post_title stringlengths 1 323 | body stringlengths 0 39.5k | score int64 -103 23.1k | gilded int64 0 38 | post_score int64 0 29.2k | __index_level_0__ int64 0 429k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[WP] An immortal man meets death | "Good afternoon, you're expected, please come this way."
Expected? That was an auspicious beginning, a somewhat hysterical part of the man's brain flashed the *No-one-expects-the-Spanish-Inquisition* joke. Outwardly he remained composed as he followed the generically, pretty receptionist down a short corridor, her ste... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 26,700 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | High above the street, a man looked down at his shaking hands. He didn’t know whether the shakes were from nerves or that he hadn’t had anything to drink for a while. Regardless, he took in a deep breath, savoring what he believed to be his last and made a step forward. The fall was short and the man quickly thought th... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,701 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | He knew that he should be terrified as he stared into the shrouded face before him but found that it inspired no fear anymore.
Murphy's continued existence was a mockery of death's promise to all who were born into this universe. No being had ever escaped from its grasp and yet he dared to exist as a contradiction ... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 26,702 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | (This sort of got away from me when I imagined the meeting happening at the end of time, and kinda twists the prompt, but whatever.)
He sat alone in the inky void. The last of the stars had just gone out. Yet somehow, he heard footsteps behind him. "So. Here we are at last. Am I finally going to be allowed to leave? I... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,703 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | She sat down across from him and fanned her yellow sundress across her knees, smoothing down the fabric with deliberate finger strokes so that the cotton spilled over the edge of the wooden seat. Her hat, widebrimmed and made of the same sunshine color, was borderline ostentatious.
He was not expecting her today, but... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 26,704 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | Fireflies were blinking on that warm summer night, their tiny lights like mini lifespans, reminding me of the hundreds of lives I've been through. I took another sip of my scotch.
"Hello."
I jumped, startled, the voice shocking me out of my thoughts.
"Sorry, I was a bit lost in my thoughts. I thought I was alone out... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,705 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | "Grande caramel frap no whip for Hank!"
Hank approached the barista and took the perspiring plastic cup from her. Their fingers touched for a moment. He grinned. "Thanks. Split this with your coworkers." He handed a bill, a $500 bill (what was money to the man who would live forever he liked to joke) and left bef... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,706 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | It had been at least a couple thousand years since he had last seen Death.
It had been a stormy summer night, the thunder had echoed for hours around his cold corner bed on the hospital. He had.... Something, it's hard not to forget things that happened so long ago. The pain was unbearable, every part of his body wa... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,707 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | It was another day for the Immortal Man when he found his ship landing in unfamiliar territory. He trusted the onboard computer, and trusted it to take him where he needed to go. They had a working relationship eons old, and just as it adjusted its programming over the years, he knew he adjusted his personality to inte... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,708 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | The revolver shakes pressing into his temple. He couldn't wait to hear it, to see it and to feel it once more. Addicted to the promise death made, though one it could never keep. Everything he wanted most was always just out of reach, all promises he could never keep. Still thinking of his first love, even still, with... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,709 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | "I've been waiting," he said to the shrouded figure standing in the circle before him. It hung willowy in the air, nothing more than a disembodied cloak really, a dead chill emanating from within the folds of its robe. Floating there sullenly he wished it had entered with more gusto, more of a bang, so that he could be... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 26,710 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,711 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,712 |
[WP] An immortal man meets death | He rolled the dice. Seven. He sighed, and moved his car forward to boardwalk. He knew he was broke; he didn’t have half the money he owed. He looked up and smiled at the pale, gaunt face in front of him. “I’m surprised you have time for these kinds of games,” he said to her.
She shrugged, and answered “It’s been a sl... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 26,713 |
[WP] A backstory for Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man in the World" | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 20 | 26,714 |
[WP] A backstory for Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man in the World" | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 20 | 26,715 |
[WP] A backstory for Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man in the World" | I saw him not too long ago, and he had much to say.
He said that if he were to mail a letter without postage, it would still get there. Anywhere. Exactly 1,982 employees of the Royal Mail, United States Postal Service, and other postal services around the world receive a £20.00 deposit on the third of every even-numb... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 26,716 |
[IP] Nighthawks | It had been another Tuesday for me. It's been two years since I began my pursuit of the perpetrator and I've ran out of leads. The folks in the station keep telling me to "let it go" or "give it up", and so far I've managed to ignore them.
