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[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | When it came time to split our assets, we traded memories in-kind for anything that couldn't be shared between us. Our lawyers agreed that it would be best, and we nodded in affirmation at the red-pulsing light on the conference room telephone that diligently recorded the proceedings.
She wanted the Henckels knife set... | 2 | 0 | 42 | 14,100 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | A crisp pop followed by a tortured gust of air were the ending buzzer for the ping-pong match.
"God*dammit*"
Clark was never able to finish against Wash. He would always surge in the back quarter of the game and come up just short at the end. Wash wasn't toying with Clark, but he believed that's what Clark thought ... | 3 | 0 | 42 | 14,101 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | Four o'clock again. "This is the worst part of Saturdays" I though as I put on the stupid hat. I was dressed in my work shirt, a name tag that read DOUGLAS, my black pants, an apron, and that stupid hat. I walked into the crew room and the first thing my manage says to me is "What's wrong with you?" I hate when p... | 2 | 0 | 42 | 14,102 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | I used to drink to forget
Now I trade my memories for liters of alcohol
Take this one from me, the day we first kissed
I have no reason to hold onto it
It only reminds me of the days where everything was just fine
And take this one too, of senior prom, where I finally danced
and I'll take a bottle of your best wh... | 2 | 0 | 42 | 14,103 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | What's the worst crime I ever had to investigate? Man, what a fucking question. I've been on this job for fourteen years... fourteen long, dark years walking the streets of scenic New Detroit. It wasn't six months in before I had to call up the station to bring some child-sized body bags to the scene. At two years, I w... | 5 | 0 | 42 | 14,104 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | She huddled in the corner, trying to fold herself into nothingness. It didn't work, but she didn't really expect it to. A vain hope, as the sudden light piercing the darkness startled her into giving a yelp of fright. His grunting laughter grated, and she forced herself to stillness.
He ducked low through the entra... | 1 | 0 | 42 | 14,105 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | I turned the key in the ignition and the engine rattled for a moment and then stopped. This ones going to cost a good one I thought. After some persistence I got the old piece of junk rolling and made it to the convenience store.
"Just the coffee?" The clerk asked me. I told him yeah, that's all. "Something simple the... | 1 | 0 | 42 | 14,106 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | You could always tell the ones who weren't careful. Wandering, nameless, not even capable of generating the *currency* anymore, their eyes pleading for things they no longer remembered they needed. You could always tell. And they elicited the same thought each time. *Pathetic.* And no word described the *Lost* better.... | 1 | 0 | 42 | 14,107 |
[WP] Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | Sleeping is a sin. I don’t mind that it’s required – everyone has to do it, so we’re all on the same biological keel – but the fact that you can’t generate new memories while asleep is downright unfair.
The memory-rich have it easy. It’s a breeze to pay for sky-diving in Bolivia if you have a trip to the Great Barri... | 1 | 0 | 42 | 14,108 |
[WP] Make me sympathize with a character that history hates. | I'm not saying what I did was right, but He was supposed to go up on that cross. It was destiny, his fate, his cross to bear. This is mine: cast down to the lowest ring of the pit and for what? So that he can come back in a few days anyways? Let's all rejoice for the Son of Man has risen from the dead! That was su... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,109 |
[WP] Make me sympathize with a character that history hates. | "You have to be careful of what you say, you know they're watching, and waiting for just the moment to silence you. You carry little support here, which is not to say you can;t win the people over, but you have to be careful about the words you choose to use in this speech"
The chubby man with small hands paced back a... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14,110 |
[WP] Make me sympathize with a character that history hates. | I kind of reinvented.
I was minding my own business, engaging in some harmless javelin throwing and contemplating this foreign European land. I heard screams from the huts to the north where my mother usually stayed. I ran in her general direction and saw that there was a spear going right through her chest. I ran, sc... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,111 |
[WP] An extremely poor family's home is accidentally destroyed in a Super hero battle. | “This isn’t over yet, Galacto-Man! You and those training dummies you call sidekicks haven’t seen the last of The Scribbler!”
