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4,100 | Everything is legal in the name of science ! Scientists are allowed to break morals and ethics in the pursuit of knowledge . The only catch is , if they are n't successful in their research , they will be convicted of any crimes they committed in the process .
| I did not die today. No matter what they do to me, I can not die, no matter how much I want to.
Of course it does n't work in every instance, if my head was cut off I would die simply because there would n't be blood to keep my brain alive. But my body might survive.
I volunteered because of the massive amount ... |
4,101 | The protagonist has the ability to freeze time , but with two caveats : 1 ) he does n't age in unfrozen time 2 ) he ages regularly in frozen time .
| Toady we mourn the short tragic life of Tabitha Hanson. The eight year old girl who died with the body of an 85 year old woman. Doctors were never able to identify the disease that caused the poor girl to age so rapidly. It appeared to be some form of metabolic disorder since she ate almost constantly to fuel her unpre... |
4,102 | Zombie apocalypse where the zombies can only be killed by being touched by very specific types of rubber or foam. It’s Nerf or nothing. | “Ouch, you asshole. That shit kinda stings!”
“Relax, you big baby, it’s just a Nerf dart. At least we know you’re not infected.”
“And you’re sure this report of yours is true? Can we really kill those things . . . with foam darts?"
The weenie asking the questions here is my pal, Pete. And those “things” he’s talking... |
4,103 | You reach into a bag .
| Miranda eyed the gift bag left on the kitchen counter.
It was bright shiny silver paper with a heap of frilly ribbon and paper tissue overflowing out of the top. The little paper tag attached to a rope handle said ‘ Don ’ t Peek! ’
It wasn ’ t hers.
But it had been left all alone and defenseless in the kitc... |
4,104 | All dreams are windows to different dimensions and you just got trapped in one
| I ’ d caught glimpses of this world many times over the years. I thought I understood how it worked. I thought I knew the rules. As it turned out, I knew nothing.
Lucid dreaming has always come naturally to me, and I was often able to take control of my dreams, even while being aware that it was a dream. I happily ... |
4,105 | Make me hungry .
| Am I dreaming? Am I awake? The windows don ’ t let any light in, I don ’ t know if it ’ s still night. My stomach growls. I taste… something buttery. Sweet too, in a way. What is this flavor, that makes me salivate, fills my mouth with water and makes me want more?
Caramel, perhaps? I don ’ t remember eating anything... |
4,106 | Every human has their soulmate 's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth .
| The sweat could be seen glistening through the eyes of his bullhead mask. As soon as the terrified mother whelped the child, he grabbed it by the umbilical cord with his muscular forearms and then proceeded to cave the mother's skull in with his bludgeoning hammer; a merciful end. Once that was finished, he ripped the ... |
4,107 | At 19 everyone in your society has to go into the cave of fears and defeat your worst fear . You 're the first to go in and find nothing .
| We gathered around the entrance of “ The Cave ”. I always chuckled to myself about it, for such an advanced society as we were, we were still bound by our fears. That is, until they made “ The Cave ”. Technically, it was “ The Cave of Fears ” and was supposed to show you your deepest, most primal fear, with the intenti... |
4,108 | Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower . When together , both their powers increase in strength exponentially . You have the most useless power ever , when one day ... ...
| Figuring out your special gift is an exciting and unexpected moment in most children ’ s lives. My dad discovered his gift when he was three and really wanted that shiny new toy at the store. Holding your breath until you get what you want only is so effective when your lungs produce their own oxygen. He never got that... |
4,109 | At night , the mechanical owls are more vigilant and dangerous .
| “ OWL!!! ”
“ Shhhh ” my friend Mike whispered back. `` Don ’ t wake it. They generally sleep during the day. Even when they ’ re awake, their night vision isn ’ t that great and they move slower. ”
I glanced around the barn. There were at least five mechanical owls, one in each corner, plus the one under the le... |
4,110 | It 's 3am . Your partner gets out of bed to use the restroom , after they return to bed and you are drifting back to sleep , you are surprised by a knock at the bedroom door . It 's your partner ... asking why the door is locked .
| I relaxed as the comfortable weight of my wife settled back into bed.
`` Hey! Why is the door locked?'' this peaceful state was completely shattered when I heard my wife's voice.
I took a deep breath and in a deft move I twisted to the side and rolled out of bed, landing heavily on the bedroom rug. I snapped op... |
4,111 | Everyone has a personal clock with their life expectancy. This clock changes with every meaningful encounter/experience. One day your clock jumps up by centuries. | WARNING: Some strong language
“Alright, get out of bed! I want you to retrace your steps.”
The number glows brightly in my murky unlit apartment. 2438. My clock reads 2438. I know that’s what it says; the image is burned into my brain, but I can’t stop checking it. I have to kind of squint to read the year, but I can... |
4,112 | Write a eulogy for the bee after it stings you , 250 words or less
| You died of an abdominal rupture.
I learned about it in science lecture.