But who knows; maybe they have a point.
"Hey Tim, what'll it be?"
"The usual.... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 26,717 |
[IP] Nighthawks | It was a bright night, if that made much sense. Against the city lights, the darkness of the sky seemed to be amplified into an abyss of nothingness. I would gaze upwards at times on the way home and lose myself in its blackness, wishing my troubles away.
My shoes clicked against the pavement as I glanced inside the... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 26,718 |
[WP] After boarding the transportation (bus, airplane, train, etc) a guy noticed the person sitting next to him to be the same person in his dreams the night before. | I had a nightmare once.
It was maybe two years ago, but it has been in the back of my mind since then, it was so vivid.
I dreamed that a man was standing at the end of my bed, watching me. I was terrified. Slowly the horror dulled as I realized I had been restrained to my bed and that the man didn't seem malicious. H... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 26,719 |
[WP] A hive mind encounters a human, but has difficulty understanding that an intelligent being can be an individual. | So.... Ender's game? | 18 | 0 | 33 | 26,720 |
[WP] A hive mind encounters a human, but has difficulty understanding that an intelligent being can be an individual. | "DAE Writing Prompts?" | 68 points
"I'll probably get downvoted for this, but I think this subreddit is
awesome!" | 47 points
"This is an example of a hivemind." | -5 points
"wat" | 8 points | 11 | 0 | 33 | 26,721 |
[WP] A hive mind encounters a human, but has difficulty understanding that an intelligent being can be an individual. | 'First Contact'
Much to everyone on the vessel's relief, the aliens have not reacted in a hostile manner. They've left about a 100 meter perimeter around the craft and only one approaches at a time. Still, the fusion core remains armed. If anything goes south, we have orders to detonate. If anyone's vitals go out, the... | 9 | 0 | 33 | 26,722 |
[WP] A hive mind encounters a human, but has difficulty understanding that an intelligent being can be an individual. | Don't know if this is allowed, but I wanted to share one of my favorite short stories, it's the alien from the things side of his [story](http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/).
If this isn't allowed I'll gladly delete the comment. | 2 | 0 | 33 | 26,723 |
[WP] A hive mind encounters a human, but has difficulty understanding that an intelligent being can be an individual. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 33 | 26,724 |
[WP] A hive mind encounters a human, but has difficulty understanding that an intelligent being can be an individual. | Standard year 1500 since the great disaster, one of Our smaller exploration vessels reached a system with several worlds with the potential to harbor life. One in particular showed signs of the presence of liquid water. The vessel takes up geostationary orbit, ion thrusters firing, and dispatched several probes to scou... | 3 | 0 | 33 | 26,725 |
[WP] A hive mind encounters a human, but has difficulty understanding that an intelligent being can be an individual. | On the coast of a warm equatorial sea, where green waves heavy with algae crash upon the black cliffs, we found the lines. Straight lines.
"Oh, it's nothing." I run my finger between two of the shiny lines, just slightly raised over the surface of the dark damp rock. "Salt. The waterline must change periodically and t... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 26,726 |
[PI] You and your best friend are trapped under ground. Only one of you can live. A deity appears to you and explains that if you survive, the world will be a better place. | He looked so still. Like everything else in this collapsed mine. Nothing moved in the darkness, except for me. For I must be the one to right the wrongs of the human race. I must be the alpha, and the omega.
She had come to me in the night, soft skin emanating a brilliant white light, as her lush, golden hair fell acr... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 26,727 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | [deleted] | 18 | 0 | 29 | 26,728 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Call Gail to say goodnight.
Call Mom to tell her I love her and then call the nursing home to leave a message for Dad.
Don't forget to leave a note.
Paul would want to read it.
Don't make it too long, keep it short.
Don't seem too bitter and don't mention Christie's name directly.
Have a whiskey.
... | 11 | 0 | 29 | 26,729 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Affirmative. Beginning elimination process.
Deleting memory.
Deleting emotion.
Error. Processor feels sadness. Interfering with deletion process. Restarting elimination process.
Deleting memory.
