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[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | They all went for shotguns. I went for a haz-mat suit. I had warned them that it wasn't like the movies or video games, that there were serious biological hazards that had to be considered. They didn't listen. When I rejoined them, they had SPAS-12s and sawn-offs strapped to their backs. I couldn't fathom where they go... | 21 | 0 | 36 | 966 |
[WP] The day of your first sexual experience written from the other person's perspective. | Good lord. Finally. I got him on my bed. This gorgeous, 6'5 athletic intelligent man. I wish to make love to him like never before. I wish to intertwine our bodies in the most beautiful fashion to form a single unit of universal connection.
We're both naked and lying in bed. But... he's just lying there. Does he want m... | 4 | 0 | 3 | 225,227 |
[WP] Earth is dying - a mysterious portal opens that leads to a parallel universe of a healthier Earth. Every human being on Earth enters the portal for salvation. | It wasn't until the discovery of The Doorway that faith was rekindled.
Billions have poured though the gates of this new-found Heaven seeking retribution, salvation, and a new beginning.
*But at what cost?*
Like cattle led to the slaughter by the Shepard, the masses are blind to the true matter at stake.
The self-de... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 165,123 |
[IP] Redditor created an interesting image by accident that is very evocative | "Fucking happy new years" I shouted as I threw down my empty bottle of Jack Daniels. Another New Years has come and as usual, I am spending it alone. My family is dead, I don't have a job... or friends. The loneliness can be suffocating at times. But every New Years I can rest assured that i will be able to piss away m... | 2 | 0 | 47 | 2,055 |
Writing Prompt [WP] You have the ability to freeze time. When you do, everyone freezes as well. One day, you freeze time, and out the window, you see a girl moving around, astounded and confused. Then, she sees you.. | There is, as always, someone in the news. Though the name changes with each new fad, there are always victims and exploiters. I've had a rough time getting used to the thought of it, but this is the exact situation where a real super hero would spring into action.
But that is risky. I can't guarantee anything. Just as... | 4 | 0 | 697 | 95,584 |
[WP] Your mind automatically slows down time as imminent danger approaches. This has helped you to become an athlete, great with parlor tricks and avoid death at every turn! Today, a very attractive member of the opposite sex walks past and flashes you a flirty smile. Time begins to slow. | It takes me a moment to recognize her at first. When I do, it must show on my face, because she smiles, with a twinkle in her eye, as if daring me to come closer. With a finger, she beckons me. I knew there were people looking for me, hoping to catch me off guard and kidnap me so they could use my power for their own e... | 0 | 0 | 1,005 | 194,568 |
[EU] Remember how "The Purge" had a great concept, but the movie's plot was horrible? Write your own version. | There won't be a tombstone for me when I die, and I don't suppose it'll matter because I'll be dead. If there was, though, it'd say something like **GERALD KINGSFORD - Always One Step Ahead.** That'd be funny, I guess.
I lobbed a girl's head off with a shovel in Mississippi, just caught her at the right time and threw ... | 83 | 0 | 201 | 7,825 |
[WP] England decidedly doesn't like the way the United States of America is progressing and decides to regain control of the colonies by force. | It started of simply, with a single question asked by a young boy.
"Why is that man on the telly, father?"
The high-pitched voice cut through the bustle in the room surprisingly easily. Stephen didn't need to look up from the report sitting on his desk to see which man his son was referring to. BBC, CNN, and the rest ... | 3 | 0 | 68 | 145,888 |
[WP]In Hell, you are rewarded according to the amount and level of evil you have done, the greater the evil, the greater the reward. | I was surprised, Hell wasn't that bad of a place. Not really. I mean, there was fire and screaming and stuff, and the Devil needed a new interior decorator, but the flames weren't hot and the Devil's peons were somewhat pleasant. Even the people around me in line were pretty okay. Some of them were creepy, but what cou... | 4 | 0 | 9 | 21,775 |
[WP] Write a story that's not particularly sad but ends with the line "I guess we all die alone in the end." | Yet another ambulance.
Y'know, I think it's an interesting society we live in. We're making more and more stuff for elders, and using more and more resources to keep them alive and entertained. They do their little strolls in bench-equipped parks, talk with other elders, do their little shopping. Live their little liv... | 1 | 0 | 51 | 110,154 |
[WP] A sexually transmitted disease causes infected people to gradually alter their gender. | The duo sat on the sofa in James' living room, watching some indie flick about people with the ability to change genders.
"Something seems different about you, James." Rory stated to her long time friend since elementary. "I can't quite put my finger on it, but you're different."
"Maybe it's a growth spurt." James bega... | 11 | 0 | 78 | 219,444 |
[WP] A historian looks back on the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Watson v. IBM, which defined whether or not AIs were (legally) a person | The old man looked his guest over. He was a small man, wearing a nice, grey suit.
A reporter he said he was, the old man recalled. It was so hard to tell anymore,
especially since he had not had a visitor to his quaint little abode in at least a decade.
