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[WP] "I looked at the Orion. It looked like you." Write a love story. | pre.p.s.: I love this prompt. I don't know there aren't many other replies.
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It was a long before I began to feel drowsy. The Sky hadn't taken its toll on me. I suppose the vaccine was working; I hoped it was working, but hope can always be just as deadly. So here I am, drugged up on Sleep so I can sleep. The drugs ... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 20,700 |
[PM] Something horror themed | What inspired the urban legend of [Cow Head](http://pinktentacle.com/2010/03/cow-head/)? What horrific events could have taken place that the story is too much for any sane man to read? | 1 | 0 | 13 | 20,701 |
[PM] Something horror themed | 9,000 years ago in 'Ain Ghazal people would bury loved ones under the floor-boards of their homes in a form of ancestor-worship. In the 1970s archaeologists found twenty-five carefully made plaster figurines buried in a pit in a part of the town that had long been abandoned. Being so far from living quarters these thin... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 20,702 |
[PM] Something horror themed | A ghost is so desperate to return to life that they jump into the first available body that happens into the house that they've haunted for years. It is only after making this permanent change that the ghost finds the life of the person they've taken over is far worse than the loneliness and pain of being a ghost. | 2 | 0 | 13 | 20,703 |
[PM] Something horror themed | The Swordsman said he had decided to stop fighting and killing. The Sword started to laugh. | 1 | 0 | 13 | 20,704 |
[PM] Something horror themed | You wake up one morning and realize that you have swapped bodies with Billy Ray Cyrus. | 1 | 0 | 13 | 20,705 |
[WP] The President has just announced that a group of nuclear bombs is headed for the United States. What do YOU do? | "Why in the fuck would you think going closer to DC is a good idea?" The line repeated over and over in my head as we were stuck in gridlock. My wife was cursing me, the President and god under her breath. "Are you happy now?" she inquired as we watched close to a thousand people abandon their vehicles and start hoofin... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 20,706 |
[WP] The President has just announced that a group of nuclear bombs is headed for the United States. What do YOU do? | "Welp, time to smoke weed!"
I throw on my leather jacket as I burst out the door, unlocking my car and calling my best friend. "Hey dude, what's up?"
"Not much, man," comes his voice from the other side of the phone. "Dude...did you hear that we're all going to die?"
"Yeah man, it sucks! You know where to find any w... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 20,707 |
Sherlock Holmes commits a crime knowing that he could easily fabricate his innocence. However, he ends up making a kindergarten level mistake and gets caught. |
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Sherlock Holmes commits a crime knowing that he could easily fabricate his innocence. However, he ends up making a kindergarten level mistake and gets caught. | Sherlock Holmes has appeared in court today, after failing to successfully commit murder. As his partner, this has led to me being under suspicion also. I usually believe that this man is a genius, however even I cannot deny the stupidity he has shown in this case.
It started Friday the last, a chilly and gloomy even... | 6 | 0 | 13 | 20,709 |
Sherlock Holmes commits a crime knowing that he could easily fabricate his innocence. However, he ends up making a kindergarten level mistake and gets caught. | "It's quite simple really." said Sherlock Holmes to the inspector, as a small crowd of people crowded around the front of 10 Downing Street.
"A murder solved in a single morning." said Watson. "Shame we couldn't stop it from happening, even being nearby."
"Don't take it too harshly Watson, we had not enough insight i... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 20,710 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | Being a wanderer has it's perks and it's downfalls. On the upside I have no 'family' to answer to; I'm free to do as I please, and so long as I avoid leaving a large audience to my...condition...I'm safe enough. The downside is that I have to hunt for my meals. The covens have cattle and only hunt when they're 'bored'.... | 6 | 0 | 64 | 20,711 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | It's the grass. The smell of the grass. I don't remember her name anymore. I forgot it near to two hundred years before I forgot her face. It was before photography and a portrait could hardly be feasible for a dirty urchin selling cheap posies. I sat right there, next to her on that small hill. The sun was shining on ... | 13 | 0 | 64 | 20,712 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | "That's actually volcano ash."
I turned to see a young girl, probably in her 20's, with dark hair and a pair of baby blue sunglasses resting on the crown of her head, speaking to me.
