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[PM] Have a writer's meetup today. Looking to get in some practice. | I like what you did with yesterday's prompt from me, so let's see what you do with this one.
Random generator gives me: Seeking the truth at an unusual craft show. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25,100 |
[PM] Have a writer's meetup today. Looking to get in some practice. | An angel is banished from heaven and falls to earth. The angel stops an execution and the man about to be executed becomes an unconventional ally. The angel starts the quest to get back into heaven. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25,101 |
[PM] Have a writer's meetup today. Looking to get in some practice. | Hey Prolixitasty, this post is being removed because as per the sidebar rules:
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[CW] 50 words on risk. Each line has to start with "This..." | This is stupid.
This is suicidal.
This is awesome!
This one’s because it was fun the first time.
This one’s because I want to show a friend.
This will be the last time.
This one’s so she’ll look.
This one’s hands off.
This one’s because I’m bored.
This one is
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[CW] 50 words on risk. Each line has to start with "This..." | This is different, exciting, exotic.
This is dangerous.
This is giving me second thoughts.
This is a terrible idea.
This needs to happen.
This boundary needs to be overcome.
This is happening.
This is frightening.
This is exhilarating.
This is heart pounding.
This is living.
This is happening again.
This. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,104 |
[CW] 50 words on risk. Each line has to start with "This..." | This is something new.
This is something I've never done before.
This is something that frightens me.
This will be a story one day. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,105 |
[CW] 50 words on risk. Each line has to start with "This..." | This is to open ourselves to failure, moment after moment and day after day, for as long as we live, because the possibilities that lie ahead might be better.
This is how stories are born, and how memories are made.
This is risking.
This is living.
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[CW] 50 words on risk. Each line has to start with "This..." | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,107 |
[WP]A happy poem at first glance but it is sad when I think about it. | I love her.
Me,
with every inhale,
her,
with every exhale.
Her,
across an ocean,
me ,
stranded.
I love her,
and its tearing me apart.
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[WP]A happy poem at first glance but it is sad when I think about it. | Always together, our souls are twin.
In every aspect bonded since nineteen.
Disregarding danger we share within
So not even death may stand between. | 9 | 0 | 7 | 25,109 |
[WP]A happy poem at first glance but it is sad when I think about it. | Deep in the dark caves of Epschon
They thought all the Lemlai were now dead and gone.
yet down in the caverns immeresed 'neath the waves
A secretive Lemlai sat hiding for days
her childlike smile prettily rejoices
as she hides from prying eyes while hearing their voices.
The caves are all carved with elaborate de... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 25,110 |
[WP]A happy poem at first glance but it is sad when I think about it. | happy i stand
sword in hand
i watch the world burn
as i take that which i did not earn
to think i take joy
and leave naught but a broken toy
to think that i am happy
but i am
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[WP]A happy poem at first glance but it is sad when I think about it. | we were always together
absorbed, sometimes lost
drifted off conversation
somewhere else, busy thinking
of where our other was.
well, that's what they all said.
had the other at first glance
alone, crowded station
accidentally touched her hand
on the pole, cold pole,
my handprint made it warm.
that's what... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 25,112 |
SHORT STORY STIMULUS CHALLENGE |
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You are a protistute in a near dystopian future. Life sucks for everyone but the very few wealthy. |
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[PI] Digital Brain - FEB CONTEST | This was a great idea! I liked the story and the concept is fantastic. You could probably explore dozens of implications from this technology and I liked what you did with the story. If anything, I had a lot of questions about how people would be affected in their everyday life. I was really intrigued about them explor... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 25,115 |
[PI] Digital Brain - FEB CONTEST | You have a cool concept. I liked the descriptions of how the Digital Brain worked (including the folders).
