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[WP] A Young Widow/Widower Copes With the First Anniversary of their Spouse's Death. They died on April 1st. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 31,300 |
[WP] A Young Widow/Widower Copes With the First Anniversary of their Spouse's Death. They died on April 1st. | Dear Lexi,
One year ago today. That was the day that the universe took you away from me. I thought the world was cruel place that day, indeed I still think it is a cruel place. Albeit for a set of entirely different reasons.
I missed you with all my heart, all my being, at the start. We had eight good years together.... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 31,301 |
[WP] A Young Widow/Widower Copes With the First Anniversary of their Spouse's Death. They died on April 1st. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 31,302 |
[WP] A person who harbors regrets and remorse over their occupation, show without telling | His eyes held the weight of the world. His steps were slow and heavy, as if he dredred the moment he reached his destination. His breath was stained with the stench of alcohol, spreading the smell to his unkempt beard.
Yet he was the most dangerous man in the room.
Orpheus walked to the bar and sat next to the Americ... | 7 | 0 | 13 | 31,303 |
[WP] A person who harbors regrets and remorse over their occupation, show without telling | The single, dull light bulb casts its solitary light across the cell, but its effects are diffused across the fabric of coarse piece of cloth placed over my head. The smell of urine and mold fills the constricted space in the bag, causing my throat to constrict as the urge to gag becomes overwhelming. Where am I?
Imag... | 5 | 0 | 13 | 31,304 |
[WP] 25 years after a plague | We'd camp out at night in crevasses and caves, and listen for the distant hum of the drones. By day, we followed streams for as long as we could, but when they turned to rivers we had to find another way. Rivers, we knew, led to civilization.
We were a good team. Her sense of what wild plants were edible was preter... | 6 | 0 | 16 | 31,305 |
[WP] 25 years after a plague | Paul let loose with what was arguably the largest belch in human history. He didn't call Guinness World Records however, he just scratched his head, checked his watch, and flipped the channel on the television.
He was a forty-six year old white adult male, married, with two children living in a suburb of some nameless... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 31,306 |
[WP] 25 years after a plague | See, the scarlet plague by Jack London. You dummy | 1 | 0 | 16 | 31,307 |
[WP] 25 years after a plague | Survival of the fittest, I finally understood what that meant. Living on the road with Iris gave me time to read the books I never could and one of them was the Origins of the species. Evolution dictated that it wasn’t the strongest or the most intelligent who were the fittest but those who were adaptable to change. To... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 31,308 |
[WP] Clippy the paperclip helps someone write a suicide note. | To my friends and family, please understand this is not entirely be-
"It looks like you are writing a suicide note. If you'd like some help, please click here."
Why would Microsoft put in an option like this? Office 2019 is getting weirder by the day.
"You have selected to accept help. Would you like to
a) Automati... | 11 | 0 | 6 | 31,309 |
[WP] Clippy the paperclip helps someone write a suicide note. | [1](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/21ysz7/wp_write_a_story_by_focusing_on_a_piece_of/cghq5a4)
Do you need help there [Sheila234]
Sigh this dumb paperclip is back.. Clippy what are the chances of dying on a plane crash?
Very little, would you like some help?
Yes... I would..
How may I help?
Write ... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 31,310 |
[WP] Clippy the paperclip helps someone write a suicide note. | "It looks like you're writing a story, would you like help?"
"Yes, 't's a suicide note." He said, clippy hadn't known him at all but could write a general one.
"To all my family/ones I seemed to care about. It wasn't enough, more so it was too much, this life is too overwhelming. It's always cutthroat, dog-eat-dog,... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 31,311 |
[OT] Reddit Gold weekly contest #1 (Contest) | Ooh, my prompt won!
Good luck to everyone who participates. Excited to see what stories the prompt inspires! | 5 | 0 | 18 | 31,312 |
[OT] Reddit Gold weekly contest #1 (Contest) | Is that correct 6/04/2014?? | 3 | 0 | 18 | 31,313 |
[OT] Reddit Gold weekly contest #1 (Contest) | "I'm sorry, boy, but that performance just won't cut it. You're pretty good right now, but I'd take some lessons if I were you."
