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[WP] It's Senior Prom. You and your friends dates stand you up. You want to get back at them. || Write as though you are the opposite gender. | Melissa sat down on the sidewalk, getting dirt on her $300 prom dress. Once, that would have been blasphemy, but now it didn't matter.
Katie sat down next to her and put a hand on her friend's shoulder. "We'll get them back."
Melissa turned to Katie with tears running down her cheeks, taking makeup with them. The t... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 35,500 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | The diplomat thought for a moment, and then he spoke, "My fellow beings, humanity is not perfect, but we try to do the best we can, yes we make mistakes but we try to *learn* from those mistakes, some among us say we are a deplorable species, but if we were as bad as some of us say, humanity couldn't survive it's the a... | 7 | 0 | 48 | 35,501 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | "Our faults are..."
I pondered the question. Yes, we were a warlike race, but was that what defined us? No, I definitely believed people strive for peace at heart. Was it our curiosity? Yes, we had been burned by unlocking the secrets of the atom, but even so I couldn't bring myself to call it a 'fault'. Was it o... | 45 | 0 | 48 | 35,502 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | "That depends on who you listen to," said Rodney Dangerfield. "If you listen to my wife, every damn thing is my fault! No respect, I tell you, No RE-SPECT!"
Mr. Dangerfield stood before the bulbous headed, Eb-Teklor, Cha'Khul of the Inter-Galactic Life Council and 38 representatives from different planets behind him. ... | 10 | 0 | 48 | 35,503 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | The hologram looms before me. I dab some sweat off my brow, clear my throat, and begin:
"We are a paradox."
"We are capable of both great good and great evil. We can eradicate a disease with the intent of saving millions of lives, and then we spend those lives fighting a purposeless war. We build rehabilitation cent... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 35,504 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | Our biggest flaw? We don't take kindly to questions or ultimatums.
*Colonel, launch code is bravo-zero-alpha-delta, fire at will* | 7 | 0 | 48 | 35,505 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | http://imgur.com/gallery/4HIGm
This is incredibly relevant and is also a great piece of writing. Yes it's daunting and long, but I've read it twice now and it's worth the read.
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[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | "We're really bad at self-criticism." | 1 | 0 | 48 | 35,507 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | Tell us your faults? Really? This was the question - the shibboleth - that unlocked the cosmos?
The Masters could have picked a scientist to answer but they feared she might mask ignorance. They could have picked from our global leaders bit they feared that they would mask deceit. They could have picked a holy man bu... | 6 | 0 | 48 | 35,508 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | I did not expect to be the one chosen to speak on behalf of humanity. I didn't sign up for this.
Captain Rippshaw pressed the tip of his finger to his lips, and inhaled deeply in response to the Gammagon Lifeform's request. Still stunned and wide-eyed, I watched as he held his breath for about ten seconds before givin... | 3 | 0 | 48 | 35,509 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | "That's what the computer says they said," explained Jane as she examined the print out from the dot matrix printer.
Tom pushed his horn rimmed glasses back, sat down on the edge of the desk, and said, "Whoa."
"How do we communicate with them? I mean, we must have been the first to see the morse code blinking quasar.... | 11 | 0 | 48 | 35,510 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | "Huh, well shit... I thought I would be done with tough questions like this after my third ACT back home."
Peter nervously chuckled as he glanced around looking for any hint of laughter in his audience. Their faces were stern and unimpressed. He bent over and tapped the translator microphone.
"Jeez... is this on? Yo... | 3 | 0 | 48 | 35,511 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | "Why are you asking me this? Why not anyone else?"
