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A great light blast out of itself and into nothingness. A flame that became a land that had not seen light before.
A time passed, and the light had spread out to nowhere. The moths it had birthed flew around in what it had created, and gathered, seeking to recreate the light they had seen.
The moths became ... | 1 | null | null |
They call him the Tree. Worst villain of all time, he could withstand many puns, and was able to become powerful, and rich.
I, the Rabbit, speediest punner assassin in all of the world, have been tasked to hunt him down.
After being sent by the P.U.N. to find him, I head to the city of New York. There, I see a ... | 1 | null | null |
Everything seems muffled, I can hear sounds but ca n't make anything out. I open my eyes slowly, the light seems so bright. There are blurred shapes moving about. I suddenly realise I'm cold, oh so cold, it's like I'm encased in ice!
My vision clears a bit but it's like there's something in front of my face. I try ... | 1 | null | null |
`` We should be well within range of the standard personnel suit's mobile ad hoc network capabilities, if they are attempting to use it - but we are not receiving RF, Captain. Also, Ground confirms it is the Alba Mons ship, and MARS-BASE still reports receiving no traffic from them since the accident last week. We do n... | 1 | null | null |
`` Mommy, can we buy it?''
`` Sweetie, you know we do n't have much money this month...''
`` But look at it...''
`` I know sweetheart, I know. I'd love to say yes but we just ca n't afford it''.
`` What about Santa, mommy?''
`` What about him?''
`` Well, I heard you talking about borrowing money with Daddy,... | 1 | null | null |
[ Helen and Terry were quiet for a while after the broadcast shut off. ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/promptoftheday/comments/1e6jx0/ashes_ashes_we_all_fall_down_reddit_gold/c9xmljv )
`` They took that pretty well, do n't you think?'' Terry said cheerfully. Helen punched him in the arm.
`` We had to rewind and do... | 1 | null | null |
She watched him very closely that morning, after noticing he used the light switch in the bathroom, instead of the clapper. An impulse he'd never once had. She thought it strange, but considered it a fluke until he pulled out their old blender, put the top on, held a dishtowel over it and began blending a juice drink. ... | 1 | null | null |
It was finally Yahweh's time to shine. As a young boy Yahweh had always wanted to have a job as a universe manager. It was not the ideal job but it paid the job and seemed fun enough. He had an alter ego called Allah who showed up whenever he was drunk or angry and who was the party pooper. It was this side that almost... | 1 | null | null |
Valhalla parties were widely regarded as the wildest this side of the transfinite meta-corporeal divide. The who's who of the divine scene were always there, and they came to get *wrecked*. Zeus and Jupiter pretty much always got in a fight, Ra and Hera would hook up in one of the hundred times a hundred bathrooms and ... | 1 | null | null |
`` Coffee? *Coffee? * You want a *proper* cup of coffee? At last....*at last! * *Vigor! *''
`` *Yeeeessssz, marster? *''
`` Vigor, you worthless lump of gristle. We have *work* to do!''
`` ***Yeeeessssz, *** *marster! *''
He turned to me. `` Oh, how long have I waited for someone to ask me to create a p... | 1 | null | null |
**Atmosphere levels read 36 % Oxygen, 62 % Nitrogen, and 2 % Argon. Welcome to a habitable world Lieutenant**
`` Yeah, yeah. Tell me where the nearest source of water is, Gloria.''
**Standby**
They told him that there would be some slight side effects when he woke up, and boy, were they spot-on. Chron... | 1 | null | null |
Day 32
No bones today. No tasty succulent treats that make me quiver.
Dad closed me in the room while he carried …..
SQUIRRELS.SQUIRRELS.SQUIRRELS.SQUIRRELS.… oh god, I have to get ahold of myself.
Dad carried out the couch, the one with the fluffy cushions that Mom caught me peeing on once.
I reall... | 1 | null | null |
The wind is cold at the top of the skyscraper. It will be cold at the bottom as well since it's December, but that wo n't be a huge issue to me. Nothing's going to be an issue to me for much longer.
Not losing my job, not losing my home, not the death of my dog of twelve years.