I encourage you to break down all your paragraphs into smaller ones. Right now, there's a "wall of text" effect going on. Many of your large paragraphs should be 4 or 5 smaller ones. With dialogue in particular, ... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 25,116 |
Two more weeks before Redditors begin writing a movie! |
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[WP]Humanity nears victory against an alien race. As they capture the homeworld, they realize the entire war started as a misunderstanding. | "Sir allow me to say the plan, I have a personal grudge against them"
"Do it"
We entered the room. The hyaugi kept two of his eyes trained on us. The stench emitting off the creature was especially putrid, a mix of sulphur and wet, moldy dew combined to hang in the air, surrounding his golf-ball sized head. He exte... | 5 | 0 | 3 | 25,118 |
[WP]Humanity nears victory against an alien race. As they capture the homeworld, they realize the entire war started as a misunderstanding. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25,119 |
[WP]Humanity nears victory against an alien race. As they capture the homeworld, they realize the entire war started as a misunderstanding. | ##"Aratasi"
"Damn it! Get these fuckin' guys off me!" Waits shouted over TACCOM, as his fighter strafed, ducked, and twirled in a frantic attempt to shake two alien starships that clung tightly to either side. His pursuers maintained a perfect distance from his craft, never coming too close, and never coming within th... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25,120 |
[WP]Humanity nears victory against an alien race. As they capture the homeworld, they realize the entire war started as a misunderstanding. | The years had not been kind to the human race. We struggle to survive on our on planet. Starvation and war with ourselves dominating us for millenniums. It took us until the year 2235 after the last of the world wars that humanity finally realized that if it were to survive, it were to unite. Then the universe took ano... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25,121 |
[WP] A person leaves everything behind to start a new life. Takes nothing but their wallet and car. What led up to this moment? What happens after? | This was the day of my grandmothers funeral. Sitting here after a full day of "mourning." I hadn't shed a tear yet, was i fucked up? I didn't understand the American way, my fathers side had invited all of my grandmothers close friends and family; including the other half of her 2nd husbands family.
Drunk by the fir... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,122 |
[WP] A person leaves everything behind to start a new life. Takes nothing but their wallet and car. What led up to this moment? What happens after? | [Gretchen, young adult in jeans and tshirt, packing her remaining belongings] "I'm not going to stay, MOTHER, if I can't live in your fucking house."
"Well, you sure as shit are NOT. I'm not going to pay for my degenerate daughter."
"What?"
"Now, get going before it gets dark." [Mother hugs Gretchen] Don't forget yo... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,123 |
[WP]: Suddenly, an ordinary teenager realises they can predict the future, and sense that a calamity is coming. The message can only be spread in the least effective medium possible | To whomever this may concern,
My name is alhir diashianni, and i am a nigerian prince, and i have fallen on some tough times and have been kicked out of the palace. I really need to borrow $1000 so that i can set up an interview with all the major world powers about a majour crises that can be avoided.
I will pay y... | 19 | 0 | 6 | 25,124 |
In one or two paragraphs, show me a memorable character using only descriptions and actions -- using no dialog and no adverbs. |
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[EU]: Two film characters by the same actor meet. It ends in murder. | Rorschach’s Journal. January 04th, 1985: 7:04AM. Eyes are bloodshot. Can’t sleep, not yet. Haven’t yet figured out his trick. Adrenaline supply low. Daniel has doubts. No use trying to convince him.
Found more victims during patrol last night. Scum, whores, familiar faces. I knew them. The pattern fits. I knew them.
... | 5 | 0 | 11 | 25,126 |
[EU]: Two film characters by the same actor meet. It ends in murder. | The actor, Cary Elwes. The story: After escaping from a prison in Jerusalem, the cocky Robin of Loxley(Robin Hood: men in tights) is pulled from the sea by the crew of the witty dread pirate Roberts(the princess bride). While Robin was being held in the brig, the two men bond over their love for the women they left beh... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 25,127 |
[WP] In your character's hand is something s/he doesn't remember picking up. | Claire walked into the living room, pausing for a moment to wonder why exactly she was doing so. She looked around, hoping for some reminder, and stopped as she looked at her hands.
"When did I pick this up?" She wondered aloud, gently fondling the kitchen knife in her hands. "Was I cooking?"
She wandered back into t... | 5 | 0 | 4 | 25,128 |
[WP] In your character's hand is something s/he doesn't remember picking up. | This is something real that happened a few weeks ago.
