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[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | I’m having an unsettling dream. Something about running, about being chased, but I can’t remember what it was when I wake up because something far more terrifying sits before my eyes. A man is sitting across the room in the rocking chair and staring at me. I scream bloody murder and look at the sleeping man next to me... | 2 | 0 | 41 | 10,800 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | I lie in my bed, not quite awake, not quite asleep. I turn from my side to my back and look up at a black, strange figure standing above me, with its long bony fingers pointed towards my heart. Panic start to rise inside of me, as I try to yell, but find that no sound can come from my mouth. Suddenly I hear a dark voic... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,801 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,802 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,803 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | "I did not mean to wake you Bob." A Gentlemen in his sixties, crouched next to my bed his eyes as big as saucers realizing his clumsiness
I reach over for my glasses on the nightstand and grab my phone to check the time. 3 AM. It's not uncommon for people to wake me in the middle of the night. I am the Company Firs... | 2 | 0 | 41 | 10,804 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | You'd think a stranger in your room at night would be frightening--but it wasn't. When Death stood over me that evening, there was no panic. An unfamiliar serenity shrouded the room. I was calm, and for some reason all I could think of was waves. Waves crashing against a black sand beach, until it spoke.
It's time... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,805 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | The same dream. Nightmare, really. I’m at home entertaining guests. All of my closest friends, my entire family, all there. We’re having a great time. Good food, good conversation. Just about as close to heaven as I’m like to get.
And then I go to the kitchen to grab some more drinks for the guests. I’m full of a cont... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,806 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | Flick.
Flick.
Garrett’s brow furrowed. He cracked an eye open, expecting to see his idiot roommate Nick. He’d be the one flicking him in the forehead to wake him, Garrett would have put money on it. He was not pleased.
“Nick, knock it the fu…”, his words cutting off when he processed what he saw. It wasn’t Nick. ... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,807 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | *Death leans in to touch me, when I wake up*
Me: Good night, what're you doing in my room?
Death: Oh, I wasn't expecting you to be awake. This is certainly awkward.
Me: Indeed it is but you've failed to answer the question.
Death: My apologies. My name is Death and my job is the same. I'm herd to collect w... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,808 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | "Hey" said Death.
"Not today" he replied. | 2 | 0 | 41 | 10,809 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | The lucid dream.
He is the monster of my nightmares
A fiend of a thousand faces.
All cower before his true form.
I bow down before the God of Death.
But not before letting steel upon the maws of terror. | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,810 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | I knew I was dreaming the second I felt *that* chill, that chill that always appeared with him. I turned around and saw exactly who I had been expecting, shrouded in darkness stood the creature I'd come to call death. He looked like nothing but a shadow, no features, no eyes, no mouth, or nose. But even so I could alwa... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,811 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | He wasn't scary, at least not outwardly. His face was pleasant, almost friendly. He looked at me with a sad smile, the kind you wear while waving goodbye to a loved one departing on a long journey. I struggled to open my mouth, desperately searching for the only words that could save me. Silence. My vocal cords were us... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,812 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | Fitfully tossing and turning, Juliette got twisted in the tangled mess that was her bedsheets. Whispers and long-forgotten voices rang through her mind in the dead hour of three o'clock. A figure stood at her doorway, chilling the air with his presence and from his rotting jaws, a rasping hiss, it's cloaked arms lifti... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,813 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | "Is this real life? or this is a fantasy?" i ask to the beautiful woman standing in front of me. "None of the above, Abraham. We're in a place you can call 'the in-between'...", answered me with such angelic voice, i almost fell in love with her. "Do i know you?... wait a minute, i'm dreaming, right? And if i'm dream... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,814 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | "I've been waiting for you. You're very welcome." | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,815 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | Again.
*sleep paralysis, will I ever shift it*
It was the third night in a row that I had felt the familiar presence. The unpleasant touch, the terrible breath.
It seemed to loom about me. Not quite beside me or on top of me. Just there.
It pressed on my chest with one hand and caressed my face with the other.
*I d... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,816 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | "Oh shit," the hauty man said, looming over your bed.
"What?" You looked into his black eyes and saw your face reflected back.
