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[PI] What is your favorite word and why? | vivacious and ethereal for the same reasons
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[PI] What is your favorite word and why? | Wanderlust. I learned it first when I was young and in German lessons because we learned a song about it. Took me years to figure out if it was an English word too. It just feels like such a romantic term, the desire to travel and roam, and always brings me back to the sound of grade school kids singing German songs... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 32,801 |
[PI] What is your favorite word and why? | I love a lot of words, but at the moment "despair" has bewitched me.
The representation of utter hopelessness it conveys is so much more powerful than mere sadness. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 32,802 |
[PI] What is your favorite word and why? | Transcendence
1) The word sounds incredible to me. It doesn't really roll off of my tongue too well, but in my head it sounds so good. It's hard to explain the way it sounds to me.
2) It looks nice
3) The idea of going beyond the ordinary, being able to surpass normal limits has always interested me. Specifically t... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 32,803 |
[PI] What is your favorite word and why? | Serendipitously, but someone already said serendipity. So iridescence because it makes me think of a whole assortment of shining colors, and beautiful things like the sunset. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 32,804 |
[WP] The inventor of the parachute volunteers to test their invention | **December 26, 1783, Montpelier Observatory, Montpelier, France**
Louis-Sébastien looked out over the crowd in front of the Montpelier Observatory. They cheered. "Je ne suis pas prêt pour ça..." he thought. He ran his hands over the fabric of the parachute. He'd coined the term. "Para" meant "protection against" and "... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 32,805 |
[WP] A serial killer picks up a hitchhiking serial killer. (x-post from r/crazyideas) | "Hey bud, need a lift?"
"Yeah, my straitjacket is completely soaked walking through this weather."
"Why are you wearing a straitjacket?"
"Oh it's for a play called Julius Caesar, I was playing Brutus when he got locked in the mental asylum."
"I don't recall that part in the story."
"Most schools omit that sc... | 0 | 0 | 8 | 32,806 |
[WP] A serial killer picks up a hitchhiking serial killer. (x-post from r/crazyideas) | Puffs of acrid smoke billowed from the bonnet of the beaten Sedan. Hitting the ditch really took its toll on the poor car.
Porter was a willowy man of average height who took a lot of pride in his appearance. Running his hands through his slicked back hair, he blew gently on the cracked car mirror.
'Oh Betsy... My be... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 32,807 |
[WP] A serial killer picks up a hitchhiking serial killer. (x-post from r/crazyideas) | My heart beats faster and faster as the old, green sedan slows to a stop. I feel the excitement coursing through my veins like a child with his first bluegill on the hook. I try to look through the window to get a glimpse of my catch; he looks young. Not too young, whereas I'd have to release him--young, as in he presu... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 32,808 |
[WP] Someone saves all of humanity, make me hate them | (I'm really not proud of this piece, but I hope you enjoy it anyways)
Rob smiled at the dog. "Arf! Arf!" it barked, happy to see a new person. Rob lit a cigarette, stuck it in his mouth, and inhaled. He pet the dog and began to walk away, exhaling the noxious fumes into the dog's face. As he walked away from the dog, ... | 5 | 0 | 10 | 32,809 |
[WP] Someone saves all of humanity, make me hate them | Professor Villain's crumpled body laid at the mysterious man's feet. Defeated, at last.
Deftly, the figure climbed up to the control panel of the Doom Ray, and powered it down. The display read 00:01. He had done it; saved humanity with a second to spare.
"Thank you!" gasped the tied up damsel, as the figure approac... | 6 | 0 | 10 | 32,810 |
[WP] Someone saves all of humanity, make me hate them | "Gregory! Bring me another!" Richard shouted, drunk and limp in his chair.
"Of course sir."
"I shwear to God! You can literally save the damned planet and shtill get no respect!"
Remembering those days were difficult to say the least. Richard put himself through hell for two years developing the cure. LMXZ1, The ... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 32,811 |
[WP] Someone saves all of humanity, make me hate them | …
All done screaming? It’s rather useless, you know. They won’t even report you missing for another hour or two, and I figure it’ll be another day before they find you here.
Oh, not with the screaming again. It won’t help, and I’m afraid I’m rather dead-set.