The reporter shook hands with the old man, his face
betraying no ... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 78,489 |
[WP] You are a professional pickpocket. You've just picked someones pocket only to discover that the thing you have stolen is truly horrifying. | He looks well off. Brown overcoat, black leather shoes, combed hair, and square glasses with silver frames. The crowd is flowing around us, but I see only him. There's a hook between my knuckles. I flow behind him, matching his pace, moving with him, and the crowd. The hook swings into his pocket. I give it a light tug... | 16 | 0 | 267 | 81,669 |
[WP]You are a seasoned dungeon master, tell the story of the best campaign you have ever hosted. | Finding a good group can be a challenge in itself. Sometimes you find the people but the
people lack the wit to have campaigns that go beyond scripted events. Sometimes the folk you find are more concerned with conversation outside of the scope of the game at hand. Once in a blue moon though you find a group of like m... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 197,677 |
(WP) I want a plot twist. | Franklin could hardly contain his grin and his quickly and anxiously signed the deed. Sarah was going to freak when she heard the news: 50 acres of land? Sure, it was a little ways from Denver, but it was fertile, beautiful, and best of all, it was *free.*
The lawyer swiftly and gracefully swooped the document from und... | 7 | 0 | 16 | 37,276 |
[WP] A man's last day before he kills himself. | The stool sat, ready for his bare feet to be placed atop it's shoulders. The room was dark but ambient from the moonlight entering through the clear windows. A thick cut of rock climbing rope hung off the ceiling reaching the point of no return.
I took a handful of aspirin, drowning them down with a bottle of water. I... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 45,228 |
[WP] A crimson kiss. | Red with blue, blue with red.
That was how it had always been, and Jason learned to accept it from his childhood days.
Red with blue, blue with red.
His mouth around a cigarette, he scanned the night for life.
Townes' Bar was empty but for the regulars and the roaches.
That is, 'till she came in.
Carrying herself, a br... | 20 | 0 | 13 | 208,457 |
[EU] When Jurassic Park is abandoned, one man is accidentally left on the island | My goal is just a few steps farther. Armed with just a few things that might keep me from getting killed. Who knew when I signed up to be a vendor at a park. It will be a park that houses real friggin dinosaurs. Note to self if I survive read the job description before signing up. When shit hit the fan where was I slee... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 228,559 |
[WP] Anonymity is crucial; we live in a world where only one person of each name is allowed to live. Write about the experience of a person who - while having a normal day - accidentally let's someone know they have the same name as them. | "John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt? That's my name too!" slipped out before he could even think about what he was saying, and what it meant. He gasped and covered his mouth, frantically searching the area for anyone else who might have heard. They were in a busy area, but he held on to the hope that everyone else was too... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 33,565 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | "So this, is heaven!" I exclaim with a burst of enthusiasm. I made it a personal goal to greet each new chapter in my life with zeal. Or in this case, the afterlife.
A weary, but competent looking angel flaps his wings in response and glances up at the entrance by which he stands guard. Above his head in huge yellow le... | 10 | 0 | 86 | 24,197 |
[WP] It's discovered that identical fingerprints occur every few hundred years. Eventually, a technology is developed that allows travel through time to the bodies of ancestors sharing fingerprints with living people. | I was having the time of my life with the whores of Italy. Just a few coins, and they are ready to act, as expected. I keep them close as I walk the streets, my robe dragging beneath me as I walk.
I keep my senses sharp, allowing me to know who to focus on. I am ever so close, but I do not act on it. Not just yet, as ... | 2 | 0 | 21 | 151,587 |
[WP] Some people's crimes are so bad execution is not enough. In these cases time travel is used to prevent their birth, ripping them out of history completely. | Tuesday, 8am. I rise, don't shave, forget to shower and heat a couple of cans of beans for breakfast. Beans on toast is not exactly my favourite meal, but some days it's the only thing that will do.
I go for a light jog, just enough to break a sweat and keep it going, then sink a couple of cans of energy drink. Then I ... | 2 | 0 | 101 | 154,014 |
[WP] Death is your best friend. Describe the conflict on the day you die. | ***writing this on my kindle, so sorry for any mistakes. Also sorry, it got a bit longer then I meant***
I sat in the warmth of the setting sun on my fire escape, sipping on my cup of black coffee and reading on my kindle.
"Maggie?"
I looked up through the grates to see my neighbor and best friend Thanatos standing ... | 3 | 0 | 85 | 213,226 |
[WP] A very old tree which allows people in its shade to completely understand each other. Someone has come to destroy it. | She approached the tree, axe in hand.
As far back as her peoples' history extended, the Knowing Tree, as it had come to be called since before her grandfathers grandfather was a boy, had stood in the clearing. A relic of an ancient age, all who stood in it's shade were granted understanding and peace. Would be conquer... | 7 | 0 | 169 | 22,604 |
[WP] Nonfiction: Tell me the story of your first tattoo | I'd wanted a tattoo for a while, bouncing from idea to idea of what I wanted, whenever anyone would ask if I had any, I'd always retort something about it "being on my body for the rest of my life." Truth is, I was scared of getting one.
