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[PM] I need some ideas. | For years the protagonist has denied being a martian.
Then a space traveler comes to their home to take them back home to Jupiter. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 37,600 |
[PM] I need some ideas. | A night of drunken revelry that starts great, but then goes from bad to worse. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 37,601 |
[PM] I need some ideas. | A woman's abusive father died recently. He left her the house she grew up in and had finally escaped from. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 37,602 |
[PM] I need some ideas. | Hey totally_not_martian, this post is being removed because as per the sidebar rules:
>[PM] Only post these if you intend on responding to a few within six hours of posting, otherwise it will be removed.
I think you should consider posting some of the pieces you wrote! We're friendly and I'm sure there are plenty... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 37,603 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | "Well," he said, looking out over the green, fruitful plain in front of them, "at least we can do it right this time. We can repopulate the world, teach our children peace, love, and understanding. In the new world there will be no war, no want...Earth will finally be everything we knew it could be".
"No," replied Hea... | 8 | 0 | 12 | 37,604 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | A single tear tracked a path through the dust on Cain's face as the cold light of another day in the wastes entered through the latest tear in their tent.
"Daddy, look I managed to find a whole can of soup when you were sleeping! It's cream of mushroom - your favourite!"
Cain turned slowly towards the sound of his s... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 37,605 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | The Mojave Desert stretched out before us, in an expanse that seemed completely impossible to traverse. Hours upon hours more of walking, and we've walked so far already!
I turned to my partner, the only person I could ever truly depend upon. We were strong in each others' weaknesses, battled against insurmountable o... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 37,606 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | "This is the end of the line," he said sternly as he looked upon the ravaged countryside. "The world is rubble, there's nothing left. This time there's nothing you can say that will make it all better."
She looked at him and smiled. "Sure there is." | 2 | 0 | 12 | 37,607 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | “This is the end of us isn’t it?” He asked, a slight grimace tugging at the edges of his previously handsome face. Across from him, the girl smiled.
“Yep.” He looked at her with a sort of disdain that only those who love each other can give.
“So what do we do now?” She grinned at him in such a way that only those i... | 0 | 0 | 12 | 37,608 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | His voice was hoarse and choked with tears as he spoke.
"This is the end of us all. Millennia of civilization wiped away. The works of man crumbling and receding, to be replaced with what? Who will occupy our niche now? This isn't just the death of our species, this is the death of reason and progress. The death of be... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 37,609 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | The world has always been, said he.
The world will always be, said she.
And wrong we will always have been, added he.
As right as wrong can be, said she.
Their shadows cast a dulled, ashen hue over the dusty clay in front of them, and for a moment it appeared to Raymond as though Helios himself were rolling out a necr... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 37,610 |
[WP] An indomitable optimist and hopeless pessimist face the apocalypse together | On the broken horizon stood two lanky figures, trekking through the remains of what had once been arable land that fed millions. One carried a gunny sack with nothing but clothes and pans, while a dirty canteen swung around his bronzed neck. He was whistling a tune he'd heard before but couldn't put a name to, making t... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 37,611 |
[WP] You're a plague doctor in mediaval europe. Describe a standard tour through a city or town infected with the black death. | The man was dead, that was obvious. His dirty body was riddled with those nasty black pockets filled with puss, as he lay face-down in a puddle on the side of the street.
Diego looked around. The area was deserted, only down the street, a single cart pulled by a single ox hurried through the town, the driver trying to... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 37,612 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Fuck you! What a fucking stupid prompt. How is anyone meant to work with this? You are clearly a retard of the highest order. I have read prompts better than this from fucking fortune cookies.
Why don't you just jump off a vicious cliff and fucking die? Because, you're probably too stupid and unimaginative to do it p... | 16 | 0 | 18 | 37,613 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Once upon a time there was a sad puppy. This sad puppy had nobody except for a lollipop stuck onto its fur through the usage of cling film. The puppy had trouble going to sleep tonight and it couldn't be petted because people thought it was a candy puppy and therefore not real.
