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[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident."
I looked up at the being (using the term loosely) in front of me. The obvious question rose to my mouth. "Why?"
"Do you want to save your life or not? It is simple. Choose a game, and we shall play."
"You've av... | 3 | 0 | 31 | 19,300 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | You've gotta be fucking kidding me. Really? Helium? All I wanted was to sound hilarious for a minute, I didn't think you could actually die from it. Here I am on this bench with a number in my hand waiting to speak to Death and I couldn't be more pissed off. I have to get a do over on this. This is ridiculous. What wil... | 20 | 0 | 31 | 19,301 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | I got on a taxi home at 6:10 just like any other day, but as I got in I felt a slight tingle in my balls. That slight tingle that tells you something big is going to happen soon. I ignored it. I figured I was just a little frustrated from seeing that blonde woman on 52nd, and eventually it subsided as it always does.
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[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | *Please bear in mind that this is my first attempt. So please have mercy on me and any help, advice or feedback is welcomed and encouraged.*
You turn to face Death, a small hermaphrodite figure with the face of everyone you've ever loved. They smile and you feel all at once safe and very, very afraid.
They speak and D... | 8 | 0 | 31 | 19,303 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | "Pick a number between 1 and 1,000,000,000."
"What?" Death says with mild surprised. "You know I can read your thoughts, right?"
"Pick a number," I say.
"Uhh... 340,053."
"Nope."
"Nah you totally were thinking 340,053."
"Prove it."
Death ponders for a moment, rehashing what just happened.
"Damn," Death says. "... | 5 | 0 | 31 | 19,304 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | "Dude, what?"
"First, please do not call me Dude. I am not a Dude. I am Death. You know, the one who waits for you at the end of everything?"
"Yah, whatever. I just can't believe that you're going to give me another chance! I mean, Dude, you are too cool!"
I shake my head. Some people just do not understand, do not app... | 1 | 0 | 31 | 19,305 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | "A game, really?"
"Yes. Any game. You win, you go back...you lose...well..."
How does one respond to that? Better yet, how does one respond to Death? Not death, as in the end of life. Death as in the (un)living embodiment of the hereafter. This sure isn't the way my day was planned when I woke up.
"So, what wi... | 2 | 0 | 31 | 19,306 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | "Let's play Halo."
WHAT IS THAT?
"It's a Video Game."
YOU REALIZE I HAVE PERFECT REFLEXES.
"Don't care."
ONE SECOND, LET ME LEARN IT.
Suddenly two gaming consoles and televisions appeared in front of me.
IT IS DONE.
I booted up the first one and heard the familiar choral strains.
"Slayer, Hang Em' High, Assaul... | 10 | 0 | 31 | 19,307 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | I chose dungeons and dragons.
I as the first. But I wasn't the last. In the middle of my character creation, another guy walked up to our table and asked if he could join. We pulled up a chair. In a few minutes, we had a team of seven people. More joined every few minutes. I had my character created when we reached th... | 3 | 0 | 31 | 19,308 |
[WP] Have someone explode at another person | I know it's dumb to post in your own prompt, but here goes:
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The shutters closed with a rattling bang, banishing the snowstorm to the outside. Through a window, Edna could see the twirling snwoflakes, a drift of white against a white background. Pe... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 19,309 |
[WP] Have someone explode at another person | Dinner was concluding when the knock sounded on the door.
Nathan McAlpine was finishing off the fried potatoes while his mother got up to open the door. She returned bearing a letter, one from the Department of War. It was addressed to him. Pulling out his clasp knife, he slit the top and withdrew the papers. Wordless... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 19,310 |
[WP] Have someone explode at another person | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 11 | 19,311 |
[WP] Have someone explode at another person | My hand struck quickly into the center of his sternum. The sharp blow pushed him back into the house. By the time my right hand had dropped his mouth was agape, catching his breath. His voice rose in anger, "What the fuck, Matt."
