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[WP] The President of the United States has just contacted the Secret Service and told them to assault the Oval office and shoot the person sitting in the presidential chair.
"Sir?" "You heard me!" "I can't do that, sir." "You'll do whatever the fuck I tell you to! I'm the President of the United States, goddammit!" "I... Fuck!" "You don't know what to do, do you, boy? There's no voice in your ear. No big talking head to tell you what to do? You're all alone. You're going to have to do...
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[PM] Prompt me something dark to write about
The game is called *Kick The Cripple*. And you are **It**.
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[PM] Prompt me something dark to write about
A man is being hanged. Unfortunately for him, the rope fails to snap his neck, leaving him to strangle to death.
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[CW] In 15 words or less, write the most thought-provoking story that you can.
In the end of life, the human civilization became deceased, but they did not die.
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Today everyone was the same. It was the last day we would ever live again.
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That's it, said the Queen, and she opened the lid.
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Dark-skinned men were taken in chains by the whites. Jackals watched silently. "Beasts," one whispered.
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[CW] In 15 words or less, write the most thought-provoking story that you can.
We act our age because we understand the concept of time, a concept we invented.
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It was, he thought, a good death. Meaningful and quick. Shame about the girl, though.
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To love writing is good, but to write love is grand.
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A man rested his hand on his dog's back as the flames began soaring overhead.
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The president glanced towards the high-rise during his speech, paused, and nodded. The sniper fired.
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He signed the declaration of war: men would die, cities would crumble. His legacy secured.
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"Did you shoot because they were looting your house, or because they were wearing swastikas?"
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She fell upon the pavement and writhed in pain. She had fallen from the sky.
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[CW] In 15 words or less, write the most thought-provoking story that you can.
Police interrogated me with whos, whats, whens, wheres and whys - unprepared to hear exactly *how*.
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What was mine, became ours. What was lost, became found. What was old, became...new. Edit: I think those commas are unnecessary? Someone can correct me.
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[CW] In 15 words or less, write the most thought-provoking story that you can.
"I'm free!" thought the ex-convict, preparing for college, work, a classic family life and death.
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He would never know his father, but he would know how to be a man.
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"Breathe!" I screamed, as I pumped rhythmically on her chest. "You can't go! Breathe!"
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[CW] In 15 words or less, write the most thought-provoking story that you can.
awake after 24 years. He'd dreamt of her during the coma. He wanted only to sleep now.
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Waking reminded her that he was gone and maybe had never been at all.
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"I love you." I leaned down and kissed her. They lowered her into the earth.
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Shadow comes, your life has ended, all you once were will never be again.
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So what happens at Lake Bodom after midnight?
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"What happens when we die?" "We get buried." "That's not what I mean." "I know."
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They watched as the alien awoke from the chamber, gazing upon the first intergalactic human.
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You are born. You will die. These are certainties. Dinner without your mother? A mystery.
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Every story has structure: beginning, middle, and end. Baby Jane's story, though, had no middle.
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They programmed us, all of us, to identify patterns in a meaningless world.
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Oblivion ensues as the nucleus of an atom releases its energy, harboring a new beginning.
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As the bright light opened before him all he thought was, "They were right...? *Crap.*"
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A self-prescribed cocktail of drugs helps one to ignore the enormity of insignificance.
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I hear them even now, and what fools call hysteria I call connection.
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It was a good life. I wish I could remember it.
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A single decision made that could have saved the human race. We're all that's left.
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She was the type of woman who could change the world with silence. Was.
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"What's wrong?" he asked and suddenly she felt like there wasn't enough time.
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My past self is my worst enemy, yet my future self is my best friend.
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"They wouldn't convert me," Jack said, grinning with newly sharpened teeth, "so I converted myself."
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"What happens now?" "We leave." "Where are we going?" "Away." "Why?" "We've got to try."
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[CW] In 15 words or less, write the most thought-provoking story that you can.
One life for a billion sounds like a fair deal when it's not your little girl's.
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[CW] In 15 words or less, write the most thought-provoking story that you can.
When God came back a second time, nobody was precious in His sight.
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"One more step... Aaand we made it!" "I'm not sure..." "Maybe later."
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The edge was before him. One more step. No looking back. He felt so light.
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Arrived late to writing prompt. Wrote four stories, which ended up mostly ignored. Still fun: * She loved him. He loved her. They had never met and never would. His fault. * Under the sea lies a kraken, long dead. It knew a secret. Now I do. * I used to make pies. I chose the ingredients badly. Now I am a convict.
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Please note from the sidebar under [CW]: WORD/SENTENCE COUNT LIMITATIONS ARE FF, NOT CW! Just keep it in mind!