I couldn't believe how bad this asshole was tryin' to screw me over. Typical stupid, white-collar northerner.
"You sure y'ain't just pickin' on me on account of my Southern heritage?" I ask... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 31,314 |
[OT] Reddit Gold weekly contest #1 (Contest) | "What do you mean?" Johan said with a stare, looking incredulously at the slight man in front of him.
"Well, you gotta read the fine print young man. It's all here. Section 4 states clearly that upon winning the contest all earnings are to be paid out in Karma."
"What kind of ridiculous lottery is this? I can't even ... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 31,315 |
[OT] Reddit Gold weekly contest #1 (Contest) | In the eight months since Amy passed away, Ricky had rarely found peace or solace in anything he did. He had thought that the routine of daily life would soon catch up to him and replace him broken, empty heart with feelings of worth, or at the very least, some comfort. But no matter how many times he went to work, r... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 31,316 |
[OT] Reddit Gold weekly contest #1 (Contest) | How is the winner decided? | 1 | 0 | 18 | 31,317 |
[OT] Reddit Gold weekly contest #1 (Contest) | *Win a place among the worlds' first commerical time travlers,* the email said, busted words and all. *No entry fee!*
The mail had been routed to my spam folder; there was no way it was anything other than a half-pound of horseshit. But I was tripping balls, and this was the funniest thing I'd seen in a month. I gave ... | 2 | 0 | 18 | 31,318 |
[WP] The First Space War. | Critique welcome.
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I suppose it was inevitable. Humanity needs war as much as it needs sleep and food. It’s a pity we had to bring it with us to such a peaceful place.
The early space explorers were hardly the warfaring type. Engineers, scientists, pilots. For sixty years the International Space Station, built t... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31,319 |
[WP] The First Space War. | They had to wait two weeks to see the result of the last shot. While the spacecraft retrograded into IO and used its gravity to sling them into an efficient orbit around Jupiter, the timed spray of tungsten slugs should intercept the Russian ship along a limited number of possible orbits. Any second now the radar shoul... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31,320 |
[WP] A girl sits on a swing, eating an apple. Something is ending. | "I thought you weren't supposed to eat that," the man said.
"Why not? It might be the last one I ever have," she replied, brushing her brown hair away from her face. "Besides, I already ate one once before. And one bite was apparently all it took."
"I suppose you're right." The man sat down on the ground next to the ... | 8 | 0 | 7 | 31,321 |
[WP] A girl sits on a swing, eating an apple. Something is ending. | She sat on the splintered wooden swing and bit into the apple - something she'd always taken for granted. Sure, others were out drinking and doing all the things they'd never had a chance to do before, but she couldn't help but be happy with her little swing. Perhaps she'd accepted it and was just waiting for when it w... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 31,322 |
[WP] A girl sits on a swing, eating an apple. Something is ending. | The breeze is barely tangible to Ellie.
The word "tangible" is also not tangible to Ellie. Only being seven years old will have that effect on a person. But just the same, the fall season is ending once again: as it always has, always will.
A stiffer breeze picks up, making the countless leaves shake in their open-ea... | 5 | 0 | 7 | 31,323 |
[WP] A girl sits on a swing, eating an apple. Something is ending. | "I love apples. Crunchy ones, I love a lot."
*Crunch*
"Mhm, this one's sour!"
Gina spoke in a thick Irish brogue. She didn't speak with the intention of having anyone hear her words, but as a young girl who enjoyed improbable encounters with strangers, she hoped that the wind which ruffled her short ginger hair woul... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 31,324 |
[WP] That's Scary! | "It is dark things that live in the deepest forests."
"Faraway from here, there are massive forests that grow. Woods so large that that they stretch for thousands of miles. Within these titanic stands, lie entire kingdoms. Carved out of the forests, those who live there fight a never ending battle against the growth. ... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 31,325 |
[WP] That's Scary! | (I got to thinking on this and decided to respond to my own prompt. Sorry if it's too gory. I tried not to go too crazy with that sort of thing.)