I stared again at his face. The anger in his language struck back at me. I smiled in a tw... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 19,312 |
[WP] Have someone explode at another person | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 11 | 19,313 |
[WP] Have someone explode at another person | Johnny Cartwell, better known to his friends as “Jo-Kart”, saw a fine prospect walking through the mall parking lot. Thus far, the day’s takings had been slim: maybe thirteen bucks in change and singles, and some stupid twat had taken him literally when he said he didn’t have money for food. Sure, the Big Mac and shake... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 19,314 |
[WP] Have someone explode at another person | It was late afternoon, December, Christmas decorations filled the town. Festive lighting and a North Pole grotto partially blocked the entrance trapping unsuspecting parents in an obligation queue of over stimulated children desperate to see Santa. The mall management had heightened child expectations by carefully mark... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 19,315 |
WP: Tell me a SF story about Belonging, incorporating a future technology at the intersection of fatherhood and hope. |
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WP: Tell me a SF story about Belonging, incorporating a future technology at the intersection of fatherhood and hope. | You just forgot the brackets for the tag. | 1 | 0 | 9 | 19,317 |
WP: Tell me a SF story about Belonging, incorporating a future technology at the intersection of fatherhood and hope. | "Hey, mister, don't yell at me okay. I'm just doing my job."
"And I just want a goddamn doughnut! Do your job faster!" Dom ran a hand through his thick black hair. He ignored the grey strands. He'd ignored them for the past few years.
"Alright, alright. Jeez," the young girl behind the counter passed him over a small... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 19,318 |
[WP] - The Villain says as he is fighting the Hero, "Nothingness is Eternal" | Floating above the cloud line was the fabled mountain city Krascanon, whose reappearance was prophesized by the ancient tablets to herald the end of the world. Who knew that the sculpture, hidden within the Faith's hallowed vaults, was actually the portalkey that linked directly inside it! It was there that the hero to... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19,319 |
[WP] - The Villain says as he is fighting the Hero, "Nothingness is Eternal" | "Nothingness is eternal and free will is an illusion."
Marrok did not turn to face the boy. He simply surveyed the sprawling city landscape noting that the boy had drawn his weapon. His face remained plain and expressionless like the very balcony he stood on.
"That is, as you know, the law of the land. We were all ... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19,320 |
[IP] Babiru 10 Favelas (Art by Nivanh Chanthara) | The stink of the place, that's how you know where you are. Twelve blocks, stretching over half the city, and they all had the same stench of sweat, fast food and sewage waste. Most of the time they were one and the same.
Day and night, the streets were always packed, if you didn't fight tooth and nail to press throug... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 19,321 |
[IP] The Sheltered City | [The Dome](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1vqnzx/wp_a_dome_has_been_over_the_city_for_as_long_as/cev37om)
(Part 1)
Seth crouched among the wilting plants with their limp black and green leaves. He'd been outside the dome for almost six days now, dodging patrols of tithe collectors. Seth had seen more... | 9 | 0 | 15 | 19,322 |
[IP] The Sheltered City |
*The boy took a step closer to the edge of the precipice.*
It was an odd feeling that he felt, being so close to the boundary that separated the two distinct, yet similar worlds. The world below him was the one that he had always known, an unchanging city enthralled by an archaic culture that above all else f... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 19,323 |
[IP] The Sheltered City | He swam on narcotic tides through the digital depths. He perched from a vantage point higher than any other had achieved and he traveled farther back than anyone can remember, before the war, before Dark’s rise, before the walls went up. Staring down upon the collective unconscious, Lethe was still there, the megalopol... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 19,324 |
[IP] The Sheltered City | Secure/Contain/Protect
S3cure/Conta1n/pr0tect
53cure/C0n7a1n/pr07ec7
The terminal in his hand relayed its last message, fizzled and died.
Thaddeus stood alone on one of the faults caused by the portal. It had all gone so wrong. So many machines and impossible creatures and *dead* *things* had all but obliterated h... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 19,325 |
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Everyone has a number on their head which told them exactly how time until they died. You can't know your own number, if you find out, you die, and the person that was about to tell you dies. |
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Everyone has a number on their head which told them exactly how time until they died. You can't know your own number, if you find out, you die, and the person that was about to tell you dies. | "Honey wait, this isn't what it looks like..."
