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An old man approaches you in the park and introduces himself as the Ferryman. He tells you that in 24 hours he will return to take you into the afterlife. | "24 hours huh?"
>"Do with it what you will, but be ready this time tomorrow."
The hooded man turned and started to walk away.
"What, you aren't even going to say why I'm dying?"
>"No, you don't need to know."
"So you're just going to walk away and not even ask how I'm doing?"
>"I have no need to. I know ... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 28,100 |
[IP] The Final Fight | I believe that all is indeed fair in love and war, but this matter was neither, for that would have been a blessing. No, none of this was fair, and everyone who knew the situation believed so as well, but sadly I was alone on this endeavor. People reached out with open arms to one another but in the end it was always o... | 9 | 0 | 23 | 28,101 |
[IP] The Final Fight | James sat alone in an old brick house as the rain outside poured on. He knew that soon, he would die. His thoughts briefly flashed back to his children and his beloved wife. Oh, how he prayed that they were okay; wherever they were. He looked out the window to see the sun blistering down on the mossy valley.
It was p... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 28,102 |
[IP] The Final Fight | The Last Hero
He looked behind him, all he could see was death. Fallen friends, comrades, brothers in arms, all slain by the massive horde now descending on him. He tried to lead them, he tried to get them all home, sadly he failed. But he will not fail this mission, he will keep the last city safe, he will make sure ... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 28,103 |
[IP] The Final Fight | I died today.
This morning I walked back through my hometown. Back through Cadia. It had been a decade, maybe more, since I walked those cobbled streets. I reminisced over the sweet salty scent of the air as it blew from the ocean to the shops to the market to my own front door.
Alas, it is not how I remembered.
The... | 6 | 0 | 23 | 28,104 |
[IP] The Final Fight | "Aren't you scared?" Jocco whispered meekly.
"Terrified." Sain Draeedie replied. He felt his hand shake as he tightened the cinch for his saddle.
"Then don't go. We could leave now. They wouldn't catch us. We could run far. We could sweep ourselves out to sea. We could take refuge among the pearl divers of the Weepin... | 5 | 0 | 23 | 28,105 |
[IP] The Final Fight | He knew it was hopeless. Behind him lay the burning wreckage of what was once his camps, his fellow comrades lay maimed and burning on the ground. The foul stench hung in the air and stung his nose. Still he stood his ground. In front of him, lie over 200 soldiers, almost all of them mounted on horses. They were from t... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 28,106 |
[IP] The Final Fight | *Where are all of the good men?* Mother had asked me that, once, when I was younger. I didn't know the answer. *He is right here,* she had said, tapping me on the chest. I loved her dearly.
I could hear the roar of the troops coming from over the hill. They would be charging with the rising sun at their backs and the... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 28,107 |
[IP] The Final Fight | I am Will, warrior of Tuerentur.
As the endless sea looms before me, like a great hydra, I fasten my armor securely. I will not falter, nor weaken, nor stand down. For I do not fight for myself, but for the world. Everything else does not matter. Family? They were killed years ago. Country? The very men before me were... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 28,108 |
[IP] The Final Fight | This land was strange.
It was old and empty. Massive monuments, old ruins, and silent people dotted the still countryside. No birds sang there, save the screech of the carrion crows.
It was a land that had seen a thousand wars.
They were a people who had prayed to a thousand gods.
