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[WP] An item of tremendous value is discovered in a bag of chips. | --The school bus pulled into the dirt road of D&R communities, a mobile home park riddled with run-down double wides and recreational vehicles that haven’t moved in years. As the bus maneuvers the tight roads toward the back of the neighborhood it encounters a large pot-hole and Christian is shaken awake.
--“Finall... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 24,100 |
[WP] God puts Mankind on trial for their sin. Mankind chooses one individual to represent them in their trial. You choose the ending. | Sending one of our own to plead for our lives is not how we imagined the end would come about. Fire, hellfire raining from the sky, seemed much more likely. At least something cataclysmic, like the sky ripping from the horizon or the air turning into gold. Instead we got a court summons from Heaven.
Her name wasn't... | 9 | 0 | 7 | 24,101 |
[WP] God puts Mankind on trial for their sin. Mankind chooses one individual to represent them in their trial. You choose the ending. | "Have we sorted through all of the applications claiming to be the messiah, yet?" Ellen dropped her bag next to her desk, which could hardly be seen behind the piles of paper. She looked at Kevan with an eyebrow raised.
"Erm..." He started, glancing at the ceiling-high stacks of applications surrounding him. "Well it... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 24,102 |
[WP] Over half the world population wakes up to find out they spontaneously changed into random mythical creatures overnight. | To get us started - here's my take on this. Comments, critiques, criticisms, bitches, whines, moans - all are welcome!
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When Sara stood by the window that first morning, the warmth of the sun was beyond any comfort she'd experienced in her life. It tingled and nourished, flowing from her toes all the way up to h... | 4 | 0 | 15 | 24,103 |
[PI] Rescue from the Mutineers of Starvation -- Feb Contest | Good synopsis! I think you did a good job setting the tone for the story and the world. The space western tone worked well and this was a fun read. You also did a good job with the main character's story without being too obvious, which I really enjoyed.
My only suggestion is to make the towns/factions more clear. I w... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 24,104 |
[PI] Rescue from the Mutineers of Starvation -- Feb Contest | I don't really have much to say except that I enjoyed this one. I like the world you've built, and the narrative voice was pleasant. There were a few small technicalities that bothered me, tense slips and the like, but all in all, good job, and good luck. | 3 | 0 | 10 | 24,105 |
[PI] Rescue from the Mutineers of Starvation -- Feb Contest | Really nice glimpse into a very interesting world. I found this engaging from start to finish, and I actually found myself wishing it was a bit longer. I think you could've done with a little more description (such as on the hellbeasts) and exposition in places, but that would be my only criticism. Overall, great stuff... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 24,106 |
[PI] Rescue from the Mutineers of Starvation -- Feb Contest | Others have already mentioned the little things that could be improved upon, so I'll just say that this was a wonderful story, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! | 2 | 0 | 10 | 24,107 |
[PI] Rescue from the Mutineers of Starvation -- Feb Contest | I love the world you've created. Feels like one of the outer planets from Firefly. Erienne's narrative voice is strong, with the right level of wry humour. You did an excellent job of painting the family dynamics between Erienne, Granddad and the rest, as well as the remote nature of their surroundings (e.g. by showing... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 24,108 |
[WP] Pick any two Muppets and write a Buddy Cop adventure starring those two. | requesting Beaker and Swedish Chef. | 2 | 0 | 27 | 24,109 |
[WP] Pick any two Muppets and write a Buddy Cop adventure starring those two. | "BEAKER! HONEYDEW! My office, NOW!"
Bunsen looked over his shoulder with a start. "Well, Beaker, looks like the Chief found out about that little stunt you pulled the Councilman Statler's wife."
"Mee mee, mee mee mee meep."
