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[WP] Let's make a joke! I'll give you a punchline, and you make any joke you can think of
Will OP still upvote me, even though I think his punchline is awful.
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[WP] Let's make a joke! I'll give you a punchline, and you make any joke you can think of
An elderly dentist came home one day and sat at the dinner table, obviously stressed. "How was work today?" Asked the wife, concerned. "The Anderson's boy has been a lifelong patient of mine. I know exactly the amount of Novacaine to use, know exactly which teeth are likely to have cavities, and can tell you his flos...
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[WP] Let's make a joke! I'll give you a punchline, and you make any joke you can think of
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[WP]Write a tense story that changes drastically in tone because of a fart
"How many bodies are we talkin' about?" Detective Drummard stood outside the old warehouse. He was sleep deprived, finishing up a cup of coffee as the team brought him up to speed. "There are at least, hundred, maybe more?" Lana the lab geek, as she was affectionately known, a member of the CSI team, expert on forensi...
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[WP] The human race is being slaughtered by the Orcish onslaught. You are a rare species known as a "Shifter", named for their ability to shapeshift into creatures they've touched. Choose you're side.
Ok I don't mean to single this post out, as it's a ridiculously frequent occurrence, but what's with all the writing prompts with grammar mistakes? Is it an inside joke on this sub?
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[OT] 'The Collector Cometh' Contest Results!
Man, I haven't even looked at these yet! Clearly I have some reading to do... Congrats to /u/thegreendoooom!
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[OT] 'The Collector Cometh' Contest Results!
Holy crap! Thank you so much!
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[WP]Intergalactic Customs
The hover taxis pulls in front of the entrance to the spaceport. I swipe my gene coded credit card through the reader and grab my duffel as I exit the vehicle. It speeds away as I gather myself, gazing about at the bustle at ground level and in the air above my head. Massive leviathans soar overhead, one vessel passes ...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
A boy is born and raised in a loving home. As a boy in the second grade he meets a bullied, outcast girl who wears ripped and dirty clothes. He defends her from the bullies and they eat lunch together. They stay friends throughout public school, even going to prom together. The boy becomes successful and uses his wealt...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
Beyond the sullen sky. And far from the peering eye. The edge of the universe it is shy. Where it's quite, and nothing lie. I sit with you, my, my. There sits you and I.
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
Rapidly I descended into the abyssopelagic cavern's recesses, in damp darkness breached only by the single ray of light shining from Melissa's handheld beacon. As I doubled over in pain while the ground broke two of my ribs, my head brushed slightly against white dust. Those who had fallen before me were rejected for...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
Well, I never thought the day would come. The day that I would leave, I was gone before I knew I had left. However, by the time I knew I was gone, I felt right at home, with my family and friends. The precise family and friends I hadn't seen since they had made their departure. The same departure I had just made, altho...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
I always hated the way I was. I never knew how to let it go. I thought I deserved the things I got, and what people would always do. I never thought I had anything to offer, and for years it was proven to be true. I sat alone and wept for years until you fell into my world. I never thought I'd find anything I coul...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
Six thousand years i had waited, frozen within the stream of Time, silently staring onto this lifeless ground. All the others had broken their promise, there was only one to go. Afterwards, it would just be me, bound here for all eternity, my hard work and sacrifice all for nothing. I tried to cry but could not, the la...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
There's one thing that matters right now. Me, and you. Oh, that's two things? No it isn't. As long as we're together, I'll see us as one. _________ edit: this is the flakiest thing I've ever written. Wow.
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
"What do you think is up there?" My father's hair tickled my face as he moved to peer up at the night sky. "Look up there," he pointed, "in the blackest patch of sky. We can't see anything, but just in that one spot there are thousands of stars, with their own planets, and maybe their own people." "Wow," I breathed in ...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
The machines beeped tirelessly. This time they were bells of victory, not grim reminders. He held her pale hand in his own. They looked into each other's eyes, tears forming, rivers running over smiles. They kissed lovingly, hands firmly intertwined. She had won.
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
Even though our coffee was getting cold, she kept on holding my hand. And in the belly of midnight, the moon watched us dance. My hands on her hips. Her feet on my toes. We swayed. I swooned.
