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[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 very sorry mister Smith, but there is nothing more we can do for your wife. Death will surely come for her soon," said the doctor in his best bedside voice.
"Well can't you seal the room so he can't get in?" John interjected.
The doctor stood flabbergasted. "Who?"
"Death," said John.
Utterly perplexed, the do... | 2 | 0 | 46 | 28,200 |
[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. | ##"The Con"
"I've got the hammer and the hacksaw," Brady said to me. "Are... Are you sure you want to do this, Lacey?"
"Is Jane hidden?" I asked.
"I wrote everything down, and hid her away. He won't find her in time."
"Good. Do it."
"Should I... Should I tie you down?"
"Don't you *fucking* dare!" I snapped. "It'l... | 2 | 0 | 46 | 28,201 |
[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. | My eyelids fluttered, weighted with lead;
N64 controller nearly dropped from my hand.
But death hadn't yet visited; of this I was sure.
And damn if I'd let him waltz in through that door.
Just then, a glaze crept over the screen;
I watched Mario Kart blur, warping red and then green.
A thin sheet of frost clutched gla... | 1 | 0 | 46 | 28,202 |
[WP] A talkative woman reluctantly goes on a blind date only to find that her date takes every she says literally. | "I hope the service here is quick. I'm starving!"
"Oh no! Why didn't you tell me? If I'd only known, I would have taken you to the hospital!"
"...It was hyperbole. I'm not literally starving, I'm just making a mountain out of a molehill for humorous effect."
"Doesn't that violate conservation of mass?"
"Are you ser... | 10 | 0 | 9 | 28,203 |
[WP] A talkative woman reluctantly goes on a blind date only to find that her date takes every she says literally. | 'God', Cheryl thinks, 'Why did I agree to this b.s.? Blind dates are a train wreck waiting to happen.' She takes a deep breath to rid herself of the negative thought. 'I have been lonely for a while now. Quit shutting doors Cheryl, it's done you no good.'
Cheryl is startled by a man saying her name directly behind h... | 7 | 0 | 9 | 28,204 |
[WP]The last thing you remember is "falling frozen asleep" on you hike in the himalaya mountains, you "wake up" but can't see, move or talk but you can hear. | [deleted] | 6 | 0 | 8 | 28,205 |
[WP] A man confronts his best friend and has no choice but to fatally shoot him. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 3 | 28,206 |
[WP] A man confronts his best friend and has no choice but to fatally shoot him. | The boat rocked gently back and forth, the ebb and flow of the sea creating an almost hypnotic sensation. The other ship was currently hundreds of feet under the waves, having filled with water after several hours of battle. Both crews had fought valiantly, brilliantly, and neither Captain was disappointed with their m... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 28,207 |
[WP] After a life of preaching against homosexuals in the name of God, Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, has died. What does he experience/discover in the afterlife? | You've done well my child you've spread hate and ignorance around the world you've brain washed your own children into hating everything you don't like.
You and your family have protested everything that you don't agree with you've done well and now it's time for your prize bend over my child it's pineapple time.
Slo... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 28,208 |
[WP] After a life of preaching against homosexuals in the name of God, Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, has died. What does he experience/discover in the afterlife? | Fred Phelps had been standing for a while. He stared in disbelief at the golden glowing tattoo that had formed on the top of his left hand. 700,931,460,001. He looked around. There were two people in front of him, and a line behind him that seemed to extend on infinitely. Besides the people in line just a cloudy mist w... | 13 | 0 | 6 | 28,209 |
[WP] After a life of preaching against homosexuals in the name of God, Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, has died. What does he experience/discover in the afterlife? | He didn't know how much time had passed, or how much more was left. He had already starved to death a dozen times or so, died of appendicitis four times, died of shock, thirst, poisoning, was beaten to death by nine parents, overdosed on heroin sixteen times, and lost count of how many times he committed suicide.
