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[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	Digitize your brain! Upload your consciousness! Join the Cloud Collective! That's the hype, anyway. It's a great sales pitch, especially when you realize that the alternative is cold, stark oblivion. At first it was mainly the elderly and people terminal before their time, but it gradually became more acceptable, ...	32	37	22,900
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	There is power in a name. Uttering it can sustain a soul, cursing it can cause it to flinch. I remember looking around at the others - countless multitudes, each winking out of existence only many years after being brought to that strange place. Some burned brighter than the others, pulsing with every utterance, eve...	4	37	22,901
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	Purgatory. The Catholics were almost right about it. There is a place that's not quite Heaven and not quite Hell, and a lot of folks end up there when their hearts pump that last ounce of plasma. It's not exactly what they think though. You see, we get a first row seat at the goings on of Earth. Think of our planet...	6	37	22,902
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	I think the quote you saw last night was derived from David Eagleman. In [Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4948826-sum) he wrote: “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that m...	7	37	22,903
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	(OT) It'd be unfair for me to answer the same prompt twice. So instead, I'll [link](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1wpvb0/wp_instead_of_life_followed_by_death_there_is_a/cf4mxjp) the previous fill, because I'm fond of it.	3	37	22,904
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	A colorless gummybear is left on the floor, collecting dust and memories. There is an echo of a man sprawled next to it and he breathes in rhythms no dancer can ride. An abandoned building that no one has inhabited, or even entered in twenty-seven years, silences these slipping breaths. If ever there was a sound in the...	4	37	22,905
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	"Listen, Gran, you'll be happier there." "The room I saw was so small, Thomas. There aren't even any shelves." Gran limped between the love seat and the wall cabinet. Her spidery fingers brushed nervously over the shelves and wall fixtures she had stopped dusting ages ago, until this morning, when the prospect of not ...	7	37	22,906
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	Waiting in silence. Yearning to hear. The whisper bring solace. Each time it finds me ear. The voices are strange. But still they hold the key. I know not for whom I listen. Those familiar now wait with me. Slowly I start to notice. ^^^^This ^^^is ^^your ^great-great Grandpa Jack ^who ^^died ^^^back ^^^in ^^^^...	3	37	22,907
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	The candle flickers violently as I open the door, shadows dance on the walls before everything becomes still again. "What are you doing son?" I sit down next to the boy, "you shouldn't be up this late, you need your rest" "I'm drawing a picture" his voice is cold and hollow. These past few months have been long and h...	4	37	22,908
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	They say you die twice: once when your heart quits on you, and a second, more thorough erasal of your existence when someone somewhere says your name for the last time. Well I don’t intend to die twice. I pushed the dark tobacco spit through my teeth and out onto the dusty trail. “Next over this ridge there’s a cabi...	3	37	22,909
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	They say life so resilient an enemy of the void must release twice that Death sights through multitudes of algaes only the truly squirmless Those with power to call out call off the chasm call on their courage to stand before such patience and last Forget the ineffable ones that failed name first ...	3	37	22,910
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	I sat staring at the globe, in the dark. My consciousness shivered, if ethereal goo could shiver. I looked up, for the first time in a few days. My little window, my spotlight in the greyness of what I have come to call Purgatory. I looked back down. I gazed on my great grand nephew. He had grown into a strong, health...	3	37	22,911
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	Tufts of white partly obscured the noonday sun in the sapphire sky. The raw beauty of the day so powerful that, for a moment, I forgot why I was even here. The marble markers dotted the emerald grassed in neatly filed rows. A car's engine purred in the background as it came to a stop. The thunk of a door closing cause...	3	37	22,912