Although you didn ’ t quite accomplish what you meant to,
I will keep your stinger as a memento.
I had to rip it out of my skin.
Boy, you really know how to dig it in.
I clearly see how you couldn ’ t resist.
When I swa... |
4,113 | You 're new girlfriend turns out to be a psycho mass murderer . However she 's deeply in love with you and would never do anything to harm you .
| After a fun day at the amusement park with my girlfriend,
she invites me to her house cause of a sudden down poor of rain, not only that but the power is currently out.
As we light some candles and sit down, she offers some snacks to eat while we wait for the power to come back on.
she walks away to the kitchen... |
4,114 | You were born with a birth mark the shape of a `` 9 '' on your wrist , one day you get in a fatal car accident . You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8
| You and i live in an apartment. We do n't live on the highest floor, but close. You like to keep the windows open. I like that. I like to watch everything from the almost top floor, through an open window. I like when you feed me. I do n't show it, but i like it. I like you. No. I liked you. You made this happen. You a... |
4,115 | Everyone has a snail in his throat , trying to climb out but injecting live sustaining substances into the human body every hour . Who does n't swallow the parasite in time , dies because of the missing injection .
| My mother had a snail
in her throat. It ate
what she ate, drank what she
drank
climbed blind
and Sisyphean all
its life to that one small
gap of light.
I watched it crawl
out by inches, my mother's
mouth hanging slack,
the plastic tubes
running
up her nostrils, into
... |
4,116 | You wake up one day to an unbelievable story: you had an accident 6 months ago and you lose your memory every night. Everyone around you confirms it and you get to see a news clip of events from the past 6 months. At night, you find a note in your bed. It has one sentence: "They're lying". | I woke up in a hospital room, confused. It was early morning and I had no idea what I was doing here. I had no prior memory of what happened before I woke up, apart from blurry memories of a party and then screams. My family and the doctors told me that I had an accident around 6 months ago and I apparently lose my mem... |
4,117 | All your life , people praised you for your looks . No one has brought it up since the accident .
| I have n't seen Sally for a few months.
I used to see her every day. We'd greet each other excitedly. We ’ d ask each other how we were doing and how much we missed each other; she ’ d tell me how handsome I was and I ’ d tell her how beautiful she was. We ’ d run and jump around like crazies and play tag. Smile.... |
4,118 | A teenage runaway moves into an abandoned house to escape from her abusive stepfather . You are the ghost that haunts this house .
| she came in like she does this every day, she did n't seemed scared of the night or the bite of the cold on her nose. she sat down and I could see her bruises blossom through out the night. I watched her careful, and somehow she felt strange, different from the kids who would write things on the walls.
It was silen... |
4,119 | A story where the villain/antagonist wins .
| Most stories finish with a happy ending. They are told to make us feel happy. We sit around warm camp fires, or curled up on an engulfing sofa, or on a beach under burning sun, and share tales of triumph, of joy, of success. We teach our children that hard work counts, that good things come to good people, and that the... |
4,120 | Begining or the end ?
| I ’ m not sure how much time has passed, but where everything was once bright and beautiful, has turned into a dismal wasteland of nothingness. I have long craved the warmth, the light, anything that once made me feel. I vaguely remember being surrounded by love. It has been too long. I ’ m starting to question my exis... |
4,121 | You are the White House janitor . One night , the red phone on the president 's desk starts to ring .
| I wasn ’ t thinking when I picked up the phone. I ’ d been vacuuming and mopping all night, scraping some imported reddish grease from the long oak table, scrubbing the thick looped carpet underneath. It was a Friday night and I was longing for 8 o ’ clock, longing for my baby, missing her diaper-change screams, her mi... |
4,122 | You have evidence that the conspiracy about big business fast food restaurants using human meat in their food is true . You also find the location of the human slaughterhouse supplying the meat , and you must go to the slaughterhouse to find more evidence
| `` I'm doing a project for school. Anyway you can let me get a few shots of what goes on in there?'' I asked the owner of the warehouse. He was a shifty looking fellow, obviously the kind of man they would hire to run their human chop shop.
`` Nothing but animals in there son. We do n't allow cameras in anymore eve... |
4,123 | You notice your friend 's car empty and abandoned on a highway shoulder . After taking a closer look , you see a path leading to the woods from the car . You follow it .
| I was on my way home from work. Just like any normal day, I was driving along 391 at about 55. Not speeding not going slow. I saw a white car, just sitting on the highway with the door open. I thought the car looked familiar, and I pictured my friends car and matched up the license plates I my head. It was his. I slow ... |
4,124 | Hell is being gentrified by Humanity
| I remember when this neighborhood used to be real.
Crumbling sidewalks sat below crumbling buildings. Potholes that stretched for miles pocked the roads. Newcomers who could n't find their way could usually be found lying in the street begging for help, their skin slowly melting off their frames from the heat.
