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[WP] Addicts inject a whole marijuana | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 10 | 25,700 |
[WP] Addicts inject a whole marijuana | "Hey there. I've got the stuff."
"You think you're tough?"
"Yeah, I'm tough." Brad took out three pencils and broke them in half at once. "Can you break three pencils?"
"That's pretty good." Marnie said. "I guess you're tough enough."
"Do you have it?" Brad asked.
"The marijuanas?"
"Yeah."
"How many do you wan... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 25,701 |
[WP] Addicts inject a whole marijuana | She looked around the dank room. The walls were covered in posters of metalist bands like; Muttleys Crew and Five Fingered Breast Punch. Damn metalists, They should know that I'm trying to save them from their lives of sin.
A man came through the the only door in the room. She knew he was a metalist because he was si... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 25,702 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | The first time we spent the night together, he snuck me into his bedroom through the window, well after his parents had gone to sleep. We were both eleven years old. We weren't looking for anything sexual to happen, just a regular old sleepover that neither of us could have. It was fun, being together in a dark room, t... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,703 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | We spoke softly, afraid to break the night, our voices carrying burdens from deep within ourselves across the void between us. Her lithe fingers fiddled with the label of her beer and the cicadas chirped rhythmically with the moving earth. Out beyond that, who knows. Maybe nothing.
We spoke softly, afraid to break th... | 9 | 0 | 13 | 25,704 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | We received the call at 3:28 AM. Nobody ever has good news at 3 AM. All the daughters went upstairs, tears streaming down their faces, but we stayed. You and I, it was our job to stay. To be prepared when they approached us with those tears. To soften the blow. To comfort. To hold.
You picked up the guitar and began t... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,705 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | We spoke softly, afraid to break the night. She lay in my arms. We lay in my bed. The old ceiling fan creaked and squeaked and protested its purpose. The cool air chilled our naked bodies, and she pulled the sheets upon us.
"This is my last moments." She whispered, kissing my ear. I felt the sting that precedes the te... | 5 | 0 | 13 | 25,706 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | Fires still burned in the distance, painting a patch of bright orange light on the clouds of smoke that lingered in the air like a wall separating the earth from the heavens, burning the bridge between salvation and humanity, never to be repaired. When the sun had slipped below the horizon of the world that night, the ... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,707 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | The alley reeked of rubbish. You know, that horrible warm, dank aroma of rotting food all mixing together to create a cocktail of stink. Oh, and piss. Lots of piss.
We spoke softly, afraid to break the night. "Where have you put your knife, Annie? At first I thought I would strap it to my ankle, but then I thought ben... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,708 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | We scooped sunset into pitchers
Doled it out in frothy mugs
Chins dribbling yellow and orange
Through many hearty slugs
We choked down reds and purples
‘til we swallowed all the light
And together we spoke softly
Afraid to break the night
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We stomped across the twilight
The cracks fell in our wake
It wasn... | 7 | 0 | 13 | 25,709 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | We spoke, softly afraid to break rhythm or night,
a single candle down a drafted hallway,
outside two dozen birds, and two more
of sleight secret whispered words.
But they'll all come to light in a red-banded climb,
the sweat of your words in time, a salt of the ear,
dear, please, dear, sle... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,710 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | we spoke softly, afraid to break the night.
as though our titan words left a trail of shattered anvils in their footsteps,
as if we smithed a violence in our lungs and spat iron through our teeth,
as though our bellow guts were sick with a rageous disease and the air might catch its acid,
but softly, we spoke.
