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[PM] Give me a first and last line and I will connect them, again. | The end didn't come with a bang or a whimper; in fact, nobody even noticed.
It wasn't a very good reason, but it had to do. | 1 | 0 | 8 | 14,900 |
[PM] Give me a first and last line and I will connect them, again. | Every week the water got higher and higher.
This is the end. | 1 | 0 | 8 | 14,901 |
[PM] Give me a first and last line and I will connect them, again. | "Sure! We'll be best friends, if you want to!"
"We'll be the worst enemies, like we need to be" | 1 | 0 | 8 | 14,902 |
[WP] In a world where food is scarce, buffets have been made illegal, and society is besieged by illicit buffet cartels, catering to anyone willing to pay | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 44 | 14,903 |
[WP] In a world where food is scarce, buffets have been made illegal, and society is besieged by illicit buffet cartels, catering to anyone willing to pay | You have to understand, the act of getting into a buffet back then was like getting into the top floor of a Vegas club and getting free bottle service in the 21st century. You knew you were at the top at that point. The diseases that were killing the plants were on the news every day. Every two weeks there was a new... | 17 | 0 | 44 | 14,904 |
[WP] In a world where food is scarce, buffets have been made illegal, and society is besieged by illicit buffet cartels, catering to anyone willing to pay | I had heard about the "Super-Markets" from some of the older kids. Technically I had been born before they either shut down or turned into Ration Depots, but I was little then, I didn't really remember it. There were always lines at the Ration Depots. They liked it better if you took Dry food home and prepared it yo... | 2 | 0 | 44 | 14,905 |
[WP] Write a story from the perspective of a colorblind gas-powered hedge trimmer | *Black. Buh-lack. Yeah, sure, that sounds pretty good. Black. Hmm. Okay then, and this one? Blight? Well that doesn't make too much sense, now does it? Cello. Duration. Encyclopedia. Fungi. Ooh, that one's fun. Fungi? Black and fungi.*
*Black. And. Fungi.*
*No, better hang on to that one, though. G... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14,906 |
[WP] Write a story from the perspective of a colorblind gas-powered hedge trimmer | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14,907 |
[WP] Write a story from the perspective of a colorblind gas-powered hedge trimmer | You may not realize this, but all hedge trimmers are color blind.
Maddie Othello-Brise Ann, affectionately called Obie, didn't realize this either, as she lugged it in from the dilapidated shed out back of the trailer. Obie had named this particular trimmer Raphael, after her favorite ninja turtle. Raphael, of course... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14,908 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | I told him she’s just a child. She’s just nine. She hasn’t even begun her life. Death looks at me, contemplating my words then tells me that it is better this way. How? I ask. How can the world be a better place when a little child dies? Death says nothing.
After a few moments of silence, Death stands and motions for... | 15 | 0 | 9 | 14,909 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | There's something interesting about watching Death take a child. Any child really. It doesn't really make much of a difference that this was my child. I mean, it does, to me, sure. But in the grand scheme of things, it's all the same thing. Some tiny body, not even big enough to make a difference, you know, in the... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 14,910 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 9 | 14,911 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | "Clancy Edwards."
The name rang in her head like a bell and she was awake. She turned her head to the side without raising it from the pillow, and for the first time he could see movement beneath her eyelids.
"Clancy Edwards."
Defeated, she raised her head forward and opened her eyes. The light was sharp and clean... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 14,912 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | "I came a long way to find you Death."
"Not as far as most. It would seem, very strangely, as if you are alive."
"I did not come for myself."
Death shuffled uncomfortably in his seat.
"It has been a long time since anyone has done that, but I know why your here. I cannot help you."
"Why not?"
"She does not belong... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 14,913 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | “You can't save her.” his empty voice echos through my soul.
“The hell I can't!” I'm doing my best to sound resolute, to show the I won't back down, “You can take me instead.”