None had saved them from the i... | 3 | 0 | 23 | 28,109 |
[IP] The Final Fight | The Orcs were upon us. For days we had been pushed back, our defensive lines constantly being broken by the green wave. We were tired, we were hungry and we were broken. It would be days before the capital city could send relief troops, and we did not have days to spare. I remember that it was cloudy, and that the ston... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 28,110 |
[IP] The Final Fight | It had been six years since the rebellion. Of course, no one knows what "it" is because thought never tempers Tolkien ripoffs. Anyone can talk about a guy with a sword who overpowers brute after brute. I'm all for silliness, but silliness mustn't take itself seriously. If one wishes to make a character who's "brave... | 1 | 0 | 23 | 28,111 |
[IP] The Final Fight | A note found in the lone warrior's armour:
*I go to my death. I shall not fear. I have lived, I can die. I shall whirl as a spirit between their spears. I shall slay a thousand for every cut I suffer. The forest of swords shall bend beneath my storm as the trees in the garden of my youth did.*
*Come now, my worthy en... | 3 | 0 | 23 | 28,112 |
[WP] Describe the first date between two extremely quirky people. | He was so sweaty and nervous that his moustache almost de-twirled. She was already five minutes late. What if she didn't show up? He had already cancelled practice with his all-tuba band for this. He wiped his palms off on his super-skinny chinos and twiddled with his suspenders. He checked his pocket watch again. Seve... | 4 | 0 | 14 | 28,113 |
[WP] A kid is hiding at night in a school classroom by himself. He hears footsteps. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 28,114 |
Hogwarts Closed Down After The Opening Of The Chamber Of Secrets Because The Monster Was Never Destroyed. A Wizard Explorer Discovers The Abandoned School Years Later. | I looked upon the facade of the old castle from my position near the lake. The spires rose up from the forest, silhouetted against the full moon. For two hundred years the castle had been lost to us.
And I just found it.
I walked through the cobwebbed hallways, the portraits' magic long since dissipated, the once act... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 28,115 |
[WP] An office worker refuses to stop his daily routine for the robot apocalypse. | It seemed like the world was in a dark place, but in all reality, it seemed brighter. Well, maybe just shinier. The thing about the world now is that it's actually more vibrant and colorful then when we were holding the reigns. Animals on the brink of extinction are now swelling in numbers, entire forests are growing b... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28,116 |
[WP] An office worker refuses to stop his daily routine for the robot apocalypse. | Order. Without it, there would be chaos.
When the news blared that annoying sound and told us to go to the nearest National Guard depot, I thought about it. They're trying to order us, understandably - I mean we are being invaded after all. But if you think about it, what next? Civilians aren't soldiers, we won't lis... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,117 |
[WP] An office worker refuses to stop his daily routine for the robot apocalypse. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,118 |
[CW] Write a love story through text messages | 555-1397: Hey, thanks for giving me your number. I would love to hang out with you soon!
555-1234: Who's this?
555-1397: It's Marie, from the party Saturday night. I'm Beth's friend. Tall, brown hair...you commented how pretty my eyes were.
555-1234: I'm sorry, you have the wrong number. I don't know a Beth. Did som... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 28,119 |
[CW] Write a love story through text messages | JEANNE 11:02- George R U alright?!
GEORGE 12:13- Yeah, got some bruises; hopefully I'll recover.
JEANNE 12:15- I feel so terrible :( I swear I did not see that car when we were driving.
George 12:18- It's not your fault Jeanne, it was raining, no one could see anything.
JEANNE 12:22- Let me make it up to you, p... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 28,120 |
[CW] Write a love story through text messages | 611: To thank you for being such a valuable customer, we have a special offer. Click here!
Me: pls stop texting me
611: To thank you for being such a valuable customer, we have a special offer. Click here!
Me: leave me alone
611: To thank you for being such a valuable customer, we have a special offer. Click here!
... | 0 | 0 | 7 | 28,121 |
[WP] An otherwise awkward character gives an inspiring speech. | There he stood in front of the crowd. Thousands showed up, not to mention all of the soldiers. His hair combed neatly to the side, his intense blue eyes pierced the crowd. He had a controlling air to him, and when he spoke, it was hypnotic. Those who knew him knew he was an awkward person, they knew his crippling fears... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28,122 |
[WP] You go through your Friday like you normally do, and fall asleep in your bed. You wake up to your parent/guardian telling you to it's time to get up from your nap...you're 5 years old. | Red bikes. I hate red bikes.That asshole bike messenger had a red bike, the one he cruised on and hit me with. That kid from down the street has a red bike, always lying in his garden.Never has that fat bully even tried to have a go on it. I've never gotten a red bike. Not even when i was 5,asked for a red bike, dreame... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28,123 |
[WP] You go through your Friday like you normally do, and fall asleep in your bed. You wake up to your parent/guardian telling you to it's time to get up from your nap...you're 5 years old. | ((Frankly, I think this is really poorly written, not to mention unedited, as it's late and I'm on mobile. But everythig before it actually happens is true, so I figured, what the hell, I'll give it a shot.))