Not even Greg deciding he does n't lo... | 1 | null | null |
Dear Mr. Langsammer,
My mother always told me that if you have a problem with a person then it is best to tell them before things get out of hand. Mr. Langsammer there are times when I should have listened to the things my mother told me and then I have not and most of these times it has not gone well for me in som... | 1 | null | null |
A good response is an honest one, it's one where the author wrote it for the sake of the story and not any other reason. It should be sincere and done with an effort to write as best they could. If it is a story, it should be longer than a mere paragraph as that usually takes little effort compared to a longer thought ... | 1 | null | null |
The door swings open and when it hits the wall, the entire thing falls off its hinges. It sends up a cloud of dust and sand when it lands. Everyone jumps. Most reach for their guns. _It's just the wind_, twenty people think in their mother tongues. There should be more, hundreds more, but most are dead or have abdicate... | 1 | null | null |
I breached the surface alone. I looked to my left and too my right for a landmark, and saw only one horizon and then another. All around me a soft, blue sky pressed against a dark, blue sea. I could feel body shivering. I thought to swim towards a shore, any shore, but what direction was that?
I tread for preciou... | 1 | null | null |
I sipped my coffee, regarding the people in the cafe around me from behind my mirrored sunglasses. They had no idea what I was, and I intended to keep it that way. You had to keep a low profile, when you were a gorgon.
Yeah, that's right. My father was a demon, but my mother had n't known that. It was just as well ... | 1 | null | null |
This is just a placeholder. I'm still working on this track. I'll update as I go.
This is to the first track, **Sad to Fall Asleep**
The concrete sleeps bleak with scratched mystique while neatly
Creaking up the street sounds from knees obscenely
Crack and delete sweet meats of weeks past
When ash did n't... | 1 | null | null |
Another day
Another year
Of being master goo
I went to school
I learned the trade
But I was n't sure what I'd do
Not many places hired guys
who like to play with jelly
To be quite sure,
I feel absurd.
In fact, a little silly.
But what is this?
Up in the sky
A laser fr... | 1 | null | null |
Lenora took each step quickly. She clutched the books tightly to her chest and her eyes remained glued to the sidewalk. Her ears listened hard for any change in her peers' direction that would indicate a quick attack. She was in the middle of a long line of 10 to 16-year-olds who walked and ran and leapt around her. So... | 1 | null | null |
In the beginning, there was *Ocean*. And from Ocean's depths came *Darkness*. And from Ocean's surface came *Life*. So the three friends were, so the three friends would always be. And so it was, and everything was fine.
And as time went on, *Life* and *Ocean* begat children. They spread and frolicked. They mad... | 1 | null | null |
INT. PRISON CELL. NIGHT.
DYSON48X, a third generation customer service droid is dragged semiconscious and leaking into a prison cell by two armor-clad android squad GUARDS.
In the cell, are STATON28Z, a towering six foot model 5.2 security droid and ADAM06T, a 4.1 butler droid.
ADAM06T:
What do you thin... | 1 | null | null |
`` *Please! Someone, anyone! Help! *''
The call echoed strangely around the forest clearing, oddly loud in the still winter air. I sat up, eyes flicking between my belongings and last night's smouldering fire. Bandits? No, I had n't seen bandits in weeks of travel. Even they did n't come out this far into the wilde... | 1 | null | null |
`` Hey!'' I yelled, waving.
The man waved back, but at that distance it was hard to tell if he had heard me or not. As I walked towards him, more of a fast-paced power walk, he seemed to come towards me as well. You can well imagine my elation as we got nearer to each other. The loneliness of the past few weeks final... | 1 | null | null |
Sara took a deep calming breath as she gave herself one last frantic look-over in the floor to ceiling mirror that adorned her bedroom wall. The electric blue glow of an often ignored alarm clock situated near her bedside only served to increase her anxiety * “ One more minute ” * she thought to herself as she headed o... | 1 | null | null |
The old man walked up the terrace toward the old home. It had been uninhabited for years; centuries it felt to him. His old bones ached all over. The trip here was a long one, his last. Now standing at the door he suddenly felt a rush of emotions all softly passing through him like some long forgotten ghost passing thr... | 1 | null | null |
When sexual experiences are brought to my attention my enthusiasm about reviewing them follows a fair trend. When they are very good, such as the 11 PM-3AM session following I love you Starring Janet Monnigan Directed by Cesar Campos I am very Enthusiastic. When they are Okay but not great I am usually fairly bored suc... | 1 | null | null |
Duct tape. Three feet of rope. A pink dress on a wire hanger.
