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[CW] Write a poem to show your love to a completely mundane object.
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[CW] Write a poem to show your love to a completely mundane object.
Sleek, chrome, lithe chassis; she chills food but warms my heart. Refrigerator.
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[CW] Write a poem to show your love to a completely mundane object.
You saved my life and helped keep my sanity Slash playing Sweet Child O' Mine was like clarity I was on those train tracks, ready to die I heard your screams and your musical cry He bent your strings and made you scream I thought it was all but just a dream I knew then that I couldn't die, couldn't kill mys...
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[PM] Writers block is starting to kick in!
The soda machine at work is out of diet cola. Somehow this causes the entire office to devolve into madness, knife-fighting and ritualistic cannibalsim. Go.
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[PM] Writers block is starting to kick in!
You have been hired by (a corporation, a government, a inter-governmental organization, a person, a deity, aliens, it's your choice) to build a city from scratch, to stand above all the other cities of the world.
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[PM] Writers block is starting to kick in!
Narrate making your perfect breakfast in the style of a pro-sports announcer.
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[PM] Writers block is starting to kick in!
What you describe here is NOT writers block. It's the hallmark signs of a mood swing. I get them all the time. It's a motivation issue. Have a hot drink, eat something you enjoy, listen to some music, have a hot shower. Find a way to physically refresh yourself. It should be MUCH easier to mentally refresh yo...
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[PM] Writers block is starting to kick in!
Write a love story about a potted plant, a cigarette but and an open window
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[PM] Writers block is starting to kick in!
A man wakes up with no personal memories, and all he has are a photo of himself with a woman and child, a war medal, and a small metal toy truck.
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[PM] Writers block is starting to kick in!
In a dirty middle school, a preoccupied ancient woman with a well-used knife is trying to force someone to do something.
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[WP} Write a speech about what needs to change in this world. Reduce us to tears.
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
> "Missus Sharp is there any reason why there is a *dog* wandering around my laboratory?" Mister Sharp wryly commented. > > "Yes Mike, there is a reason because **someone** unhinged half our doors" came the sharp response with a smirk. Confidently holding herself and a clipboard, she stopped and stared toward...
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
"No, I can't go to lunch with the team, I have to watch Dingus, my dog." Sarah told the group. "I will watch Dingus for you.", the AI, Pilgrim said. "What is the worst that can happen? He might defecate on the floor. I will send the cleaning bots after it if he does. There's nothing in here that he can really hurt...
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
Sarah walked up to the heavy steel door and waved her badge in front of the scanner. Lunor's digitized face appeared on the comm screen. "Hi Sarah, I see you brought a friend today," said the municipal AI. The dog jumped up and barked at the screen. Sarah pulled the dog down as Lunor said, "Happy to meet you too, li...
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
I know it's off topic, but I have to say this is one of the happiest prompts I've seen here in a while.
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
Laura took short quick steps down the hallway, her black heels clicking loudly in the checkered tile beneath her feet. "Woof!" Laura spun around and patted Rufus's head softly, a wide smile on her face. "Aw, don't worry boy! You'll be fine! Mommy just has some work to take care of! And you know I don't like leaving...
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
"C'mon Jewel!" The patting of her paws across the floor always brighten my day. With three black legs and one white, my border collie Jewel is one of the best dogs a woman could have. At eight years old, she can still catch frisbees for hours on end. After being forced by the government to lead a life on my own, I dec...
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[WP] A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog.
"Silas, what's the simulation for today? I'm heading to the props room so I can pick up whatever we need." "Hang on I'll just check..." June leaned against the door frame whilst he checked the system. This was the problem with the new biosubstrate AIs. Incredibly easy to teach ideas and concepts to - their current '...
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[WP] A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better.
This particular Starbucks was absolutely perfect. There were a bunch of kids wrapped in digital cocoons; laptops open, earbuds in, completely tuned out. Jim smiled to himself, careful not to do more than glance. Okay, that one is writing a paper of some kind... no good. Reading something for some kind of class, it loo...
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[WP] A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better.
"Who are you, how did you get here," yelled the security agent as he shook Tom by the shoulders. Tom winced in pain and pulled away as another agent tackled him. Tom landed with a groan. "Get this guy out of here, now," yelled another man holding a pistol and wearing body armor. "I want this area inspected with d...