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	"Who was Abraham Lincoln?" Xan asked, as he leafed through an old US history textbook. "What does it matter? The fire is dying." Replied Garros "I don't know... He's this guy, on the cover." Xan lifted up the text. "He just looks... Dignified. Like he did something he was really proud of. Maybe it was something great...	3	37	22,913
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	[I actually wrote something about this a while ago!](http://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/1i9wi2/allow_me_to_introduce_myself/) Here's a copy/paste: My name is Eric. I'm about 5'10'', with short, dark blonde hair and green eyes. At the moment, I'm wearing a black and red striped polo shirt, khaki pants...	1	37	22,914
[WP] A man dies twice: once when his heart stops beating and once when his name is said for the last time.	They had planted a tree for him in the school gardens with a name-plate underneath. Anthony had been such a promising young man: A university sports scholarship waiting for him, plenty of musical talent and popularity spilling from his ears. No one knew why he did it. Perhaps it was the pressure, or maybe deep down th...	1	37	22,915
[WP] Nuclear weapons are used against Russia; with it, MAD. What happens between their launching and their landing?	20 minutes. It took 20 minutes for the first missile to hit; smack-dab in the middle of Red Square, too. Hell, people were still eating breakfast. The Russki's early warning system provided them enough time for the Kremlin to authorize a full nuclear retaliation before being wiped out. In the 20, maybe 30 minutes betwe...	2	2	22,916
[WP] Nuclear weapons are used against Russia; with it, MAD. What happens between their launching and their landing?	Two countries, each capable of destroying the other, each held back by their fear of being destroyed. Mutually Assured Destruction - if you shoot at me, I shoot back. 15 minutes ago the first launch alarms sounded, NATO missile silos activated and missiles launched, high trajectories over the North Pole. We didn't kno...	2	2	22,917
[WP] Napoleon Bonaparte is transported to the future. Write about his modern day conquest of the Earth, or 'known world'.	[deleted]	1	13	22,918
[WP] Napoleon Bonaparte is transported to the future. Write about his modern day conquest of the Earth, or 'known world'.	[deleted]	1	13	22,919
[WP] Napoleon Bonaparte is transported to the future. Write about his modern day conquest of the Earth, or 'known world'.	[deleted]	3	13	22,920
[IP] Moon	It was dark in the Garden of Conception. Starlight hinted at the shape of trees and water molecules joined together to shape the flowers. Concentrating on her creation the Celestial Goddess stretched her arm forward, umbilical tendrils pulsating as they joined to the moon's core, infusing it with brilliance. Their li...	1	3	22,921
[IP] Moon	"How much longer?" Po inquired. "Not much. The blue planet is a small planet. It can't handle a very large moon." Moam replied. "It's . . . pretty." Po observed. "Much thanks. I saw the creator's designs. This will inspire them, or so, that is my belief." Moam said. "I also saw the creator's designs. I believe you ...	2	3	22,922
[IP] Moon	"What am you observing?" said the inquisitive voice from far away. "Circular. Beautiful. I want to touch." said the observer. "Are you sure?" "It is so big and inviting. I can't help but want to wrap my body around it." "What are you going to do?" "I can't do much. I'm just an astronaut stuck on the moon...	1	3	22,923
[WP] Saw this on another thread, looked interesting. Link in comments. Premise: Wrong person died, now the powers that be have to fix it.	"Damnit, Bradzen," said Coltharott, Lord of the Nineteenth Realm, Protector of the Immortality of the Minor Soul, and Champion of the Paths Between the Stars. "I haven't seen a fuckup this major since 1912. You should be able to handle these tasks. They're fairly basic; I mean, the Kennedy intern is now more reliable t...	1	8	22,924
[CC] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	I think you've tagged this wrong. You want CW, not CC?	1	6	22,925
[CW] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	“Because it’s more fun” “More fun?” She chuckled. “It’s only a name. I just want to know what I can call you.” The moonlight and city lights shimmered off the still river like some kind of surreal film set. Something taken straight out of the movies where two lovers would or could cross paths for the first of many ...	2	18	22,926
[CW] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	The Stone Chair in the light of an alien moon was the single visible object as far as it could see. It was more of a protrusion of rock actually, it had no legs or arms. Just a risen piece of earth that seemed like a seat. His duty is to lay in the darkness until Travelers arrive and to supervise their meeting with t...	2	18	22,927
