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[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | The rocking chair creaks back and forth,.
I suppose I had this coming.
A barrel is raised, held between the old man's two eyes. They don't look at the gleaming metal, but instead at the face of the one holding it.
He's young, fresh-faced and by all appearances, barely out of his twenties. His image blurs with that o... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,700 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | The hood is ripped off of my head, and the sunlight burns my eyes … it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the sun and felt the breeze on my face. A slight aroma of sulphur and days old fire reaches my nostrils and gives me hope, maybe something has changed, maybe there is hope.
My eyes adjust to the light and I sca... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,701 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,702 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | Oh my god, I've been looking forward to this all week. Payday Friday at my favorite restaurant with my fellow salesmen.
I gulp my beer and laugh as Greg tells another absurd story from the work week. I needed it. It's so damn hot in here. Manny's Steakhouse is usually pretty hot, but this is ridiculous. I loosen my ti... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,703 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | The chair is harder then I imagined. I can look over to my left though my neck is pretty stiff, but I can still see him out of the corner of my eye. I can see him through the slit in the wall. Just his eyes and brow. Not much else. Then I hear another voice. You have been condemned to die by a jury of your peers, sen... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,704 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | The stiff rope is wrapped tightly around my wrists holding my hands together behind my back. My knees dig into the soft dirt beneath me. My heart is beating so fast I feel dizzy, almost high, with fear and confusion. A circle of six men stand around me. Most of them are holding machine gun. A couple of them are holding... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,705 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | Do you know why your life flashes before your eyes in a near-death experience? It's not some religious thing, it's not God 'showing you the good times'. It's actually science.
You remember the time you tripped on the sidewalk, so you threw your arms out in front of you to catch yourself. It was your brain remembering ... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,706 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | "you knew the terms of our agreement, Mr.Niclai"
The man paces back and forth in front of the chair where I am bound. I take in the smell of my own breath. The warehouse smells like sweat and asbestos. The man doesn't seem to care. He gently grins and says "The deal was you bring me the head of Charles m. Johnson, as w... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,707 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | I understand, the chuckle that leaves my torn lips as she cracks them again in defiance with her tiny yet strong hands. She is shouting at deaf ears, her words an inaudible muffle under my roaming thoughts. The salty taste in my mouth as I imagine the way those that might find me after will question the way my wrists a... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,708 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | Our final fight is today. Only one of us will survive and I know it won't be me. Our treaty of peace has been terminated. I'm no longer invited to the parties, tournaments, and races we used to have. I can see him closing in now. He kills my men, my friends, as he approaches. This is all my fault...if only I hadn't...n... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,709 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | Not many men know exactly the moment they're going to die. Only death row inmates and the man hurtling toward the pavement have that luxury. Life is such a gift, but I doubt Adam read the terms and conditions before he accepted it.
It truly is a luxury to know exactly how many seconds you have left to live. I know th... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,710 |
[WP] You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | They've been watching me for too long; they've given the game away.
It's okay, I've had a good run. My antics have gone on long enough. I've had some fun, made some friends, seen some pretty cool things.
Still, all good things must come to an end. I only wish my family could have known my real occupation.
They st... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,711 |
[WP] Not long after peaceful contact with aliens (space or otherwise), a small change is made for the aliens’ benefit. | B'tr'x (or, to the humanoids, Batraxa), was feeling, as close as could be aproximated, smug. A hyperspatial junction had been established with this nearby sentient world at an amazing cost to the homespace. The profits to be had were quite wonderful; mostly genetic diversity and a set of novel minds to bounce ideas o... | 4 | 0 | 10 | 12,712 |
[WP] A very serious scene as directed by Looney Toons | Wife: I want a divorce.
*Husband sets up a shit ton of Acme explosives/rockets and aims them all at her* | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12,713 |
[WP] A very serious scene as directed by Looney Toons | It was spring time in the city. Spring, the season where visitors come to love, and drink, and swim in the pools of each others eyes. Not us though. We know better. We know what spring time means...He is coming back.
Us girls are warned, always, about his return in the spring. Be careful, our elders will say, for onc... | 12 | 0 | 5 | 12,714 |
[WP] A very serious scene as directed by Looney Toons | The Captain has lost it.