Rain pelted the man as hot acrid breath stabbed at the back of his neck. His pursuer, unlike his tired body, showed no signs of slowing down. His only hope lie in the church... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 31,326 |
[WP] That's Scary! | -091
He started on her breast, carving away the meat slowly. He speared the slab he cut off with the knife's tip and stuffed it in his mouth.
"That's my chicken you're eatin'?" Rosalee called out, a big smile splayed across her round black face.
"I tried to resist, but dat smell. Uhm. You know how to cook a hen, bab... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 31,327 |
[WP] An annoying little girl sits next to you on the plane. You must find a way to silence her. | It had been over an hour of her loudly complaining of boredom. She was finally quiet now. Finally, she had conked out, her head lolled to one side against the headrest. As the flight attendant came by, I gave her the small empty packet to throw away. She moved on without a glance as I crunched into the last remaining m... | 13 | 0 | 13 | 31,328 |
[WP] An annoying little girl sits next to you on the plane. You must find a way to silence her. | "Hey mister"
"hey mister"
"HEY MISTER"
My fist clenched of it's own accord. It would be a shame if...no social norms say physical violence against children was unacceptable.
"Hey mist-"
*silence* | 5 | 0 | 13 | 31,329 |
[WP] An annoying little girl sits next to you on the plane. You must find a way to silence her. | "The annoying little shit won't shut up" Pete thought to himself. "Why don't they have seprecate planes for families with loud kids?". The little girl hadn't stopped talking about Anna from Frozen for the past two hours and had kicked his chair more times then he could count. Eventually a plan began to form in his hea... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 31,330 |
[WP] An annoying little girl sits next to you on the plane. You must find a way to silence her. | A man sighs as he scoots into a 3 passenger row with a seemingly annoying little girl who was with her father. He set off to spend his 6 hour plane trip to try and silence the little girl. However, on his second hour, he actually started to enjoy playing this little game of annoying the little girl. By the time the fli... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 31,331 |
[WP] An annoying little girl sits next to you on the plane. You must find a way to silence her. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 13 | 31,332 |
[WP] An annoying little girl sits next to you on the plane. You must find a way to silence her. | Michael groaned to himself as the girl continued jabbing at his arm. Suddenly, he heard the following phrase:
"Standby for Titanfall"
Then he had a new friend. | 2 | 0 | 13 | 31,333 |
[WP] An annoying little girl sits next to you on the plane. You must find a way to silence her. | My mission was complete, it got a little bloodier then usual but a job's a job, protocol dictates to leave the country within 48 hours so i was on my way back to the states.
I was looking forward to sleeping and forgetting about it when *she* sat next to me, for the next three hours she tormented me with her incessant... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 31,334 |
[WP] Write a story by focusing on a piece of furniture | 0
Ahh joe, what a great guy! He keeps me warm, gives me a place to stay, and comforts me every day. Just the other day he brought me some icecream. When I was eating it he had a worried face, but he was fine after he cleaned the mess off my face. He is so sweet. When we are staying up late watching netflix, he leans h... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 31,335 |
[WP] Write a story by focusing on a piece of furniture | The old table sat in my fathers lounge with a cigarette smouldering in an ashtray, cluttered and littered with various past 'butts' and other small pieces of junk, on it.
Its shiny and polished surface had scratches and dents now, not like it had back when my grandfather had it.
The old man had an almost militant appro... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 31,336 |
[WP] Write a story by focusing on a piece of furniture | He was purchased with a set, along with quadruplets who were metal folding chairs, and an giant patio umbrella, striped red and white in all her magnificence.