... |
4,125 | A young couple is trying to put together some Ikea furniture for their apartment . In this simple situation , she realises he 's the man she wants for the rest of her life .
| I suck at this style, but got ta get better somehow. Here goes:
-
I'm not sure why we keep going back to this place. There is almost always something wrong, or something missing it seems. If not, when we put it all together, it's flimsy or something breaks on our first attempt. I guess it works itself out in th... |
4,126 | You wake up to see envelope which contains two pills and a note explaining what they do. The blue puts you back to when you were ten with all of the knowledge you currently know. The red puts you to when you are 50 but with 100 million in the bank. Overcome with curiosity you choose one. | Why only one? I was going purple baby! By that, I was taking two pills, a blue one that placed me back in time to where I was ten, with everything I know; and a red one that placed me at age fifty with 100 million in the bank. I dropped them both in my mouth and froze. Maybe it wasn't such a— Naah!
I swallowed and fou... |
4,127 | When looking at a childhood photo of yourself you notice something strange . This discovery sends a shiver down your spine and changes everything .
| I set the album I had been holding down, then leaned over to pick up the last one. The dusty circle of light that shone from the lone window revealed that it was a deep burgundy, with the numbers 1966 impressed into the leather. I opened it up, running my hand across the yellowing paper. It ’ d been a while since I ’ d... |
4,128 | "Why are you not dead!?" "Before i joined them, I was called the Hydra for a reason." | I stepped around the corner, into line of sight of the last soldier from the group that attacked us.
“I.. I killed you!” He shouted, his voice shaky as he leveled his rifle at me.
“It’s interesting, you did. You did in fact kill me, but here I am. ‘Strike down a head and two shall take it’s place.’ Have you heard tha... |
4,129 | Blood. The smell of it fills your nostrils. | I couldn't see. I couldn't see it. I could hear it crawling towards me and even more so I could smell the stench coming from this ..thing. It smelled like blood and death and it was even more overwhelming than the general reek of the sewer.
I didn't know who put me here or how I came here. I could move but there was n... |
4,130 | You were once a happy household plant . Now you are slowly dying from dehydration . What lead to your owners forgetting about you .
| On the window seal, I watched my owner lay on the couch, rotting his brain as he listlessly lets the television blare and the beer run through his system. He watered me two days ago and I felt rather thirsty, but I knew he would water me. He always has.
Three days passed and I watched my owner fight with his girlfr... |
4,131 | It is our blood that stores our long-term memories not our brains . Making a blood donation is considered among the most altruistic acts a person can perform , as one person 's loss is another person 's gain .
| The street lights flick on as I walk under them; four metres back the street-lights switch off. Energy efficient street-lights of my own invention. Not ten metres in front of me, the lights of Prof. Colin Munnery switch on as he walks beneath them.
I have long since stopped trying to be discrete. It is clear that P... |
4,132 | [cw] write about the strangest/scariest/saddest dream you've ever had in less than 200 words. | Not an entire dream, but a specific part of dreams that I have every year, roughly once a year. The earliest I remember this happening was when I was 7 or so. The dream would start out normal (as normal as dreams get)...
...and then I see my grandmother on a rooftop. Any rooftop. She's holding a cheap plastic water bo... |
4,133 | The fae had returned the girl, but they never took back the changeling, and now no one knows which is which, or whether it matters - not even the supposed twins. | They said the fae returned her. Left her standing at the edge of the woods just after dawn, barefoot, with a daisy behind her ear.
She said her name was Ella. She looked like Ella. Same green eyes. Same scar above her brow. She even remembered the stuffed rabbit she used to sleep with.
But Ella was already home.
She... |
4,134 | After years of being deaf you start hearing voices
| There it was again; that ringing sensation in my ears that I could only assume was sound. Of course, having been deaf since birth, I had no clue what sound, well, sounded like... Until a few weeks ago.
I had tried to tell my mom- who immediately tested it by trying to talk to me- only to disappoint both of us when th... |
4,135 | In a quiet , snowy village , there lives a woman . Her sole purpose is to absorb the pain and suffering of the other villagers .
| My grandmother tells me that Kana was an old woman our village before the great winter came. When she was a little girl, Kana was already wrinkled, dry, and withered.
“ There ’ s something wrong about that one, ” she would say, pointing a chubby finger towards the small hut Kana called a home.
Our village was b... |
4,136 | Gross us out . Write or describe something so foul it will make us queasy .
| I brought him to the Riker Avenue dumps. There is a house that stands alone, not far from where I took him. I took the boy there. Stripped him naked and tied his hands and feet and gagged him with a piece of dirty rag I picked out of the dump. Then I burned his clothes.
Threw his shoes in the dump. Then I walked ba... |
4,137 | By complete accident , you discover an acquaintance hiding godlike powers .
| We were playing Halo in his room when everything started happening. We were drinking tons of coca-cola and stopping the game left and right for bathroom breaks.
Mom called him downstairs to get something, I followed since I had to go to the bathroom again, as expected...