My thought, along with those of the entire precinct. "Ridiculous," someone whispered. "Job stress," said another.
We stood along the highway, watching as a crew of Hollywood background artists balanced on ladders, dangling cans of paint while airbrush compressors hissed.
The Captain beame... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12,715 |
[WP] A very serious scene as directed by Looney Toons | Hunger.
Hunger is all I feel anymore.
How long have I pursued him? I can't remember when this all began anymore. Has it always been like this? I can't remember doing anything but chase him.
I tried to think back to my days in school. Such promise I held. "Gifted" my teachers called me. I was meant for greate... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 12,716 |
[WP] A newly enlisted, seventeen year old private is one of the first people into Iraq in 2003. Explain how he changes and where he is at now. | Everyone wants to be a hero. That's how they sold it to us, anyway.
The first thing that hits you is the heat. Like a brick wall to the face. Like a freight train to the lungs. Knocks the air out and when you breathe back in, it's like the oxygen's on fire. The second thing that hits you is the smell. I heard Baghda... | 12 | 0 | 17 | 12,717 |
[WP] A newly enlisted, seventeen year old private is one of the first people into Iraq in 2003. Explain how he changes and where he is at now. | Just a note: a 17 could not be among the first into Iraq. 17 year olds cannot be deployed to combat zones. He would have to be 18 before he could be deployed to combat. | 2 | 0 | 17 | 12,718 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Are you alive?
She asks from her warm room
I can imagine the bottle of wine
Rolling between her fingers
But only once she puts the spliff down
I'm walking in the rain
Uphill in the dark
I'm pissed, she says
I already know
I remember the messy hug before I left
Love you kitty, she signs off
... | 18 | 0 | 30 | 12,719 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Where are you?
Ive been searching for so long
My mind strugled while my heart stumbled
There you are
Happy in his arms | 3 | 0 | 30 | 12,720 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | My most resent text reads"anal seepage."..... I'll skip this one. | 17 | 0 | 30 | 12,721 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Do you love me?"
"Nope!"
Hard to make a love story with so much rejection. | 8 | 0 | 30 | 12,722 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Bro," you text
in a virtual breath,
"let's play Civ at Ben's today?"
Sure thing, bro. Sure thing.
Civ and friendship all the way.
| 23 | 0 | 30 | 12,723 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | My heart aches
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
It's just too easy
I just love to watch you
"We'll talk later"
Those three cursed words
The worst so far that I have heard
We'll talk later
and I'll have to lie
I can't bear to love you
but I can bear to make you cry | 6 | 0 | 30 | 12,724 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Here is the contact info
Please be careful with it though
Because with it you can reach
My soul and thus breach
My hearts affections
| 9 | 0 | 30 | 12,725 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | A picture says a thousand words, or so everyone says
Though I can't see a caption that'd make you mean less
You made my pants buzz
to a computer I rushed
Because you'd sent an MMS
But I can only get texts. | 17 | 0 | 30 | 12,726 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, mon cœur?
I wish I spoke French, or knew any French words
Or knew how they rhymed, so I could respond
With anything other than :P Le croissant
I'm unsure what she meant, my Internet's down
So I'll just assume it's a joke and say "non" | 4 | 0 | 30 | 12,727 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Haha" you exclaimed, artificially so
With phone in hand, how could I feel this low.
My, how technology has separated you from me
But you're never far, with a comment or three
To lift my spirits in a strange platonic way.
You see, you're my boss but also my friend
If HR caught wind they'd be surely be on the m... | 6 | 0 | 30 | 12,728 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | I'll be home soon.
Lost time since I last saw you,
breath measures breath,
each passing moment
stretching further,
more painfully
Because home travels with you.
When you leave,
the open door stays open.
Everything passes through
except for me:
an empty room leaking silence,
dark until the opalescent ligh... | 8 | 0 | 30 | 12,729 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,730 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | His hands reached out
the message within would leave no doubt
it wasn't the words he longed to read
but in the end it would be all right:
"Black Sabbath won best metal performance at the
Grammy's Last night"
| 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,731 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Woah" was what her text said. I was too chicken and too in love with her to admit these things too her face. That beautiful, perfectly symmetrical face. I had known her since we were children, two little souls running free. We'd left our homes at the same time, heading down different paths.