The umbrella was meant to protrude through a small hole in the table's center, while the identical quadruplet chairs were meant to gather around him. He knew th... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 31,337 |
[WP] Write a story by focusing on a piece of furniture | He always loved that table. His grandfather built it from scratch, even going so far as chopping down the tree himself. It was the only thing he gave a shit about, and she knew it. She could keep the house, the cars the bank accounts none of it mattered to him. The table was the only thing worth saving from the last 16... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 31,338 |
[FF] I stand guard at the Crossroads of Reality. You seek passage. State your name. Tell me of your quest. Plead your case. You have a hundred words. Now is the time. | My name is of no importance, nor is yours. Time is short, so I will be brief. You *must* allow me passage. If you do not, *all* of this will soon perish. Lost forever as if it never was.
I am the only one who can stop this madness. Only I hold the key. If I do not complete my quest then everything you know, everything... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 31,339 |
[FF] I stand guard at the Crossroads of Reality. You seek passage. State your name. Tell me of your quest. Plead your case. You have a hundred words. Now is the time. | She stood immovable. "I stand guard at the Crossroads of Reality. You seek passage. State your name. Tell me your quest. Plead your case. You have a hundred words. Now is the time."
"My name is God. I created Reality, and so it was. And inasmuch we became separate, You and I.
You developed reason, and under... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 31,340 |
[FF] I stand guard at the Crossroads of Reality. You seek passage. State your name. Tell me of your quest. Plead your case. You have a hundred words. Now is the time. | I could lose many details if I ramble, so I won't. I am Naran, Keeper Of Death. I do not exist in your world, in some I do and I am feared, some I am praised. I am a thing of beauty, I am release. Your world has no end and the souls within are tired. Let me in, I will liberate them. Only you have the power to release d... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 31,341 |
[FF] I stand guard at the Crossroads of Reality. You seek passage. State your name. Tell me of your quest. Plead your case. You have a hundred words. Now is the time. | You know what I'm here for, guardsman. They're shattering, aren't they? The roads. You silly, silly, man, standing here while your precious highways crumble and fall. Oh, isn't this the ultimate cliche! "Reality is falling apart! Crossroads between worlds are closing!" I can't count how many movies I've seen with those... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 31,342 |
[WP]A duel of wit and words between a suspected criminal (who is guilty) and a private investigator (who has no evidence). | "Mind if I take a look around?"
Norris nodded and stepped back from the doorway, smiling as he did. The private detective stepped in and walked to the kitchen. He walked as if he'd been there before, even avoiding the squeaky floorboard. The PI turned around and gave Norris an equal smile as he carefully stepped over ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 31,343 |
[OT] Carpe Diem: Capitalising on the available opportunities | > Nothing saddens me, a reader of the fiction here, more than a post with several hundred upvotes and only five or six responses. Get out there and write! Seize the day!
Not going to lie, I sometimes upvote stuff in hopes that someone will write on it. Why? Because I like the prompt but I feel that I can't quite do... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 31,344 |
[WP] You are a fetus that chooses not to be born | I love my mum. I really do.
I can feel her rubbing belly skin, in a clockwise direction across my back. Her warm hands, holding me when she moves from sitting. The way she walks, with minimal impact for my safety. I can hear her whispering to me when I kick to make more room for myself.
But the smoke is killing my... | 4 | 0 | 1 | 31,345 |
[WP] You are a fetus that chooses not to be born | No! I scream within my enlarged baby head. Don't send me out there, I like it in here! Out there I have to deal with taxes and health insurance and revenge-seeking boyfriends! Why would anyone want to live out there instead of in here? Blissful ignorance! A warm, floating feeling! I can live in here, I promise! I can m... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 31,346 |
[WP] An immortal man, who doesn't know he is immortal, hangs himself. Tell me the story from a friends perspective, who could be a roommate, etc. | I first met Adam in high school. We didn't really know each other, merely acknowledging one and others existence. He was like any other guy at the school, but maybe a little more mature than the rest. It wasn't until after we graduated, and a group of friends got together to go surfing that we really became friends.
W... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 31,347 |
[WP] An immortal man, who doesn't know he is immortal, hangs himself. Tell me the story from a friends perspective, who could be a roommate, etc. | _(minifill)_
The woman's bag drops. She screams.