A few weeks ago, I decided to take the plunge, I hit up a friend who does tattoo's... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 35,201 |
[WP] The UN has been drafting men and women to the military. No one knows where they end up, but one day you're drafted and go through a series of tests, and you're put to sleep. You wake up on another planet, only to find out you're going to fight something that has never been beaten. | (Sorry if this is bad, I'm experimenting with writing while drunk)
"Hold on for one God damned second! What do you mean you don't know what we're fighting? How exactly do you expect me to beat it if you can't even tell me what it is, or how many there fuckin' are?" Gryn Millinder asked.
The exasperated female official ... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 146,611 |
[WP] "I thought you forgot." "How could I?" | As I gazed against the green kept grass, how the sun seem to glisten against the smooth white stone.
I stared down at the markings, the numbers seems too small, at least to me. I couldn't believe how long its been.
"Charles! Good to see you." I turned to see my old pal, limping over on his cane.
"My, my, the years have... | 5 | 0 | 3 | 199,717 |
[WP]: A man and his daughter are walking a dog. Write their story in a genre you've never tried before | Noir style dog walk:
A cold wind blew through the street, stirring up the dead leaves. I lit a cigarette with one hand, and shoved the other one deep into the folds of my trench-coat, feeling to make sure my .32 snub nose was there, even though I knew that it was. A few cold drops of rain started to fall. I caught a gl... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 112,020 |
[WP] ...and the snow gently drifted down around them. | Crying, naked in the back of a stranger's van, the two women trembled and shivered from the cold. They had been sitting for hours with sacks covering their heads. Only able to hear the sadness in the gagged expressions they could make. Suddenly, they heard the sound of a door opening.
"You first." He grabbed one of the... | 4 | 0 | 24 | 171,875 |
[WP] A man obsessed with finding his Wife's lover, finally meets him face to face. | I couldn't believe it was him. I couldn't believe it was *him*. He had been there for me when I kissed her, he was there when she walked down the aisle with me, he was my *best* **MAN**. After 20 years of friendship, 13 years of marriage, this is how my life ends up. The two people I trust the most, turn out to be the ... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 24,071 |
[WP] In shock, the audience goes silent. You don't have much time. | "*They're onto you?! Dammit, we were so close!*" Bain's voice hissed into my earpiece. Oh, yeah, big fucking problem that we'd *nearly* stolen that guy's phone with all the bank details on it. *Oh, deary me.* No fucking bonus for us, and woe is me that he was going to throw in a little bit of extra money on top of the ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 178,948 |
[WP] In an overcrowded future, convicted criminals are sent back in time hundreds of years with their memories erased. An agent tasked with recovering an innocent man who was pardoned now has to make a difficult choice. | He wasn't a career criminal. He'd been sent back at 20 after a spate of small-scale robberies in tiny shopping centres. He never stole anything worth more than $1000; pocket change. One bad night though, he'd accidentally killed the clerk of a small chain-store after taking a gun of one of his accomplices.
Or so we tho... | 40 | 0 | 27 | 76,275 |
[WP] You wake up all alone in the world. Power and the internet somehow still work. Checking the internet, everyone is in the same situation. | The separation happened five years ago. Every person in the world seemingly woke up alone. That morning the silence was the first thing I noticed, the lack of traffic outside my window, no baby crying next door and no girlfriend in the bed next to me.
It's hard to put into words the confusion that occurred over the nex... | 3 | 0 | 166 | 205,493 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | I pass through life with an apologetic smile.
I've always been in the way. I was in the way of my mother and father's happiness when I arrived on this planet so unexpectedly. I was supposed to be a tumor in my young mother's uterus. But there I was, hiding behind the tumor, in the way of its growth.
I was in the way ... | 479 | 0 | 596 | 129,294 |
[WP] Your local supermarket begins a commission program for deli workers. The idea quickly causes chaos as deli workers use extreme tactics to compete for orders | Jerry knew this might get out of hand, but he needed his numbers and that new fancy Italian specialty store down the street was killing his business. His employees weren't the most...*productive*...members of society, but if there was one thing they knew how to do; it was make money.
After a late night of NASCAR re-run... | 10 | 0 | 54 | 99,708 |
[WP] Write a story of the zombie apocalypse from the perspective of the person who created the zombie virus. | This is Emily Wilkerson, bio-engineer with Salidine Industries. This is my confession and my note. The date is September 19, 2013. The time, zero eight thirty hours.
It was my sin; my huberus that brought about the plague. I'm not a bad person by intention. I didn't mean for this to happen. I only ever wanted to save l... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3,853 |
[WP] Humanity, after making a trans-galactic flight to find more life is surprised to have only found... more humanity. | "I'll write you every day"
"Shut up"
"I'll let you buy the stamps though"
I flinch when she playfully punches me in the gut. I knew it wouldn't actually hurt me, but, admittedly, I still flinched visibly more than I usually would.
*Damn, after years of being with me and especially now, she's going to take this inconsi... | 3 | 0 | 363 | 67,153 |
[WP/EU] The American Government abolishes all paper money and only pennies are usable as currency. The elderly penny pinchers become the world elite. Write about their rise to power. | The most powerful people in the world met every morning at Hardee's for coffee and cinnamon raisin biscuits.
Ernie was the first to arrive, as he did most mornings. It gave him time to read the paper and see how the world was fairing. Lately, it wasn't so good. Currency markets were in the headlines, and the news was ... | 4 | 0 | 98 | 2,917 |
[WP] The gene for self-awareness has been discovered. Not everyone has it. | You don't know why you're here? Have you been in a cave?
