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[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | I looked at my watch. It was 9:02 PM. He said he would be here by now. The horrifying stench of this alleyway wasn't getting any better. Just then, I heard a strange noise.
*reek-reek-reek-reek-reek*
It sounded like a robot dying. The noise was getting louder.
*REEK-REEK-REEK-REEK-REEK*
And now, I knew where the no... | 8 | 0 | 94 | 28,400 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | O'Malley's is one of those terrible faux Irish pubs, but I drink there because I work there. The owner has an exploitable weakness for sequential art so I've been drip feeding him with single issues of *The Avengers* from the early '90s for a couple of months. He sends punters my way and lets me conduct business in a... | 57 | 0 | 94 | 28,401 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | You: You got the books?
Dealer: Yeah. You got the drugs?
You: Yeah. Take the red pill.
Dealer: Awesome. So long and thanks for all the fish.
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[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | I wasn't trying, but the man I was, died that day.
The briefcase sat beside me. Samsonite Bonded Leather Attache. Initially the money was thrown in an old gym bag. Until they had asked for the attache. I wondered why that model, specifically. It took me about three seconds to realize 75k, when stacked right, would fit... | 2 | 0 | 94 | 28,403 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | The dealer was a greasy little fellow dressed in sweat and cheap polyethylene fleece. The nose could tell his cache site must be a dumpster. He stood in front of Max trying to look nonchalant and uninterested, just taking in the air of the alley.
"You have the Twains?", Max gruffed.
"Are you nuts?", the dealer quai... | 6 | 0 | 94 | 28,404 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | "How many???"
"Like I said, one million. All you gotta do is paste a fuckin' smile on ya face, run it across the borda, simple enough. You gonna meet with Slim Jimmy at the Bates Motel, jost oaf the highway. He'll take it da restada way."
"If I get caught-"
"You won't."
"But what about Stephen K? They caught him wi... | 5 | 0 | 94 | 28,405 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | I turned both the GPS and headlights off as I continued down the country road. I was too smart for that. I was too smart for all of this. I rolled down the window and let the soft smell of damp earth seep into my car. Almost there. I considered turning around if only for a brief moment. I had to commit. I was too far f... | 3 | 0 | 94 | 28,406 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | A half-smile peeks out from a billowy hood. Virtually invisible for hours, Agent Zero emerges from the shadows and hones in on his prey: a group of college students drinking in the park.
-Can I interest you in some Nabokov?-
-I've heard of that. It's like trellis, right? But more calming. Yeah, gimme some of that. H... | 2 | 0 | 94 | 28,407 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | I've gone through this whole routine countless times before to buy my "usual". I've long outgrown the times of being nervous; the paranoia that police were around every corner, waiting to catch me.
After a few months, that feeling eventually wears off, and buying it seems like a regular occurrence.
Later one afterno... | 1 | 0 | 94 | 28,408 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | The year is 2052. Law number XVII.233 has been enacted, prohibiting the sale, reading, or knowledge of any written or digital literature, including but not limited to: novels, plays, poetry, short stories, writing prompts, and especially, most certainly, unarguably, personal responses.
Society is repressed. Civilizati... | 1 | 0 | 94 | 28,409 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | "Listen man, I'm gonna need some Dune."
"Dune? Listen man, that shit ain't cheap, y'know? Those have like, a thousand pages man. It's like... complicated and shit. Listen, you want Dune, you're gonna need to see this guy I know. Has the whole set, but they ain't gonna come cheap, y'know?"
"Alright. Where's his ad... | 3 | 0 | 94 | 28,410 |
[WP] All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | There I was, a slightly scared, scrawny sixteen-year-old boy, about to enter a dark alley. What was I doing back here? Well, all my friends were raving about these "books" that were supposedly legal 50 or so years ago. All they do is talk about how amazing different types of books are and I feel really left out when th... | 1 | 0 | 94 | 28,411 |
[FF] An inaninmate object(s) scheme to ruin the life of the homeowner | Burnished chrome plating. Smooth action. Seven different settings light-to-dark and bagel. Cold in the morning chill, like revenge.
Fat pink fingers clutch bread and cram it into the slot. Leaving grease marks on the beautiful chrome lever. Marred imperfection. If I had teeth to grit. If I had blood to boil.
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[FF] An inaninmate object(s) scheme to ruin the life of the homeowner | I lie in wait. It's dark, the details of the room indiscernable.