"Oka... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 28,210 |
[WP] After a life of preaching against homosexuals in the name of God, Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, has died. What does he experience/discover in the afterlife? | "Mr. Phelps, did you even read your assignment?"
"Wha-" Fred Phelps was standing in front of a chalkboard, overlooking rows of desks with the blank stares of his 3rd grade classroom. In a panic, he turned around to see the words "Book Report: The Bible," written in messy handwriting. When he looked down he saw himself... | 7 | 0 | 6 | 28,211 |
[WP] After a life of preaching against homosexuals in the name of God, Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, has died. What does he experience/discover in the afterlife? | Listening to the beep and hum of the monitoring equipment Fred Phelps is laying on his death bed. He knows it, the nurses and doctors know it, his family and friends know it. He takes a moment to say another prayer. He is stressed and exhausted but, smiles at the thought of Jesus waiting for him. Most of his 13 chi... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,212 |
[WP] A user opens a new browser window with access to the Internet of 2024. | So many possibilities. So much information. The future resting at my fingertips just waiting to be discovered. What would I search first? Will I use this information to better my life? The lives of others? Could I cure a disease years earlier? Save millions of lives from pain and suffering with this knowledge from the ... | 8 | 0 | 15 | 28,213 |
[WP] A user opens a new browser window with access to the Internet of 2024. | I sit there, shocked. Was this really the future?
A sterile, lifeless slate, constantly monitored by someone above you? The mere sight left me in tears, caked in the white light of the screen.
I had seen enough, and turned from the monitor. What I didn't see was the slow change that happened with each step. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 28,214 |
[WP] A user opens a new browser window with access to the Internet of 2024. | "Welcome to Internet.gov! Please send any search queries to the following mailing-address, and we'll address them on a first-come-first-serve basis! Thank you!" | 2 | 0 | 15 | 28,215 |
[WP] A user opens a new browser window with access to the Internet of 2024. | Click.
"Damn." Another firewall.
He tried the window again, opening and closing it, but even as the screen brinked bright and purple, announcing that the Chrome browser could access the Internet of 2024, the firewall still nipped him in every bud.
He went back to Google. That was the same, at least, and familiar. On... | 23 | 0 | 15 | 28,216 |
[WP] A user opens a new browser window with access to the Internet of 2024. | "404 error, Webpage not found" was the response all of my favorite site responding with. "what the hell is going on? is my internet acting up again?" i thought. i typed in the most common website that people use like google, yahoo, hotmail and similar service. none of which seems to work. thinking that my router or com... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 28,217 |
[WP] Humanity has colonized a small number of nearby planets. They go to war with each other. | You could hardly blame them. Conflict is never buried deep within our minds, and our thoughts teeter on the brink of sanity and confusion. Within our desire to maintain an illusion of control, of perfect symmetry, our species sought to expand our domain, to solve problems on earth and exporting them to other new worl... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 28,218 |
[WP] Humanity has colonized a small number of nearby planets. They go to war with each other. | Toph wiped the sweat off his brow. Operating gas extraction rigs was no mean feat, and it took years of training until you were qualified to operate one. The chaotic nature of the high winds on Jupiter made this sort of work impossible for robots to do - they needed a critical eye and a sense of judgement that AI lacke... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 28,219 |
[EU] In the grim dark future of the 42nd Millennium... there is finally peace. | A new age has begun. The greatest age. I saved us all.
I am the leader. I am their Savior. I have saved the human race.