"So... this is really awkward." The hanged man somehow manages to say. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 31,348 |
[MP] Moonage Daydream | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 31,349 |
[MP] Moonage Daydream | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 31,350 |
[PI] A week ago we started making an Exquisite Corpse, where a group of redditors wrote a continuing story based only on a few lines from the previous writer. Here's the finished product! | hey minds if I steal this idea and try it with a few people?
Ill give you credit for the idea too :b | 2 | 0 | 16 | 31,351 |
[PI] A week ago we started making an Exquisite Corpse, where a group of redditors wrote a continuing story based only on a few lines from the previous writer. Here's the finished product! | :) | 2 | 0 | 16 | 31,352 |
[PI] A week ago we started making an Exquisite Corpse, where a group of redditors wrote a continuing story based only on a few lines from the previous writer. Here's the finished product! | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 31,353 |
[PI] A week ago we started making an Exquisite Corpse, where a group of redditors wrote a continuing story based only on a few lines from the previous writer. Here's the finished product! | Wow, I'm late. Haha.
Wait...so he...turned into God? What?
That was awesome. :D | 2 | 0 | 16 | 31,354 |
[WP] A Puzzle is found in space. The Solution unlocks a warp network and a Welcome message in the language of the reader. | Commander Dominique Aladeen stood on the bridge of his starship, arms folded across his chest, prominent chin pointing out towards the heavens, and a single curly lock of hair falling down upon his forehead.
"Interesting."
The rest of the crew looked eagerly towards their noble, heroic, and devilishly handsome superi... | 4 | 0 | 4 | 31,355 |
[WP] A great evil has risen and heroes have been called to stop it. Unfortunately, one of the heroes is you. | "Wait. So you're telling me that you need, well, me?" I blinked, "I'm pretty sure you have the wrong person. I couldn't save my dinner from burning on the stove, let alone the world."
"You sell yourself short." The armored knight shook his head, "Don't you understand? You are the most powerful one of us all. Not even... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 31,356 |
[WP] A great evil has risen and heroes have been called to stop it. Unfortunately, one of the heroes is you. | so i had this whole awesome idea planned out, but then it got too long. if anyone wants me to continue the story, let me know and ill do so
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Markus sat in the corner of the room, waiting for the others to stop debating, to begin the mission. The mission had been inserted into his consciousness by a sorceress named... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 31,357 |
[WP]Write a story that focuses on an April's Fool joke. The ending has to be either the happiest or the saddest one you can think of. | Lila always hated the fact that her birthday landed on April's Fools. It was already enough that her friends and family give her an onslaught of gag gifts like goofy bug-eyed glasses and pretend vomit, it was already enough that her mother decided to create the tradition of hiding a plastic roach in her birthday cake "... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 31,358 |
[WP] A Rubik's cube missing one sticker | I just want to say this is going to have some good posts.
In other words... SUBTLE BUMP. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 31,359 |
[WP] A Rubik's cube missing one sticker | *GOD DAMNIT*
Randy was almost complete, but noticed the unpleasant black space where the red sticker should be. His eyes shifted quickly around the room, as he popped another Cheeto into his mouth.
"Where the hell could it be!?" he thought.
Randy went downstairs, asking his mother, who commonly cleaned around the ... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 31,360 |
[WP] A person wakes up one day to find that the socially-accepted measures of success and failure have reversed. |
"Wha..Wha..What the fuck is this?" spoken by Shane, an average man born after the 35th year of the Vietnam police action, a member of the bumbling 4th Avenue 'street crew'. For Shane, the invariably retarded, has come upon something so dazzling, so beguiling, he doesn't quite know what to think. Upon that grain-laden ... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 31,361 |
[MP] Write a story behind the song | (Well, I know what's going to be added to my playlist now....)
In the darkest corners of our world rests something you as humans believe to be a mere myth. Thousands of miles below the thickened ice of Antarctica, it sleeps. At least it did, until you woke it up.