I hear a noise. Creaking, groaning. Footsteps.
Soft, sliding. Vulnerable. Perfect.
Closer. I see a shadow.
*Closer.* Mere feet away now.
**CLOSER.**
***IMPACT!*** It rocks me to my core, lifting me off the ground. YES! Ecstasy! I hear unintellig... | 6 | 0 | 20 | 28,413 |
[FF] An inaninmate object(s) scheme to ruin the life of the homeowner | As they waddle around, grunting in frustration I inwardly grin. Once again I have swallowed something they want. Oh they tried searching my crevices. I always seem to not have what they want at first.
Too long have they plopped their grossly humongous, putrid, fleshy bodies on my glorious leather. Jamming joints, swea... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,414 |
[FF] An inaninmate object(s) scheme to ruin the life of the homeowner | Do you know what it's like to be forgotten in the back of an ice cold box for months? How about years? There's things growing on me that I didn't know could live in this kind of cold. Get someone to classify this quick because i'm sure it's new. Get Earl.
Wasteful son of a bitch. I longingly await to fulfill my desti... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,415 |
[FF] An inaninmate object(s) scheme to ruin the life of the homeowner | I remember the day we met. You walked past that scheming salesman and right to me, my bright hood shining red in your eyes. I was just your size. That first year was getting lost in the country. You would spend hours caressing me with soft wax.
A few months past and I began to see your shoulders shrink. You packed a ... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,416 |
[WP] Write a satirical story with some dark humor about 2 opposing soldiers in WW2 | Dirt flew into the air as John scrambled up the hill. The constant sounds of ratatatat and large, earthshaking bangs kept him on edge. He remembered the stories. All the war stories of glory and honor. But no, it was not glorious, it was hideous. He ran further up the hill. A loud boom made him stumble, but he used the... | 6 | 0 | 14 | 28,417 |
[WP] Write a satirical story with some dark humor about 2 opposing soldiers in WW2 | 19th May, 1936
The foghorns were blaring, the birds were shrieking, there were men out there dying, and I was here. Little old me, never too sure about where I met him, where I met my nemesis, Rafem.
Rafem was the worst leader of a platoon I've ever seen, he enjoyed doing cavity searches on his victims...*after kil... | 3 | 0 | 14 | 28,418 |
[WP] Write a satirical story with some dark humor about 2 opposing soldiers in WW2 | The building was blown out on the east side. The snow made it prosaic, and the tables and chairs and toilets were vague white sculptures of the way people used to eat and shit. He climbed up the rubble and into the rubble and lay behind a bed. It looked look a little girl's bed. He ripped off some of the bedding an... | 7 | 0 | 14 | 28,419 |
[WP] Write about a community singles dance as if it were an action movie. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 28,420 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | "Um, dude? I know this might be a shitty time to mention this, but I sort of fucked your girlfriend."
"Shh...don't speak, the ambulance will...What? What the fuck are you talking about."
"It was an accident! Okay!"
"An accident! So, what? So you tripped and your penis happened to enter Suzie's vagina."
"Will you be... | 8 | 0 | 30 | 28,421 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | "hey... hey, it's okay," I whispered, closing my hand around your wrist. "don't worry, look it's almost over."; tears welling.
You trembled, eyes wide with confusion, you opened your mouth to speak but quaked a warm breath in place of words.
"I won't ever forget you buddy, I swear, I swear I won't." You didn't know w... | 66 | 1 | 30 | 28,422 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 30 | 28,423 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | "Hey Bubba" "
Hey, Forrest. Forrest, why’d this happen?"
"You got shot."
"I wanna go home." | 12 | 0 | 30 | 28,424 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | Pop! He tumbled to the ground as the sharp pain radiated through his leg.
"Thought you'd get away, huh bitch?"
"Naw, I remember how good your aim was" he said nonchalantly. "I just forgot how much these fucking BBs hurt." He moved his hand down to his thigh and found his pant leg to be extremely damp. "Shit, I thin... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 28,425 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | A tiny missile streaks through the air, speeding at over the speed of sound. A soft thunk is heard as it makes its mark.
You lie in my arms now, slowly bleeding and staining my shirt. But I do not care for the shirt as much as I do for you. You are everything I care for at this point in time and others.
You matter ... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 28,426 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | "Found one!"
I held the can of beans up from behind the counter, following after it. Elizabeth looked back from the door way and lowered her rifle, smiling. "About damn time, Jake." She turned slowly and began walking towards me.