That's when I saw it, I walked in on my ... |
4,138 | Write a sinister , chilling poem .
| Seven little children, sitting on their beds
Say their silent goodnight prayers
And rest their little heads
The sun descends completely
Now all is inky blue
And fourteen little eyeballs start
To dart from fro and to
I chuckle with a grumbling gut
Looks like rain, I say, tut tut
I kick aside a growling... |
4,139 | It 's 2 in the morning , you 're about to turn off the TV . However the screen goes static , then a women appears on the screen shouting your name .
| My mother used to tell me not to watch these kind of movies late at night. Apparently, it's not good for the psyche. She swears that one kid got PTSD because they watched The Shining by themselves at night. I would nod my head and promise to watch a sitcom. It's easier that way. I did n't like lying, but I liked the mo... |
4,140 | All sound has suddenly ceased . Studies confirm we did n't go deaf , it was sound itself that ceased to exist . From a first-person perspective , describe what happens next , and what the world and society is like 10 years later .
| In the mornings, I wake up long before my husband. He is a night owl, and I am a morning lark. Long ago we reached a compromise in our marriage- we each spend the few hours' difference in our sleep schedules quietly reading or browsing the internet next to each other in bed.
That morning, I logged onto Facebook and... |
4,141 | Humanity has long forgotten their origins and purpose . Now , many centuries later , our creators have returned .
| The news stations shut down the day they came. All of them. All at once. Then all the television stations blipped out of existence. Then the internet. The electricity was the last to go. It was like they were sending us back in time. I guess they didn ’ t want us to communicate with each other, like they didn ’ t want ... |
4,142 | A detective who solves crime committed by super-powered humans .
| `` Looks like the work of AggroWolf...'', Dennis says. He looks at me as he takes another drag on his cigarette. He throws it away from the crime scene, trying to erase the image from his mind. I roll my eyes at him as he looks at me for a response.
`` I do n't know why they give themselves names. This is real life... |
4,143 | At long last , the zombie apocalypse falls upon humanity and ... Well everyone 's prepared .
| The shambling corpse of my neighbor Steve walked towards me slowly. I had seen this before, in movies and in games. This was definitely a zombie. Although it sucks to do this to Steve but I mean I cant let him get away. I look behind me and take a couple steps back safely. Okay one good shot to the head and hes done. I... |
4,144 | The scene is your grandfathers 90th birthday party . Unbeknownst to you and your family , he is a sleeper agent who was brainwashed in a Nazi POW camp . At some point during the celebration , his activation phrase is spoken . Chaos ensues .
| “ Well we couldn ’ t fit all the candles on your cake Dad, we ’ d set the whole house on fire! ” Aunt Darlene chuckled at her own joke.
Grandpa laughed good heartedly. “ No need, a man at my age has no need for wishes, everything I ’ ve ever wanted out of life you all have given me. Everything I need is right here,... |
4,145 | A teenage boy caught between his parents brutal and bitter divorce must choose which parent to live with .
| The judge stared at fifteen-year-old Tony, who only stared back at the judge. The silence that filled the courtroom was maddening to the young boy ’ s parents, as they waited, on the edges of their seats, not wanting to miss the boy ’ s response. The boy and judge continued to stare, minutes crawling by, neither speaki... |
4,146 | Oil is actually the life-blood of the planet. When we realize it and see the planet dying, we create synthetic oil to pump back into the Earth and it works—too well... | Rick and I perch atop the edge of what used to be our world, feet dangling into the heat of the magma that wafts up from a jagged igneous earth-gash. Surrounded by the frantic cries and screams of humans unable to comprehend their nearing liquidation, we throw chunks of rock into the cavern and watch for the splash. I ... |
4,147 | Waking from cryostasis is now possible . The government develops an experiment where somebody is to be placed into a large chamber in the middle of the city and awoken every 50 years for just one week . Your name is chosen .
| “ December 11, 4614. My name is Edmund Schulman, 2600 years ago was my last birthday. I am the oldest living terrestrial mammal on earth. ”
I ’ ve done this exactly 52 times now. I remember reciting the same exact phrase the way the first batch of scientists instructed. The digital camcorder remarkably the same and... |
4,148 | Blow my mind .
| I want to start this by saying I am not really that happy with how this turned out. I think it could be polished up quite a bit personally. With that said I hope someone enjoys it still.