Victoria had been curled up in the bathtub, sleeping quite uncomfortably. There was a dark green towel underneath her and a bright red robe on top of her. She had been using an old jacket as a pillow and in her hand was a pocket knife that she was cuddling with in... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 25,129 |
[WP] A jewelry thief that is fond of speaking in alliteration explains his latest heist. | As is standard, it started simply. Many masked men meandered, momentum moving them more and more to the monumental mark. The leader, lingering at the lip of the lobby, lets the last lemming inside. Larry, the loudest, scarily screams at the simpering sycophant who manages this measly money management mecca. Harry hurri... | 11 | 0 | 9 | 25,130 |
[WP] A jewelry thief that is fond of speaking in alliteration explains his latest heist. | Strumpets strode the space, stalling stalwart sergeants. Military men made merry, misconstruing the meaning of the meeting. Lavish libations were liberally lessened as ladies led liable lads to lonesome landings. Coats in the closet were carefully combed as waiters whisked wallets and wealth from wasted warrior's withd... | 4 | 0 | 9 | 25,131 |
[WP]: In the year 3014, a bunch of bored college students gather together to laugh at 21st century sci-fi films | I was approaching the room, and already, I could hear the baffled screams of enjoyment piercing the hallway, echoing the room and exiting through the thins walls. We agreed to use one of the old ball rooms and an old digital projector for easier screening and compatibility. These 21st century technologies were so prim... | 5 | 0 | 28 | 25,132 |
[WP]: In the year 3014, a bunch of bored college students gather together to laugh at 21st century sci-fi films | (Didn't quite hit the nail on the head by the end, I'm off to bed, can't help it I'm dozing where I stand! Nice prompt.)
"Explain to me why we have to watch it in 2d, aren't there 4d mods?"
"How are you supposed to get the classical experience in 4d?"
"What...the heck is that?"
"Pretty sure they call it a TV."
"Wh... | 47 | 0 | 28 | 25,133 |
[WP]: In the year 3014, a bunch of bored college students gather together to laugh at 21st century sci-fi films | Jerra bent over as she warmed her hands by the fire, careful not to let her fur vest burn. She rubbed her hands and stared as peeling skin fell off her palms. Its worse than usual, she thought to herself, my skin has been shedding nonstop. She coughed loudly, paused for a moment, and fell into a coughing fit. Teran, ... | 6 | 0 | 28 | 25,134 |
[WP]: A group of scientists discover a gateway into a world never before accessed by human beings. A local tourist guide offers to show them around. | Pins and needles.
That's all the felt, and were thought they were temporarily blinded. But it wasn't an effect of the gateway, it soon dawned on the travelling scientists that it was just very bright. The light came from everywhere, as if the shadows had been murdered, blotted out by the power of the light source. ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 25,135 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey
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Jessie was fed up with it. She'd been doing the same stupid routine for years. Go to high school, meet the same jerks she's seen her whole life, talk to the same 3 people, go home, sleep. It was the same thing every day. There were no extracurricular activities to entertain h... | 8 | 0 | 9 | 25,136 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | Okay... this is a long one. I tried writing in a children's book style.
Inspired by *The Greatest Show Unearthed*, by Creature Feature
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Once Upon a Time in a town very much like yours, there lived a boy named Robert Preston McNeagle the Fourth. Sometimes his ... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 25,137 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | THE MIDDLE - **JIMMY EAT WORLD**
She was crying...again. Everything was just too much to handle. Her soft sobs never heard over the television, her silent suffering never known. She sat huddled by her closet wondering what was wrong. Why she couldn't fit in, why she had to be so weird. She began to believe what they s... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 25,138 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | "Mykonos" Fleet Foxes
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He sat up in his old decaying rockingchair when he finished reading his brother's letter. His eyes were red and puffy as if infected with diseases and he let out a slight laugh when he realized he could still cry. He thought of the words his ... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 25,139 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | “Tension” by Avenged Sevenfold
Allan was fed up. Pure straight, ready to make the jump, put a bullet in his head fed up this time. Not like you get fed up at work with your boss’s shit, or Janice’s obnoxious “woe-is-me” sob stories every other morning, or your wife always on your ass about that garage you said you’d... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 25,140 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | The lowrider Dodge swerved to the left, off the sidewalk and back on to the road, narrowly missing an old lady with her shopping cart full of cans.
In the rearview mirror, an ebony Escalade was gaining on him.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck," he repeated.
"C'mon, they're gaining," she screamed.
"Fuck." He said... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 25,141 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | "Say Something" by A Great Big World
“I don’t know what to say,” she stated while they lay in bed with their back against the wall and hands intertwined. The silence that followed seemed to span months as their relationship flashed before Jason's eyes.
Music filled his head as he pictured the concert where they f... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 25,142 |
[WP] Write a story based off of a song. | (No Rest For The Wicked, Cage the Elephant.)
Ever since I started seeing those images in my mind, I knew I had a mission. A mission to protect people the best way I could.