"I hope that's a good woa... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,732 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "You guys just drinking tonight?"
Just drinking. As if this carefully plotted descent,
like drowning in dramnesic, is simple, as if
it isn't a way to forget-
oh, damn your smile.
| 4 | 0 | 30 | 12,733 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | I'm so fucking hungry.
Hungry for your body, your touch.
Your embrace and your love.
I'm so fucking hungry. | 4 | 0 | 30 | 12,734 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,735 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | I mildly enjoy your company more than each ex wife,
More than Tammy one or Tammy two.
It causes me a great deal of unnecessary strife,
But Leslie says a love poem will help me reconnect to you.
So, here it is, plain as a wood's fine grain,
I hope this is nice and plain.
I appreciate our relationship,
And want us... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,736 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Actually" he lead
"my neighbors have med"
The skip of heartbeat
jump 'to the drivers seat
"I'll let you know soon"
Edit: spacing
| 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,737 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Sitting alone without a friend to be found,
No one to talk to, there's no one around,
Suddenly a text, Oh somebody Cares,
to message me asking about my affairs,
'*Hi From Orange*.' It's my network provider,
Sending me a text with another advertiser,
'*Two for one tickets for the cinema tonight*',
If someone was ... | 7 | 0 | 30 | 12,738 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Feeling from the depths of my bosom
Spreading from now to infinity
I know I must somehow overcome
A hunger grows from within me
I thought in my mind doth blossom
Soon perhaps, the hour is nigh
The hunger grows stronger
I must know where to dine.
I can't wait any longer
Pizza buffet for six ninety-nine.
| 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,739 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | There she sits across the room
My heart is throbbing, thudding, boom
And time truly seems to zoom
When she looks at me.
The sun is glinting off her hair
And her perfume invades the air
And my temperature flares
When she smiles at me.
But I've never thought of myself highly
So when she winks at me quite slyly
... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,740 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "I've been working full blast"
He says, and I can feel
The turbulence of his hands
Over the keyboard,
Like last night, over my back,
My neck, my arms, my chest,
How my heart soared,
And I need that touch,
That release, the feeling
Of being intimate with someone so perfect...
"I can't wait to see you."
Like h... | 0 | 0 | 30 | 12,741 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Then you write 1 as a sinx"
I said as I slid my hand under her waist
"You do the same with tangent"
I whispered, as our touch became more tangible
"Go figure what to do next."
EDIT: Not very mathematical, because it really was "Write 1 as sin ^2 x + cos ^2 x " and that did not ... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,742 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | “Yea, I’m sorry for worrying, but you are my friend so I can’t help it.”, he said. He always knew how to put me at ease. As I looked into the colorless glow emanating from my phone screen I smirked remembering the gentle manner in which he would wipe away my tears time and time again. I don’t blame him for worrying abo... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,743 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | It's my first time positing anything substantial here. I hope you like it.
My thoughts raced
I'd shared too much
My scars were visible
Dried, black blood
Faintly discernible
In the puckered edges
Of the psychic wounds.
I reached out to him
Confessed my pain
Waited in an agony of fear
Watching the phone
St... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,744 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Step out & call asap"
The simple message read
While I had tried to trap
Events last night in bed.
Outside I dialed her phone;
She texted me to say
To hastiness she's prone;
the love's not there to stay. | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,745 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | The bored technician
fills another prescription
She daydreams of him
His sexy smile drives her wild
The telephone rings. It's him!
Her heart skips a beat
at the sound of his deep voice
Do you want to date?
she wants to say, but only
"your script is ready" comes out
| 3 | 0 | 30 | 12,746 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | As I opened my phone book
I saw some words which I mistook
To be loved, touched, and kissed
These are feelings I have missed
But alas, I couldn't have it all
The message read, "You have 1 missed call(s)"
So I sit here all alone
With just one text, in my new phone | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,747 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | We are without milk
A horrible tragedy
Please buy some more, thanks | 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,748 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "I hate public."
That's what you said.
You're antisocial at times.
