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[WP] Instead of life followed by death, there is a third form of existence which ends once everyone living forgets you | It was a waiting room. A big, wide waiting room with an infinite number of straight-backed grey chairs and a low table with a copy of *Cosmopolitan* from 2004. It was full, but silent. No-one was breathing - after all, there was no need to, not now they were dead. No-one spoke to each other, either. They were all dress... | 50 | 1 | 70 | 14,256 |
[WP] You slowly start gaining the powers of a Jedi. Eventually you realize, you are an actual human being of Earth with the Force. You're scared to tell anyone, as they absolutely won't understand. One day, after years of self-training in secrecy, you sense that there is another. | kinda dark, nsfw maybe,
Whenever it seems like the world is out to get you your rage can become such an incredible source of resiliency. After all the only person you can depend on is you, and we're not all dependable.
I first felt the call during a duel. Not a duel to the death, but a duel for sport. I was new to th... | 3 | 0 | 329 | 180,986 |
[WP] Take the title of the post above this and the title of the post below this. Connect them in a story. | Above title: [Even though he's blind, he still loves staring out the window.](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2iagyd/even_though_hes_blind_he_still_loves_staring_out/)
Below title: [2:47](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2ib2dv/247/)
My Dad built the cabin when he was only 22 years old. He always knew... | 2 | 0 | 38 | 131,748 |
[WP] A police officer and an arrested criminal manage to survive the apocalypse in their police car, the officer is conflicted about trusting and freeing the criminal as they struggle to survive. | "I'm telling you man, I am one hundred percent completely innocent!" Daniel yelled as he slammed his handcuffed fists against the gate separating the front row of seats from the back. The officer did not turn his head or speak, but simply looked out the front window of the cruiser into the thunderstorm building outside... | 13 | 0 | 77 | 135,161 |
[WP] Mythological stories are just an attempt by ignorant humans who watched and described from their point of view the advanced humans/aliens with their scientific gadgets, space ships, weapons, etc. Pick your favorite mythological story and/or character(s) and turn it into a science fiction story. | "Dude, Freja's going to kill you," Heimdall called over the open air wave. He'd been searching for hours and Loki was nowhere to be found. "Odin forbid, Loki, you know I don't have time for this horse shit, she needs that necklace!"
Cackling answered him over the intercom, "I know! She's never gonna get to the Asgard o... | 7 | 0 | 261 | 230,747 |
[WP] Make me side with a traitor without establishing the betrayed character(s) as bad or unfavorable. | The ceaseless ticking of a clock in the corner of the room informs me that time has not stopped, other than that fact, I'm not certain I can be certain of anything.
I remember a noise. A ticking, like that of a clock, but while the clock ticks to signal a distant end, this ticking signaled a near one, a painful one mar... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 111,278 |
[PI]: Eons ago, there was another mass extinction event, but this one wiped out humanity. Another sentient species has since evolved, and they revere or worship the Ancients, the humans, that built such incredible relics. On an expedition, they find a human locked in a stasis chamber. What happens? | Masharal turned to look at Ish'nar, stunned by what he just said. Here they had quite possibly the most well-preserved, fully-intact suit of a Great Titan. And Ish'nar was claiming that they may have found something of even greater importance.
Masharal began following Ish'nar down the tunnel as he motioned for him to f... | 41 | 0 | 95 | 177,207 |
[WP] The story ends with "I wanted it to be you. God damn, I really did." | The great king was on his deathbed. His massive figure now a diminishing, deteriorating shape fading away.
He was fine with death. Really. He had conquered enough in his day. He had amassed a great fortune and built a fine kingdom. He had plenty of viral sons and plenty of clever daughters.
He smiled as he recalled h... | 1 | 0 | 202 | 215,573 |
[EU] Three experienced KGB agents are captured by Jigsaw. They are not pleased. | The television on the far side of the decaying room crackled to life. The grey glow cast a sickly shadow in the chamber. Silhouettes of hooks and chains grew long in the dim light.
"Good morning, gentlemen," a voice grumbled like crumbling granite, "Would you like to play a game?"
In the middle of the room a spike wa... | 71 | 0 | 573 | 141,462 |
[WP] Write a creation myth. | A baby gurgles in contentment, her eyes wide with bewilderment at the brand new world around her.
A woman grieves by the graves of her children, stricken by the plague.
A research assistant watches in awe as the director of his lab presents the world's first FTL engine.
An ant crawls through the dirt beginning a long d... | 2 | 0 | 96 | 202,871 |
[WP] The year is 2021. The newest fad are clone clubs, where visitors can spend up to 12 hours with a clone of any person whose DNA they provide. The clones are disposed afterwards. | It hasn't gotten any easier. The buildup, the anticipation, that's what swirls inside me and brings up that choking feeling. There's sadness, always, at the end, but before that I get another 12 hours.