"Well then tell me what it is, because I sure know what it fucking looks like!"
"It was a mistake, she doesn't mean anything to me."
"Oh, so now it's a mistake?! Two seconds ago, this wasn't what it looked like!"
"Honey, calm down. We can talk about this, I can explain... | 6 | 0 | 6 | 19,328 |
Everyone has a number on their head which told them exactly how time until they died. You can't know your own number, if you find out, you die, and the person that was about to tell you dies. | The Family wasn't quite as big as you would have expected, just very, very efficient. No one ever saw them coming, and by then it was far too late, because they *knew*.
Tracking and recording the Dates of young high achievers was surprisingly easy. It was rare for an important individual to have been missed in their s... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 19,329 |
Everyone has a number on their head which told them exactly how time until they died. You can't know your own number, if you find out, you die, and the person that was about to tell you dies. | For a mud-caked old man with hands that shook as he prayed, the priest's grip held firm even as I tried my damnedest to pull away. I don't know what I was expecting when he told me he could end our suffering, but I had never wept so hard as when I saw the holy number glowing over his head. He had warned me through the ... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 19,330 |
[EU] You are a scientist aboard a ship studying Aliens (Xenomorphs). you wake up attached to a wall, and you can feel a baby chest burster inside you. what are your final thoughts? | Log of Dr. Javier Ramos:
The larva is inside of me. Jesus Christ I can feel it wriggling behind my ribcage.
It shouldn't be long now. Judging by the tests we performed, I have five minutes, at most.
What options do I have? Lethal dosage of drugs would act quickly enough to kill me before creature's emergence, ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19,331 |
[EU] You are a scientist aboard a ship studying Aliens (Xenomorphs). you wake up attached to a wall, and you can feel a baby chest burster inside you. what are your final thoughts? | Man what happened last night?
Damn, girl. You need to not drink so much when we have these parties.
I feel like I swallowed...
Oh no...
No, no, no, no, no. That is a facehugger, and its dead and I can't move my arms and...
and...
I have to assume I'm infected. I have to figure-
OW!
Holy shit, that hurt. I ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19,332 |
[WP] A Car is on its final trip to the crusher. What goes through its mind for this last voyage? | The junkyard employee flipped a waist-high lever from his platform over the car crusher. Two huge drums began spinning inside the giant cube and a slide on the top opened to reveal the inside where the two drums met. Metal teeth whirred faster, hummed louder. The employee grabbed hold of the railing and leaned back to ... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 19,333 |
[EU] Pick a scene from a series you were glued to as a child and rewrite it for a modern big budget production | *Did mine as one of those distant followups of* M.A.S.K. *rather than a reimagining of a classic scene. Afterall, you see one episode, you've seen them all.*
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A mild breeze makes its way through Pasadena. On its cross-country trek, the last of the space shuttles lumbers forwards down a stretch of California ... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 19,334 |
[EU] You encounter someone from *The Matrix* walking down the street. What happens? | *Well,* That's not italics. | 4 | 0 | 9 | 19,335 |
[EU] You encounter someone from *The Matrix* walking down the street. What happens? | It was just a nagging at the back of my mind. A strange sort of itch that made me stare at the guy more than I usually would with his dark skin, leather coat, and dark shades in the pouring rain.
He saw me staring and looked back, expressionless. I knew that instant that I was nothing to him. That usually wouldn't mat... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 19,336 |
[WP] God exists. He is a time traveller from the year 3033. He has taken technology from his time period and intends to control the evolution of mankind. | [Link to original prompt](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1y8vly/god_exists_he_is_a_terrorist_from_organisation/)
There was no need to delete resubmit for sake of tags. Some folks may have already started a story and posted it in the other thread, you see. For instance, my story is now hidden, as is th... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 19,337 |
[WP] God exists. He is a time traveller from the year 3033. He has taken technology from his time period and intends to control the evolution of mankind. | Reminds me of Fringe. | 1 | 0 | 12 | 19,338 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | My Dearest Clarissa,
What I have positively *got* to convey to you & our children cannot be unread. Though I wish to explain the events of yesterday evening, and had intended to prior to putting ink to paper, I now find myself at quite the loss.