[CW] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	"So," Raiko asked out of the blue. "What"s your real name?" Hikaru looked up from the newspaper he was reading, raising an eyebrow. "It's Hikaru," he said nonchalantly, sipping his coffee. "Bull," Raiko replied. "You're white, blonde, and have blue eyes. No way your parents would've given you a Japanese name." "They...	6	18	22,928
[CW] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	"Carenza." "Are you Italian or something?" "No, when I was in character creation I was listening to a cadenza being sung by a soloist on the radio, it was a really unusual and ethereal and I knew I had the name for my spell-caster, it reflected her in her glowing, yellow eyes." "So you wanted to call your mage *Ca...	3	18	22,929
[CW] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	“I don’t have one.” The quill comes to a stop as the scribe looks over his half-moon spectacles at the man at the opposite side of the small table. A minute hand ticks over noisily. “Never got one.” He adds, shrugging. He’s powerfully built, with a broad chest and muscular arms. A mass of black hair falls down his sh...	3	18	22,930
[CW] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	“Hello sir, welcome to Riley’s Irish pub, what can I get you?” said the the bartender cheerily. A scruff, mid forties man in a hat and trench coat took a seat in front of her. He had sliver and black hair and a five o’clock shadow, but bright and spirited pale blue eyes. “Just a scotch on the rocks, please,” He replie...	3	18	22,931
[CW] A man gives a false name, and explains the meaningful reasons behind his choice. (More inside)	"Hello, my name is Bob," was written on the name tag. It was a large, gaudy, overly bright piece of plastic junk, red and white with gold lettering and black behind the typeface to give a contrasting shadow effect. The name tag was pinned to an equally tasteless waistcoat, a candy effect pinstripe sitting neatly on a p...	2	18	22,932
[WP] you fall through a wormhole during the 70's, you end up in a horrific place galaxies away from earth, 6 years later you fall through another wormhole and come out at earth in 2014.	I think this an adjusted plot for John Carter. lol	1	9	22,933
[WP] you fall through a wormhole during the 70's, you end up in a horrific place galaxies away from earth, 6 years later you fall through another wormhole and come out at earth in 2014.	So there I was mindin' my own business when BAM! I'm in this god forsaken metal world with some backward-ass things straight out of The War of the Worlds. I've been here for nearly five and-a-half years already and see no way of getting back. I figured what the hell, since I'm gonna die here, might as well tell my stor...	3	9	22,934
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	A man in the trenches is suffering from dysentery and in the latrine. His best friend is meanwhile killing lice. They're having a conversation about last week's leave.	2	12	22,935
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	Three families have been rivals for generation, no one remembers why. Old diaries found reveal the truth, it was a fight about a loaf of bread, describe how the leaders of the families react.	2	12	22,936
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	Bees are following you around in a giant buzzing cloud, like you see in the cartoons--not hurting you, just following you around, like they're waiting for something.	2	12	22,937
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	A young girl is on the verge of a mental breakdown when her phone begins to ring. It's a number she doesn't recognize. Who is it and how does the ensuing conversation go?	2	12	22,938
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	a trusted courier of a post apocalyptic world has now got one of the biggest bounties in history on his head, and he needs to make one last delivery.	3	12	22,939
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	Setting: An unusual carnival. Characters: An acquisitive fifty-something woman with a leather jacket who is trying to conclude something; an alluring, warm old man with an heirloom wedding ring who is trying to cement something. Tell me a Biopunk story about friendship and timeliness.	0	12	22,940
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	[deleted]	2	12	22,941
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	Five men enter a room, and six women come out. What happened?	2	12	22,942
[PM] Recovering from being sick! Need prompts to catch up!	A guy, recently bought an abandoned mental hospital, goes in alone to find and mark spots that needs renovating. But he finds more than he bargained for.	3	12	22,943
[WP] Noah 2.0	I hear voices. Well only one really. I know it is real. It has to be real. It tells me things I never knew. It tells me things I could never hope to understand. But I still listen to it. I can’t not listen to it. It is too powerful. The voice is everything. I cannot think of the things which may happen if I were to ign...	1	6	22,944
