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[WP]"Here's the thing, God-or, the one who calls himself God, the one you call God...well, to put it simply, he isn't" | Shell looked distraught at this idea "is this some kind of sick joke?" she asked.
"no, I'm sorry he's just a con man, he's taking advantage of your settlement" I tried to explain to her.
she looked very offended, "oh yeah, well why should I believe you.....you don't wear pants!" she shouted at me.
"what in the hell ... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 26,500 |
[WP] you and your worst enemy are both trapped underground, only one of you can survive it, a deity appears and shows only you that the world is better off if your enemy lives. | I sat there in the dark. I could hear my enemy's gentle breathing in the other corner. We had to decide who will get out of here alive.
See, we brought this situation on ourselves. I sat on the throne of this land for a very long time, and I ruled with a fair but iron fist. The people did not really love me as their r... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 26,501 |
[WP] you and your worst enemy are both trapped underground, only one of you can survive it, a deity appears and shows only you that the world is better off if your enemy lives. | A Mexican stand-off initiated. Me, facing down *Takashi*, both our guns drawn pointed at each-other.
"This is an interesting development" I exclaimed.
"Indeed", he replied.
Suddenly, when I felt I had the mental advantage and cultivated the balls to pull the trigger, time stopped. A strange aura of a man appeared ... | 5 | 0 | 4 | 26,502 |
[WP] How do you beat the boss on Level 7? | "Hey guys, lightafluidsamwich here to show you how to beat the level 7 boss. Now, it's been said that this is one of the hardest levels ever made, but I'm gonna lay it out for you. Alright, so first thing you do is dodge the lightning balls and...fuck...ok, let me start over. So first you dodge the lightning b...goddam... | 8 | 0 | 2 | 26,503 |
[WP] How do you beat the boss on Level 7? | Well, look at you, Captain. The door to the dreaded Level 7 has just appeared at your feet. Nervous? You most certainly should be, Captain. The ungodly menace that is Mozugog the Foul is eagerly waiting beyond that door to feast on your pixelated insides. But you are in luck, wayward soldier, because your supernatural ... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 26,504 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | The *U.S.S Lancer* lands on Halcyon Prime only to be woken from their slumber to discover a thriving civilization hundreds of years old.
They are brought to the nearest space exploration laboratory and briefed on the situation. They are told that 3 years after they left, light speed had been discovered and that cryog... | 31 | 0 | 108 | 26,505 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | "Son of a *bitch*." | 68 | 0 | 108 | 26,506 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | "We've breen expeting yoo." The creature looked human, but the captain wasn't sure, and held his hand up in the universal sign for "wait."
The possible alien in front of him, and the crew and families behind him obligingly stopped while scenarios raced through his head. Finally, he asked, "Been expecting us?" having... | 20 | 0 | 108 | 26,507 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | Wait, what is "FTL"? | 2 | 0 | 108 | 26,508 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | Hussein woke slowly, the pinging of the instruments gradually working through the fog of nearly two millennia of medically induced suspension. Somewhere in the distant past, light years away, his brothers would have long since turned to dust. On Earth, nearly ten thousand years would have passed, and perhaps Allah now ... | 10 | 0 | 108 | 26,509 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | There's actually a book with this exact plot that I read once.
Trying to remember the name. | 4 | 0 | 108 | 26,510 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | There's a manga series called 2001 Nights, that deals with mankind's ventures into space. Some bits are quite hard sci-fi, others more fanciful, but a thread that runs through the whole thing was a colonisation attempt.
A couple donate their genetic material to be used in starting up a new colony, the children born in... | 1 | 0 | 108 | 26,511 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | Two thousand years, John thought. No more than a blink of the eyes when he closed them, putting on the eye mask, those many years ago, on Earth. Back when Cryogenic sleep was the key to long distance travel. He was the planet's martyr, immortal man, the one sent into space like Columbus across the ocean. And he'd be re... | 3 | 0 | 108 | 26,512 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | He handed me a cup of... I don't know what the hell it was. Coffee? Tea? Whatever. It smelled like nothing I ever had back on Earth, and I liked to frequent those exotic back-alley restaurants that served "ethnic" food. You know, the food that other cultures looked at and thought 'what the fuck is this thing and dear l... | 7 | 0 | 108 | 26,513 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | [deleted] | 6 | 0 | 108 | 26,514 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | "You're joking."