The moment my armies finally toppled Washington DC, there was finally peace. The whole world is mine. Now no one wishes to fight. Those that do change their minds pretty quickly. I have saved us al... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 28,220 |
[WP] Describe a Sci-Fi or High-tech gadget through the eyes of a Fantasy or Medieval denizen. | What is this strange object? A small, square...*thing* with a dark mirror. What would one call this? Ah, it is inscribed on the back. Ip-hone? Is this a button? **AHH!** It lights up! But how? I see no way to fuel it! Tis sorcery! *stompstompstomstompstomp* | 5 | 0 | 7 | 28,221 |
[WP] Describe a Sci-Fi or High-tech gadget through the eyes of a Fantasy or Medieval denizen. | "Silvery gnats, small as dust! They swarmed around some orb of foreign magics; it glowed a blue hue, bright even in the day. It must produce some earth killing poison, because the ground -- in an even circle, wide as a chapel hall-- is a dead brown, and it appears as if even the rocks were slowly being turned to some... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 28,222 |
Two paladins meet in a world where paladins hate seeing one another. What do they say to one another? |
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[EU] A Battlestar Galactica situation unfolds in the Star Trek universe, with Enterprise being the last remaining military ship | Tom Paris had only been captain for a few weeks. After successfully navigating the Voyager back home, Starfleet command sealed his past records and he rose through the ranks.
And then the Borg came. Paris was busy giving a speech on the decommissioned Voyager when it happened.
All the ships were destroyed in the in... | 3 | 0 | 20 | 28,224 |
[EU] A Battlestar Galactica situation unfolds in the Star Trek universe, with Enterprise being the last remaining military ship | "I can- I can't go on like this. What's the point of it all?"
"Lieutenant, this has been hard on all of us, but..."
"We can't win. Earth is gone. We haven't come across any other ship in weeks."
"Mr. Barclay, you're still a Starfleet offi-"
"We can't out run them. They're going to find us! We're all doo-"
Riker's ... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 28,225 |
[EU] A Battlestar Galactica situation unfolds in the Star Trek universe, with Enterprise being the last remaining military ship | "Your analysis, Mr. Spock?" Kirk asked casually, trying his best to suppress his fear. He turned his Captain's chair towards Spock's science station as he shot his characteristic half-smile.
Fear. Kirk was feeling fear. It wasn't often that he encountered a tiny, spherical spacecraft that was capable of dealing s... | 3 | 0 | 20 | 28,226 |
[CC] Chicago after Midnight | *First, some accolades!*
"he's built like a rail and mouthy like an ex-wife" This description reveals more about the narrator than it does the subject, which I appreciate. It's clever.
Your descriptions of the city and the people in this story are well done. I got a good image of Russ and I liked "the glowing city of... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28,227 |
[WP] Doctors say you have days to live. In an effort to accept your fading mortality, write your own eulogy. | For all that he strove, the good that he did is dwarfed by that which he did not. | 5 | 0 | 8 | 28,228 |
[WP] Doctors say you have days to live. In an effort to accept your fading mortality, write your own eulogy. | Today, we lay to rest boringboringboing.
He was a good man, a kind man. Everyone knew him for the wonderful human being we all knew him to be, spreading his warmth and light to all of those around him. Almost like a fire burning in the night...
*snickers in the audience*
I had known him for a long time, we grew up t... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 28,229 |
[WP] Doctors say you have days to live. In an effort to accept your fading mortality, write your own eulogy. | Hi folks, well here we are at my final party, I'm sorry the circumstances are a bit of a downer, for me at least, I kinda hope no one is too overjoyed at my death. Well even if you're doing a happy dance at my graveside at least you showed up, so I won't come back and haunt you, unless you're doing the bus stop.
I hop... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,230 |
[WP] Doctors say you have days to live. In an effort to accept your fading mortality, write your own eulogy. | although he had an open heart and gave happiness to the people around him, he was really odd. | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,231 |
[WP] Doctors say you have days to live. In an effort to accept your fading mortality, write your own eulogy. | Considering I'm lying in bed, feverish and coughing up blood, this is going to be cathartic. I can only hope I am worthy of the speech I'm about to write. I wonder how they're going to do it? My voice over a tape recorder? Ugh, the more I think about it the more fucking bizarre this sounds. What kind of conceited dipwa... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,232 |
Social class is based on the quality of one's teeth. You have just been discovered using dentures to improve your social standing. |
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It is the year 2176 and the technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? |
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[WP] Two antagonists from two different books sit down at a bar to drink away their sorrow. They realize their defeats were very similar as they begin to open up to each other over another pint. | T’was a gloomy evening, dark clouds looming over the sky and was only a matter of time before it bursts out. It seemed as though the clouds were waiting for a sinful sneeze, a signal.