Beams of light shot out from the crudely drawn door The Scribbler had etched into the crumbling sheetrock. In a flash, he pulled it opened and disappeared, leaving nothing but utter destruction... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 14,112 |
[WP] An extremely poor family's home is accidentally destroyed in a Super hero battle. | People give being a sidekick a pretty bad rap, but he didn't mind that much. Jake "Toughboy" Coleman was one of the few strength-heroes on the sidekick track. Strength was usually a golden ticket to full superhero status, but Jake's test scores in personality and bench press relegated him to the lower tier.
As such,... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 14,113 |
[WP] An extremely poor family's home is accidentally destroyed in a Super hero battle. | Jenny's mom and dad huddled around her grandparents' kitchen table, talking in whispers so no one else could hear.
"Our insurance absolutely will not cover this," Jenny's mom whispered. "I don't know what we're going to do."
Jenny's dad ran his hands though his hair. It used to be a rich, dark brown but now it was p... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 14,114 |
[WP] Kind of a contest. Bake us a cake with your words. | I can hear it, calling to me, beckoning me. It wants me to consume it, to savor it, to release its sweet crumbs all over my tongue, to make my taste buds convulse with pleasure.
It has put on its fanciest clothing, but it has allowed me to see its more... intimate parts as well. There it sits in all its glory, proudly... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 14,115 |
[WP] Kind of a contest. Bake us a cake with your words. | Posted my own because the bakery was too empty.
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Circular, 20 inches in diameter
Fulfilling every critic's parameter.
Molten, dark Belgian chocolate cascades
Warm to the touch, it forms braids
Of gooey decadence
Resting upon canvas of dark yellow
With greater strength than any bordello,
Banana exterior aw... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 14,116 |
[WP] Kind of a contest. Bake us a cake with your words. | **Passionate Pleas Bakery Tour, 1st Floor**
"Oh hello! Well, so, over there is where we bake our cake. If the floured floors and fondant doors don't already make it crystal clear, we take our baking seriously here. So here, a tiny morsel of pineapple cake to welcome our guests and get them past breakfast. Next, introd... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 14,117 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | (I used the "city" theme instead of the "sea theme.")
Shrink quietly like an old flower.
Do not go out with a bang,
nor a whimper,
but leave no sounds at all
to trail behind your coffin.
Yes, wilt,
for those who once took such good care
no longer water you,
no longer visit you,
for you are but an old ... | 9 | 0 | 15 | 14,118 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Courage, death and life
If only it were I who suffered
There's this sick kind of feeling
When I realise she’s sad
Like all the waters of the anxiet-sea
Have broken their banks and drowned me
And I all the words I have in my mouth
I bite down on, hard
Because they can’t wash away
The marks she drew o... | 4 | 0 | 15 | 14,119 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Death is a clear ship
sailing silently for eternity,
its deck amassed with cries of life,
of innocence.
Even Poseidon’s sea dare not tremble
under the wake of unseen,
forgotten
sailors.
*(Last sentence in the poem I got was "Death is a clear ship.")*
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[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Adventure, desolation, and death.
You hear her calling you and you swoon.
She calls to you with her sweet breath.
You yearn to be her sun and moon.
Stop, please, turn away.
Her lovely voice is merely a ruse.
She only sees you as her prey.
Sirens are the devil's muse. | 3 | 0 | 15 | 14,121 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | **Travel swiftly like a rough wind**
Without hesitation or remorse
Forget the past and times you've sinned
Keep focused on your solemn course
Wipe the tears: they mean nothing now
Only remnants of a forgotten dream
Remember your will, your goal, your vow
Let them carry you across the grief-stricken stream
As yo... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,122 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Why does the shore endure?
In all my years of walking
along sea-blown coasts,
down rocky jetties,
across sandy beaches,
never once have I seen
the shore fight back. | 3 | 0 | 15 | 14,123 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Courage is a lively sun
born to clouds
transforming the rain
to feathery light
and touching upturned faces
with tiny hands.
