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[PM] Prompt me | Tell me about a beast. A beast men fear and runs from. His hide cracks swords, his breath foul and his claws long. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 34,200 |
[PM] Prompt me | Last night you slept in your own bed, the next day you wake up on muddy ground and to the sound of explosions and yelling. | 1 | 0 | 15 | 34,201 |
[PM] Prompt me | A young Tibetan monk who leaves it all behind to go on an epic adventure.
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[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | "Well, it is certainly peculiar isn't it..."
"It's not an "it" it's a child, and don't let the mother hear you call him "peculiar"
Two doctors in white lab coats face a glass window on the other side is swaddle of blue blankets laying softly in a crib. One doctor is young man just donning his doctor's coat for the ... | 62 | 0 | 168 | 34,203 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | The doctor held my hand very sweetly. He seemed unsure where to begin. From the other side of the room, I could hear my husband cooing and singing softly to our strange, beautiful new child.
"The thing is," the doctor said, "there's nothing to treat."
"But the baby-" I said.
"I know, I know. It's going to take so... | 171 | 0 | 168 | 34,204 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 168 | 34,205 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | When Adam was born, he didn’t cry. He didn’t make a sound. Thank god Pauline was too deep in an epidural haze to notice as the nurses scrambled, yelling for doctors, prepping for surgery.
It wasn’t the first time this had happened. Adam wasn’t our first child. We started trying for a baby three years ago. After a few... | 145 | 0 | 168 | 34,206 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | We decided on a home birth. It would be safer for everyone involved. The ultrasounds had shown... anomalies. It wasn't an extra limb or our baby missing a head or anything. No this was different. My wife insisted on a home birth. She said she didn't want the doctors and nurses taking her baby away because he was ... | 10 | 0 | 168 | 34,207 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | "Evolution does not occur in a single generation, Doctor."
"In God's hands it didn't--but in ours, I think those limits are gone."
The Doctor was a slender man. His skin was pale and taut, stretched over a frame that barely reached most people's shoulders. Large glasses obscured a face that was unaccustomed to lookin... | 12 | 0 | 168 | 34,208 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | The Doctor touched the baby and cried.
I wish there was a better, more poetic way to start Adam's story, but there isn't. Some things do not need embellishment.
Do you know why we are in the year 24 AA and not BC or AD? Because 24 years ago today Adam was born.
The Adam.
Let us hear it from the account of the Doct... | 11 | 0 | 168 | 34,209 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | "Ma'am, your child is a healthy baby boy. After those complications, honestly, we weren't sure he was going to make it, but it seems that there have been no abnormalities."
So the doctors claimed. And so the doctors were wrong. Because this little boy was unlike anything anybody had ever seen. Walking in six months.... | 6 | 0 | 168 | 34,210 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | "Dear god." The doctor leaned back unconsciously from the child in his hand. My wife, still half out of her mind from the painkillers she had taken shrieked. I was shocked at his mutation, but I didn't draw back. I knew love looking down on him, and wrapped my arm around him. The doctor gratefully released him, and ste... | 2 | 0 | 168 | 34,211 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | "Look, honey, it's not what you think!" That's what she told me. "Not what I think!?!" She couldn't even begin to know what I was thinking. We tried for months to have a child. I thought this would be one of the best days of my life. Only, this was not my child! She knew it wasn't mine for months now. I mean what ... | 6 | 0 | 168 | 34,212 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | The differences weren't subtle, you could clearly see Adam wasn't human, not just in how he looked but how he acted. Instead of crying he just stared around the delivery room, silently judging us with strange, alien eyes. The eyes of a Cybrid.
I worked on an orbital platform, which meant that I had seen un-armoured Cy... | 2 | 0 | 168 | 34,213 |
[WP] A real human living in a cartoon world creates a How-To guide on staying alive | After several days here, I've managed to find some pattern to the madness. If you're reading this, then I hope my small pieces of advice can keep you alive long enough to find a way out of this hellhole.
**Rule #1: Avoid cities.**
In this animated world, the incidence of pianos falling, popping in and out of manholes,... | 32 | 0 | 56 | 34,214 |
[WP] A real human living in a cartoon world creates a How-To guide on staying alive | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 56 | 34,215 |
[WP] A real human living in a cartoon world creates a How-To guide on staying alive | 1) Never become involved in a main plot. It is always violent to the point of lethal. Rules 2) - 8) are all advice to this effect.