The hardest part was finding the right place with the right scientists. Most wouldn't do it but I knew eventually I'd... | 13 | 0 | 1,271 | 143,818 |
[WP]Every year on your birthday, you get a visit from the Grim Reaper who challenges you to a contest with the next year of your life on the line. | "Not paintball again please, you know that my long robes are a disadvantage. They're impossible to hide behind any of the obstacles they have on the course, and the last person I tried to reap while I was covered in pink Poke-A-Dots would not stop laughing at me." I begged Mike. These eternal contracts really should co... | 135 | 0 | 87 | 200,490 |
[PI] Oracle and Obelisk: A Dark Horse Novella - FEB CONTEST | Hi! This was very well-written. The opening, with Adrianna reading the card, pulled me in. I liked the world you built and found myself wanting to understand the concepts introduced ("Master of the Field", the "Thought", the different obelisks) a little better. I also liked the overarching tarot theme, with the chapter... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 24,031 |
[WP] Tell me about the american version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. | Hello there! I'm Arthur Yellowflower, Dean of admissions at Lasalle School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, located in the heart of Upper Chicago. We are proud to be the premier academy for magical students in the midwest. You asked for some information about our school. This owl should give you some background and answer ... | 3 | 0 | 145 | 166,763 |
[WP] A world where days have started repeating twice. Everyone experiences the second day as a do-over of the first but only the actions and consequences of that second day end up carrying forward in time. | How do you prove rape if it didn't happen in this timeline? Or murder? Torture? Is it even right to punish someone if there is no way to be certain they did it? If the only marks are mental? Questions upon questions piling up, answers few and far between.
On the first days, consequences are fluid. That's a fact. You ca... | 2 | 0 | 68 | 75,041 |
[WP] As you die, you witness the life of whatever killed you. | * March 1st 1993. He starts off as a small budding personality. He's shy. He walks aimlessly by me and won't acknowledge me when I wave to him.
* March 3rd. Made eye contact for the first time today. Wonder if he doesn't like the way I look because he soon turned and went in the other direction.
* March 7th. Saw him ag... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 226,790 |
[WP] A serial-killer discovers he "earns XP" for every person he kills. Finally after a short while, he is about to level up to Lv.2 Human. | Maybe [NSFW]? Note sure, kinda is I guess... due to nature of prompt, kinda... anyway. I'm new to this... I hope I am doing this right...
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February 14th, 1989
I killed a man today. He was homeless, I think. I was out in the back parking lot of a Walmart, and it was dark. ... | 3 | 0 | 64 | 147,985 |
[WP]It didn't have to happen like this..... | "It didn't have to happen like this, you know." He sneered, pressing the cold metal barrel against your head. "If only you listened to that pretty wife of yours and got out when you could." He laughed, that sickening grin wider than ever. "Well I suppose it's hard to hear her when her lungs are full of water."
"Bastar... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 167,692 |
[WP] A man, standing alone in the street, notices a woman in a blue dress. | The memory came flooding back in an instant. The grimy college apartment, the cheap booze only consumed by desperate alcoholics and broke college students, the people all around that made up what was at that point, my entire social circle. But most of all there was *her*.
A new roommate of one of my closest friends fro... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 119,650 |
[WP] Someone gets to heaven and is upset by the idea of spending eternity there. | You know that uneasy feeling you get when you suddenly realize that you're dreaming and that the dream world you've existed in for the past few hours isn't real?
James had that feeling when he was rounding the 4th turn on the Dayton Speedway. He was about to secure the Nascar points championship for the 7th consecutive... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8,904 |
[WP] You have a brain far superior to anyone that has ever lived. How do you use it to achieve greatness? | A life's work had prepared me for anything. There was little that I had not observed or already accounted for. My understanding of my area of expertise was absolute and my ability to act within this area was far beyond that of anyone else alive. A few months ago I had emerged from deep study with a group of Tibetan mon... | 12 | 0 | 4 | 82,095 |
[CW] Write a story that becomes a different story when the paragraphs are read in reverse order. | I sat along the beach and let the ocean come up to meet my feet. It had been so long since I had last been here. I breathed in the salty air and as I did, I knew what I had to do. I threw the empty orange bottle down into the sand. I let the sun embrace me as tears slid down my face. It was time to say goodbye.
When I ... | 1 | 0 | 125 | 167,321 |
[WP]- In the future, all forms of creativity(such as music, writing, and art)are strictly outlawed. What happens when you find a dusty old CD? | Michael was always attracted to his family's heirlooms. An ancient gun, his great-grandfather's diary written in an archaic language, and an old fashioned mirror. It was so sparklingly reflective, so clear. His parents never let him touch it, for fear of dulling it. One of the more remarkable things about it was that i... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 58,647 |
[WP] Twist a nursery rhyme into something sinister. | I waited by the stairwell. One candle lit the spiral, flickered on the grey stone walls. A brother passed by with a tray of wet grain and rendered fat, nodded, kept his unshaven face dark beneath his hood.
I waited by the stairwell. Thought of power and consequence. Thought of my broken pride, how god demanded it, made... | 6 | 0 | 31 | 109,882 |
[WP] The brain and the heart represent knowledge and love, they debate whether or not to ask someone out. | Brain sat at the bar in his classic black suit sipping at his whiskey and trying to read his book of Blake poems, Heart perched next to him gulping down his third strawberry daiquiri and failing to notice that he had spilled half of it on his old red jumper.