…
Why, kill you, of course. Oh, no no, don’t cry. Big gir... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 32,812 |
[WP] Outsourcing to Aliens. | Carl waited in the unemployment line, hoping there for the best.
Like many others, his job has been outsourced to Aliens or *Extraterrestrial Americans* to be more politically correct. The problem was that his job was a relevantly stable one with good income, now with spacecrafts, people no longer wanted to ride in b... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 32,813 |
[EU] [WP] Write a fanfiction of your favorite TV | "Dammit, Robby, keep shooting!"
"I swear, man, I put ten rounds in 'em and they won't fucking go down!"
Robby kept shooting at the corpses shambling towards him, but they mocked him by just soaking up all of his bullets until hear that unmistakable 'click' and threw down his gun.
"Dammit Frank, I'm going back to th... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 32,814 |
[WP]: a hideously ugly woman realises she has the most beautiful voice in the world. The story ends in heartbreak. | "Oh sweet damsel please let down your golden hair!"
"But why dear prince?"
"Because I heard you singing and it was the most beautiful melody in all the land. Let me up so that I can ask for your hand in marriage!"
"Marriage? mother says I will never be wedded."
"What foul beast of a mother would say such a thin... | 8 | 0 | 8 | 32,815 |
[WP]: a hideously ugly woman realises she has the most beautiful voice in the world. The story ends in heartbreak. | You want me to write about Susan Boyle? | 2 | 0 | 8 | 32,816 |
[WP]: a hideously ugly woman realises she has the most beautiful voice in the world. The story ends in heartbreak. | Josie looked out at the judges nervously. It was hard to believe that as a 45 year old woman, she was standing here. She'd never even know she could sing until a few months ago.
*Josie's friend, Kathy, had brought her to a Karaoke Bar in the hopes* *that she could meet a nice guy. Unfortunately, no one wanted anything... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 32,817 |
Stan Lee plays a character that has appeared in almost every Marvel movie. Connect as many of those appearances as you can into one cohesive, life story of that character. |
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[WP] A world much like ours, but each person is able to see the exact date of everyone else's death, except for their own. | People have never wanted to be friends with me. When I was small, maybe some kids would play with me before their parents dragged them away. They whispered to their children about something as they pulled them away. Even my parents would just look at me with sad eyes, like everything was hopeless.
Everyone can see eac... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 32,819 |
[WP] A world much like ours, but each person is able to see the exact date of everyone else's death, except for their own. | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 7 | 32,820 |
[WP] A world much like ours, but each person is able to see the exact date of everyone else's death, except for their own. | "It's a crime to tell someone their Date, you know."
"I know."
"Like...a serious crime. They take time off your clock if you're found out. Or worse. A full RESET."
"I know..."
"I can't tell you."
"I NEED to know."
"No one needs to know. That's why you aren't supposed to know."
"You don't understand...people have... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 32,821 |
[WP] A world much like ours, but each person is able to see the exact date of everyone else's death, except for their own. | The clock ticks with your beating heart. Slower than it used to, barely noticeable. Nonetheless, your brain has registered the difference. You know it's time to move to the next Stage. This will be Stage 4 for you. Stage 4...Preparation. The most sought-after stage, everyone wishes it could last forever. You're free to... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 32,822 |
[WP] A world much like ours, but each person is able to see the exact date of everyone else's death, except for their own. | I looked into her eyes, twin mirrors that caught the evening sunlight and made them twinkle. She was the love of my life. When I though she wasn’t looking, I glanced at the numbers on her forehead.
“Aiden! Stop it. You’ve been acting strange all day!”
“I can’t help it. Your eyes are amazing”
“Don’t lie to me! You kno... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 32,823 |
[WP] A world much like ours, but each person is able to see the exact date of everyone else's death, except for their own. | There was something wrong. My mom's date has changed. That couldn't happen, could it? I stare at her, preparing breakfast with her back to me. It's really changed.
I turn to confirm with my dad who was watching the morning news --
His has changed too! What was going on? I look at my mom again. And then my dad.