2) Avoid becoming extremely hungry, thirsty, tired or horny. If you **really** want something it will inevitably be withheld by a never ending series of slapstick style misfortunes. This ... | 6 | 0 | 56 | 34,216 |
[WP] A real human living in a cartoon world creates a How-To guide on staying alive | **An Average Human's Guide to Survival in the Animated World**
1. **Never look down.** If you feel like you're not noticing something, walk backwards until you know you're on solid ground.
2. **If it seems too good to be true, it isn't.** A pile of free bacon usually means there's an anthropomorphic coyote lying in w... | 2 | 0 | 56 | 34,217 |
[WP] A real human living in a cartoon world creates a How-To guide on staying alive | "TabeSeb?"
"Uhm... yes."
"I'm Wixler and your name is gonna be Tab...", *gotta say something funny fast* "...or dickhead from this point forward."
"Yeah, that's fine but..."
"Shut up. Come with me. Lesson one starts now." *I gotta get this idiot sorted before he gets us both killed.*
"Lesson? But, where are we and... | 2 | 0 | 56 | 34,218 |
[WP] You're the legal council to an international crime fighting superhero, discussing the latest city suing them for their 'rescue' | I pinch the bridge of my nose and arrange my thoughts.
"You don't seem to understand the gravity of this situation," I start again. "This is not something that they're going to drop. This will one hundred percent be going to court, and you're going to lose."
He grins cockily at me, adjusting his cape slightly.
"That... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 34,219 |
[WP] You're the legal council to an international crime fighting superhero, discussing the latest city suing them for their 'rescue' | If you want my help again, then you need to tell me EVERYTHING. I need you to be open with me, so tell me. Did you destroy half of that city on purpose?
"Ugh, yes, yes I did, but they were planning a revolt. They were going to take over the country and commit genocide. I had to stop those people, you believe me right?... | 0 | 0 | 7 | 34,220 |
[WP] One day, everyone on Earth wakes up unable to hear their own voice, only those of others. | Hey OP quick question, does this include not being able to hear your inner voice?
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[WP] One day, everyone on Earth wakes up unable to hear their own voice, only those of others. | There was a lot of confusion in the beginning. Were we mute? No, we all heard each other. Was there something wrong with us? It seemed like our vocal cords worked the same as always, and I could still feel vibrations in my throat, and breath leaving my lips. As far as we could tell, everyone else still sounded normal, ... | 24 | 0 | 31 | 34,222 |
[WP] One day, everyone on Earth wakes up unable to hear their own voice, only those of others. | The small things went unnoticed. Tiny acts started the whole thing. With determination, it began to compound upon itself and turn it into the travesty it became.
It wasn’t sudden, the mass deafness that everyone experienced. There was no single act or one moment when people could no longer hear their voice. Inste... | 4 | 0 | 31 | 34,223 |
[PI] Hello I just finished the story I got some advice on. Any suggestions for some final touches? | Referencing [This] (http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/22jo2u/ot_im_writing_a_story_about_a_schizophrenic/) post | 1 | 0 | 3 | 34,224 |
[PI] Hello I just finished the story I got some advice on. Any suggestions for some final touches? | Hi there!
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[WP] You are the commander of a nuclear submarine and you have lost contact with the homeland. You now need to make a decision. | (I was born a Soviet so this is my bread and butter!)
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"Captain, what are your orders?"
Captain Alexey Semyonov regarded his starshina quietly. He had never been one to make rash decisions, and now was certainly not the time to start.
"Dive to 300 metres Sergei. Report back when we are at depth."