"Do not be so arrogant, child. Of course you are not the only member of your species we have questioned. There have been others before you, and there will be many more after you. There's no way we could trust one of you, but only through all of your answers will we be... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 35,512 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | Humanity? faults? hah--
Okay, clearly the ignorance thing isn't going to work on you. Yes, we do have faults. No one can dispute that fact. You've watched us, you know what our faults are. Is it just that you want me to admit to them? To show that we are mature and confident enough to admit that we have an imaginary f... | 2 | 0 | 48 | 35,513 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | The ambassador of all of the race of humanity, of all the small world which shimmered still far down below, if "below" could be said to exist here, far beyond the grand cradle of humanity, which still floated around the life giving star far beyond, considered the question carefully. He did not truly know the faults of ... | 5 | 0 | 48 | 35,514 |
[WP] "Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars, tell us the faults of your kind." | The question does not register to you for a few moments, and the aliens (those ancient, wise beings with large eyes that seem to see everything) wait impassively. You are no philosopher, no psychiatrist. You are a scientist because human biology was always easier to understand than human nature. You look around to see ... | 1 | 0 | 48 | 35,515 |
[WP] With all the lies she had been told, this had to be the cruelest. | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 4 | 35,516 |
[WP] With all the lies she had been told, this had to be the cruelest. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 35,517 |
What if the British won the Revolutionary War? |
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[WP] All fire is part of a global hive mind bent on the destruction of humanity, and Fire Fighters are the warriors chosen to battle it. | We were the *few*, the *ready*, the *trained* to battle the *Lucem Nerada* as it was called by scientists, but we call it *fire*. It's scientific name means, "The light that melts the flesh" it was merciless, something discovered in the Neolithic era when man first caused a *spark* a *spark* was all it needed to create... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 35,519 |
[WP] All fire is part of a global hive mind bent on the destruction of humanity, and Fire Fighters are the warriors chosen to battle it. | The storm is getting worse. The trees are nearly prostrate. *Crash* "Oh yeah... The whole world musta shook with that one..." She and I were grinning through the sheet of water. More thunder knocks us to the ground. We nearly slide down the hill. "Any moment now, George, and we'll have it!" As if on cue, the sky flashe... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 35,520 |
[WP] All fire is part of a global hive mind bent on the destruction of humanity, and Fire Fighters are the warriors chosen to battle it. | The first door thunked shut behind me I as entered the airlock. Despite there being no logical reason behind the regulation, only one man was allowed to enter at a time. Through the porthole in front of me was the grinning face of my Co-Pilot, Evan. Behind me, the glass revealed a seemingly endless line of soot covered... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 35,521 |
[WP]Department of Eldritch and Abyssal Discoveries (DEAD) | Agent X452 quietly wondered if everyone had a day like this, first the 40 minute commute on the abyssal plane, only to arrive and find the meeting of the Headless Horrors had started early, then discovering that the lunchroom was out of non euclidean donuts, and to make matters worse someone had left a portal running, ... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 35,522 |
[MP] Write a fantasy middle-eastern tale inspired on this music. | Quietly, I slid from alley to alley, using the shadows as cover. Even though His Holiness's palace guards were the best trained men in the land, I was better. I've lived my life on these streets, and I'm as much a part of the streets as the sand is. Even on a night like this, where the stars shine gloriously through th... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 35,523 |
[WP] Never Eden | can you elaborate? | 2 | 0 | 5 | 35,524 |
[WP] Never Eden | "That's a stupid name."
Never's lip curled and she plucked a fry from Jason's McDonald's lunch angrily. "It's not my fault. Mom was a teen mother and it sounded pretty at the time." She chewed the greasy, salty potato in her mouth and swallowed it without breaking her aggravated mood.
Laughing, Jason kissed her che... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 35,525 |
[WP] A dark family secret is discovered | "It didn't matter." I repeated as my brother stared at me slack jawed and covering himself up. "I-I-I can explain." He cowered on the barn floor next to corpse of one of our prized cow freshly slaughtered. "I said it doesn't matter, You like eating this way?" I looked to the large bite marks on the cows sizes, "Tell me... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 35,526 |
[WP] A dark family secret is discovered | I never really knew my grandfather. I knew that his name was Josef and he lived on a farm in the Pampas of Argentina. Growing up, I’d brag about that to my friends. Argentina. It seemed so exotic, so far away.