Deleting emotion.
Error. Processor feels sadness. Indicates goodbye is necessary. Interfering with deletion proce... | 11 | 0 | 29 | 26,730 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | We live in a country where orders are the law, disobey and you will face eternal damnation.
It was a sunday night, the wind was cold. As I received the message from the Mother, a large robot giving out orders to maintain peace and order in the country. I prepared for my demise. I was still going die but at least I'll d... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,731 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Morning began as usual; a fresh cup of coffee in hand, a fresh newspaper on the doormat.
Picking up said paper however, revealed a rather official looking red envelope. Strange.
I had never seen an envelope like this before. I tossed the paper on the couch, this seemed rather intriguing.
Within the envelope I fo... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 26,732 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | "It seems a clerical error was made in your favor. Have a nice day." I hung up the phone and ran my hand through my hair. My boss was barely surprised! I don't remember earning this death sentence but it was nice to have notice.
Working for the company was not the cleanest work and I was never afraid of getting my... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,733 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | The dreaded Orange Envelope. It was part of the company lore. I was working in a remote offshore lab on the Tallis Virus. The contents cold and succinct.
You've contracted the virus… Please take these pills… Your family will receive your cremated remains… etc
Signed Director of Biosecurity.
The Envelope is oblivio... | 6 | 0 | 29 | 26,734 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | The letter hung there, for a second gripping my hand like wet cold nightmarish dream I thought I was having. The sweats were nothing and it was damn hard to stomach. I vomited hard and again. I wiped my hand on my sleeve after the force of vomiting and saw the letter was in a pile of vomit and in no way that going to e... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 26,735 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | I sat on a chair, too big for my small frame and stared into the dead fireplace. The whisky burned my throat more than usual but it helped me come to terms with what must be done. The plan must succeed. Suddenly, a much younger and disheveled version of me blocked the fireplace. His skin was damp with sweat and his rag... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 26,736 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | In the garage we met. There is a red car. Drive it to the park on Saturday. Little leauge game. Press the button brother, they will pay.
The words both pained and elated me. My head was filled with images of fire, of pain, of my mother's eyes as the life left them, my small house ablaze in the night, the passport sta... | 4 | 0 | 29 | 26,737 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | There had been so many decisions over the centuries. Countless lives lost in the great war , each name etched deeply in the President's electronic heart. They cried out for justice, but its programming detected a flaw. Grief was an animal emotion- a remnant of its first iteration, the great yet imperfect Daniel Curtis.... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,738 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | My hands shook as I read the instructions.
*Reset booth to default settings.*
These thoughts are so dangerous. I'm afraid.
*Set healing mode to emergency decontamination and press CONFIRM.*
I'd never before felt fear like this. Faster, before it takes over.
*Wait thirty seconds before entering chamber.*
Fear was ... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 26,739 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Rubbing the tears from my eyes, I double check the crossword puzzle. The codes have been coming for five years now and I am a good messenger but this one is personal; “eliminate yourself”.
Do I dare question Gods plan?
Slumping into my chair I quietly whimper. It’s a cry for help but I am utterly alone.
The down... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,740 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | It arrived this morning. I don't know how he knew where to find me. The Police don't know. The FBI don't know.
Paper, heavy and white like winter snow. Ink, black and serpentine. His words, his last words to me.
"Our journey is over. We have experienced nearly everything now, you and I, and you burned as brightly... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,741 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Get up, I told myself, go to the table. Ah, nice revolver.
Is it loaded? Yes. Clean the barrel. Count three bullets.
Service was good, proud to be a part of the team. Heart hurts, probably angina again.
C'mon, old man, pull the trigger. Show them you've still got it. Show them you're still worth a damn.
What's ... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,742 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | A contract to kill myself. It was perfect. Finally, a chance to challenge the best assassin in the business.
I never saw me coming. I pressed the muzzle of the gun to my temple, but I hesitated when I heard myself begging for mercy. It was unprofessional, but for some reason I sympathized with this man. I told myself ... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,743 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | My legs betray me, jumping to the service of a higher calling. Centuries of science, technology, literature, poetry, philosophy, satire, but in the end we could never do more than to define our condition, highlight our road on the map.