"Look, I get it, man, she's kind of a bitch. But could you please at least act like you're so... | 13 | 0 | 27 | 24,110 |
[WP] Pick any two Muppets and write a Buddy Cop adventure starring those two. | Are we including sesame street charters as well? | 1 | 0 | 27 | 24,111 |
[WP] Pick any two Muppets and write a Buddy Cop adventure starring those two. | The town was in a panic. City Hall was being held hostage with a hi-tech dirty bomb that could easily wipe the whole place off the map, shipped in unseen with the daily mail. By the time anyone found it, it was too late to evacuate, and too far for the nearest bomb squad to travel. All the citizens could do now was pr... | 2 | 0 | 27 | 24,112 |
[WP] The world is hit by the greatest plague since the Black Death: a global cooties epidemic. | The couple stared at each other across the table, sorrow echoed in each other's eyes.
"I don't know how we'll do this" the man spoke softly.
The woman nodded in agreement. They had a love that burned stronger than anyone before. They were never flashy about their love. It burned deep, coursing through their veins. Th... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 24,113 |
[WP] The world is hit by the greatest plague since the Black Death: a global cooties epidemic. | "Its a harmless virus," protested Tom as the TSA agents put on face masks at frisked him in front of everyone waiting in line at security.
One of the agents ran a scanning device over him and said, "Sorry, just doing my job. We can't let you on the plane. Its the law."
Tom opened his mouth to protest but saw the a... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 24,114 |
[WP] A veteran hitman reminiscing about their first kill, and how it triggered their slippery slope into a shady underground as a hired gun. | I followed him. Through the alley between 3rd and Dock, to the diner just past the old church. For the first two blocks I stayed back, afraid this stranger would recognize me, but the busy city and my realized anonymity emboldened my pursuit. He seemed to never look back...not once. He held the door for me as we walked... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 24,115 |
[WP] An inner monolog (possibly dialog) of someone realizing, that he is insane | *They were back. To prod me with metallic instruments, to reach inside the shrouded depths of who they believe I am. Their blank, emotionless expressions staring intently into my eyes. They felt they knew me. Without ever knowing me.*
*Two months amongst these fluorescent lights, awaiting a glorious release from the e... | 4 | 0 | 10 | 24,116 |
[WP] An inner monolog (possibly dialog) of someone realizing, that he is insane | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 10 | 24,117 |
[WP] Scientists discovered that the human body may be used as a fuek source. Let us know what would happen to the world. | "Ambercrombie!"
I immediately dropped what I was doing, which in hindsight was almost certainly a bad idea since the chemicals I was experimenting with were now burning their way through the stainless steel work surface. No help for it now. I hurried to see what the professor required of me.
He looked up from the ma... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 24,118 |
[IP] Island Castle and Destroyed Ship | Elion was alone. The crows told him it had not always been so. The crows said there had been hundreds in the halls, thousands scattered across the chambers, a multitude dancing, feasting, living. The crows said all came to bear witness to Elion, Elion the Great, the High King, the God Elion. The crows said there had on... | 4 | 0 | 9 | 24,119 |
[IP] Island Castle and Destroyed Ship | It was the cries of crows that woke Dieter Hagedorn from his dreamless sleep, their caws harsh and unwelcoming.
He opens his eyes, staring up into the overcast sky. He clenches his fist, taking in a handful of the cold wet sand and letting it spill out bit by bit. The sound of the crashing waves buffets his ears and ... | 7 | 0 | 9 | 24,120 |
[IP] Island Castle and Destroyed Ship | Homecoming is a special kind of hell.
Sain Draeedie, formerly the dread pirate Draeedie, climbed the chipped and broken marble stairs leading up to his father's throne. The castle, long lost and happily forgotten, stood as a tomb upon the cusp of land overlooking the sea. The ghosts, spirits of those who once laughed ... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 24,121 |
[IP] Island Castle and Destroyed Ship | They numbered in the thousands. Brightly dyed sails of every hue dancing above men in leather armor glistening with oil. Boisterous songs emerged from every one of those men, all in unison.