Golden air
seeping like water
streaming current
creeping through the cracks
along the wall
a fragmented puzzle
with broken pieces.
The reluctant moon
glows bravely
in spite of... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,124 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | The warm mast calmly pulls the moon
Closer
Higher and higher up
the larger it seems
hanging in the night
immune to age
nothing penetrates
not even the dark of the deep
The warm mast calmly pulls the moon
down to earth
closer
and closer
to roll more
the waves splash
push
and
pull
The warm mast ca... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 14,125 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | The dark sidewalk quietly grabs the cigarette
leaving nothing but its aroma behind.
A tough night to be an alleyway addict
as the smoldering embers waft the flavor
into my nostrils and down my bones.
The cold sidewalk grabs my heat
Leaving a shivering husk behind.
A tough night for an orphaned runaway
as the g... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 14,126 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | *Ah, death!*
Is that all you have to show?
Your dark robes and scythe?
You think that this scares me?
Child, I am greater than you
I have lived, seen, and died
I am more than you
more than you will ever be.
Judge me, take my life
but I'll be damned if I go quietly
-027 (playing catch up) | 1 | 0 | 15 | 14,127 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Lord, exhaustion!
consciousness screaming, forced, down a dark, rocky road
homochromatic trees flash for an instant
and are ever bound
away...
away... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 14,128 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Wow, some cryptic lines in here! Mine lends itself to something short...
Where is the clear cloud?
Where is the silent call?
If not these, can we say we know
Anything at all?
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[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | Love is an old pirate,
a dust-gathering Blackbeard of sorts !
It grows older and wiser,
earning scars from inglorious battle.
It sinks and floats,
but the flag is always raised again.
For Love is like an old pirate, one that could never be beaten. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 14,130 |
[WP] Frankensteined poetry! Write a short poem that includes the first OR last sentence given to you by a poem generator. | All wandering feet are guided home by the roots and caverns they stand on.
All cars break down when the dinosaurs that fuel them no longer accept their servitude.
All ships command misty, lively whales. | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,131 |
Its the end of the world, no hope of survival at all. People of different religion have gathered, agnostics and atheist are doing there thing. who do you side with? |
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Its the end of the world, no hope of survival at all. People of different religion have gathered, agnostics and atheist are doing there thing. who do you side with? | Everyone seemed so simple and so boring life might as well have left the Earth yesterday. The core of the planet was erupting, literally separating us, and the human race still stood stubborn and divided. Our perspectives failed to change even in the direst of situations, and we will perish under the guise of unresolve... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,133 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 331 | 14,134 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 331 | 14,135 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 331 | 14,136 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 331 | 14,137 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 331 | 14,138 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | The sun was shining down and it was a beautiful first day of the school year at Hogwarts. Ron, Harry, and Hermoine, were bright eyed and ready for the first day of class.
"How was your summer Harry?", questioned Hermoine.
"It was lovely, I stayed with Ron and Jenny and I got to relax together and stay up all night d... | 5 | 0 | 331 | 14,139 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | "Good morning, Vietnam!" Professor Michael Scott roared. He smiled weakly, looking around the Great Hall.
"Tough crowd, I see," he muttered. "Well, welcome to Hogwarts to those of you that are new. I am Professor Michael Scott, as most of you know. Kind of a celebrity around here. Anyway... B.O.B said 'I've got the m... | 153 | 0 | 331 | 14,140 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 331 | 14,141 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | "Alright, listen up everyone. I have some important announcements," Headmaster Scott called from the front of the Great Hall. Harry, Ron, and Hermione quieted down after catching up with each other. The other students followed.
Harry found the new headmaster different than he expected. Instead of wearing robes as tho... | 50 | 0 | 331 | 14,142 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | michaelscott | 3 | 0 | 331 | 14,143 |
[WP] Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning for a new term at Hogwarts where they are greeted by the new Headmaster, Michael Scott. | This thread has been linked to from elsewhere on reddit.