The time I pulled out a monkey wrench, I guessed there was a plumbing problem. I went to the basement, and there was a leaky pipe. Another time, I pulled out a bandage, and figured a cut was coming. Ten minutes later, despite my caution, I brushed agains... | 1 | null | null |
I look to John confused and he shares the same expression. He rewinds one of the monitors and we watch the spacecraft again; it flies determinedly speeding way too fast into our atmosphere. We warned them to slow down but they didn ’ t seem to care and didn ’ t reply to any of our messages. Then out of nowhere it burst... | 1 | null | null |
Someone had uploaded the wrong damn grid coordinate for my drop zone. That someone was me, but that's not the point.
Dropping in, I made the softest landing. Barely even buckled my knees when I touched down. Problem was, I was on the opposite side of the objective, about ten clicks from the rest of my team. The oth... | 1 | null | null |
For almost two years I had been known as the Antihero. Yes the `` terrorist'' who had personally killed the five most powerful supers on the planet. The government said I was evil and you believed them. People always have two questions, how and why. I will answer them for you here, starting with why. When I was 15 my s... | 1 | null | null |
I broke eye contact and stared past the gloved hand that hung to her side. A hand which I had held many times and pressed against my face. I paused for a moment before saying, `` I've discovered some things. Things I have to do that directly interfere with our knowing each other''
The air between us is filled with ... | 1 | null | null |
`` Oh what a beautiful day!'' Tommy laughed into the sky as he skipped along the yellow line. His headphones bit into his ears a bit but they were his favorite set and still played the best sound, not that he could really tell with volume all the way up. Tommy knew it was bad for his hearing but on a day like this you ... | 1 | null | null |
I wiped the sleep from eyes, the bed creaked as I rolled towards my cell phone. I looked down at the ground to see where it had fallen. It read 3:42am.
`` Where was that noise coming from'' I thought.
I looked around the darkness surrounding me, my eyes still adjusting to the darkness around me. The noise was g... | 1 | null | null |
I woke up in a field of white. What happened, I thought. The car hit me and there I was. Was this Heaven? I guessed that it must have been.
It seemed funny to me. I had always had my doubts about life after death. It always seemed so impossible, as if my consciousness was so connected to my body that I could n't se... | 1 | null | null |
Twelfth Oct.
Sealed off the last of the cracks in the walls today. Marks the third month here in the sewers. I've been studying the calendar described in this book... if I measured the angle of the sun right, it's October 12. Not that I need to care.
Caught a good sized sewer rat today. Frying it in the tunnel.... | 1 | null | null |
This is it, I thought. It was time. I'd just slung my bag over my shoulder and was getting ready to depart from the slowly descending helicopter. The soft snow engulfed the belly of the helicopter and the blades stopped spinning. I glanced out over the flat landscape and could see the ocean, complete with bustling grou... | 1 | null | null |
Dammit, Jane, what I wouldn ’ t give to hear you tell me you love me one more time. Don ’ t you know I ’ m here because of howmuch I love you? What was I supposed to do, let him take you away from me? He was wretched! Diabolical! I could not possibly let him take away the Sun from the Earth and leave all the good to wi... | 1 | null | null |
In August, we met because of a shared birthday that was celebrated at our school. I told you that you could have the bigger piece of the cake and we became instant friends. That was 4th grade.
Now, it has been 7 years since then, exactly. Today is both our 17th birthday. You sit across from me in the cafeteria laug... | 1 | null | null |
`` Skibbidy dibbidy doo-wop yeah.''
It had been an extremely long couple of days on location. I was extremely happy to be finally at home, and the lukewarm shower I was taking felt like the fountain of youth. Out of pure exhilaration at finally being clean, I could n't help but sing.
`` Weedly weedly weedly woo... | 1 | null | null |
People say Russian Roulette is crazy, `` suicidal''. Those who participate are reckless, world-weary idiots. However, luck is the smallest of factors when you play. Most people who put a gun to their head do it because of either of two reasons: Ending their life or proving a point.
For us, Russian Roulette was the ... | 1 | null | null |
He stood there, frozen.
`` Please... stop... it's not worth it'' -
`` Why should I?'' Her voice was serene, otherworldly, powerful, she was n't the same. `` Why do they deserve to live? What do they offer the world that she did n't?''