"Do you see me smilin', mate?"
Andrew sat in what appeared to be an open air cafe. The road next to him was bustling with people of all sorts of shapes and colors. He held in his hand a beverage that tasted somewhat like coffee, but with the smoothness of hot cocoa. Kofe they called it, a genetic mas... | 1 | 0 | 108 | 26,515 |
[WP] A crew from earth has been sent to a planet to start a colony. But its a cryogenics ship and they have been asleep for hundreds of years. When they get there they find a busteling planet and learn that FTL had been discovered only years after they left. | Jei was the the first to disembark the colony ship in his full captain's uniform. The official ambassador of their home world of Eden had died en route, a malfunctioning cryo-freezer had turned his flesh to dust. So it fell to Jei to greet the aliens on their alien world.
He walked slowly down the steps of the colony... | 1 | 0 | 108 | 26,516 |
[WP] Social status is now based primarily on intelligence and this very attractive to the opposite sex. | Tagline: "Jakx118 is finally able to find a girlfriend, land a job, and be successful" | 3 | 0 | 7 | 26,517 |
[WP] Our first alien visitors seem like nice folks. They've evolved a caste system where each different caste performs a function, and they're all sentient. Our problem is that one of the castes serves as food for the rest. | This reminds me of the Star Trek enterprise episode where there are 3 sexes and one of them is only for carrying the baby and is treated like a pet. | 6 | 0 | 28 | 26,518 |
[WP] Our first alien visitors seem like nice folks. They've evolved a caste system where each different caste performs a function, and they're all sentient. Our problem is that one of the castes serves as food for the rest. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 28 | 26,519 |
[WP] Our first alien visitors seem like nice folks. They've evolved a caste system where each different caste performs a function, and they're all sentient. Our problem is that one of the castes serves as food for the rest. | “I am sorry for the great amount of resistance to your arrival. On Earth, after years of war and strife, we’ve come to the belief of equality of opportunity. Every single person should have equal opportunity and freedom. Nobody is necessarily below others. This… this idea of people being food is absolutely against our ... | 20 | 0 | 28 | 26,520 |
[WP] Our first alien visitors seem like nice folks. They've evolved a caste system where each different caste performs a function, and they're all sentient. Our problem is that one of the castes serves as food for the rest. | [*Sorry, this is a bit long. In fact, I'll have to post the end in a comment.*]
Like many conspirationists believe, first contact has been established a few decades ago, in 1971 to be precise. On march 21st 1971, the United Nation were first contacted by the stromaks, a species ressembling our reptiles. Their ship had... | 3 | 0 | 28 | 26,521 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | Peter sat down and poured a glass of water. He'd been dreading this day for a long time, but he was 18 now, he couldn't have imaginary friends like some child. Across from him sat Bob. Ironically, his imaginary friend had an unimaginative name, likely because he was created when Peter was still developing.
"I'm gonna ... | 13 | 0 | 14 | 26,522 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | "Are you ready son?"
I don't have a fucking clue!
"I think so."
"You don't have to join the corporate world if you don't want."
You know that's bullshit just as much as I do.
"I do want to. I need the money."
No fucking shit.
"If you're sure, we will begin the de-funification."
Sarcastic yay!
"Ok."
Never did... | 4 | 0 | 14 | 26,523 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | Mozart's Symphony No. 29 in A major was playing on the table top radio. My grandfather stood in his sun-room studio. He was hunched to one side with a closed gate. I could see him through the stained glass kitchen window as the purples and blues bounced off of his grimacing face. Then, in an efforted motion he swung hi... | 6 | 0 | 14 | 26,524 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | in the end
it was easy
all I had to do was embrace
the world around me
and reject
the world within
the air seems fresher
food tastier, leaves greener,
life better
with nothing to compare it to
and yet, I wonder
do I know
what I'm missing? | 3 | 0 | 14 | 26,525 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | Keyboard clacking, I entered a few more words into the comment box, and looked over my work. This is it, the last story I'd ever attempt. Idly wondering how /r/WritingPrompts would receive it, I clicked 'save' and watched the letters in the editor move down with the rest of the comments, ready to be judged.
