post_title stringlengths 1 323 | body stringlengths 0 39.5k | score int64 -103 23.1k | gilded int64 0 38 | post_score int64 0 29.2k | __index_level_0__ int64 0 429k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | You’ll know he’s there when you feel his breath on the back of your neck, when you’re alone. You’ll hear him in the silence, moments before the air is sucked from your lungs. You’ll try to scream, but the only sound is the strangled whimper as you surrender to his power. You’ll never see him until it’s too late – even ... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 19,700 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | I freeze. That feeling of being caught and having no escape hits me like a kick to the chest. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THERE" comes booming in from the next room. It doesnt carry the sound of authority or carry a random threat. It has the madness, the insanity that only alcoholism can do to a once great and de... | 24 | 0 | 29 | 19,701 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | "Stop it! Someone Help! It hurts! Why me!? I'll do anything! I have a family! Blah, blah, blah. God, people don't shut up, you know? They plead, they beg, they piss themselves and get the floor dirty, the bleed all over my damn clothes. You... You don't seem like the others though. You are really polite. Look at you. Y... | 10 | 0 | 29 | 19,702 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 29 | 19,703 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | He smiled. A ridiculous, clown-like grin that stretched almost cartoonishly from one edge of his pale, scarred face to the other. A soft giggle escaping his throat. Jean's panicked whimpers were muffled behind the thick cotton of her mouth gag as her mind raced. How had she gotten herself into this situation? She re... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,704 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | He killed with a smile. The same smile old friend's share at an old joke. A knowing smile that was all at once comforting and mocking. | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,705 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | I am darkness, I am fire. I am panic and despair and hopelessness. I am that which wakes you in the middle of the night, gasping for breath, forgetting what it was that terrified you so. I am what grips your heart as you walk down a darkened street and hear quickening footsteps behind you. I am the feeling you get when... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,706 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | The parents were on their knees in the kitchen, hands bound behind their backs and mouths gagged. Their eyes were wide open, however, giving them far too good a view of the mirror placed in front of them. Its reflection had a girl, perhaps six years old, holding a pistol roughly a third her size. For the time being, it... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 19,707 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | "I know everything you know. I see everything you see.", the lean man stroked the salt and pepper beard adorning his chin as the words slid from his mouth. "Every choice you make, every decision you contemplate, will have been predetermined by myself."
You swallow hard. He leans back in his chair, taking his time wit... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,708 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | I remember the first time I saw his face. It was the most terrifying moment of my life. It was monstrous with black, leathery skin. His mouth frothed with hate and anger. He flew overhead and dropped down like an unnatural, unholy creature of the night. He said nothing; he merely hid in his shadowed talons and loo... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,709 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | "Grandpa, you wanted to see me?" the twelve year old boy looked into the room to see his grandfather, hooked up to machines, looking hollow and almost transparent.
The near skeletal figure called him over. "Yes. Come here. That's right...Do you know who I am?"
"You're grandpa."
"Yes. Do you know what people outs... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,710 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | A mirror hung on the back wall of the office. Jack liked mirrors. He especially liked when he caught a glimpse of his own face in them; the strong jaw, the aquiline nose, and those flashing blue eyes gave him the look of a rakish anti-hero, a man equally confident wooing women in a bar or exchanging gunfire with croo... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,711 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | Thomas had taken refuge in his closet when he heard someone set foot on the creaky fifth step. From out the closet's horizontal bars, he saw his bedroom door open slowly. Whoever it was smelled of week old cat urine. Thomas wiped his eyes and could now see that it wasn't a person, at least not entirely. Its body was ma... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,712 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | Villains are supposed to be big, and bad, and mean. Tough guys- From Al Capone to Joseph Stalin. They were people with power, the kinds of people that are always bigger, always worse, always just a bit meaner. Even the guy who mugs you in the alleyway or the guy who shoved you around in high school is bigger and meaner... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,713 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | *Shrik, shrik.*
The only sound I can hear over the engine is that of a knife being sharpened. Not surprising, really. Sound doesn't carry well to the trunk.