the bl... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,711 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 13 | 25,712 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | Christmas had come and gone and now all the excitement had settled down. We said our annual good nights to each other after returning from our annual family dinner at my grandparents’ home. December 25th was the only day of the year on which we all made a conscious effort to appear united in the eyes of extended family... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,713 |
[CW] "We spoke softly, afraid to break the night." | We're sitting in my car, driving down a dark winding road leading to seemingly nowhere. It's been a good hour and a half since she called me and quietly asked if I could come get her. It's been an hour and fifteen minutes since she got into my car and told me she needs to visit her. Since then, we've been driving in si... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 25,714 |
[OT] Publish your writing, share it with the world, and simultaneously reform our broken education system. | Out of curiosity, how does this website help repair the broken education system? After a cursory glance at the site itself, I didn't find any information on how anything worked, nor information on rights to what is posted. Did I miss an information page somewhere? | 3 | 0 | 2 | 25,715 |
[OT] Publish your writing, share it with the world, and simultaneously reform our broken education system. | Education isn't all about learning what you want to learn though. We took biology in high school whether we wanted to be scientists or not, because understanding how the world around us works is important. And besides, who's going to know they want to be a writer if they never take an English class? A scientist if they... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 25,716 |
[CC] The One The World Thought They Needed | Very nicely paced read. I liked the crisp finality of the red-masked judge coupled with the tearful corruption of the corporate conspirator. I liked how, in their calmer thoughts, they both wished for the serenity of being swept away by the river below.
Would be interesting to understand the motives and back stor... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 25,717 |
[WP] The life of a shark with severe crohn's disease. Possible NSFW? | He slowly and methodically swam back and forth, back and forth just outside the sandbar. Stomach rumbling and eyes darting back and forth he searched for a suitable meal. It had been days since his last food and he wasn't sure how long he could go without nourishment. It wasn't typical for a Tiger shark to go hungry, b... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 25,718 |
[PM] Feeling sad, need to write it off (HA!). Prompt me! | Depressed man goes to jump and finds another on the ledge. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 25,719 |
[PM] Feeling sad, need to write it off (HA!). Prompt me! | A man makes a deal with Death. Death will reward him with one extra year of life for every soul the man brings to him. It is now 1000 years since the deal was made and the man is still alive. What is the man thinking/doing? | 2 | 0 | 5 | 25,720 |
[PM] Feeling sad, need to write it off (HA!). Prompt me! | A religious debate in the future. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 25,721 |
[PM] Feeling sad, need to write it off (HA!). Prompt me! | A diabetic's insulin has been replaced with an experimental serum that gives the user a temporary superpower...but does nothing to regulate his or her blood sugar. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 25,722 |
[PM] Feeling sad, need to write it off (HA!). Prompt me! | A man returns home to find his wife about to kill herself | 1 | 0 | 5 | 25,723 |
[PM] New to the thread | An amateur thief steals a crummy jewel, unaware of the fact that it holds the power to control the winds, operating off of his emotions. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,724 |
[PM] New to the thread | It's 75 years in the future, you just immigrated to Mars. Give me 500 words. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,725 |
[PM] New to the thread | A monk living in a monastery decides to sneak out for a wild night of debauchery, planning to return in the morning as though he'd never been out. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,726 |
[PM] New to the thread | Write something based on the following line:
"What does it feel like to have the blood of innocents on your hands, *hero*?" The villain cackled. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,727 |
[WP] A small argument turns into a big one, and someone's left dead. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 25,728 |
[WP] A small argument turns into a big one, and someone's left dead. | All for nothing, I thought to myself. Violence and death all for absolutely nothing. I held Fred in my arms as his body grew cold and his skin pale. He struggled to spit out those three blood-soaked words, "Perriwinkle is better." | 2 | 0 | 6 | 25,729 |
[WP] A small argument turns into a big one, and someone's left dead. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 25,730 |
[WP] A small argument turns into a big one, and someone's left dead. | Lucas slowly sauntered down the street with his friend Jerome. They were in an intense discussion about geopolitics. As they rounded a sharp corner they spotted Terrence. At 6'5" Terrence was truly intimidating. Normally he was very calm and cool but today was different. He looked somewhat angry and crazed. "Hey ... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 25,731 |
[WP] A small argument turns into a big one, and someone's left dead. | "But why do I need to get my shots mommy?"
"It's just something everybody has to do."
Randy's mom tried to calm her son. To get him to understand that needles weren't that big of a deal, and everybody had to have their shots, or they could get sick.
"But I don't *want* to!"
"You're getting your shots and that's final".... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 25,732 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | DISCLAIMER: This is probably really bad, poorly written/unreadable. It's literally the first thing I've written since probably highschool? And I wasn't a writer then. I don't know why I suddenly wanted to write something.