The bar at the end of the road leading up to the dock always seemed to be overflowing with crowds of rich merchants, stingy traders an... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28,235 |
[WP] A customer comes into a store, is rude to everyone, and dies within a minute of exiting the store. | The red-faced, balding man barged right past the line of people at the pharmacy, ignoring the chorus of protests.
He craned his neck to look for the pharmacist. When she didn't appear, he snapped his fingers furiously. "Hey! Come out here and do your fucking job!"
Thirty seconds later, she emerged from the back wit... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 28,236 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | "Sit down kid," A face ordered me, from behind a thick veil of smoke, "Lemme tell you the tale of the Frickafrazz Calamity." A grizzled old man put out his cigar on the table and lit up another one. "It was the summer of '32 and like a new detective on the beat I was a new detective on the beat. It was my first job, fi... | 23 | 0 | 33 | 28,237 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | The knock on the door was assertive, forthright, like that girl at the bar last night who had bought me the one drink too many and then insisted I pick up the tab.
I held my breath. My first case. I was excited - almost as excited as the dog I imagined sitting next to me in a few months time, once I'd finally gotten ... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 28,238 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | Don Jackson was at his desk.
Suddenly a ninja lept from the ceiling where it had been hiding a placed a ninja scroll on his desk.
The ninja then killed itself with a rusty spork. This process was very messy and took about seventeen minutes.
Don Jackson looked at the thing. It was in Chinese so he could not read it... | 1 | 0 | 33 | 28,239 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | She blows into my office like a broken record with a cat on top, scratching for purchase but finding none, like a man in an underwear sale at a tupperware shop.
"Sam," she breathes, and inside I melt like butter-fried chicken in an oven set to two fifty. But she's just a dame, and I'm the dick she'd come to for help--... | 3 | 0 | 33 | 28,240 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | The day had been like one too many dishes in the dishwasher: loud. The body lay across train tracks like a dishrag that had been put through the dishwasher: twisted. Guy Nocktem sighed and lit his cigarrette with a lighter that had seen so much use, it looked like it had been through the dishwasher. He reached out and ... | 8 | 0 | 33 | 28,241 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | I'm finding that being a detective is a lot like being a dick, since there's a lot of grunt work. Right now I'm just sitting in an unmarked van. If I had to describe the sitting, I'd say it feels somewhere around the 35th minute of a read-and-poop, when your ass feels kind of weird and may or may not have fallen asle... | 3 | 0 | 33 | 28,242 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | They called me Kansas City. It wasn't my name. Just a place I once lived. I guess it was easier to say than Heihustus Bonngailetti. What was mom thinking naming me that. Shit, I'd call me Kansas City too if I had to twist my lips around my name hundred times a day.
The blonde liked my real name and went out of her wa... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 28,243 |
[CW] Using terrible analogies, write me a story about a private detectives first case. | >"Johnnie Two Eyes." At this point he looks over to me to make sure I was following, as if there had been something difficult to comprehend about that name. "Called such because of a lifelong struggle with dyslexia that rendered him unable to spell his own name."
That was beautiful. | 1 | 0 | 33 | 28,244 |
[WP] In the near future, an excavation reveals that all religions stemmed from the same place. All governments and religions are unified into a single body. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 12 | 28,245 |
[WP] A Court Reporter Covers the Highly Publicized Trial of a Superhero Who Was Arrested for Soliciting a Prostitute. | "Thank you, Dan. We are now only moments away from a verdict in a case that has shocked the nation, and turned our most fundamental ideas of truth, justice, and the American way on their heads.