*Shrik, shrik.*
The engine grows quieter now. They will be coming for me soon. My heart starts to race in anticipation. I quietly pocket the sharpener and repla... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,714 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | The door creaks open, and she is with me. She smells like jasmine and at once my hands are upon her, my fingers tracing the lacework that lays across her shoulders and the subtle play of muscle across the bones beneath. She laughs deep in her throat and I want to devour her, to possess her, to be possessed by her. My a... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,715 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | I climb the stairs and open the door to the roof. The doves are cooing in their cages and the old man is there among them, his back to me and his face hidden beneath the cowl of his sweatshirt.
"I've been looking for you," I say. Staying far away, as the kid had warned me. My feet crunching on the gravel.
"Have you?... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,716 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | "It doesn't matter," she said, and looked at me, the light from the naked bulbs brightening the cataract just enough to make it look like she was going to smile, and then she smiled. "They're going to die. All of them. And just think, Henry, you could have prevented this." She turned again to look through the glass of ... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,717 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | The fight didn' last long.
It tilted back its head and started to emit a burbling,rattlig noise like someone being strangled.Its tall body started to vibrate,every single muscle was strained,highlighted by the cold moonlight reflecting from its disgustingly slick,black skin.The creature's shape suggested it might have... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,718 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | He liked that people liked him. It did make things easier. He was still on good terms with his ex girlfriend, who was on the committee of another society. They had coffee. Talked about friends. Gossipy bitch. But so was he. He loved knowing what people were up to. He didn't plan it, but as he did it he knew he was gett... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 19,719 |
Introduce a truly terrifying villain in a paragraph or so. Someone who will give me nightmares. [WP] | The subject woke up in a sweat, looking incredibly terrified.
"You almost killed him, Phobia. That's just no fun." A voice called out from the darkness. A single ceiling light flicked on creating a spotlight on the man tied down to the chair.
"Who's there?" The same voice began to cackle wildly.
"Can you make this ... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 19,720 |
[EU]Any of the major halo battles from a grunts perspective | Plasma grenades? Check.
Needler? Check.
Gas mask? Check.
Time to kick some demony butt! Gagag and I were deployed on the Ark, and the giant stinkies want us to spread out. The demon and Arbiter were seen up ahead, and we're here defending the big boomy gun from them. We're all anxious and waiting for they ca-
"Ther... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 19,721 |
[WP] The US Government just passed the "Army Enemy Penpal Program" and you have just received your first letter from a soldier in the opposing army. | "Hey, James. Your AEPP came through." Conrad said, handing him a parcel, "seems like it's working well for you."
"Thanks, Sarge." I replied, taking the parcel out of his hands, looking at the familiar handwriting adorning one side. As Conrad kept going, I slowly opened up the package, making sure I didn't tear any edg... | 26 | 0 | 49 | 19,722 |
[WP] The US Government just passed the "Army Enemy Penpal Program" and you have just received your first letter from a soldier in the opposing army. | [Here is my response.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AV3Aq6CvNcUXEwD7F_yYRK3UpX5TBkyRIh4MQjKb5vk/edit?usp=sharing)
And here is a copy of it:
Dear John,
Everytime I write one of these fucking letters I feel like I’m such bitch at home who finally got around to cheating on you. Fuck, man, get a new name.
Anywa... | 7 | 0 | 49 | 19,723 |
[WP] The US Government just passed the "Army Enemy Penpal Program" and you have just received your first letter from a soldier in the opposing army. | The first letters came in a huge bag and the Commander, with an obvious disdain and frustration, dumped them all onto the floor of our barracks.
“Grab one, any one. I don’t care,” he snapped out as he stomped away.