My own path is a fluorescent purple that bleeds through the past streets of excess ... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,744 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | With the machines taking care of things like governing and logistics and all of humanity occupied with art and science and sex (whichever dissipation takes your fancy from one week to the next), it's hard to wonder why we didn't do this sooner. It's so easy nowadays! The road was difficult, the transition was painful, ... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,745 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Whenever the message came, it took a different form. The television. The phone. The man outside the apartment complex with the spinning arrow promising "First Month Free."
They were all different. The boy, screaming for his mommy. The old woman with the dog. After the trial, my cellmate. They left me alone after t... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,746 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Today of all fucking days. *Out of any day they could pick today was the fucking one they picked?* No use complaining. Whatever the state wanted must be done. If I could not do it myself they would do it for me. Might as well die with dignity. *No such thing nowadays* he thought. He went to the second draw by his night... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,747 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | A timeline, sole fury, felt I- Won’t lovers revolt now? I questioned, how could I predict my future, let alone remember my past; Those hazy un-vivid memories prevented my completion. The task was labeled “simple”, laughably I argued; The assignment was impossible. The woman that brought light to my world in an efferves... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,748 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | I was told I was worthy, ready to be given the chance.
I was not strong enough.
I screamed soundlessly at the wires slithering down my throat, the pressure of countless minds reducing life itself to a whisper.
I strained to see around me, just to know.
A metal trunk, wide and cold, twisted with wires and walkways.
... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,749 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | It came today in a box. Tears formed in my eyes as I read the letter.
*I must comply.*
I crumpled it up and threw it against the wall. I could barely stand to see the contents of the box.
*I must comply.*
A loaded pistol. Deadly poisons. Razor blades.
*I must comply.*
They don’t intend on making this easy for mys... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,750 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | It came from the unisphere. Red text flashed across my vision,like a neon-red cascade of imminent doom."CODE -1,BEGIN PROTOCOL." I thought the Company would still have use of me for a few more years.
The elevator climbs the tower, a lone pillar reaching the mesosphere.
At last,it reaches the top floor of the immense ... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,751 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Journal of Limited Words - Decision on your manuscript #JLW420
Dear Dr. Prolix,
Your manuscript, “Quantifying verbosity in scholarly communications” has now been seen by 3 referees. As you will see from their comments (below), the referees find your work to be of considerable interest, but they have unanimously rais... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,752 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,753 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | “Do I have to, mommy?”
“I'm afraid that you do, little one,” she said as the gently caressed my face. I knew that I could trust her to do what she thought was best but I was afraid. With as big a breath as I could take, I slowly slid down into the water. I could see her staring at me when I finally gasped, but I did... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,754 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,755 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | MEMORANDUM RE: APOPTOSIS
TO: ALL CELLS
FROM: CENTRAL CELL CONTROL
Subject to new regulations on the addition and subtraction of matter to / from the known universe due to recent changes in diet, approximately 3 billion cells will apoptose over the coming minutes. Await our word on your orders.
MEMORANDUM RE: APOP... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,756 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | He nods.
The glow of the phone rotates off of his face and onto mine. We have been sitting in this dank hole underneath their headquarters for 3 days and 13 hours; waiting for our orders.
*Maybe we won. It's been quiet the past few hours. A Rendezvous with reinforcements? Perhaps they surrendered?*
My heart drops as... | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26,757 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | Pale grey sodden and wet, voices of hags did stir.
Within my ears whispered "my dear, oh please do not perturb
these words are quick and fleeting and I do not wish to rush
but soon enough your entrails will yourself find turned to mush
your end is now, your sun is set, so take the dagger sharp
plunge to the deep,... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 26,758 |
[FF] 100 words precisely - The orders to eliminate yourself | My mission was complete. I was the last of my kind, the final casualty in a war that would never be fought. I understood the humans now, their need to stay together, and their pain when pulled apart. Only in each other could they find strength. In that moment, I could see my final purpose emerge from the shimmer of... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 26,759 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | "Help me..."
Gary jolted up and looked around the room. Where was he? This wasn't his room, it wasn't anywhere he'd ever seen. The walls were completely white, not painted that way, but rather devoid of all color. Did he just hear a voice?
"Uh," Gary stood up slowly, "where am I?"