Now our world is once again threatened by a darkness ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 31,362 |
[MP] Write a story behind the song | (So I've just joined here and I hope I'm doing this right. Did this on a whim and okay enough stalling here ya go.)
The moment you die really isn’t as dramatic as the movies would have you believe, a bit anti-climactic for my taste. It is what comes after that’s terrifying. There is no skeleton dressed in robes, no an... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 31,363 |
[WP] Ten years ago, the entire male population vanished without explanation. Except for one man -- literally, the last man on earth. Describe his current circumstances. | My name is Ulrich Mosby, and I am the last man on earth.
Spare me the questions about how it happened. The short answer is, I don't know. The long answer is, I don't have that PHD. No one knows why every man except me disappeared. Maybe I was asleep and didn't get the memo that we were to get the hell out of Dodge. Wh... | 8 | 0 | 13 | 31,364 |
[WP] Ten years ago, the entire male population vanished without explanation. Except for one man -- literally, the last man on earth. Describe his current circumstances. | ##"Hardware Store"
For about the hundredth time in my life, I'm stripping wires and manipulating them, to turn on a car that isn't mine. The sun is down, the streetlamps are flickering dimly, as if hesitating to cast their light upon snow that, once clean and smooth, has been bludgeoned and mutilated by endless human ... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 31,365 |
[WP] You've returned to your childhood home because you happened to be in the area. You spend some time reminiscing when you notice something that entirely changes everything you knew. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 25 | 31,366 |
[WP] You've returned to your childhood home because you happened to be in the area. You spend some time reminiscing when you notice something that entirely changes everything you knew. | I knew I must be getting old, because I felt compelled to take Exit 67. What I should've been doing was passing through Lewis, Illinois for more interesting destinations. That's all Lewis was ever good for, passing through. Same goes for most of southern Illinois. And here I was, willingly going back to the town th... | 21 | 0 | 25 | 31,367 |
[WP] You've returned to your childhood home because you happened to be in the area. You spend some time reminiscing when you notice something that entirely changes everything you knew. | Oh, boy! I'm home. My childhood home. There's the old cottonwood tree, looming over the the house.
Look, there's old tractory--my favorite old tractor.
And look there is my favorite T-Rex....wait a minute!!!!
(SCREAMS)
DEAR FUCKING GOD IT'S A FUCKING T-REX!!!!!!
The beast lumbered toward me, screeching and snarl... | 11 | 0 | 25 | 31,368 |
[WP] You're a man. A waitress at a diner has called you a ''good little girl'' just as you're about to leave the diner. Describe your reaction to her words. | I couldn't have been more offended by the words, I looked at her. She had been very whiney the whole time. My food was cold, which may not be her fault, but I'm nearly sure she spit in my food.
Her calling me a "good little girl" had put me over the edge.
"You just lost your tip, bitch." I said back, mimicking the s... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31,369 |
(WP) An elderly person wakes in a nursing home, not know how or when they got there... | Muriel thought the bed seemed unusually hard and cold as she slowly started to wake up. She reached blindly for her husband next to her. "Frank?" she murmured, groping for his hand, but only contacting bedsheets and the edge of the bed. Frowning, she sat up in bed, eyes opening. She was in a small room. There was a tel... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 31,370 |
[WP] Hitler has been cloned! Why was he cloned and what would he be like in this lifetime? | "Come on, you can do this" I said to myself as I stood in line. People around me were muttering among themselves.
*"Isn't that Adolf Hitler?"*
*"What is he doing here? Oh my God, it even has the mustache"*
*"Sulie darling, get away from that thing"*
*"Anne Frankly I did not see this coming"*
Tears already for... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31,371 |
[WP] Two people sit talking together. One is lying. Make me guess which is which, and become emotionally attached to both characters. | "I'll see you in a little while, honey." A slightly older man leaned down a little to kiss his wife's forehead as she tottered along, she was small and grey, bent over as she walked. He was unable to go in with her, another scan, another test, this result, that examination, a lot of waiting around. She'd be back out in... | 4 | 0 | 14 | 31,372 |
[WP] Two people sit talking together. One is lying. Make me guess which is which, and become emotionally attached to both characters. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 14 | 31,373 |
[WP] Two people sit talking together. One is lying. Make me guess which is which, and become emotionally attached to both characters. | “Jen, I think we need to talk.”