The envelope I pulled out from deep in the pile was not unlike any of the others but I made all of the ... | 5 | 0 | 49 | 19,724 |
[WP] The US Government just passed the "Army Enemy Penpal Program" and you have just received your first letter from a soldier in the opposing army. | I opened the sealed envelope with trepidation, as though it might explode and carefully pulled out the folded piece of printer paper.
marHaban, AEP buddy!
Just wanted to send you a quick msg and say hi. How is the war going for u? Thing r quiet here, alhamdulillah. I saw on ur form that u from NC. My brother went... | 1 | 0 | 49 | 19,725 |
[WP] Write a fight scene in which fruits are weaponized. | We didn't realize what they were plotting. Didn't realize that once Chiquita had established the Banana Republic in full, it would declare war on the world.
It's impossible to escape it now though. I'm a soldier, marching into what will likely be my final battle. On foot. In the initial stages of the war, we broug... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 19,726 |
[WP] Write a fight scene in which fruits are weaponized. | The sun was beating down upon two men. It was high noon and both were prepared to fight to the death. A disagreement led to more disagreements, soon their dispute couldn't be settled through regular, peaceful means.
"10 paces."
Their backs faced against each other. One step. Two steps. Three steps. After each step, t... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19,727 |
[WP] Someone reminiscing of simpler times. | Yeah, I remember those days--the days when Mama was still alive, and cared after everyone. It ain't easy to forget the smell of peach cobbler wafting through the house and my older brother teaching me, his baby sister, how to play Jacks. We was poor then, but life was simple.
I used to think my life was boring. I used... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19,728 |
[WP] Someone reminiscing of simpler times. | Back in my day people were free to walk the Earth. Yeah… just like that. You could at any point in time stand up, stop what you were doing and walk outside, you could walk until your legs would burn, and then you could go on for a little while more.
You could get together with anyone from any part of the world and hav... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 19,729 |
[WP] Someone reminiscing of simpler times. | The sunlight of the fading midafternoon drifted through my window as I stood before it. My eyes beheld the all-too-familiar expanse of the city below me. Miles upon miles of sterilized white concrete stretching out into the horizon, dotted with skyscrapers, superhighways, and the occasional sentient that was foolishly ... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19,730 |
[WP] Someone reminiscing of simpler times. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19,731 |
[WP] A walk in the park brings back painful memories. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 9 | 19,732 |
[WP] A walk in the park brings back painful memories. | The last time I visited my parents, I took their dog for a walk through the park. Our park. My park. I remember smoking salvia on the bench with Rob and Conor. I remember sprinting across the field and seeing my reflection in the Spring flowers behind the soccer pitch. I remember coming down, and walking back to the ... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 19,733 |
[WP] A walk in the park brings back painful memories. | Lucas takes quiet steps along the stone path, lit by the bright full moon above him. His breath comes out in a small fog, even as he dips his clean-shaven face into his scarf. His short, lazily styled hair drifts back and forth in a small breeze. The trees seem to reach out to grab him and he pulls his jacket close aro... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 19,734 |
[WP] A walk in the park brings back painful memories. | Bear with me, this is my first time submitting anything.
It was the silence. The memories always filled it. No object could ever pull such a strong force from me.
Three years. Three years had passed and nothing had changed. No one saw the pain that still burned at my heart for her. Kara. We walked together everyday,... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 19,735 |
[WP] An Victorian era war vessel is knocked off into the ocean by a great storm, and when it calms down slightly, they have an eerie encounter with a ghost vessel. | "Oi! Barney! Keep the boys steady on the oars! We've brought the sails down!" My voice echoed across the wind, a vicious thing, slicing its way across the decks and cutting into people, cruel cold fingers pushing them towards the edge. Thankfully, I had gotten everyone tied up ready for the storm half an hour prior.
"... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 19,736 |
A story where Earth is attacked by aliens, and the only way to stop them is for all countries unite. | Let me grab my homemade HFY. Be right back.