As you well know, 3 weeks ago, venerated superheroine Wonder Woman was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute. That... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 28,246 |
Norse Tale |
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[WP] Today's News Paper Headlines read "Extra Terrestrials attack small city: No Survivors" | The headline for the paper on April 4rd, 2014 read "Extraterrestrials Attack Small City: No Survivors." Jeffrey Glaskin didn't even have to pick up a copy to know what it said. As a freelance disaster correspondent, he had driven into what remained of Staunton, Virginia in the early hours of morning.
Having a long his... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28,248 |
A husband stays up to confront his wife who has been "working late". |
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[EU] The Goonies: Where are they now? | Well mickey turned into a hobbit. Data hooked up with indie and mouth died I think??? The others I dont know
Lol ( im joking I know what u were asking) its an interesting question? Xx | 1 | 0 | 3 | 28,250 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | At first it seemed like we would never win, could never win. But that never bothered us. We were fighting for what we believed in, for our very selves. Giving in was never an option. Some of the greatest minds of the century were with us and for a bit we kept up with them technologically. They had omnipresence, we had ... | 18 | 0 | 44 | 28,251 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | What the Individualists failed to realize, and was ultimately their undoing, was that what they clung to so tightly was an illusion. There was no individual. There never had been. The self the individualists so violently defended was not ultimately the product of some important or significant inner being, unaffected by... | 9 | 0 | 44 | 28,252 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | The search parties are making their rounds again. Don't seem to bother much with us though. I reckon they'd've found us out by now if there were a need to. Johnny says the Insular troops are just too dumb to care one way or another, long as they get their rations. I like to imagine they don't mean to do us any harm tho... | 2 | 0 | 44 | 28,253 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | Reservations are set aside for the Luddites, both on Earth (if this is the home planet of the setting) and on off-world colonies.
The killed casualties of war are downloaded from the cloud database and into their cloned bodies to be brought back to life and once on these reservations, the two ideologies live out their... | 2 | 0 | 44 | 28,254 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | The war is over. We have won.
Earlier today my office received a transmission from the Hivemind-Collectivists, which we can now confirm is authentic, signaling their intent to surrender fully and without condition all of their remaining forces. Already the shelling at the southern border has ceased, and they have ... | 2 | 0 | 44 | 28,255 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | **Part 1**
Howard loved the smell of bergamot in the morning. A good cup of Earl Grey made just about anything bearable: the deafening sounds of drills, the horrible food, the sight of dirt everywhere he looked, *everything*. 17 years stuck inside a hole, rarely ever any time to catch a train back out to the surface. ... | 5 | 0 | 44 | 28,256 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | At the edge of a dense forest, where a weathered path meets an ancient road, a lone horse shifts her weight from foot to foot. In the cold air every breath and snort is punctuated by a white cloud. Astride her back, A man shifts his weight in the saddle.
He wonders why it's so hard to stop retracing the past. Why it's... | 5 | 0 | 44 | 28,257 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | The Hive had pulled out all the stops for this final execution. The crosses were authentic wood, carried in from the Pacific Fleet. The thorns were authentic spina-cristi from the polar greenhouses. John was not sure whether the costumed soldier who stood at the ready to deliver the _quietus_ was holding the Holy La... | 2 | 0 | 44 | 28,258 |
[WP] It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | "Do you not see?" a soft voice inquired, emanating from the almost insectoid mandible of the robotic figure. "Why would you deny peace, why would you deny salvation"
Aaron sneered at the beast, spitting at the ground before it, rocking in the chair he was tied to. These creatures had arisen shortly after humanity had ... | 4 | 0 | 44 | 28,259 |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find a doppelganger of yourself in your household. It can't see you, and you can see it, but it still behaves as if it lives there | The sun is most definitely on its way up now. The light sneaks through the crack in between the blind and the window, creating a dagger of light across the pillow. I’ve been lying here, watching it creep along the bed, but now there’s no escape, it’s right across my face and I know any minute the alarm is going to star... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,260 |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find a doppelganger of yourself in your household. It can't see you, and you can see it, but it still behaves as if it lives there | I woke up to a startling sight- a sight of myself! I never believed in the supernatural, or any of that bullshit. But watching myself get up, eat breakfast, and get ready for work? This isn't normal. It must be a dream. But it was all too real. He, well, *me*, took no notice of me. I decided to sit back and observe. I'... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,261 |
[WP] A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | Emily wiped the tears out her eyes as she sat alone on her hospital bed. She knew Dave wouldn't come, but knowing and seeing weren't the same thing. She hadn't cried since she was a child, forced to give up her childhood to raise her siblings, but she couldn't control it now. She began to sob lightly.