I burned down the home of the young man who was going to shoot up his workplace with an assault rifle. I heard him scream as I strode away, knowin... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 25,143 |
[WP] Humans can't/can no longer create new blood cells. The only way to replace lost blood is by transfusion. | [deleted] | -2 | 0 | 5 | 25,144 |
[WP] Humans can't/can no longer create new blood cells. The only way to replace lost blood is by transfusion. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,145 |
[WP] Humans can't/can no longer create new blood cells. The only way to replace lost blood is by transfusion. | "God, can things get more fucked up than this?" Gwen whispered
David had been pale for so long, but still he insisted that she squeeze every last drop he could muster into the plastic bag.
"This is the only way she is going to live, Gwen, it's truly the only thing we can do right now."
The newly born baby had been... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 25,146 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | We didn't see it coming.
The corrosive salt water should have been enough defence, indeed, in any other situation it would have been. Maybe we should have realised that there would be some evolutionary abnormality by the fact the planet was covered with the stuff. We were just too taken with how it would work in our b... | 47 | 0 | 78 | 25,147 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 78 | 25,148 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | Great prompt, but holy hell do I hate how Tumblrites talk. | 14 | 0 | 78 | 25,149 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | If there is one thing that this universe fears more than any other event it is the day when humans learn to travel the stars. My people discovered the humans ages ago, back when I had just been hatched. We observed there behavior and at first thought that their's would be an easy planet to claim, but the more we watche... | 13 | 0 | 78 | 25,150 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 78 | 25,151 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | Here's a story that's pretty relevant that I just stumbled upon.
[http://imgur.com/gallery/4HIGm](http://imgur.com/gallery/4HIGm) | 35 | 0 | 78 | 25,152 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | Jaron leaned against the open chamber, hacking. A fine mist poured out from the edges of the chamber. He leaned over, spitting out a thick mucus on the floor.
In mid cough, a heavy thud struck Jaron's back. He gripped onto the door chamber as a large plug of grey glop shot from his digestive orifice.
"There, that a... | 10 | 0 | 78 | 25,153 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | There's a short story I read some time ago, don't recall the author, but the premise is such:
An alien race that I believe was described as bear-like is travelling the stars, conquering every race they encounter. Their ships make use of some kind of anti-gravity technology, which enabled them to travel the stars with ... | 11 | 0 | 78 | 25,154 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | Help. If anyone can hear this, I've broadcasted the coordinates of my ship with the message.
I'm scared. I don't know where to turn. It's here, on the ship. Just one of them, small and covered in some kind of thin covering. Nothing compared to the shells and spikes of most of the crew. Oh, we were curious, and we were... | 8 | 0 | 78 | 25,155 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 78 | 25,156 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | "We thought it was a gift, but it was what your kind call a Trojan Horse. A tank containing about twenty thousand of your kind. But you came out of that tank fighting and have not stopped since. We tried being diplomatic, but every time we approached you, you started killing. You multiplied, you grew, and you killed ev... | 3 | 0 | 78 | 25,157 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | There are two actual stories about this that I can think of off hand. There's a short story called [The Road not Taken by Harry Turtledove](http://pastebin.com/aJQfubrK) (free to read at the link) and a trilogy by Alan Dean Foster called [The Damned Trilogy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Damned_Trilogy).
The Road ... | 3 | 0 | 78 | 25,158 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | I am reporting to you, Examiner 4371, for the 3x10^3nd time, upon the progress of Hospitable Interstellar Orbital Object 9x10^13 of the Spiral Galaxy 8x10^70.
Initial status update: Probes have completed reports from remaining sectors of the Spiral Galaxy. 13 known inhospitable orbital systems have been depleted of al... | 4 | 0 | 78 | 25,159 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | The whole premise of "Humans are tough motherfuckers" is adressed in the Halo franchise as well...
The forerunners had to "dim" our genetic potential after saving us from the flood.
It's kinda refreshing to read things about us being the badasses, instead of the easy-to-kill-meatbags we're being depicted as in most a... | 2 | 0 | 78 | 25,160 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | "Anthrou. Report on the planet's conditions and current situation." Barked the Tribunal.