[Here](http://imgur.com/OjIb6y8) Kinda what you ask, some HFY I wrote a time back. Enjoy, I guess. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19,737 |
[WP] Write a story that can be read forwards or backwards and it would still make sense | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 19,738 |
[WP] Write a story that can be read forwards or backwards and it would still make sense | "Hell? Maybe you don't know me - this seems more like Heaven to me."
I stared around at the young men and women, already sweating in the heat that filled the humid air. I couldn't help my eyes lingering on the women's curves - I was a red-blooded male, after all! Well, I had been. I finally returned my attention t... | 6 | 0 | 3 | 19,739 |
[WP] You've severely disappointed someone who you held in very high regard. | Part 1
My assailants had done a very poor job of blindfolding me, though the bindings were held too firm for me to break free. I assumed the nearby footsteps to be those of the attackers, but I was wondering where they would take my life. Would it be a hole in the middle of a farm where I would be buried, or perhaps h... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 19,740 |
[WP] You've severely disappointed someone who you held in very high regard. | “So, let me get this straight,” the suited man said. He stopped pacing to light a cigarette, took a deep breath, then squatted in front of his prisoner and blew the smoke in his face. “I gave you a job to do, Alex. Just one, simple job. And you... what was it, again?”
“I... I fucked up, boss,” Alex said. He was kneeli... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 19,741 |
[WP] You've severely disappointed someone who you held in very high regard. | "Terra Kathleen van Asche." Terra pinched her nose. Father did not use her middle name lightly. Nobody did; everyone agreed it fit her name poorly, and was an unpleasant reminder of her mother's influence in her life. Father had seen fit to use it; the gravity of the situation sank in.
"I am, for what it's worth, sorr... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 19,742 |
[WP] You've severely disappointed someone who you held in very high regard. | ((Forenote: I apparently misread the prompt as "You're severely disappointed in someone who you held in very high regard." Too late to turn back now.))
Hi, God? Are you up there? Look, I know normally, I'm supposed to say some fancy words to you. "Now I lay me down to sleep" or "Thank thee for this providence" y... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 19,743 |
[WP] Your SO tells you that you've been sleepwalking for the past week or so. And that you do strange things when you sleepwalk. | “I didn’t want to bring it up, I really didn’t, but I’m worried about you.” She takes a seat in front of me, a nervous smile appearing on her face. My lips twitch up in a smile, automatic in response to seeing hers, attempting to reassure both her and myself. She looks down at the table and her hand snakes over to take... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19,744 |
[WP] Your SO tells you that you've been sleepwalking for the past week or so. And that you do strange things when you sleepwalk. | She told me that I started sleeping walking a month ago. Back then, it wasn’t too bad. Mostly just me bumping around into walls for an hour till I came back to bed. A week in, I started going through drawers. Lighters, lettuces, Legos; I’d pick out things and just leave them on the counters. Two weeks in, and I started... | 6 | 0 | 3 | 19,745 |
[WP] WHO THE FUCK SPILLED MY LEMONADE? | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19,746 |
[WP] WHO THE FUCK SPILLED MY LEMONADE? | SPILLED LEMONADE
"I'll be right back guys, I have to go to the bathroom. No one drink any of my lemonade!" my son Billy cried out as he dashed out of his little yellow Little Tikes Kids chair into the house. The other three boys, Chuckie, Teddy, and Mikey sat and sipped away at their own cups of lemonade. The cups emp... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19,747 |
[WP] Write a short vignette from an ordinary person's life | Suzy awoke at 6:15 a.m., as she always did. Rolling over she smacked her clock radio, silencing the blaring, horn-like sound which provoked anxiety every time she heard it. It was Friday so she was both exhausted from the week but looking forward to a few days off.
Climbing out of bed she rubbed Frankie's head and mut... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19,748 |
[WP] Two serial killers meet and fall in love. | It was when they both woke up at the same time from a fuzzy, chloroform-induced haze that they knew they were made for each other.