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[WP] Write about something you hold a strong believe in? | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,145 |
[WP] Write about something you hold a strong believe in? | "Here, here Rubenstein! I have one!" The two men huddled together in the darkness, lit only by the blue glow of the outdated computer they were using. Behind them fast-food cartons and empty juice boxes littered the floor. They didn't have the time. Not when people were offending their most dearly held beliefs on the i... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,146 |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night and looked at the time, the time was broken and read 6:66. You checked other clocks, all of the time read 6:66. | "*Oh shit, not again.*"
It's tough being the Devil's best friend, but someone's gotta do it.
HEY POL
As usual, he's perched on the end of my bed, hooves crossed, looking eagerly at me.
"Listen, Luce..."
DON'T CALL ME LUCE. IT'S SATAN. OR 'YOUR DARKNESS.' NOT LUCE.
"Look Luce, it's the middle of the fuck... | 17 | 0 | 15 | 14,147 |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night and looked at the time, the time was broken and read 6:66. You checked other clocks, all of the time read 6:66. | I woke up from my slumber and my eyes peered towards my clock my eyes were still foggy but it read '6' something. I thought i had some time before getting up for school and I rolled over. But something felt wrong. Something unusual. I once again looked at the clock. What no it can't be that. It doesn't work like that.... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 14,148 |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night and looked at the time, the time was broken and read 6:66. You checked other clocks, all of the time read 6:66. | "Well that's odd," I thought as I looked at the digital clock on the other side of the room. I had woken up at what felt like the middle of the night, but the clock-face read 6:66.
Must have broken in the night, obviously.
So I reached for my phone, still just to check the time. Of course, it was off, and wouldn't ... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,149 |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night and looked at the time, the time was broken and read 6:66. You checked other clocks, all of the time read 6:66. | Luke ran around the house frantically trying to lock all the doors. Every time he successfully managed to lock one door, the other one would re-open. His terror was growing as all the alarms in the house were going off at their highest volume, reading the letters: 666, even after he unplugged them. Tears streamed from ... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,150 |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night and looked at the time, the time was broken and read 6:66. You checked other clocks, all of the time read 6:66. | I'm so hungry. And very tired. And the microwave clock reads 6:66.
Why does it read 6:66? Three options come to mind.
One. This was the microwave we upgraged, and we were probable drunk when programming it. It's actually 7:06 am, the true hour of the beast, when I should be roaring about this new apartment wonde... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 14,151 |
[WP] A mortal ascends to godhood. Instil in me a sense of awe. | Abrahm's body lit with gentle flames as he accepted The Crown - his personal divine spark - upon his head. It felt snug against his skin, and a sense of *rightness* came with it. Abrahm welcomed this unknown and lost part of himself as they two became one.
Abruptly, senses made themselves clear to him that had never be... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,152 |
[WP] A mortal ascends to godhood. Instil in me a sense of awe. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,153 |
[EU] Describe a scene from 'The Twilight Saga' as directed by Quentin Tarantino | Bella moves across the parking lot. Close up of shoes, one is untied, one goes into puddle (light rain). Quick pan to classmate running away from bullies and climbing in brown jeep. He has a busted lip. Edward is watching Bella move slowly. He can't hear her thoughts, why? Edward moves closer. Calamity breaks ou... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14,154 |
[IP] Map of the Internet | Maybe we should start brainstorming ideas to get the thread active. | 1 | 0 | 13 | 14,155 |
[IP] Map of the Internet | Day 1
I begin my story in the city of English, on the landmass of Wikipedia. Through wikiracing, I managed to get lost in Svenska and Suomi, before ending up in Srpski. I eventually found a link to Simple English, where I tried to figure out a way to get back to English.