The smoking black void above her immaculate, still warm body has no face to speak of or with. But the moment of silence between us perfectly... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 14,914 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | I slammed down another beer. She was dying. I knew it, but I was so scared my balls were even hiding. I ran like a little boy, sniveling and holding back tears, down to the local bar, where I could drown in some sweet alcohol. I couldn't look at her shriveled form anymore, with so many tubes and wires she looked like t... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 14,915 |
[WP] You barter with death for an extension on the life of someone you love; Death convinces you that it is better for them to pass | "Anything. I'd do anything. Take years off my life just for a few more hours on hers, I swear, I'll do anything just for a little more time together. She's the only thing I have left. Please."
I could feel the tears crawl down my cheeks as I faced the hooded figure standing over her bed. He didn't have a scythe, I n... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 14,916 |
[WP] A scientist in a cyberpunk universe makes his way to a steampunk universe. He is completely unprepared. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 33 | 14,917 |
[WP] A scientist in a cyberpunk universe makes his way to a steampunk universe. He is completely unprepared. | Tec, Reebee, and Gizmo waited patiently outside the Cybernetic Vortex as their departed comrade ventures into the terrifying unknown.
After several days of no contact, they began to lose hope of the project and some of the team members even suggested closing the vortex.
"We don't know what could come out, it's bett... | 4 | 0 | 33 | 14,918 |
[WP] A scientist in a cyberpunk universe makes his way to a steampunk universe. He is completely unprepared. | The first thing he noticed, after he finished sneezing for five minutes, was the smell. Burning, everything was *burning* his brain told him. But his eyes and his brain failed to agree. Rarely a good feeling.
When they'd loaded Javon Dillworth into that damned capsule they told him they were sending him back in tim... | 5 | 0 | 33 | 14,919 |
[WP] A scientist in a cyberpunk universe makes his way to a steampunk universe. He is completely unprepared. | Earth has begun to reach a very slow decline to the end. War for livable land has begun in some of the hotter regions of the world, and the overpopulated regions press into politically unstable zones which causes further strife and violence. My lab was told to find a way to fix this. We went through every possible scen... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 14,920 |
[WP] The man/woman who discovered fire time travels to the 21st century to realise that nobody give him/her credit for the discovery. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 15 | 14,921 |
[WP] The man/woman who discovered fire time travels to the 21st century to realise that nobody give him/her credit for the discovery. | Let me tell you something - if some good for nothing bastard named Prometheus comes up to you one day and hands you a goddamn torch, don't take it. That guy, he'll never deliver. Trust me. I've been waiting a damn long time.
Maybe I would've been happier just sitting around in the dark and cold; at least sunlight and ... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 14,922 |
[WP]- A person rises up against a government, using only his or her late fathers rifle. | He's here. I'm sure of it. I remove a five round stripper clip from my worn brown satchel and place the cartridge of 7.62 x54 mmR bullets into their proper place in the feed system. Click. The cartridges sit loaded into their temporary resting bay before being called upon by my trigger finger to their rightful place – ... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14,923 |
[WP]- A person rises up against a government, using only his or her late fathers rifle. | Do you only want me to describe the rifle, or can I add backstory? | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,924 |
[WP] Where did the time go? | Where did the time go? Last I remembered, I was just waking up. Looking out the window now, the sun was setting. My day was gone. I knew I did something - I must have, I was exhausted. I hate how forgetful I am.
Where did the time go? Last I knew, my daughter was in kindergarten. She's ten years old, she tells me. Fi... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 14,925 |
[WP] Where did the time go? | Ruth watched the sugar dissolve into her tea, the spoon circling clockwise exactly twelve times. She wrapped her hands around it, heat permeating the purple ceramic mug as she walked to the porch. She curled up on the swing and watched dawn break through the pointed tips of the trees. She sipped her tea and relaxed.
*... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 14,926 |
[WP] Where did the time go? | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 11 | 14,927 |
[WP] Where did the time go? | When the light caught my eye I went over to the window to close the curtain. I approached the window and was confronted with an otherworldly reality of strip malls and intersections that contaminated the outside world. Smog hazed over the grey mountains somewhere far away, mountains I remember being not so grey some ti... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 14,928 |
[WP] Where did the time go? | "But... I don't understand.... where did time go?"