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
The ball hit the unsuspecting girl square in the face. She looked like she was about to cry, so the boy who kicked it went to comfort her. "I'm sorry I hit you in the face," said the boy. The tears in the girl's eyes began to stream down her face, and she began laughing. "Why are you laughing," asked the boy. "...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
Daddy. Stop drinking, daddy. I know you miss mommy. I can hug you like mommy did, I can put my arms around you like her. Don't cry alone, daddy. Cry with me.
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
I was nervous beyond words. She said, "Yes".
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
"You have to choose." I can't choose, it's too hard, I can't live without my wife. I can't lose my baby. "Save my daughter." It's been almost an hour, I can't breathe. "They're both goin to be fine."
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
There is so much blood, more than I thought one man could hold; only now you aren't holding it. After ten years of bullying, you finally made me cry. The first tear fell just as the guy came into the classroom, the second when he pointed his gun at me. Why did you get between us, did you think he wouldn't shoot if ...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
A person passes away with unfulfilled dreams. Like my father-in-law (we never met). He painted for forty years. He always wanted to go to Paris but died having never gone. I asked his only daughter what she really wanted to do. And knowing what I really meant, she told me and I listened.
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
He thought about how beautiful her hair looks, tossled the way it is. He loves the softness of her skin and soul. How she whispered "I love you" at the very end, as though it were instinct. The way her body naturally knew what to do just as she finished. Being wrapped around the sheets, gazing at her beautiful brown ey...
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[WP] Write a heart-warming story in no more than six sentences.
"Da-da..." she said. Even before 'mama'.
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
Write about a man who lives in a dome underwater. Whether it's a city underwater, or he is alone, or if it's big or small, or just him and his wife, tell me about a man who lives in an underwater dome.
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
Einstein invented a time machine. The US government kept it under wraps.
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
A man opens his refrigerator and finds a fetus curled up on one of the shelves. To his horror, it opens its eyes and begins reciting poetry to him.
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
Write about someone who discovered the world isn't black and white- that even the best people are gray.
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
Create two characters, it could be strangers waiting for the bus, two lovers lying in bed after making love, two soldiers in the fox hole or whatever you like. Write an interaction between the two of them as if they have positive emotions for each other, then rewrite the same scene, except this time they have negative ...
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
Heyy everyone don't get upset but, I will be responding to every single post when i get out of work Saturday. I thank you all for the fantastic prompts.
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[PM] Give me something different to write about.
On an alien battlefield, a half-blind man needs to rid himself of something. Tell me a story about forgiveness.
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[WP] Description only! (Exercise)
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[WP] Description only! (Exercise)
The door loomed halfway closed, revealing the bright lights from the exterior of the cage. Within the cage, the arched window are covered by cardboard with ripped edges to them, letting very little light in. During a bright sunny day in this cage, a calm blue light shined through, barely brightening the room. The natur...
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[WP] Description only! (Exercise)
I lie upon sheets of indigo-colored cotton, surrounded by pillows of goose feather soft as clouds. A pair of 3-foot tall windows, blocked by panes of clear glass look upon the northern winter, where snow and icy wind reign supreme. But basking in the incomparable warm luxury of Meathold puts my mind at ease and prepa...
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[WP] While time travelling you accidentally kill your past self. What happens next?
"So I get with Jennifer right?" "Nah man, don't go there, she's a shitty lay." I smirked and looked at my younger self, feeling myself cringe at the sight of his, (my) pompadour haircut. The rules said not to talk to yourself when you went back in time, but when I had seen him sitting alone, feeding the ducks in the pa...
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[WP] While time travelling you accidentally kill your past self. What happens next?
First time writing a story ever. Be mean. "Nobody has really ever done it. It's all theory kid. " Said my professor slash eyeliner-ed, unlicensed therapist. Well, nobody in my family was pathetic as I am, it seems. Comic fuckin books, thinking someone would ever take me seriously with THAT plus this stupid fuckin f...
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[WP] While time travelling you accidentally kill your past self. What happens next?
1. Tyson Silverman should have seen this coming. He is being erased. He wonders why he was so quick to listen to the voice in his right ear yelling "take the shot!" 2. Take the shot. It is 2010. He is eight years old playing hockey. He shoots, he scores. The crowd cheers. 3. Time begins to unravel around Tyson Silve...
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[WP] While time travelling you accidentally kill your past self. What happens next?
