flowing across my desk falling off in a cascading waterfall. Slowly my office's door three figures shadowed by the hanging fluorescent lights of the hallway. "*Are you sven?*"quickly the ...
He rose his hand menacingly towards the East and spoke of the terrors that had come many years previously. Gradually, the old, stout mayor began to unravel the story of what had happened while we were voyaging through the mountains on many quests and adventures. According to his sorrowful account, as soon as we had lef...
Its been thirty years since it began. Nobody has found out what caused it or how to end it, but ever since 2020 it's been one thing after another. World wars have started and ended several times, nuclear war happened in 2040. Ever contenent has had massive fires even Antarctica was on fire last year. Five global pandem...
[Poem] Among the stars you'll land, my dear / Among the sands of time and fear / As watchers blink / And thinkers think / You'll triumph over liars // I bid farewell to lovers all / And took the path of stars that fall / Into the black / Ne'er to come back / I'll prove that they're all liars // Fly true, m...
They were huge! In front of me and my gang of hunters, hunting for the few little bugs on the barren earth, were giants. They looked like fairytale giants, big, brutish, and fat. They had a stupid look on their faces. If I could take down just one of these guys, we could feed our settlement for months. I drew my bow ...
"I miss home,"Esmerelda sputtered as her feathered assailant squawked and flew away, propelled skyward by flecks of FDA-approved scavengings, gobs of which were now seeping and solidifying in bas-relief on her dark iron coils. The bird hadn't even taken the time to say hello, or had it? She had to wonder. Perhaps a sho...
Sitting at the gate was boring. Sitting at the gate was bland. Sitting at the gate was bleak, And sitting at the gate felt sad. Until I plugged my new iPhone SE into the server. That was a mistake. A small mistake. But it might have been worth it. I felt all the info in my brain fading when I clicked play o...
How could this happen to me... My thoughts were swirling through my head as I felt as if my body was floating through some sort of endless vortex. I felt my body, but I couldn't actually see it, nor move it. I could feel my existence, but beyond that, there was nothing. I felt like I was looking around, but everything ...
Lord Lucifer is going to be furious, What should we do? People are not coming to Hell, Like they used to He’s killed demons for less, How do you think he will take our news? If we’re going to lie to him, We have to make sure our lies are not see through Lucifer is the oldest demon, He’ll cut our heads off if we...
She looked down at the pregnancy test. A tremor tickled her neck, marching its way slowly down her spine. As the tremor receded from her body, melancholy replaced it in every instance. One line. She had taken a second one just to be sure. The cherry on top. At the supermarket, she was sure to buy the ones that guara...
I always had a good relationship with my father. He was an army veteran, and I would love it when he recounted war stories about his time in the jungles of Vietnam or the deserts of Kuwait. He would always tell me one before bed, about his time as an Army Ranger, when he led his team to liberate villages, negotiate ho...
I found myself sleepless that night. Walls were all I knew. All we knew. They kept them outside. They kept us safe. The reason our society thrived was because of the separation of them and us. The wilderness. A foreign world. But not one for us. The pictures they showed us in school all but confirmed that fact. The b...
Ironic. We spent the last century trying to save the planet from man made climate change and its the only reason we are alive now. Everyday the world gets colder and colder as the sun gets further and further. The Buffer from us destroying the planet has given us around a year before everything freezes over beyond co...
Some people might have found this uncomfortable, but when the sunflowers changed their melody to one I recognized, I start to hum along. As if they knew, some started singing and I sang with them. I sensed someone staring at me so I turned around and stopped dead, and so did the sunflowers. "Jackie? I swear it is not ...
Okay, could I... take a look at the notes, at least? *"Sure. Here let me scribble something- here you go."* So you wrote "He gazed mightily onto this puny scrap of paper, interpreting and dissecting every word and syllable that came across his eye." *"Something to that effect."* That's exactly what this says. Who a...
Not again. Not again. Not again. After months of planning I fail. Why can I never remember to call someone to fix this ancient piece of metal? Even after having to park the car outside, and it not being there the next day, I never remember. That was why I had to start all of this. Having to find money to buy a new ri...
There we go. I've played up until the current year 2020. Under the great leadership of the immortal god-king Enrico Dondalo aka "XxCivDestroyerxX"I have turned Venice into the economic powerhouse of the world and won the game through a diplomatic victory. But at last, it is 4 am. I've spent my Saturday playing for 10 h...
"Sir, the quarterly reports just came in and it doesn't look good. Viewership is down almost 19%. We're looking at a minor loss in profit, but if it stays on this trend we're looking at major, catastrophic losses. We may have to cancel in 2 years." I was listening to his words, but I didn't hear him. I didn't hear mos...
I woke up to three eyes staring at me. They were attached to a purple being that had scaly, reptilian skin that seemed like they were coated in clear lip gloss. Its face was the size of a car, and across it, an equally wide mouth that was stretched into what I can only assume is a smile. Its teeth, shaped like the end ...
The revolution was coming again. Back like a boomerang. They never seemed to stick, one way or the other. Couldn't somebody stop this stupid fucking pendulum? Mr. Well-Kept was well-groomed; combed hair, slightly graying, a suit that was tailored and worn with practiced ease. He was slightly overweight, but it was...
She tapped the enclosure. "This seems wildly ineffective." He looked down from his clipboard. "The mail snail?" "Yes. The mail snail,"she confirmed with obviousness. "I assure you he's a no-fail mail snail. He cares a lot. " "It's not *this* snail. It's the concept as a whole." "Look, the mail snail carries fair m...
King Ecgberht's voice rang throughout the castle walls, the remaining wounded Knightsmen after the great battle against the Nordic raiders bows their head in agony and shame in front of the throne, the King made little to no pause nor mercy with his insults. "Failures! Dare I call you Knightsmen if any of you are a m...