"I hate real pants."
You said this too.
That's something we both agree on.
"I hate my mother in law."
She's not my mother in law.
However, I agree that she is a bitch.
"I hate the cold."
Me too, unless it's summer.
Even then I kind of hate it a litt... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,749 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | yeah sounds good she said
the dawn of a new romance
awakens inside | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,750 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | When she was here
I held her, most dear
Now she is gone,
I am but one,
My skin's like to peel...
No, no. Let it heal.
"let it heal" - Dad, in response to me complaining typing is painful since I sliced the end off my finger. Thanks for the short prompt. | 1 | 0 | 30 | 12,751 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | "Ok great cool."
Three positive affirmations,
Are the overkill on your lips,
But they fall like eager kisses,
And I trip to catch every one.
| 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,752 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Ma'am?
So polite, he mocks me.
I can imagine his smile
Or smirk, rather
As he questions me
One of my best friends.
I loved him once
But time reveals things you'd never guess
My best friend is gay
But he still calls me ma'am. | 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,753 |
[WP] Write a love poem inspired by your most recently received text message. | Major accident on 1-495 NB/IL.
I get these messages all the time.
I usually ignore them.
But today,
I reread
and reread
and reread
and reread
and read
and read
and reread the message
until it means nothing to me,
until I don't think of you driving to see me
because I wasn't feeling well.
I'm not feeling w... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 12,754 |
[WP] Tell a story about sentient molecules in a thunderstorm. | Fucking ozone. Always hanging around lightning. Damn groupies. They can't give us regular O2 molecules a break, can they? We want to have one fun party with water vapor- she's a cook chick, ya know? I mean, she's a bit moody and she's either attracted to you or she isn't but damn- those two hydrogens look so juicy. She... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,755 |
[WP] In the future androids have organic parts and humans have technological parts, write about the first person whose original form is undeterminable. | "Look, do me a favor, and tell me where you found this body."
"Out in the Prebomb Slums, close to the scrapyard. Our sensors picked up a major structural collapse, so we swooped in to see if we could salvage anything. We found the poor thing inside a warehouse that was smashed by a tower. The organics were still warm ... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 12,756 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | I knew the clerk was lying. I knew- if you go to Safeway and ask for black candles at 3 a.m. they're going to tell you they sold out. It's not like I was doing dark magic or anything, I just needed to summon a Raven. He was a friend of mine, and a perfectly nice bird. For crying its loud this wasn't even magic proper!... | 16 | 0 | 38 | 12,757 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | "I'm sorry, sir, but this property has already been bought"
"What? That can't be right. I saw this property was for sale two days ago!"
"No sir, that would be the one down the street. They do look very similar."
"Bullshit. I drove past this house before and it clearly stated "FOR SALE: $180"
"It was a first-come-fi... | 37 | 0 | 38 | 12,758 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 38 | 12,759 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | One thing was for sure was that I was running out of time. I glanced at her again. Small white teeth, that contrasted with her tan skin and dark hair. They were covered facetious smile that never reached her eyes, which were an interesting amber in color.
I sighed, annoyed, and reiterated "I'm looking for the *blue c... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,760 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out."
"What do you mean sold out? How the *fuck* can you be sold out of dead bodies?!"
"Sir, I apologize but there seems to be a shortage of deaths lately."
BANG
"Ain't no fucking shortage no more... *bitch*." | 0 | 0 | 38 | 12,761 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 38 | 12,762 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | Pity and disgust, or at least my versions of them, is what I felt. Pathetic, isn't it? How a man's macho facade crumbles when he's close to losing something he has for so long taken for granted. His woman, his job or his life. It's quite the spectacle when he loses all 3 in quick succession.
He sat in chains and in hi... | 7 | 0 | 38 | 12,763 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [slightly NSFW.]
"We're out of Doze, Pim."
"What? You can't be fucking serious! I need it!"
"I'm sorry, girl. The government convoy was attacked by rebels and never made it to the city."
"...fuck. Are you sure you're all dry? Don't you have any hidden stash or shit like that, for rainy days?"
"No, Pim. And you sho... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,764 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | They knew this would happen, the people in charge. It always happens when you make a thing *necessary.* It's exactly what they wanted.