My eyes wa... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 26,526 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 14 | 26,527 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | I’m sorry it came to this. Really and truly, I am. Just so you know, in case it counts or…means something, I won’t forget about us. No matter how frazzled I get. Somewhere at home, I’ve a box with our things inside. I’ve got the first dinosaur drawing you ever helped me do. I’m pretty sure we gave it a vacuum-cleaner t... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 26,528 |
[WP] A Person Says Goodbye to Their Imagination... | Goodbye imagination and all the joys it brings
goodbye to wondering what life would be if Earth had Saturn's rings.
Goodbye imagination and wondering if there's god
I realized in retrospect that it really matters not.
Goodbye imagination and thinking of hot boobs
and thinking of more insults to scream at 12-year-o... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 26,529 |
[WP] "At last the hallucinations noticed me." | There was no longer the need to hide from them.
They had been around since I was 6 and even though my parents didn't believe me and basically ignored any explanation I gave them, I learned how to live with them and how to get around with their voices and their shadows.
I was about 13 and puberty was around the corne... | 7 | 0 | 13 | 26,530 |
[WP] "At last the hallucinations noticed me." | I stare into the static of the TV as years pass me by like cars on a freeway. I've given up hope of ever escaping this place. I have resigned myself to this. I have no other choice. The constant moaning and wailing of these wretched souls around me has whittled away at my sanity and I have retained little of my humanit... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 26,531 |
[WP] "At last the hallucinations noticed me." | I do strange things. I'm always places where he doesn't expect me to be; sometimes I sit in shadows, the corner of his eye, or peer at him in the mirror. I guess I've got a sadistic sense of humor. Serves him right. Four years and counting.
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As I watch, I see him aging. The first time I sa... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 26,532 |
[WP] "At last the hallucinations noticed me." | The high came suddenly, the blue ghosts a sudden but unpredictable ride, the wind halted and the cold breeze hugged my doped body. I felt the blanket poncho, plastic gun and fake leather hat finally fit as a bastardized Clint costume. My date, Jane Fonda in white jumpsuit, tugged me through the flesh muck of the club q... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 26,533 |
[WP] A man wakes up to discover he has the ability to teleport anywhere in the universe he wants, as long as he can picture the destination in his mind." | [deleted] | 10 | 0 | 14 | 26,534 |
[WP] A man wakes up to discover he has the ability to teleport anywhere in the universe he wants, as long as he can picture the destination in his mind." | Staring at the picture of Egypt, he suddenly felt like he was there, like he could reach out an- the room around he dissapeared. As if being dragged through the air by something invisible, his view just a blurry tunnel around him. And he was in egypt, just on the slope of one of the great pyramids. Excited, he wondered... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 26,535 |
[WP] A man wakes up to discover he has the ability to teleport anywhere in the universe he wants, as long as he can picture the destination in his mind." | Warm and sunny, 75 degrees, cooling breeze. Young Randall ran and played with his fullest enthusiasm, chased in play by another child. Earl watched on and tried his hardest to stay in this moment, this warm ideal moment. But the moment was also ending, and any esoteric difference in the makeup of this place could serio... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 26,536 |
[CS] The alleyway | His stench flowed over me like a rotting fish carcass left out on the beach shore during the hottest part of the day. It was all I could do not to vomit into the darkness covering my face.
"Keep your head about you and don't do anything stupid," the man whispered in a voice so nasal I thought he must be pinching his ... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 26,537 |
[WP]Do your best impression of one of your favorite writers. | I considered for a brief moment my bizarre little childhood: I had an incessant need to Rush through everything; a disposition which was often mistaken as Angelic but was quite pagan in actuality; and, of course, my inability to hide anything that would possibly need hiding.