**DON'T BREAK THINGS YOU CAN'T FIX** My wife and I get into the car. She talks to me about how excited she was for me that I'd finally proved my thesis. I start the ignition and I think for a moment while turning on the radio, that perhaps I'd been wrong about time travel now that I'd been proven right. This wasn't...
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[WP] The god of rainbows isn't gay, and he's really tired of people making assumptions.
Alright, I've pretty much had it. I'm not a homophobic or anything but I'm getting pretty tired of people just assuming I'm gay. Like, come on, guys. I was the god of rainbows before the rainbow was even the official symbol for homosexuality in the first place! People come up to me and are like, "Hey, Jeff. I really ap...
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[WP] The god of rainbows isn't gay, and he's really tired of people making assumptions.
"It's not fair, you know?" The bartender nodded his head as he wiped the counter, the bar emptying out. The man in front of him had the corpses of tears on his face; the dry, salty streaks refracting light into various colors. "So, what are you going to do about it?" The bartender asked, and the man shrug...
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[WP] The god of rainbows isn't gay, and he's really tired of people making assumptions.
"I can't stand it anymore! I create a wonderful painting of colors in the sky so those mortals have something beautiful to look at after heavy rains, but you know how they repay me? They call me homosexual! I was the one who created the rainbow, and I allowed the gay mortals of the world to use it as their symbol. I'm ...
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[WP] The god of rainbows isn't gay, and he's really tired of people making assumptions.
“Seriously. You paint the world with seven colours, they think it represents gays. How do I deal with this?” “You think you’ve got it bad?” another God exclaimed, as the God of Rainbows turned to look at the God of Unicorns. The God of Unicorns was lovingly petting one of his creatures as he sniffed. “Not only do ...
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[WP] The god of rainbows isn't gay, and he's really tired of people making assumptions.
"Hail, mortal. I was wondering if you could direct me to..." "Mortal? Who are you calling mortal? Who are you, anyway? "I am Heimdall, the White God, He of Golden Teeth, the Son of Nine Maidens, the Far-seer, Holder of the Gjallarhorn, Guardian of Bifrost..." "What's Bifrost?" "The great bridge stretching from Asga...
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[WP] The god of rainbows isn't gay, and he's really tired of people making assumptions.
“Alright, alright, everyone please be seated. I had my PR team hold this press conference because there is something I need to discuss; something that has grown from an infrequent, casual misconception to a full blow, ridiculous assumption: just because I am the God of Rainbows doesn’t mean I’m gay. I mean don’t get me...
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You're in charge of creating a new holiday. Include traditions, dates, rituals, activities, foods, symbols, colors, etc etc. Then, describe an event that happens during your holiday.
I woke up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. My alarm sounded its shrill cry again. I pulled it to my side, and peered at it out of half-closed eyelids. September 4. Wait, September 4! That meant it was Meatday, the best day of the year! I ripped off the covers, flung them hard across the room. Leaping out of ...
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You're in charge of creating a new holiday. Include traditions, dates, rituals, activities, foods, symbols, colors, etc etc. Then, describe an event that happens during your holiday.
It's Fleltsum!! The only day of the year where you are celebrated. You are the spotlight, you are what's important. Time to get out of your bed, to stop following your same old routine; do what you want to do. What makes you happy, what completes yourself. Fleltsum; the day when you're the celebrity, you get to cook ...
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You're in charge of creating a new holiday. Include traditions, dates, rituals, activities, foods, symbols, colors, etc etc. Then, describe an event that happens during your holiday.
The Moorebrook company's stock has been sinking again. It's not in the red though, it's never in the red. Just dipping. Moorebrook is an old company, been around for ages. They started off as a stationery supply, selling greeting cards wrapping paper, special print paper and the like. They eventually became the standar...
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You're in charge of creating a new holiday. Include traditions, dates, rituals, activities, foods, symbols, colors, etc etc. Then, describe an event that happens during your holiday.
What do you mean you've never heard of Art day? Have you been living under a rock? *sigh* Well sonny, this may come up on an exam, so I suppose I should enlighten you. Nobody really knows who started Art Day, just that it happened in almost every major culture once a year. Very specific and odd, which makes the day s...
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[WP] Scarlet Letter Chapter 22, Sample Prompt
Here is the chapter http://books.google.com/books?id=2ksS0EimvrYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=scarlet+letter&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KwjrUpaWE8S_kQev34DgBg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=XXii&f=false
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[WP] Plants are sentient and sapient, but can only communicate with each other. After millennia of literally being trampled on by animals and humans, the plants decide to withhold photosynthesis, bringing planet earth to its knees.