Oh, I'll explain as best I can ... I'm pretty groggy, so sorry in advance.
For me the news broke at the worst possible time. I was teetering on the edge of homelessness, selling scrap and picking up day labor work to keep a roof over my head. Where I lived, real... | 3 | 0 | 468 | 50,273 |
[IP] Hanged | Wednesday was Jacob's least favorite day. He hated it because it meant seeing the hangers. Unfortunately for Jacob, he was best suited for the job. An entire county was set aside for housing the paranormal, and it was Jacob's luck to be assigned to the hangers. For his own sanity, he was only to work one day a week, a ... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 146,041 |
[WP] For years, from since you both can remember, all the way up into adulthood, not a day has gone by that you and your best friend havent been anywhere without the other. Each day you go home and everything's a blur until you meet up. Then one day, you find out your an imaginary friend. | Josh and I have been best friends forever. When he was younger, Josh and I were always together, playing moon-landing in the sandbox, Firemen with the sprinkler and lots and lots of legos. He said I had the best games. When school started, I was always there to help him. He was better at adding and I was better at read... | 1 | 0 | 648 | 144,823 |
[WP] Someone can't afford to pay the overdue fee for late books. | "Stop right there!" Sam looked back to see two Literofficers running yelling at him. He had been sitting enjoying a coffee at a local shop but now he was up on his feet pumping the pavement through the downtown core. People were looking he noticed. Small children with wide eyes and adults with sad disdain on their face... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 83,276 |
[WP] You hear a knock at the door. Upon answering, you see a stranger. He looks at you and says, "There's no time to explain, just come with me." | Author Note-Some curse words, one f-bomb. Sorry for the wall of text.
Mornings used to go pretty well for me. I get up at 8 on weekdays and 10 on the weekends. Breakfast of eggs, toast, or cereal (if I'm feeling really lazy). Shower, shave, the whole deal is fairly routine. My job is close enough that I can bike to wor... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 137,904 |
[EU] Socially awkward James Bond. | The man, all dressed in black with a bright red scarf was staring at him from across the marble table. "Well, what is your name?"
"The name is Bond, Bond James...err... James Bard, Jim Bond, I mean, JAMES, my name is JAMES BOOD, BOND! JAMES BOND". (Brilliant James, brilliant, can't even remember my own bloody name. He ... | 1 | 0 | 190 | 100,486 |
[WP] The year is 2050, Wal-Mart is the supreme dictating orgnaization | I hate mortgage shopping.
Particularly in the Seven Sector Walmart, which is a fancy name for the one with the worst mortgage tech support. Unfortunately, that's where I live. Seven Sector. And the first six were experiments, but we're basically a test run to see what went wrong with the sectors before us.
You see, s... | 3 | 0 | 24 | 207,541 |
[EU] One day at school, four students end up in detention: Bart Simpson, Stewie Griffin, Eric Cartman, and Louise Belcher. | [Writer assumes that crossover episodes involving the Simpsons + South Park, and Family Guy + Simpsons to be involved in story's timeline. They have also not watched Bob's Burger and barely makes only passing reference to Louise's character.]
"Damnit, you old lady! You put me down right now or I will shit on your lawn!... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 161,120 |
[WP] Write a serious story with a protagonist who has an unfortunately funny name. | The detective looked over the files spread on her desk. It was a slam dunk case; two men were operating one of the largest meth cook sites in East Dallas. All the detective needed was a warrant.
She picked up the phone, and dialed the District Attorney's office.
"D.A.'s, this is Janice." the voice said.
"Yes, this is ... | 14 | 0 | 13 | 93,632 |
[WP] A 20 year old girl is standing completely alone on the ledge of a VERY tall bridge. Just before she jumps, she hears a gentle voice from behind her... | "Mind if I join you up there?" I said, and without waiting for the girl to respond, pulled myself up beside her.
She's taken aback, she stares at the man incredulously as he stares out over the water.
I don't speak, it's not like I had a noble reason to be up here with her. Quite the contrary, I thought I might join h... | 21 | 0 | 11 | 133,888 |
[WP] You are traveling alone by train through the cold, snowy mountains. It's night time, everyone is asleep. Suddenly the train lurches to a stop.... | Twelve hour days are usually the worst. I say usually because on those days that I only have to work for 8, they feel like 12, which for some reason seems to be worse than the regular 12 hour days. The train ride home was one of my only times to be alone. Between the job, my wife, , the newborn, the 3 year old son, my ... | 2 | 0 | 19 | 40,153 |
[WP] Something is looming over the horizon. Most people are running in fear...but some are wandering closer | It was a windy, cold Spring day in Washington D.C. when the sky ripped open.
It happened with a thunderous crash. I dropped my suitcase and stood, covering my ears with my hands as the reverberation swept through Farragut West, rattling the window panes of the glass and steel high-rises. The whole city seemed to freez... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 123,330 |
[WP] Your will requests that you want a "space burial." You discover your loved ones have honored it when you awake on another planet. It would seem someone managed to revive you. | The air I breathe glitters down by throat as Im pulled along on my back, blearily looking up to the stars above me, consellations I don't recognise.