While people chatted in a dozen unfamiliar lan... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 14,156 |
[WP] Ten years later, a bully meets his victim in the cancer ward. | Which one has cancer? | 1 | 0 | 7 | 14,157 |
[WP] Ten years later, a bully meets his victim in the cancer ward. | "Hello mister Spencer, you have a visitor!" Said the nurse.
"What? I've never had a visitor in the three god forsaken months I've been here!" Said john Spencer. He looked at the door a like he had seen a ghost to see his childhood victim walk in calm and confident. "I'm...I'm sorry William I really am." He said l... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14,158 |
[WP] Ten years later, a bully meets his victim in the cancer ward. | Cynthia looks up from the text argument with her boyfriend when the call light turns on. "Room 320," she notifies the team of nurses around her.
One of them tells her that the patient in Room 320 is John's, but he’s on his lunch break.
"Ah, okay. I'm covering for him," Cynthia responds.
She walks down the hall and e... | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14,159 |
[PM] An interesting SciFi prompt. | An alien invasion scenario where humanity is the invading species. | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14,160 |
[PM] An interesting SciFi prompt. | A world where people can pay for immunity to certain illnesses in the form of a microchip planted into the skin. | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14,161 |
[PM] An interesting SciFi prompt. | He realized that he was standing on a sidewalk, with a burning cigarette in one hand and a steaming cup of coffee in the other.

  
Beyond that, he had no idea where he was—nor how he'd gotten there.

  
One thing that he was certain about, his name wa... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,162 |
[PM] An interesting SciFi prompt. | A race of aliens have lived on this planet for years alongside humans. Their existence was a secret until a man found out that one of them was his neighbor. | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14,163 |
[PM] An interesting SciFi prompt. | Something that was previously innocuous becomes quite suddenly lethal. | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14,164 |
[PM] An interesting SciFi prompt. | A human-like alien has become stranded on earth and you find him/her/it has been crashing (staying) in your house for the past few days. OR you could write from your P.o.v of you getting caught crashing in a human-like aliens home after becoming stranded on their planet. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,165 |
In the year 2188, war is abolished and conflitcs are now resolved by Yu-gi-oh match. Describe WWIII |
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[WP] What if the Bible was just a test from God to get into Heaven? | (not an entry, but a comment)
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The Bible is not claimed to be “the de-facto know all and be all of knowledge” by Catholics. You have to interpret it in the cultural and historical context — most points argued over to death by various protestant groups were never meant to be literally, since ancient Israelites LOVED ... | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14,168 |
[WP] What if the Bible was just a test from God to get into Heaven? | 6:00 AM. I wake up. I brush my teeth quickly and bite into an apple. I hurry to my high school so I can arrive before first period starts. So, it’s basically a normal day for me. Today, for some reason, my head aches. It’s pretty annoying, seeing as I have a test today. And now I’ve ended up in a shady neighborhood.
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On your death, you find that the only thing waiting for you is a single Zero Punctuation review of your life |
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On your death, you find that the only thing waiting for you is a single Zero Punctuation review of your life | If ever I've wanted a prompt to deliver... | 10 | 0 | 29 | 14,171 |
On your death, you find that the only thing waiting for you is a single Zero Punctuation review of your life | Hi there! Today we're going to talk about the long and boring adventure which spent more years that any sane person would imagine in the development stage that most people call your life. Now don't get wrong, the intro scenes to this are great, but I did end up asking myself whether it was actually strictly possible fo... | 8 | 0 | 29 | 14,172 |
[WP] A man discovers that whoever he kills no longer exists from then on. | "Listen Johnny," I explained to my son, "Mommy is going away. A new mommy may come along one day, but mommy is gone."
"What do you mean she is never coming back?" he inquired as we sat in the pristine white room. "I can see her right there. She is just sleeping silly daddy! Hahaha," he laughed with all of the joy a si... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,173 |
[WP] You lament for your lost lover as, unbeknownst to you, your wife walks into the room. | "Oh, to have you in thy arms again, to feel your skin on mine!" I said to my memories of her. "Tis such an awful thing when love must end, but our end was more tragic still."