He came to visit a couple of times, but didn't speak much English. He would pinch my cheeks a little too... | 9 | 0 | 11 | 35,527 |
[WP] A dark family secret is discovered | *Star Wars Deleted Scene*
**Darth Vader:** Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
**Luke:** He told me enough. He told me you killed him.
**Darth Vader:** No. I am your father.
**Luke:** No. No! That's not true! That's impossible!
**Darth Vader:** Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
**Luke... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 35,528 |
[WP] It is April 2014 and Hell has room for just one more person. Tell me about Lucifer's search for the wickedest living soul, and their subsequent conversation. | It's not at all like you'd expect, no burning smell, no demons and pokey pokey pitchforks. Just a knock at the door and a request for tea. Once we were situated, he looked at me and, rather bluntly, he told me how hell was built just for me. Smooth black hair neatly trimmed, blue eyes nearly glowing, crisp suit and all... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 35,529 |
[WP] It is April 2014 and Hell has room for just one more person. Tell me about Lucifer's search for the wickedest living soul, and their subsequent conversation. | It's Spring. Joy, I think, what more than one more lunatic hunt. And let me tell you why.
Here in the down under, we have a single job. Now first off, I better tell you who 'we' are, before I tell you where I am, and what that job is. 'We' are suits. Grey-cloth wearing, spectacle-headed, file-slinging cabinet jockeys... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 35,530 |
[WP] It is April 2014 and Hell has room for just one more person. Tell me about Lucifer's search for the wickedest living soul, and their subsequent conversation. | The souls in Hell hadn't recycled out yet, so there was only room for one more person.
"Be picky," Satan said to Lucifer when he told his son to go looking for the wickedest living soul.
"But I wanted to watch "Prometheus" today," Lucifer protested.
Satan frowned deeply, and Lucifer prepared himself for another "... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 35,531 |
[WP] It is April 2014 and Hell has room for just one more person. Tell me about Lucifer's search for the wickedest living soul, and their subsequent conversation. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 10 | 35,532 |
[WP] A man is found in the woods and taken in by a group of friends, only for them to slowly realize he isn't that he isn't human, and that his plans are malicious | Oh! May I copy/paste my response from earlier? | 2 | 0 | 8 | 35,533 |
[WP] A man is found in the woods and taken in by a group of friends, only for them to slowly realize he isn't that he isn't human, and that his plans are malicious | "Thank you." The stranger pulled the blanket around his shoulders, "I've been out here for days."
Kathy offered him a cup of campfire-brewed coffee, which he respectfully declined. They had found him wearing ripped clothing and wandering in the woods. He told them of how he got separated from his family when the storm... | 5 | 0 | 8 | 35,534 |
[WP] You are a vampire working on the International Space Station. | After the first few months, I became used to it. At first, it was an empty hunger, gnawing at my stomach. I would constantly check the carcasses, trying to wring one more mouthful out of their desiccated flesh. Over time, I stopped noticing it. I stopped looking in any mirrors, too. I don’t think I’ll ever get use... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 35,535 |
[WP]The USA finally gives in to ongoing claims that music is turning youth violent by outlawing all forms of music besides country and implementing a system that promotes alcohol consumption and dog ownership. | The Dog Hard movement began with the First Lady and swept the nation like a fire across a dried out prairie. She wasn’t the First Lady when all this started, but her party did own both the House and Senate when the law banning all forms of music other than country was passed. After the next election when her husband to... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 35,536 |
[WP] Piece by piece, a man transforms himself into something else. | My fascination with body augmentation came at a young age. Young young. I wanted to bite off the tips of my fingers as a little boy. I was successful just the once, removing my pinky from my left hand at the first knuckle. I enjoyed scraped knees and black eyes like other kids enjoyed soft serve. My father looked at my... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 35,537 |
[WP] Piece by piece, a man transforms himself into something else. | Somewhere in my HR file they took record of the first day I missed my tie .