*We go to set the world, set the world free*
*Reestablish peace, peace and harmony*
*Into Vatnir we go, to the dark fortr... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 24,122 |
[WP] "Uhm, I think there's a chance I'm calling the wrong number." | *Tagged this post as NSFW for you, since you requested it.*
"Hello, I'm *Erin.* What can *I* do for you today?" The voice is unusually... lascivious for a person working tech support, but whatever.
"Uh, yeah, hi Erin. I have a really big problem right now."
"Oh, don't worry about it, *big boy.*" *Big boy?* What the ... | 14 | 0 | 20 | 24,123 |
[WP] "Uhm, I think there's a chance I'm calling the wrong number." | It's late. Way later than it ought to be. I'm now here three hours past closing, and I cannot leave until this is fixed. Frustrated at being unable to make any headway, I grip the black receiver of the dusty phone in the server room and dial my support company with maddening speed. I hear the phone ringing, and the... | 6 | 0 | 20 | 24,124 |
[WP] Write a story about your biggest fear/nightmare. Make me afraid of it, too. | When I came to I knew something was very wrong. I was regaining feeling but I couldn't move. My whole body ached but my face was searing with pain. It wasn't until I turned my head and caught a glimpse of a splay of bloody teeth on my night stand that I realized the numbness in my mouth wasn't from lack of feeling but ... | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24,125 |
[WP] Write a story about your biggest fear/nightmare. Make me afraid of it, too. | They found out about me. They stripped me naked and chained me to the stage and I couldn't see because the spotlight was in my eyes but they were there. All of them. They watched from the darkness, strangers connected by the threads of my life, and they passed around a microphone.
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[WP] Write a story about your biggest fear/nightmare. Make me afraid of it, too. | The worst kind of fear is the fear that comes out of nowhere. No suspenseful music to foreshadow the villain jumping from behind the cabinet. No eerie atmosphere to put you in the paranoid mindset. For all intents and purposes, this kind of fear is not fear at all, but a sense of sudden inevitable nothingness.
You ... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 24,127 |
[WP] Write a story about your biggest fear/nightmare. Make me afraid of it, too. | Ever dissolve starch into warm water. It feels like hardened cement in the bottom of the bowl, but as you apply pressure, the starch just kind of fades from your grip, dissolving completely and magically into the liquid. I was always impressed by this transition. It wasn't magic or even complicated science. It was just... | 4 | 0 | 14 | 24,128 |
[WP] Write a story about your biggest fear/nightmare. Make me afraid of it, too. | I am walking alone, on my way home from work. It’s dark, or at least, it will be soon.
I can smell the rain coming.
I try to walk a little faster, I try to beat the storm, but to no avail. Drip. Drip. Drip.
And then I’m drenched in rain. I don’t mind so much, I’ll be home in 5 minutes. It’s almost refreshing, anywa... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 24,129 |
[WP] Write a story about your biggest fear/nightmare. Make me afraid of it, too. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 14 | 24,130 |
[WP] It is the hunter who is lulled by the wolf, and Little Red Riding Hood has to save him. | Little Red blew out one nostril. A bit of the Wolf's- what would you call it? gristle? fat?- unclogged itself and rained down with a thin spray of blood. She pressed her finger to the other nostril and blew a piece of entrail out.
"Please," Frederic was begging. He was actually on his knees now. It would have been pat... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 24,131 |
[WP] One man-girl discovers Santa's real death, ends world. | Pat stared down at the body. It just didn’t seem right, it couldn’t be an accident. He’d never seen an accident even remotely close to this in all his years as a detective. Yet who would want him dead? Sure, there were the Jews – but they didn’t seem responsible. They were such a nice people, so misunderstood. They wou... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 24,132 |
[WP] A coherent paragraph using nothing but writing cliches. | It was a dark and stormy night. The house was dead as a doornail, but I couldn't imagine the stories it would tell if the walls could talk. I gazed around at the piles of books in my room, surrounded like a kid in a candy shop, all old poems and stories written by obscure authors that others of my generation didn't kno... | 10 | 0 | 5 | 24,133 |
[WP] A coherent paragraph using nothing but writing cliches. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24,134 |
[WP] A coherent paragraph using nothing but writing cliches. | It was a brand-new day, and the world was Jason's oyster. He felt like a million bucks, and headed to work with a spring in his step and a fire in his belly. He knew his big promotion was in the bag, a done deal, and once it was announced he was going to rub that jerk Andy's face in it. He was floating on air and no... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 24,135 |
[OT] Reading is an indispensable tool for writers. | All of my yes. | 2 | 0 | 11 | 24,136 |
[WP] A man kills another in self-defense | By any chance were you inspired by that ask reddit thread? | 1 | 0 | 4 | 24,137 |
[WP] Person with shitty superpower saves the day. | Well it looks like my job is done, maybe this will show you criminals not to steal a lady's purse. DEFECATE MAN AWAY!