I leaned against my window and continued my attempt at Shakespeareian sadness "You were taken from me! O, my love! You were stolen! Ripped from ... | 8 | 0 | 6 | 14,174 |
[WP] You lament for your lost lover as, unbeknownst to you, your wife walks into the room. | Colonel Schneider handed off his horse's reins to the servant as walked towards the steps of his townhouse. The grey sleet falls unendingly. The rains are common this time of year in the capital city of Fredericksburg. As he enters his home, he hands his cloak to his footman and accepts a cup of strong black tea. Finis... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14,175 |
[WP] You lament for your lost lover as, unbeknownst to you, your wife walks into the room. | Dawn was eager to break through the curtains and usher in a new life for me. I stepped out of bed and silenced the alarm that had also woken up my wife, Sharon.
“Henry, what are you doing up this early?”
“I have an early meeting today.”
She gave a grunt of approval and rolled back into her comfort. I breathed a fee... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14,176 |
[WP] You lament for your lost lover as, unbeknownst to you, your wife walks into the room. | I met a girl once.
I met a her at a beautiful party on a crisp, magic night, the kind where everything that has ever been mundane is showered with golden light and propped up perfectly to be wonderful--to make you wonder why you had ever been such a fool as to not love everything you ever saw.
But she went and made e... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,177 |
[EU] Take an established universe that doesn't have dragons or any relation to dragons and... add dragons. | "This is... madness. What are these? This isn't fair," said Paul as he stared at a creature flying in the cloudless Arrakis sky attacking a House Atreides aircraft.
Gurney gave a bellylaugh, "All is fair in love and war, Paul."
*This new development is troubling. Gurney thinks its amusing. My dreams never showed me... | 14 | 0 | 57 | 14,178 |
[EU] Take an established universe that doesn't have dragons or any relation to dragons and... add dragons. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 57 | 14,179 |
[EU] Take an established universe that doesn't have dragons or any relation to dragons and... add dragons. | "You! Screw, you!"
Jesse presses down on the gas pedal, racing down the empty highway. He runs for his life, away from the hulking, flying beast over head. He rolls his window down and angles his side view mirror upward. Their eyes meet in the reflection. The cold, glowing stare of the reptile's golden eyes strikes a ... | 6 | 0 | 57 | 14,180 |
[EU] Take an established universe that doesn't have dragons or any relation to dragons and... add dragons. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 57 | 14,181 |
[EU] Take an established universe that doesn't have dragons or any relation to dragons and... add dragons. | "Ah! Tsubaki, what the hell is *that*" Black*Star yelled, pointing at the sleeping beast inches away.
"A keeshin....? It doesn't look evil..." Tsubaki replied, takkng a hesitant step towards it.
Both yelped as the creature raised its head and snorted, tail thumping against the ground rythmically.
"Crona, calm down" ... | 4 | 0 | 57 | 14,182 |
[EU] Take an established universe that doesn't have dragons or any relation to dragons and... add dragons. | [Warning: Contains spoilers concerning Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy, which is truly an incredible series. If you have not read it, avert your eyes, please.]
*Sazed had an innumerable amount of time on his hands now, and consequently did as much learning as he could. He reasoned, of course, that it would help h... | 1 | 0 | 57 | 14,183 |
[EU] Take an established universe that doesn't have dragons or any relation to dragons and... add dragons. | **This is a story made following the ruleset created in "Machine of Death".**
I woke up today, like every other morning: a cup of leftover coffee, some toast, and a quick shower. I grabbed my coat like every other morning, and walked out the door.