It was just a tie though , even though I had worn one for the last 3 years it wasn't needed . Next I started to wear kakis , still formalish , I guess.
My dress shirt turned into a loose fitting button up , my undershirts , once always tucked ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 35,538 |
[WP] Aliens occupy a small suburban town and demand the citizens hand over one citizen per year or they will destroy the whole town. | Zapp Brannigan stood up among the crowd. D.O.O.P's greatest general definitely had a plan.
"The people of Omicron Persei 8 have decided they want the one Earth citizen who offended them most; Turanga Leela."
The crowd gasped. Leela was known to be an upstanding citizen, what could she possibly do to offend all the pe... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 35,539 |
[WP] As it turns out, God prefers Atheists over His devout followers, and the faithless are the only ones called to Heaven in the Rapture. | Trying to make yourself feel better? Weak prompt bro | -2 | 0 | 6 | 35,540 |
[WP] As it turns out, God prefers Atheists over His devout followers, and the faithless are the only ones called to Heaven in the Rapture. | "Aww God Damnit...What the hell am I supposed to do now?" he said as he was shown to his room.
"I don't know, sir." the angel replied. "That is for you to decide. We have a pool and an exercise room."
"Look man, I didn't sign up for this. I didn't even believe any of this stuff was real."
"That is alright." the ange... | 10 | 0 | 6 | 35,541 |
[WP] As it turns out, God prefers Atheists over His devout followers, and the faithless are the only ones called to Heaven in the Rapture. | "Why?" you ask the angel instead because it had refused to let you see God.
"Why what?" the angel asks in turn, it's many eyes blinking slowly.
"Why am I here? I didn't believe in any of this."
"Did you commit grievous crimes on Earth, human?" the angel asks you.
"No, but--"
"Humans are admitted into Heaven f... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 35,542 |
[IP] "This... is the strangest thing I've ever seen" | Darkness. Total and complete darkness. Like those nights when you wake from a bad dream but it's still there. You try to focus your vision on your hand but can only see the purple and green, fuzzy afterglow left from your nightmare. You wonder, "am I awake, or am I still sleeping?" Your mind wanders sluggishly through ... | 5 | 0 | 3 | 35,543 |
[WP] [EU] Breaking Bad takes place during the Opium Wars. | Willem D. Watson was an esteemed alchemist, a chemist, a noble horseman and a Knight of the North, though in adolescence, he lived in the South, where he attended an esteemed school for the gifted and talented. He stayed with his grandparents, two older, archaic figures who quickly fading into the permanence of history... | 1 | 0 | 31 | 35,544 |
[WP] Invent a tongue twister! | One twisted sister kissed unsolicited two Mister Blue Blisters.
Two blistered sisters kissed unsolicited one Mister Lew Twisted, too.
So one Mister Lew Twisted and two Mister Blue Blisters kissed unsolicited blistered and twisted sisters.