"You said that they were covered in lava, but that's a common misconception really the bodies are preserved in volcano ash" She once ... | 24 | 0 | 64 | 20,713 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | They say once you leave you can never really go home. That holds true even when you are technically no longer living. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. This is the place I was born. This is where I grew up. This is where I lived my entire life until that fateful night. I had long since left the memory of it behind, ... | 5 | 0 | 64 | 20,714 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | I think it's 2014 this year. That's what my bus ticket says and computers are apparently pretty reliable these days. I don't remember what year it was when they got to me, or where I was, but I know that I was 28 at the time. I guess I have vampire Alzheimer's. Things have changed a lot since then, but I'm too old to n... | 4 | 0 | 64 | 20,715 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 64 | 20,716 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | The winters cold still grips my bones,
As I look upon the townsfolks homes.
Where memory lingered, it had been
Tossed,
As my mind, and fingers did gather
frost.
Memories cold, living life forgotten,
Yet something stirs in flesh now rotten.
My teeth, those... | 2 | 0 | 64 | 20,717 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | Leaves rustle in the soft breeze, dappling my ash-grey skin in moonlight. The underbrush barely makes a sound as I move through towards my new feeding grounds.
As I reach the edge of the woods and look upon where I've ended up, a faint tugging pulls at my mind as I look out at the small town with a single dirt road ru... | 1 | 0 | 64 | 20,718 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | Bus came to a halt as the brakes screeched. The boredom of the trip almost made me drink some obnoxious passengers dry, but I needed to watch what I eat and "boredom munching" isn't good for anyone regardless of their diet.
I hopped off the bus's last step. The cooling summer air was very refreshing as the sun des... | 1 | 0 | 64 | 20,719 |
[WP] As vampires get older, they forget their human lives bit by bit. You arrive at your home town from when you were among the living, and a flood of memories come back | The motorcycle roared as it made its way through the winding wet roads. Spray misted along the slick surface and its rider gunned the throttle until the world around her dissolved into an array of red and gold bathed in the silver of the moonlight.
Up ahead, lights winked into existence as she cleared another bend. Th... | 1 | 0 | 64 | 20,720 |
[WP] An endangered species comes out and informs mankind that humans are actually the ones nearing extinction. | Jack got up from his chair, it had been a slow day today. Only thirty families came by. Similarly to most days he was the last one there; he'd already fed all the animals and cleaned the cages that needed it, so when he heard a voice he was extremely confused. Of course he wrote it off as just a couple of kids wanting ... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 20,721 |
[WP] In a zombified world, instead of different parties competing to develop bigger and better weapons, there's a literal arms race. | "Marcy, you have to do it or else we'll face certain annihilation!"
Marcy hesitated. The urgency in the air clouded her vision and burdened her ears with pleas:
"Marcy, you're the only one whose genes are compatible with the technology!"
"You have to think of the greater good here!"
"Come on, we don't have t... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 20,722 |
You are a cartographer mapping the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Describe what you see on your descent to the murky depths. |
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You are a cartographer mapping the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Describe what you see on your descent to the murky depths. | "Rock... Rocks... Small rocks... Thermal vent... Some more rocks... Floating particles... Big rocks."
"Goddammit, Murray! Shut the fuck up!"
"But I was hired to document everything we see on the way down, Kevin."
"Yea, but that doesn't mean you have to point out every single fucking rock you see!"
"How else am I su... | 4 | 0 | 6 | 20,724 |
[WP] Tell me a story where I don't want the hero to win. | Hiding out of sight is the reality. There are no grand entrances, no running in with guns blazing like in film. This is the real world, and I am outnumbered with little to no protection. Three against one is hardly a fair fight, so I must use cover to my advantage. I can take the men out quickly, stop their wrongs an... | 3 | 0 | 20 | 20,725 |
[WP] Tell me a story where I don't want the hero to win. | She walked with an exaggerated sway brimming with confidence and attitude. Her pony tail swung back and forth in time like the sweep of a pendelum. He watched her; his eyes on her ass though it was not the reason he followed. The gun in his right hand was stuffed inside his pocket, but his finger was kissing the trigge... | 19 | 0 | 20 | 20,726 |
[WP] Tell me a story where I don't want the hero to win. | "Soon, my evil plan will come to fruition! My mind ray on my moonbase will bathe the entire world in its glow, and all females over 18 will permanently lose their sense of body modesty! Nudity! Nudity everywhere! Bwahahaha!"