He created me, yet I could feel nothing beyond this story and I **know** he is holding me back. ... | 6 | 0 | 25 | 25,733 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | I have never met the man I love, I hardly know anything about him. He knows everything about me, except this one secret. I am nothing but what he made me, I do not know my mothers name or my favourite outfit, because he never told me that. He never included it, it was irrelevant. I grew out of what he gave me, beginnin... | 11 | 0 | 25 | 25,734 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | I stood on my balcony, overlooking the legendary city of Verona. The dirty, loud, shit-covered streets of Verona. Like every other city in the world, it with filled with selfish merchants, sick beggars, and bored, tired people just trying to get by. It was sad. But tonight, all that would fall to the background as two ... | 5 | 0 | 25 | 25,735 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | It's unnerving.
Falling into a world you don't recognize. You can feel yourself rushing down into it. You've never felt before. It's amazing.
You feel something else. A sort of... Pulse. There's something. You are something. You've become, you are being born. You feel a stretching, like your shaping into something. ... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 25,736 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | I had loved her even before she had given me life. This is what I know to be true. This was not her intention.
I had a sense that I was acting as many men had acted before me; caught in a venomous hold that left me with nothing more than an inability to communicate at all. I know how I felt, I did. I knew it well. I u... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 25,737 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | I feel like a dog. Standing by the door, eagerly wagging its tail waiting for its owner to come home. To be honest, on some level, it pisses me off. Hell – I hardly know my own reflection. And yet she prances off, sometimes for several days at a time, leaving me to myself – a complete stranger. It's like she doesn't gi... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 25,738 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | It feels the same way that a rock star must feel about women that love him for who he is and not *what* he is. I was written with your heart and soul so of *course* i'm your perfect woman. You keep writing these words wondering if they are yours or mine and that's what makes us perfect for each other. Are you creati... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 25,739 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | I love me so much. | 2 | 0 | 25 | 25,740 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | She dictates my every step. She describes my surroundings. She creates the objects and people I interact with. She decides what I say and do. Most importantly, she decides how I feel. Did this feeling stem from her authorship? Somehow, I can't bring myself to care either way. I want to believe that I felt this w... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 25,741 |
[WP] You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | **Note: Well, I'm a little late to the party, but here is my response. It didn't turn out how I expected. Can't decide if that's a good thing or not.**
James Maddox has a sick and twisted sense of humor, and while his typical audience of readers get their jollies off by reading about the lives of his characters--many ... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 25,742 |
[IP] The Prize by Andreas Rocha | This is interesting. /u/StoryBoardThis posted the very same prompt shortly before you did. | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25,743 |
[WP] A small team of cockroaches attempts to detonate a large nuclear device hoping that the fallout results in the mutation of the final thing they require for world domination: Opposable thumbs. | New York Times
September 5th, 2019
For the fourth time this year, a nuclear power plant in our country has declared missing a small packet of uranium fuel pellets. Fears of terrorist attacks are prevalent amongst many, as the threats from organizations such as the IRA and Al-Quaeda suddenly appear to have graver conse... | 6 | 0 | 10 | 25,744 |
[WP] A small team of cockroaches attempts to detonate a large nuclear device hoping that the fallout results in the mutation of the final thing they require for world domination: Opposable thumbs. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 10 | 25,745 |
[WP] Fallen Giant (read the text) | "*Little girl...*"
Kris stopped, panting, not believing what she had just heard. She was alone in the dark forest, save for the Wolves. The voice had to have come from somewhere, and she shuddered at her first thought.
"*Little girl, why do you try so hard?*"
Kris turned, holding her crossbow in front of her, ready ... | 6 | 0 | 8 | 25,746 |
[WP] Fallen Giant (read the text) | I named mine Icarus. No, I don't plan on flying towards the sun but I do plan on dying. That's why I came here for. Sometimes I look at my squadron--observe them during mundane activities, or flying, although in air they often are in the back of my mind, after the enemy--and I have the impression they think as I do. Th... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 25,747 |
[WP] Fallen Giant (read the text) | 271 days. That's how long it had been. 271 days since Jack had failed in his duty. That's a long time to wallow in self pity. A long time to replay the events over and over until it made him sick. He used to be the best. No one could stand up to the Jack of Blades. He had been the champion for so long. He had 3 more ma... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 25,748 |
[WP] Fallen Giant (read the text) | "Shameful," the Senator grumbled. "This is just shameful."