______
It was a strange VHS tape that Kim had found. It was only like a quarter at the yard sale but the guy seemed pretty reliev... |
4,149 | You are an astronaut exploring a new planet, the moment you walk on it for the first time, you notice it looks exactly like that dream you had as a child, you then remember that dream was the same one with the horrifying monsters | The land was swept in beautiful greenery, and they couldn’t help gasp. Their mind filled with wonder at the planet teeming with life. “Report: Planet AT3555D contains lifeforms; I repeat: Planet AT3555D contains lifeforms.” Their lips turned upwards while examining the green leaves that hinted with yellow, as autumn ap... |
4,150 | You are the cure for cancer .
| The familiar stick hurts, but just for a second. There is a brief pause before I can feel the draining begin. At this point I ’ m so used to this procedure that I just go into auto-pilot. I try to focus on something else, what I ’ m going to cook for diner today, if I need to study for that exam, how I ’ m going to mak... |
4,151 | `` Attempt # 503 failed , but I was extremely close this time . Next one will probably seal the deal . Resetting . '' `` Pretty damn weird for a suicide note . ''
| Dave walked into the room, crossing the police lines placed across the door. “ Well, this certainly is creative. ”
“ What the eff, man? ” His coworker Steve exclaimed, walking in behind him. The others at the scene chuckled, Steve ’ s reference to Dave ’ s full name, David Frederick Mann, had been used often to t... |
4,152 | You as a child are in a coma now you now live in your favorite TV show from when you where younger
| Where am I? Is this a jungle? It ’ s impossible, it ’ s the middle of January and it ’ s freezing in my city. Why am I not wearing my winter clothes? I must have left home this morning wearing them, it was cold outside. How did I get here?
Ok, let me remember how I ended up here. Last thing I can remember, classes ... |
4,153 | Every day you wake up in someone else 's body , anywhere around the world .
| I went to sleep excited, excited to see what I would wake up to the next morning, what my reality would be next, would I be in a new country? Outer space? Boy, girl, young old, I was excited. I finally fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning and groaned. It hurt to move as I sat up and looked around. I could n't see ... |
4,154 | You’re walking in the woods. There’s no one around and your phone is dead. Suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you spot him. | Shia LaBeouf
You're looking for your car, but you're all turned around He's almost upon you now, and you can see there's blood on his face My God, there's blood everywhere!
Running for your life from Shia LaBeouf He's brandishing a knife, it's Shia LaBeouf Lurking in the shadows Hollywood superstar, Shia LaBeouf Livi... |
4,155 | Take a simple task . Make the reader believe that it is the most strenuous and exhausting task that ever exists .
| The alarm flashes and blares in the cold morning light. 7 a.m. Time to get up. I begin to turn over and pull up the sheets around me, but the alarm refused to be ignored. I can ’ t take this. Not now. I could get out of bed and take a shower. Millions of people are rising and rubbing the sleep out of their eyes and doi... |
4,156 | There’s an urban legend that’s been circulating around for decades about a taxi cab that doesn’t take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night, you step into that cab. | “Where to boss?”
“515 Lennox....and I’m not your boss.”
“Fucking immigrants” I thought to myself. Ever since my sight started failing me I am forced to abide these foreign idiots more and more. These disgusting cabs reeking of body odor and curry are a nightmare. I miss my Cadillac. I miss my freedom.
“Heading home,... |
4,157 | The year nothing changed. | Last year at this time, Susan was overweight and depressed. Today, she was overweight, depressed, and an alcoholic.1
The sudden addition of great quantities of alcohol began a new era of depression. One in which spontaneous moments of sheer happiness and joy burst out every once in a while.2 Susan looked at the calend... |
4,158 | You notice shady behavior from a neighbor in your apartment building . You decide to follow them around to possibly discover what they are hiding
| The old lady pauses at the door to the laundry room. She looks left and right, ever so slowly. Failing to notice this 18 year old girl hiding behind the 100 year old oak tree, she pulls a key out and enters.
She is in the laundry room for about five minutes. It is impossible to see what is happening since no light ... |
4,159 | : Everyone is born with two names written on their bodies . One will be the love of your life , and the other is fated to be your mortal enemy . You do n't know which one is which before it happens .
| I lifted my sleeve to reveal the two names and read them aloud. “ Alice Richardson, and Betty Diamond… Who would have known that I would meet both of you on the same day? ”
Two gorgeous women looked at me from across the table, sipping on the coffee drinks I had ordered them. One of these women would be the love of... |
4,160 | you are an old demon just wanting to enjoy retirement in a statue in a shrine, unill a cult start performing sacrifices on your altar. You decide to seek help from a local priest | "Daemonum suscitator,
Surge daemonium!"
The ghastly chorus rumbled lamely through the circle of stones. Borgoroth began rolled his tired crimson eyes in the astral plane.
"Daemonum suscitator,
Surge daemonium!“
"Come on, guys!” he whined, staring longingly at a thick yellowed parchment he used to track the millennia... |
4,161 | You are the main character of your story , unfortunately you do n't realize the genre you 're living in .
| It was fucking hot. And I was staring at a pair of pink handlebars. But not on a bike. They stretched out of someone ’ s ass. They were using telekinesis on an overweight sunburnt woman. It was sweet to look at because she enjoyed the refreshing dip in the water, and the short peck on her grotesque mouth from her husba... |
4,162 | You wake up in a really good mood only to realise something is horribly wrong .
| I enjoy waking up from a good night's sleep. That in-between time where I'm not quite awake but not quite asleep either is my favorite. Sometimes I fall back asleep just enough to start dreaming, and sometimes I drift into awareness. The best part of waking up, though, is that my wife is almost always beside me, snorin... |
4,163 | You 're walking down the street when some homeless looking man approaches you selling `` Holy Water '' . Taking pity you buy it from him and take it home . Jokingly , you flick your wife with some ... She begins to blister .
| It was a quiet Tuesday evening as I walked home from work. Nothing about my work day stood out to me. Chatted with the boss, took calls from clients, listened to Penny from accounting recount her adventures from the previous evening. Typical work day stuff. Even the walk home was turning into an uneventful walk.