It's funny how I decided long before that I didn't want what would eventually happen to me. One night, a rando... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,124 |
[WP] It's the future. The Gladiator games have returned and are the biggest event on earth. | Damion couldn't help but laugh at himself.
Here, at the greatest moment of his young life, he was thinking about school. He had always hated school. Grades were a necessary evil. Required so he could play soccer, swim and run track. The facility members who both taught and coached Damion couldn't get their minds arou... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28,125 |
[WP] It's the future. The Gladiator games have returned and are the biggest event on earth. | **Prologue**
A stone's throw from the spiritual home of the sport, the Neo-Colosseum sprawls itself among the foothills on the edge of Lago di Bracciano. The forests had been cleared long ago for the foundation of the huge structure, comprised of a magnificent marble-sandstone composite.
The rebirth of the gladiator ... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,126 |
[WP] I could just make out the window high in the castle wall. | A continuation of [The Captivity of Dieter Hagedorn.](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/20uqn7/wp_you_have_devoured_everything_you_thought_you/cg72fo6)
So thought Dieter. As he gazes up at the keep in the midmorning light, the ivy creeping along it's massive flanks gives it a cloaked appearance. Walking ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28,127 |
[EU] Due to a freak chemical accident, everyone on the planet has become a Pokemon. It has been 5 years since that event. | *"Hey baby, wanna fuk?"*
I cringed at the woman before me or what I think was a woman. After all these years, I can't believe I am actually doing this.
People used to think that being a Pokemon was fun; that the whole world will be shitting rainbows if everyone became an annoying Japanese monster. Well that was pro... | 5 | 0 | 12 | 28,128 |
[EU] Due to a freak chemical accident, everyone on the planet has become a Pokemon. It has been 5 years since that event. | "Squirtle" said Squirtle.
"Pika-Pikachu!" replied Pikachu.
It had been 5 years since I had been turned into a Charmander. This is the worst hell I can imagine. Let me put it this way: I don't know if the others can understand what everyone is saying, but I must have missed that day in class. 5 years, and all I've hear... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 28,129 |
[EU] Due to a freak chemical accident, everyone on the planet has become a Pokemon. It has been 5 years since that event. | Five years ago this hell began. Everyone accepts it as if it is normal at this point. I don't. I'm on a mission.
The professor told me about this. I am prepared. I have trained. I may be a kid but I have the means to save all of humanity. My epic quest begins today. I will not fail. I cannot fail.
I have to catch t... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 28,130 |
[WP]The Wessons were a huge, close-knit family living in south Texas when the bombs dropped. Sixty years into the post-apocalypse, the Wessons are just as old-fashioned as always, and they intend to keep it that way no matter what it takes. | The wedding dress was perfect more or less.
It was her mother's or wait was it her grandmother's? Mandi couldn't tell, the wretched thing has been past right and left all these years. "Darling, you look'en good" Her aunt Arline said clasping her hands together, "Tobias will love you in it"
"Are you sure this is rig... | 9 | 0 | 20 | 28,131 |
[WP]The Wessons were a huge, close-knit family living in south Texas when the bombs dropped. Sixty years into the post-apocalypse, the Wessons are just as old-fashioned as always, and they intend to keep it that way no matter what it takes. | Sunday afternoon, and the steaks were sizzling.
Papa Wesson flipped the steaks on the sooty grill. His son, Jessup Wesson, was sitting nearby on a fold-up chair, drinking a can of warm Budweiser. They were in the backyard under the bleeding sky, killing the minutes and the hours, meditating as the charcoals kindled an... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 28,132 |
[CW] "The minute I walked in, I was pushed to the ground by some guy with shit on his face." | The minute I walked in, I was pushed to the ground by some guy with shit on his face. I had knocked and yelled "janitor!" as loud as I could before entering the men's restroom, but this man either didn't hear me or chose to ignore me. Don't ask me how he got shit on his face. Sadly, I've seen weirder antics during my t... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28,133 |
[EU] We're all in The Matrix. You're a hacker who creates pills of all kinds and sells them at your store. A customer walks in demanding a refund. What pill did you sell him and what happened? | In my line of work, you tend to get used to sudden and frequent intrusions into your personal space, so the large, sweaty caucasian man grabbing me by the lapel isn't immediately concerning to me. What is concerning to me is that never in my life have I seen this man before. To most people, a realization of that nature... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 28,134 |
[WP] After thousands of years in cryosleep a man wakes up and doesn't know what is real and what is a dream. | The lab coats leaned in, masks covered their faces as gloved hands came down. Probing one cheek, and then the other.