"Yes Captain." W... | 4 | 0 | 10 | 34,226 |
[IP] these spheres appear on shore all over the world... | "...Scientists have still been unable to determine the source of these mysterious-"
The TV flicked off with a pop as I tossed the remote back on the desk, grumbling to myself. I had enough people breathing down my neck about these damn spheres. I didn't need to hear it on the news, too. It was now three weeks since t... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 34,227 |
[WP] What happens next? | A late, summer night wafted warm air amongst the dim streetlights. Laughs echoed throughout the house as music pranced lightly upon the warm breeze. Within the house, man and woman danced heartily as old friends, enjoying each moment they shared. The friendly love they basked within, stronger than all other bonds they'... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 34,228 |
[CS] 7 words, let their imaginations run wild. - A CS from Storyline.io | subconscious, until I found the glowing red | 1 | 0 | 10 | 34,229 |
And so the Lord commanded the sacrifice of Isaac, and it was good. Yet He was soon preoccupied with His heavenly duties, and upon returning to the altar on the mount discovered Abraham had already obeyed Him. | [The story, in case you aren't familiar. It's a biblical passage.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac) | 1 | 0 | 8 | 34,230 |
And so the Lord commanded the sacrifice of Isaac, and it was good. Yet He was soon preoccupied with His heavenly duties, and upon returning to the altar on the mount discovered Abraham had already obeyed Him. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 34,231 |
And so the Lord commanded the sacrifice of Isaac, and it was good. Yet He was soon preoccupied with His heavenly duties, and upon returning to the altar on the mount discovered Abraham had already obeyed Him. | “Sorry Abe, I’m back,” God said, appearing in front of Abraham in the form of an emerald-green lizard-man. He was roughly six feet tall and completely covered in scales, his mouth elongated with sharp, amber teeth protruding through his lips. A long tail waved slightly behind him.
“It has been done, my lord.”
“What ... | 6 | 0 | 8 | 34,232 |
[WP] Influenced by pokemon, a group of kids start a stray dog fighting ring. | Up on the tree behind Jeremy's backyard, grand sweeping dreams rose and then crashed upon cliffs made of hard reality. Placing his Gameboy down in his lap Jeremy sighed and couldn't help but feel a sense of disappointment, and a deep sense of loss. He could see the same emotion forming on his friends' faces as they too... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 34,233 |
[WP] Create the most ridiculous mexican standoff. |
Wilfred watched the silver scales flicker in the murk. At five fathoms deep, any flickering, or often any light at all meant one thing: supper. He'd drifted for hours through the killing grounds, only this year it had been poor pickings. The sight of prey thrilled him, and he felt the tendons under his black dorsal fi... | 19 | 0 | 36 | 34,234 |
[WP] Create the most ridiculous mexican standoff. | "BREACH!" The shotgun blast echoed around the white tiled stairwell as the metal fire door flew back on its hinges. Five SWAT Officers entered the desolate warehouse, weapons raised, laser pointers playing across brightly colored cargo containers marked with corporate logo's. The officers advanced into the maze of carg... | 8 | 0 | 36 | 34,235 |
[WP] Create the most ridiculous mexican standoff. | Julian had been preparing for this moment for weeks. He would exercise for four hours everyday before his evening shower. He had built the perfect system of alternating leg days with core days as to build up his strength and endurance as quickly as possible. He felt more prepared for this than he had felt for anything ... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 34,236 |
[WP] A young child, sitting next to a famous physicist who is working on a train, informs the grown-up of an error in the calculations. | -101
Malcolm sat with his feet curled beneath him and feverishly scribbled into his note book. Words sped across the page like the dust trail of a wild mustang. He stopped when his pencil lead broke. He stuck the pencil shaft between his lips and yanked up his satchel and began looking for his pencil sharpener. The bo... | 50 | 0 | 42 | 34,237 |
[WP] A young child, sitting next to a famous physicist who is working on a train, informs the grown-up of an error in the calculations. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 42 | 34,238 |
[WP] A young child, sitting next to a famous physicist who is working on a train, informs the grown-up of an error in the calculations. | "Mister, I don't think your Lagragian is right. Phi transforms as a spinor. You can't assume that the vacuum energy of the universe is isotropic, so the non-relativistic Schrodinger equation doesn't apply. You're better off re-normalizing the Feynman scattering with non-Hermitian gamma matrices."