I ... |
4,164 | Congratulations, you have won the war. And all that is left is ash and rubble. | My ears rang loudly. I couldn’t hear a thing other than that wretched noise and my heartbeat, pounding in my chest I felt as if every vein in my body was about to burst. The ash and dust filled my nose until I couldn’t smell the blood and gunpowder anymore. Coughing some up I finally take a look at my hands. Callused, ... |
4,165 | Write a story about hope in a post apocalyptic fantasy world. | In the end long-forgotten cave that is as silent as the graveyard, a robotic voice broke that serene silence. “Systems online. Initiating boot-up sequence. Essential systems online. Initiating sensors. Error, module not available. Initiating Belatorr. Error, module not available. Initiating Servitiun. Error, module not... |
4,166 | Your plot to raise ocean temperatures and increase CO₂ levels in the water are working. Yes, millions will be killed, land will be made unusable, and people will complain. But they don't understand the menace in the deeps you are trying to kill... | “They can’t understand. They will never understand what lurks in the crust and oceans. They cannot comprehend the scale.”
I was muttering angrily to myself in my chair, looking at reports on my desk and gazing occasionally at the news reports on the TV in the corner. The news was trying to cover up the true number of ... |
4,167 | Your cat gets turned into a human .
| My only friend is my cat, Roger. He's a ginger persian cat and has been my only friend/source of entertainment ever since my ex wife left me 4 months ago.
I treat Roger like my child that my ex wife also forced away from me. My daily routine is waking up, showering, brushing my teeth and then feeding Roger his favo... |
4,168 | The rapture just happened . Rather than disappear and go to heaven , you begin hearing voices . Why ?
| It's been two days since the rapture has happened and I have made a terrible discovery, there were two kinds of people that got raptured. The first group of people who got raptured were the ones that actually were saved, they went to heaven to live in paradise with God forever. Now what about the other group? Yes, the ... |
4,169 | Writing Workshop # 19 : Symbolism & Messages
| “ Why is there a hole in your chest, right by your heart? ”
The man turned at the sound of my voice, looking a bit disoriented.
“ Oh, this? ” he answered, glancing down at the gaping orifice. “ Don ’ t worry about it. It was there as long as I can remember. Sometimes it hides completely, sometimes it grows out ... |
4,170 | Regardless of cause of death , the time of death will always be the time of birth on the person 's birthday
| 12th August 2014
9.37 am - It has happened, as I speak Mary is being brought through to a midwife. She is in labor! Finally after nine months of stress induced arguments it is here and on her birthday of all days! I am going to be a father, me, you know the man who ca n't even commit to a diary for more than a few ... |
4,171 | For one day , all the people on earth freeze in place , solid as stone , and every statue and sculpture comes to life , free to wander , socialize , seek revenge , etc .
| September 22nd 2015 was and will always be a peculiar day in the history of mankind. On all accounts, that day did not exist at all: everybody seems to have simply skipped it. No memories of doing anything, meeting anyone, hating, bitching, loving, laughing. Nothing.
September 22nd 2015 was also the day the pigeons w... |
4,172 | You have a very mundane talent , so mundane that you 've never shown it to anyone . The first time you do , as a party trick , you 're told that your talent is physically impossible .
| lots of people have silly little tricks they can do with their hands. you can wiggle your fingers in strange ways, bend them in any sort of direction. you can make your thumb touch your wrist or you can bend your whole hand at the wrist. so many kids in my grade school did all sorts of those things and they're so much ... |
4,173 | A security officer is charged with guarding a door but he 's never been allowed to enter . After years of service , he has never seen anyone use the door . Describe what he finds after not being able to hold off his curiosity any longer .
| Large and grey the door stood before me. Dust gathers on the handle and the hinges fill with rust. Never have I seen this door open. Once I thought it would during an evacuation of the building during a bomb scare. The police shifted everyone from the building into another nearby. However, they never even checked this ... |
4,174 | Two friends search for food in the post apocalypse but instead find something else .