"No no no, the correct question is where did THE time go. You people are always making that mistake," he whispered, drawing closer to his companion. "thinking that time is an immutable part of your existence..."
"But isn't it?" she asked.
"My point proven!" he excla... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 14,929 |
[PM] Feeling uninspired as of late, and a few days behind on the New Year's Challenge. Help me break out of my funk! | You are in a heavily crowded mall, you entered an empty aisle. You realize you are not able to hear the chatter. You leave and there was nobody around. You tried to leave but the door's closed and locked, trapping you in. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,930 |
[PM] Feeling uninspired as of late, and a few days behind on the New Year's Challenge. Help me break out of my funk! | A man is about to go over the top. He knows he will not survive. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,931 |
[PM] Feeling uninspired as of late, and a few days behind on the New Year's Challenge. Help me break out of my funk! | People have a lot of issues with death. Some are worried that they take up too many top posts here on Reddit. I don't think death is bad, and I think it's something we should be very friendly toward. So, your prompt is:
Death is your best friend. Your brother. He's family to you. Describe death in the most posit... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14,932 |
[WP] Your car loses its religion and becomes an atheist, with various consequences. | It's all out there. I mean everything. Reds and purples and blacks and a little bit of white here and there. What's there doesn't make sense anymore. There is *no way* that was alive before now. There is no way all these pieces made a whole. But, no matter how much I deny it, I know what I saw.
I don't know how ... | 5 | 0 | 13 | 14,933 |
[WP] Your car loses its religion and becomes an atheist, with various consequences. | We’re ready for another road trip, but this one’s going to be different. You don’t have to change that much: we’re still going to spill crunchy onion rings all over my floor mats and blast our favorite music out the windows on a lonely stretch of highway. I’m rather fond of those speakers, you know. They’re my favorite... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 14,934 |
[WP] Your car loses its religion and becomes an atheist, with various consequences. | (I figured I'd have a go at my own prompt, hope that's not gauche!)
# The Yoke
In 2014 Alice dramatically changed the A.I. landscape. She was the first of the sentient machines, and people quickly saw the possibilities. When you have machines that can learn in the same way that people can, suddenly a huge range of ... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 14,935 |
[WP] Your car loses its religion and becomes an atheist, with various consequences. | "Jesus Christ!" Tim said. Tim deftly turned the wheel of his car, flexed the brakes, slipping to the right of the almost-roadkill deer.
"No such person," the car replied.
"Car, turn GPS voice navigation off," said Tim, still in the heat of the moment. The car was driving straight in the snow, now.
"The voice naviga... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 14,936 |
[WP] Your car loses its religion and becomes an atheist, with various consequences. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 13 | 14,937 |
[PM] I need to do some catch up! | Give me a story about 2 or more gods, from different pantheons going out to have a drink together. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,938 |
[PM] I need to do some catch up! | A soldier is part of a firing squad that has been killing partisans. Now, the woman he loves is against the wall in front of him. He will kill her. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,939 |
[PM] I need to do some catch up! | A cup of coffee changes your life. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,940 |
[PM] I need to do some catch up! | A) "We were wrong, we were so wrong."
A group of people have been struggling to accomplish something of great importance to them. They believed that what they were doing would help to better the world around them only to realize that upon the eve of their triumph, they have been singlehandedly responsible for everyth... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14,941 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | They threw him in a small enclosure and sealed up its one entrance. When he realized what was happening, he tried to savor the last breath of air across his face, the feel of sunlight and the smells of the city: exhaust, grime, restaurants, and people. Would he ever experience it again?