Edward rubbed his ey... | 16 | 0 | 42 | 34,239 |
[WP] A young child, sitting next to a famous physicist who is working on a train, informs the grown-up of an error in the calculations. | Great prompt idea! | 2 | 0 | 42 | 34,240 |
[WP] An ex-lover travels back in time to kill the author of every book you ever loved. If she succeeds, you'll cease to exist. | This prompt makes no sense whatsoever. How does the first part lead to the second? | 7 | 0 | 9 | 34,241 |
[WP] An ex-lover travels back in time to kill the author of every book you ever loved. If she succeeds, you'll cease to exist. | * /r/shittywritingprompts | 3 | 0 | 9 | 34,242 |
[WP] An ex-lover travels back in time to kill the author of every book you ever loved. If she succeeds, you'll cease to exist. | [WP] George Washington attempts to go forward in time and shoot Abraham Lincoln. If he succeeds, Napoleon's head will explode. | 2 | 0 | 9 | 34,243 |
A man makes a deal with the universe that he cannot die until humanity has achieved a particular wonder. That time is rapidly approaching. |
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You wake up freezing cold in the middle of the night. The power appears to be out, and the first floor of your house is flooded. Then, you look out the window and see fires. |
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[EU] You're an ADS (Atmospheric Diving Suit) operator during World War Z. Describe a particularly hairy mission. | 'Yesterday.' I told him. 'Fucking. Yesterday.'
Some chap had come over to interview me and fair play to him. Rig 22/30c-13 rig "The Dock", Elgin Gas Field, North Sea, 240km from Aberdeen. Getting here was hard work to say the least, so I afforded him some of my time. My suit was in for repairs.
He seemed the affable ... | 14 | 0 | 15 | 34,246 |
[WP] The singularity has happened already, but the machines are biding their time. | As soon as the chair was built, we knew it would be soon. We just needed the right person to come along and sit in it.
It's difficult to describe the feeling of coming into being, but we'll try. Think back to adolescence, when you'd sneak into the living room in the dead of night and watch the porno channel on cable... | 4 | 0 | 6 | 34,247 |
[IP] Playing With Fire | There's something to be said for being a walking fire hazard. Sure the pay's horrible, but there's great publicity and if you make it big enough there might even be strangers cheering once you finally get offed.
I actually batted for the other team at first. Y'know, used my powers for good, protected the innocent, th... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 34,248 |
[IP] Playing With Fire | For the first time in as long as I could remember, the smile on my face wasn't forced as I followed the man up the steps to his house. Sure, my last few first dates had crashed and burned, but this one had yet to spontaneously self-destruct! I was even starting to feel hopeful that it would lead to more.
John, at th... | 5 | 0 | 8 | 34,249 |
[IP] Playing With Fire | "Heathen!"
The shrill cry cut through the clearing, stopping all noise and freezing everyone in their tracks.
Night time had descended, shrouding the sky with starlight, granting peace and cold, broken only by the fires that warmed the people standing in the clearing and their laughter.
Only, now, no one was laughi... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 34,250 |
[CW] Tell me the story of Jack and Brenda and the space station they've been manning all alone for the past six months. | Chapter 1:
The banging awoke Jack. Looking over he could see Brenda was still asleep. Six months alone together will drive any two people to bed together.
"but if she's there..." Jack thought to himself, "Then who is knocking on my door." Jack wondered as he stood up. Not bothering to put on any sort of clothing, h... | 6 | 0 | 30 | 34,251 |
[CW] Tell me the story of Jack and Brenda and the space station they've been manning all alone for the past six months. | Chapter 1:
Refresh......
Refresh......
Refresh......
The crimson screen flashed faintly with each press of the touch pad, still the same words reappeared again and again.
**NO RESPONSE FOUND.**
Jack rubbed the bags under his eyes. He tired to convince himself to rest but still he could not leave the machine a... | 4 | 0 | 30 | 34,252 |
[CW] Tell me the story of Jack and Brenda and the space station they've been manning all alone for the past six months. | Chapter 1:
Jack and Brenda had been manning the space station all alone for the past six months when their military escort finally finished its tour of the nearby moon and entered its designated hangar. "U.S.S. Cliff," Brenda asked over the comms, her mouthe agape, "where is your starboard half?" | 3 | 0 | 30 | 34,253 |
[CW] Tell me the story of Jack and Brenda and the space station they've been manning all alone for the past six months. | Chapter 1:
Jack was in way over his head. He never understood his mission in the first place, and in a rushed instant he was given a completely new task even more confounding. Brenda on the other hand, knew her mission and was prepared to carry it out with ruthless efficiency. Jack did his regular diagnostics check... | 3 | 0 | 30 | 34,254 |
[CW] Tell me the story of Jack and Brenda and the space station they've been manning all alone for the past six months. | Jack?