"'Mor... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 32,824 |
[WP] A world much like ours, but each person is able to see the exact date of everyone else's death, except for their own. | The nurse today was a large coloured lady. She had an accent I couldn't quite place, whenever I asked her she would tell me, "I'm from London." I didn't want to pry so I would leave it at that. Back when I was a young lad it was a rarity to see a coloured person, now they're everywhere. When I look out the window in th... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 32,825 |
[WP] Write about a vivid dream you had--not as an "oh man, I had the craziest dream" story, but as an actual story. | I find myself in a crowded building. I know not where, or even who, I am. People are screaming and crying. I force my way down a long, dark corridor. Only the occasional candle lights my way. Sobbing crowds grab at my feet as I slowly walk. Eventually, I discover a room and walk inside. There, I see something I d... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 32,826 |
[WP] Write about a vivid dream you had--not as an "oh man, I had the craziest dream" story, but as an actual story. | I rode across the arid deserts of Dune, riding as quickly as the dappled grey horse could take us. I dared not pause as the the horses hooves rained like drumbeats on the packed sands, least the beasts catch up with us. My red and green cloak furled out behind us beneath the beating sun.
A glance behind showed me ... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 32,827 |
[WP] Write about a vivid dream you had--not as an "oh man, I had the craziest dream" story, but as an actual story. | I don't know how it happened. All I know is he and I woke up in a strange bed, wearing strange clothes in a strange time. This morning had been confusing. We pretended to know what everyone was talking about. Our "children" were wonderful, but I couldn't remember giving birth to them. Our house was beautiful, but I don... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 32,828 |
[WP] Write about a vivid dream you had--not as an "oh man, I had the craziest dream" story, but as an actual story. | There I was, my little five year old self, just doing my rounds in the old wooden fort on my school's playground, overseeing my troops. Claire was in the Nav Room on the top level of the south tower; Austin and Sydney, running diagnostics in the Control Room; and Zach, my right hand, following me and giving me a rundow... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 32,829 |
[WP] A man finds a genie who grants him the standard three wishes. He tries to make his wishes as complex as possible, so as not to be misinterpreted. | "So three wishes, you say." Mike lit up a cigarette, rolling it between his fingers as he looked at the genie in front of him. The genie floated up in front of him, trailing off into a cloud of smoke from an old lantern. It was absurd to think that had actually worked, finding a genie in a lantern, but when he passe... | 20 | 0 | 21 | 32,830 |
[WP] This might be a little open ended, but exercise your vocabulary. | This seems like an invitation to use as many stupid words as possible, so I'll take it.
He is a factotum of laissez faire innovation; a zeitgeistial, vis a vis raconteur. A pioneer of pre mortem literary dissection, persona non grata in passim, a connesuir of peccadillos,a par excellence pariah of literature, totally... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 32,831 |
[WP] This might be a little open ended, but exercise your vocabulary. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 5 | 32,832 |
[WP] This might be a little open ended, but exercise your vocabulary. | The preliminary introduction of the most disdainful practice of bribery, cajoling myopic cretins with the vague, ambiguous and dreary promises of hope lead to the creation of a document that reported that the premise was indeed a *de jure* part of the Empire. Thus, this distasteful yet succinct series of engagements w... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 32,833 |
[WP] Write erotica. Plot twist sex disgusts you. | Already been done, sort of. http://www.reddit.com/r/asexuality/comments/22bbz3/erotica_written_by_a_disgusted_alien_stolen_from/ | 2 | 0 | 10 | 32,834 |
[WP] A man from the real Illuminati (in the 1700s) time-travels to the future and sees how people view the Illuminati in today's society. He isn't pleased. | "Pish posh, we'd never allow a colored into our brotherhood!" he barked after seeing a picture of Jay-Z. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 32,835 |
[WP] A ship searching for a crashed plan in a remote area of the ocean picks up an acoustic signal from the ocean bed. It's not the plane. | *Audio recovered from the wreckage of the Shishimaru, April 6th, 2014*
"Mio, do you hear it?"
"Yes sir. Here it comes again. I'll record it."