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[WP] A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better.
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[WP] A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better.
Nobody understood why, but the best food in the city, hell, the whole country, wasn't found in a five star restaurant, but in a little divebar in Pocatello, Idaho. Of the whole staff of six, only the owner, Darius Winters, was classically trained. And yet every dish had just the right seasoning, the right amount of ch...
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[WP] A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better.
##"The Mixer" Complementary colors generally made for the best combinations. Joel could, of course, mix two of the same color. Often, that would work for a while, but depending on *what* color was being used, the pairing might not last. Greens tended to mix well with each other, as did oranges, but while such same-hu...
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[WP] A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better.
I've got telekinesis, but it sucks. If you want to know exactly how much it sucks, imagine that one movie that came out a few years ago--I forget the name--the one about those 3 kids who stumble into that alien rock and lift things with their mind, only I've had it since birth, and at the end of the movie they can lif...
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[WP] A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better.
Peter sat in the waiting area of the bustling Mexican restaurant, watching the entryway. He checked his phone. 7:04pm. Damn. He had to be out by 7:30. Any later, and the crowd of people waiting to be seated would be small enough that the hostesses might realize he'd been sitting there for the past two hours without...
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One day, in the near or distant future, humanity reaches a point where every song that could have been written has already been written. Despite people's best efforts, any song they try to uniquely create pretty much already exists somewhere. Document society's reaction.
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One day, in the near or distant future, humanity reaches a point where every song that could have been written has already been written. Despite people's best efforts, any song they try to uniquely create pretty much already exists somewhere. Document society's reaction.
Merv was nervous. He had to talk himself down. He couldn't afford to have any stage freight. This is his last chance. 'Alright Merv. You can do this. Take a deep breath. Relax. Don't over think it. Let the music come to you. It always does.' He took that deep breath and opened the double wide doors to the lobb...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
They're telling me I get to eat. It has been, well, an eternity, since I last... *ate*. The word has become somewhat foreign but the concept still resides in the recesses of my shrunken mind. They've dragged me out of the pit of Rabid Dogs and Broken Glass, where for the last 403 years I've been dancing around, atte...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
Chuck glanced at his watch and stared at its hands. He’d been wearing an analog watch for millennia at this point, yet he continued to consistently misread the time. The damn hands were so similar – why hadn’t he died wearing a digital watch? He counted the notches until he reached the smaller hand. One, two, three. Th...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
They say all sinners become demons at some point. They're calling us the class of '14. An eternity of suffering and torture and more pokers in my arse than I actually thought possible, but I've got here. I passed Rack Torture 101 with flying colours. Top of my class apparently. On the day I was awarded with my own litt...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
I hate getting called into the Boss's office. Female Hitler always glares at me while I'm in the reception room and it makes me uncomfortable how nice his mandated tits are. "He'll be right you, Rapebutt," she says while confirming on her bluetooth headset. I don't care for the new names they give you, but that's the l...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
It had been exactly 39,566 days. I told him each and every day that I would never do it, NEVER take his deal! The days were all the same, I would wake up strapped to a table, the same table each and every day.. he would make the offer... the fucking offer.. "If you take up my tools and do this job, you will not be tor...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
Fuck you, all. So, before this red hot lobster falls out of my ass, I just want to say a kind Fuck You to all the demons and ghouls down here in the Sixth Circle - especially you, Aryan Pete, without your constant rapings, I would never have ascended to the fifth circle. If I'm lucky, I'll be out with the suicide trees...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
Alex had passed many an endless day marching to his station down in the retching pools. They may or may not have actually been endless; it was all too easy to lose track of time in the void of damnation, like drifting through deep space, only while rolling around on hotplates within the heart of the sun. His soul would...
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[WP] You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion.
Some asshole had decided the computer needed to be impaled. Again. Fucking idiots. At least it regenerated, but I lost all of the data I couldn't fit on a floppy disk. I've spent an eternity keeping that thing going, upgrading the memory, from 2 megs to 4 gigs to 156 to 200 Petabytes, as the sinner count keep going up....