"Stop That!"
Flinching into a sitting position, he tried to look around but his head rushed and instead the back of his head crashed down onto the pillow. After some time, he opened his eyes to see a ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28,135 |
[WP] After thousands of years in cryosleep a man wakes up and doesn't know what is real and what is a dream. | Inception | 1 | 0 | 5 | 28,136 |
[WP] Wishing for death but unable to die, he eventually stopped thinking. | It was the dog that did it.
Everything, all of the burdens that he had walled up, from the heaviest sadness to the tiniest pebble of regret, came crashing through. As her tail came to rest on the pavement for the last time, an inhuman sob welled up from his throat. Each cry was punctuted with a violent shudder so gr... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,137 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | The doctor holds my baby up, after hours and hours of struggle.
'It's a...Uh...'
'What? What's wrong? What's going on?!?'
I'm terrified that there's something horribly wrong. Is my baby dead? Deformed in some way? Missing a limb?
'Well, there is an issue. I don't think it's life threatening, but honestly, I have n... | 24 | 0 | 56 | 28,138 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | All my life I was surrounded. Lots of attention from everyone. My family, my friends, my teachers and basically everyone was up in my business. When I was younger I had swarms of paparazzi following me around asking all sorts of questions to my parents and my neighbors.
I barely remember any of if because one day aft... | 9 | 0 | 56 | 28,139 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | I'm special. That's what they told me at birth. He's a special one. One of a kind. Destined to be someone.
I'm nothing. That's what they told me in school. The other kids. Worthless. I'm a zero. Destined to be no one.
I'm lazy. That's what they told me in college. Entitled. Different. Unmotivated. Destined to disa... | 53 | 0 | 56 | 28,140 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | The doctor was as scared as the parents, which wasn't surprising given the situation. "The number can be changed" he said. "In your case, it can be a favor. You wouldn't even need to ask." What he meant is that a bribe in unnecessary. What it meant is that he feared for his life.
_5 for doctor_
_4 for steel worker_
... | 2 | 0 | 56 | 28,141 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | I grew up with alot of people questioning me as you would expect. But I never really listened. I was bullied in school because I didn't belong. I was dragged from trade to trade, one week I would spend with the 14's as an apprentice electrician, the next would be with the 5's learning how to be a pilot but of course I ... | 6 | 0 | 56 | 28,142 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | In hind-sight, it was clear. What else could it mean?
I always knew it, but they didn't. They clearly didn't. No one of them did, actually. No one of them even cared.
My parents almost never spoke to me. I was their child, but I wasn't. It didn't *feel* like it, it never did. They got their money from the Government ... | 7 | 0 | 56 | 28,143 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | It wasn't the first time that someone had been born with a number nobody had ever seen. After all, new technology meant new jobs. Usually the numbers got higher, though.
The adjustment period, between the appearance of a new number and the eventual revelation of its meaning, was always rocky. Most kids grew up with a ... | 18 | 0 | 56 | 28,144 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 56 | 28,145 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | I've heard people say that one is the loneliest number.
One means you are by yourself. It means you are the only person, the only being, the only *thing* in your space.
In our world, this is true.
An engineer tends to be lonely, spending most of his or her day working hard at a drafting board. Drawing line after lin... | 3 | 0 | 56 | 28,146 |
[WP] Every person on the planet is born with a number on their forehead, which designates what they are going to do in their life (1 is engineer, 35 is teacher, etc.) For the first time in history, someone is born with the number zero. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 56 | 28,147 |
[IP] Gravity | Gravity
A world so small, we're bound to fall,
Death waits at Hades gates for us all,
Everyone's bound to drown in this air,
Dreaming of love, screaming life just ain't fair,
In the end, left to fend for ourselves,
Just God's odd trinkets on shelves,
Life is a gift, yet we're all fool's gold, ... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28,148 |
[IP] Gravity | It will be off the side of a long dusty road. You won't think much of it if you see it. It'll be by a wooden shack, a shack that was built by hands stronger than mine, by a man far more capable than me. That man's probably long gone now. I doubt he ever had a lot of money. I doubt he owned two houses on the shore and a... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28,149 |
[WP] A grandfather takes his grandchildren to the museum and stumbles upon an exhibit of the same type of plane he once flew in the war which starts a flood of memories. | "C'mon Grandfather, we're only half way through!"