"Play it back. No, that's not what we're looking for. The wavelength is too long for it to be a black box ping. I must admit, it's rather unsettling, almost familiar. Increase... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 32,836 |
[WP] In a world where people can't lie, your character is the only one who can | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 32,837 |
[WP] In a world where people can't lie, your character is the only one who can | Sounds like [The Invention of Lying.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Lying) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 32,838 |
[WP] The scene that the cast is performing involves a person dying on stage. Unfortunately, the person actually dies at that moment, but no one seems to realize it. | "Poison! Spiteful son, be doomed forever under your guilt"
Maubrey clutches his chest, eyes wild and bulging, mouth open and sucking for air grotesquely. The man is brilliant. The sight is so hideous I find it hard to look upon him as the contemptuous son, I turn my head violently before he slumps forward and thuds h... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 32,839 |
[WP] A photographer realizes they are going to die, and takes a few pictures to tell the story of their death to whomever finds their body. Tell the story from the perspective of the person who finds the body. | I don't know she acted so strange that night. Her confident gait had chipped away; her body seemed to rattle with tension and fright as she took step by shaky step. It was the only thing out of place. She still wore those flamboyantly colored tunics, and a pair of shorts she seemed to have in almost every color. Her ca... | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32,840 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | let's get it started here.
first, check out my buddy's next episode in the [A Knight Adrift](http://aknightadrift.com/tale/ep-2-a-knights-resolve). so that i do not appear completely selfless, here's my fifth and final installment in the [supplementary fiction](http://aknightadrift.com/text/origin-of-evil-part-5).
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[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | I have a story. It was going to be my submission for the novelette contest, but I only got ~5000 words in. I wasn't able to finish it because the time I budgeted for finishing it got taken over by a project I decided to do to help a friend in need.
What I'm wondering is if anybody would consider reading the first sce... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 32,842 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | Hello, how do you do? Here's the deal. I want peoples' opinions. I want critiques. I want ideas. I want suggestions. If you're willing, read all of the chapters so far of *The Imprisonment of Dieter Hagedorn.* Even a few chapters are fine. I just wish to have an idea of what folks think about it. If you have any ideas ... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 32,843 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 26 | 32,844 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | *Want to dust off an old story for fresh eyes?*
**A Killer in the House**
I woke up in the middle the night, I felt a sticky sensation between my toes.
I turned on my lamp to check what it is, instead I saw the horrible bloody mess across my favorite Space Adventure blanket.
I panicked and left my bedroom without ... | 8 | 0 | 26 | 32,845 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | This was for a prompt yesterday which got deleted before I could post it...
The huge silvery structures were bleeding colours. Pieces of green, black, red, yellow, some shiny, some dull, some transparent. From time to time, more flakes drifted down from high above. Lights were blinking everywhere, some green, most in ... | 5 | 0 | 26 | 32,846 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 26 | 32,847 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | Here's a rough draft beginning of a short story I wrote up yesterday. Let me know what you think:
Christopher Clements shit himself. It wasn’t so much he wanted to or even that he knew he did. It just sort of-- slipped. Like I-love-you’s whispered every night, every morning, every phone call. Only about fifteen minut... | 8 | 0 | 26 | 32,848 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | Is it okay for me to post something I posted on another FW thread that didn't get much feedback? If so, here we are:
So I'd started this as a distraction from my main project, but I really like how it's turning out so far. I've never written in this style in my life, so advice/critique would be appreciated. This is... | 2 | 0 | 26 | 32,849 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 26 | 32,850 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | I'd love some feedback on this old story of mine. It was for an English class waay back in high school. I still like it though :)
**Silence**
When he was born, the first thing he did was scream. But, unlike other babies, he stopped as soon as his scream reached his ear.
Doctors and nurses quickly came and checked o... | 2 | 0 | 26 | 32,851 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | **Please critique and give me your opinions**
*I posted this post on a WP the other day and think I would like to add a lot to this short story and make it into a real story, would you read it if it turned into a book?*
**Also, I need to come up with a name for the huge colony of robotic species, which I just call Rob... | 2 | 0 | 26 | 32,852 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | *Two cups of coffee later this was the product of my sunday morning*
**Delia**
Delia didn’t cry when she fell and scrapped her knee after tripping over an uneven slab of sidewalk. She got up slowly and studied the wound and the seeping blood, her grandmother brushing off the dirt from her school uniform.