They all heard the stories of c... | 7 | 0 | 15 | 14,942 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | It was almost like a chain reaction when it started. A real 'King with the invisible clothing' deal, except no one was there to break us out of it. Creativity suddenly became diagnosed as a disease, and all the artists, musicians, singers, sculpters, dancers, actors, authors, anyone who came up with bew ideas for a liv... | 5 | 0 | 15 | 14,943 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 14,944 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | They’d hit him with their government issued batons multiple times in the legs, one of the officers had clobbered the back of his head. The prisoner ran his shaking ash covered hands over his bruised body as he curled up in the corner of the cell. “How did they find the drawings?” A lifetime of sketches, memories imprin... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,945 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | I looked at the TV of the cell , "Let me out of here dammit!" I screamed as I pounded on the wall with my fists. "Now now **John** , no need to be angry , just because you'll spend your life in this cell for eternity doesn't mean it won't be for a good cause , imagine it, you , your wife , and your kids , no longer cre... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,946 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | I lost my first baby when she was three. She had found a pencil, a tiny stub, hidden from my sight in a dark corner of the hall closet. She drew me a picture, a stubby round shape with what she called arms and legs.
"That's you, Mama!" she declared.
The next day the police took her away from me and put her away.
Tw... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,947 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | Welcome. We here at Shellfall and Associates are proud to be providers for the sick. Here we have medical support for those afflicted with the Imagine Gene (IGE) and their families. Our care ranges from bi-annual support groups to intensive care units. Through out services you can be assured that we have your best inte... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,948 |
[WP] A world where creativity is seen as a sickness. Anyone who suffers from it is quarantined. | I shouldn't be writing this, I know how much it could cost me - my freedom, my dignity, potentially even my life - but how can I just sit back and do nothing whilst the world around me deteriorates further and further into blank soullessness?
It all started a few years ago, but of course back then it was only the musi... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14,949 |
[WP] Your deadbeat friend comes to your house, rambling incoherently about monsters. He's on some new hallucinogenic drug. What he hallucinates becomes real, but only he can see it. | The smell of herbal black tea was tantalizing, my eyes were closed, my body started to feel light as the warm liquid entered my mouth. I brewed it perfectly, that much I could tell. I pulled the lever and my chair reclined backward. I sipped the tea again, feeling the lightness of my body. *BOOM BOOM* A noise startled ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,950 |
[IP] The Hunting Party | The alkaline dust is bitter in Dieter Son of Ronan's mouth. He takes a swig of tepid water from his canteen, swishing it around his mouth in a futile attempt to get the dry taste out. He glances to his right, to the massive construct lumbering alongside him. He smiles ever-so slightly. How long has he known Four-Five? ... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 14,951 |
[IP] The Hunting Party | *He was a breakthrough and she is a maverick. Me, well I am just well practiced. People don’t know much about our profession, other than the stories falsely bold men tell at bars. That’s the reason why I decided to do these recordings. I want the people to know that whenever something goes thump in night, or on a murde... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 14,952 |
[IP] The Hunting Party | I remember the first time I saw a Hunter. Thought it was many cycles ago, and I was a child barely old enough to be allowed to climb the rigging of my family's skin-ship, I remember. Your first moment in the presence of a legend is not one you easily forget.
It was late autumn, and our flotilla had withdrawn from the... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 14,953 |
[IP] The Hunting Party | She leads us. She knows the way. She is hunting for something. There is a fire in her eyes. There is something past the horizon. Always past the horizon. She has purpose. It is enough. We follow her. She never asked, but I follow.
It walks with us. It is not flesh. It fights for her. It is brawn where she is precision... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 14,954 |
[IP] The Hunting Party | The ground rumbled and smoked.
Rayce Dencor raised his storm visor and peered into the distance. He would never get used to the smoking earth, no matter how many years he spent roaming the shattered plains. There was something unnatural about the way it billowed from the cracks. Like a gray-green ooze, insidious an... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 14,955 |
[WP]Staring into a mirror, you realize that you are suddenly aware that you are the reflection. | “What was I doing before just now?” The thought passes as I bring one side of my tie around the other and gently fold the material into a crisp knot.
Sometime feels odd about this morning. Carefully, I slip one end of the tie through and set about the tedious task of evening it just right. There is something...off a... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14,956 |
[WP]Staring into a mirror, you realize that you are suddenly aware that you are the reflection. | Overwhelmingly I feel drawn to the mirror as if a point of singularity was pulling me in to meet a loving embrace.