| Bill lay panting on the damp earth beside the partially collapsed building. The body of his friend lay still several feet to the side. The can lay directly between them, blood slowly drying on its surface. He had used it as an impromptu weapon, bashing Jake in his head in a fit of defensive rage. It HAD been his can. H... |
4,175 | The demon you conjured up 20 years ago is at your front door. She says that her and Lucifer got in a fight and she needs a place to stay for awhile. | " Hey Denny your looking pretty good for an old guy, I haven't seen you since prom”
The female demon stood in an extremely revealing dress outside my front door, her pitch black eyes actually looked happy, never a good thing with a demon. I stepped out and closed the door a little bit so my wife couldn't see her stand... |
4,176 | His overbearing , unstable ex-girlfriend wo n't leave him alone . She 's in his apartment when he brings home dates . She 's at the store while he shops . She 's at his office when he tries to work . No one can help him since she 's dead , no one else sees her and he 's the one who killed her .
| “ Marcia Underwood? ” She ’ s in the kitchen when I go in, a Granny Smith spinning from her hand towards the ceiling and back to her hand again. That ’ s the only joy she can get from Granny Smiths these days, though I don ’ t think that ’ s the source of her grin as she peers over my shoulder into the living room, whe... |
4,177 | Tell me the tale of a famous fairytale or movie from the perspective of an inanimate object . Bonus points for revealing the actual story with the last sentence .
| It was a nice day, the family was out and I was just relaxing at home. Then that bitch showed up. She barged in as if she owned the place and with those greedy little eyes she took me in. Before I knew it she was over me with a sickening smile. Then she grabbed me and began sucking and slurping while I lay there helple... |
4,178 | You wake up at 3 am . to an emergency alert on your phone that just says `` RUN '' .
| The incessant buzzing emanating from the phone woke Steven, presumably after several minutes. He was always a bit difficult to wake, but tonight it only took a couple of minutes. The clock read 3:00AM. Clumsily, he grasped for his phone on the nightstand - and after several attempts, managed to grab it. He pressed the ... |
4,179 | You walk through the Gates of Hell , expecting an eternity of agony . Instead you look around and see only one other soul .
| `` Hey,'' I said.
`` Hey,'' she said with a shrug. Her hands were stuffed in her jeans and she looked completely disinterested in our surroundings. Not that there was much to be interested in anyway; I'd expected fire and brimstone, all I'd gotten so far was a white room.
`` So is this it?'' I asked.
Anothe... |
4,180 | You are the Anti-Chris , commonly mistaken for the Anti-Christ .
| “ Oh my god. ”
The woman ’ s eyes bulge in her head. What she is seeing she can not quite comprehend. The man before her appears unquestionable dark. Ichor seems to emanate from him, making the air thick and foul as tar. He stands in line. He takes a bite of a muffin in crinkled brown paper. When he opens his mouth... |
4,181 | Whenever you say "Lights, Camera, Action!" A film crew magically appears to record your every move. When you say "Cut!" You travel back in time before you said action. | The interview went swimmingly today. Not because I’m particularly good at interviewing, in fact, I’m shockingly terrible at nearly any social interaction. However, when you have an infinite amount of rehearsal time, you don’t need skill, just your memory. I just called in my film crew, ran through the interview a coupl... |
4,182 | Hi ! I 'm the main character ! Or so you would have me be . I want you to know that no matter what you write , I refuse to be the main character in your little game and will avoid any instance where you try to put me into a situation that does so .
| The cars collide together, screeching and wailing as their tires skid and burn against the asphalt road. Glass scatters like falling hail, spraying out in the direction of pedestrians who shriek as they run to dodge the massive vehicles. As if on cue, in some metal framed synchronised dance, two more cars join. They sp... |
4,183 | `` Why do we have to kill everyone we meet ? ''
| “ Why do we have to kill everyone we meet? ”
Caleb ’ s words hang in the air ringing with the clear innocence that produced them. His eyes aren ’ t quite black yet, there ’ s still a tinge of blue, and his hands have only a few splatters of blood with bits caked underneath the fingernails. He sits in the near cente... |
4,184 | During the salem witch trials an accused woman turns out to be a legit witch .
| The fire slowly crept up her body. She screamed, and than she screamed louder and louder. The louder she screamed the better I felt. I knew God would be pleased with what I did. She is not a believer, she deserves this horrible death. Long after she should have died she stopped screaming. She broke free of her bindings... |
4,185 | You really want a pet, but you can only get the one that's assigned to you by the International Pet Personality Test. It could be anything, ranging from bacteria to an extinct animal. You decide to take the risk, take the test, and live with the results. | I thought I would be okay with any pet I got, but deep down I desperately wanted a cat, a soft sweet animal which would spend time with me. When I sat down for the test I wrote down my interests, mentioning that I had a fondness for cats. The day came when my pet was delivered, I opened the door and stalled. There in t... |
4,186 | Describe a break up between a man and a woman in which one speaks only in metaphors and the other speaks only in similes. | "You snake. You fucking reptile."
"It’s not like I’m a murderer or a rapist. No need to talk like you were raised on a farm."
"You slimy, cold-blooded toad. Pond scum."
"I had to pay them back. Don’t you watch TV? These guys are described like sharks for a reason. They’ll pick me—us—to the bone."
"You’re sick."