"My fault, friend, didn't meana wake y'up an' stuff," he shuffled backwards toward your door. "Just uh, think about your Gramm's chicken parm or your eighth birthday when ya Dad surprised you... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,817 |
[WP] The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up. | “Hey!” I screeched as my eyes fluttered open.
“Oh.” He said with a confused look on his face.
“Oh? What do you mean oh?”
“You weren't supposed to wake up.”
“I wasn't supposed to wake up? Wake up from what?” The man took a couple of steps back as I jumped out of bed.
“You know. I have to... uh… *take you.*”
“Take ... | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10,818 |
Alien Invasion! One day alien ships appear in our skies. When they finally reveal themselves, they look to be human and they offer us cures to our diseases and the secret to instant interstellar space flight if we will just give them two little things... China and Megan Fox |
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[WP] A drug deal goes horribly wrong | It was a horrible nightmare. I was standing in front of the Senate Committee on Pharmeceutical Safety, staring down a panel of stern looking old puppets who passed for men. There were five of them, dressed in identical black robes and wearing identical, disapproving faces. Flashing lights bounced off their lined cheeks... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 10,820 |
[WP] A drug deal goes horribly wrong | "You got it?" I say as he emerges from the shadow. He's dressed as normal as one in this sort of business can be. "Yeah." He hands me a satchel. I open it, peeking inside. He speaks again. "All 500 doses are there. Now for the payment." I reach inside my jacket and pull out a wad of bills. "20,000 all here." He takes i... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 10,821 |
[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 drug deal goes horribly wrong | I knew I should have checked out the buyer. I got sloppy, but I'd prefer ever worst-case-scenario that had rushed through my head when that familiar car pulled up. The driver rolled down the window -- "Mom?" | 1 | 0 | 16 | 10,823 |
[WP] A drug deal goes horribly wrong | I looked at the case. Then I looked at him. He looked at me. Then at the case. It was a standard issue drug-drop briefcase: black leather outside, standard grey felt inside, dual four-number tumbler latches, and a sturdy shiny nickle plated handle. As stylish in the office as it is in the alley!
Except in the office i... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 10,824 |
[WP] Columbus sails west to find a faster route to get to India. Instead he discovers a new world, with a civilization several centuries ahead technologically. | (1493)
As I know you will be rejoiced at the glorious success that our Lord has given me in my voyage, I write this to tell you how in thirty-three days I sailed to the Indies with the fleet that the illustrious King and Queen, our Sovereigns, gave me, where I discovered a great many islands, inhabited by numberless p... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 10,825 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | I heard God's voice and I stopped praying. Why pray, when all your questions have been answered? | 5 | 0 | 22 | 10,826 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | Suddenly I realized what all of this meant. And I couldn't stop laughing. | 15 | 0 | 22 | 10,827 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | [deleted] | 11 | 0 | 22 | 10,828 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | It was as if all of the questions I have had, or will have, had been answered. I could finally have peace. | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10,829 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | I didn't know where I was going. But I came. | 3 | 0 | 22 | 10,830 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 22 | 10,831 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | I can smell wisdom. I no longer think this is air I am breathing. | 3 | 0 | 22 | 10,832 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | I realized how silent everything was without my heartbeat banging away. When I closed my eyes that last time, it felt like I was being squeezed through a tube, suffocating, until a hand held me up by my feet and slapped my naked bottom. | 3 | 0 | 22 | 10,833 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | The lsd was working its way into my psyche, coursing through my head and into my eyes and skin, crawling along my tongue and seeping into my smile, when somebody said it; "Nothing matters." The sound kicked through my skull like a bullet, making sparks and shocking neurons all through my head and into my very soul wher... | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10,834 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | The practice of meditation is like polishing a mirror.
The state of Enlightenment is realizing there is no mirror. | 9 | 0 | 22 | 10,835 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | Cars crashed, screams, my eyes opened. It was only a dream. | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10,836 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | I opened my eyes for the first time. I could see everything. | 3 | 0 | 22 | 10,837 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | I smiled. It felt right, so I continued. | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10,838 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | Why should you be scared to talk to a anyone? They have a mom and dad too | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10,839 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | My mind was racing. Until now. | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10,840 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | There was everything. And yet it was nothing. | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10,841 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | And that was when I realized, that everyone was just as scared as I was. | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10,842 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | Then I came a little way again to see the true sun.