I considered these traits that marked my ch... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 26,538 |
[WP]Do your best impression of one of your favorite writers. | The boy, who at such a tender age of seven lost both of his parents in a car wreck, was trying once again to get his kite in the air. He had taken to kite flying because it exhilarated him and made him feel attached to the sky where things were not confined but free. He wanted desperately to fly his new kite but it wou... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 26,539 |
[WP]Do your best impression of one of your favorite writers. | Ms. Roosten sifted through the graded tests, and latched her eyes to Kyle’s. She said his name, and he could feel his hands like instantly become sweaty. Maybe it won’t be too bad. Kyle thought as he stood up to receive his fate. Yeah, he thought. No biggie. Totally fine.
F.
Bigge. Not totally fine. Fuck, Kyle says i... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 26,540 |
[IP] In an alternate universe where the Earth has rings, write a mythological creation story. | "Dad", Brian inquired, "How did the world begin?"
His father looked down at him and smiled, the doe-eyed boy innocently looking out toward the grand ring structure that spun and arced across the sky in a web of light.
"Well, Brian, a long long time ago, before you were born, a great dragon used to roam this world. He... | 41 | 1 | 59 | 26,541 |
[IP] In an alternate universe where the Earth has rings, write a mythological creation story. | At first, there was nothing. Then, Atrin exhaled the world into it's existence, creating the oceans with it's sweat, blowing the winds with his breath, carving out the mountains and digging up the oceans with his hands. For light, he has provided us the sun, with a clap of his hands and for warmth, guidance, protection... | 7 | 0 | 59 | 26,542 |
[IP] In an alternate universe where the Earth has rings, write a mythological creation story. | "The ancients had many ways of explaining how our world and the ring came into being." lectured the Professor "Because of how different it looks from different parts of the world, these stories varied wildly. One of my favorites is the Polynesians' explanation for what they saw." He switched to his [next slide](http:/... | 3 | 0 | 59 | 26,543 |
[IP] In an alternate universe where the Earth has rings, write a mythological creation story. | We'd been following Him for years now. Moving from camp to camp, building shelters, teaching our young to fish and hunt. At night, we'd sit around the fire and tell stories of the early gods, the god's who'd make mistakes, start petty conflicts. The gods who set the night sky aflame, and who bore us, their illegitimat... | 3 | 0 | 59 | 26,544 |
[IP] In an alternate universe where the Earth has rings, write a mythological creation story. | What's amazing is that we now have several creation stories, each as plausible as the other just like real current religions. I can just imagine, if the earth did have rings, each story being adopted and each character of god being worshipped in the same way as now. | 3 | 0 | 59 | 26,545 |
[IP] In an alternate universe where the Earth has rings, write a mythological creation story. | The vast blue marble lay untarnished beneath his feet. There wasn't even a breeze to stir the man's dark trench coat. The fedora on his head was cocked in a Sinatra grin, but the people of this world, of this time would never know that reference. He sighed sadly at everything he had lost and everything he had done to g... | 1 | 0 | 59 | 26,546 |
[IP] In an alternate universe where the Earth has rings, write a mythological creation story. | In the beginning, there was nothing but the Ring. It existed, alone, forever. But one day, the Ring was lonely. He longed for a bride. So the Ring created the Earth to be his love for all time. But creating the Earth took much of the Ring's energy, causing it to become weak, and start to die. The Earth knew the Ring wa... | 1 | 0 | 59 | 26,547 |
[WP] "All in all, it was the best sandwich she had ever made." | The Greatest Sandwich in The World by Thomas Killer, Post-Apocalyptic Edition
Prep time: 50 minutes
Ingredients:
Rifle (or other heavy weaponry), preferably with at least two bullets
Medium size human skull
Two slices human skin
A rounded receptacle, preferably a bucket
A heavily mutated cow
Curdler, prefe... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 26,548 |
[WP] - You are a visiting someone you know in a psychiatric hospital and you somehow lose your 'Visitor' badge while inside. You are dressed casually but so are the patients. Staff members have found you wandering and mistake you for a patient. Convince them you are sane. | "No no no! This can't happen now! I mumbled to myself. "My badge HAS to be somewhere!" I continued. Before I could give a second thought, I felt two pairs of strong hands grip my arms and begin to drag me to what looked like a doctors office with a single cot and a small metal sink. "I guess the doctors mistook me f... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 26,549 |
[WP] - You are a visiting someone you know in a psychiatric hospital and you somehow lose your 'Visitor' badge while inside. You are dressed casually but so are the patients. Staff members have found you wandering and mistake you for a patient. Convince them you are sane. | “I suppose there really isn’t a way to convince that I’m sane, is there? I could simply say that I am, but with only my own account, which certainly ought to contain some bias, I could hardly imagine you accepting such a statement without significant evidence to support it, considering of course the nature of the posit... | 0 | 0 | 10 | 26,550 |
[WP] - You are a visiting someone you know in a psychiatric hospital and you somehow lose your 'Visitor' badge while inside. You are dressed casually but so are the patients. Staff members have found you wandering and mistake you for a patient. Convince them you are sane. | My brother had been hurting himself again. This was the third time in as many months.