I reached into my back pocked and flicked out my pocket knife, then dug it into the e... | 5 | 0 | 30 | 28,427 |
[WP] Your best friend has been shot and is dying. They don't know that death is coming. This is your final conversation. | There were still stray blasts whizzing in the near distance, just across the courtyard. My men finally breached the inner sanctum, the deepest and most heavily guarded room in the facility, but small fragments of hostile squads were still dug in deep in armories and holdouts throughout the seven square kilometer facili... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 28,428 |
[WP] A Person at their workplace suddenly feels compelled to say everything to(and about) their co-workers they ever wanted. | I'm fired?
Alright, just checking.
No, don't bother having my supervisor clean out my locker. I can handle that.
Tori, Mike, Jules! So sorry I won't be able to see three of the hardest working, under-paid people I've ever met again! You deserve better than this shit-sandwich job. Get out! Go somewhere they appreciat... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 28,429 |
[WP] The Freelance Thief | The incessant, high-pitched chirping of crickets resounded through the crisp night air. The crops waved and bent in the light, warm wind, as if a ghostly army crept through the grain, revealing their presence in small gusts blowing against the faces of onlookers. As he walked through the wind-blown ripples of the moonl... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 28,430 |
[WP] The Freelance Thief | "No no, Mr. Bedford, I'm not a devil, I'm an angel. See my wings and Halo? No silly, you're dreaming, close your eyes. You will see your family in heaven very soon. Goodnight."
Natalia pushed the anesthetic into the old man's arm, and watched as the old man's eyes eased into a deep sleep.
Letting out a breath that ... | 7 | 0 | 17 | 28,431 |
You come home one day and everyone close to you is sitting in a circle around your living room. You open the conversation with this: "OK, before anyone says anything, I just want to say this...." |
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"We're only an hour away" Two families, using the same phrase, two different meanings |
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"We're only an hour away" Two families, using the same phrase, two different meanings | The storm swept up the wicked and dragged them under the cleansing sea. God had had enough of this new Gomorrah, and although Abigail had no right to question God's design, she wept.
The salty tears that beaded down her lip and onto her tongue spoke of the corrosive destruction that the flood water would mete on ma... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28,434 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I had a strange urge to check myself out in the mirror as I was preparing for bed. Did my hair look okay? Anything ugly about my clothes? I suddenly wanted to find out. I looked into the mirror. I looked fine, same as I always did. Same brown hair, same green eyes, everything was okay. I breathed a sigh of relief. I th... | 13 | 0 | 195 | 28,435 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | It wasn't like it wasn't noticeable.
Seconds is a long time. By the time the first lace came through the knot, my reflection was standing there, waiting for me. I saw him- wait, I saw *me* stand up, look at me disapprovingly, and wait.
Why was I - he - disapproving of me? Who the fuck made him the high authority on... | 49 | 0 | 195 | 28,436 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I'm getting old. There are more lines on my face than there ever were before, folding out from around my eyes like a fan of creases. I smooth at them desperately, pinning my skin back against my face like some demented plastic surgeon. My mouth pulls into a grimace, teeth bared.
"Come to bed, Lise." George calls fr... | 179 | 0 | 195 | 28,437 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I had known this asshole for more than twenty years.Every morning, I greet him, and encourage him. You can do it. As I know, this fucker never reply nor repond. He just stand there and stare with his pluffy pillow eyes, and open mouth like a cave which wishes to claps and shut. You could say, he is shy or I just did no... | 2 | 0 | 195 | 28,438 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | "Well, hello there you handsome devil, you! You are looking fabulous tonight! I wish I could stay and chat but I am a little bit drunk, and I am going to go to sleep now. Ok? Ok."
He always talks to me when he's on something and tonight it appears to be alcohol. I wish it didn't take a buzz for him to notice me. What... | 0 | 0 | 195 | 28,439 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | Bent down and straightening the row of shoes in front of the mirror, I saw her move a second too soon. I rolled my eyes, finished straightening, and stood back up. Placing my hand on my hips, I stared her down and she glared right back.
"Slow the fuck down, will you?" I said not kindly.
It's always like this with he... | 12 | 0 | 195 | 28,440 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I ran up the six flights without taking a breath. Hands shaking, I fumbled the keys from my front pocket and entered the apartment. I slammed the door, threw the deadbolt on, and leaned up against it with my back, letting my body slump until I sat on the floor, my elbows resting against my knees. I shut my eyes hard an... | 1 | 0 | 195 | 28,441 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 195 | 28,442 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I bent down to tie my shoe before I left the room, but I noticed a flash in the mirror as I was standing up. I whirled around looking for the cause of the movement.