Nearby citizen taking a walk...
"Oh what a lovely day for a...." *sniff* "OH MY GOD." (throws up and runs) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24,138 |
[WP] It's Friday night and a friend convinces the main character to go out and try something new. What new thing do they do and how does it go wrong? | "So let me get this straight, you've gone bungee jumping, cave diving, skydiving, tightrope walking, but you've never been *bowling?*"
"Yep," I nervously chuckled. "I guess I just never got around to bowling. Is it fun?"
"Is it fun? IS IT FUN!" Tom laughed heartily at my innocence.
So we got in the car and went to ... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 24,139 |
[FF] "There are no heroes... in life, the monsters win." | As Seb plunged down with his arms, blood filled the long-running crevice down the middle of the sword. He smirked as he sliced through the leviathan’s throat. *This has become too arbitrary*, he thought. The taste of blood on his face was sweet but tasted just like the iron he'd used to spill it. The taste soon passed ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 24,140 |
WP: You are dreamed into life by another person. |
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[CW] A man kills the entire human race, including himself. Make my sympathize with him and his intent without the use of excuses (I.E. plagues, war, famine, aliens). | A single tear left the duct in the corner of his eye and dripped down his cheek, hitting the control panel with a faint plop. It had been a long time since he'd cried. He tried to remember when it last was, a vague image came to him of he and his mother and a bike in a park and falling over and grazing his knee. He rem... | 9 | 0 | 7 | 24,142 |
[CW] A man kills the entire human race, including himself. Make my sympathize with him and his intent without the use of excuses (I.E. plagues, war, famine, aliens). | It had been an exhausting three months, but it was over now. Here, at the end, she had nothing left to do but wait. Tracy wiped the tears from her bright blue eyes, but it was no use, they were pouring out faster than she could wipe. She wasn't sure why she was crying, she didn't feel sad, she didn't *feel* anything... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 24,143 |
[CW] A man kills the entire human race, including himself. Make my sympathize with him and his intent without the use of excuses (I.E. plagues, war, famine, aliens). | Last few days have been a mixed bag. Takes me a second to remember everything that's changed after I first open my eyes, and I don't want to roll over to the side of the bed that faces the sunlight once I do. But sometimes I'm gliding down the street like I got a wind off the ocean in the winter at my back. I still f... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 24,144 |
[CW] A man kills the entire human race, including himself. Make my sympathize with him and his intent without the use of excuses (I.E. plagues, war, famine, aliens). | Eyes wide, he stared in disbelief at the panel before him. His mouth, normally worn as a thin slant on his flabby face, jerked open and shut not unlike a suffocating fish. Many things flashed in and out of his stunned mind--images of his family and friends, of his dog, of his home, and, tragically, of those WWII war ... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 24,145 |
[MOD POST] PROGRESS UPDATE: A Game Of Cat And Mouse - The film adaptation "Forbearance" by /u/scottmcraig | [deleted] | 6 | 0 | 20 | 24,146 |
[MOD POST] PROGRESS UPDATE: A Game Of Cat And Mouse - The film adaptation "Forbearance" by /u/scottmcraig | Wait, this isn't my movie? I'm incredibly outraged.