He has begged me to visit him. Pleaded over the 5 minute land line call he gets to make weekly to me. Who else could he beg? I'm the only one willing to pick up anymore.
I glare at him - his face mirroring my own so perfectl... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 26,551 |
[WP] You're a cop in the distant future where cities are built in the sky and everyone flies hovercars. The ground has become the slums | [deleted] | 8 | 0 | 16 | 26,552 |
[WP] You're a cop in the distant future where cities are built in the sky and everyone flies hovercars. The ground has become the slums | I know what it's really like, down there. Down there in the dirt and and mud and slime, where people aren't people but have become something altogether unrecognisable. Those things aren't people any longer; evolution has helped them to survive, and in doing so has made them abhorrent. We're not told much about them, up... | 5 | 0 | 16 | 26,553 |
[WP] You're a cop in the distant future where cities are built in the sky and everyone flies hovercars. The ground has become the slums | I'm reading a book set in 2014, one hundred years in the past. The main character is a cop, like me. Of course, there are quite a few similarities between me and this guy. The job of a Police Officer hasn't changed too much in a century.
But it's the little differences that stand out the most. So far, I've only counte... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 26,554 |
[WP] You're a cop in the distant future where cities are built in the sky and everyone flies hovercars. The ground has become the slums | Eggs, pancakes, bison cutlets, and a large glass of orange juice. Though such a classic, it was still my favorite breakfast from as far back as I could recall. I was so lucky to have married a woman who shared my love of home-cooked meals. Sure, the foodcubes were nutritious and tasted alright (depending on what you or... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 26,555 |
[WP] You're a cop in the distant future where cities are built in the sky and everyone flies hovercars. The ground has become the slums | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 16 | 26,556 |
[IP] At Dusk | **Repast**
* At dusk the shine becomes a glow
* A softer, sweeter, sky that shows.
* The eve greets day and kisses land
* The sunset's slowly fading brand.
* The city moves and wakes and rests
* Readying for nighttime guests.
* The arches' sacred shadows cast
* Inviting all for grand repast.
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[IP] At Dusk | As the sun began to set over the domes of Cardia, boats continued to file through the plaza of the great hall, leading the dignitaries to the front steps of the Capital. Every lantern was lit, guiding the ships in preparation for the darkness.
Ma’an and Karia watched from the ledge, their feet hanging down, and their ... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 26,558 |
[WP] What would the world be like if Greek mythology wasn't mythology? | I know they're YA books but the Percy Jackson series are a great take on this. It has Olympus and it's gods living above the Empire state building and basically the entire greek mythology has followed the "heart of the world" which in present times is the US. | 6 | 0 | 14 | 26,559 |
[WP] What would the world be like if Greek mythology wasn't mythology? | Rick Riordan has already answered this with two series of novels.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and The Heros of Olympus. | 3 | 0 | 14 | 26,560 |
[WP] What would the world be like if Greek mythology wasn't mythology? | "Hey have you seen Julie lately?"
"Oh yeah apparently Zeus turned her into a goat and had sex with her, afterwards he burnt her and spread her ashes into the stars"
"Oh well huh... Guess I won't be getting the 20 bucks she owes me then" | 5 | 0 | 14 | 26,561 |
[WP] What would the world be like if Greek mythology wasn't mythology? | Battlestar Galatica.