Then a mean hobo came up to the sad pupp... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 37,614 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | "Daddy?"
"Yeah, Daddy is gonna take real good care of you, sweetheart.” The man’s hands nearly enveloped the girl as he hoisted her into his muscular arms. “I think we’ll call you…Anastasia? How does that sound?”
“Daddy.”
“Anastasia it is.” He tickled the underside of her chin with his finger, causing her to giggl... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 37,615 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Breathe in, breathe out, repeat.
My hand wandered over the shelf. His dvd collection? Not there. The picture frame containing our wedding picture? Gone. I hurried into the bedroom, accidentally knocking over the floor lamp on my way. The wardrobe doors crashed against the wall when I pushed them open. All his clothes ... | 12 | 0 | 18 | 37,616 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Her face on that day is emblazoned in my mind. When I kissed her, she smiled but not just with her lips. Her eyes, her dimples, and her heart smiled back at me. I took her hands in mine and she squeezed.
Now I squeeze her hands, but the woman behind them are gone. Her smile, her face, her teeth, her eyes.
Her h... | 5 | 0 | 18 | 37,617 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | His hand shivered making the ice in his hand clink, it was the first anniversary of the day that they'd promised to never think about. But how could he. He remembered kissing his girls goodbye, he remembered getting into the car, he remembered pulling the stick into reverse, he remembered the thunk as he pulled out of ... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 37,618 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | How could he? How could he do this to me?
My brother, my own fucking brother. I need...I don´t know what I need. My own commited the greatest atrocity Man has ever commited. Never in history has there been such a crime against a human being, against humanity itself. Who on the earth would do such a thing!? Hitler would... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 37,619 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Afework's breath was hot against the inside of the cloth draped over her head. The hands on her arms and legs were firm and strong and frightening.
Her mother had told her this was an important day.
Afework had had one short look at the woman before the cloth blocked her view. She knew it must be that same woman, tha... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 37,620 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Not knowing what he would become is the hardest part. Taken away from me before he could even understand what love meant. It seems strange to me, how simple it was. One minute he is laying there sleeping like an angel, the next he is gone. I don't think I could go through that again. Once again I am alone; alone to dea... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 37,621 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | You will always be alone. A wife, kids, loving family, and great friends will never change that. A cancer support group and rehab facility won't change that. A church will definitely not change that. Why? Because you can never truly know someone else. Endless conversations late into the night with your significant othe... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 37,622 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Lora felt the cold, lifeless cheek of her partner on the stone floor. He had been through it all with her. From the invasion, to the resistance, to right now, right as they face their final enemy. Yorick was the bravest man she had ever had the opportunity of knowing, and he was gone. Shot in the heart by Lora herself.... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 37,623 |
[CW] Make me cry,get angry and feel shocked in under 200 words. | Michael jackson died. Michael jackson lived. | 1 | 0 | 18 | 37,624 |
[FF] An ordinary man encounters God where he least expects him- as another player on an online game. | This is my first prompt, so forgive me if I might have used the wrong tag or committed some other sin. | 4 | 0 | 13 | 37,625 |
[FF] An ordinary man encounters God where he least expects him- as another player on an online game. | XcuMos: hacker
Yahweht?: Nope.
XcuMos: you came out of nowher e killing me from behind
XcuMos: nowhere*
Yahweht?: Just luck I guess.
XcuMos: YOU DID IT AGAIN YOU'RE FUCKING HACKING!
Yahweht? I am not a hacker, I just know the rules of the game.
XcuMos: how are you doing this? whatever I do to kill you I can't to... | 8 | 0 | 13 | 37,626 |
[FF] An ordinary man encounters God where he least expects him- as another player on an online game. | Domed69: The fuck are you guys doing?
holEghost: Playing Counter Strike with you.