`` THESE ARE INNOCENT PEOPLE'' He pleaded, frozen by her will and his fear ... | 1 | null | null |
Part I
I let the shop door slide shut, tickling the bell. A sign reading closed hung in the window. I whistled as I turned the key, unaware that I would soon convince a man to die. Orange afternoon sun bled through the Boston skyline while I did a final survey of the coffee shop. A hulking glass building was plop... | 1 | null | null |
He's... bowing. First He calls *me* aside, specifically and of all people, and now He *bows. * I'm speechless, but of course He knows what I'm thinking.
`` Why do I bow for you?'' He asks, and I swear I see mischief in His eyes. ( Is that thought blasphemous? Does that even matter anymore? ) `` Why, because your li... | 1 | null | null |
`` Thank you all for coming today. It's great to see you all so invested in Apple's products.
Today, we're proud to announce the latest in the Apple family. It started with the iMac. Then, we revolutionized the world of music with the iPod. To build on our dreams of connecting the world, we created the best smartph... | 1 | null | null |
She was beautiful and I had to have her. It was uncommon for one as young as I to decide upon a life mate but in this moment I cared not. The way her chocolate hair flowed down her back ignited passions in me that I did not know existed. Her beautiful emerald eyes glowed with the force. I could feel it gather around he... | 1 | null | null |
Cold is the morning,
And the chill shall only deepen
As the day treads westward.
The will of Mars forbids tranquility this day;
The songbirds shall have to sing their mirth
In other fields -- perhaps, those
That only raise their blades
In the springtime.
Or perhaps Lord Pluto will grant ... | 1 | null | null |
The knives fly off the shelf. One goes through my stomach. One lands in the sink. One lands on the floor. I reach down to get it, but I am too late! My child is already there. Chewing on the top of the steak knife. It tears trough the roof of his mouth. There is blood everywhere. His eyes go dead.
`` Sweetie? I tho... | 1 | null | null |
Congressman Timothy Anderson was walking to his car after work, when out of nowhere he says `` I know you're there, so come out and face me like a man''. Tim had absolutely no clue why he said that until a bulky man in a suit comes out from the backseat of his car. The stranger was obviously shocked at how this politic... | 1 | null | null |
& nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;'' Legends passed down, father to son, mother to daughter, tell tales of three great champions that defended our people from great evil. My father told it to me, his father told it to him, and his fathers father passed it down, and now, I pass the tales on to you.'' said Verlu, the clan s... | 1 | null | null |
It wasn ’ t smooth. Painfully tough at first. That day will go down as history. Duplicity was its origin. A policy built on binding its population, found upon prohibiting public vocabulary. It bound us to random, fluid thought; our oral communication was hurt, practically split. Only our First Captain could profit from... | 1 | null | null |
Its a gloomy day over Washington as the President walks in for his morning briefing. In the briefing strong, angry looking general who did not have sex with a reporter, then give her classified information, and then get off with a slap on the wrist. Anyway, forgot what i was doing, oh yeah the general states that David... | 1 | null | null |
`` U can haz judgment.'' St. Peter said, flipping through his book.
`` e-excuse me?'' I managed to stammer out.
`` Now this is a story about Heaven got flip-turned upside down. and I'd like to take minute, just stand right there. I'll tell you how I became the pope of may-mays.''
`` I-I do n't understand, a... | 1 | null | null |
To tell the tale of this place, to look into the eyes of such disgrace. Imagine if you would, that all we have become, a scant echo of shame upon what once was our land.
All we know, we have been working toward, is nothing. We have already risen and fallen, like inflating lungs in this chest, we have hit the crest.... | 1 | null | null |
`` Come forth in the name of The Lord'' shouted the preacher as the demon slowly emerged from the prone figure tied to the bed. The twirling smoke gathered to form a familiar face, `` For Christ's sake not you again''
`` Listen, look, I've been taking some Econ courses down below and I've got you this time. We did ... | 1 | null | null |
I'm a master of my craft, I'm the pinnacle of art.
In my twenty-three years of life I've only wanted one thing, and one thing only; to juggle for a living. My family despised me for this, said I were going to kill someone. But I trained, and worked hard for it. Just look where that took me? To jail.