The two Mister Blue Blisters didn't have Missuses but the Missus of Mister Le... | 5 | 0 | 12 | 35,545 |
[WP] Invent a tongue twister! | The Welsh Language. | 0 | 0 | 12 | 35,546 |
[WP] Invent a tongue twister! | I wish to was an Irish wristwatch. | 0 | 0 | 12 | 35,547 |
[WP] Invent a tongue twister! | The Quetzal queefed in the queue
The elephant exclaimed eww
The Tamarin tantrum troubled the terrible Tasmanians
Aaah! said the aardvark, barking at the beasts
As the wombat wagger stepper stepped on her wagger
The fly flew far to find the flock of courting couples
The seagull saw the smorgasbord of souls and sip... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 35,548 |
[WP] Invent a tongue twister! | Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far ... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 35,549 |
[WP] Invent a tongue twister! | someone should seriously stop sharing such shaky photos. | 1 | 0 | 12 | 35,550 |
[WP] Invent a tongue twister! | Toy car 5 times fast. | 1 | 0 | 12 | 35,551 |
[WP] What Forrest Gump said when his microphones were unplugged at an anti-war rally | I was sent to Vietnam with ma good friend Bubba. He didn't make it back and become a shrimp boat cap-tan like he want-ed. Lieutenant Dan was also a good friend but now his legs are gone and he don't like ice cream no more. And....and I lost my Jen-nay. She must have finally got to be that bird that she want-ed. Everyth... | 5 | 0 | 12 | 35,552 |
[WP] What Forrest Gump said when his microphones were unplugged at an anti-war rally | Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that | 8 | 0 | 12 | 35,553 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 216 | 35,554 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | It was a hot August night in 1974, the kind with the oppressive humidity that makes it feel like you're breathing through a blanket. Of course, that's what Gerald had forced Tim to do, holding the blanket over his mouth to muffle his screams until he was no more. Gerald nearly lost his nerve hearing Tim's pleas for mer... | 78 | 0 | 216 | 35,555 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | The garage door lurched open and my face turned from joy to agonizing surprise. I had to mask it. "Oh my god! Is this my old Camaro? I can't believe you guys even found this! How did you know where to look? How did you even know this was mine?!" Those questions needed to be answered. I thought this car was gone; buried... | 22 | 0 | 216 | 35,556 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | Sam sat in the driveway with the keys in his lap, rhythmically gripping the leather trimmed steering wheel for the satisfying crackle.
What a fucking car.
"Aren't you gonna take it out?"
"Yeah Dad, come on, let's go for a ride."
"I'll take you guys later." He said flatly. "The first one's all mine."
The engine sta... | 31 | 0 | 216 | 35,557 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 216 | 35,558 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | There once was a man called John,
Who butchered his girlfriend Yvonne;
To save his own hide,
he sold his old ride;
Only his kids restored the old bomb!
^Leave ^^me ^^^alone ^^^^it's ^^^^late | 8 | 0 | 216 | 35,559 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 216 | 35,560 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 216 | 35,561 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 216 | 35,562 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | It was horrific and I went back to that memory every day. I knew it would be as messy as it was, but I wasn't expecting the work that came after. Exhaustion, relief, elation, calm, and fear. That's all I remember feeling after I had scrubbed off the last of her spine from my seat. The days that came after were painful,... | 1 | 0 | 216 | 35,563 |
[WP] When he was young, he committed a murder in his '67 Camaro and sold the car to hide all traces of his crime. Years later, his children find the car, restore it, and give it to him for his birthday. | Was someone shouting for him? John woke up from his slumber, feeling warm and comfy in his hammock. The only rational thing to do was to wait for another shout and try to enjoy the moment a last time, a well proven method since his childhood. Suddenly a high pitched female voice was cutting through the silence.
-“Dad... | 1 | 0 | 216 | 35,564 |
[WP] Write a dramatic story with a satisfyingly infuriating cliffhanger at the end. | Once | 3 | 0 | 26 | 35,565 |
[WP] Write a dramatic story with a satisfyingly infuriating cliffhanger at the end. | "You are not real. I know that. I can't prove it. But if my bones could talk they would shout it! Now GO. AWAY."
"And just who do you think you are talking to?"
"A ghost? An imaginary friend? Who cares, I know you aren't real and I have to move on."
He paused. And a chill ran down my spine.
"And how exactly do you ... | 5 | 0 | 26 | 35,566 |
[WP] Write a dramatic story with a satisfyingly infuriating cliffhanger at the end. | *Posted this in Askreddit a few days ago. Extensions in comment history. Apparently this ending is infuriating.*
CryoSleep^TM induces a drastic reduction in metabolism and halts all but the most essential bodily functions. Heart rate can be reduced to as little as three beats per minute. Nutrient and water feeds are i... | 24 | 1 | 26 | 35,567 |
[WP] Write a dramatic story with a satisfyingly infuriating cliffhanger at the end. | The needle slipped into his veins.