Domed69: Neither of you have any kills! It's been 20 minutes!
meOnABicycle: I'm a pacifist.
Domed69: IT'S A GAME ABOUT SHOOTING PEOPLE!
holEghost: I am unclear on how to do that. I have not been provided with a firearm.
Domed69: The... | 9 | 0 | 13 | 37,627 |
[FF] An ordinary man encounters God where he least expects him- as another player on an online game. | Nudge left. Another nudge. Turn... there. Running start. Jump. Narrow landing. He exhales. Okay, so close. You can make it, he tells himself. Just this one chest. Just one more...
He almost jumps when the red text appears on his screen. Server reset in five minutes. Five minutes, and he's literally one jumping puzzle ... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 37,628 |
[WP] A doctor, with no necrophilic tendencies before the death of a particular female patient - Write about his inner conflictions as he falls in love with her corpse. | "Contusion around the neck, one large laceration on the bodies left hand side running from the Pectralis Major to the Rectus Sheath" He clicked the Dictaphone and it stopped recording.
The Dr placed a finger to his lip and cocked his head to the left. The naked body on the table was motionless. A breathless, pulse le... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 37,629 |
[WP] A doctor, with no necrophilic tendencies before the death of a particular female patient - Write about his inner conflictions as he falls in love with her corpse. | They say death brings final peace. Those who struggled mightily in life can finally relax in the cold embrace of eternal slumber. Now they're in a better place. That's what I have to tell myself to keep sane. The cliches echo in my mind as I stare at each man, woman and child whose lifeless body is brought before me. T... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 37,630 |
[EU] The Narrator from The Stanley Parable and GLaDOS meet | Cmon writers, don't you dare let this prompt get abandoned! | 4 | 0 | 68 | 37,631 |
[EU] The Narrator from The Stanley Parable and GLaDOS meet | I got an idea, but y'all'll have to wait 'till i get home.
Edit: Whelp, the idea is already written. Good job, /u/maybeifaled!
Great minds, right? | 3 | 0 | 68 | 37,632 |
[EU] The Narrator from The Stanley Parable and GLaDOS meet | "This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee number 427. Employee Number 427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427, and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a- oh hang on... what is this... oh no no no no no, what is th... | 16 | 0 | 68 | 37,633 |
[PM] I'm bored let me write stuff. | [wp] Start or end a story with: "My plans for my future? Find a girl, kiss her, take over the world." | 1 | 0 | 6 | 37,634 |
[PM] I'm bored let me write stuff. | A soft tap sounds from a woman's window as she tries to sleep. Every-time she looks, the sound stops and no one is in sight. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 37,635 |
[PM] I'm bored let me write stuff. | You crouch to tie your shoe and your shadow stays standing. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 37,636 |
[PM] I'm bored let me write stuff. | You have a bad habit of sleeping with the covers over your head. One night, the covers are slowly pulled away. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 37,637 |
[PM] I'm bored let me write stuff. | This could be a long one, but ive always imagined it myself but since i cant write.
I always wanted to see someone else take my imagination, fuse it with their own and see what happened.
Ill give you a background and thats all since you seem extremely creative :)
1/3 people are born with a power of some kind. It cou... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 37,638 |
[WP] A perpetually happy woman, whose natural facial expression looks like anger, meets a man just like her while speed dating. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 6 | 37,639 |
[WP] A man who claims himself to be Jesus Christ is walking towards you. You are a Christian yourself. | Its not easter yet Jesus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 37,640 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | I'm nowhere near creative enough to write anything to do justice to this, I just wanted to say that it's one of the most touching WPs I've seen so far. | 30 | 0 | 449 | 37,641 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Melanie stood with Liann at the Hong Kong International Airport, gate A12.
"You can't ever come back here, okay?" Melanie kissed her sister's forehead. Liann pushed her face into her sister's puffy coat. Melanie knew she was crying, even though the sniffles were hard to hear over her respirator.