With each breath I feel more and more in my place, as if I'm slowly fading into the world. My head sparking with light and thought, flashing disjointed memories of the cra... | 21 | 0 | 436 | 185,859 |
[Wp] The most unassuming and peaceful nation decided enough was enough and proceeded to take over the world for its own good | Nobody saw it coming.
It happend practically over night.
They went unnoticed by history for decades.
They stayed out of war and trouble for ages.
And suddenly they shut down all these bank accounts.
All leaders and dictators of war monging nations where suddenly without any financial support to protect themselves.
The ... | 12 | 0 | 66 | 106,683 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | I felt the cold stone pressed against my cheek, I felt like hell. Groaning, I cracked one eye open, realizing I was lying on a marble floor. It didn't feel like a hangover... but never in my life had I woken up on an unknown floor feeling like shit without the involvement of alcohol before. Time to get up and figure ou... | 7 | 0 | 565 | 90,341 |
[WP] The worst salesman in the world tries to sell you the best thing in the world. | *"Hello, my name is James and I'm here to make your dreams come true!"*
"What are you talking about?"
*"This incredible little concoction here can grant you eternal life. How good would that be?"*
"I don't believe you."
*"And you won't need to! See?"*
"How does that prove anything? You just drank it?"
*"Well, now I'm i... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 132,827 |
[WP] Only 90's kids remember the 90's. What happened? Why do only the kids remember? | I remember the 90's. I wish I didn't but I remember and there's nothing I can do about that. A memory is like an incurable disease that can cause an unending amount of suffering and pain. Something that cannot be cured by alcohol or drugs. Only death. Even then I'm not sure if the memory will fade away or still linger.... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 223,681 |
[CC] [PI] Response to Souls Prompt | Woah! This is my prompt! I didn't think anyone replied to it.
Awesome story man, I really liked the direction you took, kind of similar to the anime Soul Eater, if you've ever seen it. This is exactly the caliber of content I was looking for when I thought it up.
As for any criticisms, I'd have to agree with /u/sebast... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 127,984 |
[WP] A drug deal goes horribly wrong | Jack opened the briefcase and ran his fingers through the bills, caressing Benjamin Franklin's tattered face.
"I see you have it," whispered Michael. Michael was wearing blue jeans, a red and white flannel shirt, and grey sneakers. His blonde beard glowed in the black night of a San Francisco alley. He was a short and ... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 10,822 |
[WP] A normal family goes about their normal lives in a very normal way. You are the family's goldfish/pet. "What is normal?" | The man was intimidating, but I liked him. He was very energetic, and talked with his hands a lot. When he came home from work, he always grabbed his wife and dipped her down before he kissed her. She giggled and squealed and loved it every time. He was also very good to his two children. He taught the older onethe boy... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 193,692 |
[WP] Humanity has cured old age. You were a friend of the last person to die of natural causes. | Death.
Anna was my friend, and she chose death. It seams incomprehensible.
Death is anything but inevitable these days. Its been hundreds of years since a genetically engineered virus swept through the entire population, masked as a common cold. It infected every one of our cells, altering the DNA so we never age. Unf... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 112,328 |
[WP] World's most successful assasin is a blind man, tell me his story. | "Can you spare a few dollars?" The senator looked down at the blind man, clutching the same piece of cardboard scrawled with "God Bless" and, like every other day, headed down the opposite end of the alley.
He should really find a different shortcut, but this was the one that everyone used to get to one political build... | 6 | 0 | 78 | 174,971 |
[wp]As the clock strikes 12 on New Years Eve every screen in the world brodcasts a transmition from a forign alien race claiming they will invade in exactly 100 years from now. What happens? | Admiral Colins sat in the captains chair watching the clock tick down. 23:30 12/31/2114. His thoughts drifted back to when he was 6 and his father first told him about what was coming in 35 years. Who would have thought that young boy would the commander of the most powerful force the earth had ever seen.
A bead of sw... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 182,235 |
[WP] A group of ants stumbles upon an abandoned ant colony. Inside, they find cryptic warnings scratched on the walls by a series of past inhabitants, foretelling impending doom wrought by something called "the Human". | "Peter we've reached the mound." John said as we approached enemy territory.
"The scent is weak, there's almost no sign of life. I believe we can proceed forward without fear." Micheal said this with the confidence only a veteran soldier can know.
"Stay close and tight we don't know what to expect, this colony is fair... | 3 | 0 | 222 | 192,695 |
[WP] A pink-haired girl desperately tries to not become the lead character in an anime. | "It's an Anime Camera!" Someone yelled. In a panic Janet looked up and almost screamed. A small camera descended from upon high surrounded by a shaft of bright light. It floated down without the support of any hands and focused on the highschool.
Janet ran. *Oh no. Not me.* The camera rushed forward, zeroing in on its ... | 6 | 0 | 299 | 15,146 |
[WP]Write a war story using only dialogue. | ["Hey... Hey... Hey... *Hey Corran!* Wake up you lazy ass."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHFRjZd7fs)
"ggzznngnnt.. sorry. Sorry Lieutenant.. What time is it?"