Please know that I do not require you to read further. In fact, I do... | 6 | 0 | 61 | 19,339 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 61 | 19,340 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | "Scheisse it's cold."
"Yeah Werner, that so? Please do tell us more obvious statements about the world. Maybe about how the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Or perhaps where babies come from. Christ on a crutch, I was reading my brother Karl's letter from Africa. Would you believe he had the notion that the... | 20 | 0 | 61 | 19,341 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | Day 67 - Tuesday
This morning started as usual, a whole lot of nothing. When we started, most of us thought we got the short end of the stick. "Guard the forest to protect our flank." It's a petty order given to those that couldn't handle battle, or so we thought. As the days passed, the nearby village accepted us as ... | 4 | 0 | 61 | 19,342 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | "Oi, Blackbourne, where the hell 'ave you been?" the lieutenant asks, the shimmer of the fire in front of him revealing a smug look. Blackbourne just shuffles past, his uniform barely sitting on his frame. His eyes are open, but they just look at the ground just before his feet.
"Private Blackbourne, you are to addres... | 1 | 0 | 61 | 19,343 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | We had retreated from the massacre, my brothers and I. And now we paced through the woods of Mantaloma. A dark place save for the flicker of light ahead; a campfire maybe. The trees seemed to whisper in our passing, but I’m sure it was due to shock. Snow covered us knee-high, making every step a struggle.
“Pray, Jorce... | 1 | 0 | 61 | 19,344 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | Dearest Marie, angel, love,
thank you, thank you, your letters are my hope and sustenance. I was overjoyed to hear of Michael's success, and I would ask you not to spoil him excessively with praise had I been less aware of your disposition and also to give little Gertrude an equal share of kisses and hugs, if I weren'... | 2 | 0 | 61 | 19,345 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | "Oww," Lenny rubbed his head, "What did you do that for?" His lank, brown hair tumbled in a mess around his shoulders.
"Do what?" Rick wondered as he fed the campfire a few kindling sticks. The fire flared to give eerie shadows to the small group's faces.
"Pull my hair, damn it." Lenny grew impatient, "It really hurt... | 1 | 0 | 61 | 19,346 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 61 | 19,347 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | Major Chase Parker walked away from his friend, Leland. He'd been killed in the heat of battle between the Union Army and the Confederate Army. The cold, snowy night did little to dispel the hurt he felt in the loss of his friend. They had grown up together in a wooded area of Maine, similar to the area they were in... | 3 | 0 | 61 | 19,348 |
[WP] On a dark snowy night, in a woodland away from the sound of battle, a small camp of soldiers begins to experience the supernatural. --Can be written in a journal format, or an outright story. | They were crouched in a small hollow in the hillside. The twisted trunks of trees were all around them, looking like sculptures of bone. This was their haven. Their previous shelter was so much rubble, lost to an air strike, but an interpreter had managed to send out a warning in time and they were safe here. They coul... | 1 | 0 | 61 | 19,349 |
[WP] Four people are playing a board game. Show their distinct personalities. | "Well I roll nine. Somebody trade me some wood." said Joe.
"Hey I got wood for your sheep baby!"
"Damn it Carl. That shit wasn't funny the first time!"
"Hehehe!"
"Hey, I'll trade you a wood for three wheat." said Ezekiel.
"Well...that's too much!" said Joe. "Trade fair or we'll both lose."
"Take it or leave... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 19,350 |
[WP] Four people are playing a board game. Show their distinct personalities. | *Please bear in mind that these are my first attempts. So please have mercy on me and any help, advice or feedback is welcomed and encouraged.*
The old man sits alone in a white room at a rickety table, on a rickety chair. Dressed only in a hospital gown and worn slippers.
A well-worn boardgame sits in front of them... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 19,351 |
[WP] Roadkill | The endless trees put you in a trance-like state, sometimes it's hard to be perfectly cognizant of your surroundings, but I have thirty years of driving under my belt, so I saw the shadow whisk out of the trees.
I hit the brakes...
An organic 'Thump.'
...should have hit them quicker.
"Gyyyyahhhhhhhrrrrrr!!!!"