Can't wait to see this amazing thing get realized. | 4 | 0 | 20 | 24,147 |
[MOD POST] PROGRESS UPDATE: A Game Of Cat And Mouse - The film adaptation "Forbearance" by /u/scottmcraig | Good luck, you guys! Do you accept DOGE for the kickstarter? | 2 | 0 | 20 | 24,148 |
[MOD POST] PROGRESS UPDATE: A Game Of Cat And Mouse - The film adaptation "Forbearance" by /u/scottmcraig | Thanks /u/SurvivorType - really appreciate the post.
I encourage everyone to back the project, everyone who funds (only £1 or more) will get access to the production diary, where you'll see all the behind the scenes videos, get regular updates and see how the project is going etc!
Cheers all | 2 | 0 | 20 | 24,149 |
[MOD POST] PROGRESS UPDATE: A Game Of Cat And Mouse - The film adaptation "Forbearance" by /u/scottmcraig | This needs to happen, guys 'n' gals! This is your chance to become part of an amazing project that's stemming from our very own subreddit; a rare opportunity.
Can't wait to see what you guys come up with, Scott. | 2 | 0 | 20 | 24,150 |
[MOD POST] PROGRESS UPDATE: A Game Of Cat And Mouse - The film adaptation "Forbearance" by /u/scottmcraig | Holy shizz!!! This got me excited!!! | 1 | 0 | 20 | 24,151 |
[WP] A 1000 year old tree gets cut down. Tell me why. | The Tree of Life. For a thousand years it stood resolute. When humans first came to these lands, it gave them its fruits, which gleamed like emeralds and rubies. When winter's frigid winds blew into the valley, it gave its knotted branches for shelter and fuel for the fires. It hid them from view from the horned Gurns,... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 24,152 |
[WP] A 1000 year old tree gets cut down. Tell me why. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 6 | 24,153 |
[WP] "There's something surreal about seeing the last moments of a person's life." | There's something surreal about seeing the last moments of a person's life. As she quietly heaved her last breaths, clutching her chest, from which a crimson stream flowed, she looked up at me. The snowbank she had fallen onto cupped her gently, as snow fluttered down, decorating her eyelashes and jet-black hair. But n... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 24,154 |
[WP] "There's something surreal about seeing the last moments of a person's life." | The late afternoon sun bore down on the crowded city sidewalks, causing the stench of the filthy asphalt to rise and dance with the murky air. A heat wave have taken hold of the city, setting people left and right on edge.
It has been just fifteen minutes since I left work, and already madness has made its appearan... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 24,155 |
[WP] "There's something surreal about seeing the last moments of a person's life." | There's something surreal about seeing the last moments of a person's life, especially when that person is harshly ripped out of your arms by the universe. I didn't know Finn wasn't taking his meds anymore. I didn't notice that it was rare to see him smile. I didn't even notice that his scars were being covered with fr... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 24,156 |
[WP] "There's something surreal about seeing the last moments of a person's life." | There's something surreal about seeing the last moments of a person's life.
I thought being a sniper would prevent this. All I look through is a scope, right? They'd die quick and painless. Besides, I would focus more on lining up the shot than on the target's emotions.
The only war I joined in was the Vietnam war. ... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 24,157 |
[PI] Randy the Rhino Has a Terrible Day (WP: Write a Children's Story That Turns Incredibly Dark) | I read it when you first posted it in response to the prompt. I hate giving compliments, but son, you did an amazing job. Understand this, I **hate** giving compliments, so when I give one, understand I found your writing phenomenal. This, was phenomenal.
The rhyming was well done in the rewrite. It was off in the fir... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 24,158 |
[PI] Randy the Rhino Has a Terrible Day (WP: Write a Children's Story That Turns Incredibly Dark) | I thought for *sure* either Mary the Monkey or Billy the Bee was going to be patient zero in a zombie outbreak, up to and including the point when Mary started hacking away at Randy's brain wrapper. It threw me for a loop when they started expressing emotion during the assault.