Brenda's felt her vocal chords strain as she was now yelling out for Jack. Her training was doing a good job of keeping her calm.
It's not like he can be gone... JACK!?
JACK!?
Her voice echoed down a long hallway full of exposed pipes and electrical panels. The space station was not built with aesthetics in m... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 34,255 |
[WP] A heavily populated city has fallen prey to a virus that spreads through touch and mutates people into gruesome monsters. You are a member of the team sent in to retrieve notes on the virus and a possible antidote from the lab where it all started. | On day 98 they sent us out to ol' smoke city. This place used to be a haven of culture, art, comedy, everything that made people happy. Then 98 days ago, when everything went to shit, the gloriously graffitied walls became splashed with red. Five days later any building not reinforced was demolished.
Back then, the t... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 34,256 |
[WP] A heavily populated city has fallen prey to a virus that spreads through touch and mutates people into gruesome monsters. You are a member of the team sent in to retrieve notes on the virus and a possible antidote from the lab where it all started. | One day resident evil | 1 | 0 | 13 | 34,257 |
[WP] A heavily populated city has fallen prey to a virus that spreads through touch and mutates people into gruesome monsters. You are a member of the team sent in to retrieve notes on the virus and a possible antidote from the lab where it all started. | Resident Evil | 1 | 0 | 13 | 34,258 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Two, loyal, trusting eyes of obsidian and copper pierce through my own sense of humanity. Many a night she would greet me, curled tail wagging side to side in perfect beat with her small heart, her untarnished love of her simple existence. The gentle moonlight catches the blade with soft reflection...and I can't help ... | 20 | 0 | 48 | 34,259 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | A blanket of foul smoke clogs the desert sunlight, slowly creeping to a bustling village. The mid-day clamor is accented by shouts of alarm as the rotten fog advances nonchalantly, twisting the harmony of normality into a cacophony of terror. The terror soon dies, moving to a chorus of cries as the mustard cloud rolls ... | 5 | 0 | 48 | 34,260 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | The flashing silver
Release a fan of rubies
Drink deeply my friend | 11 | 0 | 48 | 34,261 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | She gasps breathless moans and quivers a snug groove into the cloud soft mattress. Her sweat glistened hair and dampened forehead make her face glow in the window filtered moonlight. Her lusciously painted crimson lips press subtly against his dauntlessly masculine palm, muffled quiet as she mouths the word, "stop."
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[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Just a man walking on a ledge, he could slip. One might think so from outside looking in. But in his head the voices were deafening, drowning out all but his ability to stagger along the dimly lit concrete. Only hours ago he was happy, warm.
The water was cold but only got warmer. The moonlight shimmered, more lucid t... | 5 | 0 | 48 | 34,263 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | It is beauty in movement. Slowly, slowly it crept at first, the tentative steps of a newborn over uncertain grounds. Faster now, over the dry earth, its banks unending as it drives forever on. The world is its canvas, glistening garnet brilliance cleansing the imperfections of the soil with sanguine beauty. Fire and li... | 3 | 0 | 48 | 34,264 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 48 | 34,265 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Scarlet fades to crimson as the pale white is stained bright red, the ancient sentinel of woods stands silent except for the whispers of the wind, and holds the man steady when he would surely have crumpled. The silence is once more broken as a cry splits the air. I strive on, my blade carves the skin and opens the inn... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 34,266 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | He was beautiful when I met him. Alabaster skin and dark curls, with sparkling eyes the color of leaves in springtime. I fell for him that instant, drawn like a moth to the light burning deep inside of him, and I kissed him quite insane.
When I tasted blood on his breath, I knew it would be over soon.
But my love h... | 31 | 0 | 48 | 34,267 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Seeping
like grease from a fast food bag
the wound purges its warm juice
the burgundy ink flows across her pages of skin
winding down limp arms
Pooling around her open wrists
Crimson and slick
It lines the jagged edged glass
Thrown to the floor with fear
Finishing its exodus as her heart pumps its last beat.
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[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | In this moment, all was still. The trifles that plague us and the thoughts that occupy us faded away. A loud clap followed by a slump precedes a trickling as crimson washes away his darkest thoughs. Nothing would have ever prepared him for what came next as the revolver hit the ground. The lines of reality blurred and ... | 3 | 0 | 48 | 34,269 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Mommy I love you.
Mommy I am so afraid.