After that, I was never without it, without knowledge that everything is a star reflecting it. | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10,843 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | My journey has begun. I have a direction. | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10,844 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | In that instant, everything became obvious, I was all all three points of every iteration of duality. I was the cause, the motion and the effect of every decision i had ever made, and I had complete control of my life if only I had embraced it so. And so it was that I embraced the earth rushing towards me, I am home. | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10,845 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body. A free soul dwells only within possibility. | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10,846 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | My entire life had been lived under the guise that doing the right thing for others meant sacrificing doing the right thing for me. And then slowly, but in a way that left no doubt, I realized that the only person holding me back now, was me. | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10,847 |
[FF] You experience enlightenment/awakening, in two sentences | At that very moment, I could see it all before me.
I gazed at the star spangled sky and realized us existing is meaningless. | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10,848 |
[WP] Three cowboys and the long road home | Willy: "Hey Joe, I spy with my little eye, something brown."
Joe: "I said this before and I will say it again, George and I do not want to play I fucking Spy."
Willy: "Oh, come on guys, if you play this time I won't play it again until we hit San Francisco!"
George: "Fine, Willy. Is it the road?"
Willy: "No."
Joe:... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10,849 |
[WP] Three cowboys and the long road home | These roads were much better traveled when I was younger. I remember getting into the back of my folks station wagon with the wood grain trim and we would just drive for what seemed like weeks. My sister and I would play those games that Mom and Dad would act interested in. We would keep track of license plates and ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10,850 |
[WP] Three cowboys and the long road home | Ned closed the lid of his canteen and packed it away, his eyes tracking the unbroken line of the northern horizon. From here he could see clear across the plains to Oklahoma. *Maybe even to Kansas,* Ned joked to himself, *if I were a taller man.* Another distant flash of wiry light, farther away this time. "Rain's ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10,851 |
The villain defeats the hero but turns out to be correct in their twisted viewpoint |
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The villain defeats the hero but turns out to be correct in their twisted viewpoint | Doctor S could only stand in disbelief as the Big Apple's head landed squarely on the concrete. He had certainly been confident he could win the battle. But it wasn't supposed to be that *easy*. There was no effort expended. His nemesis had been crushed.
The twitch of a writing hand proved that the people's hero was d... | 12 | 0 | 8 | 10,853 |
[WP] You were a twin, but the other died at birth. Their soul exists within you and now they are trying to take over your body. Describe your struggle to keep/regain control of your body. | I know I shouldn't have stolen it ok?! I'm the one who survived, and it's my body, so I make the decisions!
Jeeze, I'm sorry. I know that was a low blow. Look, it's just that the whole Kleptomania thing is a coping mechanism. Like on Breaking Bad you know? You remember, we watched it together. God, I think that was la... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 10,854 |
[WP] You were a twin, but the other died at birth. Their soul exists within you and now they are trying to take over your body. Describe your struggle to keep/regain control of your body. | It had been a while since Chetare had last taken over. Normally this would be a welcome relief for Cara, but there was something odd about this particular time.
"Chetare?" Cara whispered. Her mind was met with silence. She couldn't even hear Chetare's thought process and this bothered her greatly. She and her sister a... | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10,855 |
[WP] You were a twin, but the other died at birth. Their soul exists within you and now they are trying to take over your body. Describe your struggle to keep/regain control of your body. | “Why do you keep doing this?” Zach shouts at the bloodstained mirror.
“She was dragging us down,” Aeron says breathlessly from behind the glass. This one was a fighter. That might be fun for a larger man, but the body Aeron and Zach share isn’t ponderous enough for that.