The poison ran through his blood.
He closed his eyes and sank into another reality, but in the real world he spent his rent on drugs and there's no escaping the truth. His electricity bill was months overdue, and the lamp flickered across the barren room. Dirty needles littered the ... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 35,568 |
[WP] Write a dramatic story with a satisfyingly infuriating cliffhanger at the end. | Hot lights glared down on Francesca's forehead.
Backstage was all dark except for the scenery lights overhead, and whether it be the nerves or the stage lights, Francesca was fanning herself even wearing nothing but a swimsuit and a badge number.
"All right, let's have Contestant Number 11, make her way down to the s... | 3 | 0 | 26 | 35,569 |
[WP] A skeptic performs a complicated summoning ritual in front of their friends just to prove that magic doesn't work even when you do everything by 'the book' when suddenly... | "I am Cthulhu, how may I serve you?" Said the towering figure that suddenly appeared in the middle of the room.
The summoning for Cthulhu wasn't suppose to work, Cthulhu isn't real, magic isn't real and yet Billy some how summoned Cthulhu. Billy was the skeptic, never believing that magic could be real that unknown ph... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 35,570 |
[WP] A skeptic performs a complicated summoning ritual in front of their friends just to prove that magic doesn't work even when you do everything by 'the book' when suddenly... | Thin wisps of smoke rose from trays of incense scattered throughout the room. Dim light from the full moon outside cast shadows of the window blinds onto the floor. Three figures huddled over a small bowl in the center of the room.
"I'll show you guys once and for all," grumbled the boy with a purple, washcloth turban... | 5 | 0 | 3 | 35,571 |
[WP] A skeptic performs a complicated summoning ritual in front of their friends just to prove that magic doesn't work even when you do everything by 'the book' when suddenly... | *“Cassioni vadarenaki m’luti tafvat!”* screamed Bryan, as he performed complex hand movements, twisting and curling his fingers. From a safe distance, Mindy and Henry watched him. He was beginning to approach the end of the spell.
*“V’drek v’drek v’drek!”* Bryan continued, turning his head towards the night sky. Mind... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 35,572 |
[WP] Each time you sleep, you wake up in a world where an incident in your life did or did not not happen and vice versa. Then one day you awake to a completely different version of reality. | "Oh. Well fuck me. I need to get tired again NOW."
Even before I could rub my eyes I knew my "life" had gone awry. The question was, how different is this reality? How bad is it? And WHAT THE FUCK DID OR DID NOT HAPPEN?! I've woken up before with an eye-patch, with a missing finger or scar. But there was no way in...w... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 35,573 |
[WP] Tell me the story of a character: Where did they come from? Where are they going to go? | Crisp autumn leaves crunched and died beneath the feet of Docteur Delacroix as they walked through the crowded park.
There are four simple ways for the observant eye to tell the good Docteur apart from those he walks along on his way to work: first, while the gentleman strolling beside him sport classy, expensive wat... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 35,574 |
[WP] Write the beginning of your perfectly ordinary day - as if you were writing a science fiction story, and all these futuristic wonders need to be explained. | Not exactly what you're going for, but hopefully pretty good. I'm a novice writer, so I apologise for the quality in advance.
Researcher's Log, Day 1
Sol-3 has a race of abominations. From the outside, they just look like unassuming (yet slightly disgusting) pink or brown creatures with strange deformations, although... | 6 | 0 | 35 | 35,575 |
[WP] Write the beginning of your perfectly ordinary day - as if you were writing a science fiction story, and all these futuristic wonders need to be explained. | 4 A.M. The liquid crystal display flashed the time in an eery greenish glow. Two hours before the silicon chip at its core would trigger the digitized chime, a canned sound no less nerve-grating than the real thing, and equally non-effective.