"You stay on your s... | 117 | 0 | 449 | 37,642 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | "So that's your last one?" Woods was in disbelief. She had never met anyone so young that had given his away.
"Yup." He looked at the glimmering shoe box. It still even had that 'New Seed' smell. "And it's all yours."
She looked down at the lone seed and swallowed. Air of course, not the seed. Images of their summe... | 27 | 0 | 449 | 37,643 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Let's skip over how Heartseeds^TM work and get right down to brass tacks. The long story short is that the cheat-code to the human lifespan involves some quantum entanglement, nanorobotics, and a not insubstantial amount of high energy physics which, even if I live to be a thousand years old -- and I plan to -- I won'... | 46 | 0 | 449 | 37,644 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | 1. The first heartseed you give is to your sister. She is a smart, sassy girl of seven, and she makes a face when you present her the dark colored seed. "It looks like a bug," she says. When you tell her what it is, her eyes widen in amazement. It is the first time she has ever seen a heart seed. She eats it in front o... | 304 | 0 | 449 | 37,645 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Fucking shit! If I'd have known he'd turn out to be such a prick, I wouldn't have given him a goddamn heartseed in the first place. Now the mother fucker lives down the street from me with that stupid wife of his. I mean when we were kids, he was cool. He was my best friend. We'd skate everywhere, play with fire, get k... | 5 | 0 | 449 | 37,646 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | "Congratulations Jonathan!" Lucas said to his child said warmly. His eyes blazed with pride in his son, whose stubby features did not demand such a deep love and care. Jonathan kept his arms crossed as he looked at his cake disheartened. Through his chubby red cheeks, Jonathan muttered:
"I wanted chocolate. And I want... | 21 | 0 | 449 | 37,647 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Moonlight shines down on me. I know I'm dreaming. The bolts in the lock fall into place without a hitch. It was never this easy to pick. My footsteps inside are silent, as though I'm completely weightless. The stairs up to her room don't creak, I can't even feel the carpet underfoot. Her door is open - she never left i... | 10 | 0 | 449 | 37,648 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | So, this is a bit different, but I love the heartseed idea, and decided to look at what it would be like from the 'other' side.
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Neil Gaiman took a deep sip of coffee.
“Neil, I’m sorry about this, but, well, I’m your biggest fan, I was wondering if I could have a hug?”... | 4 | 0 | 449 | 37,649 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 449 | 37,650 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Sitting down, Joseph reached into his pocket again to feel the box holding his little hearts. The box had it's own heart-shape and was clearly worn - it had been passed down by his father, who had received it from his father before him. He was just gazing outside, a young woman passing by with auburn hair that flowed l... | 1 | 0 | 449 | 37,651 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | *Author's note: Great topic! I rarely write, but this one sparked my interest. If you read please critique :D*
I've never been so scared. My heart was racing, palms sweaty and I could barely function. I don't even remember what we were talking about because all I could think about was how if I didn't give it to her no... | 4 | 0 | 449 | 37,652 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | ou raised her like she was your own. After Dad died, Mom never really got well again, and someone had to raise baby sister. Mom managed to pass you your share of heartseeds before she went completely bonkers. You pass them off quickly, to various lovers, to good friends, and the second-to-last to your sister. You hang ... | 5 | 0 | 449 | 37,653 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | As I dig through a box of old memories, I come across a small tin box. I look at it and try to remember why I kept it. It's old, and rusty. I open it and a memory flickers in my mind. My parents gave me this box, 56 years ago. Everyone received one, when they turned 16 years old.
At one time, it contained 20 heart see... | 3 | 0 | 449 | 37,654 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 449 | 37,655 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | The man had three heartseeds left.
Heartseeds, he thought gravely leaning against the cold, cold brick walls, do these even work?