Very good story. Animals fiending for sh... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 24,159 |
A merchant makes a offer, that a man cannot refuse. |
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[OT] What is your writing process? | - Write a sentence.
- Over-analyse it.
- Re-write it. Twice.
- Become despondent.
- Get distracted.
- Forget what I was doing.
- Begrudgingly return to the task at hand.
- Spend five minutes cobbling together any old bollocks.
- Disappointment.
- Repeat ad nauseum.
My process is admittedly, not ideal. | 8 | 0 | 9 | 24,161 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | Well, I first off, I am very selective with the prompts I write.
That's not a remark to the prompts people provide but more to what I am skilled at writing about. If one was to look at my history, they would see several themes to them.
Warfare, executions. sadness, nonsensical, slight horror etc.
I've never been goo... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 24,162 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | This only applies to /r/writingprompts. The longer or more important the piece the more I take care of the process, usually starting with broad strokes and filling in more and more detail from the top down.
Here on /r/writingprmpts I generally think about the prompt for a while. I like to pick themes that haven't be... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,163 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | I find a prompt I like and write until the story's done, usually when I'm bored at work. My comment history shows how well that works out for me. | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,164 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | I just write. I don't care if anyone likes it. I just pour my imagination out, clean up the grammar and hope someone enjoys it. I've been lucky. Some have. | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,165 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | I try my best to spell words corectly (punny, heh)
Seriously though, I get inspiration from a lot of things. Mostly my emotions, but reading articles, web pages, blogs, anything. Just reading at all truly allows my mind to wander amongst the rationalities and irrationalities in our world.
My personal process?
Think... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,166 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | What is a writing process and how do I acquire one?
Kidding.
I don't have a definitive process or way I go about writing. It's kind of all just... just word-vomit, all over the page, endlessly. | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,167 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,168 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | For writing prompts here, if something grabs me I'll write it. Most things don't grab me here, though -- I just don't connect with them. Even though I write fantasy and horror, I'm more into character-based stories rather than idea-based stories. When I do find something, though, I start at the first sentence and see w... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 24,169 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | Write a story, post it, realize how horrible it is as your reading others stories, then decide you're too lazy to fix it up and accept your 1-3 karma. | 2 | 0 | 9 | 24,170 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | Write in a stream of consciousness manner.
Check for spelling and grammar mistakes.
Get bored with what I was doing and find something else to do. | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,171 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | I just need two things when I see a prompt that interests me.
1) Free time
2) Music
My approach is generally, character-based. I watch a lot of anime, so I focus on the characters. Characters, characters, characters. What they think, what they feel, what they fear, and of course, what they do. A lot of the time I f... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,172 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | I've got two very different processes depending on how much effort I'm willing to put into the piece.
For little to no effort pieces (honestly, most of the prompts I answer on this sub), I just write and edit as I go. Sometimes it's good, sometimes not, but it's mostly to get the idea out in words.
For the pieces wh... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,173 |
[OT] What is your writing process? | In all honesty, when I write, the good stuff is always stream of consciousness. See my dA account for examples: dwood15.deviantart.com | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,174 |
[IP] Here is the book cover. Now write the story. | *Do you know that you will spend a third of your life sleeping? What's even worse is that you need to do it at regular intervals. Time that isn't spent sleeping is tainted by the fact that either your just recovering from sleep or your body is forcing you to go to sleep once again.*
*Don't you wish that you could jus... | 6 | 0 | 11 | 24,175 |
[IP] Here is the book cover. Now write the story. | Dream State; noun, an artificial reality generated and operated by the IRIS computer simulation. It will hold nine thousand individuals in an incapacitated state during its first run.