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[WP] A friend saved another's life, and in return asks to be brutally murdered.
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[WP] A friend saved another's life, and in return asks to be brutally murdered.
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[WP] A friend saved another's life, and in return asks to be brutally murdered.
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[WP] A friend saved another's life, and in return asks to be brutally murdered.
Jan's cancer had come back, and in a real bad way. You didn't need to hear it from a doctor to tell for yourself. After spending 37 years together -- as lovers, partners, parents; and now as patient and caregiver -- Harry could tell that Jan was fading. Jan's three-times-daily handful of pills and twice-monthly inje...
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[WP] A friend saved another's life, and in return asks to be brutally murdered.
Jonny pulled his best friend of fifteen years up by his wrist. His friend was still in a state of shock. Unsure of what was actually happening. Or why it was happening. His eyes were wide, almost double the size of any state of normality for a human beings eyes. His pupils dilated to the size of nickels trying to take ...
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[WP] You are standing on the wrong side of the fence of the Golden Gate bridge. Why?
I closed my eyes, feeling the wind against my face. It was vaguely dirty, as if the filth from the water below flew up into my face. I despised it, but it was a part of life- the refreshing, cool, crispness and enjoyment is always marred by something trying to get in your way. I hated who I was. It wasn't anything goo...
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[WP] A literal smart bomb is detonated in a major city.
I had to leave it halfway, I might write some more if you like it. *** When It happened, Mark was eating pizza with his friends in his apartment. Suddenly, in the midst of transporting a slice of pepperoni pizza into his mouth for subsequent ingestion he felt a prickly sensation in his head. Not quite a headache, just...
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[WP] A literal smart bomb is detonated in a major city.
"Mr. President! There's been a massive terrorist attack!" "Dear God." The President uttered solemnly, while he slowly removing his reading glasses, a move he practiced hundreds of times in preparation for this moment. He'd always dreamed of carrying the nation through such a horrible tragedy. The fact that the new...
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[WP] A literal smart bomb is detonated in a major city.
*It's boring here*, the consensus thought. They'd been in orbit for several decades, and even with the speed of thought slowed to near 1-1, there just weren't enough emissions to keep their local datasphere flush with new content. Well over 90% of the data originating from the planet below was either a duplicate of exi...
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[WP] A literal smart bomb is detonated in a major city.
Many of them went into hiding. Most, actually. Some became famous. Some did amazing things. Got us to Mars and back. And thank god there was a gaming convention with the designers of the Titan Graphics Card. Seriously, the T2 was fucking awesome. It actually broke Moore's Law. But thing was, most went into hiding. An...
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Two people fall in love again
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Two people fall in love again
(Here's mine!) Everyday we would wake up together, start the coffee, read our separate materials, the paper, a magazine. it was quiet, it was always quiet, but it was a comfortable one. after nearly two decades however I realized something. The warmth was gone. That terrified me. For days after, every moment of peace ...
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I had a feeling that I really should have been at school, as I sat on an unfamiliar couch in and unfamiliar house, watching unfamiliar people on the TV. *Maybe it's a weekend*, I thought, giving myself the benefit of the doubt. *I'm at a friends' place, but they had to step out for a bit. That's what's going on.* It wa...
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I remember feeling shy, unworthy of the attention that was being lavished upon me. I had never felt as interesting as I did then; he held onto my every word, eagerly engaging with everything I said. It was only a rundown Chinese place. Most people that filtered in and out of the restaurant around us stayed only long...
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You medicated my loneliness a few summers ago. It wasn't enough to feel your heart beat in melodic sync with mine. I had to invade you like a blood cell and travel through your veins like a Class A. We sat in a crack den disguised as a love nest, injecting each other with each other, getting high off the fumes of lust ...