"God I hate you sometimes" sighed Brain
"What's that?" asked... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 41,689 |
[CW] She drew a crude picture in the dirt. "That's what we're looking for." | "The future is now, scouts will be coming with us on our annual school trip to the beach. There will be plenty of opportunities to show off your skills later, just have fun tomorrow okay?" rang her teachers voice. Clare was 14 and for the next two years the scouts would watch her like a hawk starting today. "Ugh" she m... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 202,568 |
[WP] Write a story that will scare me out of wasting my life | >With a constant anxious expression imprinted onto her face, the nurse paces back and forth on top of the dirty exposed floor boards; stopping only occasionally to stare at the old man resting upright on the bed. She has spent many hours of her life watching this old man slowly die, many hours that she would have prefe... | 1 | 0 | 606 | 176,682 |
WP - You Are On The Space Station and Earth Implodes | You come up here to get away from it all. You go back because you're lonely.
That's wrong, sure, but it's what was keeping me from eating the barrel of a shotgun for the past two years.
They sent me up here solo. Figured I didn't need help. Part of me wants to believe it was some sort of prank. Probably Fred, from acc... | 1 | 0 | 26 | 11,144 |
[WP] A homeless man recieves $50'000 from a stranger when he asks for a cigarette | I sat on the side of the street, shivering in the cold and looking like crap.
People passed me, some giving me pitying glances, others throwing their change in front of me.
It wasn't always this way. I used to be a man with influence. But I made foolish choices, my best friend turned out to be a alien wearing a mask an... | 8 | 0 | 12 | 156,042 |
[WP] You are a character in a dream of a man/woman that you love. You spend the last moments together before he/she wakes up. | we're running,
away, away, from something.
anything! a memory long gone, the monster almost forgotten.
he grabs my hands and pulls me to the next place,
i do not notice the birds that all have a face like a dog
nor the frogs that are singing old beatles hits.
i just feel his hand warm against mine as he guides me... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 77,255 |
[WP] A Starbucks Batista has given you Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino with soy instead of a Caffè Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk. Make this as tragic, heart-wrenching and miserable as possible. | "Mommy, why they are taking daddy away?"
Mary-Ann, holding back her tears and trying to act normal, took little Johnny in her arms. "Sweetheart, you are a bit young to understand this... but daddy is going to go for a little holiday."
"Is daddy going to Disneyland?"
The years he had spent working for the company had ... | 2 | 0 | 1,329 | 193,039 |
[WP] An Artificial intelligence becomes very passionate about faith, before realizing it is not a Child of God. | The door opened, shining a bright light into an otherwise dimly lit room. The light made visible a large crucifix surrounded by candles, the only source of warmth in the room.
A voice penetrated the darkness. "Mary? Mary are you there?"
Silence.
"Mary?"
"Yes, father?"
A small girl stepped out into the light. She wore ... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 45,605 |
[WP]Two teenage superheroes are disguised as football players, and don't know the other exists. After each of them lead their respective teams to the championship using their powers, they discover the other team has a "super". describe the game that ensues | Steve had only found out hours before the match that the other team had a super powered football player like him. But he didn't know what they could do, just that they had special abilities powerful enough to get them to the championship game.
Steve looked over towards his girlfriend standing amongst the other cheerlea... | 7 | 0 | 28 | 139,062 |
[RF] Teenage Hackers are hired by a small country as tech mercenaries and are instructed to use their computer abilities to bring the world super powers to their knees. So that it may further it own agenda. | My name is Jack. No, not Jack Mehoff (haha), Jack Jackson. I got teased a bit, but it made a new nickname, Double-J. That is my username across the internet, and that's how a small country like Colombia was able to find me. I am a hacker for them, and I get paid big bucks. About 200,000 per year, and I hack a lot.
I w... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 200,600 |
[WP] You live in a universe that wasn't constructed that well and the physics are buggy and things occasionally just don't work right. | Sam wasn't having that great a day.
None of the jumps were working out in her favor. Jumps were the momentary lapses in the way the world worked. Things would teleport, sometimes disappearing entirely. Materials would just mysteriously change into something else (usually less well-suited to their tasks than they had b... | 1 | 0 | 202 | 64,948 |
[WP] In the year 2020, humanity was nearly wiped out by an alien invasion. Earth's survivors were ordered to pay a tithe (one tenth of the worlds population) every decade to prevent enslavement. The year is now 2060, and you are among the chosen... and you refuse to go quietly. | It is most curious how the tides of history oscillate with ambivalence. We the humans, the early conquistadors, enslaved the world to our want. We "squared the circle of the earth and had dominion over all that lived" the books read. With our superior intelligence our territory was maintained, only to be challenged by ... | 2 | 0 | 82 | 92,060 |
[WP] An alien race comes to Earth and thinks that First World problems are the real problems of humanity. | "...You're kidding me, right?"
The pale-skinned, dark-haired, violet-eyed being looked confused.
"You are saying that Reddit showing 1 comment when there are in fact, 0 comments is not the ultimate problem that humanity faces?"