Toshi ran down the hall into the next exhibit, his little sister in tow. Children eh? Take them to a museum and it's a race to the finish. Never mind they were just in the presence of an original Wright Brothers flyer on tour. Or an Apollo mission capsule. God tho... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 28,150 |
[WP] Write from the perspective of a bouncer at a local nightclub | Under the moonlit skyline of Miami, most of the city lay quiet and asleep after midnight and into the early morning hours. Not Kyle, not tonight. Kyle had to weave his Honda through the neon district, between the rows of pastel colored hotels and spotlighted palm trees, on his way to work. His first night at the glitzy... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 28,151 |
[WP] Write from the perspective of a bouncer at a local nightclub | They all think I'm a druggie. Or I'm a dropout. I get mad easy, I can't get a better job than this worth shit. Doesn't matter what - I'm a failure of some kind, because who would want this dead end job? And I let 'em. Hell, it ain't far off the truth, it makes the job easier, and I don't got time to deal with this bull... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 28,152 |
[WP] The recently discovered evidence supporting the Big Bang theory also supports the idea that there are multiple universes. Challenge: write something original using that classic trope. | At first we didn't even know how to react. I think, up to the point we came back through the Tear and landed firmly upon protons and neutrons and all the rest, we had actually kind of, sort of, maybe-not-totally believed it was actually going to work. Despite all the math and calculations and proofs, we figured somethi... | 4 | 0 | 4 | 28,153 |
[WP] The recently discovered evidence supporting the Big Bang theory also supports the idea that there are multiple universes. Challenge: write something original using that classic trope. | The educated and intellectuals of the world embraced the theory as fact that everything you see around you, the pixels in your screen or the skin on your arm, everything can be traced back to it's origins unto a single point. A tiny, infinitesimal, speck that housed in it, everything that we would lay eyes upon. Anythi... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28,154 |
[WP] Prehistoric man's first holiday | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28,155 |
[WP] (x post from /r/askreddit) When the history of humanity is written, what will the last sentence say? | Human History Volume 14 - Last Page
"All the time it was there.... while we were focused on everything else... it was there... we are all finally one... tied together regardless of race, class, or creed... it only took the end to finally unite us... the last stand of humanity.... all eyes looking up... thoughts of fa... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 28,156 |
[WP] (x post from /r/askreddit) When the history of humanity is written, what will the last sentence say? | Alas, gods we were, but even gods fall. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 28,157 |
[WP] (x post from /r/askreddit) When the history of humanity is written, what will the last sentence say? | Humans, mostly harmless. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 28,158 |
[WP] Construct a same-sex love-scene | " ... so apparently, it's okay if you asked your blackout-drunk boyfriend beforehand."
Dave chuckled, sipping on his beer. Simon concluded his story.
"So, big suprise, they broke up."
"Yeah, well, what did you expect? It kind of was a trainwreck, you know?"
Simon raised an eyebrow, smiling.
"A trainwreck as in 'kn... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 28,159 |
[WP] Construct a same-sex love-scene | Streetlight, a sodium hush trying not to disturb the dark, softly entreated the room. Paul's head lay on my chest; his hand crept across to rest on my right collar bone and my hand cradled his back. I had forgotten to pull the blind down.
I turned my head to his. His hair flopped down in front of me. Each follicle ha... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 28,160 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | I arrive a bit early, to enjoy the scenery..the fresh air..life. The earth gives faint rumblings under my feet. Looking around the meadow, I see that she has arrived also. Our methods of reaching this particular place in time have differed. I started with strength, and as my enemies fell, I gained in knowledge. She sta... | 68 | 0 | 331 | 28,161 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | Edit: God-damn formatting.
Double-Edit: Trimmed a single word. :)
"You got a light?"
*"Yeah, sure. Here-"*
"Thanks."
Silence.
*"You know what I hate the most about this?"*
"The weird porn?"
*"Oh, god. You know, I could have lived my whole life without knowing what a vore fetish was."*
"I've got you beat."