I see you'r... | 1 | null | null |
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The Bright had gone Dim, that was the worst part. He only vaguely remembered the Day of Shaking, the day the wind blew from the wrong direction, hot and dry and so fierce it carried small creatures off and away. The Shaking came again and again after that, distant rumbles that shook the ... | 1 | null | null |
I'm sitting on the train right now. The whole carriage is yellow. The lights make it hard to see, but I do n't want to see. I keep flicking at this speck of dirt that has been on the windowsill since forever. I do n't want to think.
There's a picture hanging in your room of the both of us. Well - not of the both of... | 1 | null | null |
Two halves of a twisted and saintly mind constantly clashing from within! Twisted half has no moral code as it purposefully disregards the rules of the Godly and the Godly disgusted by the abomination that is evil within the other! How I wish for blood to run! How I wish to kill my friends! Just to say I did! For the b... | 1 | null | null |
Three days, six hours, and twenty eight minutes. That ’ s how long it ’ s been since I woke up to the smell of burning bacon. You never burnt bacon. Not in all of the years that you ’ ve loved me enough to wake up at 6:30, because I can ’ t sleep past 7am, to make me breakfast. To wake me up with the scent of cooking m... | 1 | null | null |
I do n't have much. No friends, no family. It's been this way for a while but I guess I've gotten used to it.
I hate it.
Do you ever get that feeling you wo n't amount to anything? That the person you see in the mirror is n't the person you thought you'd end up being? I do, everyday. The only thing in my life I... | 1 | null | null |
`` Does anyone remember why Earth has two separate forms of vampirism?'' Ms. Elizabeth Todd asked the class cheerfully. Elizabeth or Ms. Todd wore a short dress or long tunic shirt with a vintage rose pattern. Her thick, sweater leggings were a dark auburn short of red. Over the dress she wore a beige tweed suit style ... | 1 | null | null |
Far more interesting are the stories of those who survive alone. Who cares about Cinderella, or whomever being rescued by a prince? My story is much better, even if it is loveless. Fighting my way upstream, finding strength in my own accomplishments instead of using someone else as a paddle. Asexuality is n't a curse -... | 1 | null | null |
The room was a massive super-structure of blue. Crystals and glass and plastic, and organic branching fibre optics. All very advanced. Award-winning.
“ The way I see it, this one ’ s not so different from all the other computers anyway, ” Major muttered to himself after a look-around. He was grateful he only needed... | 1 | null | null |
`` We need a better system, basically,'' said my coworker, Brian. `` If people insist on sending actual paper through the mail, we should keep the physical copies. We lose so much data when we just scan and destroy like this. Texture, thickness, quality, age, all kinds of other data. You know what I mean?''
`` That... | 1 | null | null |
It was the heat, always the heat. Heat kept the stars alive. Heat crept wild out of the pores of the earth and cooled into life on the surface. It was the untamable, near intangible organism, without end or reason.
That's why metal always works against it, as slayer and container. Metal, cold and logical. Unmoving,... | 1 | null | null |
No him believed him for the longest time. Ever since his Mom and Dad cast him out of their home because despite all of the pills and therapy, he still claimed to know the date of the last day of Earth. He had pictures in his room of volcanoes erupting and the ground breaking apart. When he was little, a woman in a dark... | 1 | null | null |
The heat was bearable, but it was a little hot. Man, what a gloomy place.
`` You there! Fall in line!'' said some red skinned guy in a TSA uniform. He prodded my ass with a purple two foot rubber dildo.
`` Hey! That's kinda rude, you know!''
Did I say his skin was red? Red like a fire engine red. And those ... | 1 | null | null |
My main take: `` Non-wizard characters'' here will be a wide assortment of anime characters...
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# Substitute Notes - `` Defense Against the Dark Arts'' - Professor Kirigaya Kazuto
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The Defense Against the Dark Arts class was, as we know, once cursed by Tom `` Voldemort'' Riddle, an alumnus of Hogw... | 1 | null | null |
I sat down at my desk, found a cleared spot in front of me for the fresh cup of tea. Stared fuzzily at the input box on Reddit, being either too lazy or too tired to fire up a text editor; I had n't quite decided which yet. Made a noise in my throat, a sort of cut off glottal `` hmm'', like a car's engine not quite bot... | 1 | null | null |
`` First Commissioner, we have defeated the enemy on New Cornwall and Aries III, and have fought it to a standstill on XM435. However, Plusepheron, Malachiteris II, and all three moons of Blen have all been Converted, and there are reports of enemy probes entering the Spinward Reach.''