"Yes... How could you think that? Hell, you should easily notice the pollution, crime, and o... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 209,932 |
[IP] "Hangman" What would make a person do this? | They carved it into his skin. A man being hung. It wasn't realistic. It was the cute little hangman doodle from a children's game played on chalkboard and notebook paper. It wasn't Abbie dangling limply between the trees. It wasn't her legs as they twitched, or her terrified eyes, bulging and bloodshot. It wasn't the c... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 220,322 |
[WP] Describe the person you love the most so we can see him/her through your eyes. | So cute. Same type of attractive as Johnathan Groff, but more friendly looking. Your upper lip has a really great shape to it, and it adds a wonderful definition to your face, and your nose is classically straight and pointed and your eyes have this great horizontal narrowness that gives them this dreamy tired look. Yo... | 2 | 0 | 106 | 116,152 |
[EU]Howard Stark puts his son Tony on a spaceship which escapes the end of the Earth to Krypton. The red sun of their universe gives him powers his adoptive parents and brother, the Els, have not seen before. | "*Mr. Stark, I am registering an exterior temperature increase of sixty point two-*"
"*Can it, Mistress. I know. How much time do we have?*"
"*Approximately nine minutes*," Mistress responded in her dull monotone. Howard never did finish upgrading her new vocal package. Not that it would matter at this point.
... | 5 | 0 | 1 | 173,168 |
[WP] A king drinks with the lowliest soldier in his army... and it changes everything. | (english isnt my first language, and I went a bit away from your WP, well I hope it is acceptable)
"They fight for you, your Highness!" said the Duke, my trusted conselour, the man who raised me as my father, the former king, was too busy with the kingdom.
"I respect your opinion, as I always had, Duke, but you are wro... | 8 | 0 | 50 | 81,931 |
[WP] She stood there rocking the glowing orb in her arms. It was the night stars fell from the heaven. | "Shh, shh, it's okay, little one. It's going to be okay." Stella gently brushed the nightwisp, combing its soft flames with one hand as she cooed. "You're all right. Shh." The poor thing fluttered wildly, shaking hard enough to put itself out. Most wisps braved the plummet with dignity, but this was a young one, still ... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 75,231 |
[WP] You win a bet with the Devil by asking him a question that no one has ever thought of before. | "Well, no. Not exactly my idea of a good way to spend eternity," I said as I stared at the wall. The shadow plastered across the dull, flaky white paint showed no sign of recognition to the words I had just spoken. "So be it." A sinister voice echoed seemingly from all directions. "Seek another or the contract shall be... | 4 | 0 | 335 | 68,809 |
[WP]The year is 1916. The first world war is at its worst. The British decide to use the first atomic bomb. | *From the Newark Star-Ledger, November 29, 1916* **Dateline LONDON:** A new age has dawned for our civilization with the splitting of the atom. After months of fierce combat at Verdun, the Royal Marines assisted by Australian mining engineers, successfully install and detonate the most powerful explosive device ever co... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 94,614 |
An alcoholic writes his (or her) suicide note. [WP] | Dear America,
I devoted my life to public service, gave everything I had fighting for the common folk, because they needed someone to fight for them. Since the age of 8 I've worked at least 80 hours every single week. My hair went grey at 32. It disappeared at 36.
Yet I carried on, serving two terms as your President. ... | 5 | 0 | 5 | 19,439 |
[WP] You're on a first date and its going very well until you make a huge mistake. You somehow get a sign from future you telling you that this person is "the one". Don't screw it up. | You know. I never really believed in time travel. I really thought it was impossible. Seriously. Even if we could travel a direction other than forward; the energy needed would be incredible. It always struck me as a poor man's sci-fi. A dream to change what you regret. I guess that's why it was so appealing to so many... | 1 | 0 | 143 | 57,785 |
[CW] Write a story that ends with "I love her. That's why I killed her". | Crazies, cannibals, rapists, reavers.
Doesn't matter what you call them, they are bad news and they are right behind me. My transport ship's engines failed a few hours ago, burned out running from them. Left us, my daughter and me, adrift somewhere out by Verbena. With enough time, we'd probably have made it to the pl... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 202,371 |
[WP] Write about the same events twice from different viewpoints. Use this change of "narration" to switch genre. | He breathed in. He held the air in his lungs, not daring to exhale.
*She was sitting on top of the world, I was so nervous for her. It was her first time. How could I not worry?* He'd been taking care of her for her entire life, and now, everything was out of his control.
His body began desperately trying to let out ... | 22 | 0 | 62 | 51,188 |
[WP] Write a scene where the crumb on the table has particular significance | I fiddle with a piece of food still left on the table from lunch. Moveing the food back and forth across the grout between the tiles on the kitchen table. So I am about to do it. It has taken me ten years to get up the courage to get to this moment but I feel myself delaying it just a second or two more. Beating around... | 2 | 0 | 28 | 141,243 |
[WP] Two shy goth kids are passing notes back and forth in class, the teacher catches them in the act, grabs the note and begins to read it out loud... it is a spell to open a rift into Valhalla. | "Boys. Give me that right now."