It was really a story worthy of the soppiest Hollywood romances: One night, Eleanor had disguised herself as a prostitute to lure men to a hotel room so that she could crochet their blood ... | 11 | 0 | 10 | 19,749 |
Elite tobacco salesmen call on the top tier TV executives with a big concern: dwindling cigarette sales; need more smokers; less quitters. TV execs propose a new multi-million dollar audience marketing tactic code-named "inception". | sorry, forgot the [WP] part... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19,750 |
The Ministry Of Magic, using an automated system of magical quills, sends warning howlers to anybody who uses an illegal spell, including Lord Voldemort. |
Hello,
Your post is not tagged correctly. Please see the sidebar for details.
A tag should be in [square brackets]. You don't need to delete your post -
just remember in the future to tag your posts, please.
(This is an automated post.)
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 19,751 |
[WP] By Jaclyn's 12th birthday, her mom had sold off anything that couldn't be carried on their backs. The cats went to Jaclyn's aunt, until their return home to Canada. South America. Fun? Shackles, cold, burned her wrists; weeping ankles. Jaclyn, alone, slipped her bonds and fled. Home? | I don't even-- wut? | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19,752 |
[WP] A character gets defensive about his or her behavior. | Look you. I’m only how you write me, stop complaining about it. I can’t help it if every time you attempt to write something serious, I pop in and lighten the situation. If I wasn’t here, you’d have blocks upon blocks of seriously depressing, childishly angst-ridden text. So fuck you and enjoy me. I don’t care if I yan... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19,753 |
[IP] End of the Line | The billboards flashed in the background.
24-hour Implants.
Ez-Jack Net connectors.
Instant Clones.
XXX 4 cheap.
Heh. Somethings don't change.
A rap at the window brought me back. The Cleaners had found their man. I motioned for the driver to unlock the door, and they forced the kid inside. He other than ... | 10 | 0 | 16 | 19,754 |
[IP] End of the Line | "Is there anything left that you have to say?"
The man smiled up at his her. "No, I'm at peace."
She pulled the trigger and the gun clicked. The man opened his eyes.
"Welcome to your life" she said, and offered him her hand. | 4 | 0 | 16 | 19,755 |
[IP] End of the Line | I stared down at him, gun pointed and cocked. Goddammit, I'd never seen such a useless life form in my existence. It was like looking at my antithesis. Low, trembling and completely vulnerable. The stone wall that I'd constructed around my feelings-bearer completely deterred any feelings of sympathy as tears welled in ... | 0 | 0 | 16 | 19,756 |
[IP] End of the Line | The city was buzzing with activity. Like oversized bee-hives, the giant blocks of concrete and glass stood against the night sky, outshining the barely visible stars with their own crescendo of lights and sounds. Even out here in the old city, the noise was audible.
"Any last words?"
The kneeling man turned around.
... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 19,757 |
[IP] End of the Line | "You ever loved a woman, son? Felt her soft body warm against you as her smooth, light touches drive you wild? You gaze at her, her long blonde hair, her bright red lips and those eyes. Holy crap, her eyes. All big, innocent and sleepy as she lies there. And when she lets you in, she's not just giving you her, she's gi... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 19,758 |
[WP] A bar fight that takes place in an Urban Fantasy setting, from the perspective of the bartender who's got something to hide | The twenty-something in the back with the eyeliner and aluminum chain pants is actually half faerie. The chick shooting whiskey in a tubetop is a werewolf. The grizzled veteran smoking at the bar enjoys Nicholas Cage novels.
Everyone has secrets. Everyone worth knowing, anyways. I hear a lot of them. You tend to, when... | 5 | 0 | 8 | 19,759 |
[WP] A bar fight that takes place in an Urban Fantasy setting, from the perspective of the bartender who's got something to hide | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 8 | 19,760 |
[WP] A seemingly innocent obsession turns dangerous. | "Dude, you gotta quit buying that shit. It ain't healthy, man." Henley stood there with his hands in his pocket, looking over the top of my locker door. His expression was pure reproach -- no, not quite reproach, but more just judging.