"You fiend!" shouted Dirk. "That's... just tacky. I'll stop you!" | 1 | 0 | 20 | 20,727 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 50 | 20,728 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | It's been 75 days since the war started. No mans land is filled with bodies. Ever since /r/atheism was removed from the defaults we have been outnumbered and outgunned. Mountain Dew is running low. The Cheetos have run out, we are now living off the leftover dust from the MREs. I look at my comrades though and do not d... | 42 | 0 | 50 | 20,729 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | "I'm telling you!" The man slammed his hand on the table, his grey and white heraldry signifying his alliance to the North. "There is no fucking way that Benjen is Daario!"
The man sat opposite of him was clad in Crimson and Gold, his allegiance sworn to the Lions of the Rock. He met his debate partner's reply with a ... | 13 | 0 | 50 | 20,730 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | I hope this letter reaches you, my love.
Day 272 of the Great reddit war
I miss you, my love. I know, I write it at the beginning and at the end of nearly every letter I send you, but it needs to be said again nonetheless. If not for you, at least for me. It forms a kind of anchor for me. Something to cling to when t... | 19 | 0 | 50 | 20,731 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | *Historians have just recovered relics from the third world war, before internet censors shut down international communication. A very interesting look into the day-to-day culture of citizens who happened to be at war. Here are a few notable examples.*
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I think our government should realize something about the w... | 7 | 0 | 50 | 20,732 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | Reddit. April 1, 2013. OrangeReds Vs Periwinkles.
It was a bloody war. Subreddits were destroyed through and through. Hatred was spread. Downvotes purely based on some arbitrary random categorization. No one had any idea what they were doing, but they recruited their IRL friends. If those friends were on the enemy sid... | 8 | 0 | 50 | 20,733 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | The first plans were laid long ago, when modems screeched and black sludge clogged mice. The accumulation of white young men in their 20s was each sides first obvious goal. These are the souls to grieve for, for they are the damned. Unknowingly and unwittingly, for points that cant be spent, they cast away their humani... | 3 | 0 | 50 | 20,734 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | Sometimes the battles that nobody pays any attention to are the ones most worth fighting. After the first shots were fired and the atheists and Christians started slugging it out in the city, most of the others aligned themselves with one group or the other. The reporters have already started calling the Reddit War an ... | 3 | 0 | 50 | 20,735 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | Fucking hell.
I do the best I can, keeping people up when they get filled with downvotes. It's hard when you only have one upvote to give sometimes. It's harder when they never give up throwing downvotes at us. Day after day, /r/Atheism taunts us for our faith in victory. Our faith in anything. Fuck them. We heard tha... | 3 | 0 | 50 | 20,736 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | The war room was a scene of chaos. The proposed battle strategies numbered in the thousands. With [/r/gaming](http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/) starting to move into a flanking position, time to think was quickly running out. The general leaned back and attempted to process the myriad options laid out in front of him. T... | 3 | 0 | 50 | 20,737 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | Everything we ever believed in was a lie.
They held up a blanket of lies in front of our faces, and we trusted everything they said. The ones who spoke out early were banned, downvoted, or worse. I sit here, five years later after the breakdown of /r/badhistory, not knowing whether I should laugh or cry.
I live under... | 3 | 0 | 50 | 20,738 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | /u/the_dinks looked out at his fellow brave soldiers while the group's medic, /u/wsgy111 stitched up his arm. "You should really get a prostate exam," advised wsgy, but Dinks knew that there were more pressing matters at hand. Taking a swig of Code Blue Mountain Dew, he steadied himself on the arm of his chair, and wai... | 15 | 0 | 50 | 20,739 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | The first bomb dropped at 14:34 U.S. central time. At first, everyone at the meet up believed it some kind of joke organized by people looking to rake in Karma from filming our reactions. Except when everyone pulled out their phones, none of them worked. Then, the old CRT tv's went out of phase and then, dark. From the... | 2 | 0 | 50 | 20,740 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | The civil war that tore /r/gaming apart, like a sudden but devastating crack spreading through ice, was about as surprising as it was immediate. For years we lived, desperately hoping the beliefs we held and the joys we drew from our chosen deities would keep us together. We all had our passion in common, and for a lon... | 2 | 0 | 50 | 20,741 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | "Snoop DAWGY DAWWWGG!" I cry with pure adrenalin as I bring my bong down upon my victims head, the glass shards turning another r/pimpcats soldier into to a pimpchidna.