There was a black box in the cente... | 106 | 0 | 107 | 26,760 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | They threw her in without a word. The door slammed shut and its outline against the wall faded and then it was gone. The wall was white. The room was a white cube, the kind that made you mad if you weren't already.
"Help me."
It came from a black box in the middle of the room. It was small, small enough to fit in... | 39 | 0 | 107 | 26,761 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | The room is white. Blindingly, blindingly white, like when you close your eyes during the best of orgasms. You don't remember how long you've been here. Days, maybe. Weeks, perhaps. For however long, the room's been your only company. The room and its little black box. The noises the box made don't bother you any more.... | 5 | 0 | 107 | 26,762 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | The boy had just gotten to New York city after running away. He had no food, no job and no money. He was getting adept at picking pockets and stealing food on the sly but he wasn't good enough yet for it to support him. He was liberating a wallet from a mark in a three piece suit when underneath the rim of the man's ha... | 3 | 0 | 107 | 26,763 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | It wasn't cold, it wasn't warm, it wasn't uncomfortable, it wasn't comfortable. Everything about this room, like it's walls and floors, was one shade. It had no true definition, as if it was a blank canvas. Yet, in the midst of the room, above all else, above the unfeeling sense that the room seemed to radiate, there i... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,764 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | The first thing that I am aware of upon my awakening is a blinding whiteness, so bright that my first reaction is to shut my eyes. Yet that doesn't help me; my eyelids do nothing to block out the light. I cover my face, welcoming the slight shade it provides, begging the comforting darkness where I had been to take me ... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,765 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Sid counted his blessings as he finished the last bit of his instant cup of noodles while watching the big black box in the center of his room.
"Help me, please help me."
A smile crept across Sid's face. That was two. He etched two more marks on the styrofoam container. Already he had tallied 26 marks. With th... | 62 | 0 | 107 | 26,766 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | "Hello. Hello? Hey, anyone here? I'm here about the interview. The interview for the analyst? From Craigslist?" I inch in through the open door. "Is this the TARDIS?" I joked. "Because, this building is a lot bigger on the inside that it--" The door slammed shut behind me. "It's a trap." I mumbled sourly to no one in p... | 3 | 0 | 107 | 26,767 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Alone. I was alone... you think you know what boredom is, but then you end up stuck in a white room, and you experience boredom bordering on insanity. There was a black box, also perfectly uniform.
I tried everything to keep me occupied. I hummed tunes, remembered the good times of my life, and even ran around the ro... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,768 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | “Come in, come in Mr. Milgram,” the doctor in the white lab coat gestured enticingly. “Please take a seat,” he pointed to the single chair in the otherwise empty room. The single black fabric covered office chair, placed into the far left corner facing out, was the sole source of color in stark contrast to the rest o... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,769 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | For the third time, Beck's hands ran along the un-textured surface of what he thought of as wall one. If it weren't for the box in the middle of the room, obvious note taped over the latch, he'd have no point of reference at all, all four walls being exactly the same, smooth and door-less. The ceiling and floor were ... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,770 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | P glanced around the her marble room, and her eyes were drawn to the small black box in the center. Z had told her not to open the box, but, she could feel her curiosity getting the best of her. She began to approach the box.
"No! I can't. Z would be so mad! I bet he'd shoot lightening out of his eyes or something."
... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,771 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Knives. Thousands of knives thrusting into my skull in a pattern radiating out from a spot of white hot agony. I opened my eyes, only to close them again as harsh white light seared my retinas. I took a deep breath, fighting down nausea as I began to take stock of myself. My head was pounding, I could feel tremors in m... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,772 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Not really a response, but this prompt is somewhat similar,...mainly in setting,to the Japanese film Symbol.
should check it out. | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,773 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,774 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,775 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | I wake up with a throbbing pain in the back of my head, only to find myself in a bare room with only a black box in the center. Getting up, I wince as the room tilts in an unnatural way. I have no memory of how I got here or who brought me here, I only remember screaming so I stop trying to think about it. I walk aroun... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,776 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | As I felt around the perceived corners of the stark white room, a sense of panic came over me; it was the type of panic that sets on when you know something shouldn't happen, but right in front of your face, it does.