A larger, brighter glow emanates from the monitor on my desk. It was a new m... | 7 | 0 | 35 | 35,576 |
[WP] Write the beginning of your perfectly ordinary day - as if you were writing a science fiction story, and all these futuristic wonders need to be explained. | **NSFW language** Oh yeah... I got a bit off-track, it's more like the ramblings of a man in the early morning.
****
"That fuckin' meteor is blocking the view again. Fuckin' wannabe-planet."
Those were the first words I heard as I emerged from my sleep-stasis. I lifted my head up and all was blackness. *"Thirty-two"... | 3 | 0 | 35 | 35,577 |
[WP] In our quest to rationalize and quantify everything we have lost our ability to judge subjectively. | "Your anger is at a level 5. And rising."
"Yeah well what happens when it hits FUCKING SEVEN?" I shouted, knowing what the response would be.
"There is no anger level above level 6. Your anger is decreasing."
"It's not decreasing, just changing into disappointment." How could they call this bullshit "therapy"? Numbe... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 35,578 |
(WP) What if the British won the Revolutionary War? | History Text Excerpt:
The Colonial Wars of 1776, 1783, and 1786 depleted the British colonies and the British Empire such that the Dutch, French, and Spanish were able to invade and control the established colonies. The Dutch maintained their stronghold in the Great White North, while the French and Spanish spent 1792... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 35,579 |
(WP) What if the British won the Revolutionary War? | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 4 | 35,580 |
You live in a world where dissent from or questioning of the established way of life is punishable. Sentences include medically-induced crippling of mental faculties or death. You work in an agency which keeps tabs on the populace; one day, you find someone very important to you on a watch-list. |
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[WP] Thematic Word, Genre, Item | Nothing could go wrong today. It was impossible. A smile crept across my chin as I curled the worn, blue rim. My last piece of home. And maybe, today, that's where I would be headed.
My odds weren't any better, mathematically speaking. But today felt like the day I might travel back to Earth.
"I've seen that look bef... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 35,582 |
[WP] Hannibal Lecter and Patrick Bateman have ended up in the same cell due to jail cost cutting. | This is a freaking awesome idea and something I'd love to see, but I'm not up to the task, and I'm not sure many are. Both characters are so bizarre and specific to their creators, I'm not sure it can be pulled off. Lector is easily the more intelligent of the two, though Bateman is obviously at a superior advantage ph... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 35,583 |
[WP] A condemned man convinces the executioner not to pull the lever. He deserved to die. | "Aye" whispered Black Jack, staring Matthew in the eyes as the timid old man rested his hand on the lever "The women tasted steel, though not before my seed". The executioner's face paled, and the monster at the gallows continued "The children too, though that was more to get the message across over any personal taste ... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 35,584 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler Instead of Committing Suicide is Arrested and Brought Before an International Court, Describe the Case | {I will be writing this in English, but asusme he is speaking in German and this is being translated}
"Not Guilty, your Honor!" Hitler emphatically exlaims.
Yery, well. Do you have a lawyer present?" The Judge asks.
"I am representing myself, although I do not accept your legitimacy to issue judgement of my actions,... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 35,585 |
[IP] ... a pencil drawing titled 'Coleman'... | Not the first
Not the last
Coleman looks back
To his past
Bright eyes
Wrinkled face
Coleman remembers
Her loving embrace
Times of struggle
Times of war
Coleman recollects
When he was poor
Waning hours
No denial
Coleman finishes his life
With a smile
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[IP] ... a pencil drawing titled 'Coleman'... | It wasn't fair.
I ran out of the house, my new school shoes clicking rapidly on the old hardwood floor. I let the screen door slam, the stinging echoes of my parent's shouts lashing against my back harder than any whip ever could. My feet kicked up dust on the worn trail to Brinley Park. I ran as fast as my legs could... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 35,587 |
[WP] The earth's core is actually a control room where continental drift, rotation speed and direction, gravity, global warming, mountain formation, desert designation, and polarization are controlled. The entity that operates the controls has overslept and has just woken up. It's panicking. | "Oh, shit." Lucifer's eyes scanned the array of screens as he lurched out of bed and cautiously approached the control panel of planet Earth. Quite simply, the world was imploding upon itself. Alarms clanged, monitors flashed, and for the first time in just over 3.54 billion years, The Bringer of Dawn panicked.