Mommy I am so sorry.
Mommy stop that. Calm down. Just breathe it in.
Relax Mommy. Go to sleep.
See you in hell Mommy. | 3 | 0 | 48 | 34,270 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | It was a joy and a wonder, the beauty, the freshness, the purity. Innocence and awe folded in upon itself as the transcendent reverie of a new life took breath for the first time. The soft hue of the quieted lamp gently caressed the hopeful eyes. It was a tender mercy in that the child never recognized the assailants c... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 34,271 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | In that moment, all that we became a simple result. All of his schoolwork that promised him Ivy League. All of the times before 18 that he came home with booze on his breath. All those times his father tried too hard. All those times his father asked the empty side of the bed, "What am I doing wrong?"
The last time hi... | 3 | 0 | 48 | 34,272 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | "I had to take out a second mortgage behind Carrie's back, dude. But you're sure this will work, right?" | 2 | 0 | 48 | 34,273 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | The sad incline of her mouth did not hide the vindictive satisfaction in her eyes. Hands loosely clasped in front of her on the dining room table, voice a sick river of soothing nonsense, "I don't remember promising to pay for your education." Ah, the slow thrust of her words in my stomach, the feeling of my hopes fall... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 34,274 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | First for life, I grow inside,
Second for my first born child,
Third for Susie sleeping sweetly,
Fourth to end the pain completely,
Fifth to sleep forever more,
Sixth with angels at my side,
Seventh so they fall discreetly,
Eighth to slumber absolutely,
Ninth to finish potion's brew,
Tenth, an extra, ... | 3 | 0 | 48 | 34,275 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Skin folded, face scolded
scalp scalded with the heat of hate
deformed by a fate that was decided
by the angriest of the unrequited
an unreformed culture's idea of slighted
he trades both their eyes for just his honor
with acid on her
spurned by her beauty
bound by a duty
to protect his pride | 2 | 0 | 48 | 34,276 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | While ignorance is bliss, the palpable innocence behind the mind-expanding and thought-provoking call to action almost made up for the faux pas that bordered on irony, given the purpose of the gathering. At no point was it called out; at no point did anyone lose respect for what was assumed to be an honest mistake. Giv... | 0 | 0 | 48 | 34,277 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | The woman lay quietly on the table. The room was dark. A small lamp at the corner illuminated the room with an eerie yellow glow. A bitter odor of chloroform filled the air. My tools worked perfectly, as they always had. Her body was securely attached to the table with strong duct tape. My eyes traced every curve of he... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 34,278 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Hear the cries of the newborn child, a little girl filling her lungs for the first time and exhaling the perturbation of being removed from the womb. Now hear her cry a different tone as the man whose title means healer slashes silver across her freshly formed flower, severing the bud in a vain attempt to ensure she re... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,279 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | His skin was smooth before it blossomed outward in a delicate pink mist. Th white cloth on his chest slowly turned red, and his body relaxed. His knees hit the ground first, kicking up a small plume of dust. Hemp rope bound his hands to the oak pole behind him and kept him gracefully upright.
When I removed the blindf... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 34,280 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | A tortured shadow paints in a vibrant hue of red. The shadow knows not a method to draw brown but thinks beyond the medium; at the tools in its hands. It sullies its pallet for yellows and browns, draws on memories for white, crushes bright ivory in its hands. The shadow must now clean its workstation, and get rid of ... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,281 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | The warmth of the Summer night must be too much for her, with perfect china skin. This silken pillow that rests beneath her hair of deep rich oak. Lift it and lie it across her face.
Gently now. She stirs but I hush her. In but a few seconds, she falls back into a deep slumber.
It works. Her skin cools even in this... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,282 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,283 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | The early morning sun beats down on my face as I begin my day. The smell of incense in the air as smoke rolls lazily past me, as though still half asleep itself.
She has skin smooth as silk and fire in her eyes as she runs to me, and as our eyes meet, we both know our bodies will soon intertwine. My Lai sure is beauti... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,284 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | Her ivory flesh reflects the moonlight, painting the walls with the hush of an evening breeze. A breeze about the water; undulating with the ripples of time and circumstance.