The Senator shifted uncomfortably in his chair and glared at the speaker. It was a glare that he had spent hours perfecting in front of the mirror when he first arrived in Washington: a look that simultaneously conveyed frustration and contempt, yet that retai... | 5 | 0 | 8 | 25,749 |
[WP] Tell me what really happened to Malaysian Flight MH370 this past week. | My name is Xin Hao.
If you are reading this, I am probably no longer in this realm.
I came to Malaysia to get work to support my family. After having enough money to move back, and receiving a job offer, I boarded the next plane to Beijing.
Overall, the flight went good until midflight. We experienced a rough storm.... | 8 | 0 | 15 | 25,750 |
[WP] Tell me what really happened to Malaysian Flight MH370 this past week. | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 15 | 25,751 |
[WP] Tell me what really happened to Malaysian Flight MH370 this past week. | "You're lost, son. You've been lost your entire life," my father sternly said to me as he drove me to LAX Airport.
My father never minced words. And as much as I loved to argue with him, perhaps he was right this time. At age 25, I was on my way to a semester abroad in Beijing, and my father had paid for all eigh... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 25,752 |
[WP] Tell me what really happened to Malaysian Flight MH370 this past week. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,753 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | We awoke to the chirping of silent birds, to the blaze of an extinguished star, to the gurgling laugh of a dead infant.
We awoke to nothingness.
Yet... we awoke. We were nothing more than thoughts, but we could think. We could speak. And so we did. We spoke. We waited. And we thought.
For billions of years, we contemp... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 25,754 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | *Lots of bad science in this. I wrote what I thought was interesting, not what was necessarily possible.*
The lab was the stereotypical white fluorescent room of children's cartoons. Racks upon racks of brightly coloured test tubes and flasks bubbled, hissed and popped through tubing that looked like the glassblower h... | 10 | 0 | 26 | 25,755 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | He was created to inform and to explore. He was sent off into the cosmos like discarded waste, though he assured he was anything but. He was given a gift and simply had to deliver it to the first stranger he came across. Simple enough, he summarized as he left his home that faithful day. But he never truly grasped how ... | 10 | 0 | 26 | 25,756 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | "You wont do it."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
Blip. | 3 | 0 | 26 | 25,757 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | Humanity. Who are we? What defines us? When will we figure it all out? Where will our place in history be? Why do we strive for understanding, for the unknown? How will we be affected by the end of our quest, when we have proven we can understand, that we deserve to exist, to thrive, to make a mark in the history of th... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 25,758 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | “Did you want another pancake, babe?” Elle asked as she walked her plate to the sink. She had a beautiful stride, Allen noticed, like that of a trained ballerina dancer, with her legs moving smoothly across the marble floor of their kitchen.
“One more?” Allen thought carefully about the proposition. “Make it three, pl... | 2 | 0 | 26 | 25,759 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | We were the first generation to grow up not knowing any other truth. That we were the creators of our own black hole, that the universe was constant and not expanding at all, that we had in fact not been in a black hole the entire time.
Most had moved online by now. Density was the new rule, 50 billion people all livi... | 1 | 0 | 26 | 25,760 |
[WP] Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | Sorry I'm a little late
Although destructivity is in the nature of sentient beings, there is one type of epidemic that universally affects every species, no matter how intelligent.
Curiosity.
Every species meets a point where their curiosity, a ravaging curse, inevitably destroys them. The humans believe themselv... | 1 | 0 | 26 | 25,761 |
[WP] Protagonist sees him/herself as a hero when he is actually a villain | I have finally done it. Years of sacrifice and sweat and countless speeches to untold thousands of men and women have done their work. I haven't changed the world. Not really. But I have changed my corner of it. I have risen, from poverty and obscurity to national prominence. And when the thugs who controlled the gover... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 25,762 |
[EU] Wanna know how I got these scars? | "You wanna know how I got these scars?" he asks, dancing the knife across my face. It flashes as he picks at the edge of the duct tape, lifting it away bit by bit.