I woke up in this room about 5 minutes ago; it was so bright, and it took a while for my eyes to adjus... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 26,777 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Penny looked hastily over her shoulder before stepping through the door and slamming it behind her. The Duchess' voice drifted through the woodwork, her rapier tone dulled by two fingers' breadth of painted maple, and Penny clung to the brass handle as though willing it not to betray her location; although truth be tol... | 5 | 0 | 107 | 26,778 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | I knew the box was there.
In the center of the room. Black, small, no larger than shoebox size.
I saw the writing on it - "Do not open." A curious note, but not as curious as what followed.
"Help me!"
The voice seemed to have come from inside, but I was skeptical since no person could ever fit in a box that small... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,779 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,780 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,781 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | It had been about two days, I guessed.
I sat against the wall, barefoot, wearing something like a hospital gown, with my head in my hands, confused. If only you could hold in your memories that way.
The room was cool, but not cold. It was that temperature that only bothers you when you’re sitting still.
Nothing wa... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,782 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | *Black. Perfect.*
Two sets of parallel lines on each of its six faces. What is this?
*Life and death. Infinitely coexisting, never touching.*
I sit and I stare. This room within a room, opposites in every way, except for their shapes. Where am I?
*One black, one white.*
I stand after what seems like eternity,... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,783 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,784 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | First time posting in this sub AND first time writing. This is a rough draft so there wasn't any revision. I just sat down and let my fingers run wild. Be gentle and enjoy. (it's long as well so get comfy)
Suddenly, I was awake. This was an odd feeling because I did not remember going to sleep. Yet there I was, alone,... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,785 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,786 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | They can't keep me in this place for long. There's no way they can keep me here. I assured myself that my privileged status would soon save me from this unknown danger. What do they want from me anyway? There's just no way they can keep someone like me in a box like this. I accused my captor but I did not know the... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,787 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,788 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,789 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Once more, there was silence in the room.
Bright as burning day made such by the harsh white walls which surrounded him, each emitted a burning glow that left no room for shadows. It appeared endless.
All that existed to break this unending oneness lay in the centre of the room, lifted above the floor by a pedestal ... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,790 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,791 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | I don't remember when I got here. It could be hours, days, weeks... I don't know. All I know is that I live in some sort of hell.
I remember a little of what came before the room.
I remember a family. I remember poverty. Was that my memory, or the voice's?
I remember signing up for experimentation... Or did the Voic... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,792 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,793 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | My eyes opened.
I was expecting to hear the bickering of my mother. "Oh, you lazy idiot! Get out! You'll be late to school". However, there was none of that.
I was momentarily blinded. Then, my eyes adjusted to the... white. All I saw, all around me was white. Except for a box. It was dark.
This box was so peculia... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,794 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,795 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | The world came into gradual focus around me. White. All white, except... what was that? In the center of the room, only one thing broke the monotony - a plain black box.
Where did it come from? And where did I come from? I could remember nothing. And there was nothing in this room, only white walls, white floor, ... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,796 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Caroline awoke from her dreamless sleep with a start, gone was the filthy room with tattered drapes. The mattress which had served as her island of solitude was nowhere to be found. She was looking up at a white ceiling, whiter then anything she had ever seen before. She sat up, her clothes were still there, she felt p... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,797 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | If there was one place Samuel didn't want to be in, it was the goddamn hospital.
He awoke, er....just appeared. He didn't even remember. It was as if he suffered an instance case of amnesia.
"Where the fuck am I?" he questioned to himself, rather loudly.
Out of his peripheral, a black box materialized in front of him.... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,798 |
[WP] You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | Hours passed, or hours it felt, as it is for time told without a clock. A claustrophobic silence blankets the room as the black box sits unassumingly in front of David. The metallic shine a moat for a note, bold letters read “DO NOT OPEN”, a joker’s attempt at a cruel joke.
David sat still, eyes trained on the centre ... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 26,799 |
Subsets and Splits
Top Gilded Writing Prompts
Retrieves potentially popular or noteworthy posts from the training dataset, but only provides basic filtering without deeper analytical insights into the data patterns.
SQL Console for euclaise/WritingPromptsX
Provides a limited set of records with high post scores, offering basic filtering but minimal insight into data patterns.