The last seventeen has not shown up and now there were only three. Looking back he knew he was too careless, giving them away to crushes, to mentors, to celebrities. He realized that re... | 3 | 0 | 449 | 37,656 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | As I fell onto the living room couch I pulled a box out of my bag and looked inside.
Thirteen heart seeds sat at the bottom of the box.
It was customary to give one to important people when you move away. After all, you’re guaranteed at least one more meeting. It was customary to give one to your parents when you f... | 7 | 0 | 449 | 37,657 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | He never thought that they would be able to do it, the very prospect seemed absolutely inconcievable, so he made the deal.
Yet, there it sat, the stocky vial casting an ominous shadow toward him on the wooden desk.
Picking it up and rolling it in between his hands, he uncorked the container and dropped the small, c... | 1 | 0 | 449 | 37,658 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | >It's too long for one comment. Also I'm not much of a writer but I really liked this prompt and had to contribute something. It's awfully disjointed, apologies if it's hard to read.
*Part One*
At age 13 she started her list.
Maggie had always heard horror stories of people giving away their heart seeds carelessl... | 2 | 0 | 449 | 37,659 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | I spend my time dreaming. It's all I can do now. In my head, I am free, unbound by imagination. I have friends; some based on people I once knew, some invented, and some that are a little of both. To be honest, its been so long now that I can't be sure if they ever existed.
One thing is certain, though: the man that ... | 8 | 0 | 449 | 37,660 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | John Brennan lay there on his deathbed thinking one thing and that was why on earth did his parents give him so much damn freedom. He was the kid who would be out of the house until well after dark, who could walk to any part of town without his parents caring but most importantly, he was the kid who had his Heartseeds... | 4 | 0 | 449 | 37,661 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 449 | 37,662 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Three seeds in twenty years. Seventeen never to be used.
Two men and a woman with nothing in common stood as a silent island as the other attendees cried, laughed, and celebrated life. And in some small way they hated them all, friend or stranger. The ones to whom she had never fully given her heart. The tall blonde ... | 1 | 0 | 449 | 37,663 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | I looked at the small matchbox in my hand, containing exactly 20 of these so called 'hearteseeds'. "So with magic slowly fading from the world, you witches got sentimental and wasted it on these" My gaze refocused on the battered woman being held up in front of me "On seeds that connect you to lovers? To friends? This ... | 4 | 0 | 449 | 37,664 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | “I need you to identify the man in this picture”
“Don’t know him.”
“We've been over this before.”
“And I said that I don’t know him before.”
“Is there anyone in this picture…”
“Oh, come on, that was twenty years ago, you don’t know what he looks like, I don’t know what he looks like, these whole question... | 3 | 0 | 449 | 37,665 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Jonah cradled his box of Heartseeds, the only teenager in the classroom not to engage in a frenzy of unwrapping, and hastily shared seeds. No one shared their seed with the quiet, bespectacled boy. He’d always been a little strange in his silence, a little too insufferable in his quiet smiles.
By the end of the school... | 2 | 0 | 449 | 37,666 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Today was the day when humanity moved beyond its infancy. The day when we left home and reached for the stars. The entire crew, 1000 strong, had been loaded onto the ship as it readied for takeoff. On that ship, somewhere, was David. And with him my heartseed. He was to leave Earth and I was to remain, never to meet a... | 3 | 0 | 449 | 37,667 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | He slipped the chef more than enough notes to settle the value they had agreed upon. The chef removed his hat and without a word left the White House's kitchen. Now he was all alone like they had set up. Out there a buzz of media and security while one of the most important meetings of the decade was about to be held i... | 1 | 0 | 449 | 37,668 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 449 | 37,669 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 449 | 37,670 |
[WP] You wake up one morning to learn the world have been conquered by the Kingdom of Sweden over night. King Carl XVI Gustaf rules supreme. | "Who the fuck does this guy think he is, huh?"
"Jason, shut up! You can't go saying those things!"