"We are 15 minutes to landing.. well, 15 minute until we are supposed to land as long as everything goes okay that is... Hey hey don't worry Private, I chec... | 1 | 0 | 33 | 6,994 |
[WP] Write me something that feels French | ((Not blatantly "french," I guess. But WWI, here ya go.))
Jean wrapped his arms around himself, scooting as far back as he could into the hole he had dug in the side of the trench wall. Thunder crashed overhead and rain filled the trench with a river of stinking black mud. The man gave up on sheltering his feet; his bo... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 154,387 |
[WP]You arrive at the movie theater with your date. You walk up to the ticket window and jokingly ask the attendant for two tickets to the "private screening". | I didn't expect anything to happen. We wanted to see Spooky Skeletons 2 but instead we're walking down a staircase that seems to go on forever. How was I supposed to know this movie theater had a hidden feature? *Two tickets for your special screening, please*. I had said it as a joke, just to impress Claire, but hones... | 6 | 0 | 14 | 178,965 |
[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now | Agathor, of the "invading" Spirolons, stood surrounded by earth sex toys.
Not just SOME sex toys, though. All manner of oddly shaped rubber, leather, and lace lined the walls of the poorly lit apartment.
"Jizzdoor. What the hell have you been doing. Stop laughing. WHAT'S FUNNY?"
"Just…. Don't call me that name anymore.... | 109 | 0 | 809 | 98,169 |
[WP] A monster is experiencing agonizing pain, and is convinced that killing you is the only way to relieve it. Write from the monster's perspective. | The manling was approaching cautiously, it was wary, broken bones of it's kinsmen were scattered about the valley. The manling carried long spear with a large leafed blade dulled with ash, it poked at bushes and gentle prodded the ground, this manling was extremely suspicious.
The beast was in incredible pain, it's li... | 4 | 0 | 29 | 111,592 |
[WP] Write a fantasy epic in the most half-assed and laziest way possible. | John Maincharacter awoke in his bed, in his Medieval Norman house. Outside his window he heard a couple men talking about the Staff of Eternity, an antique said to be crafted by God. The one to hold the Staff of Eternity would have amazing power and could rule the world if so desired. Being bored with his current life,... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 71,239 |
[EU] Dr. House becomes the new warden of Arkham Asylum. | Gordan : The new warden in arkham asylum doesn't seem to be normal... he wants to talk to you.
BATMAN: why
Gordan: he says you need help.
BATMAN: He is lying.
Gordan: funny. He said everybody lies. I also came to know that since he started, all the psychopaths have stopped trying to escape. It seems he is keeping them ... | 4 | 0 | 999 | 196,918 |
[WP] After receiving an email from an unknown sender, you have begun to regularly exchange email messages. One day, you find out the identity of the sender is your own computer. | It was late evening and I was slacking off again. It was one of those moments, when I knew I had work to do, but no force in the Universe could make me snap out of my limbo. I would just click on each and every tab I had open in my browser to see if something has changed in the past few minutes. Since it was Friday, mo... | 2 | 0 | 60 | 44,304 |
[WP] A splinter colony that began from deep space exploration has lost contact with all life for the last 10 years. Today they received a message. | Ten years. Not a word from anyone. The star charts had been lost in a solar flare in the third year as they tried to make their way back home. Half the population dead in a debris strike in the fourth. Disease in the fifth. They were careful for a few years and it was looking good. Found a nice planet to settle. Starte... | 17 | 0 | 44 | 95,071 |
[WP] Your mobile phone gains consciousness and begins to function autonomously. | Sam sat on the curb with his headphones in his ear. He scrolled through
his playlist.
Arcade Fire
Elliott Smith
Fleet Foxes
The Shins
The Smiths
It was his... downer playlist.
He finally settled on a song and reflected on his day.
"Siri,"
Siri responded with her usual *boo-boop*
"Depression symptoms."
"Calling Anna.... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 82,049 |
[WP] A villain convinces the hero that he is insane. The hero is actually sane. | My fist dives into his jaw again and again. Small spatters of blood flick across these white walls like crimson stars straining against a brilliant sky. The leather bindings on my gloves begin to shred and the light blue pattern becomes unrecognizable in the flurry of thundering blows. Each shot landing with a roar tha... | 3 | 0 | 21 | 102,862 |
[WP] God is actually a preteen girl whose capricious whims determine disasters, deaths, and miracles. | "God, what about this one?"
"Eh, he's got acne. He's not quite what I had in mind when I said in my own image."
"What shall we do about him?"
"Beatrice, don't we just normally ignore these kinds of people? We'd like, lose popularity or something if that bitch Lucy downstairs saw this."
Beatrice, Lord Regent of the 7th ... | 32 | 0 | 58 | 74,456 |
[WP] While performing your daily activities, you discover that you can somehow create perfect copies of any inanimate object you touch and focus on. While playing with this newfound gift, you are suddenly alarmed by the screech of tires just outside. Black suits. Even blacker sunglasses. | The grief that had filled Rory's chest had completely vanished, and now he felt giddy. Extremely giddy. He began to chuckle, then the chuckle grew into full blown laughter, and the laughter led him to tears. He used the sleeve of his worn jacket to wipe the tears away from his eyes as well as the snot from his nose.