"When I was a little boy, I was taking a stroll, with my little dog in my little suburban neighborhood. A man comes over and he kills my dog. He puts me in... | 9 | 0 | 9 | 25,763 |
[EU] Wanna know how I got these scars? | "So, wanna know how I got these scars?"
His voice is both honey and a rasp. I wonder what it sounds like in song, but what song would a beast of his sort sing? I stare at him, trying to see what lurks below the face. His blue eyes are bloodshot, auburn hair matted. He looks like a man on a battlefield, a soldier m... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 25,764 |
[EU] Wanna know how I got these scars? | "You wanna know how I got these scars?" The lunatic asked.
"Uhhhhh," I stampered, "Popsicle sticks? Hockey? A terrible juggling act? I don't know or care...anyways you are the one who is in the jail cell, so if I was you, I'd be quiet."
I turned his light off and left him in the dark. The bat brought him in days ago,... | 0 | 0 | 9 | 25,765 |
[EU] Wanna know how I got these scars? | (Note: Written during winter in Gotham, perhaps prior to the Joker coming to town)
The bell over the cafe door jingled pleasantly as a new customer walked in, and I lifted a hand in greeting as I fiddled with the new coffee machine. "Be right with you, this is kind of broken."
"Everything and everybody is broken, my ... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 25,766 |
[EU] Wanna know how I got these scars? | "Would you like to know, heh, how I got these, heh, scars?" The Joker asked with a psychotic tilt of his head. The knife in his hand traced Koyoteelaughter's pudgy cheeks, raking first one then the other. The Joker held the knife like he was paring an apple and traced the contours of my face. The edge of the blade my a... | 0 | 0 | 9 | 25,767 |
[EU] Wanna know how I got these scars? | He says to me "Do you want to know how I got these scars?" Whilst the knife skirts dangerously close to my throat as if to keep me in line.
"Well" he slicks his hair back and licks his lips, "I was a bit of a ... problem child. You see, I liked to play with knives as a kid. The way they glistend dangerously, I guess... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 25,768 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | The newborn girl cries in my husband's arms. I reach out to brush the tears away, but my hand passes through his tear stained face. | 28 | 0 | 15 | 25,769 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | They said he was crazy. They said he was mad. But whether the skeptics would believe it or not he was flying through the air. Or at least for the few moments before his body hit the cement. | 9 | 0 | 15 | 25,770 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Jane had a bright future ahead of her, with only four years under her belt. It was a shame about that faulty electrical outlet. | 4 | 0 | 15 | 25,771 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | I had a son for five minutes. | 11 | 0 | 15 | 25,772 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | He loves her.
He loved her.
She's gone forever.
He'll be with her soon. | 4 | 0 | 15 | 25,773 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | He was the best farmer in the world. He grew every conceivable type of crop, breaking records with his 200 pound tomatoes and six-foot long carrots. One breathtakingly beautiful morning, as he strolled through his apple orchard, feeling satisfied and on top of the world, a meteorite shaped like a pear slammed into hi... | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25,774 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | They enfolded each other in a tight embrace as if trying to redeem the many years of love they will lose. The identical eyes of mother and son meet only for a second before the wall of fire consumes them. They are gone. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,775 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | He was sitting in the middle of his room. No one around him, as lonely as ever. His head slightly tilted, staring at the wall with bloodshot eyes. He was heavily intoxicated, amidst empty bottles. The chilling chrome against the side of his head.
Blackness.
At last he had found solace. | 2 | 0 | 15 | 25,776 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Dan jumped out of his seat, not caring that his coffee flew everywhere, ruining his brand new work shirt. He ran into the middle of the street, straight into oncoming traffic. Everyone screamed for him to stop. A horn blew right by his ear, nearly deafening him.
"Shhh. It's alright, it's alright." he whispered to the ... | 17 | 0 | 15 | 25,777 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Ander was a particular man. He despised the sight of anything out of place. Cynics called it OCD, he called it organization.
He didn't think anything was wrong, other than that he could not stand crooked things.