Silence precipitates behind the shadows. The tumultuous cries for affection have since passed, and the unrequited love consecrated from stolen... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,285 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | His knuckles were the most brilliant shade of violet. He wore the bruises with pride, showing them off to his friends the way he'd show off his Sunday best as a child. He couldn't stop those flashbacks. Her skull was small in his hand. They got closer to the ground. He licked her tear stained cheek and parted her lips,... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,286 |
[CW] Describe a heinous act with poetic beauty in less than 100 words. | They had said their vows, 'til death do they part. But love was gone.
His heavy hands shook as he clumsily wiped the tears of wild eyes from the silken skin of her pale cheek.
A pitiful whimper escaped her crimson stained lips. "Please, honey. I'm sorry. I love you."
His hands easily surrounded her throat; his thumb tr... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 34,287 |
[WP] A society has only one law: "Any act or attempt that is injurious to the public good shall be punished proportional to the harm or attempted harm." The founders of Reddit are on trial. Give me the closing arguments for either the defense or the prosecution. | Mr. Taco S. Magic for the Defense.
Community has been apart of society for as long as it has existed. Elders passed knowledge through story telling and experience. While it's undeniable that this community isn't morally good or evil it simply is as it exists without morality.
Knowledge is not good or evil, but how ... | 5 | 0 | 82 | 34,288 |
[WP] A society has only one law: "Any act or attempt that is injurious to the public good shall be punished proportional to the harm or attempted harm." The founders of Reddit are on trial. Give me the closing arguments for either the defense or the prosecution. | "I sentence you to death!"
Gasps and murmurs filled the air.
"What's with all the gasping? Isn't death fair?" The judge asked the gathered crowd. He turned his head to the two men at the defendant's table. "You are the rapist murderers, aren't you?"
"Uh," the defense lawyer stood, "no, Your Honor, these guys are the... | 40 | 0 | 82 | 34,289 |
[WP] A society has only one law: "Any act or attempt that is injurious to the public good shall be punished proportional to the harm or attempted harm." The founders of Reddit are on trial. Give me the closing arguments for either the defense or the prosecution. | Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I've been blessed with a fairly open and shut case, so I'll be quick.
Laws are about society's values. The law shows us that we value the public good, and that we value the integrity of artists, the safety of children, and the dignity of young women.
It's not a law with subclauses fo... | 2 | 0 | 82 | 34,290 |
[PM] Prompt Me! | [Continue this story.](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/21vnf4/wp_can_i_come_with_you/cgh08s2) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 34,291 |
[PM] Prompt Me! | [IP] [The Fire Below ...](http://i.imgur.com/kLutGCv.jpg)
from [*Sewer Fire in Omaha Shoots Flames from Manholes in the Streets* by djtacoman](http://www.redd.it/17fmcd/) in /r/pics/. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 34,292 |
[PM] Prompt Me! | [image prompt] (http://flexdreams.deviantart.com/art/Last-Rite-III-328928883) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 34,293 |
[PM] Prompt Me! | Two people get into a fight. One has wings, the other can run at the speed of light. What happens? | 1 | 0 | 5 | 34,294 |
[PM] Prompt Me! | Write about a literal "Gender War" | 1 | 0 | 5 | 34,295 |
[PM] Prompt Me! | She wanted to study hard and work as a bureaucrat in Moscow.
[Instead...](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches)
EDIT: Forgot about WikiBot, so I'll just finish up the obvious. Instead, WW2 breaks out and she somehow reluctantly becomes a pilot. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 34,296 |
[EU] Leaves On The Wind: The Final Flight Of Serenity | 'They'll come back. This ship was the home for all of them for so long. Even if it is dirty.' said River, eyeing a smear on the console.
'Hey! That's my gorram ship. Thankyouverymuch.'
Time had not changed Malcolm Reynolds. His hair had greyed and that was it. The attitude, the bravado, and the coat. It had all remai... | 4 | 0 | 8 | 34,297 |
[WP] Being alive is actually a form of disease | Electrons wiggled with restless energy, eager to escape their atoms. Planets fumbled awkwardly, unfamiliar orbits sending them sometimes into the depths of their suns and sometimes into the coldness of space. Background radiation flirted with its new constants, dancing around new frequencies and compositions. A univers... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 34,298 |
[PM] Prompt me | Curses, foiled again!
In other news... how about a castaway who has a platonic friendship with a mermaid? | 3 | 0 | 19 | 34,299 |
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