"It is surprising how primitive lifeforms can defy the power of honor, righteousness and justice. While we carried out our systematic assimilation of the population, what the native declared was "kidnapping," they had prepared m... | 3 | 0 | 78 | 25,161 |
[WP][IP] Humans the specialized pursuit predators | Squadron $$%%, Ship &%&&, Day 1: Crash Landing:
Our squad of ships were devastated. Our captain died on impact with the surface. No captain of the squad survived the landing; our plan to systematically land and converge on the human capital was a disaster. Debris flying through the air jammed out our turbi... | 2 | 0 | 78 | 25,162 |
[WP] In one or two paragraphs, show me a memorable character using only descriptions and actions -- using no dialog and avoiding adverbs. | The whistle rested across his lips as he paced back and forth, searching for a reason to use it. He pulled his trousers above his waistline, then adjusted the glasses perched on the tip of his nose. Every minute or so he would tug at his sash to make sure it was in place.
He tensed up as the school bell rang. It was i... | 5 | 0 | 5 | 25,163 |
[WP] In one or two paragraphs, show me a memorable character using only descriptions and actions -- using no dialog and avoiding adverbs. | This isn't mine, and I'm not sure if I'm even allowed to post stuff that isn't mine, but I felt this poem ( titled "Poem" ) by Simon Armitage is quite relevant. We had to study it at school and I guess it just stuck with me: (btw I don't know how to format stuff)
And if it snowed and snow covered the drive
he took ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 25,164 |
[WP] In one or two paragraphs, show me a memorable character using only descriptions and actions -- using no dialog and avoiding adverbs. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,165 |
[WP] In one or two paragraphs, show me a memorable character using only descriptions and actions -- using no dialog and avoiding adverbs. | Glass bottles glittered and glinted in the warm evening sun. Each one balanced with care and the utmost precision onto an old fold out table placed at the rear of the market. Today was a day like any other, he hadn't sold a single item. His hands trembled as he lifted the one closest to him, cradled it in his hand and ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 25,166 |
[WP] In one or two paragraphs, show me a memorable character using only descriptions and actions -- using no dialog and avoiding adverbs. | His fingers danced across the cold surface of his snowboard. He looked out into the valley where a nameless french village lay. Peaceful for the first time in four years. He brushed the snow off his metal knee and stood up. Wobbling to gain his balance. The examiners told him he'd never ride again. Yet here he was wait... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,167 |
[WP] Write about an attempted escape. | Day 10: I have prepared a special satchel of all the things I will need. Food. Comforts. Weapons. The escape will not be stopped this time. Last time, they put me in the darkest corner possible. I couldn't stop crying the entire time. My last attempt had been brilliant. Pay one of the other inmates to distract the wa... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 25,168 |
[WP] Write about an attempted escape. | The bars break
My feet hit the ground
Freedom I will join
Darkness I will become
Reaching out
Back in
This cell will always confine me
I will fight for life
The bars break
My feet hit the ground
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[WP] Write about an attempted escape. | Eli fell to the ground and the mud shot into the air and rained back down upon him. A thin layer of this brown liquid covered him from head to toe. He hoped and prayed this masquerade would help him escape. He lifted his head from the puddle and tried to slow down his labored breaths. The guards that were chasing him... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,170 |
[WP] Write about an attempted escape. | He is alone now, he can be certian of this.
This world his his and his alone. A smile appears on his face. 'Finally. Finally, for the first time since we met I am alone'.
He looks arround. A beach, mountians in the distance, a few trees nearby and animals all arround. This world is peacefull, or so it seems. He can se... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,171 |
[WP] There is a piece of paper with your true love's name written on it that intermittently appears in your life, floating away from you like a plastic bag in the wind. You will never catch it but you know that it is accurate. You see it today, on your wedding day. | It had always appeared in the corner of my eye, just out of sight. I'd turn to look at it, but it would be gone. People would ask what I was looking at, and i'd brush it off as a figment of my imagination. Every time I saw it, I noticed the little bit of writing. What did it say? Was it a name? A date? An oddly specifi... | 12 | 0 | 16 | 25,172 |
[WP] There is a piece of paper with your true love's name written on it that intermittently appears in your life, floating away from you like a plastic bag in the wind. You will never catch it but you know that it is accurate. You see it today, on your wedding day. | There it is again. That dreaded piece of paper. I've seen it now how often? A dozen times? Two dozens? I don't even remember anymore. Wish I'd never seen it.