“Dragging us down? She believed us! She was tr... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 10,856 |
[WP] Write about a near-death experience. | Sitting there, tears were streaming down my face. All I could think of was how unfair I thought it was. I had tried so hard, but I had failed, I couldn't do it. Wiping away the tears I put the gun away and tried to act as if I wasn't at my worst as I walked to answer the door. Maybe next time I will be able to end it. ... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10,857 |
[WP] Write about a near-death experience. | The tightrope was my defining moment. I have always been afraid. Of spiders, of lizards, of diseases far and wide, of god, of death, of the unknown. The worst of all my fears was my fear of heights. Anything higher than the steps to my front door were too high. Roller-coasters made me want to vomit just by looking at t... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10,858 |
[WP] Your conscious self is just one of many consciousnesses trapped in your head, all observing your singular subconsciousness's actions but each taking credit for them. Detail the various thoughts from each. | When I was a teenager, I used to love writing. I had an overactive imagination and it was the perfect escape. I had millions of words at my disposal, enough words to create universes inside my head. I created many scenarios and many characters specific to each one. For every character I made, I put a little bit of myse... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 10,859 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Slowly Jack began to unzip his pants. In his mind, he could hear the heat in her voice; the pur in her breathing as it gently invoked a sense of calm and mettled excitement that began to tingle from the back of his spine to his crotch. Soft warm breath escaped his lips. He could feel it in his loins now. Jack closed hi... | 3 | 0 | 87 | 10,860 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | 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 an... | 17 | 0 | 87 | 10,861 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | "I can't believe you're going to do this..." he wept, looking into the eyes of the man about to kill him. "I trusted you, I did everything you said!". The man stared back, full of emotion and yet, an unwavering determination shown across his thin lips. His reply hissed through them like steam escaping a pipe. "You did ... | 68 | 0 | 87 | 10,862 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | She was stopped on a darkened road.
There was a high pitched whine in her ears like she had been to a show,
and her phone wouldn't stop ringing.
She wasn't going to be able to answer it now. How could she?
Through the warm wetness dripping down her face she couldn't even see it.
Their argument had been explosive, it a... | 7 | 0 | 87 | 10,863 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | The priest straightened his clothes and took a deep breath. He prayed to God for help under his breath. He watched pensively as the boy approached him.
When the child walked up in front of him, the priest cleared his throat and said with a shaking voice, "Hello my son. God bless you for coming to pray. What is it tha... | 74 | 0 | 87 | 10,864 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Zevra examined her wristphone and re-read the messages from Tony. She giggled as she read the joke from this afternoon. "Oh Tony," she said to herself as she dialed someone by gently moving her wrist and selecting an entry by blinking her eyes.
"Hi Jenny, oh nothing. Just nervous about meeting Tony for the first ti... | 12 | 0 | 87 | 10,865 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | She hammered on the glass. "Don't lose sight of me! I've been stuck in here for what seems like forever! Can you *please* get someone?" Her eyes were pleading, and she looked worn and very, very tired.
The technician seemed bored, really. He was new, and the lab's experiments were novel at first but started to be... | 6 | 0 | 87 | 10,866 |
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[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | The murderer stood over him, taunting him with questions - delaying the inevitable. He lost his only support, his friends were far from gone. He was weaponless against this formidable foe. The fresh wounds still burning much like his hatred deep inside - but he was powerless. This man slaughtered his father and now... | 10 | 0 | 87 | 10,869 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Andrew opened his eyes. Again. He got up, and shuffled into his work pants, again. He'd had that dream again. He'd dreamt about how it was raining ash, like all his dreams, and he was walking to the bus stop to suffer through another work day. His muscles screamed at him from under his skin, telling him to turn around,... | 3 | 0 | 87 | 10,870 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Ashley hesitated to agree to meet her on-and-off again boyfriend, Rick, at the park. She felt it was either time for them to get serious or just break it off for good. They've known each other for almost ten years and have, at some point, dated for almost the entire time. Deep down, she wanted to just be done with this... | 11 | 0 | 87 | 10,871 |
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[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Roger had been waiting for this moment his whole life. He reveled in the costume, a twill suit designed for some hopeful up and comer. The heat was almost unbearable and the lights threatened to burst through the heavy curtains. Everyone around him was too busy to notice Roger as he had harnessed himself to the pull... | 3 | 0 | 87 | 10,873 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | June studied the face of the little girl from the box--Pandora's Box. She wasn't the monster the legend said she was. Sure, she wanted to destroy the world, but it was her job. There was no malice in her. They had shot her joints full of arrows, smashed her in the face with a cannon ball, put out her eyes with a lance ... | 3 | 0 | 87 | 10,874 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | “God damn it Johnson.”