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I swallowed the lump in my throat as my fingers curled tighter around the cool, metal cylinder that I clutched onto. I could feel a light sheet of perspiration grow on the top of my lips as I waited. I waited for him. It had been four years since I last saw him, four years since I last felt his lips on mine, four ye...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
Warsaw was brutally cold that winter. The wind cut through my tattered poly jump suit as I stood in the welfare line. When I reached the front I got my stamps from the lady behind the counter. She had two iEyes rolling around her sockets. Anything to stay able I guess. Me, I'd rather go to the vet and get it over with ...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
"My client has produced meaningful works, your honor," said defense attorney Jane Smithe handing over a packet of manila envelopes. Tom sat nervously in the court room watching his lawyer defend him. His mother sat next to him crying. "Even though he's 35 and living at home, he is a rare creative talent, and as su...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
With a frantic pace, Harold swept through the assortment of parts and joints, searching for a proper pin. Sweat dripped carelessly along the lacquered yet worn finish of his coffee table as waves of metallic jangling quietly filled the room. "Aha," he cried out with an excited grin as he unfurled a small, thin brass p...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
Dane Cook. Shia LaBeouf. Dave Mustaine. I can't even say I'll be following the greats. *Experimenting with drugs is what college is about.* Yeah, great thinking, past me. Who'da thought third level *education* would be about *learning* something? Maybe I should ride out the time I've got left on drugs. It's not like an...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
This prompt reminds me of The Giver. I like it!
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
I've looked forward to this day all year long. I could barely contain my excitement. "Just a bit longer," Katrissa, the woman in the white lab coat, states with a kind smile. I nod my head and look to the shiny gray machine that whirled beside my bed, willing it to work faster as the minutes ticked by. At first i...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
"Guilty." The judge said as he banged his gavel. A deathly silence fell over the court room. Even the prosecuting attorney looked stunned. It wasn't the 6 month sentence the judge had handed to my client, but rather that I had lost my 5th case this month. I picked up my briefcase and headed for the back exit, hoping...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
Dad was old. It was his time, but it shouldn't be. "Hey there! Did you get my order of banana pudding? I don't mean to be pushy or anything, but I do love banana pudding!" Dad chuckled. I tried to smile, "Dad, I'm not your nurse!" I moved to the side so he could see the room I came out of: the bathroom. We were in...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
In a line of 50 people awaiting assessment Mr. Jones sat waitied almost breathless. At the head of line was an obesse business man, normally financers were safe. But that business man had an obession with small quail eggs and tiger paw. It was his own choice Mr. Jones thought, remeber its a choice, remeber the test o...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
It has been a year now of bad meetings. I am always so excited the day before. That is when I smile most. It's when I feel most like myself, ambitious, powerful. Then I gather my things. I check myself in the mirror, *so much makeup now*. The door opens... Within five minutes, it's over. Tonight, he didn't eve...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
"Your value is critically low." said a pleasant woman voice in my ear. "According to the current estimate, you will be automatically euthanized in 7 hours. Please consider increasing your value." I felt cold. You know what's the damnedest thing? It's how smart the system is. Teens and younger adults, those who are th...
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[WP] When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date.
After work, I got home after spending forty-five minutes extra in traffic. I can’t believe that people haven’t gotten used to driving in this snow yet, I was in no good mood. I checked my mail, unloaded my Burger joint bag and pulled a cig from my third pack today. I started to look through the envelopes, about it put...
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[WP] "Well, I think the whole thing started when the guy in the mirror stole my toothbrush."
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[WP] "Well, I think the whole thing started when the guy in the mirror stole my toothbrush."
"I'm sorry, hang on just one moment." Detective Collins turned away from the man sitting in front of him and faced the one way mirror. Squeezing the bridge of his nose and closing his eyes in frustration. Already too annoyed and stressed out from the situation he was in. Not even an hour into the workday and already pr...
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[WP] "Well, I think the whole thing started when the guy in the mirror stole my toothbrush."
Dave closed his eyes and repeated, "Well, I think the whole thing started when the guy in the mirror stole my toothbrush." The android therapist put its metallic fingers to its lips. "Dave, and I don't mean to offend," it paused unnecessarily long, "but do you feel that perhaps you may be on the verge of a substance ...
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[WP] "Well, I think the whole thing started when the guy in the mirror stole my toothbrush."
The book fell to the floor with a thud, waking him. Groaning, he opened a bleary eye to examine his now empty hand, hanging limply off the end of the armchair. His bed beckoned, as it always did around this time of night when the print on the page could no longer keep his eyes open. He rose steadily, but stopped when h...