“Are... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 32,853 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | The girl brought forward a bowl, covered loosely with a rag. No hint of the thing under the bowl was visible, and we just assumed that it would look similar to the outside; white, with a thin ribbon of ornate blue decorations around the top edge. There was a slight bulge to the rag, and a rather severe protrusion notic... | 2 | 0 | 26 | 32,854 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | I literally spent all day today writing and editing this story. I hope you like it!
[The Mill (Hosted here)](https://sites.google.com/site/extradimensions101/home/the-mill) **Horror/trigger warning** | 2 | 0 | 26 | 32,855 |
[MODPOST] Your Sunday Free Write Thread | She was in luck; the rain held off long enough for her to put the last piece of furniture into the truck. There was a saying in Otterville, "the weather was like a woman: it changes its mind every minute." She could say the same thing about her ex. Now there was a chapter in her life she didn't want changing.
The awkw... | 2 | 0 | 26 | 32,856 |
[OT] Then v Now | Technically I started writing two years ago for a creative writing class. I maybe wrote a few more than a dozen pieces, most of which I no longer have because they were on loose-leaf paper. I came here two months ago and have noticed my writing improve tremendously, and I actually have two great pieces to compare, beca... | 6 | 0 | 6 | 32,857 |
[OT] Then v Now | [On the Subject of Death.](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1mzv9b/wp_but_its_okay_this_is_a_good_death/cce99rh) Six Months ago.
[About Dieter.](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/225ep6/wp_tale_as_old_as_timewrite_me_a_love_story/cgjkn4j)
Improved? Well... I liked to believe that my abi... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 32,858 |
[OT] Then v Now | Improved? I could say that I did. Just shows that reddit critiques help a lot on an aspiring author. Here's something I wrote a year ago... which is when I was 15...yeah that's right, I'm 16 and I don't know what got me to write...I blame reddit!
**last year**
*Once a year, our family would have a little reunion at... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 32,859 |
[OT] Then v Now | Well... First story. I started in a small subreddit called /r/StoryBattles, it's basically stories made from pictures. ( aka /r/Photoshopbattles)
Prompt: http://i.imgur.com/ng59A99.jpg
The story: http://www.reddit.com/r/StoryBattles/comments/1x7v16/do_your_best/cf995ix
I wasn't happy with it. Mainly cause, well, It ... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 32,860 |
[WP] A primitive warrior is fighting in an enemy city. He is a General, and feared by his men for being heartless. While fighting on the street he sees for the first time in his life a beautiful red headed woman. He instantly falls in love with her. What happens next? | She turns to him and shouts: "You know nothing Jon Snow!" | 1 | 0 | 2 | 32,861 |
[CW] Write about something you know nothing about. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 11 | 32,862 |
[CW] Write about something you know nothing about. | Recent scientific research is giving rise to thought processes and behavioral activity being classified between two categories, sanguine and elduine - or, for the layman, red and blue. This is replacing the common left brain/right brain thinking, expanding on the idea of a dual psychological nature and fleshing out our... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 32,863 |
[CW] Write about something you know nothing about. | Australopithecus lived and died without ever wiping his ass.
I don't know much Latin, but the Austra- part means "South" (I think), so really his name means Southern Pithacus. That's because he was a Pithacus that lived 2 or 3 million years ago in southern Africa. Australopithecus didn't know he lived in Africa, he ju... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 32,864 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | "Well, it's sickness. Like, *BLeaGH BLAHRGH*" The child laughed at her fathers vulgar theatrics, and he briefly rubbed her back.
"But it's also life. It smells like one of our hikes, like when that pine smell that you love comes in and overwhelms you. The whole forest is coloured that way... But it only smells like th... | 169 | 0 | 95 | 32,865 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | Such was the colour that none could overwhelm it, nor pass through it. It was the emptiness of space, the void of nothingness, the darkness behind our eyes. It cloaks its wearers in the night, and dresses those who grieve. It is in contrast to the brightness of the world, while it shares in its illumination. | 22 | 0 | 95 | 32,866 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 95 | 32,867 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It's the look in his eyes when he spies her with another, it's the flash of cash in his hands when paying for her time. It's the gentle shading of her dress when they meet that night. It's the hilt of the dagger protruding from her back, it's the look of her face when she's finally found, it's the faded life of the gra... | 12 | 0 | 95 | 32,868 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | What do I know of it, what can I say of it?