“What did I do?”
“You know damn well what you did.”
“Seriously Johnson, what the fuck is wrong with you?”
“Oh come on you guys gotta admit it’s pretty funny.”
“I would, except fuck you, clean it up, that’s disgusting.”
“Yeah we live here man, we don’t want that kind shit floating arou... | 3 | 0 | 87 | 10,875 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | A man sat in his living room, brooding. He absently crushed a handful of snacks, letting the dust sift from his hands, he popped the unbroken bits into his mouth. He was preoccupied- as was so often the case- brutally analyzing the corpus of his life's work thus far. Once, he had been on everyone's lips, lauded for ... | 2 | 0 | 87 | 10,876 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | “All right, just act natural, these kids are all just nice kids. They probably are just as nervous as I am.” The man thought. He sat in a nicely pressed suit. He was starring at the young innocent faces sitting in front on him in the classroom, all of them staring back right back at him. “The kids must be impressed by ... | 5 | 0 | 87 | 10,877 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Slightly out-of-focus, the plummeting single engine plane became clear as day after I put back on my glasses. It was barreling right towards me but I couldn't move, glued to my seat, filled with suspense, waiting for the inevitable. Then I heard it. The puttering of the engine. It restarted! The pilot yanked back on th... | 3 | 0 | 87 | 10,878 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Alfie paced the room, sick with worry.
*Where is she? She should be back by now. *
He knew exactly why she was gone. The night before and she had screamed bloody murder, pushed him out of bed and demanded he sleep downstairs.
*What did I do?*
His mind went to last night’s dinner. She had made his favou... | 4 | 0 | 87 | 10,879 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | The man spat a dry spit and the bloodred sun shone weak upon the barren landscape while the horses brutalized and violated a group of nurslings roasting over a spitfire, death and rape a joke and a morally ambiguous bald man made profound statements and the Comanche riders came down like some brown army and shot pissso... | 7 | 0 | 45 | 10,880 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | One boob, two boob, three boob, four.
Mike likes five boobs let's have more.
Six boobs, seven boobs, next comes eight.
Mike likes nine boobs let's watch him date. | 19 | 0 | 45 | 10,881 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | “Please, you gotta help me or I’m spaced.”
It started with the line most schmucks feed me in one form or another. They turn up at my door disheveled, pale as ghosts, throwing glances over shoulder as they scurry inside and lock the door behind.
They smell like shit because they haven’t showered in days and they’ve be... | 9 | 0 | 45 | 10,882 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | I drank, drank the juice like a hippy smoking weed, whilst taking speed. I couldn't help it. Training for this marathon was killing me, I've never felt more alive. | 3 | 0 | 45 | 10,883 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | Stevyn walked into the banquet hall, carefully balancing his serving tray on his left shoulder and hand. He moved slowly around the room, giving glasses to new guests and refilling the old ones with their choice of either dark crimaon or brilliant amber wine. As he moved around, he noticed the fare: ducks stuffed with ... | 6 | 0 | 45 | 10,884 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | Jesus, that's a thing to request. Where do I begin? Well, it was getting dark - no, it was dark, that much I can say.
We were carrying large crates of beer into the hotel room when the thought occurred to me that we were missing limes. I asked one of the girls who had driven with us where they were. She dismissed my ... | 6 | 0 | 45 | 10,885 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | dum a tiddle te dum te deum all day longer thnought Alice a leaf fallinger alongside a lonesome bride a loathesomer rideaway in anotherday. bemused being amused but beambushed and mushedby being bemushroomed the betrothed bebothered and tottle tittered by the beingriver then began begreiving belabored by betreighal. c... | 5 | 0 | 45 | 10,886 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | A young scholar sitting yonder,
At his desk, his mind does wander,
At ideas grown ever fonder,
Of his fleeing through the door.
Now his mind, so set on reeling,
Does recall the precious feeling,
Of the kisses he's been stealing,
But alas, he yearns for more.