“What is it honey?”
He knew that this would be the hardest part, what to say. Nobody should ever have to do this. She’s only 48 and I have to tell her… no. Start slowly. He thought for another moment, and then he reached into his pocket, grabbed something, and put it back on the table. ... | 5 | 0 | 14 | 31,374 |
[WP] Two people sit talking together. One is lying. Make me guess which is which, and become emotionally attached to both characters. | John's hair was long and dark brown, his eyes never dropped or lingered, and his smile was as inviting as it was toothy. Shaun felt his brain moving as fast as John's lips did. Well, almost. He couldn't keep up at times, and wanted to respond to every twist and turn this guy's rant took. World war 3? Propaganda? Coveru... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 31,375 |
[WP] Two people sit talking together. One is lying. Make me guess which is which, and become emotionally attached to both characters. | "Thank you" the woman spoke softly. Like a calm breeze, the presence on how she spoke made the man feel safe.
"For what?"
"You heard me talking to the doctors?"
"Yeah"
"I don't really want to die inside a white room full of medical equipment"
"But those things keep you alive"
"Yeah, but I'll die anyways"
"It's ... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 31,376 |
[CS] State a genre tell a story in 10 sentences or less. The next writer changes the genre and continues the story. | I knew that Sally and me were meant to be. Everything about her was perfect, she's funny, quirky, and beautiful, nothing about her drives me away. Now I had the chance to change our simple relationship into something greater. I got down on one knee and said..... | 5 | 0 | 16 | 31,377 |
[WP] The bitter rival, and bestfriend-since-childhood, of a wizarding prodigy has sold his soul to finally step from his friends shadow, write their final fight. | "So, you're finally here..."
The Lost One turned around to face the Prodigy as the latter arrived. The two of, they had known each other for what, fifteen years now? Something akin to that. And this entire time, these fifteen years, during these years he had always had to stand behind and watch as his friend always su... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 31,378 |
You have been chosen to save the world, but you will inevitably die in the process. Today is your last day on earth. | It wasn't a hard choice for me to make, even if I had been able to choose. They asked, out of formality, and refusing seemed pointless. My option was to agree and walk into that machine or refuse and be dragged into that machine.
I've not lived a full life, nor an exciting one. I chose to sit on a couch or in front of... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31,379 |
You have been chosen to save the world, but you will inevitably die in the process. Today is your last day on earth. | This is a record to help justify my decision. I pray that somebody is there to find it. I heard that the Russians finally did it. Or maybe it was the Chinese. It doesn't fucking matter. Some bastards with means to wipe civilizations off the planet have decided that it's time. I KNOW the US was hit hard by nukes. Intel ... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31,380 |
April Fools! | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 10 | 31,381 |
April Fools! | When I first opened up the subreddit and saw Clippy there, I tried clicking him to see if he would go away...he didn't. | 4 | 0 | 10 | 31,382 |
April Fools! | Thank you for the joke.
If *Clippy* had shown up on any other day, I'd have thumped the floor and thrown a major shit-fit.
I did sysadmin during *Clippy*'s heydey, and the only thing I hated more was NT. | 2 | 0 | 10 | 31,383 |
April Fools! | Great joke, hitting just the right mix of friendliness and mind-wrenching horror. This might just be my favorite subreddit April Fools this year. | 3 | 0 | 10 | 31,384 |
[WP]A rage virus quickly spreads through a "Cute" convention in Japan. | Gather close and I will try
To find the words to best convey
The carnage in the con the day
That kawaii became kowai
.
No other con could match its splendor
Throughout Japan or any land
Just take my word, I know first-hand
For I was working as a vendor
.