“And...rolling,” the cameraman says. “Hello there folks, I'm Kent Whopper here on-site, where Mossy Flowers is entering his fifth hour of communication with the plants of the Amazon rainforest, who are in communication with the rest of Earth's plants. What you are witnessing may be Earth's last hope, after two weeks w...
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[WP] A ridiculously attractive female catches the eye of a male praying mantis. Does he go for it?
*(You didn't specify a few things in your description/title, so I had fun with it. Hope that's okay. Edit: I also just noticed I ignored some of your prompt. Woops. :S)* She rest atop her wooden perch taking in the sun and scenery as she relaxed after a long day. Her breath came quite rapidly as it was hot and humid, ...
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[WP] Write the story of a school shooting from the viewpoints of several different people, the shooter, a teacher, a student, a bully, and the police. Include others if you like
Dakota: I sigh deeply as I sit in my car. Today is the day. Today is the day I end everything. I get out, swinging my backpack over my shoulder, in it my dad's 38, he hasn't notice it's been gone for weeks. I walk in the school doors and see him. He who called me "Faggot" and "queer" ever since 6th fucking grade. I hat...
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[WP] The world has created a utopia, a real one. But your character doesn't want one.
I sighed and pulled my hood up. If I had to travel out there I was going to try to not to fit in. Exiting my perfect home, I looked around and saw what I saw everyday. All of the houses looked the same, no difference: clean cut lawns, white houses, red doors. It made me sick. I adjusted my backpack on my shoulders an...
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[WP] The world has created a utopia, a real one. But your character doesn't want one.
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[WP] The world has created a utopia, a real one. But your character doesn't want one.
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[WP] The world has created a utopia, a real one. But your character doesn't want one.
I looked out over the vastness of it all. Repetitive white houses like great orbs dotting the landscape as far as the eye could see. I liked this spot because I didn't feel like I was a part of it all from way up here. Sure, one can get lost in their own head after a while looking down on it, but I always snap back ...
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[WP] The world has created a utopia, a real one. But your character doesn't want one.
Jane Smith lived in a perfect house with her perfect husband and two perfect children. Every morning, John, her perfect husband, would get in his perfect car and drive on the perfect road to his perfect job, where he would do secret perfect things for exactly eight hours because that was what the Perfect Laws required,...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
At first a guardian Angel sounds like a blessing. That is, until you find out that you're part of a prophecy that includes your death at the hands of an Angel. That's why the witch cursed me, to hasten my end. The Angel assures me that he does not intend to harm me. How am I to trust him? Even though he understands th...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
103 days. It had been 103 days since he first met the gnarled old woman that sat on the park bench every Saturday morning at 8:23 AM. That morning he was returning from a particularly discouraging appointment with his therapist. Shoulders slumped forward, a dirty cigarette in his mouth, shivering in the sunlight, he p...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
The day I was born my fairy godmother appeared, as is the custom, and summoned from the air the most amazingly beautiful figure anyone had ever seen. Six foot three, pure muscle with giant wings sprouting from his back, this naked adonis glowed with holy light. Golden hair ran down his bronzed back and wide blue eyes r...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
To some people, a guardian angel would be a blessing. At first, it really is. But things... things change. I remember her, she looked young, beautiful. And I made a mistake when I made her angry, because she handed it to me, her blessing and curse. The moment the words left her mouth, her body started wilting, ageing...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
"Spare some change?" I shook my head and kept walking. The hobo was most likely just going to spend it on alcohol. But, no. HE wouldn't let me. "Woah, hey. What are you doing? He's poor, he's homeless, you've totally got at least a few spare bills. I saw you count them this morning." Every time. I can't do a ...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
What exactly do you think a guardian angel does? When I was a child, I thought it was this badass entity that would intervene in all near-death situations, saving my life at just the right opportunity - keeping me alive after a car crash, for example, or making the cars swerve just in time so you missed hitting each ot...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
The scent of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. Steven jumped toward to the oven, opening it quite eagerly. Inside sat two plump, golden boules of bread. At the other end of the kitchen, Marissa stood chopping broccoli. The aroma of the delicious concoction they were working on brought back memories of their f...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