The b... | 4 | 0 | 19 | 19,352 |
[WP] Roadkill | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 19 | 19,353 |
[WP] Roadkill | Two screams, unending, filling the world with despair. Heavy truck's brakes biting asphalt, and the Devil's last wail, formidable even from afar yet bespeaking of mangled innards and no hope, at last crackling off and dying out. The man, a tiny splotch the color of heat, rotating perspective playing tricks on his shape... | 2 | 0 | 19 | 19,354 |
[WP] Submit a bug report? | > `user8675309@ne-na-earth.sol.MW.7delta`
> `Category: Printer Malfunction`
> `Details:`
> For some individuals, the Printer works as intended; one combination printout. Others experience duplicates, triplicates, and in one notable case, octuplicates. Still others are unable to engage the Printer ... | 11 | 0 | 22 | 19,355 |
[WP] Submit a bug report? | To whom it may concern,
I have been a beta tester for your product, “The Human Body,” for over two decades now and feel I have gathered enough information to submit a reasonable bug report. Please do not take offense to my reviews, as I am simply trying to aid in the perfection of your final product.
To begin, I’d l... | 15 | 0 | 22 | 19,356 |
[WP] Submit a bug report? | *Bug Report Form 15-B: Non-terminating 'Asshole' Script*
*Problem: Noticed at certain intervals in written communication and 'comments' sections on videos, there seems to be an error in the connection between human mind and human fingers. Somewhere in the coding, the human platform loses the ability to communicate tho... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 19,357 |
[WP] Submit a bug report? | Statue subject: Insect [Honey bee]
Condition: errors in design.
Suggested solution: Allow multiple stings, increase durability, fix fluctuating population, increase honey production.
Recommended updates: Multicolored variety, loop-de-loop enabler, LSD-laced stingers, butterscotch honey, hives with interior design... | 5 | 0 | 22 | 19,358 |
[WP] Submit a bug report? | Ticket: 70654215468309287b
Creator: Agent w_o_t_c
Issue: Color misinterpretation
Assignment : God
Type: Design
Product: Sediment
Summary: Human reporting turquoise sand near lake bed in Section 72
*Log notes*
*Greg in intervention stopped a call from a human in Section 72 trying to report turquoise sand to a ... | 1 | 0 | 22 | 19,359 |
[WP] Submit a bug report? | > Ticket 706542154683092518
> Bug description: Magnets continue to inexplicbaly work, against GOd's wishes. Please fix
> Repro steps: Not provided
Working as intended
Ticket closed
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[WP] Submit a bug report? | Bug Name: User is unable to retrieve memories
Bug ID: ALZ20140219
Area Path: User > Memory Usage > Log
Build Number: v 73.0.3
Severity: HIGH
Priority: HIGH
Assigned to: God
Reported By: Daughter
Reported On: 19 Feb 2014
Reason: Defect
Status: Open
Environment: Parent
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Assigned developer's note:... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 19,361 |
[WP] Trapped on a island with four other survivors and no food, you have been chosen as their next meal. | “You’re asking me to let you guys kill me? You’re joking right?” I growled at the three who stared at me hungrily. We had been stranded on this small island for days; this island was big enough for objects to beached up. So I made a fancy container that I learned through a television show called Survivorman. It’s basic... | 14 | 0 | 13 | 19,362 |
[WP] Trapped on a island with four other survivors and no food, you have been chosen as their next meal. | Eight eyes stared at me emptily,
weighing the risks and effort needed.
I am not prey willing to die,
not without taking them too.
Before the sharp and blunt,
a bright Red Frog,
perfect little snack before the end. | 5 | 0 | 13 | 19,363 |
[WP] Trapped on a island with four other survivors and no food, you have been chosen as their next meal. | It was a mutual agreement. Well, mutual for everyone except me. We ran out of food three weeks ago and have been living off of cooked crickets and half distilled water ever since. Now they've resorted to cannibalism.
"Come one guys, I don't even have that much meat on me! At least eat Fat Bill or something." I say.
"... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 19,364 |
[WP] Trapped on a island with four other survivors and no food, you have been chosen as their next meal. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 13 | 19,365 |
[WP] Trapped on a island with four other survivors and no food, you have been chosen as their next meal. | On island with four,
No bargain in hungry eyes.
Don't dally with dogs, run!
Two long days later,
They have me treed I grow weak,
Perhaps I should fall.
At dawn rescue here,
I cradled, dogs fed dog food.
Nothing personal. | 1 | 0 | 13 | 19,366 |
[WP] God is found dead. | something something we must find God to save the universe. something something Long adventure involving self discovery. Some other stuff with Potential love interests and togetherness. Eventually it happens, enormous golden gates opening with a blasting light illuminating the darkness of the universe, separating the so... | -6 | 0 | 222 | 19,367 |
[WP] God is found dead. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,368 |
[WP] God is found dead. | "When was the body found?"
"This morning. The landlord called us just after eight."
"Early time for a visit."
"Rent collection."
The two detectives stood over the aged corpse. Around them, forensics were setting up to go over the apartment.
"You said there was something else?"
"Yeah."
The younger man handed his ... | 40 | 0 | 222 | 19,369 |
[WP] God is found dead. | The man gazed down, an empty expression lacing his face. Cars drove past him in the rain, occasionally splashing the back of his ankles. Multitudes of people swarmed up and down the sidewalk around him. He stood among them like a pebble defying the flow of a river. Every now and then a stranger brushed against him but ... | 10 | 0 | 222 | 19,370 |
[WP] God is found dead. | God had been many things. He had often proclaimed himself wise, by virtue of knowing more than any other being. He had been considered all-powerful by others, because He was far more powerful than they. He was considered the ultimate good, for He was the most good humanity could comprehend.
Mass knowledge is not omnis... | 434 | 1 | 222 | 19,371 |
[WP] God is found dead. | **This adapted / inspired from Asimov's [The last question](http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm)**
The year was approximately 2.41x10^13 . Man has long ago united in one conscience, a single united entity of pure information, omnipresent and almost omniscient. It has been searching for the completion brought by om... | 21 | 0 | 222 | 19,372 |
[WP] God is found dead. | Wind blew a fine grit of sand over her wrinkled arm. She had been walking for days. Her village behind her, a smoldering collection of hovels now. The raid had come in the night, another tribe. It was always like this now. One tribe would attack another, their lips frothing with the indignity of witnessing a member of ... | 8 | 0 | 222 | 19,373 |
[WP] God is found dead. | The Angels did not know what to do when they saw the dead body of the **LORD**, so they brought in those that had investigated crimes such as this in the past. After their initial surprise at the fact that the creator of all was found dead after all these years of being absent, they quickly cordoned off the area and be... | 50 | 0 | 222 | 19,374 |
[WP] God is found dead. | "Over here St. Michael. The victim was found lying at the foot of the steps leading up to his throne of light. Multiple bones broken in the fall, riddled with bullet holes from the front to the back."
The Arch Angel bent down and peered over the lifeless body God.
"Looks like he truly was....The hole-y Father."
YYYY... | 6 | 0 | 222 | 19,375 |
[WP] God is found dead. | "So," whispered Paul, "this is it then."
"I'm afraid so," replied the man in the handsome navy suit. "It's mostly a ceremonial thing," he added. "Your time is pretty much your own, and there are of course certain... fringe benefits."
"That's nice I suppose." Paul hadn't really been able to process what was happening... | 3 | 0 | 222 | 19,376 |
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[WP] God is found dead. | By now there were already cameras surrounding the place and a crowd had started to form. I'd managed to get here before too many others, at least.
A banner was half assedly thrown up over the metal fencing around the park, saying "GOD IS DEAD!". Some religious nuts had already started protesting in front of it, doing ... | 12 | 0 | 222 | 19,378 |
[WP] God is found dead. | It was a calm day at sea. The water hit the side of my boat with a comforting rhythm, making just enough noise to remind me it was still there. I'd lost count of my casts, but was content with slowly reeling in my line before tossing the bait back into the abyss. I hadn't had a bite all morning, but I didn't mind.