It was the color of her hair, the first girl I ever loved.
The color of her death, fearing god above.
The changing of the seasons, lying on the ground.
The birds that still sang to me when I did not hear a sound.
It was the color of his shirt, the first time we ever met.... | 59 | 0 | 95 | 32,869 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It's a color of passion, and of the sublime. It's the color of freshly shed blood, still wet, still alive, and still trying to get oxygen to the lungs of the person it came from.
It's the color of a girl's cheeks when she realizes you know from whom the love letters come.
It's the color of the sky just before the sun... | 27 | 0 | 95 | 32,870 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | I'd be unfair to repost what I wrote the last time this (neat) prompt showed up so I'll just [link it](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1vwbzm/wp_describe_any_color_without_using_the_actual/cewf6ce) | 6 | 0 | 95 | 32,871 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | Plunging through the lake, bubbles spiral madly upwards. Her irises seemed to glow, or was it but a thousand fireflies dancing through the night? The forest is dark, but sun gleams on the soft undulating surface, toes in sand, hands outstretched, the taste of grapefruit soda still lingering on the tip of his tongue. Wo... | 10 | 0 | 95 | 32,872 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,873 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | A shadow moves beneath you, and a raven fires overhead. You blunder into a pool of dark water. It's not water. It's tar. Your feet are gooey. They melt into the ground. You wear boots and dress pants. A leather jacket sits on your shoulders, though you don't know how it got there. A leather jacket and dress pan... | 3 | 0 | 95 | 32,874 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 95 | 32,875 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | He did not know how to colour it with a single word. It could not be done justice. How can one encase beauty with a single colour? A single tone?
One could not.
Yet, he could describe it in a single word. A moment that showed the warmest of all colours.
Dusk.
That tone, that shade as the sun began to set. It was wa... | 0 | 0 | 95 | 32,876 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 95 | 32,877 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | Don't have a contribution, but this is a great prompt, OP. Good on you! | 0 | 0 | 95 | 32,878 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | The color of life at winter's end,
The color of lady luck's best friend.
The hue that heralds coming spring,
The shade of which many ballads sing.
The brightest paint of Paddy's shore,
The sprouted seed that calls for more.
The hue that can a wasteland save,
and shade that covers every grave.
EDIT for f... | 0 | 0 | 95 | 32,879 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It's the colour of the sky, on a cloudy day
It's the colour of my skin when the blood goes away
It's the colour of her wedding dress, so beautiful yet simple
It's the colour of wings, known as heaven's symbol
It's the colour at the edge of your eyes which I see when we cuddle
It's the colour that lies at ... | 3 | 0 | 95 | 32,880 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | So cold it's almost clear. Soothing freeze of light trapped in motion. In her rests the sun of a thousand colors, but her stillness is the frost on the horizon. | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,881 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It is the sadness of losing everything you hold dear
It is the electricity of finding your true love
This color feels infinite
As you gaze into the deep sea
Or the sky on a cloudless day
It is the color of cold
That snatches everything away
It is the ice freezing over a boiling lake
It is the calm that masks th... | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,882 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It's the color you feel when you see her for the first time, and every time after. It's the color you feel as you one day hang back to talk with her, hoping you don't throw up on her. The color you feel as you ask her out, and the one you know invades your face when she says no. It's the same color you felt when you fi... | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,883 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | Blood. So much blood. | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,884 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | 523 nanometers | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,885 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | Forged with fire and flames. Though it's tough and cold to the touch. Sleek, slanted and smothered with darkness. I grasp it in my hand, and feel the power of the earths core. I stare into the rocks abyss, void of light, and I lose myself. Cool, calm, and collected I drift away into nothing. | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,886 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | What a color with a negative connotation, everyone just thinks of the useless amounts of dirt; they think of the toilet and smell of manure. They think of dirty dishwater and their ex's flowing hair.