Basically, faster than light space travel, robot servants that eventually rebel against us, and Edward James Olmos. Lots of EJO. | 2 | 0 | 14 | 26,562 |
[WP] What would the world be like if Greek mythology wasn't mythology? | Two pregnant women are sitting next to each other on the subway. One of them turns to the other and asks, "So, Zeus got to you too, huh?" | 2 | 0 | 14 | 26,563 |
[WP] Make a really big deal out of your hay fever or comparable ailment. | An imperceptible darkness harrows my existence; parts gray and black, others the electric yellow and curdling red known only to those who have called blindness their existence or opium their domicile.
I thrash in my bed--or what must have been my bed in a past life, for I am surely dead now and this the eternal purga... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 26,564 |
[WP] Our first alien visitors visit our planet. They are human. | "We see that Project Populate Earth was a success." | 17 | 0 | 34 | 26,565 |
[WP] Our first alien visitors visit our planet. They are human. | (This is my first time posting, got kind of bored half way through but decided to continue anyway, be gentle pl0x)
The site was surrounded by a variety of cars and vans in minutes. Smoke rose lazily from the crater 5 metres deep and an acrid smell of burnt metal and meat filled the air. Men in hazmat suits filed out o... | 2 | 0 | 34 | 26,566 |
[WP] Our first alien visitors visit our planet. They are human. | (This is my first post in this subreddit. Criticism is both welcome and appreciated!)
December 14, 2020: The beings of planet Earth discover they are not alone in the universe.
Mankind, however, has yet to make such a discovery. The spacemen that landed that day resembled earthlings of Middle Eastern descent, thoug... | 11 | 0 | 34 | 26,567 |
[WP] A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | First post on here, and I'm tired, so I hope it's decent.
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She hates orange juice.
Wait, what? How could I know that? I didn't know her, I'd never seen her before. But somehow, I know her name, her birthday, what kind of dog she has.
I waved at her just t... | 77 | 0 | 93 | 26,568 |
[WP] A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 93 | 26,569 |
[WP] A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | He knew it could not be real. So many memories, overlapping, contradicting. They could not truly coexist. He wondered if he would ever again be able to see another person without wondering the veracity behind the recognition that would inevitably come. In a world full of friendly and comforting faces he longed to be al... | 3 | 0 | 93 | 26,570 |
[WP] A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | Am I allowed to xpost a comment? It isn't mine, and I encourage you to read it and vote it right [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1xcfqm/if_everyone_on_the_planet_knew_everyone_on_a/cfa8ls8) if you like it.
About a month ago there was an AMA with a similar question.
> It could be worse:
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&... | 3 | 0 | 93 | 26,571 |
[WP] A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | (I have 15 minutes or less to write this. Challenge accepted.)
I was a virgin until last night. She's my high school sweetheart, the first real connection I've ever had with another human being. It was magical, from the first kiss to the explosion of pleasure we shared later. I've never felt so close to another person... | 6 | 0 | 93 | 26,572 |
[WP] A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | It starts out like any normal day. I see Mrs. Hamilton coming back from walking Chester on my way to the elevator, give her my usual "Hello". I see Ted at the door, as always.
"How's the weather today, Ted?"
"Could not be better, Mister Joe. 72 and not a cloud in the sky!"
"Seventy-two? What happened to that 95 degr... | 2 | 0 | 93 | 26,573 |
[WP] A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | The moment I wake up, my cell phone beeps. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, I grope for the phone almost tipping over my glass of scotch from the night before.
Reading the numbers on the small screen I balk. There are 5 million friend requests from people, there are 6 million game invites and 3 million people who po... | 1 | 0 | 93 | 26,574 |
[WP] Four gangsters have a conversation about how they suspect they're in a Tarantino movie | Suzie wiggled her toes on the cold prison floor while her partner, Donnie, sulked in the neighboring cell. Needless to say, their heist didn't go as planned.