[WP] Noah 2.0	"There's going to be a flood." When he woke up this was repeating in his head, over and over. He tried to shake it off, but it wouldn't go away. He spent the whole day in daze. As he played with his children at night, he suddenly thought of them drowning. He excused himself and went into the bedroom. "Daddy come back...	1	6	22,945
[WP] Noah 2.0	Back in high school, Tycho had gotten on the loud speaker and broadcast to the whole school, "Noah Wilson, this is God speaking to you from the mountain-top. You are requested in the Principal's office. Oh, while I have you here, I want you to know that spanking the monkey is perfectly normal, but don't you think y...	1	6	22,946
[WP] A thousand voices control you	I've been here before. Well, one of us has. I'm complete this time, I'm in control off all of us for once. I left her teddy bear here when I was her, when we were her and lost. He had the legs but she always gets the mind, she never understands and only wants us to have toys. He runs, she cries, I fight, and they scr...	1	9	22,947
[WP] A thousand voices control you	I just want to leave. I just want to have control. Where did it go? Every rational thought I have is quickly ripped away from me the same way I'm ripped from one direction to another. My nose is bloody from the walls I've met, my feet have blisters, and my stomach churns from the endless circles I have walked. It's f...	1	9	22,948
[WP] A oral presentation about the John Paul Getty kidnapping w/ keywords	this does not seem like a prompt. this seems suspiciously like a request for help with a school assignment. please clarify the prompt or it will be removed.	2	3	22,949
[WP] A oral presentation about the John Paul Getty kidnapping w/ keywords	Sorry if being unclear with the request. I want this presentation for writing a story about the kidnap with my own edits used in the text and thus I do NOT want a whole story written by someone else.	1	3	22,950
[IP] Before Walmart bags, we had tumble weeds...	The virgin sand glows. Luminescent. Saturated in the dusty shine of a newborn day, every silver grain begs for emancipation from the captivity of unending silence. And is answered only by silence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ The tumbleweed is cha...	2	4	22,951
[IP] Trashed childhood	...and over again. The same as yesterday, the same smells, the same store, the same stray cat that sits in between here and the burger place next door. He liked that cat. It's always there, always needing just one thing. It didn't care if it was raining, what it smelled like, or what was going to happen next as long ...	3	13	22,952
[IP] Trashed childhood	Daddy is at it again, Teddy. I don't get it. I was sure he loved mommy. He told her he did! That means he has to. I can smell it again, Teddy. I hate that smell. It means Daddy is acting funny again. Why does he do this Teddy? Why doesn't Mommy do anything about it?I know! I can help Mommy! I'll clam Daddy down. *** ...	3	13	22,953
[IP] Trashed childhood	He stared at the paper in his hand. So this was his "aha" moment. This was the moment he realized that his drinking hadn't affected only himself. "Oh. Oh God." Was all he could say. He crumbled there in the parking lot and shook. His own son...how badly had he treated him? No child should ever have to face his drun...	3	13	22,954
[WP] A new, expensive technology allows the user a brief interaction with a recreation of their younger self.	Dave sat on the chair. He did not know why he was here. Only that an old friend had paid for this. A friend form a youth he could hardly remember. He had fallen out of touch with almost all his friends, work had had to take precedence. Only the young and the foolish could really value friends and entertainment over mon...	5	13	22,955
[WP] A new, expensive technology allows the user a brief interaction with a recreation of their younger self.	[deleted]	1	13	22,956
[WP] A new, expensive technology allows the user a brief interaction with a recreation of their younger self.	[Silicon Valley - California] ^Article ^posted ^11:32, ^Friday, ^Nov ^8th, ^2014 Share prices have plummeted for the infamous California start-up NuView International after a controversial development in their most recent service. The company's flagship product, "RetCon," gained worldwide wonder last week when it wa...	3	13	22,957
[WP] You wake up to find out somebody influential has completely disappeared from history, and you're the only one who remembers them	[deleted]	0	14	22,958
[WP] You wake up to find out somebody influential has completely disappeared from history, and you're the only one who remembers them	Hello doctor? I'm calling to let you know I did it. I did it! My greatest work yet! I created the vaccine for the M3-12 virus. I just tested it on myself and it works great. It's vitally important that we get this vaccine into production as soon as we can. Who knows how many people have already contracted - ... Ye...	1	14	22,959