"Wait... | 5 | 0 | 21 | 35,588 |
[WP] The earth's core is actually a control room where continental drift, rotation speed and direction, gravity, global warming, mountain formation, desert designation, and polarization are controlled. The entity that operates the controls has overslept and has just woken up. It's panicking. | Once a week, Mr. Groundhog woke up in his cozy den at the center of the Earth and preformed what his predecessor, a singularly uptight mole, called the Global Maintenance Routine.
He pushed exactly once in the appropriate direction on all the continental drift d-pads (one for each tectonic plate!). He spun the rotati... | 10 | 0 | 21 | 35,589 |
[WP] The earth's core is actually a control room where continental drift, rotation speed and direction, gravity, global warming, mountain formation, desert designation, and polarization are controlled. The entity that operates the controls has overslept and has just woken up. It's panicking. | "Wazza- huh?"
The bleary-eyed groundskeeper blinked awake. He stretched.
"Must've overslept," he muttered to himself, "Damn alarm didn't- oh shit!"
The monitor on the wall silently flashed red, displaying images of the planet for which he was responsible and inside which he resided.
"It shattered! What the hell!" ... | 5 | 0 | 21 | 35,590 |
[WP] I'm ready. And I refuse to soil the bed we shared for thirty years. | This is kind of classless. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 35,591 |
[WP] I'm ready. And I refuse to soil the bed we shared for thirty years. | Hm, I might try to tackle this one later. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 35,592 |
[WP] A paranoid protagonist outfits his home with surveillance equipment in order to ensure his peace of mind. then watches his house gets robbed. He has a pet. | Sione's phone vibrated in his pocket.
"Excuse me." he said to the sales rep who was trying to sell him another, fancier phone system.
"Go ahead." said the rep. She busied herself with shuffling her paperwork on the desk that seperated them.
Sione slipped his phone out of his pocket, and typed this weeks six digit cod... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 35,593 |
[IP] What Lies Beneath | I'm here.
It's taken 18 hours. I've lost men. Two, good men.
George was the first to go. As we were abseiling in his rope snapped. Upon inspecting the rope we saw it had disintegrated, fumes escaped the walls seemingly at random. They are the culprit.
This is a dangerous place.
Then was Mathew, Matty as he liked to... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 35,594 |
[IP] What Lies Beneath | Shit, that was a long fall. "Jackson? You there?" I said into my radio.
It was silent.
"Great, I'm stuck in a giant cavern on mars without any contact to the outside."
It felt like I been sitting there for hours, then I checked my vital-monitor: *Increased Heart rate, Breathing, and Adrenaline.*
Alright, not a ter... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 35,595 |
[WP] Write from the point of view of Optimus Prime as he studies the internet to learn about the human race. | "These people really like porn and cats." | 1 | 0 | 4 | 35,596 |
[WP]: describe the last person you talked to as if introducing a character in a book | She is a little thing but makes quite a bit of noise. Those who first see her think her quiet, shy, almost transparent. She sits with a fake but earnest smile that hides nothing of her boredom and their social ineptness. It is easy to dismiss her but there is just something off about the way she refuses to make eye con... | 7 | 0 | 19 | 35,597 |
[WP]: describe the last person you talked to as if introducing a character in a book | He wore a genuine smile on his face, one that would remove any sadness from your heart. His hair was messy and he had not shaved that day making it look as if he had just gotten out of bed, but his facial expressions said otherwise. He tended to the other customers with such happiness and joked around with the kids. Ev... | 3 | 0 | 19 | 35,598 |
[WP]: describe the last person you talked to as if introducing a character in a book | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 19 | 35,599 |
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