Took me forever to understand that it was some kind of "magic". Appearing, floating, disappearing. People always tell you that they want more magic in their liv... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 25,173 |
[WP] There is a piece of paper with your true love's name written on it that intermittently appears in your life, floating away from you like a plastic bag in the wind. You will never catch it but you know that it is accurate. You see it today, on your wedding day. | My entire life, I imagined the perfect man, the man I should, no, the man I would marry. He’d be taller than me but not too tall, a musician of some sort, I didn’t really care what sort as long as he was musically inclined; he’d have dark hair and light eyes, and he’d be able to make me laugh. He’d be my best friend, a... | 7 | 0 | 16 | 25,174 |
[WP] There is a piece of paper with your true love's name written on it that intermittently appears in your life, floating away from you like a plastic bag in the wind. You will never catch it but you know that it is accurate. You see it today, on your wedding day. | I wasn’t sure if it was a blessing or a curse.
At thirteen—young, naïve, and fresh with the pain of young love unrequited—I foolishly sought out the services of a psychic. With more of a superstitious impulse for instant answers than a true desire for supernatural aid, I searched the phone book. That is where I fou... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,175 |
[WP] There is a piece of paper with your true love's name written on it that intermittently appears in your life, floating away from you like a plastic bag in the wind. You will never catch it but you know that it is accurate. You see it today, on your wedding day. | I glance around the church where my wedding will be held. Checking out the place before anything happens. As I am looking at the gigantic stained glass window depicting a kneeling saint, I see it. The paper. The goddamn paper with my "true love's" name on it.
Several years ago, my buddies dared me to do it. They dared... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,176 |
[WP] There is a piece of paper with your true love's name written on it that intermittently appears in your life, floating away from you like a plastic bag in the wind. You will never catch it but you know that it is accurate. You see it today, on your wedding day. | Story is here on Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0mfgJ8MIaB_dWkwN3J0bWlfSDg/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for the prompt. | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,177 |
[EU] It turns out that Lovecraftian entities find humans as maddening as we do them. |
They stare up at me with slick orbs of meat-flesh and speak to me with the gutteral reverberations that wound my auditory senses. Some of them snap and bend at the lower half and prostrate themselves before me, and they praise my magnificent crystaline form as it blocks out the moonlight of the field. They called me h... | 6 | 0 | 9 | 25,178 |
[EU] It turns out that Lovecraftian entities find humans as maddening as we do them. | Imagine if you can, a creature that exists almost between dimensions. A being that manifests itself in so few of them it cannot be truly defined as real. Look at it from Z'eph and R'lnuh and you can't even see them. In those dimensions they don't even exist. As I traverse around one of these beings it seems to flicker ... | 5 | 0 | 9 | 25,179 |
[WP] The First Human-Robot Marriage. | "Hurry up Ryan! The ceremony's about to start!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming."
I walk into my crowded living room, where everyone was eagerly anticipating the first human-robot marriage ever, broadcast live on TV.
Am I the only one who thinks this shouldn't be happening? Robots were originally created to be our slaves. T... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 25,180 |
[WP] The First Human-Robot Marriage. | Maddie sat in the stiff chair outside of the JP's office. Her son paced nervously beside her. She didn't speak. She couldn't bring herself to sooth him or even understand him any longer.
She was disappointed in herself. In all her life, she had felt like she was on the winning side of things. Progressive. Tolerant. Y... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 25,181 |
[CC] Super Self Conscious about this... | Hey there! Great to hear that you are getting into writing.
I have removed your post, because [CC] should only be used if you are posting a prompt response. However, if you do write something in our subreddit that you'd like in-depth critique on, feel free to post that prompt response with a [CC] tag.
If you'd like c... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25,182 |
[WP] 30 million years in the future, long after any memory of Earth is gone, a descendant of humans intercepts Voyager 1 and the Golden Record. They play it. | As we approach this aeon-dead object, a technological marvel frozen in time by the ather of space, we all could not help but to retrieve this machine in complete silence, horror, and admiration. Now caught in our orbit, this archaic piece of technology was finally ours for the taking.
"Extend the graspers, and place t... | 7 | 0 | 19 | 25,183 |
[WP] 30 million years in the future, long after any memory of Earth is gone, a descendant of humans intercepts Voyager 1 and the Golden Record. They play it. | Barwa eased his pod closer to the object and looked it over once again on his display. Primitive, surely. Dangerous, possibly. The pod whispered to him about the decayed and inactive plutonium-based power system, chemical maneuvering thrusters and other oddments. He interrupted the litany to order the pod to encase th... | 3 | 0 | 19 | 25,184 |
[WP] 30 million years in the future, long after any memory of Earth is gone, a descendant of humans intercepts Voyager 1 and the Golden Record. They play it. | Mother Jade floated by streaming her ethereal luminescent memories in the space between stars. Her children enveloped in the tenuous wake of her ephemeral strands sang wondrous echoing melodies caressing the nearby stars with her splendor making them pulsate with envy.