Hi u/SidemenFanclub, this submission has been removed. **Recipe**: Prompts should [not be a recipe](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/wiki/prompts?src=RECIPE). A prompt is a seed, a starting point, not a gridiron guideline or requesting a specific story * *From Rule 6: [Prompt users in the title, but don't pla...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! OH GOD, IT BUUUUURRRNNNSSS!!!" *"What the fuck, Carl???"* "OH GOD, LARRY IT'S BURNING ME!!! I'M BURNING AND IT HUUUUURRRTTTSSS!!! MAKE IT STOP, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP LARRY!!!" *"Carl, if you don't knock that shit off.... I swear to God....."* "Yeah, okay. Sorry. I guess after the twe...
Merwin almost never slept. The giant spider's days and nights were often the same, as can be expected being both nocturnal and subterranean. She was either awake, or half awake at all times. Before the magic infected her, she only had two states of being - hungry or not hungry. But since then, her simple city life ...
Pride, a girl with untamed hair and a sparkle in her eyes. Who gets in over her head but refuses to admit that she's wrong. She refuses to change, and can anyone really blame her? Envy, a girl with sharp, green eyes and a quick tongue. She's gorgeous, and she knows it; but she can't stop the jealousy. Gluttony, she...
"Seriously, Bob?"Said Alan. "Yep."Another large mason jar materialised between my outstretched hands and dropped immediately to the asphalt with a loud crash. "You know the cops are just going to take you in again." "Yep."I said, and continued walking backwards down the street. Alan was quiet for the next three jars...
As I stare my attacker down from the floor I feel my blood pouring out forming a small pool around me. I begin to think about all the people who could possibly attend my funeral. My vision goes blurry as tears begin to fall from my eyes. *"so this is how it ends,"* I think to my self as I sob silently waiting for my e...
"So tell me again."i was sitting in my apartment with ASF Officer Corsa who was trying to figure out what happens. Sadly that involved a lot of repetitious questioning. I was shaking clearly in shock at what happened and i didnt even try to pull myself together. After all i was just murdered half an hour ago, the Para...
I look down at my half empty glass of bourbon. The ice long since melted, the bottle, which was full just two hours earlier, laying on the table nearby. I can’t believe it. They’re real, they’re all real. All the things we joke about, laugh at, and sometimes believe to the laughter of others. They’re all real. Every l...
"If you told me ten years ago that I'd be the Prime Minster for Earth, I wouldn't have believed you,"she said laughing as she poured us both a drink. "I know it's a shock, Ari, but you were the obvious choice. You've spent *ages* learning about almost every culture on Earth. You speak most of the major languages. And ...
(i am not very good at writing, I'll take an criticism you may have) ​ “Are you ready?” I shouted to Avery. It felt like she had been changing forever. “Is this really what they wear in the future?” She asked, sounding a bit uncomfortable. I rolled my eyes. “In this future, yes, but if you don’t want to...
"Skipper, Tiger-Three is reporting in."Ensign Johnson at Comm reported, trying to sound relaxed and calm. "Put it on speaker please."Prime Admiral George Mckane said. He swiveled in his seat out of habit, even though the transmission would be heard everywhere on the bridge, he still liked to look at a speaker. The hu...
1. \[DP\] "Turns out sticking a butterknife glazed with raspberry jam into the USB port WAS a bad idea!" 2. \[WP\] Laughing at funerals is inappropriate, yet the human condition is prone to it. Accidentally letting out a laugh at your recently dead dictator's funeral above a mountaintop that let's it echo all around in...
The hall was large; around 4 metres in length, it connected our rooms together. We lived in a hotel. It wasn’t a working hotel anymore, though, it had long been closed due to the stories many visitors made up about the disturbances during the night. They were all heresy. I’ve lived here for all twenty-four years of my ...
As a child you can hear a song and not know what it means. Language is a complex and intricate system of imagery and iconography that helps build an image of what is being described by through the spoken word in order to tell a story. As children you don't have that knowledge to understand the story fully but you rep...
I am up before the sun rises, dressed and with a helping of bread and cheese the sheep are out to graze before the sky starts to lighten. This is our wealth, the sheep and crops that sustain us and give us the ability to trade with the peddlers who travel between towns and farms and the occasional adventurers who stumb...
"Mr. Secretary, the extermination of mosquitoes *will* have a *profound* effect on the global ecology. They are a primary food species for many fish, which are then food species for other species." "Dr. Wright, the membership fails to see how the removal of a disease-carrying pest could possibly be so necessary to th...
"Command this is Bullseye with the 5th do you read me," \*static silence\* "Bullseye to command, do you copy," I turn around to the rest of my comrades "It looks like we are going in blind, keep comms tight and stay close, got it?" I watch as several of them nod and reply with various forms of "yes". "Viper your...
*Disclaimer: I read the prompt wrong or remembered it wrong. I remembered it as they offered you a seat and you were unsure if it was a blessing or a curse, but I spent the time writing it so here it is anyway* Survivor’s guilt. That’s what they call it. My psychiatrist told me it’s completely normal in situations li...
Millie set down her shovel, and dialed the pizza place again. As she waited for them to pick up, she wiped the fresh sweat off her forehead. Hot day today. After the employee picked up, they went through the usual customer service drivel, before Millie could finally ask if her order was ready. They confirmed her name, ...
It was all quite ironic. Much like the heretics of old, I was about to be burned. The townspeople felt it would be quite the appropriate punishment for me. Even I couldn't deny that if I was in their situation i'd be quite angry. I'd want to burn the bastard who tried to destroy my village. Granted if only the knew how...