Dream State; persona, an AI of IRIS designed to overlook the vegetated personnel. It will be responsible for all their needs to funct... | 5 | 0 | 11 | 24,176 |
[IP] Here is the book cover. Now write the story. | A new drug is sweeping the streets. A powerful hallucinogenic, the mysterious powder is known only as Dream. It affects the mind in such a way that you experience a lucid dream like no other; you feel awake in every way, yet you are in fact dreaming. Mind, body, and soul you enter into this dream world. You live in thi... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 24,177 |
[IP] Here is the book cover. Now write the story. | In the not so far off future a new drug, Deep Dream, hits the market. It will send the user into a deep sleep filled with the most vivid, incredible dreams they have ever had. The drug can be imprinted with specific kinds of dreams. Want to be a rock star, a CIA agent, a professional athlete, a king? No problem. Want t... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 24,178 |
[WP] A mad conspiracy theory of your choice turns out to be completely and entirely true | Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Election day, 2024. The polls showed Senator Stiles (D-CA) and Governor Wilson (R-KY) were neck and neck. The previous eight years of peace and economic growth could be contributed to the bipartisan effort to actually make the United States a country to be proud of. No long... | 10 | 0 | 18 | 24,179 |
[WP] A mad conspiracy theory of your choice turns out to be completely and entirely true | The first spaceships traveled through four simultaneous earth day rotations and all on board then knew that they had been lied to about oneness while living within four corner harmonic simultaneous four days rotating in a signal cycle of the earth’s sphere. They landed telling others that all they knew was evil and st... | 2 | 0 | 18 | 24,180 |
[WP] Top news article for March 8th, 3714. | **RECENT NEWS HEADLINER 2014**
February 6th, 2014, conflict in Russia and Ukraine may lead to further tensions with US.
**RECENT NEWS HEADLINER 2020**
November 7th, 2020 Hayden P. McCarthy wins US presidency. Vows to cut off ties with Russia and China.
**RECENT NEW HEADLINER 2032**
December 21st, 2032, Presi... | 7 | 0 | 5 | 24,181 |
[WP] Top news article for March 8th, 3714. | **5 reasons why the 3710's is the BEST century of all time!!!**
*Buzzfeed*
**ONE**. Because you can have this article read to you in a famous dead celebrity's voice while you sleep. *MarilynMonroeHappyBirthdayJFK.gif*
*captionBot: "Happy birthday... Mr. President..."
**TWO**. Because, srsly, that whole forced-ster... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 24,182 |
[WP] An unsuccessful author struggling with mental illness embraces the voices in his head as they serve as the inspiration for his first successful novel | Dear lord I got it all wrong!
To think I spent all these years doing it *their* way, no wonder I been so depress, so frustrated, so deeply unsatisfied with the quality of my writing.
At first, I thought it was a lack of ambition, creativity, or whatever authors had that gave them spark. My pages were covered in scr... | 7 | 0 | 9 | 24,183 |
[WP] An unsuccessful author struggling with mental illness embraces the voices in his head as they serve as the inspiration for his first successful novel | The detective stumbled through the front gate clutching a still warm revolver in one hand and his chest in the other. The burning ache grew worse with every heartbeat. He didn't have long.
"The house on the bluffs." That's what the psycopath Lewis Goode had said as he laid in the mud. The rain was pooling around hi... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24,184 |
[WP] An unsuccessful author struggling with mental illness embraces the voices in his head as they serve as the inspiration for his first successful novel | The seclusion helps in a way, but not in the way most people think. It is
featured in fiction, most people think of 'The Shining' when the idea is
brought up; an author or writer seeks to separate themselves from the rest
of the world in order to not be distracted. For me, the seclusion is so I
can be distracted.
This... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 24,185 |
[WP] In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. | Ramsey swung his club over his head. The air cried out in pain. The club connected with another of the tribe. His eyeless head caving in like a halloween pumpkin.
Fenton crawled, reaching, searching, clawing, feeling for the feet of another. He brought the hammer he carried down on any he found. With gleeful cackling ... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 24,186 |
[WP] In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. | Serge could feel the crowd above him in the arena. Writhing, impatient, grasping. Perfect. It was 45 minutes after Fader was scheduled to go on. His bandmates were exasperated. Daud Griffin, founder of Griffin Records, was somewhere in throng. He was going to get a show he'd never forget.