I stop briefly to contemplate the possibility of "bong" being an onomatopoeia for the sound made when pulling a bong.
My philosophizing is put on hold... | 3 | 0 | 50 | 20,742 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | "Listen up man!" Yells a tall general /u/turtleeatingalderman "This is where we hold the line, once again!" He then points outside of trenches of devastated /r/TIL frontline, still filled with bodies and screaming wounded of previous Lost Causers attack.
"We are not getting support from /r/AskHistorians HQ today eithe... | 2 | 0 | 50 | 20,743 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories. | "So you're Modem?"
I think it threw him off, my speaking first. It was probably his right to speak, as is customary with meetings being the invitee rather than the inviter. I seemed to be taking things less seriously than him and his colleagues.
"I am." His response was quick. His statement delayed. "They tell me you... | 1 | 0 | 50 | 20,744 |
[WP] An all-out war of black and whites began. War intensifies. Ends with a "checkmate" in a match between 2 professional chess players. | The clergyman looked away as he ran down the enemy. It shouldn't have been this way, he was never to see active duty. That was left for the regular soldiers, the pawns. Oh, what a pointless war, a silly feud between two kings, between black and white. A war that drafted even men of the robe, bishops like him who had ta... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 20,745 |
[WP] An all-out war of black and whites began. War intensifies. Ends with a "checkmate" in a match between 2 professional chess players. | Nice try, Manson. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 20,746 |
[IP] You have choses one of these gifts a while back. Tell me about your life. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 21 | 20,747 |
[IP] You have choses one of these gifts a while back. Tell me about your life. | This upsets me. I really wanted to read these ones. | 2 | 0 | 21 | 20,748 |
[IP] You have choses one of these gifts a while back. Tell me about your life. | >Escape
When I was alive, I wasn't sure what I believed. Gods or science, it was all the same to me. The moment I died though. I ended up here. In this world of dreams. There's no one else here though. Just me. Maybe this isn't actually the afterlife, but I just got lucky, which seems unlikely but at this point I'm... | 4 | 0 | 21 | 20,749 |
[IP] You have choses one of these gifts a while back. Tell me about your life. | > The Road Eternal
My name is Thomas Jakes, well at least that is the name I have given myself. I did so because my given name is very difficult to pronounce and, frankly, I just got tired of explaining to people how to pronounce it. Supposedly my given name means Summer Winds in my native tongue. Honestly, I never... | 2 | 0 | 21 | 20,750 |
[WP]- Tell the story of a school shooter through their internet search history. | "funny jokes."
"humorous stories"
"how to get people to notice you"
"how to become popular"
"why am I so alone?"
"loneliness"
"depression"
"how to commit suicide"
"mental illness"
"gun types"
"where to buy a gun"
"closest school" | 14 | 0 | 8 | 20,751 |
[WP]- Tell the story of a school shooter through their internet search history. | 1/05/14 - 11:12 p.m. ~ depression
1/05/14- 11:49 p.m. ~ how to cover self-harm scars
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2/10/14 - 10:08 p.m. ~ How can I make bullies leave me alone
2/10/14 - 10:32 p.m. ~ least painful way to commit suicide
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2... | 6 | 0 | 8 | 20,752 |
[WP]- Tell the story of a school shooter through their internet search history. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 20,753 |
[WP]- Tell the story of a school shooter through their internet search history. | CNN Talking Head Randy McMichaels was preparing for the day's how. Today, he was going to talk about Louis Falanga, who had recently killed 20 people, including himself, on his high school campus. It was his duty to lead the nation in a witch hunt during it's time of mourning.
"Here's his browser history and your co... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 20,754 |
[WP]- Tell the story of a school shooter through their internet search history. | "Wolfram Alpha"
"Quadratic equation"
"Integration tables"
"Weather"
"Flash games"
"Gamma Function"
"Redtube"
"Periodic Table"
"Is Avocado a Fruit or Vegetable?"