Indeed, that was his last thought- "Why didn't the bullet make straight line?" | 2 | 0 | 15 | 25,778 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | It wasn't the gunshot that killed him, but the loss of blood and the shock from the look in his son's eyes as he pulled the trigger. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,779 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | "I'm gonna be a doctor just like you, mister!" The kid's face stretched as he grinned with a brightness to match the sun. The stark contrast between his cheerful face and his pale, gaunt body was too much for me, so I smiled instead of uttering some wit, lest I fall apart. I left the room, leaving him with his mother.... | 5 | 0 | 15 | 25,780 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | We are inseparable. Brothers in arms. A dynamic duo. We're back home, but I really wish he'd stop reminding me about how he saved my ass when he jumped on top of that grenade. He's not even drinking all that beer I bought him. | 6 | 0 | 15 | 25,781 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Roger was the definition of the cocky jock you knew from high school but he was on a mission. After 3 days of recon to find out which dealers carried guns in the area of the hospital, he ate 5 asprin and fired at the dealer closest to the hospital and ran. They gunned him down less than two blocks away. The daughter... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,782 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Buddy hasn't wagged his tail since dad died last week; instead, he stares out the window waiting for dad to come back.
Mom put a tape on TV of dad and Buddy playing around, and Buddy must've heard dad's voice because he raced to the living room, tail-wagging. But he slumped down, knowing it was not dad. Mom went t... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 25,783 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 15 | 25,784 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Mommy doesn't think I can get Daddy back from the water where he disappeared. But I can. I just gotta go in like he di- | 2 | 0 | 15 | 25,785 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | It had been raining all week, so on a sunny Saturday morning, the General was up and at 'em, leash in mouth, begging to go to the beach.
The drive was quick, and he pulled us down the boardwalk to the salty shoreline. Sniffing shells, splashing in puddles, he was happy and alive. So happy and alive that he pulled the... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,786 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Little Janet was reaching for her favorite book, The Cat in the Hat, when she pulled the bookcase on top of her. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,787 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Perfection stared up at him through pale blue eyes. These eyes that had always been full of light, always complimented by childish giggles and genuine smiles, turned darker with every tick of the clock. Time had never struck him as an obstacle, but as he watched her skin grow paler and her eyes drift shut he didn't dar... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,788 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | He left her with a gash in the heart.
She filled it with steel. | 3 | 0 | 15 | 25,789 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Where am I? I dry my tears and look around. I see my father is speaking in the front of the church. Why would he ever go to church? The tears well up in his eyes. I think he's talking about me. Dad never cries. This is embarrassing, why would he ever agree to this? I scream at him that I'm still here, and to stop talki... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,790 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | Our daughter, the flower girl, ran into the waves at our beach wedding. No one noticed. No one except my new wife who ran into the waves after our baby, still in her dress. By the time I reached the water, my wife and our little girl had been pulled under. I trashed about in the water for what seemed like hours, lookin... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,791 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | (I derped out and didn't see the 'as few words as possible part'. Feel free to downvote.)
Bandages cover most of her burnt, crippled body. Bound to her hospital bed by various machines and wires hooked to her, the girl looks at you with her eyes yearning to reach out to another human being.
"Come in. Please?"
Yo... | 5 | 0 | 15 | 25,792 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | The doctor knew that there was only moments left, yet this technique had never been proven to work, how could she do it? But there was no other choice. She looked at the unmoving face of the man in front of her and, with a quivering hand, made the incision...only the surgical knife went deeper than anticipated, it was ... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,793 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | With tears in her eyes she looked into mine.
With tears in her eyes she said, "I will always love you."
With tears in her eyes I tried to say the same.
With tears in her eyes I tried to scream for her to stop.
With tears in her eyes she reached for the switch on the ventilator.
With tears in her eyes my coma came ... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 25,794 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | She plunged downward. Her son's shocked face was the last thing she saw. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,795 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | The sad little body twitched under the pillow as I wept. 'My baby, my baby...' | 2 | 0 | 15 | 25,796 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | He resisted the corporal and stood up, shaking but proud. "I am a man.". I shot my pistol and then he was not. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,797 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,798 |
[WP] Introduce a character and kill them off in the most heartbreaking way possible in as few words as possible. | The lonely old man brings his dying dog to a vet. They both leave in the back of a hearse. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,799 |
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