[WP] You wake up to find out somebody influential has completely disappeared from history, and you're the only one who remembers them	Connor shook his head, puzzled, looking out of his office window. "Something wrong?" his COO Jeff asked. "Why is it so smoky outside? Are they doing that yearly field burn in Mexico or something?" "Not that I know of." "Weird. I've never seen it so smokey. Look at all of these cars..." "What about them?" Jef...	2	14	22,960
[WP] A mentor of some kind provides the absolute worst advice possible. Either via dialogue, as a guide-book, or however else you want.	I love this prompt. I might do another as a dialogue, but this one was so much fun to write. It's in two posts because I went overboard again. ___________ Mysterious Chuck’s Unisex Book of Dating Advice and Pickup Artistry Let’s face it: When it comes to relationships, you’re trash. You’re better off writing a bo...	3	14	22,961
[WP] A mentor of some kind provides the absolute worst advice possible. Either via dialogue, as a guide-book, or however else you want.	An Introduction to Heart Surgery by Dr. Clifford Stone Hello, aspiring medical student! My name is Dr. Clifford Stone and today I will be walking you through your first heart surgery. How exciting! Are your hands shaking with excitement? I know mine are! This VHS is meant to be watched WHILE performing surgery, as it ...	3	14	22,962
[WP] A mentor of some kind provides the absolute worst advice possible. Either via dialogue, as a guide-book, or however else you want.	[deleted]	1	14	22,963
[WP] A mentor of some kind provides the absolute worst advice possible. Either via dialogue, as a guide-book, or however else you want.	Today, she is going to change it all. All of her life she was complacent. Today, she decides that she will change it. Today is her transformation. She will become the person that she has always wanted to be. The heroines she sees on TV? That's who she will be a year from now. She will take in every and incorporate ever...	1	14	22,964
[WP] Describe mealtime on another planet	Next place on my whistle-stop tour of the galaxy, Valthren-II. As the last human being alive, I'm a minor celebrity. Folks want to show the near-extinct species their worlds before he dies of natural causes. Not to mention people want to see me. So it not so much me going to see them, as it is me going for them to see...	3	10	22,965
[PI] RAGING WOLF - FEB CONTEST	I liked the format, it pulled me right in and was easy to read. I didn't really understand Wolf's motives at times though. I didn't really get the sense of danger that made him decide to run, and I'm not sure why he was willing to die for the good of those people he ran from. I also don't see why it was necessary for h...	1	12	22,966
[PI] RAGING WOLF - FEB CONTEST	Hi! This reads like a very rough draft, but you have some interesting ideas. I was interested in knowing the backstory to this world (e.g. what's a "China-sympathizer"? What happened to China?) The chapter titles are hilarious. Some hopefully constructive comments: -- I would scrap the idea of the narrative being ex...	1	12	22,967
[PI] RAGING WOLF - FEB CONTEST	I liked the idea behind this story. I understand that this was written in a short time frame, but my only real suggestion is this would benefit from being longer. Wolf's motivations are clear to me, although you had to assume a lot about his personality. There was also a lot of diplomatic changes in the story that seem...	1	12	22,968
[WP] describe the most feminine woman you could imagine effortlessly doing something masculine.	She’s quite a sight there, she is. You never seen a lady quite like her. Oh, you bet you saw ladies who wanted to be her, but you ain’t seen one quite like her. Like her hair, pinned up and woven and fanning out and all fancy. You could spend hours and hours and hours trying over and over and it wouldn’t look half as g...	16	30	22,969
[WP] describe the most feminine woman you could imagine effortlessly doing something masculine.	[deleted]	2	30	22,970
[WP] describe the most feminine woman you could imagine effortlessly doing something masculine.	Her long brown hair curled down her back, stopping just shy of her waist. Though it was tied back with a small strip of red ribbon, it still seemed to float as if it were weightless, but never daring to move one inch out of place. She wore plain clothes, a simple summer dress that moved with the gentle breeze that blew...	4	30	22,971
[WP] describe the most feminine woman you could imagine effortlessly doing something masculine.	...So after she walks in right behind me, I said, "Uh, lady, you maybe shouldn't be in here. I mean, I'd normally be game. Dame like you, man would have to be crazy not to consider, but I just got married. Last week in fact." She didn't say a word. Her look made me feel like scum she found on her shoe. She had the fa...	6	30	22,972
[WP] describe the most feminine woman you could imagine effortlessly doing something masculine.	The caramel colored sunlight pours in through her linen curtains and tickles her sleeping cheeks. Her milky skin glows in the sun and her freckles are scattered about not just her rounded cheeks and button nose but also on her narrow shoulders. She snuggles in closer into her crisp sheets and lets out a little whimper ...	3	30	22,973