Seeing nothing I turned back to the mirror to adjust my tie, and stopped as I watched my reflection fix the tie and wink at me.
Then it took a step forw... | 7 | 0 | 195 | 28,443 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | Another day was over. My laptop shut with a snap that echoed through the empty room and I sat in silence, staring out the window of my sixth floor apartment. The hazy yellow street light threw lonely shadows upon the abandoned playground structures I was so familiar with.
I shrugged out of my jacket, placed it on th... | 3 | 0 | 195 | 28,444 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | *Happy Birthday to Youuuuuu!*I am not a drug person. Child of the 80s so I got the whole Just Say No thing and it just clicked. However I was now 40 years old. I'm old now. Psychadelic mushrooms could have been just the mithridate for my shitty car, shitty job, and shitty life. My ex-wife's idea for me to eat some shro... | 0 | 0 | 195 | 28,445 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I had this dream a few nights ago. So just no. | 1 | 0 | 195 | 28,446 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | Allie opened the front door as quietly as she could, she never knew when Mom would be in one of her drunken stupors. She peered around the door into the foyer, and couldn't believe her eyes. More empty beer bottles than she had ever seen in her life were strewn across the living room floor. She tried to creep into her ... | 2 | 0 | 195 | 28,447 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 195 | 28,448 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 195 | 28,449 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | (First attempt to write in a long time, even though I frequently read and submit prompts. Be nice!)
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Keys out. Door unlocked. Step inside, shut door, flip light switch. Slide lock back in place. Drop keys on the counter. Microwave clock emits a greenish 2:19 glow in the kitchen. I sigh and open the fridge. The l... | 0 | 0 | 195 | 28,450 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | It was just another one of those nights, just me, the prescription meds that have kept my psyche relatively stable for the past few years in addition to the liquor that was on sale. Just me and my vices as usual.
As I slipped off my shoes to try to catch some sleep, I take a quick glance at my mirror maybe attributed ... | 0 | 0 | 195 | 28,451 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I woke with a start and took a moment to process where exactly I was. The bathroom? Ridiculous. I could fall asleep anywhere these days. Realizing I had to be back at work in a few short hours, I decided that jogging was overrated and sleep is too precious to waste on exercise when you work the third shift.
Lazily I b... | 0 | 0 | 195 | 28,452 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | By the time I returned to my room, I was exhausted. I'd taken this winter job, but the more I thought about it the less sure I was. I'd needed the money, that was for sure. Something had to plug the gap between next term's rent and my diminishing bank balance.
I had been nearly desperate when I applied. The situation ... | 0 | 0 | 195 | 28,453 |
[WP] Write us all a story in which someone completely and utterly fails at a grand endeavor that had the potential to save or improve mankind and is overtaken by despair. | "Talder!" shouted metal angel "take the shot!"
We were all hanging on for dear life, as Mr Hundold, or the being that was once Mr Hundold, but by that point was a being of pure darkness, it was feeding on the planets core, if he finished the planet would become poisonous and ore than half of mankind would die off, h... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 28,454 |
[CC] A short writing prompt that went out of control. *The Grade* | I like the concept. I would say that in your next rewrite, the most important thing to focus on is clarity.
It's sometimes unclear which character is speaking. You can make it more intuitive for the reader by starting a new paragraph whenever the speaker changes.
The part where the man gets his first test with the d... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 28,455 |
[CW] A child builds a pillow/blanket-fort and everything is fun and games until a wrong turn changes his life forever. | *I couldn't save her, I was too weak.*
Sheets of lilac, trimmed with copper lined the walls of the fort, imported from the farthest corners of mother's bedroom. Boredom settled in as the hours dragged on, the incessant barking of Sir Scruffy the Strong echoing through the great halls of the Bedfort. "Quiet, sir," I ca... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28,456 |
[WP] On a Plane to a Top-Secret Penitentiary, a Captured Super Villain Tries to Explain His Love for Teen Soap Operas to His Guard | "Have you ever been in love?" Thrasher rasped at the guard.