Af... | 42 | 0 | 65 | 95,336 |
[WP] A new company has emerged that will "create a perfect lover." Thinking it's a joke, you place an order - only to see a surprise the next morning. | P2: Then I sat down to eat with Adriana.
"That girl seems nice," she said, squeezing my thigh.
"I don't feel like being touched right now," I said, pulling away. I didn't feel like anything. Nobody noticed my sullen silence, they were too busy being enthralled with Adriana. The reception dragged on. I felt resentful bu... | 11 | 0 | 25 | 111,988 |
[WP] The revolution was a success. The old regime has been overthrown. You were the leader of the rebellion and just realize you've made a huge mistake. | I watched as the weeping bourgeois scum were ragged from their homes. It helped to smack a label on them. To think of them as the other. The pigs who had kept the people down, who had tried to impose their kind of "Democracy" upon us. It was time for a government that truly represented the people. That wasn't beholden ... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 193,448 |
[EU] A warrior in Civilization is forgotten at the beginning of a game. Now, you are in the modern age. Write the warrior's thoughts. | Our squad of Maori trained in our patch of un-improved jungle, a tiny one-by-one island on a lake in the middle of the great Empire. For countless Rounds, we tested ourselves relentlessly against the possible trials of combat.
Our distant ancestors had been told to stay alert, and notify Command if an enemy was sighte... | 53 | 0 | 198 | 90,533 |
[WP] She's holding a handful of coffin nails. | -115
The fog had turned to mist sometime before dawn. Calvin's jacket and cap were soaked through. He was wearing more under the jacket, but not enough to stop the fingers of cold from reaching his skin. He shivered, hunched his shoulders and bowed his head against the gypsy drops of rain stabbing through the murk.
"Ca... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 43,219 |
[WP] You're at your wedding and you are getting married to the girl of your dreams. When the priest asks if there's anyone who objects to this marriage, one person stands up. No one recognizes who it is,but you do, it's you from the future (aka 20 years from now) | Here I stand, on the day I have waited for half my life. The girlno, woman, that I love and have loved more than anything for the past 14 years is about to become my wife. The adrenaline surging through me has my heart turning back-flips in my chest.
The organ begins to play and she begins to walk down the aisle. She ... | 7 | 0 | 568 | 147,349 |
[WP] Your dying father gives you a tape on his deathbed. It's of his wedding day, and in the background of the video you see your wife. | I don't think this turned out very well, but here it is. Please be kind!
************
It was strange. Before me, on a hospital bed littered with tubes and monitors, lay a broken and dying man. His liver, among other organs, was rapidly failing, and it was only a matter of time until he passed away into darkness. I tho... | 19 | 0 | 26 | 176,010 |
[WP] The most moral person in the world is assigned to the role of Death. Describe his one day job experience. | He couldn't really understand it all.
He arrived in a hospital room between two blinks. An elderly man lay on the bed with his family surrounding him. Their quiet sobs were punctuated by the staccato alerts issuing from his monitor, the clangorous and discordic beeps and blips that either assured that everything was fi... | 21 | 0 | 41 | 176,361 |
[WP] Aliens have arrived! But ... they're completely ignoring us. | "So we have determined the aliens are not whales themselves yes?" The president asked the secretary of defense.
"Correct mister president. Several flybys have confirmed they are humanoid in nature." The president had called all the cabinet members together to solve this problem.
"We have also determined that they are... | 82 | 0 | 133 | 142,210 |
[WP] You try to rob an ice cream parlor, but get distracted by the 32 different flavors | It'd been about a month since I was laid off. Times were tough and since everything went digital, people just weren't buying paper anymore. When they let me go, they gave me a measly $1000 severance pay and I had nothing saved. I blew $730 on a brand new flat screen TV for my apartment that I can no longer afford, but ... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 195,024 |
[EU] A young Andy is given the toy tiger Hobbes as Calvin goes to college. To the shock of Andy's other toys Hobbes casually starts a conversation with Andy. (Toy Story/ Calvin and Hobbes) | "Oh, I almost forgot," Calvin said, turning to Andy. "Here's my tiger, I've had him since I was little. I know you'll have a lot of adventures together..." Calvin chuckled and Andy let out a small nervous smile at the comment. "Treasure Hobbes, will you?"
"Of course, Calvin! Thank you," he repied, accepting Hobbes.
C... | 80 | 0 | 1,721 | 189,467 |
[PI] A man wakes up after death, realizing that his life was nothing more then a virtual reality which temporarily clears your memories beforehand. It is nothing more then a everyday leisure activity done by the people in the future. | That was... *magnificent*. All the elements and emotions packed *perfectly* into ... *one post?* How did you *do* that? You spent just enough time on his Earth / game life to let us feel his devotion to his wife, and then killed him off (if I may speak so bluntly) so as to let the story move on. You later showed the wi... | 6 | 0 | 684 | 53,800 |
[WP] I always see prompts about how the humans are the most feared beings in galactic warfare. Write a story about how the humans are outmatched by the true hunters of the Milky Way | Let's be honest: Earth's a dirt speck, suspended in a field of trillions of other dirt specks, some slightly more comfortable dirt specks, others slightly less so. There is nothing - nothing! - special about Earth.