*"... | 315 | 0 | 331 | 28,162 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,163 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | [deleted] | 34 | 0 | 331 | 28,164 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | When it began, I was thirsty.
Births. Birthdays. Anniversaries.
First kisses and lasts.
Loneliness and euphoria.
I wanted to taste all of these things. To experience everything. I wanted to take another and I wanted to be the one taken. I wanted to sleep in a bed of blankets and pillows as much as I wanted to swim ... | 60 | 0 | 331 | 28,165 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | I pushed my hair back as I pulled my sword out of number 3, watching the life drain from his eyes as the cold rain continued to fall around me. The skills he'd acquired from his own conquests filled my mind. Archery, bomb making, dancing, shooting, poetry, cooking...nothing new here. There hadn't been anything new for ... | 18 | 0 | 331 | 28,166 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "You know something weird?"
"What's that?"
"In the 20-something years it's taken us to find each other, I think I've forgotten more than I ever learned."
"Hah. I Know what you mean."
"If you want my death, you can take it."
"Sorry?"
"Look at this place. It's barren. In our attempts to find and kill the other we'... | 17 | 0 | 331 | 28,167 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "You shouldn't have come." Britt sounded tired over the loudspeaker.
"Hah, hah! Why not? You are weak! A straggler! The only reason you lasted was because you were protected by your husband and now...well now I know about this clever safehouse." Craig marched toward the safe room.
"Come out! Chat with me! I a... | 39 | 0 | 331 | 28,168 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "Come fight me brother! At long last, we shall hold all the knowledge together!"
"Nay! I will conquer you and the society that I have long dreamed for under my vision will come true!"
"Who will you rule after you've killed me? We are the only ones left."
"I will repopulate the world using the knowledge that you ... | 10 | 0 | 331 | 28,169 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | When she looked up into the sky, she gazed at the stars longingly. The soft twinkling light reminded her of home, her *real* home, so far away on the other side of the world. She closed her eyes, taking in the salty scent of the ocean and letting the soft sound of waves lapping at the sandy beach take her thousands of ... | 3 | 0 | 331 | 28,170 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | Said the one to the other, "This is pointless, you know."
"Yes," said the other.
"What would you even do with it? What would I?" said the one.
"Maybe nothing. Maybe one of us already has more, much more," responded the other.
The one sighed, shoulders slumping forward a bit in resignation to the inevitable fate. He... | 12 | 0 | 331 | 28,171 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "We could just not do it."
"What?" The man who was once named Trevor strikes a match; using the same hand, he plucks a cigarette from behind his ear. Lucky Strike.
His counterpart stands at arms length with his eyes to the ground. He speaks deliberately, his slow drawl masking the flurry of activity between his eyes;... | 2 | 0 | 331 | 28,172 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,173 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | He stood in the sunlight, his shadow stretched lank and leviathan before him. Now was the golden hour, the sun just sinking on the horizon, the western skies splayed salmon and crimson and orange as though their heart had just ruptured. She faced him from the east, features shrouded in shadow. Her hair hung like hollie... | 5 | 0 | 331 | 28,174 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | Well, this escalated quickly.
Yeah. | 2 | 0 | 331 | 28,175 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | We should all know how this ends: [there can be only one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw). | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,176 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 331 | 28,177 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "Do you still want to fight?"
"Yes."
"Why? It's over. Whoever wins, humanity is done. There's only us left."
"I know. With all my knowledge and power, the knowledge of half of humanity, I still do not know how to remedy that."
"So why fight?"
"Because the knowledge of all of humanity might be enough." | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,178 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | Highlander! This universe exists already, but sure is fun to think about. | 3 | 0 | 331 | 28,179 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | It has to be me that wins and loses by default. It is not by choice, it is by necessity.
Let me explain.
The earth is was already dying by the time we discovered an inhabited planet, so very many light years away. In a time when people were killing each other for the ultimate power, an ever shrinking group of us ga... | 3 | 0 | 331 | 28,180 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | We met exactly when both of us expected. We knew each other's last location, and we knew we were looking for each other, after all.
"Hey, Marie.", he said, smug.
"How do you know my na- ah. For someone with the combined knowledge of half the humanity, I can be pretty stupid sometimes."