"You okay?" A so... | 62 | 0 | 69 | 28,262 |
[WP] A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | The empty room around him is cold dimly lit. Traces of medical charts are sitting at his feet and used paper towels are thrown on the floor. He is grey looking and pale. His eyes are closed. A glimpse of his gentleness is still seen in his soft hands resting at his side. The weight of his body tumbles gently from side ... | 2 | 0 | 69 | 28,263 |
[WP] A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 69 | 28,264 |
[WP] A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | This scene is called "The Intro to Star Trek from 2009" | 1 | 0 | 69 | 28,265 |
[WP] A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | "Just Braxton Hicks contractions, still not there yet Mrs. Dove, remember to only call us when the contractions increase in duration and strength."
The doctor walked away and out of the room with what can only be best described as indifference. I could only imagine how dejected the woman felt; not that I could confirm... | 2 | 0 | 69 | 28,266 |
[WP] A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | “Hey.”
“Hi…”
“What are you in for?”
“We’re...having a baby today.”
“Oh, nice.”
“Honey, make sure my mom’s alright please.”
“Your husband over there?”
“He was, yeah. Why are you here?”
“Sick.”
“Sick? You sound young.”
“I get that a lot around here. I’m 12. You?”
“36.”
“That’s kinda old to have a baby. Everyt... | 2 | 0 | 69 | 28,267 |
[WP] A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | I awake to the slow beat of a heart rate monitor. My breaths are short and shallow. I have know I’m dying for days know, but I’m not ready. They say that people become more noble when faced with death, but I’m still so afraid. I don’t want to go. I still fear dying, leaving those I love. I open my eyes, and I see that ... | 1 | 0 | 69 | 28,268 |
[OT] 'The Confrontation' Contest Results! | Did I use too many "..." or did I go off track from the prompt? | 2 | 0 | 7 | 28,269 |
[OT] 'The Confrontation' Contest Results! | Incredibly honored to be chosen as the winner. Thanks and see you all next time.
EDIT: This story was inspired heavily by Louis L'Amour. If you haven't read his work, please do. They are to-date the best books on westerns that I've read, and I grew up reading all of his books. | 3 | 0 | 7 | 28,270 |
[OT] 'The Confrontation' Contest Results! | I'm very happy with an honourable mention, and the winner was a worthy one :)
That was good fun - lots of excellent entries. Hope we do it again some time! | 4 | 0 | 7 | 28,271 |
[OT] 'The Confrontation' Contest Results! | Honorable mention? Hell yeah! This was fun. I can't wait for the next contest! | 4 | 0 | 7 | 28,272 |
[WP] You fall asleep normally. When you wake up, you are the proprietor of a falafel stand you've never seen before. | Chris shoved his hand into his pants’ pocket and pulled out his phone. He frantically flipped it open and began scrolling through his contacts, his other hand gripped firmly around a metal handle on the cart in front of him. He stopped once the phone’s LED screen lit up with Dan’s name, then pressed “call” and brought ... | 9 | 0 | 18 | 28,273 |
[WP] Everyone around you instantly and suddenly drops dead. You and 10,000 other random humans are all that remain. You don't know if there are other survivors or where they are... | The hardest thing about it all wasn't what you'd expect. Not the crushing loneliness, not the scavenging for food, and not avoiding the wolves.
No, it was the smell that made it unbearable.
Two weeks ago the world ended. Or at least, it did for humanity.