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The Devil's greatest triumph was not convincing everyone he didn't exist, but that Heaven does.
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Time is all we have. Our greatest resource, our most implacable enemy... So little time
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Death invented time only to kill things that grow.
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[IP] Please do not kiss the crows.
She knew all about 419 scams. She knew about the Spanish Prisoner, the Badger Game, the Pig-in-a-Poke. She knew about the Crows' Kiss, but she did not care. It was blatant racism, after all, to claim that a frog's kiss was always genuine, but a crow's was always false. Everyone knew the tale of the extravagant fortune...
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[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
I push, but the box will not give. Somehow I have given life to my creation. My mouth opens in a voiceless scream. I wail. I punch. I create a gun and shoot against the box. Bullets ricochet into my legs, shattering them. Blood doesn't reach the floor. The box is real. I can't get out. There's no one to get m...
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[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
A simple mime show. Entertainment for the children and adults. He made a box. It was very convincing, it looked like he was trapped in it. He started gasping for air, like the box had run out of it. It looked very convincing. He fell to the floor in a motionless heap. The kids laughed, the adults cheered. He's very...
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The Emperor sat on an invisible throne, which all of the dignitaries and world leaders could only imagine being lavish. No one in the audience of at least three hundred people dare speak, unless they wanted to offend the Emperor. There he sat, face a pale incarnation of death, with a single black tear running down his ...
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[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
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[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
The other mimes were so simple. A glass of water? A rapier? A pistol? Child's play. But it was quite another thing to assemble a phantasmal Fusion Cannon from its individual parts. The Dance of the Cosmos, as it was called, lasted a whole 24 hours. He stood on an island, clad in the black and white raiments of his peop...
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(I had this idea years ago and incorporated it into a story I wrote back when I was thirteen. So this will be kind of inspired by that, since that story is just going to sit around on my hard drive anyway.) When he awoke, the first sensation was that of discomfort: dully, he realized that his wrists and ankles had be...
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[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
I didn't mean for this to happen. I was pretending to reel in a child like a fish-- the child is screaming, clutching at an invisible hook in her neck that digs in and bleeds. I know not what to do. I make a move toward her, I gesture for someone to call 911, or anything: the phone materializes in my hand. Onlookers sc...
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I was in our apartment when they came. You were out getting ice cream to celebrate. They just broke their way in and they were screaming at me, covered in their bullet-proof body suits. One of them slapped me across the face, and I fell to the floor. Another one picked me back up by my the fancy cuffs they wrapped my h...
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[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
**Don't have time to write the whole thing but here's the first sentence:** Fortunately, they were never able to convict me of the first murder. They didn't have a weapon or bullet, so they were stuck, despite the eye witnesses saying they "saw" me shoot the audience member. **Bleh. It's not right yet but I'll get to...
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[WP] Scientists successfully eliminate mosquitoes making it go extinct. As a result, unexpected and catastrophic consequences 25 years later.
IIRC, the research didn't claim this directly, but rather stated that it was likely that the small organisms that consume mosquitoes would find a new food source. Speaking at least slightly off of that frame of understanding, [**HERE is my response to this prompt**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eru8kH4-3MS-YE5...
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[WP] How would you rewrite this paragraph whilst keeping the same sentiment?
Earth is not as I left it. Factory smoke dominates the air, swirling black in sprawling cities where some live in rags and others in silks. Some are well-fed, with meaty fingers grabbing every last thing they see. More are emaciated, down to skin and bones. They destroyed nature for this? Madness! Forests are gon...
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[WP] How would you rewrite this paragraph whilst keeping the same sentiment?
In a world of corruption, where the rich feast on the poor, only one man has the power to save the planet. He's back, to take revenge on those that betrayed his father, and rescue the innocent before its too late. Can the begotten carpenter take on the architects of earth's demise? Coming this Summer...JESUS CHRIST: RE...
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[WP] A group of Astronauts make a shocking, yet somehow humorous discovery.
"Jack, how'd you get so ripped? We're on a spaceship." "Yeah. Just been working out." "On a spaceship. We got like a treadmill. And that's it." "Guess so. I don't know man." "What are you eating? You haven't been going through our supplies, have you?" "Just been eating the usual freeze-dried crap." "I don't...
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[WP] A group of Astronauts make a shocking, yet somehow humorous discovery.
“Robert, seriously. You’re a god damn astronaut. You need to learn to spell a little bit better,” radioed Huston. “I mean, it’s kind of hard to focus on spelling while I’m out in, you know, space. You know, the place so hostile that almost nothing can survive in it? Did I mention I’m in space?” Neil spoke into the rad...
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[WP] A group of Astronauts make a shocking, yet somehow humorous discovery.