"Don't judge me, man." I slammed the door shut and popped another piece in my mouth... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 19,761 |
[WP]Earth is attacked by an unknown race. The only way to stop it, is for all humans to unite. | “I call it a flesh elemental” the withered little man said while pointing at the eclectic mixture of flesh and organs oozing its way across the countryside. “It’s a creature of my own design. Once it absorbs enough flesh and has grown to an unstoppable size it will return to the invader’s flying ships, crushing them an... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19,762 |
[WP]Earth is attacked by an unknown race. The only way to stop it, is for all humans to unite. | [The Dome](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1vqnzx/wp_a_dome_has_been_over_the_city_for_as_long_as/cev37om)
[The Sheltered City](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1y926y/ip_the_sheltered_city/cfii64k)
The walk up from the lake had been arduous. The drooping plant life was wet and slimy ... | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19,763 |
[WP] A war story from the POV of a soldier's dog | Ruff ruff bark. Bark bark bark ruff. Grrrrrr bark. Ruff ruff bark grrr bark. Bark ruff ruff! Bark bark ruff bark? Bark ruff ruff. | -1 | 0 | 21 | 19,764 |
[WP] A war story from the POV of a soldier's dog | "Dad! Dad! DAD!! Come here, Dad! I found the stinky box!"
Dad comes over and places his hand on my head, lightly scratching the way he does when I do good. He grunts and groans at the other humans in our pack, just like he does every time I find a stinky box. They seem excited, but I can smell their nervousness ... | 163 | 0 | 21 | 19,765 |
[WP] A war story from the POV of a soldier's dog | That makes me want a dog. | 1 | 0 | 21 | 19,766 |
[WP] A war story from the POV of a soldier's dog | As a veteran and a dog owner. I feel this was so poignant and beautifully written in the dogs perspective. Thanks. This made me feel. Great job. Please keep writing. :) | 2 | 0 | 21 | 19,767 |
[WP] A war story from the POV of a soldier's dog | Thank you. | 1 | 0 | 21 | 19,768 |
[WP] A war story from the POV of a soldier's dog | Oh fuck. The tears. | 1 | 0 | 21 | 19,769 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | The truth, huh? No. I can do almost anything, but not that. The truth is overrated. Overrated and useless. Yeah, I could tell you a true story. I can give you names, dates, outcomes and endings.
But that wouldn't do a bit of good. You wouldn't grasp what I was trying to convey, wouldn't understand what It was at the ... | 6 | 0 | 13 | 19,770 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | On a slightly humid September day, with Florida's worst summer tourists (the honeymoon flies) hovering everywhere, I was running Star Tours Combo at Disney MGM Studios. That's just the fancy name we gave the little metal cart with two umbrellas and a freezer unit full of ice cream treats. It was maybe an hour before th... | 7 | 0 | 13 | 19,771 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | I was just thinking about how I wanted to write this down the other day: My first dance with my own mortality
When I was thirteen my running habit had grown into a focused self improvement obsession. I was shown Chariots of Fire and it ended up having a legitimate impact on me. Running became everything. As soon as I... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 19,772 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | **skinny souls**
jeans
shirt
shoes
all alone
dress
tights
shoes
on her own
lost
forgot
here
both unknown
saw
need
want
two then moan
lost
forgot
near
neither phone | 6 | 0 | 13 | 19,773 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | >We don't bleed our own blood.
I bled for Smit, he bled for home,
He bled for real, I bled a poem,
I spilled my chest, he spilled for none,
I'll die at home, he died by gun. | 4 | 0 | 13 | 19,774 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | An honest memory can be a mouthful of ash.