"Eh, I guess you just don't ... | 0 | 0 | 331 | 28,181 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 331 | 28,182 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "I always wanted to live," I whispered softly into her ear, "I always wanted to die peacefully, you know of old age. In my own bed, in my own house, with my own kids, my family, but that dream has long since been driven away. Forced away... Fuck."
She has such lovely green eyes. Her gazes was haunting. She's so lovely... | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,183 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,184 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | - Minor interpretation change. They're sort of the last two people on earth, in that only they master to each other, and they do talk, just not well.
The life slowly left her body, and ask of her memories, feelings, knowledge and love of him entered his soul. She'd forever live inside of him, with him forever. "I'm... | 0 | 0 | 331 | 28,185 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,186 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "It never really gets old, huh?"
"What the fuck are you talking about. You're the one that made me like... this..."
"Aw come on, you know what it feels like. To consume. To become."
"Shut up, Mercer."
"Right back at ya, Heller."
(Sorry, I have prototype on the mind :P) | 0 | 0 | 331 | 28,187 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "How many have you killed?"
"I've lost count. Hundreds? Thousands, maybe? How about you?"
"None. Yet." | 1 | 0 | 331 | 28,188 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | “How many people would you say?” I asked leaning against the wall. The other one, the last one, stood on the other side of the road with a cigar in his lips, puffing it slowly.
“Accumulated? God, why don’t you ask how many meals I've had, or times I've fucked?....myself!” He laughed. We both did, it was just too true.... | 2 | 0 | 331 | 28,189 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | "You know I love you, right?"
The first couple times?
Self-defense.
Random killing, despite how frowned upon it still was, suddenly at an all time high and rising. I'm not a fighter, by any means, but my desire to live over-powered their desire to devour me. I came out scarred and bloodied, but alive. That was ba... | 2 | 0 | 331 | 28,190 |
[Writing Prompt] Describe the day to day life of a man who lives in a world where other people besides him spontaneously break out into song and dance. |
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[WP] As Chinese warships, US planes and other nations converge on the remote location west of Australia where lies the rumoured wreckage of MH370, the truth behind the mystery is revealed, leading to catastrophe of global proportions. | The jet hung in space, motionless. It's front half was not only intact, but unbesmirched. The rear half was a twisted mess, flames and smoke similarly stopped in an instant of time. Waves far below lapped at a bizarre field of jagged chunks of water, solid and unmoving.
Dozens of ships with the flags of the US, Austra... | 5 | 0 | 13 | 28,192 |
[WP] Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | "I'm sorry, am I wearing the robes that say 'RETARD' on the back?"
"Huh?"
"Don't 'Huh,' me, motherfucker. I'm the anthropomorphic personification of Death. Do I look like some fucking rube right off the bus willing to buy the bag of shit you're selling?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Fuck you and your ... | 30 | 0 | 46 | 28,193 |
[WP] Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | She lay there, after all the life that had gone through her, after all of the beauty she had, after all the love she had given. She lay there.
I knew she was dead, but she didn't feel gone. There was still something there. The room began to melt with me my blood swirled with hers with eventually diluted itself into ... | 5 | 0 | 46 | 28,194 |
[WP] Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | Death did not look like what I had expected. He -- although at certain angles, I could have sworn the shadows of his cheekbones, the soft curves of his lips, were female -- had quietly appeared at the kitchen table and had his long, dainty fingers resting on the kitchen table. He wore a sharply tailored black suit, bro... | 5 | 0 | 46 | 28,195 |
[WP] Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | "Oh no! Not YOU!"
Death's hooded gaze peered from me, confused, to my girlfriend.
"I never thought this day would come! I never thought that I would have to face that immortal certainty that all men must face!"
Once again, Death looked at me, then over to my girlfriend, who was lying on the floor.
"If we must go t... | 16 | 0 | 46 | 28,196 |
[WP] Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | "No, I know it was Lindsey McHanoy that died. I'm picking her soul up today, not yours. What's your name?"
"Joyce O'Brien."
"See, look here. On this clip board, right here. You see that? That's her name. Never once did I make a mistake in writing down the name to collect. I know I'm late for this pickup, but I've ... | 5 | 0 | 46 | 28,197 |
[WP] Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 46 | 28,198 |
[WP] Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 46 | 28,199 |
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