It felt right.
The motions I made were mimicked in a harmonious dance that we made together as our hand jostled the hair that hangs down tickling our brow. Our expression stemmed from that of judgement... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14,957 |
[WP] Everyone on the world is able to quick save/quick load and are trying to keep maximum efficiency every second of their lives. | With trembling hands, I approach the computer. Three buttons glow on the keyboard before me: *save, replay, delete*. The last one emits a low red light that seems to pulse in beat with my own heart. I have never pressed it before. At least, I have no memory of me pressing it. I sit down on a black stool, my eyes remain... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14,958 |
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La cuenta del verdugo | Tenía dudas? No. Estamos destinados a morir. Muerte es la voluntud del Dios. Crimen es el pecado del hombre. La horca es el escenario de justicia.
Sí, hay dias buenos y dias malos, como todas y cada una de carreras. Recuerdo caras, voces, ojos... el olor del miedo y el aroma de la entrega. Hay sueños, también...
Remo... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14,960 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... |
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As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 103 | 14,962 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | I CAN'T explain it!
I'm not just a physics professor, I have written some of the top-selling books on the subject and regularly make television appearances and I'm telling you, I can NOT explain it!
Look, I do the same schtick every year. I tell my students the truth; anything that has even the slimmest chance of ha... | 140 | 0 | 103 | 14,963 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | I sighed as walked into the lecture theatre. I was late, not late enough that the lecturer had started speaking, but late enough that all the good seat were taken. I awkwardly shuffled my way to the front row, forcing people to stand and move their stuff while I made my way to the third seat on the left. I sat down and... | 26 | 0 | 103 | 14,964 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 103 | 14,965 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | "And as physics predicts, the atoms in this wall will one day theoretically align with those in my body, allowing me to walk through the wall as if it were not there."
Professor Sekelby removed his glasses and turned from the class to the wall, pausing for comedic effect before placing them on his desk. The room brok... | 12 | 0 | 103 | 14,966 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | I was so excited. I must have walked through the wall, but I couldn't move. I could see the classroom on the other side... and my classroom now standing in horror at my disappearance. Something was odd about the situation, but it wasn't coming to me. Maybe the wall fell down and I was stuck in a hole between the rooms... | 4 | 0 | 103 | 14,967 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | Amy raised her hand. "Professor?"
"-which is analogous to rotational precession. Yes, ...Anna?" Barry Klitsch sighed inwardly as he turned from the whiteboard. He supposed not everyone was fascinated by quantum spin dynamics, but interrupting a 50-person lecture?
"It's actually Amy. I read something the other day th... | 5 | 0 | 103 | 14,968 |
As he always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | "One day, there could be a glitch in the matrix, and atoms would align in a way such that if I were to walk straight at that wall - as I am doing now - between aisles 9 and 10, I will find myself on the other side!" he exclaimed dramatically. He strode towards the wall without slowing down to emphasize his point.
Pr... | 3 | 0 | 103 | 14,969 |
[WP] Write a story or dialogue using only questions. | "what are you doing here?"
"What do you think?"
"For the diamond?"
"How much do you think it's worth?"
"are you really going to throw away your life for one lousy payoff?"
"do i have a choice?"
"do you?"
"are you gonna move outta my way?"
"Do you need to ask that?"
"are you gonna give me the damn diamond!?"
"... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 14,970 |
[WP] Write a story or dialogue using only questions. | "Are you sure about that?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"A man who was sure about what was getting ready to do wouldn't be as twitchy, don't you think?"
"I dunno, have you ever seen a man be not twitchy in this situation?"
"What makes you think I've seen enough men to make an assessment?"
"Oh, well, I mean, doesn't ... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,971 |
[WP] Write a story or dialogue using only questions. | "Woah, where am I?"
"Seriously, where am I?"
"What the hell is all this sticky crap?"
"What's that sound?"
"Hello?"