His massive, titan-like body was restricted painfully by the reinforced steel restraints that covered nearly every inch of him. Captured after an epic battle with Boltman, Thrasher was being taken to the Vasuvius volcano, the only place hot enough to destro... | 15 | 0 | 20 | 28,457 |
[WP] On a Plane to a Top-Secret Penitentiary, a Captured Super Villain Tries to Explain His Love for Teen Soap Operas to His Guard | Jacko had always been insane. When he became a super villain, no one was surprised. He fit the profile completely. In fact, he was already categorized as a threat. So, when he started freezing his neighbors, it only took fifteen minutes for a government certified Superhero™ to pick him up. He had been tried and sentenc... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,458 |
[WP] On a Plane to a Top-Secret Penitentiary, a Captured Super Villain Tries to Explain His Love for Teen Soap Operas to His Guard | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,459 |
[WP] Stars fell around us like rain. | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 16 | 28,460 |
[WP] Stars fell around us like rain. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 16 | 28,461 |
[WP] Stars fell around us like rain. | It is dark. I am kneeling in the mud, soaked through and shivering. I never want to leave this spot. It isn't real until I move.
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The sun is making its slow progress towards the horizon. We walk into the centre of the field and set out the picnic. We begin to eat, and we talk of all the good things we hope for in th... | 12 | 0 | 16 | 28,462 |
[WP] Stars fell around us like rain. | I still don't really understand the decision. After we finally made contact, the government decided they were a threat. "Non-human beings are not our friends," became the government's new slogan. After that, it took only two months until the United States of America became the planetary government. It was so they could... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 28,463 |
[WP] Stars fell around us like rain. | It is 7:30 pm. The sun is gone. This is the night.
We go out in to the field to watch. The light from the farm house gets smaller and smaller till it becomes a dot, just like the stars that now fill the sky. It is beautiful and you are beautiful. All that shines on us now are the moon and stars and I can see your sof... | 7 | 0 | 16 | 28,464 |
[WP] Stars fell around us like rain. | It's been twenty-five minutes.
The music is still playing.
Somewhere behind me a woman is screaming.
The smile on my face keeps expanding.
The next time you go to a planned function, a company retreat, an airport for that matter, try and count the faceless. The ones that go into the employee only doors. The men th... | 5 | 0 | 16 | 28,465 |
[WP] Stars fell around us like rain. | 5 years, it has been 5 years since we left. Our families, our lovers, our jobs. We gave our life to this project, and our lives are about to end.
I am, pardon, was a banker. A normal woman, with a husband, kids, a nice house and some dogs. But somehow, contradicting my ordinary existence, something inside me was specia... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 28,466 |
[WP] A man explains a colour to a man who has been blind from birth. | I've worked in many nursing homes throughout my life. Most of the time, I'm changing diapers, IVs, and pajamas. Only once did I get to change a life.
I was only 25 at the time. This was my first patient of the day, first day on the job. I was told it was a tragic tale of neglect- a man unable to care for himself, dum... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 28,467 |
[WP] A man explains a colour to a man who has been blind from birth. | -You see, there are some people out there who spell the world c-o-l-o-r. But others prefer to spell it c-o-l-o-u-r.- | 1 | 0 | 3 | 28,468 |
[WP] A man explains a colour to a man who has been blind from birth. | "Okay, okay, okay. Imagine you're eating, ah... potato. Just normal potato."
"Okay, potato."
"It's boring, right? Right. Now add some hot sauce and what do you get?"
"A weird tasting potato?"
"... Sort of. But that potato tastes different, right? It feels like it's more."
"Sure."
"Okay, now let's call potato 'Gr... | 5 | 0 | 3 | 28,469 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | "I see. Volcanoes. Very...original."
Adonai grinned. "Yeah! I worked really hard on them. It took aaaaages to get the tectonic plates to smush up right. Look at this one!" He jabbed His eternal index finger toward a particular spot in Italy. "It totally erupted last millennium and buried a whole city and it was *aweso... | 101 | 0 | 89 | 28,470 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | -I don't get it, did you misunderstand the objective of our forum?-
-Have you seen my diagram? I selected several of the proper materials: nitrogen, oxygen, helium, etc. and demonstrate a progression of complex forms. Not even I could have predicted the diversity of outcomes. The venus flytrap sample alone is astoundi... | 23 | 0 | 89 | 28,471 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | "Hi there, did you bring your worksheet with you?"
*I...I couldn't find a place to glue it.*
"That's okay sweetie, did you remember to follow the scientific method?"
*Yes! Yes, the first ques...*
"Hold up sweetie, just take a breath."