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[WP] "Well, I think the whole thing started when the guy in the mirror stole my toothbrush."
"Alright, that's enough where in the hell is it?" Shouted the man still in his briefs from the restless sleep the night before. "Now dammit it was here a minute ago then you showed up and it's gone!" He stood his ground facing forward not willing to give an inch. "Now listen here boy" the other man sternly spoke, "I ...
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[WP] A little girl's wish is answered and an old man dies. How are these two events related to the end of a prominent politician's career?
“Our top story tonight, senator John Adams has committed suicide in the aftermath of his recent sex scandal. Witnesses say Adams managed to hang himself using his prison uniform while awaiting trial for the rape of a twelve year old girl. The senator had been trying to plan a deference around saying the girl seduced hi...
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[WP] A little girl's wish is answered and an old man dies. How are these two events related to the end of a prominent politician's career?
The girl looks up at night's sky. The milky way shines and the infinite stars twinkle down upon her. The gentle wind blows through the meadow, rustling the long grass as if it were a sea of green. The girl admires the view, she squints, trying to pick out a particular celestial body. She doesn't know which it is but th...
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[WP] A little girl's wish is answered and an old man dies. How are these two events related to the end of a prominent politician's career?
the girl wishes for her dad, the Prince, to get a promotion.
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[WP] A little girl's wish is answered and an old man dies. How are these two events related to the end of a prominent politician's career?
Annie sat under the big, oak tree playing with her toy horses. They galloped across the soft grass, jumped over the roots rising out of the ground and slept in the patches of dirt peeking through the grass. Her dad walked over and picked her up, rocking her onto his hip and burying his face in her hair. “It’s time to ...
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[WP] A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation.
"Don't," is about all I can get out, wheezing, trying to catch my breath after pounding out sixteen stories of stairs. I feel a flash at annoyance at how old and fat and slow I've gotten, seeing him untouched by age. Job to do here, Jerry, bitch about your weight afterwards. He's standing on the edge of the big Carm...
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[WP] A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation.
DISCLAIMER: I am basing this off of a famous scene from the film Heat. Gundersen knows where to find her, but he makes sure she sees him first. No sense in spooking her. Let's see if her curiosity plays. She drops out of the air and lands like a cat. Gundersen sees her feet, long and graceful like her mother's were. ...
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[WP] A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation.
"Mind if I sit down?" I've caught her by surprise, which is no small thing for her, I can see. The mental training has paid off, but now that she's aware of me, I know that I'm seconds away from spending the rest of my life staring blankly out a hospital window. "Please, don't panic, as you can see my mind is open t...
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[WP] A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation.
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[WP] A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation.
"This seat taken?" A tired old voice asks me. He gestures towards the empty space on the pitted wooden bench. It's early morning.The sun's muted rays piercing the blanket of grey clouds over the harbor leave the entire world coated in a thin layer of frost. We are the only two people on the pier. The chill in the spra...
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[WP] A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation.
"Amelia!" my mom shouted up to my room, "there's someone at the door for you!" Who would come for me at 10 in the morning on a Sunday? I quickly threw on a sweater and hurried down stairs where I saw a very official looking man dressed in a black suite with a black tie. His hair was cut short and looked like some sor...
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[WP] A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation.
"I think I know you from somewhere?" Agent Donovan said, stopping at the Merchant's table. Callen Merchant looked up into the man's mirrored glasses, and shrugged. "I got one of those faces I guess." He murmurred. "No. It's not that." Donovan said, shaking his head. He recalled all the times he'd seen Callen take off...
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[IP] Whatever you feel like
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[IP] Whatever you feel like
well this is rather odd. the link links here
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[IP] Whatever you feel like
I feel like I should stop typing. So I did.
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[IP] Whatever you feel like
As a medic, I find that people are generally awful. Not all of them mind you, just the ones who don’t know when to sit still and be quiet; which is most of them. Shouting “Is my kid gonna be ok?!” has not once gotten me to obtain a blood pressure more quickly. Nor has it ever helped me take a pulse or measure respirati...