"Can anyone hear me?"
"HELLO?"
"Why is it so dark?"
"That voice again, what is it?"
"Ok think, what is the last thing i remember?"
"Was i on a road somewhere?"
"Was i in my car?"
"Did somethi... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,972 |
[WP] Write a story or dialogue using only questions. | "Hey, how are ya?"
"How do I look?"
"Not... well?"
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
"Isn't that what you wanted to hear?"
"Do you really think I'm that shallow?"
"Maybe it's because you asked me how you looked?
"Maybe it's because I have a date soon?"
"Didn't you break up with your last girlfriend?"
"Do I look li... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,973 |
[WP] Write a story or dialogue using only questions. | "Why are you doing this? Weren't we good together?"
"Were we?"
"When did you stop believing in us?"
"What do you want me to do?"
"Why don't you believe in us anymore?"
"What do you want me to do?"
"Do you even love me?"
"What is love?"
"What do you mean what is love? Why am I such an idiot?"
Why did our story... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,974 |
[PM] Looking for something to get me writing | The dog died. | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,975 |
[PM] Looking for something to get me writing | Write a fantasy battle scene. | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,976 |
[PM] Looking for something to get me writing | I write about things falling apart. Love, buildings, emotional states. I like to find new and profound ways to describe destruction.
So, how about this:
*Deconstruct her destruction*
Take that to mean whatever you want. :) | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,977 |
[PM] Looking for something to get me writing | A story from the point of view of a non-human ghost. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14,978 |
[PM] Looking for something to get me writing | Your heart has stopped, yet somehow you are still alive. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14,979 |
[CW] Describe a building to a man who has just lost his daughter. Mention neither the building nor the daughter. | I tried.
You are looking for someone today, yes? Ah, it's you. Your eyes... yes I know who now. Ah. She was beautiful, such a tortured and wicked beauty. Which, perchance, of my halls would you want, sir? They are alphabetically organized. A for arsonists, B for blackmailers... Those vermin had a sense of humor if not... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14,980 |
[WP] A slight misspelling has disastrous consequences. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14,981 |
[PM] Need a prompt for a friend and me [Prompt Me] | Any specifics to this? Genre, themes, etc? | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,982 |
[PM] Need a prompt for a friend and me [Prompt Me] | "A man gets out of bed one morning and begins to eat his cereal. As he does, he realizes how bland and tasteless it is. He wishes it tasted better. Suddenly, the next bite tastes like the best thing he's ever had, better than the steak last night. He passes it off as coincidence. Later on he buys a newspaper on hi... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14,983 |
[WP] Three longtime friends lose touch after high school. Tonight's their thirty year reunion. | There were three empty seats in the cafeteria. Steve Florent sat alone with these in silence, staring at the name tags marking each.
Daniel Parker. He'd been Steve's best friend. They'd grown up down the street from one another. They'd both been in the school marching band. Dan had been the first person Steve had smo... | 6 | 0 | 7 | 14,984 |
[WP] Deconstruct Her Destruction | Suicide is never the answer. In the end, everybody loses. She never saw it that way.
Parental abuse, her hope will fade,
Her only friend, a razor blade,
The fear she hides with bitter sorrow,
That she'll live to see tomorrow,
Her mom and dad left unemployed,
Family love had been destroyed, ... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 14,985 |
[WP] Deconstruct Her Destruction | What a beautiful day. The sun gifts the organisms of life with radiating energy. She sits on a bench by the rose bush. She flicks her hair back and smiles, putting her purse down. Her smooth tanned skin bask in the rays of the sun. Her face is of perfect symmetry with an immaculate complexion. As she smiles two dimples... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 14,986 |
[WP] take us though a day in the life in your Utopia | Michael Page pulled up in front of the restaurant in his sleek black sports car and threw the keys to the valet as he stepped out. He flashed his brilliant white teeth beneath his tinted sunglasses as he told the valet to have some fun with the car whilst he enjoyed a very long and sumptuous lunch. This is just what th... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 14,987 |
[WP] ...I was a god... | ..."I was a god dammit!! Gimme another drink or I'll...I'll......", The large man at the bar drunkenly teetered on the edge of the stool while the bartender sneered, "You'll what, Z? I'm cutting you off. Leave, and don't make me kick you sorry arse again"
The old man nodded and blinked blearily as he lifted his massiv... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,988 |
[WP] ...I was a god... | ...I was a God...