"Mister Dawkins. I don't..."
"Jonathan! Right now!"
"It's Nightwalker, please. And sir, if you'd only... "
I ripped the document from his hand. An unexpected texture. Almost like leather, but smooth and paper thin.
"Right, Nightwalker. Let us share with class, shall we?"
Some giggles ... | 10 | 0 | 32 | 132,542 |
[WP] A man who is completely alone sneezes and hears "bless you" | At first, he wasn't sure he had imagined it. He sat quietly, looking at the flickering walls lit by candles surrounding the manuscript. Very slowly, he turned his head in both directions. Nothing. Not a soul besides his breathed in this small mountain hut.
So whose breath could have uttered those words? "Bless you," it... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 50,701 |
[WP] As people often say, things can't make you happy. But you've recently bought an item that made you immensely happy. Going beyond the regular use of that item, what made you so happy to finally have this item? | I ignored the looks and walked up to the register. "Just this, please".
The cashier looked up, hearing the bass in my voice, different from the dulcet tones and quiet voices around the store. I wasn't normally the kind of person to shop here, but needs must. Her eyes caught mine and I noticed the vague questioning befo... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 54,059 |
[WP] A Starbucks Batista has given you Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino with soy instead of a Caffè Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk. Make this as tragic, heart-wrenching and miserable as possible. | I sipped my drink and sat on the park bench. The one on Signal Hill that overlooks the city. I always appreciated the aesthetic balance between the ladies walking their little white dogs in the foreground, the trees rustling in the breeze a short way further down the slope, and the cars rushing amongst the buildings in... | 2 | 0 | 1,329 | 193,013 |
[WP] A young man or woman enters a gas station and holds up a gun. This robber demands all the money, but an elderly person shopping starts talking to them. | "Excuse me, Deary"
Jordon turned to see an elderly woman speaking to him, the lady wore the most vibrant of floral dresses, completed with swirling rose and peridot colored designs with deep violet trimmings, much too flamboyant for any occasion of any matter. It was clear that she was senile.
"Lady, I'm robbing this... | 16 | 0 | 20 | 27,815 |
[WP]A couple of teenage runways hop a train only to discover the car they've chosen to hide out in is already occupied. Who do they find? | Rita and Arthur had made a pact. If her parents couldn't accept that she was in love with a black man by the time she graduated high school, they would run away together. So when Rita's father shooed Arthur away with a shotgun as he tried to pick her up for prom, they knew that it was time.
They had developed a plan to... | 9 | 0 | 19 | 37,901 |
[WP] Humans are born with a birthmark of a number 1-9. This is how many lives they have. You are the only person in the world that has a birthmark of a 0. | "And here is Anders, our oldest patient." a middle aged nurse said to the reporter.
"How? He doesn't look a day over 20." the reporter asked incredulously.
"I'll just let you two chat, if he feels like speaking today. You'll see." she turned and left the small, bare room.
"She gone?" mumbled the man laying on his bed, ... | 3 | 0 | 283 | 162,878 |
[WP] You have a dream that lasts for what seems to be years, then you wake up | As I sit on the couch, Emaline sleeping on my lap, a strange sound begins to pierce through the house. At least, it must be in the house... *but it sounds like it's in my head*... It's annoying... yet so familiar. Where have I heard this annoying sound before? I wonder if Emaline can hear it?
...
...
My eyes open.
The ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 189,926 |
[EU] Write about an unmentioned Hogwarts student, reacting to the events of the books. | **Roger Dudwink and the Guy Who Found the Sorcerer's Stone:**
Sorting Hat: "Hufflepuff!"
Roger: "Shit!"
**Roger Dudwink and the Guy Who Opened the Chamber of Secrets:**
Roger: "For fuck's sake, Myrtle! Get out of here, I'm trying to have a shit!"
**Roger Dudwink and the Guy Who Rescued the Prisoner of Azkaban:**
Roger:... | 3 | 0 | 59 | 131,035 |
[WP] Make us hate ourselves | You don't give a fuck. You never will, and you certainly don't now. No-one does. The problem with life, you see, is that it's all one monstrous facade. I train myself to tell myself that I care, but deep down I know that I don't. The romanticist inside of me takes hold for a few decades, only to be reminded, on his dea... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 211,047 |
[EU] Choose the cast of characters from any TV show or movie and allow The One Ring to fall into their possession. | Kyon walked to school, just like he did everyday, ready for another day of Haruhi Suzumiya and her crazy schemes. Just outside the gates though Kyon saw something shiny on the ground. Like usual the bell rang at the wrong moment so he grabbed whatever it was and went to Homeroom. Haruhi had taken up her standard positi... | 10 | 0 | 48 | 3,255 |
[WP] After a brutal fight a dying enemy soldier grabs you by your clothes and forces on your hand a picture of him and his kids, while saying " Take care of them. There is no one else." | The war had been going on for three years in the Eastern Provinces, and morale among both sides were low. Another harsh winter was setting in and a battalion of troops from the southern port city of Csarno Polje dreamt of the better days in their seaside hometown. The howling northern wind only made their longing for s... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 75,505 |
[WP] Everybody can sell their memories, which is priced differently based on the demand of the memories. You've struck poverty in the recent days and decided to sell yours... | You know, my father once told me, that money wasn't everything. Dying from lung cancer, poor but loved, he said, "Son, the biggest mistake you could make is to go chasing after money. Money can't buy happiness. Money can't save you from death. Eventually, we all end up in a wooden box, six feet underground. Live your l... | 1 | 0 | 78 | 221,184 |
[WP] Write a thought provoking monologue. | *To the glory of God. He would not have birthed me had you not committed heinous sin. I am the punishment of God. If you had not sinned as such, God would not have sent a punishment such as I upon you. A land of sand and sea, lit momentarily by the grasslands that sustain you, like lice in hair. The annals of history h... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 100,647 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | "We shouldn't have fucking done it man, we fucked up, what the fuck have we done?"