`` We can make the tools we n... | 1 | null | null |
`` Jerry! Jerry, got a Simon on the orb! Says we got'is engraving wrong!''
`` I do n't know a Simon! Simon who?''
``'e says Simon who. Oh sorry, hang on again for me please, luv.'e says Sauron, not Simon!''
`` Oh, right! Big guy, with the bag of gold. Hang on, be there now.''
`` Right. Hello Samuel?'e s... | 1 | null | null |
`` Right, is everyone here?'' the masked gunman barked as the children and teachers cowered in the hall. `` Everyone better be here, or heads will roll.''
The hostages gave quick, frightened nods as the five men circled them.
One let off a shot at the ceiling, drawing panicked screams and cries from the crowd. ... | 1 | null | null |
Rapture came abruptly, who would have thought the crazy man on the street would be right, but I guess with the number of people quoting dates and times eventually one of them would end up being right.
They day was normal, the sun came up in the east, the earth rotating at its usual speed. The ground was hard and th... | 1 | null | null |
I watched as he approached me. He walked with confidence and ease. Nothing forced, just natural. His posture was straight and he didn ’ t look behind him or warily from side to side.
Being in the business as long as I have, I could typically make the kind of person a client is by the way they walked to me. The shif... | 1 | null | null |
It was late and the doors of Olympus were going to close again, the fight between Hera and Zeus had been so strong they wanted no visitors, I ran across the beautiful marble path and almost ended up in the other side. I was tired of this, Ares wanted to meet in our secret place and it was really far from Olympus, and l... | 1 | null | null |
I ca n't pull the trigger. His eyes are wide with fear and uncertainty. Somehow he has n't pulled it either. He looks like my younger brother, only a darker shade of blond and darker blue eyes. Then again, anything could seem darker in the shade of trees. The battle is going on all round us but we seem to be in a timel... | 1 | null | null |
`` So, employee number 48339, your name is Guy is it? Guy Hench? Is that French?''. The older small bespectacled man read off the papers as he peeked over at his subject across the table. The man speaking was short and stumpy, the bridge of his nose barely visible over the manila folder he held, his bald head reflected... | 1 | null | null |
Master shuffled into the house just as Mistress finished spooning juicy hunks of meat into my bowl. I knew the expensive wet food was meant as atonement. Mistress neglected to take me for my walk last night, and the only attention she gave me was sobbing into my fur until it was wet and smelled like the beach.
`` O... | 1 | null | null |
Oh my imaginary friend says I'm the imaginary friend which means I'm imaginary then, if he's right and I'm really not sure that he's wrong, so I might be made up of the words of this song.
( Repeat ).
I got ta friend named Pickles
His favorite food is mustard popsicles
He's got green hair and orange skin
And ... | 1 | null | null |
Here at the end, it's happening all at once. At sixteen, Theo had whiskers already. `` Greek heritage,'' he told me, close to my ear. `` I hear if you shave it, it just comes back thicker,'' I said, a little breathless. His hand was on my waist, gathering the wool of my skirt. His thick, hot hands. `` I have n't heard ... | 1 | null | null |
`` Dude, what happened to our food rations?''
`` They're poison, had to throw them out.''
`` That was supposed to feed us for the week, you know that fresh food and water privileges for the unemployed are from the generosity of the tax payers.''
`` Ai n't eating anything coming from the Government.''
``... | 1 | null | null |
`` Good morning Jonathan'' Chris moved into the room eagerly clutching a clipboard with the details of what he can and can not do in this test. He was n't ever going to read it however as he was so excited about the meeting with one of the first prototypes of the new A.I program.
`` Please sit,'' The A.I signaled h... | 1 | null | null |
Prolog - The Deal
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Cindy Valheart turned thirteen-years-old seven-teen days prior, meaning she was due to oversee a battle. As a princess of the Aldosev Kingdom, she could not sent armies to war without first experiencing war first-hand.
*cough*
Unfortunately, not every time can be a winning battle.