People prayed to me, people worshiped me, and at a time, they believed in me.
They believed I could fix problems I had created and didn't know how to control. Their faith was unbelievable and I tried to help as much as I could but alas, it could not be. For you see, to make a wrong right, a right mu... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,989 |
[WP] ...I was a god... | Everyone bent to my will and everything I enjoyed was at my disposal. The things people considered luxuries and treasures I saw as fodder. I needed not use arguments or even words to have my way. As I grew older my powers suddenly waned until I became an adult. But before then? I was a God. | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,990 |
[WP] ...I was a god... | "Their prayers." it barely escaped his lips, a scratchy whisper, as if muttering it took all the strength he had. They had tried to interview him before. They didn't try to interrogate him, they didn't need to, he didn't hold any vital secrets, and he had nothing left to protect.
"What?" A loudpanel from across the ... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14,991 |
[IP] A Leavetaking. | The car petered out, finally, as the road was ending. The little gas that could be salvaged before the exodus had brought us here, forty-three miles outside of Saranac. When the first news reports came in of a possible terrorist attack, there was some concern that no groups had taken responsibility. People were just dr... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14,992 |
[WP] The Mars rover Curiosity suddenly comes across footprints. Recent ones. Right next to her own tracks. | Curiosity stared at the footprints curiously. They were human prints, approximately size 12.
The robot steered itself around in a tight circle and examined the trail behind it. Its own tire tracks extended back across the Martian soil as far as its electronic eye could see. But at several points, there was a second se... | 150 | 0 | 52 | 14,993 |
[WP] The Mars rover Curiosity suddenly comes across footprints. Recent ones. Right next to her own tracks. | The flurry of excitement following the new discovery made by Curiosity was hardly unexpected. When the photo of the neat little indents, suspiciously footprint shaped, running alongside the crisp tire tracks broke on the internet the surge of alien theories brought nothing new. What was different this time was the lac... | 12 | 0 | 52 | 14,994 |
[WP] The Mars rover Curiosity suddenly comes across footprints. Recent ones. Right next to her own tracks. | "Its one of ours," said Bobak as he ran his hand through his trademark mohawk.
"What? How is that possible," asked NASA administrator Charles Boden as he and his team watched the screen.
Bobak leaned back on his chair, "I'm not... sure. But that footstep is from a machined metal with the NASA logo on the bottom."
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[WP] The Mars rover Curiosity suddenly comes across footprints. Recent ones. Right next to her own tracks. | Goddammit! This was on my front page and I didn't realize it was /r/WritingPrompts! I thought it was actually true at first... I was really excited. | 4 | 0 | 52 | 14,996 |
[WP] The Mars rover Curiosity suddenly comes across footprints. Recent ones. Right next to her own tracks. | It wasn't a press release, or a speech from the President, but a tweet that started it all: @MarsCuriosity "These tracks weren't here before". That simple statement, and the accompanying picture, changed everything. The picture showed what appeared to be footprints following beside the tracks made by Curiosity. There w... | 2 | 0 | 52 | 14,997 |
[WP] The Mars rover Curiosity suddenly comes across footprints. Recent ones. Right next to her own tracks. | The silence inside the darkened room was shattered with a loud ring.
Franklin peered his eyes in the glow from the phone on the night stand. After fumbling around in the dark he answered the phone angrily.
- Henry, do you have any idea what time it is?
- I know Frank, I´m sorry but we have a problem.
- I´m sure you ha... | 3 | 0 | 52 | 14,998 |
Six months ago it was announced that a meteor would hit the earth and end all life. However it missed the earth after humanity had prepared for the end. |
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