Yet, they don't think of chocolate and the attractive smell of cinnamon. They don't remember their wife's glistenin... | 3 | 0 | 95 | 32,887 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | The color of the dew on a brisk spring morning
The color of the tears that flow without warning
Of made-with-love-from-dad saran-wrapped PBJ
And of the smudgy glass doors that lead into the office
The hue of the CZ studs adorning petit ears
And of the mason jar from which you drink lychee juice
Of which col... | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,888 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It’s dark in here. I feel like I can’t breathe anymore. Fleshy, organic matter lines the walls and ground while some kind of ancient scream beckons me to get going. I take one step forward, the squelch of the surface beneath my feet alerting everything around me to my every move, and freeze. The roar echoes again. Scat... | 1 | 0 | 95 | 32,889 |
[WP] A Father Can Only Save One Person In His Family, He Chooses Himself | Andrew had never seen his mother cry.
There were moments when it appeared as if she would, while taking in the simple joys of his schoolwork or his smile, but never before had he witnessed such a complete dissolution of hope. The gentle sagging of her face; the way the agony pulled her features gently outward; the ex... | 10 | 0 | 33 | 32,890 |
[WP] A Father Can Only Save One Person In His Family, He Chooses Himself | It was the right decision.
His wife had been very ill. She was already dying of cancer. He was saving her from suffering alone.
He blinked. Once. Twice.
His children, his little children - Todd and Amy - were too young. They would not be able to fend for themselves. They would be lambs in a world of wild wolves.
It... | 3 | 0 | 33 | 32,891 |
[WP] A Father Can Only Save One Person In His Family, He Chooses Himself | Three golden heads slumped on the table. Three dull thuds. six eyes had been looking at him, hopeful to the very last, six eyes pleading with him.
Anda, the elder, sarcastic, sharp, smart, caring about so little. But when she cared she did it will all her heart. Choose Therese. Please, dad, choose Therese. She still ... | 3 | 0 | 33 | 32,892 |
[WP] A Father Can Only Save One Person In His Family, He Chooses Himself | Leave it to Maggie to have her wedding on train.
Jeff couldn't blame her--in fact, he was mostly jealous. As kids, they'd had a lifelong obsession with anything locomotive. It started with endless Thomas the Tank Engine marathons, and then there were the model trains, the carnival ride-on trains, the train museums, th... | 5 | 0 | 33 | 32,893 |
[WP] A Father Can Only Save One Person In His Family, He Chooses Himself | Oh, how they had made me sick. Martha had once been full of life, but marriage will change everything. Screw anyone who had ever told me different. Now the image of her slowly decomposing on the couch was a perfect representation of how she had lived her life. Her fat ass glued to the couch with a buffet of snacks surr... | 1 | 0 | 33 | 32,894 |
[WP] Make the end of your story tell the beginning | (Tough prompt. This was the best I could come up with before my morning coffee xD)
Mid slide the wagon began to tip. The weight of the load was too much and there was no way he could regain control. The horses had fallen mid run on the slick mud brought on by the storm. Thrown from his seat, Trys began to tumble do... | 9 | 0 | 16 | 32,895 |
[WP] Make the end of your story tell the beginning | Hesitantly, Jeff slithered his hand into the tight, dark crevice. His desire to admit defeat grew with each inch the gaping mouth swallowed his limb, but he knew if he didn't continue the consequences would weigh on him for the rest of his life. People were depending on him. *She* was depending on him. No, he had to pe... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 32,896 |
[WP] Make the end of your story tell the beginning | The old man sat on his doorstep intently focused on the two sticks and the roll of ducktape he had in his hands.
"What you doing there Mr Crawfield?" One of the younger parents around the neighborhood who was passing by stopped for a second and studied the elderly man.
"AAhhh John, good to see you"
"It's good to se... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 32,897 |
[WP] An invincible immortal is the last person on earth. Today is the day the sun expands. | Heat, pressure, oxygen deprivation; none of these have ever stifled me before. I waited for this day that I, the immovable object, face the unstoppable force. I do not weep. I do not woe. I look unto the collapsing Sun. At least we have each other in these final moments. I have lived millenia only to see beauty upon my... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 32,898 |
[WP] An invincible immortal is the last person on earth. Today is the day the sun expands. | I hope when the madness finally takes me I can forget all the screaming. I enjoyed my time with humans, but their screaming as they died is something I will not miss. It's far too quiet now. All the time they were burning and starving and killing all I wanted was some peace and now... now the silence weighs too heav... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 32,899 |
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