From opening to closing day
I hocked Ramune and the Pr... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 31,385 |
[WP] A riot policeman and a rioter are hiding out during a moment of calm in the riots. Thanks to stray bullets outside, neither can leave safely. | *Down with the Government!*
*Down with the Government!*
The chants were loud, but were also tame in comparison to the events that occurred. In the middle of the Summer Square, two men were hiding on opposite sides of a large statue obscured by trees and bushes. The man on the left was draped in casual clothes, while ... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 31,386 |
[WP] A riot policeman and a rioter are hiding out during a moment of calm in the riots. Thanks to stray bullets outside, neither can leave safely. | He had gotten seperated from his fellow policemen. And then the bullets started, continuing for what seemed to be forever. Probably the rioters, he had thought embittered later. Before that, his fear had been being ripped apart by the crowd as he had been seperated, after that his fear was getting killed by bullets. He... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 31,387 |
[WP] A riot policeman and a rioter are hiding out during a moment of calm in the riots. Thanks to stray bullets outside, neither can leave safely. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 12 | 31,388 |
[WP] A riot policeman and a rioter are hiding out during a moment of calm in the riots. Thanks to stray bullets outside, neither can leave safely. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 12 | 31,389 |
[WP] A Black Hole contacts a nearby newborn star | Hey, kid… KID, yeah you, Wanna see some puppies? come over here. | 6 | 0 | 5 | 31,390 |
[WP] A 1000 years from now, humans have left Earth due to environmental conditions & live on a space colony. Finally, conditions quell enough that remaining humans can send archaeologists to the remainders of a major city to piece together life in 2014. What do they find & how do they interpret it? | George was shuffling through the rubble, hoping to strike some gold.
"Man, if I can get an old artifact or doohickey, I'll be swimming in space bucks!"
Whirling his arms, brewing up a storm of papers behind him, he kept searching. His arms now swimming through the old dusty rubble.
"Hey George! I found this kick-a... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 31,391 |
[CW] Tropeday Contest #3 | So, Big Damn Heroes is linked to World of Cardboard Speech. Are they the same, or did you mis-link? | 3 | 0 | 5 | 31,392 |
[CW] Tropeday Contest #3 | Woohoo, I like this prompt. I'll submit one that is connected to my submission from week #1 (eventually...)
EDIT: Here we go!
I'm putting this story in the same continuity as my [submission from week 1](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/20pxuc/cw_tropeday_contest_1_introductions/cg6d01f). The tl;dr of t... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 31,393 |
[CW] Tropeday Contest #3 | Apparently I'm the only one to comment this week. I'm a little sad by this. Anyways, I'm continuing [the same story](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/21ds18/cw_tropeday_contest_2/cggb43e) again.
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Keita brushed away Turgis's concern without a glance towards the young man rejoining the table.
"No, o... | 4 | 1 | 5 | 31,394 |
[WP] A man and another man realize that one of them is a perfect clone of the other man. Write how they attempt to figure out which one is the clone and which one is the "original". | I did this because I was told that with 2 me's I could accomplish so much more. Each of me works a different job at different times of day, just to be safe, and sleeps at different times as well. We have been saving a ton of money and have decided to retire. Each of us are good splitting all of the money we made since ... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 31,395 |
[FF] Write a haiku about an apocalypse | All the stars die now
God flicking off the light switch.
It's dark and cold here. | 21 | 0 | 24 | 31,396 |
[FF] Write a haiku about an apocalypse | Songs that birds would sing,
Radiation surrounds us,
Red is the color of... | 6 | 0 | 24 | 31,397 |
[FF] Write a haiku about an apocalypse | This is how we die.
Not with a scream and a shout
But with a whimper...
(I know, not mine's, but it fits and it works) | 7 | 0 | 24 | 31,398 |
[FF] Write a haiku about an apocalypse | Green skies, black water
The world had burned asunder
For mistaken words | 2 | 0 | 24 | 31,399 |
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