"Mass of the earth"
"Platforming Flash games" | 3 | 0 | 8 | 20,755 |
[WP] Describe a walled in city controlled by guards. It is cold and wet. | He flinched as her heard the howls from deep in the forest. A night like any other, but it seemed as though they were closer than usual. A shiver ran through his body. It was pouring rain and beginning to soak through his cloak, but he ignored the dampness. By the time his shift was over, he would be soaked to the bone... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 20,756 |
[WP] Describe a walled in city controlled by guards. It is cold and wet. | Terrance sat on the edge of the dock, his legs dangling over the water 70 feet below. He gazed at the setting sun across the horizon. This was favorite spot in all of Volgathia. The docks on the Serro Sea were the only place one could even see the horizon in Volgathia, unless you were one of the Lord's Blade. He li... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 20,757 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | It was with a heavy heart that I applied for my killing permit. Rather than mailing a request in, I travelled to the government building to avoid the six-week waiting period. In my backpack I had a folder with all the information on my victim. What our relationship was, why I wanted him dead, the consequences to societ... | 36 | 0 | 22 | 20,758 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | "So you're sure this is legal?" I asked the man skeptically through the phone attached to the wall. I stared into his sunglasses through the scratched bullet-proof glass.
"Of course it is. The government has a new program called the LTK set up. The License to Kill will allow you to kill one person as you see fit. This... | 3 | 0 | 22 | 20,759 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | He sat in the windowless lobby, playing a game on his phone.
"Number twenty seven to window four." a woman said over the intercom, he checked his ticket, smiled, and approached the window with a giant four painted over it.
"Hi, how are you?" He asked the woman sitting on the other side of the desk who proceeded to gla... | 7 | 0 | 22 | 20,760 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | "Denied?! I've been waiting here for 7 hours for this permit and you denied me?"
The teller had been watching this man for most of her shift. He spent most of it pacing back and forth, muttering to himself. The rest of the time he spent crying on one of the waiting room seats.
"I'm sorry sir, but these decisions... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 20,761 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | "Next!" Came the harsh voice of the clerk sitting behind a beige counter. Alfred felt like he was in a bad soap-opera. Everything looked fake. From the furniture to the people themselves.
"Name?"
The clerk had dark circles around his eyes. He looked pale, his cheekbones were clearly visible.
"Alfred Salt."
"Do you ... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 20,762 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | The permit weighed heavy in my pocket as I approached the apartment building. The gun rested painfully on my hip under my jacket. I took the steps up to the fourth floor one at a time. Looking down as if to inspect each step before ascending the next one. My mind raced through my past against my will. I remember e... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 20,763 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | At times, I did wonder why they gave them away so easily; all it took was proof of ID and a few seconds with the chip and pin machine. I remember squeezing the small plastic card tight in my hand as I exited the building and didn’t let go until I reached my apartment, where I dropped it on the kitchen counter, next to ... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 20,764 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | I stood there just looking at the card in my hands. Mark Jensen. Citizen. Born on 12/3/1997. I was smiling in the picture. My hair was neatly slicked back. I looked like a typical member of the upper echelons in society. Not a killer. I finally gave into the urges after they had been toying with me for months. If I wa... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 20,765 |
[WP] In the future you can apply to the government for a killing permit. What it is is a piece of paper that exempts you from any legal action for the murder of one person of your choice. Describe one man's experience with this permit. | "This is the right desk, yeah? I'm here about the killing permit thing." A knobby-knuckled hand slid the filled-out application form forward with a hasty, indelicate motion.
The man behind the counter looked up with professional politeness. "You have the form all filled out, Miss-" a glance at the name carefully penci... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 20,766 |
[WP] It is the zombie apocalypse and you are holed up in Ikea. | "This isn't so bad." Aaron decided, spread out over a comfortable bed that showcases the model. Beside him stood his backpack and his rifle.
"You enjoying yourself over there?" Amber asked, her own rifle clutched firmly in her hands. She was looking at him with a mix between amusement and scolding.
"I don't know. Thi... | 5 | 0 | 14 | 20,767 |
[WP] It is the zombie apocalypse and you are holed up in Ikea. | You can hear them.
The groans and guttural throat sounds are just beyond the door being worn thin by incessant scratches. Blood runs in rivulets toward the floor as stumps that had once been fingers with neatly manicured nails continue to drag against the grain of the wood. At some point, one of them leans against the... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 20,768 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 228 | 20,769 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 228 | 20,770 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Aetius' knuckles are white as he clutches his sword. He shakes. His eyes meet mine, wide and searching for hope. I try to project courage, but I have no hope for him. I turn away. Five thousand men stand together at the foot of the mountain. Five thousand men face death.