*The question I wanted to ask was -- what is the meaning of life*.
"Okay,... | 33 | 0 | 89 | 28,472 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | "Look, I'm really sorry. I didn't understand the consequences. It wasn't my intention." He pleads, with tears in his eyes. The old woman tries to interrupt but he continues. "I hope you won't expel me."
She sighs before answering: "I'm sorry, but you really don't understand this at all. The police will be here in a mo... | 13 | 0 | 89 | 28,473 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | F
See me after. | 15 | 0 | 89 | 28,474 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | God presented his draft to his teacher. It was his first world. He was nervous. You could tell it in his time sense. He looks young, and then old. His time dimension was swinging like a light of a black hole.
Your creature lack obedience.
But, they got a free will. God mumbled. He looked almost on an edge of supern... | 8 | 0 | 89 | 28,475 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | "It's rubbish. Who are those inhabitants and what did they do?"
"I, uh-"
"No no, I don't wanna hear it. The planet is full of garbage. It'll have to be demolished and replaced."
"Those inhabitants are alive, sir, they're people."
"Well, you've failed, and you're presence is supposed to be unknown. They think you're... | 6 | 0 | 89 | 28,476 |
[WP] Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | Petacycles ago, at the beginnings of our Verse, our people outgrew what our home planet could provide for. We traveled into space, bringing materials back home to keep it going. We mined entire planets into nothingness for materials. We created ever more complex structures in space and on other planets for people to li... | 7 | 0 | 89 | 28,477 |
[WP] "He looked around and all he could see was..." write from there. | He looked around and all he could see was trees, stoically silent and swaying softly in the cool early evening air. Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath and exhaled fully and loudly. The small hairs on the back of his neck and his arms perked up, soaking in the tranquility of the old forest. Despite the growing unco... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28,478 |
[WP] "He looked around and all he could see was..." write from there. | He looked around, and all he could see were rows of ice cream.
*Mom? Where are you? MOM?*
He had walked through this aisle countless times before, and he recognized everything. He knew exactly where to look for his favorite brand and where mom's favorite flavor of strawberry was. The one on the bottom left was it... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28,479 |
[WP] "He looked around and all he could see was..." write from there. | He looked around and all he could see,
Was a world full of pain and misery.
All around him people suffering, hurting and alone,
Adults sick and starving, children only skin and bone.
Someone in a corner, with no friends of which to speak,
Someone else doing drugs, with a future that looks bleak.
Teens that are pr... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 28,480 |
[WP] "He looked around and all he could see was..." write from there. | He looked all around and all he could see was stars, twinkling and dancing above the field that lay before him. But he didn't see the field, didn't want to think of the field, for he knew the field. He knew what, come morning, that field would mean to him and to his company and to the higher brass that had sent them ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28,481 |
[WP] "He looked around and all he could see was..." write from there. | He looked around and all he could see was the realization of a lifetimes worth of memories encircling him as if playing in a collage on a three hundred and sixty degree cinema screen.
He spun on his heel, taking in the strangeness of the sight before him. Gone were the blue skies and towering oak trees of the forest ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 28,482 |
[WP] "We're only an hour away" Two families, using the same phrase, two different meanings | "We're only a hour away!" The man said, peaking out onto the wet street. It's always quiet after the rain. The man looked back at his family, saw his depressed wife and his two boys, shaking uncontrollably.
"We can make it...come on, the streets are clear. I promise you, Phil take us somewhere safe." The man said, st... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,483 |
[WP] "We're only an hour away" Two families, using the same phrase, two different meanings | The storm swept up the wicked and dragged them under the cleansing sea. God had had enough of this new Gomorrah, and although Abigail had no right to question God's design, she wept.
The salty tears that beaded down her lip and onto her tongue spoke of the corrosive destruction that the flood water would mete on man's... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28,484 |
[WP] "We're only an hour away" Two families, using the same phrase, two different meanings | Mike was driving on the way to Disneyworld. The kids sitting in the backseat were sleeping and had been for quite some time now. His wife, Jane, was reading a travel book next to him. He saw a sign as they approached an overpass. **Disneyworld 40 miles**. Mike smiled and reached into the back seat of his vehicle to sha... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 28,485 |
[WP] A Farmer enters his barn. He sees his cow, pig and chicken together and staring at him. "We need to talk." The Cow utters. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,486 |
[WP] A Farmer enters his barn. He sees his cow, pig and chicken together and staring at him. "We need to talk." The Cow utters. | While the farmer probably shouldn't refer to his family members in this fashion, he finds it hard to think of them in any other way. His wife, loud and obnoxious, constantly berates him for his ill-temper. What she doesn't know is that this was the exact reason for his ill-temper. His daughter, a timid girl, could go a... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28,487 |
[WP] I was alone before you. But you saw promise in me. Don't be dead. | The slender machine lept to the side as the larger robot threw his fists downward.