I'm super tired and don't want to continue, but you should ... | 5 | 0 | 45 | 10,887 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | I don't know if I should've felt responsible for breaking up their happy relationship. But she just made me so damn happy that I felt like there was nothing else but her. Gosh, I wish you could see her. She was sort-of upset at me for accidentaly intruding and showing her how much of a damn phony her ex- was but that w... | 1 | 0 | 45 | 10,888 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | My heart skipped a beat when I saw her standing by the door of the classroom. She was tall and lean, her skin broiled to a tawny tan that make the freckles on her face and shoulders stand out. As she walked up to the front desk to hand her permission slip in, her copper red hair, matted into long dreadlocks decorated... | 1 | 0 | 45 | 10,889 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | Half of perhaps it was so--no, more than a half, a half half--but no matter if there were infinite halves, an endless skyscraper of words, it could not be so, *would* not be so, the rightness inside him was sure. Because the rightness inside his mind he knew that nothing could be so, inside the rightness strong, the ri... | 1 | 0 | 45 | 10,890 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | A stark contrast was struck between the sky and the water by the dark ripple of the poison cloud above it
The water so placid and the sky seemingly torn apart by the explosions aftermath
The man wandered away from the shore coughing but still very mobile no longer curious about his own destiny
Why would they do this... | 1 | 0 | 45 | 10,891 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | Paranoid - they drape my weary cries, exclamations of an educated mind, in exquisite explanations, intent on restricting my elementary observations. I lash at their less than subtle attempts at relaying these lies, tarnishing their own word, with each expression of good enduring. They put me in the well, a wash of whit... | 1 | 0 | 45 | 10,892 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | It’s funny how a single click could change your life, just like how you clicked on this very prompt and you wound up rather disappointed, as opposed to *not* having clicked this prompt and going merrily about your day, never having been aware of the pain and despair hidden within this page.
There is no definite cure ... | 3 | 0 | 45 | 10,893 |
[WP] Write a short piece in the style of a famous author. Others can guess who you're imitating. | I sat in the office as my co workers cried over the shooting at the local school while pondered what I needed to buy for dinner. I offered mark a tissue. He had just lost his son and was sobbing at my desk. | 1 | 0 | 45 | 10,894 |
[CW] "Fun Fact: you are dead." | "HELLO."
"Uh, hello there. Are... you... are you...*glup* Death?"
"I AM, YOU'VE BEEN WANTING TO MEET WITH ME FOR SOME TIME NOW, HAVEN'T YOU?"
"Well, yes but I am starting to think I might of been wrong about this."
"IT'S TOO LATE FOR REGRETS NOW, SIR. YOU HAVE ALREADY ENTERED MY DOMAIN. COME IT IS TIME FOR-"
"No, ... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 10,895 |
[CW] "Fun Fact: you are dead." | I was sat on a bench. It was made of marshmallows. The sky was a clear blue and the Sun shone down like the burning summer skies of my childhood in Texas. The scenery around me was trees and countryside, pictures from my youth in England. My first love, tall, handsome, smooth talker, leaned against a tree in front of m... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 10,896 |
[CW] "Fun Fact: you are dead." | The first thing I noticed about the mysterious girl with the welcoming smile was that she was in no way a gun barrel. I had been staring a particularly threatening one down moments before. I'd like to think my surprise was appropriate. The fact was (in retrospect) hilariously terrifying before I realized the myriad of ... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10,897 |
[WP] Write slam poetry about something unusual for the genre. | I wrote this a few days ago: when you're reading it, please do so aloud.
It's that kind of fight
Like we've walked in, chosen our seats
And our words so we can meet
In anger and let the curtain draw back
Like a Wild West film
With no gun-slingers, only accusations slinging
And a mention of a co-star
That onl... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 10,898 |
[WP] A film made in 1971 surfaces -- and quickly goes viral -- of L. Ron Hubbard and a small coterie of friends laughing at the success of "Dianetics" and Scientology, and poking fun at the millions of adherents. You're Tom Cruise and an aide has just shown you the film. | "Your fired. Security will escort you to gather your belongings before escorting you off the property." was all I said as the video finished playing. Walking away from Alex, I was furious mostly because I had like Alex. He had been so good at his job and was a good person, but to insult my religion with that hoax video... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 10,899 |
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