[WP] describe the most feminine woman you could imagine effortlessly doing something masculine.	As she reached back, a gust of wind caught her auburn, shoulder length hair. Her bright blue eyes seemed to twinkle in the sunlight. When she brought her arm forward, her hair went into her face, but she flipped it back over her bare shoulder with her free hand. A tight white tank top covered her breasts, which bobb...	1	30	22,974
[WP] After a night of drinking, a man wakes up in an unfamiliar place as a bird. Describe his path in finding out how this happened.	> There is a much quoted story about David Hilbert, who one day noticed that a certain student had stopped attending class. When told that the student had decided to drop mathematics to become a poet, Hilbert replied, “Good — he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician”. “But… what real-life uses ...	1	3	22,975
[WP] In 10,000 years the moon will be terraformed and people will live on the surface. Describe what the life of a typical moon inhabitant would be like.	I look in the sky and see a giant grey barren planet. It was said in the history books that our ancestors came from there and that the planet used to be green like ours. In fact, they actually had things called oceans that spanned across the entire planet. It was a completely new world. Can you imagine that? Countless ...	14	25	22,976
[WP] In 10,000 years the moon will be terraformed and people will live on the surface. Describe what the life of a typical moon inhabitant would be like.	"Jane and I are going out there today." Mark leaned in his desk a little and whispered back, trying not to break eyesight with the teacher writing dates in chalk upon the board in front of her. "How? Did you find one?" "Yeah, my dad has one." Charlie replied. "Really?" Mark asked, excitedly. The class turned, along ...	5	25	22,977
[WP] In 10,000 years the moon will be terraformed and people will live on the surface. Describe what the life of a typical moon inhabitant would be like.	I've never seen space, I've never seen a star.I don't want to and the thought of it frightens me. It makes me desperate and jittery. Don't remind me of the endless lonely void, the cold void through which occasionally drifts a lonely star around which orbits lonely planets, lifeless and without any impact whatsoever. ...	2	25	22,978
[WP] In 10,000 years the moon will be terraformed and people will live on the surface. Describe what the life of a typical moon inhabitant would be like.	[deleted]	2	25	22,979
[PI] The Seventh Machine - FEB CONTEST	First One I finished and I enjoyed the story! My only quip would be the lack of development for your protagonist. It feels like a story you tell about a weekend bender you had in college rather than a life-changing event. The dialogue and the interplay between thought and speech was a fun tool, however, and I thought ...	2	13	22,980
[PI] The Seventh Machine - FEB CONTEST	This was a fun story with some very clever writing, but it felt too quick. You set up so much potential with the ability to read minds but she just butts in on a couple of conversations. I'm not saying she has to cheat at poker, but it would be interesting to see some more exploration of the theme. How would she deal w...	2	13	22,981
[PI] The Seventh Machine - FEB CONTEST	This was a fun read! Your writing style is very clean and easy to follow and I loved your use of dialogue (and thoughts) to move the story forward. The subtle humor kept me reading through the whole piece! I would have loved to see Claudia's mind-reading get her into bigger trouble, not just with the law. As it was, I...	2	13	22,982
[PI] The Seventh Machine - FEB CONTEST	I enjoyed reading your piece because it had an interesting premise and the story was light and fast-paced. The writing was clean without any lumbering words or backstory, definitely refreshing! Thank you and good luck.	1	13	22,983
[PI] The Seventh Machine - FEB CONTEST	Great writing style. The opening scene with Claudia and the Doctor is instantly engaging, with enough detail to lead the reader to want to learn more and to avoid reader confusion. The transition into Claudia being able to read minds is well-executed. You have definitely nailed down your technical writing skills. The ...	1	13	22,984
[PI] The Seventh Machine - FEB CONTEST	Wow, this story grabbed me instantly and was extremely well-written. I guess that's all I really have. Great job and good luck!	1	13	22,985
[WP] During your morning routine, you discover your bathroom is a time machine operated by your thoughts	I wake up the same way I do every morning, hung over, pissed off, and confused. Morning light exploded through my living room window and into my head causing flares of pain to shoot through my head. In a vain attempt to block out the pain I bury my face in the dirty pillows I keep on my couch. They smelled like dog and...	1	5	22,986