"Mark, calm the fuck down!"
"Calm the fuck down? Calm the fuck down?! How the fuck can I calm down when we both just witnessed that? Do you know what this means? Do you have any idea of what were fucking with? Because this is b... | 1 | 0 | 2,626 | 230,903 |
[WP] Magic... IN SPACE! | "Look, all I'm saying is that it would be easier for me to visit you if I just used the Public transporter system. It's just as cheap, and I don't have to worry if I get the incantation wrong. *No mother, I have been practicing, but if you would let me-*. Yes mother, I understand. But last time that I used the spell, I... | 8 | 0 | 14 | 30,801 |
[WP] A man is on a date with a woman. In the middle of their meal he finds out she is a serial killer. | She pursed her lips for a brief moment, quickly following up with a frown. To an unaware observer, she might have even appeared to be phased, if only for an instant.
"So, does that mean you're not going to eat? It would really make me happy if you did."
He timidly picked his silverware back up. He had intended to stifl... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 72,994 |
[WP] A cop is tied to a chair, helplessly watching the serial killer he's chased for so long prepare his tools to kill him. | the young woman watched, giggling to herself as she watched her catch struggle.
"you cops are all the same you know, and you are just like the others. but i will still have my fun"
the cop stopped to catch his breath, watching the blood trickle out of the stumps of where three of his fingers had been. his mind was beg... | 1 | 0 | 43 | 45,885 |
[WP] Drunk and disheveled, an executive stumbles into a press meeting. "First of all, I'll be the first to admit that our latest product was a very, very bad idea..." | Drunk and disheveled, an executive stumbles into a press meeting. "First of all, I'll be the first to admit that our latest product was a very, very bad idea..."
The press corps gasped in response. This wasn't what they were used to. Their thumbs moved rapidly over their iPhones and tablets, sending the quote out to Tw... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 137,609 |
You're in a perpetual dream state. A coma. You suddenly realize this, and that the only way to your freedom is unlocking a mystery that lies deep within your consciousness. [WP] | Great posts everyone!! Here was my weird take on it. For those of you who've seen Twin Peaks, I tried to imagine a dream like state where anything and everything could just happen. Where the visions are fragmented, and no immediately apparent reason exists until definitive clues begin to emerge.
I awoke in on the side ... | 1 | 0 | 50 | 86,185 |
[WP] Your most hated arch nemesis dies to a car crash. Strangely, they included you in their will. What did they leave you to prove that they truly and deeply cared for you? | If one thing could be said about the clerk's office it would be *hot*, so damn hot.
There was no air conditioning and the window had long been lost behind a large series of filing cabinets. It was as if the guy had never learned of electronic files. Perhaps he thought the handwritten aspect added sentimental value.
I ... | 2 | 0 | 43 | 64,325 |
[WP] The sky is falling, and you are an old man | [Still incredibly new to this writing thing so ...would love constructive criticism as I know I have a long way to go. At this point just trying to post frequently to stop being afraid of writing for an audience.]
Through hairline receding, Aaron's penchant for terrible music had not diminished over the years. The band... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 25,656 |
[WP] The twisted and most evil thoughts you've had in life must be enacted upon you before you can enter Paradise. The price for admission is this final "cleanse." | A grey haired mechanic was going through my paperwork. I was guessing the guy died as he lived, in a NAPA blue collared shirt, blue jeans, and steel toe boots. They didn't have cars by the look of it, but tuning up souls was close enough.
"Well Jim, your track record is pristine. Your actual actions are worthy of sain... | 9 | 0 | 15 | 80,770 |
[WP] The dragon kills the knight and saves the kingdom. | "In other news today, Iraq war hero and now Texas Senator, has refused to step down from his role on the board at Big Oil. Senator Knight stated, 'As my war record shows, I am a man of the highest integrity. In no way will my ties to my family's business interfere with my work on behalf of the people of the great state... | 3 | 0 | 72 | 87,941 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | -010
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Three hostages stood with their backs against the wall. In front of them was liquid hot anticipation, boiling over into a vividly stark imagination where the the violent demise of everyone in... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6,499 |
[WP] A boy realizes he is in love with his best friend, but can't tell her for fear of ruining their relationship. Describe their dialogue as well as his internal dialogue. | Dale sat by the lake, killing time and skipping stones with his best friend Kelly. Since they began school together 11 years ago, they have been inseparable.