I ... | 2 | 0 | 222 | 19,379 |
[WP] God is found dead. | They took God today and I can't get rid of the picture of his left shoe that they left behind, the old cheap Chinese made running shoe, filthy and weathered and cracked. I'd given money to God before, although as a rule I don't give beggars any, but I gave him some because he asked so as to buy a drink, which, looking ... | 2 | 0 | 222 | 19,380 |
[WP] God is found dead. | No one knows when the spiderwebs stopped collecting dew in the morning sun to glisten awake appreciative eyes. No one knows exactly when people started to smile differently in different languages. No one could tell you the time and date when babies stopped speaking gibberish, and transitioned into speech from silence. ... | 2 | 0 | 222 | 19,381 |
[WP] God is found dead. | The throne room's splendor, despite the carnage wrought winthin was still mind-numbing. There, in one corner gently lit by a white dwarf star, the Tree of Eden stood, slightly askew with it some of its limbs broken and its leaves withering into ash. From behind the Tree a small brook made its way along one side of the ... | 2 | 0 | 222 | 19,382 |
[WP] God is found dead. | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 222 | 19,383 |
[WP] God is found dead. | He knew the day would come. He knew the very day he willed himself into existence that this exact point was when He would leave creation. Three hours left. Three hours until the last human stopped believing. He knew it didn't have to be. He considered that with an impulse He could set them back a millenia, or make... | 4 | 0 | 222 | 19,384 |
[WP] God is found dead. | "Shit! What do we do?!
"I don't know it's your fault L!"
The lifeless entity lay on the ground, a dissolving, human shaped, endless light. There was darkness leaking out of where a heart might have been.
"How is this possible!" L stood dumbfounded, a single tear fell down his cheek. He flipped his wing to his face ... | 2 | 0 | 222 | 19,385 |
[WP] God is found dead. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,386 |
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[WP] God is found dead. | **Note**: I am not an astronomer, and certainly not a physicist. All of the "science" in this story is completely made up and is only vaguely based vaguely on a astronomy class I took three years ago :p this is also the first time I've written anything in a long time - hopefully it's not too boring of a beginning!
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[WP] God is found dead. | Ever since the inventions of modern means of communication, humankind has spent every great tragedy the same way. We all gathered around our radios, our televisions, our computers, and we watched as events unfolded, comforted by our loved ones in times when we felt helpless. 9/11/2001 comes to mind, especially for Amer... | 2 | 0 | 222 | 19,389 |
[WP] God is found dead. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,390 |
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[WP] God is found dead. | Michael entered the throne room. Cup of coffe in one hand. Comet movement reports in the other. As he glanced around... he saw the body...the missing face. A bottle of whiskey on the floor near an outstretched hand. And... a handgun clutched in the other. A handwritten note lay on the marble at the figutes feet. And M... | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,392 |
[WP] God is found dead. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 222 | 19,393 |
[WP] God is found dead. | God was found dead yesterday.
He was found inside the heart of a young boy from Ohmaha. They say when little Ginny got hit by the train this mornin God was standing right next to her. He made a big mistake with that one. Her mother wasn't baptized. | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,394 |
[WP] God is found dead. | The runes protected the body: nobody could step past them. They baffled every investigator, and five folklorists and three ethnographers from all the city's universities, could only recognise nine of the languages inscribed in the circle of little sand symbols. The circle inside which the corpse lie. A corpse that they... | 6 | 0 | 222 | 19,395 |
[WP] God is found dead. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,396 |
[WP] God is found dead. | "We need to get forensics and a physicist in here." Detective Mills called. One of the uniformed officers stepped over. "Get me CSI, and let me know when the coroner arrives." The officer hurried away.
"What were you into, buddy. Toga party gone wrong?" He used his pen to flip a fold on the toga over. "Well, what is t... | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,397 |
[WP] God is found dead. | God is dead and I killed him. In a violent rage I took the hatred and pain that had followed me in my desperate search for justice, and used it to destroy God.
There was no murder weapon, no crime scene. I might as well have whispered him into in-existence, but whispers, like prayers, do nothing. God died in my arms,... | 1 | 0 | 222 | 19,398 |
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