[WP] During your morning routine, you discover your bathroom is a time machine operated by your thoughts	[deleted]	1	5	22,987
[WP] The current hostilities have finally come to all out war. You are aboard the ISS.	Isolated on the ISS "We just lost NASA." The hairs on the back of my neck rose and my skin turned cold underneath my thin coverings. I lifted myself out of my bunk and oriented to face Tom. Underneath the dim lights, his face was pale, his eyes dark, as if he had been up the entire sleep cycle. His face was transfixe...	3	7	22,988
[WP] Tell me About the Day Death Died.	And in the time of my end, I experienced a sudden sadness. As Death, I would be the one to guide souls to where they needed to go. I was the one to help lead the lost souls so that they would not be imprisoned between the worlds of mortality. My life force began to fade, and in the back of my head, I could only think o...	7	7	22,989
[WP] Tell me About the Day Death Died.	Minitrue finished writing Death out of the history books, and the day after that Death died with an official memo - "death" is no longer a concept in NewSpeak. We couldn't say or write the word, we were forbidden to talk about the concept. Historical texts mentioned people then abruptly stopped mentioning them with no...	4	7	22,990
[WP] Tell me About the Day Death Died.	Many years ago there was a man who roamed the lands, searching for people who were old, injured or ill to remove from our planet. We called this man Death, he was the end to everything that was ever alive, reaping the souls of all mortal folk. He was also our only cure to immortality, a disease that prolongs the life a...	3	7	22,991
[WP] Tell me About the Day Death Died.	"Son, the system says that you're struggling with history, and that's understandable, as there are about 4000 years that primary school covers. Do need little bit of study time with me?" "I'm NOT struggling. This one teacher just has a ridiculous predilection for the pre-Bavatosic period. Like how am I supposed to rel...	1	7	22,992
[WP] Tell me About the Day Death Died.	The world was silent that day. No one worked, no one played, no one did anything. It was as if we all collectively held our breath as death took its last. The majority feared this day, but not at first. When we first discovered death existed in a physical form many even called for it to be destroyed. How naive we were...	3	7	22,993
[WP] Tell me About the Day Death Died.	It was in the 13th century, that the first depictions of death appeared as a robed skeleton. Upon reflection, this was considered such a very human thing to do. On that day, in that second death became a permanent fixture in the human drama. A character, so much more alive than the sudden cessation of metabolization no...	2	7	22,994
[WP] The Birth of a God	Every minute a new God is born. That's just one of the facts you hear in God school. A God dies every minute as well. The universe has to keep balance that way. There are always the same amount of Gods as there are planets. So for every planet that dies a God dies, a God is born, and another planet is created. At birt...	1	1	22,995
[WP] Scientists discover a 4.4 billion year old Zircon crystal. On it is encoded information, a simple codec, and automatic translation. What it reveals is somewhat...	Dr. Harding took another long sip from cold coffee he had poured himself several hours ago. His eyes where locked on the computer screen in front of him, bathing his face in a light. The motion sensing lights had gone off some time ago from his general lack of movement but he didn't notice this. He had been locked away...	3	2	22,996
[WP] Using your favorite song, write a story inspired by the lyrics.	Electric blue eyes, where did you come from? Electric blue eyes, who sent you? When Raiko woke, she remembered little. With each passing moment, her memory faded. One thing stuck in her mind - beautiful blue eyes that she felt boring into her soul. It was all she remembered, and though her path had finally been carv...	3	21	22,997
[WP] Using your favorite song, write a story inspired by the lyrics.	[Johnny Flynn - Barnacled Warship](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBC-KroRy5o) "Put down your bible and pick up your gun" I went looking for war at twenty-three years old, because I believe everyone deserves a place in history, and it wasn't long before I'd found one. Left with a company of men as willing as I was...	3	21	22,998
[WP] Using your favorite song, write a story inspired by the lyrics.	Lancer Marcus Weber leans over his saddle in exhaustion. His horse's head also bends low, nearly dragging across the ground in tiredness. It's chest is slathered with dried foam and sweat. For the past 36 hours they have been chased, never knowing rest nor peace. Lifting his weary head, he glances behind him. Silhouet...	3	21	22,999

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