The evacuation is too slow. The column of citiz... | 96 | 0 | 228 | 20,771 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | It wasn’t like Jupiter had hurled one of his usual bolts down at us like he did once in a while. No, this was different. It was like Jupiter had come down himself with the deafening thunder of a thousand bolts. It truly was the end of the world and the king of Olympus decided to show himself to us before he smote us. W... | 14 | 0 | 228 | 20,772 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | The dragon had been sleeping for what felt like an eternity, when out of no where, his stupid room mate Vulcan started hammering away at his stupid forge. The dragon, after having a wild night before, woke up with the worst hangover a dragon could have. But that bloody hammer just kept on going at it, *clink* *clink* *... | 6 | 0 | 228 | 20,773 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | *All was well in the sleepy old town*
*No great sound was heard 'til a rumbling felt*
*Well the mound made a peep*
*And the ground trembled deep*
*And o'er ash skies came a stones raining down*
*Oh if that had been all, this old story would end*
*But volcanoes have darker secrets to tell*
*The first cry rang out... | 7 | 0 | 228 | 20,774 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Vesuvius.
The Beast within the Mountain.
For generations, my people had watched the mountain, waiting for the beast to emerge. It had been almost 2 millennia since it had last come down from its roost, bringing death and destruction to our ancestors. But they had managed to push him back into the mountain.
No one kn... | 6 | 0 | 228 | 20,775 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Someone make this a book please | 2 | 0 | 228 | 20,776 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Smoke was still billowing from the top of Mt. Vesuvis. Areus stopped in the middle of the crowded street to watch it, many people shouted or gave him a dirty look after shoving past him.
They were all evacuating, well everyone except for the annoying "prophets" who were giving their sermons to all who would hear.
The... | 2 | 0 | 228 | 20,777 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Oh, whoa. I thought I was in /r/HistoricalWhatIf. | 1 | 0 | 228 | 20,778 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Far too many generations hadn't had this blessing, and now the moment was ours. We praised the rays of sun as they were obscured by the soot clouds, and we bathed in the aura of heat coming down the mountainside. Hearing year after year of cacophonous echoes from beneath the city, wondering with eyes to the sky and fee... | 2 | 0 | 228 | 20,779 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Thousands of soldiers, no, not soldiers, but boys, and the elderly, farmers, slaves, potters and builders... I had no hope for these men, I had no hope for myself. This was my death, this was the death, of everyone here. The city was evacuated, but some had to stay, some had to fight, some had to stay to die...
The ot... | 1 | 0 | 228 | 20,780 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 228 | 20,781 |
[WP] Vesuvius didn't just erupt, it released a dragon. The people of Pompeii didn't simply perish, they gave their lives defeating it. | Vesuvius was dreaming of roasted elephant when the vibrations from the ground started to rouse her from her slumber. Then the awful noise reached her sensitive ears. Oohh, not again. Can't a girl get some sleep around here? She wished she wasn't so sensitive. It was fabulous to hear elephant bellows from 200 miles, but... | 1 | 0 | 228 | 20,782 |
[WP] A believer goes to her first UFO convention, and slowly realizes that she's made a terrible mistake. | "Fuck"
[Exit stage left] | 6 | 0 | 38 | 20,783 |
[WP] A believer goes to her first UFO convention, and slowly realizes that she's made a terrible mistake. | "Ah can straighten those teeth!" Yelled the frenzied scotsman from the stall to Abigail's left. "I got mehself some chicken wire an a pair o' tweesers!"
Abigail's eyes widened as the man clicked a pair of old tweesers at her and brandished a twisted piece of wiring that he'd formed into a rudimentary brace.
"I'm... ... | 25 | 0 | 38 | 20,784 |
[WP] A believer goes to her first UFO convention, and slowly realizes that she's made a terrible mistake. | **Warning: Cheesy & unnecessarily long. Also I'm not by any means a writer.**
Annie checked her ticket skeptically. The building looked more like a warehouse than the convention center the advertisement had promised. It looked new, with huge concrete walls and a fancy padlock next to the overhead door in front of... | 7 | 0 | 38 | 20,785 |
[WP] A believer goes to her first UFO convention, and slowly realizes that she's made a terrible mistake. | It wasn't when she paid $11 for a sandwich. It wasn't when she bought the 12 disc DVD set made by some guy with crazy hair and a stained t-shirt. It wasn't when she watched the woman in the muumuu channel alien beings by squawking like a demented parrot.