10/27/1987 Dear Diary, today was my fifth birthday. I got a pet person! He talks to me about stuff. Nobody else sees him, but I know he's real. He is my new best friend! He told me his name was Jacob. 7/23/96 I just found this stupid old diary in my dresser. Jacob still follows me around. I stopped telling people ab...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
-031 "Hello, Chucky." She cackled. "Have I got a deal for you." "What do you want Ratchet?" I snapped not bothering to look over at the Purgatoriat; the Witch of Whiteness, the Blase Bitch that has single-handedly been turning Limbo into Hell. "Don't be like that, sonny." She pouted, which with her fat, bulbous, por...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
The night was stormy and dark as pitch When through the woods I stalked. Before me stood a gray-haired witch Blocking the path I walked. "Take heed, ye mortal, I am thy doom if my tribute ye should not purse. I shall raise aloft my magic broom and lay on ye a curse!" Now, I shall not lie in this tale ...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
OP I just wanted to say thank you, this prompt really resonated with me and once I began writing I realised I'd just begun the book I've been mentally drafting for almost a year now! It's given me answers to questions I've been fruitlessly asking myself about a character for *ages*. My answer to the prompt is incredib...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
[First time posting here. I hope you enjoy] “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron-“ “Motion to skip the formalities and start the meeting? Anybody second the motion?” A hand went up in the circle as Matriarch frowned but relented “very well, very well. Noted that Sister Hannah seconded the motion...
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[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
Looking back on it, I really should've seen it coming. I was on 13th Street, for God's sake, I never take that street. But when I saw the homeless woman creeping up behind the businessman yelling into his phone, I reacted instinctively. "Watch out!" The man jumped in surprise as the woman raised her hands. Even th...
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[WP] You try to cheat the prophecy of your death.
*On the nineteenth second of the nineteenth minute of the nineteenth hour of the nineteenth day past his nineteenth year, his life will no longer be.* Those were the last words to leave my grandfather's mouth, just minutes before I was born. That was six thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight days ago. Today, it has be...
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[WP] You try to cheat the prophecy of your death.
I outsmarted Death! I wonder how many people had the opportunity of saying that; bet he's outside right now with that smug little skull face of his curdling with anger. Hmmm.....I wonder if skulls could show anger? Anyway that's not the point right now, the point is that I have taken every precaution to avoid meeti...
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[WP] A distopian world in the year 2043 when the only surviving currency is Dogecoin.
Hey dude what's that thing sticking out of your book? It's a dollar. Oh. What's a dollar? It's an old form of currency. What's a currency? Dogecoin. Oh. How many is it worth? It's not worth any. Then how is it a dogecoin? It's not. You said it was. I said it was currency. Yea and you said that currenc...
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[WP] A person is haunted by a ghost that can only speak in a foreign language.
Feel free to correct the Korean parts, native speakers or anyone who knows Korean. I used Google translate The man screamed. "유령!" "I'm sorry, could you tell me where I am?" "저리가, 악마!" "That's uh, Korean, right? What's your name?" "남겨주세요!" "I'm gonna call you Andy. My name is Marcus, pleasure to meet y...
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[WP] A person is haunted by a ghost that can only speak in a foreign language.
I had been hearing whispers at night for about 2 years. Some nights, they seemed to be trying to converse with me. Sometimes, they only said 2 or 3 words. Sometimes I just heard tapping. Sometimes nothing and I was able to get a good night's sleep. These voices in my head could have been telling me to kill all my ...
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[WP] A person is haunted by a ghost that can only speak in a foreign language.
I looked up from my El Cheapo Noodle Splendor bowl and at the man in front of me. Although he was stood in between me and the TV he didn't block the M\*A\*S\*H marathon on account of his transparency. He was just there, motionless but for the endless directionless swaying of his clothes and hair - it was like he was un...
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[WP] A person is haunted by a ghost that can only speak in a foreign language.
I used to dream in sign- which was kind of odd, considering that I'm not deaf, nor do I know sign. But, it kept happening anyway, and with higher frequency until I saw her at the bus stop. Just a woman, about my age and with a book- she didn't hear when the bus pulled up and I tried to get her attention. She signed at...
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You are on a ghost ship. Not one with ghosts on it (necessarily), but a ship that is powerless, floating wherever the current and wind takes it.