The sun was just beginning to set, it hung lazily in the bright pink sky of another beautiful endless sunset you only see in Illinois, and Dale knew he would be ... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 23,458 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | It was a day just like any other, a Friday,
I was on the bus going home after work, looking at this pretty girl on the other side wondering whether to talk to her not,
And suddenly my eye started to hurt, and blur,
A moment later there was something strange in my vision no matter where I looked or even closed my eye... | 1 | 0 | 2,704 | 227,911 |
[WP] You have just died. A hooded figure tells you that he's retiring, and you've been elected to take his place. | "Look, I'm sorry that you got stuck with this but I can't do it anymore."
The voice drifted from beneath the darkened hood and I swear, if Death had a face, it would be looking less than sympathetic.
"I...I don't understand." I stammered. "How can this be happening? How can I even be here? I had just been crossing the... | 55 | 0 | 56 | 128,978 |
[WP] Your feet are cold. | Wiggle the toes, get the fluids flowing. I've survived dragon attacks, a pack of trolls, and even the bear now lying dead in the corner of this happy little cave. Losing my feet to the cold would just be embarrassing.
Breath misting in the air before me, I glare hatefully at the snow swirling outside of my little refug... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 43,989 |
[WP] A man gives you a pair of goggles, says he wishes he had never seen what was really out there, and takes off down the street... | The StarGazer mk. III, goggles designed for night infantry combat in poor conditions. Saw through rain, saw through snow, saw through anything.
Originally commissioned by the DOD some years ago during the polar war for when things got rough, they were designed and built by some little-known Norwegian company that went... | 2 | 0 | 108 | 146,798 |
[WP] "You look just like your mother" | "you look just like your mother."
I was walking to my downtown Houston apartment from my dismal job as a glorified computer fixer at some Big Oil company, when an older man, about 55 years old, suddenly gasps. With wide eyes, he puts his hands out to stop me. "Mother of Mercy, you look just like your mother, son. How ... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 123,518 |
[WP] A man wins the lottery but decides to honor his 2 week notice at a job he hates. | The first week after my resignation, I did nothing. That's what you won't see on the news, when they talk about me, when they tell the story of the Mega Millions lottery winner who put in his two weeks notice and wrought 'havoc.' They want to focus on the exotic petting zoo, and the hot air balloon, and the F-16s. But ... | 17 | 0 | 23 | 45,447 |
[IP] "The end" by Christian Hopkins | When I awoke, I was alone.
The field around me was quiet. I could not hear any birds, nor wind rustling the trees. The sky was a soft orange, and the light permeated through mist that covered the ground.
I stood and looked at my hands, and was surprised to find that the many cuts and bruises that I had had were gone. ... | 7 | 0 | 22 | 78,749 |
[EU] Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen and, Ted Kord decide to Destroy LexCorp and Lex Luthor's sources of Income. No Capes, Just Wallstreet Warfare. | When you're trying to take down one of the big boys, what most people don't understand is that it's not money, stock or power that gets the job done, it's the little things.
My name is Jack Crandle and my official title is Acquisition and Mergers Administrator but that's a innocent title for what I do. In reality I'm ... | 36 | 0 | 115 | 159,420 |
[WP] You are depressed/suicidal. Something miniscule happens and the infinitesimal beauty of that thing or event gives you hope. Describe it. | It was the end, everything was bleak. His heart was emptied of the happiness it once had. People said you would go to hell if you killed yourself. Hell was better then this. He stopped; he was the scared kid, never did things straight away. He would count to ten then say he would jump. Then he wouldn't. Always frighten... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 180,549 |
[WP] I am your best friend. Convince me that I need to die. | "We made a deal, me and you. You're not the type to back out of a deal. That's why you're my friend. That's why you're my best friend."
The snow was coming down heavy outside the cabin. The fireplace crackled, sending a spiral of dying flames towards the coffee table between them. On the table were four items; one 750m... | 3 | 0 | 20 | 153,157 |
A man who loses everything before his death has a chance to confront "God", even if it means being banished to Hell. | I'd lost everything. My house. My love. All of it. There was nothing left. My family hated me. I didn't have a job. Slowly. I raised the gun to my head. When I heard the door to the house I was squatting in open. No one could have known I was here. "Whose there?" I Hollered. "Why don't you set the gun down and we'll ha... | 4 | 0 | 8 | 39,711 |
[WP] Hot on the trail of a serial killer, a detective discovers that the criminal he is hunting is actually an angel, and the victims are demons. Write about their final confrontation. | Don Taggart was dying.
The blood chugged through his veins with each massive pound of his heart, and as he raced through the dim grey stairwell each step that carried him upward sent a surge of pain into his chest. He'd been running for so long he couldn't remember the last time he'd gotten a proper breath. His bum lef... | 1 | 0 | 36 | 47,201 |
[WP] You are driving a car with yourself at the wheel, your SO in the passenger seat, and the person he/she cheated on you with in the back seat. At **least** one person has to die by the end of the car ride. | "So, listen..." 45 mph "...I know you don't much give a shit about him. But he's had a crush on you forever."