I grew up on a farm. It was small, we were poor, and we were many. My mother sold Tupperware. She was exceptional in those days. The Vietnam war had ended. Bruce Lee was dead. Elvis was dead. Everyone was wearing bell-bottom pants. My older brothers walked around with too muc... | 6 | 0 | 13 | 19,775 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | I'm on my way back from some bull shit seminar, it's cold, and my dorm is far away. A cat materializes from the darkness of a nearby forest. I greet it with a high-pitched voice. It's a cute little guy. It trots in front of a car that's going 30 miles per hour. The bumper hits the cat, but the wheels don't even ru... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 19,776 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | It's weird. I remember it vividly, but when I actually take the time to think about it, it runs together. It gets all blurry, becomes muddled. Here's what I remember: My brother and I were sitting in the den watching cartoons like we do. My dad called us into the living room where we find our mother weeping. My dad ... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 19,777 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | The locker room smelled like a combination of BO and body spray. A scent that has always made me gag a bit, but I dealt with it like everyone else and stared at the door like everyone else waiting for the bell to ring so we could all go home and go about the remainder of our day. Time seemed to be going slowly. I turne... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 19,778 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | The train to Akihabara hadn’t been packed. I had sat beside my friend, smiling and chatting about where we were going—to the arcades of course to get more key chains. We were a few stations short of Akihabara, I want to say it was Shinagawa, but it might’ve been closer to the hub of Shibuya. The train began to rock bac... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 19,779 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | Conversation came naturally for Brett and I. Talking to him was as effortless as sleeping in for an extra fifteen minutes, and it had the same effect. I was happier, more confident, and people seemed to like me more. So it wasn't surprising to anyone when we chose to work on a group project together. We met at the libr... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 19,780 |
[WP] Tell me a true story | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 13 | 19,781 |
[WP] A satellite positioned 5 light years away from earth can be directed to any point and clearly observe events that have transpired | The shrill scream of the alarm cut through the lazy silence of Watchstation 17-Gamma, sending its one occupant tumbling off his chair. He frantically hurried across the room to slap the alarm off – muting the deafening wail. Cold chills still danced up and down his spine. The screens were flashing a ‘Code I-42’. ... | 40 | 0 | 13 | 19,782 |
[WP] A satellite positioned 5 light years away from earth can be directed to any point and clearly observe events that have transpired | One of my favorite articles in a long time, being an avid space fan! Unlike most research articles, this one makes it easy to comprehend the information while blowing you away with astonishing facts and pictures! I definitely recommend checking it out: http://thenebula.org/voyager-satellites-where-are-they/ | 1 | 0 | 13 | 19,783 |
[WP] A kid outsmarts his elders and does so by talking like Spock. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 19,784 |
[WP] A man is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. He is immortal. | [Rod Serling covered this 50 years ago](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Clause). | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19,785 |
[WP] A man is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. He is immortal. | The guard jerked one thumb over his shoulder. "And, last sight on this free tour of your new home: Morag. This guy's gonna be around forever."
I stared through the bars at my fellow inmate, dressed in an orange jumpsuit identical to mine. He looked like an ordinary enough fellow, maybe in his late forties, bronze s... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 19,786 |
[WP] Hell actually exists - in the deepest depths of the ocean. You are seeing it for the first time. Describe the horror. | You always thought it was a bit of a joke you know, the whole 'dug too deep' thing but in front of you was proof that there is a kernel of truth in everything.
At first when the solid layer of obsidian was found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench everyone was excited to have possibly found the deepest direct connecti... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 19,787 |
[WP] Hell actually exists - in the deepest depths of the ocean. You are seeing it for the first time. Describe the horror. | There was just... nothing.
At first I wasn't sure I was in the right place - it was just darkness and the pressure of miles of water above. It felt constricting. Isolated. No light, no indication that there was another soul. Definitely not the fire and brimestone promised.