"I wish they're not gonna keep my boots when we walk out." she said staring at her bare feet. Donnie sighed, looked at her and sighed once more. "I really like t... | 4 | 0 | 15 | 26,575 |
[OT]Writing a book and want you guys to choose from a list of my own prompts | I'm a sucker for the urban fantasy genre so I am certainly biased, but my vote goes to number 4. Turf wars with magic would be pretty cool, also having the reader discover the new world along with the narrator is always nice. | 5 | 0 | 3 | 26,576 |
[OT]Writing a book and want you guys to choose from a list of my own prompts | Prompt 3. It sounds way too cool to pass up on. That really is a fantastic idea. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 26,577 |
[OT]Writing a book and want you guys to choose from a list of my own prompts | Write something that combines elements of all five of them. No, seriously. Go right now and spend a day brainstorming how some version of each of them could all fit into the same story, because they can. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 26,578 |
[OT]Writing a book and want you guys to choose from a list of my own prompts | 4! I'm a sucker for mages, and mobs :D | 1 | 0 | 3 | 26,579 |
[OT]Writing a book and want you guys to choose from a list of my own prompts | 4 doesn't feel like it's a complete idea and could serve as the basis of a novel. There seems to be just three core ideas thrown together: magic exists, factions exists, gang wars happen.
I don't know that #5 does either. "He learns to adapt and eventually changes" is about as generic as it gets. Not that it doesn'... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 26,580 |
[CW] Two British soldiers during the Great War share a smoke, listening to the artillery fall. Use only dialogue. | Let's give it a shot, shall we?
“Good God, that one was close.”
“Not close enough. Care for a smoke?”
“Not saying no to that.”
“Here, waiting's more fun with one.”
“Thanks. I suppose it is.”
“It is. For all the shells flying about, you wouldn't expect boredom the most deadly thing around.”
“Don't know abo... | 18 | 0 | 15 | 26,581 |
[CW] Two British soldiers during the Great War share a smoke, listening to the artillery fall. Use only dialogue. | 'The shells are coming again...'
'So it seems.'
'Smoke?'
'Of course.'
'When do you think the war will end?'
'Never.'
'Cynical.'
'Thats called realism.'
'It has to end.'
'But what if the slaughter continues?'
'It will end.'
'You say that...'
'Its true.'
'I guess so. I'm sure James will enjoy that.'
'Where ... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 26,582 |
[CW] Two British soldiers during the Great War share a smoke, listening to the artillery fall. Use only dialogue. | "Jesus, Bill, put out that fucking cigarette, the fucking Krauts might see."
"Winston, it's fine my good friend. I've had enough of this damned war. Who cares if I want to enjoy a goddamn smoke. We're gonna die eventually."
"That doesn't mean you should give - *fuck* that was a close one - but Bill that doesn't mean-... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 26,583 |
[CW] Two British soldiers during the Great War share a smoke, listening to the artillery fall. Use only dialogue. | “mate, what're you eatin'?"
“ctheethkek"
“what?"
“cheesecake. ugh, it's so thick"
“wha- where the- mate, where the fuck did you come across a cheesecake?"
“that bloke over there. See him?"
“yeh"
“had a big chunk in a tin in his ruck, also had these smokes ya wan' a?"
“yes and I'd like a chunka that cake s'well... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 26,584 |
[CW] Two British soldiers during the Great War share a smoke, listening to the artillery fall. Use only dialogue. | Tried a few things, not sure if they played. But it was fun. Thanks for the prompt.
"It seems I've done you a disservice, Jeffrey. I only have one left. Care to share?"
"Please."
"I often wonder why they bother with the bombings and such. They're hardly accurate."
"They're not bombs. But yes... just so."
"Do... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 26,585 |
[CW] Two British soldiers during the Great War share a smoke, listening to the artillery fall. Use only dialogue. | "Got a fag?"
"Here."
"Appreciate it, mate. Bloody hell, you're a young one, aren't you?"
"I suppose."
"..."
"..."
"Almost sounds like thunder from here, don't it?"
"Close to it."
"Used to love to fall asleep during a thunderstorm back home. Don't know about you, but I have a bloody difficult time falling asle... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 26,586 |
[WP] God scolds a person who just arrived at the pearly white gates after they committed suicide. | All in all, death is a pretty strange experience. It’s almost exactly how you would imagine it, a whole lot of dark engulfing everything as your vision fades followed by a calm nothingness. I say almost because I awoke with God backhanding me across the face. I think it’s safe to say not many people consider that.