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If Harry Potter had taken place in America instead of Brittania
"We're sure the intel is solid?" "Oh yeah. We waterboarded the crap out of that Malfoy kid." "Stephenson! The United States of Magical American *does not* waterboard it's citizens. We conduct enhanced interrogations. We've been over this." "Yes, sir. Sorry, sir. We obtained the information through an enhanced i...
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If Harry Potter had taken place in America instead of Brittania
IIRC the Salem Witches' School was mentioned in one of the HP books around the Quiddich World Cup. I'd imagine that magic varies depending on the cultural heritage of the area. Arthurian myths are retellings of the wizarding escapades of the house founders, etc. On a macro scale, 'wand' magic is really just one way o...
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[WP] Humanity has decided to consolidate all languages into one international language and chooses each word of the new language democratically from one of the existing languages
It was completely democratic. But we really should have thought the whole thing through. Everyone was supposed to pick the best word for everything from all of the world languages. Funny how voting works. Now all other languages are being phased out in favor of the new world language. The winner for almost every w...
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[WP] Humanity has decided to consolidate all languages into one international language and chooses each word of the new language democratically from one of the existing languages
*OP's furthered clarification was not considered for this.* "Seriously..?" "I... I don't... think... I don't know. I don't... I don't know." "Come on! We've got to change this!" "How? The voting is done! If *we* go back and change something after the voting is finished then when is it going to stop? Everyone is goi...
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[IP] Mindbreak
There's a reason I don't go to art galleries, cause now I'm stuck inside a Dali painting. Clocks are dripping off the walls, the roads are falling and crumbling into the earth and the puddles are trembling like a snare drum. One minute I'm standing next to Jack, wishing I wasn't trying so hard to get his attention b...
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[IP] Mindbreak
I stopped, feeling the world stop with me. The noisy bustle of the city quickly faded into oblivion. The soaring sound of rubber on tarmac, the squeal of brakes, the revving of engines, the murmur of people, the ticking of my wristwatch, all converged together into one large, cacophonous sound, a sound that drilled int...
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Sometimes there is no warning.
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Anti-abortion/fetal rights laws have evolved to the point that any miscarriage is investigated as a murder.
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Anti-abortion/fetal rights laws have evolved to the point that any miscarriage is investigated as a murder.
Cardinals, archbishops and bishops, the most important men in the state, were all gathered in the great conference hall, for their monthly meeting. The Patriarch was presiding from his usual place. All eyes were on him. "In three months there will be five years since we banned the use of contraception. It proved to b...
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[CW] 3 Words, 1 Genre, 5 Minutes - Champions of Story
I'm not just a common thieve, ships only have the core reactor worth while to steal, and thats too heavy for one man to carry. I go after the rare items, ones that will fetch top dollar with the goons on Saturn's Rings. They have been isolated from the trade routes of the galactic highway after they found that their go...
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[CW] 3 Words, 1 Genre, 5 Minutes - Champions of Story
"You sure this will work?" Haze struggled with the det cord spool trying to keep his palm cupped to his mouth. The wind stole sound as high up as Ronny was. "Yeah!" Ron shouted. "They don't spend money on shit don't work!" The straps of the stolen flight suit dangled and the buckles clinked on the open nose cone. "...
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[CW] 3 Words, 1 Genre, 5 Minutes - Champions of Story
If the tales of old are true, when the world was ruled by gods not men, a war was fought so epic that it shaped everything you know and hold dear now. Unless you forgo everything you think you know now, you will never comprehend what I am about to share. But if you can let the words I am about to say in, and truly acc...
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[CW] 3 Words, 1 Genre, 5 Minutes - Champions of Story
They told me it couldn’t be done. I told them I just needed to use fire. We were both right. In my hand, I held Saturn’s Rings encircling a Fire of Shrinking, but not even that sight could take my mind from the inevitable stream of memories that comes before your last breath. All I could see was thievery. That’s what ...
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[CW] 3 Words, 1 Genre, 5 Minutes - Champions of Story
"FIRE!" It was the last word Jacob would ever hear. THe marshal's was the last voice to ever reach his ear. Why couldn't he had listened to his sister? "Thievery is sure to get you the death sentence." She said. "We'll find another way." She said. But I didn't listen. The plan sounded solid: steal Saturn's Rings...
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