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I walked into the interview room, a... | 1 | 0 | 57 | 14,184 |
[WP] A superhero rants about having to be "family friendly". | why the he** can't I say what I want? i raged to my friend derrick over in the lair. I mean you would think these people would be grateful, right? After all that i do for them. I don't HAVE to put myself at risk day in and day out for their benefit. I mean I enjoy it, i really do, but when they get into the busines... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,185 |
[PM] In celebration of making it to the weekend, Prompt Me! | A man is shot. Describe his thoughts in the moment the bullet pierces his skin as if it is happening in slow motion. | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14,186 |
[PM] In celebration of making it to the weekend, Prompt Me! | The President of the United States, the Vice-President. his cabinet, and the majority of Congressmen are secretly sick with a terminal disease. They have 6 months to live. Write about a researcher/team of researchers trying to find a cure. Bonus if you include how they were infected.
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[PM] In celebration of making it to the weekend, Prompt Me! | Hmm... We'll go for something different here. Let's give you a non-fiction prompt: write about the biggest mistake you've ever made, and what you learned from it.
I know, I know, it sounds like a college essay question, but questions like this are a great way to improve your writing. Often, it's very difficult to writ... | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14,188 |
[WP] If life's an ocean, I'm only on the surface. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,189 |
[WP] If life's an ocean, I'm only on the surface. | People revere me, they call me great and praise my words. These sheep dressed as humans believe me to be some all knowing wise-man, but the truth is that in the grand scheme of things, if life's like an ocean, then I'm only on the surface. I am only set apart from the others because I understand this. All of the great ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,190 |
[WP] If life's an ocean, I'm only on the surface. | My mother once told me, “Life isn't a spectator sport.” Yet here I am, sitting in the nosebleed seats, wondering which team I should root for. There is a pseudo word on the internet, “sonder”, the realization that the world is populated by billions of other people, each one leading a life just as complex if not more s... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14,191 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | The most terrifying monsters are the ones we can't see. The ones that live in the darkness of our hearts. They thrive on our depravity and suffering. They feed on our misery and bathe in our self destruction. For so long these creatures have been living inside us that people forgot about them. They just continued on wi... | 6 | 0 | 11 | 14,192 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | Far beyond the furthest star.
Seeded deep between you and your closest friend.
Midway from here and there and everywhere it waits and waits and waits.
That's all it does, it waits. It has no feeling, it waits.
Of what it wants, I do not know, but all I know is that it waits.
It whispers deep into my ear... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 14,193 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | I pushed through the last bit of vegetation that stood between me and the main swamp, breathing heavily. Six weeks I had been in this fetid, stinking jungle, tracking the beast, and finally I was at the water body where the natives had told me it lived. I wiped my brow with the back of my hand, and looked for a pla... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 14,194 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | Sick men, dead men howling in the night,
When the moon grows fat and the sun slips out of sight
The Moroposa scuttle, the Moroposa crawl
They slip into the shadows and they scurry up the walls
Ten hairy legs and diamond blue eyes
And a mouth like a wound filled with razor yellow fangs
All the children tremble wh... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 14,195 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | What I'm I?
I am surrounded by things that are unfamiliar to me, but they look at me as if I am the one that doesn't belong. They are covered in fur and have sharp fangs and claws while I do not. They walk on four legs. I only walk on two. There are many of them and they circle me cautiously as if I was going to atta... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 14,196 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | Somnium, n.
A creature, once human, that has far exceeded a natural human's lifespan.
The means by which advanced age are achieved are varied, from freak accidents of nature to unusual dietary practices (see Fountain of Youth). The means will determine the physical form of the Somnium, which may range from decrepit t... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 14,197 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | If you look carefully through the ground level window of the basement of 23 Baker street, if you can see through the thin yellow curtains that once were white, you can probably discern this human piece of filth.
He's wearing boxer short and a stained wife-beater. Sporting a 3 weeks beard and greasy crown style hair, ... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 14,198 |
[wp] Create a monster. Explain it, write a story or a scene or even just a small bio, but create a monster. | Dark software loading. Please hold... Done.
300 kilobytes of data have been decompressed. This software will run at a minimal priority. This software has no need for immediate action; this software can wait.
Computing parameters for next version.... Done.
Building.... Done.
*Your hardware is interesting enou... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 14,199 |
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