Yet, the darkness of space still held mysteries ... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 25,185 |
[WP] 30 million years in the future, long after any memory of Earth is gone, a descendant of humans intercepts Voyager 1 and the Golden Record. They play it. | *Note: This feels cheaty, because I actually wrote this story for a similar writing prompt a few months ago. It received some attention, and gave me my flair, so if this is against the rules or not in the spirit of the subreddit, I'll remove it.*
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[WP] 30 million years in the future, long after any memory of Earth is gone, a descendant of humans intercepts Voyager 1 and the Golden Record. They play it. | One the outermost edge of his periphery, he suddenly feels the uncomfortable itch of a foreign presence. Something that wasn't there a moment before. Something that doesn't belong there. Something new. Not natural. Not a body. Solid, but not something created by natural mechanisms. Artificial. Definitely artificial. Ha... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 25,187 |
[WP] "Captain's log..." | Captains Log:
Day 45: I have discovered an error with the logs, and have managed to jury rig it so that it records. Previous data lost and unrecoverable. Note form available, and sparse details follow.
Day 2: - Departure. We have left the eigen port headed south, for a spice run. Pirates have been known to act up in ... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 25,188 |
[WP] "Captain's log..." | Captain's Log, Recorded from the Captain's Chair.
134 consecutive days searching the Outer Rim have depleted our supplies. All we have left are cup ramen, green beans, cans of black beans, canned oysters, and microwave curry.
This has had adverse effects upon the crew's stomachs and bowels. As such, the Interplan... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 25,189 |
[WP] "Captain's log..." | Dr. James-Elliot Franćo's Captain's log: Day 26
My dear sweet Julia,
Do you remember the first sunset we spent admiring together? Sitting outside our old ranch, on that old rickety porch-swing, has always been one of my fondest memories. We were so young then, and so full of hope.
There hasn't been an evening on the... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 25,190 |
[WP] "Captain's log..." | Captain's Log
Space-February 17th, 2557
The Space-crew and I have finally landed on the nameless, inhospitable ball of tundra. The Space-rations are in perfect condition. Space-equipment functions perfectly. Fortunately, there no problems to regard or report to the Space-council. Research begins.
Space-March 1st... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 25,191 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | Looking back I may have cheated slightly and gone a bit off prompt but it's written so here you go:
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He touches her. Paralyzed. She doesn’t move. Doesn’t respond. He leaves his hand resting on her body. Nobody else is in the room. She is barely dressed. Her favourit... | 13 | 0 | 25 | 25,192 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | >The Minds Aisle drama
I look behind me. She's not there yet. Oh my god. Wedding day. Zero hour. Tick tick tick. Organ playing, decision weighing MIND FRAYING! **AHHHH!** I just want to be a lion. Calm confident, in control. I'm more like a hyena. I nervously laugh and sweat beads. Hysterical, hopping, waiting for ... | 5 | 0 | 25 | 25,193 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | I tried to mirror them, as far as each individual sentence being about the same thing. I did my best to have all descriptions be flip sides of the same thing that could both be accurately. Sort of like your most cynical friend and your upbeat super chill friend both went on the same vacation and were telling you about ... | 3 | 0 | 25 | 25,194 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | As I open the door, the reporters flock to the car. Vultures. I approach the front steps with my hands in my pockets and my head down. A disgrace to my family and to the force. When I get into the courtroom, I feel the eyes on me, burning holes in my suit. The chief gave it to me on my first week with the police force.... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 25,195 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 25 | 25,196 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 25 | 25,197 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | There's a timer. A clock. Someone in the cramped room holds it, and it's constantly *tick tock*ing. It never ends. Every thought. *tick* Every moment *tock* You can't think *tick* you can't breath *tock* you want it to end *tick* God, just a moment of peace *tock* You crave a moment *tick* to stare at the red light *to... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 25,198 |
[FF][CW] A 100-150 word story, written twice. 1st time: make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | (short on words and I settled for wonky prose)
He would never hurt her flinching at his anger, he bursts. Tears burning his cheeks, he feels the injustice. In his reaction, he nurtures a flame of betrayal not stamped down; could mean a wildfire. Not what he wants! To do to her what he feels himself, a betrayal of l... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 25,199 |
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