“Yo... | 4 | 0 | 4 | 26,587 |
[EU] The Dragonborn goes to a tavern and discovers that a survivor from a bandit camp he/she cleared many months ago is there drinking. They have a conversation. | The old orc sat beside the fire nursing a bottle of black-briar reserve. The firelight was reflected in his dark eyes. He gave a great snort, then a heaving sigh. "Did I ever tell you about the greatest battle I was ever a part of?"
He seemed to be speaking to no one in particular. It could have been mistaken for ... | 6 | 0 | 5 | 26,588 |
[WP] You've lived in a small town all your life, everyone you've cared about has been around you, or silently passed. It's your time now to say goodbye. | I looked over the small town through my window. It was over. After the years of being alone, it was over. The remains of the town would wither away and be consumed. To anyone but me, it might have seemed sad. I didn't mind.
I grabbed the small pill. I had always wanted a quick, painless death. Now that I was on my de... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 26,589 |
[WP] You've lived in a small town all your life, everyone you've cared about has been around you, or silently passed. It's your time now to say goodbye. | It happened. Those I had formed a connection with had all finally died and the others were becoming suspicious of my very nature. Perhaps leaving this town has been long overdue, but I had to say one final goodbye.
The smell of freshly dug earth hit me as I approached the graveyard. Although, I should have grown accu... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 26,590 |
[IP] Mars Liberation Front | As the DIVER-X81 class ships soared across the horizon, dropping ground troops and combat vehicles, the reds knew that the day had come. It was a chilly summer day, one of the many such days on Mars, the oldest of the non-Earth planets, or the first terraformed planet. And this was the first day of many more alike to c... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 26,591 |
[WP] A woman and/or non-Caucasian is hired for a middle management position at a global corporation. During the 'comfirmation interview', he/she is informed (s)he is hired for a... special reason. Why? | Her name was Jane Paulson. Half a decade ago, she was a CIA special agent working overseas. Her cover was blow, and she was captured and held captive for nearly a month. The trauma of that incident, coupled with her absolute refusal to talk about what happened with CIA shrinks forced her out of the field. Without field... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26,592 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | [deleted] | 20 | 0 | 2,206 | 26,593 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | I thought I'd get there early, beat the lines. The Department of Legal Homicide opened at 9am. 9am was a foreign concept to me. Sometimes, in my insomniac's stupor, as dusk turned to deep, purple night and then back to rosy dawn, I'd imagine people waking up, making coffee, reading the paper, sitting down to toast. ... | 4,946 | 6 | 2,206 | 26,594 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | The well dressed red-head shuffled her papers into a neat stack. "Well Mr. Henderson, your granddaughter is choosing to legally kill you. We are required by law to notify you of her intentions. Can I just get you to sign here?"
Henderson took thepen. It was cool and heavier than he expected. He signed and licked hi... | 237 | 0 | 2,206 | 26,595 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | It was a good plan. I'll have to promote the aide that had scribbled it down during a particularly boring department of interior meeting and handshake session. Of course, I suppose he still doesn't know that I caught a glimpse of his extra-curriculars.
I had spent so much of my time silently building an assassination ... | 61 | 0 | 2,206 | 26,596 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | The letter was cold, harsh. It sat on my fingers like an autumn leaf in the middle of July. In my rustic craftsman house, its sanitized feel stood out. It shouldn't be there.
"Dear Mr. Elkman,
We regret to inform you that J. H. Younger has scheduled your murder for sometime this week. Please prepare yourself.
Sin... | 128 | 0 | 2,206 | 26,597 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | "You need this one in triplicate."
"Triplicate?"
"Yes, triplicate."
Why would I need my birth certificate in triplicate? That doesn't even make any sense! I was here yesterday and they did not mention the triplicate thing even once. I felt my rage creep into my face.
"I was here yesterday and no one said anything a... | 56 | 0 | 2,206 | 26,598 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | Like clockwork, I woke up at 2:43 AM, screaming. Sweat dripped from my hairline, leaving faint ghosts of sensation on my head, little droplets of sweat plopping quietly on the blanket. My breathing was heavy, fast, and I caught myself staring at my doorway. I took a deep breath, and started counting backwards from ten.... | 202 | 3 | 2,206 | 26,599 |
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