There I was, minding my own business, trying to find a decent ... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 28,274 |
[WP] Everyone around you instantly and suddenly drops dead. You and 10,000 other random humans are all that remain. You don't know if there are other survivors or where they are... | I ran outside.
"Oh, fuck! Oh, fuck!"
Across the street lay my neighbor. It looked like she was just leaving for school. At this point, I booked it for my car. My thoughts weren't that people were just dropping all around me, that my parents lay dead in bed, or that some of my closest friends might just have dropped ... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 28,275 |
[WP] Everyone around you instantly and suddenly drops dead. You and 10,000 other random humans are all that remain. You don't know if there are other survivors or where they are... | Pandemonium.
Total chaos.
When you watch the movies of zombie breakouts and natural global disasters the actors always run for the supermarkets to gather supplies for survival, But there was no point now. They didn't have time to collect. They were dropping too quickly, faster than they could even register which way ... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 28,276 |
[WP] Write a journal of a person who is playing 2048 and slowly going insane. | March 18, 2014
Somebody on Reddit posted this really fun game today. It's called 2048 and the objective is to add together these blocks to eventually reach the 2048 block. It's highly addictive! It's great for me since I'm so bored at work and now I have something I can do in the background. Yay!
March 19th, 2014
I... | 6 | 0 | 8 | 28,277 |
[WP] Write a journal of a person who is playing 2048 and slowly going insane. | Thursday, March 13, 2014, 10pm:
My friend posted something on Facebook called 2048. Huh, must be some new game. Might as well just try it out since both League AND Hearthstone are down for maintenance.
Friday, March 14, 2014, 2am:
Wow, I've been playing this game for four hours and I still can't seem to freaking win... | 5 | 0 | 8 | 28,278 |
[WP][EU] The Vault Overseer explains to the rest of the Vault 13 citizens his decision to exile the Vault Dweller after he saved the lives of everyone in the vault AND possibly the entire world | "you see, he was not the boy we knew" said the overseer "he was different, not in the heroic way, not in becoming a man way, he was no man, he was a demon"
The meeting hall was silent, until one stood up.
"he still saved us all" she said, everyone in the hall looked at her, "and you denied him the right to a home"
e... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 28,279 |
[WP][EU] The Vault Overseer explains to the rest of the Vault 13 citizens his decision to exile the Vault Dweller after he saved the lives of everyone in the vault AND possibly the entire world | Deep within the earth, a whining and buzzing sound was heard. The sound of a radio signal, banded about, reaching every call box, every television set, every computer screen within the Vault. The Public Address system, stopped belting out the same 8 songs from the past, and began a message.
Every vault dweller, stoppe... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,280 |
[WP] Humans can live forever, as long as they spend each day doing what they are told | "And here we go again." Anna muttered.
She stared at the ceiling while mentally mustering the willpower to drag herself out of bed. Her room was a deep maroon, and almost every surface was lined with books. Old, dusty tomes from a hundred years ago as well as fresh-spined serials and magazines. An ancient grandfather ... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 28,281 |
[WP] Humans can live forever, as long as they spend each day doing what they are told | I cringe again as I deliver another unmarked box to a plain looking door. I knock and walk away, knowing it will be found.
I hate that I grew curious. I hate that I dug deep to find out. If only I just followed blindly like I have done for so long. There has never been a greater moment that the saying 'ignorance is b... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 28,282 |
You find a note on the ground one day. It reads "[Your name] is not to be trusted, don't believe their lies." |
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Every so often a person is chosen to be the equivalent of the christian god. They are given their own universe to rule over, however before they can roam free they need to pass a class on how to be god. [WP] | *Make everybody happy...*
That's another one failed. These God wannabes, I don't know how they imagine getting such an important position without proper preparation. If you want to be God, you need a license and a permit. You pass a preliminary exam where you have to prove you know the theoretical part, and the rules,... | 3 | 0 | 14 | 28,284 |
[IP] Oh shit... | The chipped dusty stone dispersed as he stepped to the taupe ground below him. It was a dream held by every child in their early years, a surreal dream molded to reality by the NASA program. He felt a salty drop roll down his thick jawline, unsure if it was a tear or sweat. A grin was forced ear to ear on this young as... | 5 | 0 | 18 | 28,285 |
[IP] Oh shit... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 18 | 28,286 |
[IP] Oh shit... | "Oh shit....."