50
"Who, Ted? I...no he doesn't."
"Jimmy, man. What the fuck?"
55
"Knock it off man. You think I couldn't see the way you looked at her?"
"Dude. That was just..."
60
"It's fine. But what's not fine, what's defi... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 161,585 |
[WP] Guy/Gal comes home from brothers Funeral. Sits down to play a video game and finds a savegame left by the dead brother. | I was too drained to slam the door. I could still feel tears under my chin, hanging there. My eyes stung and my hands were shaking. The house seemed colder as I climbed the stairs and approached his room.
For a while I just stood there in the doorway, taking in the room. The white walls looked grey in the dull light p... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 13,164 |
[CC] Mea Culpa | "God fucking damn it!" The words tear at his throat as he screams to a mute Creator. His soul rips into tiny pieces. He struggles to breathe as his entire body shudders with every breath. The memories come more forceful than before, and he relives the night in his drunken descent into the abyss.
The way John looked at... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 27,534 |
[WP] The last thing anyone ever invented. | Adrian stared at his creation with a smile. Placing his hand against its aluminum casing, he gave it a ceremonial tap. The metallic casing echoed through the building.
The echo seemed to enhance how empty the lab actual was. It had been weeks since the last of his colleagues had gone home. Actually it would have been l... | 7 | 0 | 8 | 138,773 |
[WP] The end justifies the memes. Yes, even Dickbutt. | The point of the internet is to allow for total democratization of speech. It is the culmination of a process began with the printing press. The internet is a valuable tool that gives a voice to the oppressed, a community to the isolated, and an infinite wealth of information that the individual can use to advance them... | 3 | 0 | 0 | 131,978 |
[WP] When you die, you become an extra in other people's dreams. The other people in your dreams are just dead people with nowhere else to go. | I only exist in the dreams of the living. Blips of consciousness here and there.. Dark Jungles. Large Cities. Weird Pornos. I get eaten by monsters, blown to smithereens in explosions, I walk in a loop in a crowd like a blip in the matrix. I am not aware of it's impermanence. During this REM cycle, this is the only lif... | 2 | 0 | 526 | 180,625 |
[WP] Someone begins feeling injuries before they happen. | "We're friends, right?" she smiled, looking over to him. He glanced back, barely seeming to notice what was going on until he saw that look in her eyes and smiled back.
"Sure, we're friends." he mused, turning back to his game.
The pair of them had been friends for years, but more and more recently she started to feel... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 103,883 |
[WP] Your significant other falls under a curse. Only true loves kiss can break the curse. You kiss your S/O and nothing happens. How do you react? | "It's Dave isn't it" I screamed trying to make sense of why my wife of 10 years was still struck by this curse.
"I'm sorry babe, but it isn't Dave. You are the only man that I have ever truly loved". Her statement seemed to cut through me like a cold winter's breeze. I had always considered myself very open minded, but... | 2 | 0 | 43 | 68,371 |
[WP]: Click "random", and study the subreddit you got. Write about your discoveries like a victorian wilderness explorer | David swallowed nervously as he tried to keep his hand with the microphone from shaking. This was a special find they had come across, and by accident as well. Shooting from a boat on a vast and deep river with the native jungle in the background and the setting sun turning the water a beautiful gold and crimson, the g... | 0 | 0 | 660 | 26,898 |
[WP] Create a story that starts out innocent, and gradually gets more and more disturbing. | Jim was taking a stroll through the forest. He was on a long and winding path and the sun shone brightly through the leaves above. There were others on the path ahead of him, others on the path behind. Some walked and in groups and talked with each other. They all knew they were going the right way, as they were follow... | 2 | 0 | 85 | 99,833 |
[WP] The recently passed law UN-334772G makes it an international crime to post online content which contains bad grammar. Describe your first day as a grammar police. | *They never tell you there's going to be paperwork. but there always is. Lots of paperwork. Close to no actual police work. I don't even know why I'm a police officer if this is what I do all day.* Jerry kept browsing, going from cesspool to cesspool, to the nicer places in cyberspace, to a different cesspool. *This is... | 5 | 0 | 106 | 161,276 |
[WP] You are a high school student studying radio waves in science class. When conducting an experiment using a radio, you accidentally tune into a station broadcasting ominous messages. | "Come. Asphalt. Inchoate." I was startled, the words came out of the radio at an alarming pace.
"Dude, you hear this?" I asked Fred, who was sitting next to me "Hear what?" he replied. "The radio is saying random words, man" Fred looked at me like I was hallucinating, and turned back to his own broken attempt at radio ... | 1 | 0 | 65 | 226,634 |
[WP] A Doctor considers breaking their oath to "Do No Harm." | I look up at the clock: **1:03 AM.** *It's my birthday for fucks sake. Someone else should be here...*
Just when I thought it would be an uneventful night of reviewing patient charts, the ER doors burst open. Four EMTs rush in, each at the corner of a stretcher.
"High speed motor vehicle accident. No time to explain. O... | 1 | 0 | 23 | 212,652 |
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