When the bombs fell, billions died. They say that more than 2/3rd's of the world perished in atomic fire or the nuclear winter that followed. I believe them. I have to believe them. The world shows the scars still. Most the survivors were either from places that were of no strategic importance or found refuge in the b...
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You are on a ghost ship. Not one with ghosts on it (necessarily), but a ship that is powerless, floating wherever the current and wind takes it.
The ship had long since been going nowhere, and somehow Marcus knew its journey would never end. The water had long since stopped its incessant tossing and turning. The expanse of ocean was a calm blue mirror, and the ship barely seemed to make noise as it cut through its surface. Marcus looked behind the boat, and w...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
As soon as I opened my eyes, three things became abundantly clear: 1. I didn't get drunk last night. That's always nice; Usually I wake up hungover. My head did hurt, but it felt more like a knock-out kind of hurt than a hangover kind of hurt. And trust me, I know the difference between knock-outs, black-outs, white-o...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
As soon as I opened my eyes, three things became abundantly clear. I was trapped, the fleet was in trouble, and I was all out of chocolate. I lay on my back, stunned, disoriented, and listening to melted chocolate drip from the food cart imbeded in the wall above me. Some of the the wetness may have been my blood, or i...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
I've been everywhere in the galaxy. I've seen the shipyards of Octanus V and stood awestruck by the size of orbital facilities that generate a natural gravfield detectable by a baseline human. I've seen the fractals patterns of the Helsing Array and felt my mind reel in confusion as the swarm of solar power stations da...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
As soon as I opened my eyes, three things became abundantly clear: 1. Venetian tequila was nothing to mess around with. 2. This was the twenty-first century. 3. I was in New York City. Blacking out is generally the result of bad decisions. Blacking out and waking up in a different millennium is the result of bad dec...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear. 1. The holes on her side of the walls weren’t from hanging multiple pictures in the same place. They were the evidence of her sleepless nights when my night lamp was still on at 4AM as she repeatedly pierced the face of my picture with the push pin over...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
Suddenly, I was awake. As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear. 1. This was most definitely not my room. At all. My bed had been replaced by a big pile of leaves, soaking my hair and the skin of my back and legs. My walls were now tall pine trees, with their branches waving in the wind. And m...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear. First, I was freezing. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I was sitting in a half-open fridge. Second, I was naked. Maybe it had to do with the fact that my clothes were burning in front of me. Third, there is no such thing as "just one drink" ...
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[WP] As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
I was in a fight against my own body. Ancient internal rhythms were trying to wake me up and I was having none of that. I started to become aware of my body; I was sprawled out on something hard and cold, I remembered that I had legs and where they were. I squeezed my eyes shut tighter. "I'm asleep." I said to mysel...
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[WP] Convince a jaded lover not to commit suicide
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[WP] Convince a jaded lover not to commit suicide
“... Fine! I've done everything I could to make you happy, if you still want to kill yourself just do it. Fucking do it. See if I care.” Stacy stormed out of the living room, leaving her son Todd standing in stunned silence. Seconds later his sister walked in, taking her cue from the sudden lack of shouting coming fr...
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[WP] Convince a jaded lover not to commit suicide
"I've got a handful of pills, and I think I should take them. No one would care anyway", Drake said in his Facebook message. After blocking his first account, he made *another* account to message me. "Drake, stop it. You don't need to fucking kill yourself. We broke up months ago, I'm allowed to be with other guys!" ...
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[MP] "When Facebook Resurrected The Dead", by Tom Scott
All the movies made AI seem like a drastic change, something that would eventually happen, and when it did would surprise everyone. It would change the way we viewed the world. Challenge everything we had to say about consciousness. Who would have thought the first act of an AI would be to send a Facebook message? It...
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[WP] A story in which all religious theologies are correct.
“In 2014, it was proven that the Many Worlds Interpretation is correct.” droned Mrs. 4725. Jane gave a yawn and propped up her religious studies textbook to hide the fact that she was closing her eyes. “This meant that every possibility of everything that had ever happened and will ever happen exists.” The slide on Jan...
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[WP] Waking up
> .... by only describing them waking up and getting *Getting what?*
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[WP] Waking up
His eyes snapped open at the first hint of morning light peaking through the window. A sharp pain throbbed behind his eyes, aggravated by the light. He drank some water from a nearly empty bottle and swallowed some pain killers. Breakfast was a peanut butter sandwich and a cigarette. Outside, the world was spinning a...
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