Mark swore to himself as he scrolled past the BBC news headlines.
**Manned mission to Mars unsuccessful.**
It hadn't been just him that had come up with the advertising campaign. Sure, the original idea had been his, but they'd all thought it had been a good idea. Blue sky fucking thinking. Associate... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 28,287 |
[WP] A man becomes increasingly paranoid at the growing parasite in his wife's belly | She glows now
She sits before the fire
strokes her swelling bump with mother's pride
I twist my hands with white knuckles
try not to let her see.
I hate it
There's something inside her which
feeds
and sucks
and draws at her lifeblood
She says it's mine
I watch it move beneath her skin and ... | 6 | 0 | 8 | 28,288 |
[WP] A man becomes increasingly paranoid at the growing parasite in his wife's belly | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 28,289 |
[WP] A man becomes increasingly paranoid at the growing parasite in his wife's belly | Pt. 2- A few days later, we left the hospital. But not before running into the doctor who treated my wife. He stopped us and asked us how everything with the baby was. My wife of course went into every detail she could remember about the stage in development our child was in. "Well that's wonderful," said the doctor. "... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 28,290 |
[WP] A man becomes increasingly paranoid at the growing parasite in his wife's belly | Pt. 1- "Congratulations!" This had been the word of the day since everyone found out my wife was pregnant. And why would't it be, this is a miracle, creating a new human being. I just wish it was. That sounds wrong, I mean, of course it's human. Mostly anyway. I don't know how describe the terror I feel now when I shou... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,291 |
[WP] You can communicate with people from parallel universes over the internet | Hi. | -1 | 0 | 20 | 28,292 |
[WP] You can communicate with people from parallel universes over the internet | **TwitchedAwake has signed on**
**AwakedTwitch has signed on**
T: >So... you're from the otherside huh?
A: >Yep.
T: >Do you guys still have Firefly, The Cape, Clone High and Invader Zim, and if so, could I get whatever episodes you guys have?
A: >You Sure? There's like... 8 seasons of each.
T: >Yes... | 0 | 0 | 20 | 28,293 |
[WP] You can communicate with people from parallel universes over the internet | I scrolled down google, looking for something, anything that could kill a few more of these dreadful hours. Turns out "time wasting sites" is a pretty common search. Nothing looked interesting on the first few pages of the results, but on page 6 something caught my eye.
>*parallelchats.com*
>Chat with cool peop... | 9 | 0 | 20 | 28,294 |
[WP] You can communicate with people from parallel universes over the internet | "Danny! Your dinner is getting cold! Come downstairs and eat!" Mrs. Domrowski yelled from the kitchen table. The rest of the family had already taken up their usual seats at the table. They were all waiting for the 18 year-old Danny.
"In a minute mom! I'm talking to one of my AU buddies!" Danny yelled back downstairs ... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 28,295 |
[WP] You can communicate with people from parallel universes over the internet | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 20 | 28,296 |
[WP] You can communicate with people from parallel universes over the internet | * Your nickname is now JoBurgAmy1405
* Now talking in #multiversechat
* Topic is: READ THE SITE RULES! NO P2P SHARING!
* Topic set by admincarley4 on Mon Feb 1st 1984
<WidowsPeakJeff5014> Is there another way to get off of this earth? I mean, this one's ruled by spiders the size of cats!
<JoBurgAmy1405>... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,297 |
[WP] What are the three most creative ways to kill a cat? | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 28,298 |
[WP] What are the three most creative ways to kill a cat? | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28,299 |
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