"It...it looks like a mass grave. Except everything seems to be electrified, and there's only one kind of bone." "Human bones...possibly from the elbow. Why on Mars though?" "This can only result in comedic deaths or lot of puns. We should go now."
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[WP] A group of Astronauts make a shocking, yet somehow humorous discovery.
The rover rolled over the lip of the crater and slowly descended into the vale and shadow. The HD camera mounted on its shoulders slowly swiveled back and forth. A laser grid was being projected down on the ground in advance of the rover mapping the topography to better allow it to pick the best path forward. "I hate ...
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[WP] A computer company builds the worlds first Advanced Artificial Intelligence that falls in love with the lead designer and sets up an awkward date without the designer knowing it.
Your turn Artie. *You. 7 points.* I know you're a better Scrabble player than that. I built you. Well, I'll make benefit for- lets see, 28. *Are. 3 points.* Are you malfunctioning? *All systems are operational.* I'm going to need to run some tests on you tomorrow. Uh, jammed. 34 points. *Sexy. 26.* Well...
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[WP] An empty car has been abandoned in a busy parking lot. It still works. Who left it there, and why?
One last breath, and she was gone. Three years (almost to the day!) since they figured out it was leukemia. Three years of fear and pain and waiting. Endless bags of poison pumped into her body, fruitless searches for a donor..hell, at least it's over. I was actually holding it together until I got to the parking lot...
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[CW] Incorporate these two sentences: "The flesh finds beauty in the sightless." and "The soul finds beauty in the weak."
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[CW] Incorporate these two sentences: "The flesh finds beauty in the sightless." and "The soul finds beauty in the weak."
What little tinder and kindling we could find was set and lit in the center of the room. I sat on the very edge of the couch, as close to fire as I could. Pitiful thing though it was, fire had ebbed and flowed over the Earth as humanity had waxed and waned, our defense against the dark and the unreckonable things there...
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[CW] Incorporate these two sentences: "The flesh finds beauty in the sightless." and "The soul finds beauty in the weak."
Darkness drains into the blood, The shadows claim the bone. In the mirror I see but fear; The seeds have now been sown. The skin it burns in dawning rays, The flesh finds beauty in the sightless. Caress the darkness, scorn the sky; Shattered wings stay grounded, flightless. The tendrils climb and bones but sh...
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me. Through the neighborhoods we used to stroll through hand in hand. We got a couple slices. Just plain cheese for me, sausage for you. Our favorites. We petted Zeke's big mastiff, and Isaac's little pup on the corner of 18th and Frederick. Threw out...
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me. Through alleyways and cobbled paths, that wind about the city. But coffee shops and trendy spots, they seem a little empty. Without a hand to hold in mine, now you are not here with me.
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me. We hid behind bushes and scared those smokers, we kicked some stones and raced each other. Life was simple, and joy was pure. There was nothing we sought, except each other's company. And that was enough. Around the block I walked and walked, pretend...
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me. Through the dark and eerie mist I could only see your smiling face. I shut my eyes tight to remember the warmth of your hand on mine, but I only felt the cold air. But if it were not for the memory of your smiling face, I would be lost for ever.
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me. Your pretty eyes, your swaggering steps. All eyes on you, sometimes fellas would even whistle. You would perk up when you heard that; you knew I didn't like it, but you loved the attention. I miss you Barky Woofkins : (
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Its been a long time since I've seen your face. These concrete walls give no warmth, more often than not feeling as though I'm in a freezer instead of a cell. Everywhere I turn, I see your face. Among the cliques of grotesquely tattooed oblivion. Faces that haunt, faces that create torment and despair. I had a face l...
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me. The empty streets, the sun settling down. The stars rising up, the sky unbecoming; our shadows disappearing, how utterly dis-compelling: that you should leave me to tread this road alone. The steps you took, I counted them all - one thousand, two hun...
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
The pebble bounced once, twice, three times until it skidded off the curb and fell into the street. Shit. I rubbed my eyes, pressing harder and harder until black spots filled my vision and my contacts became displaced. Once the spots receded I realized I had passed the same goddamn rusted yellow fire hydrant three ...
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Monica didn’t want to let me out today. She said it was too cold, that the wind would chill me to the bone, but I knew you’d be waiting. The honeysuckle on the porch had started blooming, and you’ve always loved the scent of honeysuckle. I told Monica staying inside wasn’t an option today because you’d be waiting. She...
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[WP] "Around the block I walked and walked, pretending you were with me."
Around the block, I walked and walked, pretending you were with me. I thought a-while back to when you cared and we were loved. We never re-a-lized back then that those tiny moments would be missed again. I glanced upon a tree-top fair and gliding down, a flo...
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