"Blake. Do not do this," Designated unit 571-C said as Blake, the larger robot, turned and began to charge. The floor of the mansion library shook, struggling to support the massive tonnage being applied.
571-C, known as Sticks to the... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 28,488 |
[WP] I was alone before you. But you saw promise in me. Don't be dead. | "Your majesty, Mr. Dieter. Your presence is requested. There is a ship foundering on the rocks."
Both Queen Malvina and her unofficial consort abruptly rise from their seats. Their evening meal is completely forgotten as they race to the parapet of the castle's walls. Leaning over the side as the rain falls in torrent... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 28,489 |
[WP] I was alone before you. But you saw promise in me. Don't be dead. | Summoning courage, he walked towards the bleak headstone, whose words he could not see, *would* not see. He stood, and even though his mouth was open, no sound would come out. The cemetery was silent, the day on the cusp of ending, warm scarlet highlighting the clouds.
His mouth was still open, but he was now kneelin... | 5 | 0 | 9 | 28,490 |
[WP] I was alone before you. But you saw promise in me. Don't be dead. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 9 | 28,491 |
[WP] The Divine Bar, were gods from all pantheons have a drink and chat. Then a Lovecraftian horror entered. | "so I banished that pillock to some chamber at the center of the earth" said Terra hung, as the other gods around the table laughed to the point of crying.
"hahaha, the best part about that is, my bastard son metalling is at the center of the earth as well, hahahaha" said silvering, as the rest of the gods continued t... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 28,492 |
[WP] The Divine Bar, were gods from all pantheons have a drink and chat. Then a Lovecraftian horror entered. | "Dammit."
"What?"
"Who invited him?" asked Alatheia looking with envy at Vishnu. He was showing off again, juggling a few dozen beer mugs. He was trying to impress the bartender, Mbaba Mwana Waresa and it was working; she laughed with delight at his tricks, ignoring the other patrons for the moment.
Alatheia wasn't... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 28,493 |
[WP] The Divine Bar, were gods from all pantheons have a drink and chat. Then a Lovecraftian horror entered. | The landlord of the Golden Horse glanced around at the establishment he owned and ran part time, when not engaged in his other duties. Around him his friends and colleagues brawled or worked themselves into a drunken stupor. Gork the Dwarfsmith downed his eighteenth pint of beer, and slowly slid off the barstool.
In t... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28,494 |
[WP]A support group for super-villians who are addicted to monologuing. | Welcome everyone to the Thursday night Monologuers Anonymous. If you haven't grabbed some soda and cookies yet, do so before Sinestrax obliterates them...literally.
<group laughs>
Anyways, we want to start tonight by welcoming a new member, Dr. Doomageddon.
<group claps politely>
"Hi everyone, I'm Dr. ... | 12 | 0 | 28 | 28,495 |
[WP]A support group for super-villians who are addicted to monologuing. | Three hours into his most soul-baring talk on the indignities he'd suffered due to ill-timed molonologuing, Epileptic Caesar realized that the room had become a cacophony of competing verbosity, manic cackles, and sweeping hand-gestures, and in some cases even power-point presentations. He soldiered on by swelling his... | 3 | 0 | 28 | 28,496 |
[WP]A support group for super-villians who are addicted to monologuing. | "Glanthor, please describe your latest case of monologing and how it has affected your villainy skills."
"Terribly"
A bottle of champagne was popped and everyone in the support group congratulates him on his new success at control. | 9 | 0 | 28 | 28,497 |
[WP]A support group for super-villians who are addicted to monologuing. | *The camera slowly zooms in towards a solitary, well-dressed man holding petting a cat on his lap. He has a conspicuous scar down the side of his left cheek. The room is dark.*
"Injustice," he says. "That is what I am faced with today. Others say that I am crazy, that I am too much. But I know myself. You see bef... | 2 | 0 | 28 | 28,498 |
A Butcher. A Traitor. A Savior. A Patriot. |
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