The clerk stared across the counter.
I swiped my card. Yellow. No surprises there.
"I'm sorry sir, we're sold out."
Bullshit. They had plenty. Not for a yellow. Greens, maybe. T... | 2 | 0 | 38 | 12,765 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 38 | 12,766 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | "I am sorry but the thing you were looking for is sold out. You can place an order for a new one, we're expecting to take delivery of new stock early next week," the smug reply hung in the air.
"Are you sure you have nothing in the back store room, an old display model maybe? It's for my wife, she needs it, I'm good f... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,767 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | It almost seemed as if today would come and go as any other, untouched by fate and destined to pass unnoticed. It was a frigid day, and Terry could almost hear his chapped lips crack in the bitter winter air. He stepped into his car and pulled out his mobile phone.
“Call Sarah.”
“Calling Sarah, mobile or home?”
“Mob... | 2 | 0 | 38 | 12,768 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | “I’m sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out.” The government agent on the other end of the phone had said the sentence softly, yet firmly. She said nothing more, careful not to waste her resources to reason with a desperate, dying man.
It couldn’t be. There was just no way. When the product first ... | 2 | 0 | 38 | 12,769 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 38 | 12,770 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | I stared across the counter, my face a perfect mix of surprise, disbelief, and fear. My heart was already racing before we came into this little town, hoping to find relief, but now it was beating so rapidly you could almost make out a constant 'ping' sound. It felt like it was about to leap right out of my chest, and ... | 8 | 0 | 38 | 12,771 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | You know when they first built the Replicators, everyone thought it was great. It was going to change the world, and boy it has. For starters, we live in a socialist utopia now. Everyone has control of the means of production. Sure, the old order tried to keep the Replicators off the street, but all it took was one... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,772 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,773 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | "This is an outrage! How can you be out of.....that's funny, I...I've forgoten what it was I came in here for!"
"Yes, that would be our Want Elimination Ray. Here at Halverson's, we strive to satisfy the customer 100%. To that end, if in the unfortunate event that we do not have something in stock, the Want Eliminatio... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,774 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,775 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 38 | 12,776 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | I couldn't describe the look on her face as she stared at me, but it reminded me of butter melting. I paused for a second, thinking if there was anything else I could do that I had forgotten about, but my brain was blanking from the pressure of being plunged into the deep end without someone to shadow my second day of ... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,777 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,778 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | My fingertips slide slowly up and own the warm material of the coffee mug next to me, while a cold breeze coming in though the slightly open kitchen window blows a small strand of my hair into my face.
Sighing I shake the blond frizzles away from my eyes before I turn the page of the daily newspaper.
The coffee mug a... | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12,779 |
[EU] "I always wondered how uruk-hai had any concept of what a 'menu' was" | Just an observer's note.
Having existed since *well* before the first age, I know a little something regarding this matter. You see, records from the ages past are scattered and rather rare. Few have survived into modern times, those who do possess these ancient writings have come by them mostly by luck or chance.
... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 12,780 |
[WP] Write about why and how the Nazca lines or something mysterious like that were created. | Late one night, the elders sat by the fire, long after everyone else fell asleep. *Strokes-His-Beard* raised an eyebrow and nudges *Thinks-Really-Hard* with his elbow. "You know what", he said. "I have just thought of the Grand Champion All-Time Troll...." | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12,781 |
[WP] Write about why and how the Nazca lines or something mysterious like that were created. | Those "silly" legends the humans invented about the Nazca lines have always had a grain of truth in them. It's true that we put them there, but the they were not to act as landing markers for our spacecraft. We put them there for a much simpler purpose, a sort of societal intelligence test.
We entrusted those simple ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12,782 |
[WP] Write the monologue of a hero or villian talking about their arch-nemesis: the reader. | "I've spent a long time drawing you in. Complex backstories, a mysterious past, convoluted schemes, and too many plot twists to count. I gave you a hero worth rooting for; not a perfect one, but one struggling with his own personal battles. I let him win. I let him lose. And you followed, wide-eyed, at every turn of th... | 13 | 0 | 11 | 12,783 |
[WP] Write the monologue of a hero or villian talking about their arch-nemesis: the reader. | Not so much to the reader, but to an audience. The scene is a man with powers, mutations, whatever, speaking for his fellow mutants to a religion through a local church
Eden crouched calmly and gently retrieved the crucifix from the stage, brushing the dust from its' face with his thumb. The long silver chain swung ge... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 12,784 |
[WP] Write the monologue of a hero or villian talking about their arch-nemesis: the reader. | Reader.