"I... |
4,187 | "Your guilt shall haunt you!" "I don't have any guilt over killing scumbags like you." | Ryan feels the cold tip of the Glock against his forehead.
Denice's finger hovers on the trigger. This is it. He's spent 3 months tracking and stalking the man responsible for his fathers death.
A picture of his father flashes in his head. Followed by another of him at the scene of the accident. T-Boned while on his ... |
4,188 | Begin a great story with someone eating a salad .
| – “ Have you tried a Greek salad? ” The man in black removed the tape of his month.
– “ HELPP!! ” the victim started shouting in despair.
– “ Nobody can hear you! ” the tape was back and the silence was brought back.
The two figures were in a spacious kitchen with beautiful mahogany furniture and surrounded b... |
4,189 | Aliens visit earth for the first time , but they have no senses in common with humans , so there 's no way to communicate with them .
| They just showed up one day. One day they weren ’ t there and the next they were. I found mine sitting on my armchair.
Imagine a Rhesus monkey. Now imagine a Rhesus monkey without ears, eyes, a mouth, fingers or toes. It just sat there and didn ’ t move. The creature felt warm to the touch. Its hair was thick and l... |
4,190 | Tell me a love story . your main character must not be a human .
| ( A friend's work, not mine )
He bought me when I was new. That ’ s the kind of man he is, wanting to see the world at its shiny-new best. It cost him 15.99 more than it should have; he never had a head for prices. But when he took me out of the box and caught his reflection in my side he grinned, and his teeth sho... |
4,191 | : Your reflection does n't blink .
| It was an average morning. I woke up, put on my slippers, and brushed my teeth. As I looked into the mirror I noticed something was off. My reflection stared at me with a gaze that I could only explain as... inanimate.
The reflection started to turn white, it looked as if it saw a ghost. I continued to brush my tee... |
4,192 | - You are a teenager and there is a creature in your house which either kills you or leads to your death
| When I first saw the strange, ape-like creature living in our basement, the shrills at the back of my head decided not to venture downwards. Thus I merely nodded to the beast, acknowledging its existence, making it a secret of ours. The pact with the ape quickly extended to me bringing the food and cleaning the feces t... |
4,193 | You are a master of of the mind palace technique, so much that you can entertain yourself for hours just spending time in the fictional place you have created inside your head. One day, while roaming around in your palace, you're shocked to find signs of a break-in. | I had been using the same memory palace for longer than I could imagine. I had my 3 toed monkeys in a tree. The 1 crystal clear lake with 4 koi swimming around.
All that was great, but my house, my house was special.
Walking inside I could find my one-of-a-kind 5-legged dinner table. Most importantly were the 6 windo... |
4,194 | When all the snow melts in NYC, they're gonna find all the bodies of the people they thought weren't getting murdered. | Looking back we all feel pretty stupid now; all those celebrations and news stories, those declarations of how New York was changing. We were going to be the first place which had eradicated homicide; it was a ground breaking story.
There was no place on Earth which had accomplished that; sociologists were stunned, th... |
4,195 | Any birthmark on your body is a result of you dying violently in a previous life . How did you die ?
| I have a huge strawberry birthmark on my neck. My mom used to wrap a scarf around it when she took me out because people would stop her and accuse her of abusing me. It shrunk a bit as I grew older and now only looks like a rather large hickey. I never thought why it was there, it just was.
I met a girl in college. S... |
4,196 | `` I have different smiles . I practice all of them every morning , in the bathroom , just before breakfast . Sometimes , even at night . ''
| I have different smiles. I practice all of them every morning, in the bathroom, just before breakfast. Sometimes, even at night. They all can say different things to those seeing them. But I know the truth. They ’ re all the same smile, hiding the same terrifying thing- I ’ m not him.
“ You ’ re an asshole, but you... |
4,197 | You are sitting at home studying . you get up to make some coffee and when you return you find that a sentence has been burnt into your table .
| Electromagnetics was the epitome of a coffee vortex. I simply could not study longer than an hour without frequenting the coffee machine at least three times. My wife once brewed the coffee for me, but with my frequency she has long since given up keeping on top of it.
I rose from my chair to restart the coffee mak... |
4,198 | A prophecy has foretold of two siblings who would be the ultimate forces of good and evil. Together, they could stop the warring nations and establish peace. One day, a woman gives birth to triplets. The first two wield the ancient powers. The last one does not. You are the third one. | When me and my siblings where born, we were just an ordinary set of triplets. Sure, my older brother and sister were quite big — which is rather unusual in twins or triplets — but we seemed like normal kids. Well, except maybe for the fact that we have never looked much alike. Svenja, the oldest of the three of us, is ... |
4,199 | The serialkiller leaves hints towards his next victim . Most of them are puns , which only make sense once the next body is found .
| I was a rookie detective when my first murder case came up. It was brutal the man had his hands cut off with only the message of he needed a hand so i gave him 2. No one understood the message that was until we found the next body. The next victim was a 32 year old man that lost both of his arms in a shark attack with ... |
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