Beth knew she had made a mistake when the crowd fell silent, s... | 3 | 0 | 38 | 20,786 |
[WP] A believer goes to her first UFO convention, and slowly realizes that she's made a terrible mistake. | A gigantic behemoth of a retro-looking saucer towers before Claire as she waits for her internet friends to appear and meet them for the first time in her life. Children laughing and running around, the smell of cheap hamburgers polluting the air and tons of trashy people littering the place up - this sure was a conven... | 2 | 0 | 38 | 20,787 |
[CC] Paella With A Side Of Jealousy | Paella? When did he ever make paella before? Or even go into the kitchen in the past year? I *always* do the cooking, is he trying to tell me he doesn't like my cooking? Maybe he's trying to soften me up, oh God, what if he's trying to apologize through cuisine?
What if he's trying to tell me he's met someone else? Th... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 20,788 |
[WP] Matchmaking for online video games is the world's primary source of relationship matchmaking. Want to find your soul mate? Better start up your console. | Adam was not yet certain he loved her when she shot him in the face during a 4v4 Capture the Flag match, or even yet when she tea-bagged his lifeless body during the same match, but he knew that he was in love, and he suspected that she loved him too.
She did not speak, but she led him across the map, even while the ... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 20,789 |
[WP] Matchmaking for online video games is the world's primary source of relationship matchmaking. Want to find your soul mate? Better start up your console. | With a slurp and a crunch, I plopped down in the chair. The Fritos bag crackled as I reached across it and slid the mouse a centimeter to the right. Glarg was still sitting right where I left him on the edge of the pier in Booty Bay, a fishing pole in the water and his trusty worg pup at his side. I took a gulp of Code... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 20,790 |
[WP] A galactic non-profit organization with the goal of non-invasively and peacefully uplifting the technology and morality of new civilizations. Write about a new human agent's first assignment. | That hallway has always had a sterile feel to Keens. This time though, he failed to notice that once again. He was too excited; his first assignment after 4 intense years of training. Psychology, liguistics, sociology, biology and many others, including physical preparation. On his graduation day, he was feeling deplet... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20,791 |
During a human invasion of their world, an alien race reveals that they have their own version of superheroes. And they are real. |
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During a human invasion of their world, an alien race reveals that they have their own version of superheroes. And they are real. | "They are here. They come down to us from the skies. Their machines tower over us. Their technology is advanced, far more so than what we can muster."
Bezksnef tried his best to look courageous, hoping the fear wasn't evident on his expression. The people didn't know what danger they were in. The government hoped it'... | 4 | 0 | 2 | 20,793 |
[WP] A superhero whose power is extreme luck. | Off topic: http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/147
I would write one, but I'm lazy and it's exam week where I'm at. So have fun. | 2 | 0 | 26 | 20,794 |
[WP] A superhero whose power is extreme luck. | *On one hand, this power would be amazing. Until your realize that Superman can't turn off his invincibility. Who says that this hero would be able to?*
He felt it. A strange pulling sensation just below his heart telling him he was supposed to be somewhere. *Just ignore it. Maybe it'll go away this time.* He to... | 20 | 0 | 26 | 20,795 |
[WP] A superhero whose power is extreme luck. | Domino fanfiction time? Sick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_%28comics%29#Powers_and_abilities | 0 | 0 | 26 | 20,796 |
[WP] A superhero whose power is extreme luck. |
Jack had the pendant in his hand before he knew what it was. He closed his hand quickly, hiding it from himself, and shut his eyes. Sharon glanced over at him. "What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to guess what I've picked up without looking at it. I can tell it's not a rock," he said. He opened his hand, but kept hi... | 1 | 0 | 26 | 20,797 |
[WP] A superhero whose power is extreme luck. | "Criminals don't exist" explained the mayor.
"Well that's lucky" the superhero replied.
He also won the lottery
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[WP] The rest of the world declares war on the UN Security Council and Germany. The leaders of these nations meet to prepare for war. | So, who gets Africa?
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