Long have I dreamed of the day when you and I are face to face like this, to implement my plan for your downfall.
You think that I am trapped by these words and these pages; that I’m constrained by this book I’m found in, but you give me power with every word you read. You can’t help but read on and I keep... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 12,785 |
[EU] After the LotR events, Samwise Gamgee was appointed Mayor of the Shire for nearly 50 years. Write about an eventful day for this Mayor. | "Something must be done about that damned Proudfoot lad, Samwise Gamgee!" bellowed Fredegar Bolger in an authoritative tone few would use against the mild mannered old hobbit. Startled awake from a long faded daydream of his youth, Sam stared at Fredegar's bulbous nose which seemed to fill half of Hobbiton Hall. It was... | 58 | 0 | 116 | 12,786 |
[EU] After the LotR events, Samwise Gamgee was appointed Mayor of the Shire for nearly 50 years. Write about an eventful day for this Mayor. | Dude that was awesome | 1 | 0 | 116 | 12,787 |
[WP] Two long time lovers woke up and realized they didn't love each other anymore. | Let me know if this is faux-pas for the sub. If so, I apologize, but you should read "The Hand" by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
Very cool short story that fits this prompt :) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,788 |
[OT] Are there any free online writing lectures or courses? | If you're interested in Fantasy and Sci-fi writing, or any writing at all really, you should check out www.writeaboutdragons.com
It has two lecture series from Brigham Young University taught by Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, and has a "Critique" section where you can submit your work. | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12,789 |
In a post-apocalyptic society, someone discovers an ancient machine that allows to fuse two people's minds. |
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[WP] A soldiers kills their commanding officer to save their country. | My love,
If you're reading this, then I have died by your hands. This was necessary in order to ensure your safety. A few months ago I discovered both of our names were on the Blacklist. It was only a matter of time before they discovered your connections, and only a few days before they discovered mine. That was why ... | 11 | 0 | 24 | 12,791 |
[WP] A soldiers kills their commanding officer to save their country. | When you're face to face with the man who has taken you away from your children what more is there to do. The Islamist had a knife to the neck of my commanding officer. He had tricked off the alarm system, trying to escape from our compound. We'd started a search, my commanding officer, John, and I headed him off near ... | 5 | 0 | 24 | 12,792 |
You wake up with blood all over your hands and a body lying on the floor but you don't remember how you got there or what happened. |
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You wake up with blood all over your hands and a body lying on the floor but you don't remember how you got there or what happened. | There was a body on the floor of the motel room, and there was blood all over my hands.
Probably not a coincidence.
I'd woken up at about 10 or so, completely disoriented and confused. I had gone to bed in my house, wrapped in a fraying blanket atop a shitty mattress, and had come to in the morning on top of a plush ... | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12,795 |
You wake up with blood all over your hands and a body lying on the floor but you don't remember how you got there or what happened. | Blood on hands, corpse on floor.
I guess I should have known.
When they asked for a "sleep doctor",
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[WP] Grim reaper job application aptitude test. | 1.) Have you ever knowingly or unknowingly killed a man?
*What?*
I'm a broke college student. I'm trying to make some money with a temp job over the summer and I downloaded this application form off some sketchy site online. The first question, has me stumped. Maybe it's a new type of criminal records check? Kind o... | 28 | 0 | 34 | 12,798 |
[WP] Grim reaper job application aptitude test. | Please list any allergies. Be Specific. Are you allergic to anything that can kill you?
*I'm allergic to cats. Not in any deathly way, but I do find it inconvenient.*
Do you like quiche? Have you ever made one? Was it delicious?
*I always found quiche to be a bit dandy.*
If hired, will this be your only job? If n... | 23 | 0 | 34 | 12,799 |
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