Course, you look at 45th century Earthlings, they've got a different opinion. Figure out faster-than-ligh... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 198,522 |
[WP] People communicate telepathically. Describe a scene of heavy arguing between a man an his wife. | The couple at the table on the far side of the café sipped their espressos in complete silence. I focused my attention on the clock next to me. Kitty was late. I just wanted to be done and go home.
The Tuesday mid-afternoon droned on as so many had before it. In fact this couple was the only customers I'd had in over ... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 182,821 |
[WP] Click "random" to go to a random subreddit. Come back here and post about your experience like a hero returning from an intrepid journey. | "Open the gates!" came the shout from the blocky granite gatehouse flanking the iron-bound entryway. A raucous rattling sounded as the chains hauled up the portcullis, and the heavy oak-and-iron doors behind swung open.
A visibly exhausted man atop an equally spent stallion made his way across the lowered bridge. His p... | 12 | 0 | 107 | 165,781 |
[WP] You are the commander of the last human fleet, acting as the final line of defence against the armada coming for Earth. Write your final speech to your fellow soldiers and everyone on Earth. | I stood on board the bridge of my ship, staring out into the desolate field of space in front of us. I leaned on the table and turned to my Captain.
"Captain Perkins, fleet wide channel…and open a channel to the last cities on Earth."
I heard a few clicks next to me and knew Perkins had done what I asked. Good kid, eve... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 80,948 |
[WP] You are laying in your prison cell when you hear a voice coming from the window. "Err... Pardon me but could I borrow your bedsheet? I seem to have run out of rope" | "Err... Pardon me but could I borrow your bed sheet? I seem to have run out of rope"
The increasingly less disguised polite criticisms of economic theory came to a stumbling halt as everyone turned to see who could have the temerity to interrupt the strenuous and entirely imperative discourse of a salon.
M. Stylos was... | 2 | 0 | 45 | 199,898 |
[WP] ALL drugs are legalised. If you can, make two separate writings: the paradise and the living hell. | Claire woke up and headed straight for the living room. She opened the windows, drew back the curtains and breathed in the crisp autumn air. She smiled at the feeling of the breeze through her chestnut locks and walked to the couch. She sat down, emptied the white powder onto the glass table in a perfectly straight lin... | 1 | 0 | 40 | 167,225 |
[WP] While out on a date with the last (wo)man alive, you accidentally kill them. | Admittedly, I was inexperienced in pain. Even though she desperately thrashed herself against the walls of unconsciousness, I could see it consuming her. My decision was meticulous and intense though my actions an accident.
My intent was to kill her, but not like this. The television set behind me flashed the countdow... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 21,942 |
[WP] You stop by a convenience store to grab a few things when two masked men walk in with guns. How does it go down? | "Give me the fuckin' money man, and let me get your phone too I know you got one!
"Please guy, this store es all we have. Please you don't need do this"
"Shut the fuck up an' hurry yo. If you say one mo' fucking word I'm gonna shoot you and come get the shit myself. Ay and let me get that watch you got too."
The gun wa... | 4 | 0 | 20 | 101,216 |
[WP] A McDonalds employee gets off work. Build me a person using that foundation. | (Sorry for the format, I'm using my phone from my ambulance... I think I might rewrite this after work, because it really hits home for me.)
7 hours and 58 minutes. Once again, Randall was just short of a full 8 hour shift. Once again, Randall sighed and moved towards the door, through past all of his coworkers. He pla... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 140,376 |
[WP] A man working at suicide hotline got called from his wife | Typically you'd think working at a suicide hotline would be depressing. But not me, I saw the beauty in each and every person who dialled. The thing I wanted to show each and every caller was their uniqueness was what made them who they were. But they had to find that in themselves. The fact that happiness comes from w... | 4 | 0 | 304 | 70,996 |
[WP] You are a person that makes teaser trailers for different movies for a living and you are hired to make a teaser trailer for a movie based on the video game series Fallout. Describe the trailer you sent to your clients. | (DISCLAIMER: This is the first time I've done a script-style prompt. You have been warned)
*Cut to a shot of an ICBM resting in its silo*
RON PERLMAN: War. War never changes.
The reasons why it is fought,
*Cuts to a bar of gold, then a chunk of land, then a drum of oil*
the men who fight it,
*Cuts to a Revolutionary... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 131,722 |
[WP] Scientists discover the location of Heaven. | "Being a genius is not necessarily knowing more than anyone else," Dmitri began his lecture. His palms were sweaty, his eyes wide, his stomach was in knots, and his words just a quiver shy of being an off-key tremolo. "Being a genius is seeing the things that other people, don't. Being a genius is being able to notice ... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 47,218 |
[CW] "I loved her and she loved me, and for a while that was enough" | I loved her and she loved me, and for a while that was enough. About three hours later love became insufficient and water became a bigger concern.
I loved her, she loved water, I had water and was willing to barter it for love. For a while that was enough. But love doesn't put more water in the reservoir, and if bitch... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 91,237 |
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