This wouldn't be so bad right? I was expec... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19,788 |
[WP] Hell actually exists - in the deepest depths of the ocean. You are seeing it for the first time. Describe the horror. | [OT] Anyone who enjoys this prompt may want to read The Descent by Jeff Long. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19,789 |
[WP] Hell actually exists - in the deepest depths of the ocean. You are seeing it for the first time. Describe the horror. |
Water rushed into my mouth quickly and fiercely. I need to breath, badly. However when I tried, more water poured into my lungs. The cool water burns intensely in my throat and lungs. I feel myself sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss.
Darkness completely covers me and I see nothing, but I feel like i'm surround... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19,790 |
[WP] A beaten, broken man, lying in a pool of his own blood, cries with relief during the last moments of his life. | "Finally, finally".
He had been waiting for this moment...for so long. It was finally time, and his release was on its way.
--------------
"Hey honey, can you do me a favor?"
"Yeah, sure, what do you need?"
"Never talk to me again."
With that, she'd left him. Hadn't even faced him. She just said it over the phone... | 5 | 0 | 4 | 19,791 |
[WP] A beaten, broken man, lying in a pool of his own blood, cries with relief during the last moments of his life. | He lay baptised in a cocktail of plasma, cells and DNA convincing himself this was the only way. His saviour, a simple kitchen knife gleamed in the setting sun’s cooling rays. Gloria had won that knife as part of a set through a raffle. That was one of the good days. It seemed only fitting to him that he use the knife... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19,792 |
[WP] You involuntarily read people's minds when they are close to you, but it is limited to only one thought from every person you meet. On a crowded subway platform you pick up a unique thought. | I didn't read the "you" part and wrote this in first person. The story started off with the unique thought itself but turned into something that I like a lot more. Sorry if I down-played that unique thought, but it just didn't feel that important when I got to it. XD
[Here's my story](https://docs.google.com/document/... | 17 | 0 | 37 | 19,793 |
[WP] You involuntarily read people's minds when they are close to you, but it is limited to only one thought from every person you meet. On a crowded subway platform you pick up a unique thought. | It is raining. I'm running from school to the subway station as I am late and the last train is leaving in five minutes. I can hear people complaing about the rain even though I'm listening to music. I can hear a man thinking what he is going to eat for dinner. I have been able to read people minds as long as I can rem... | 6 | 0 | 37 | 19,794 |
[WP] You involuntarily read people's minds when they are close to you, but it is limited to only one thought from every person you meet. On a crowded subway platform you pick up a unique thought. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 37 | 19,795 |
[WP] You involuntarily read people's minds when they are close to you, but it is limited to only one thought from every person you meet. On a crowded subway platform you pick up a unique thought. | *I should have been a cop. Or at least a vigilante. The sheer number of bomb threats I've encountered while taking the sub to Manhattan is ridiculous. After a while, you just stop calling the police and start stealing the bad guy's backpack. Public safety for all, I guess.*
*On the other hand, I might be a great thief... | 2 | 0 | 37 | 19,796 |
[WP] You involuntarily read people's minds when they are close to you, but it is limited to only one thought from every person you meet. On a crowded subway platform you pick up a unique thought. | "What? How did she know that," mumbled Tom as he walked onto the subway platform. He stood there scanning the crowd looking for a woman who would match the voice in his head. He tapped his foot impatiently and sighed as he saw dozens of likely women who could have given off the stray thought. The brunette? The blonde... | 5 | 0 | 37 | 19,797 |
[WP] You involuntarily read people's minds when they are close to you, but it is limited to only one thought from every person you meet. On a crowded subway platform you pick up a unique thought. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 37 | 19,798 |
[WP] A lonely man with Alzheimer's plans his own 80th birthday party, forgets , and thinks someone else has planned it for him. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 273 | 19,799 |
Subsets and Splits
Top Gilded Writing Prompts
Retrieves potentially popular or noteworthy posts from the training dataset, but only provides basic filtering without deeper analytical insights into the data patterns.
SQL Console for euclaise/WritingPromptsX
Provides a limited set of records with high post scores, offering basic filtering but minimal insight into data patterns.