His mates and manager b... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 24,187 |
[WP] In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 13 | 24,188 |
[WP] " Hate you? I wish I could." | "Listen up everyone. A little announcement, don't start to pack up just yet. This just came down from corporate: On Monday, the COO of the company is coming to this store, so we need to do a little housekeeping. Adam, Ryan, Nicole, I'll need you to come in tomorrow... Maybe Sunday too to help get us ready for that. Oth... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 24,189 |
[WP] " Hate you? I wish I could." | She stumbled back into our apartment reeking of alcohol. Pieces of her hair were stuck on her face from substances I didn't want to imagine. Out late with her boss and coworkers again.
"Hi," she grinned sheepishly at me. I raised my second bottle of beer toward her in acknowledgement. "Look, I know I said I would watc... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 24,190 |
[WP] " Hate you? I wish I could." | "Bye Dad, love ya." I say as I shut the car door very quietly while getting out. Dad was drunk again last night and yelling too loud, much too loud. He's hung over this morning, that's why I shut the car door very quietly. When I was little, my dad was either drunk or hung over, and that's the way I assumed all adults ... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 24,191 |
[WP] " Hate you? I wish I could." | -067
It was raining the day I met Vincent; a slow hot summer rain. The fourth of July was like that sometimes. Children and adults gathering to blow up stuff only to find the summer rain wetting their festivities. It didn't even cool the flesh. I sometimes believed half the dampness was sweat the rain had caused.
Vin... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 24,192 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is basically the premise of [The Dirty Streets of Heaven](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542846-the-dirty-streets-of-heaven).
EDIT: And I should say it's really good! If this is the kind of thing that interests you you'll love it! | 3 | 0 | 86 | 24,193 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | I don't remember how it happened. I just know I woke up in a nice white room, in a nice comfy bed, then I was escorted out by some guys with spears.
"Here is the choosing platform. You decide by walking into the color flame. Blue is Heaven, Red is Hell. We have people here to sway your decision if you can't for yo... | -6 | 0 | 86 | 24,194 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | The sun was high in the sky, and the sand warm against the old man’s back. Quiet waves slowly caressed the pristine beach. The warm sun was countered by a cool breeze coming off the water. “Perfect,” the old man thought to himself and he smiled as he took a sip from his drink.
“Mind if I join you?”
The old man was a... | 56 | 0 | 86 | 24,195 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | "Welcome, Sir. I am Alexus Andronicus. My esteemed colleague next to me is Marcellus Flavius. We are your Sorters. I understand the process has been explained to you, so let us simply begin. I am here to offer you eternal bliss free of pain and suffering".
"... and *I* am here to offer you eternal questioning, o... | 24 | 0 | 86 | 24,196 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | “So this, is heaven!” I exclaim with a burst of enthusiasm. I made it a personal goal to greet each new chapter in my life with zeal. Or in this case, the afterlife.
A weary, but competent looking angel flaps his wings in response and glances up at the entrance by which he stands guard. Above his head in huge yellow l... | 10 | 0 | 86 | 24,197 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | r"hello there, mister Morgan is it?", i look around, only scant moments ago i was in the hospital saying my goodbye, now some guy in a black suit is talking to me on what seems to be a disk made of gold inside a white room.
the man lets out a small cough, "welkom, mister Morgan to the selection chamber, in here you wi... | 2 | 0 | 86 | 24,198 |
[WP] Upon death, we are given a choice: Heaven or Hell. Representatives from both are sent, individually or together, to sway each soul. | The darkness was profound. If you could even call it darkness, that is. As far as the eye could see there was only oblivion. Then it hit me, I had died. The last thing I remember was being sick, *severely* sick. But I didn't feel sick anymore, and that in itself was a godsend.
I began to walk around this empty void. ... | 9 | 0 | 86 | 24,199 |
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