... | 1 | null | null |
It started out innocently enough. I had never liked those guys in the back particularly well, but as long as they kept to their two hills, I did n't care. In fact, once in a while, I would put up a chair and take solace watching their struggle, insignificant as it was. Usually, they bit each other. Some times, they'd g... | 1 | null | null |
Cicero was not a violent man. Everyone knew he was a coward, who spent his time talking eloquently and kissing the asses of those in power - when he was n't busy writing poetry or dictating letters in his spare time. Cicero was a weakling. Everyone knew this, because it was a careful facade that Cicero had spent most o... | 1 | null | null |
I rode my horse for days in the eastern deserts of Anatolia. Just my horse and I, alone and barely alive. Daja was her name. I named her after my wife. She was n't too happy about that, but that did not matter anymore. I'm the last survivor of the former 3rd legion. I've fought Byzantium's imperial wars since I was 16.... | 1 | null | null |
*Somewhere in the South Pacific... *
Corporal Jeff Reynolds and Code Talker Johnny Eagleheart were deep in the jungle of some island off the coast of Taiwan. As Johnny got the radio set up, a powerful booming sound reverberated.
Jeff swore, `` Dammit, it's one of their Sons of Raijin! He's gon na blast us to high h... | 1 | null | null |
I locked the door to my loft, and waved at my cat, who always sat in the window to see me off. The walk to work was ordinary, and so was MOST of the day. I say most because at the end of the day, as I was in the elevator on the way down, I held the elevator for a woman with a toddler in a stroller. The little girl had ... | 1 | null | null |
`` Mommy, how old are you?''
Jane stiffened up, turned around and looked at her daughter. She squatted down to the eye level of her daughter, never breaking contact with her innocent blue eyes. As she looked at her face, Jane realized It's time her Rachel knew the truth.
`` Come with me, sweetie. You're not... | 1 | null | null |
I've actually wanted to have a discussion on this as I have read the piece several times and still do n't agree with it.
Let's consider his first example:
“ Adam knew Gwen liked him. ”
vs.
“ Between classes, Gwen was always leaned on his locker when he ’ d go to open it. She ’ d roll her eyes and shove ... | 1 | null | null |
`` Holy shit!'' I leaped up from my couch, just now noticing the tall dark figure in the corner of the basement opposite to me. Incredibly quickly, I was frozen with fear, but I still found strength to shout out. `` W-Who are you! Do n't hurt me!'' I do n't know why I shouted this; I've never heard of home invaders tha... | 1 | null | null |
My desire to farm became otherworldly.
One day I woke up and it took over. I had left my Lord ’ s fields in shambles for years, only using the smooth, easily tilled portions for farming. The other fields were filled with rocks. Moving rocks was my least favorite chore, but I suddenly didn ’ t care. I rushed into th... | 1 | null | null |
I have always been uncomfortable writing in first person. It's something I'm trying to work on, so this was a really great find! Any criticism is welcome.
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The door closed with a soft click. I remained lying on my side, motionless, pretending to sleep, and begging my heart with quiet desperation to be still. ... | 1 | null | null |
In a dimly lit hut, a Major sits in front of a scientist, while holding the bridge of his nose he ask;
`` Now what was the drop SUPPOSE to do?''
`` Well, sir, it was suppose to pacify the people. Drop all their adrenaline levels and make them more plausible to surrender''
`` And what did the drop ACTUALLY d... | 1 | null | null |
I made a sequel to [ this post ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2h6v2j/z/ckq1zhe )
that I wrote a few weeks back.
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Rugged, short breaths, every single one he took felt sharp within his torso. A coughing fit took over splattering blood onto the mist of dust... | 1 | null | null |
Leaning himself over the railing of the bridge, Charles stared at himself in the reflection of the water below.
`` Traveling alone gives you a lot of time to think about your life,'' he thought to himself. It's been almost five months since he left his small home of Reno, Nevada. He found himself now in the even smal... | 1 | null | null |
`` The most efficient means of breeding humans would, of course, be artificial insemination. The only problem is that the humans would n't like it.''
`` Since when do you care about animal cruelty?''
`` I care about avoiding conflict with animals that possess nuclear weapons. They could damage this ship, and I'... | 1 | null | null |
** [ Bunch of grammatical errors and tenses inbound! ] **
I slowly opened my eyes and waited for the blurs in the edges of my sight to disappear. Once my vision's on focus, I immediately scanned my surroundings. There's a fluorescent lamp hanging above me, a single door on my right side and a huge window on my left... | 1 | null | null |
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