"King Carl XVI Gustaf can just kiss my ass! How about that? Do you like that instead, Karen?"
Karen paled at her brother's words. He always had a short fuse but this was something different- he was going to get the two... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 37,671 |
[WP] You wake up one morning to learn the world have been conquered by the Kingdom of Sweden over night. King Carl XVI Gustaf rules supreme. | "...one came creeping."
The king's last memory was not that of trenches and gunfire, but of his doctor, Melchior Neumann. He promised him to let him know the name of his assassin as soon as he himself found out and he had every intention to keep that promise, if time didn't play a formidable trick on him.
Like the d... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 37,672 |
[WP] You wake up one morning to learn the world have been conquered by the Kingdom of Sweden over night. King Carl XVI Gustaf rules supreme. | General Harris stirred that morning like it had been any other. Stirred awake by the sounds of Reveille from his iHome, he woke up heading to the window of his room ready to observe the troops raise the flag as always.
50 Stars 13 Stripes the old red white and blue, but something was wrong he couldn't put his finger ... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 37,673 |
[WP] You wake up one morning to learn the world have been conquered by the Kingdom of Sweden over night. King Carl XVI Gustaf rules supreme. | Who? | 1 | 0 | 15 | 37,674 |
[WP] All the Abrahamic religions are true. 1400 years ago, world governments conspired to hide god's miracles and assassinate all prophets. An atheist finds out. | all of them? | 1 | 0 | 3 | 37,675 |
[WP] All the Abrahamic religions are true. 1400 years ago, world governments conspired to hide god's miracles and assassinate all prophets. An atheist finds out. | She stared through the patterned crystal of her favorite glass. It was a squat old-style glass. The kind of thing you'd see in Don Draper's office. Classy. She had purchased the set from the wedding gifts section. She was never one to deny herself for the sake of tradition.
"Gwen."
She jumped a little at his voi... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 37,676 |
[WP] Heaps of letters lost in the mail dated from the past or the future have been turning up suddenly in a small town. | This is a *great* writing prompt. I'm going to come back to this when I have some time. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 37,677 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | A bead of sweat dripped down his temple. *No, too sticky to be sweat,* he mused as the drop reached his lips and choked him with the taste of iron. Groaning, the battered knight staggered to his knees, but they gave way as he tried to stand. His vision, already hazy from either the blow to his head or from blood loss ... | 8 | 0 | 21 | 37,678 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | His eyes fluttered as he stirred. His whole body ached but he felt cold. What happened? He tried to lift his head to no avail. His chest felt wet. Wait. He mustered some strength and got his hand up on his body. He touched his chest and lifted his hand. Blood. His blood. He'd been shot. The realization hit him as his h... | 5 | 0 | 21 | 37,679 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | We turned west. Our bags were heavy and our conscience gave us no quarter. We walked endlessly as memories of what we called "home" drifted seamlessly into the precious few fragments of our lives. The mud and the rain was our just reward. It is what time thought of our efforts.
The bodies were being piled high and th... | 1 | 0 | 21 | 37,680 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | *“Land!”* he had bellowed, *“Liberty! Freedom!”* He promised us. *“Follow me and take what is rightfully yours!”*
A childish endeavor, looking back on it now. As the line marched slowly forward, the words hung in my mind. I held the words tightly, as if they might escape and slip away forever. Or perhaps because... | 4 | 0 | 21 | 37,681 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | Do you remember when this all started? Years and years ago when the sounds of dying men and gunfire were merely things to be seen on the T.V. screen. When you and I were just kids with dreams of becoming soldiers and fighting for what we thought was right. The days that my father picked me up at the school in his unifo... | 3 | 0 | 21 | 37,682 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | (Author's Note: Couldn't fit any "final" battle into this, seeing as there really wasn't one for this war. Decided to do just the losing side of a single battle. Enjoy!)
The first thing that I was conscious of was the smell.
The unholy, acrid scent of human flesh cloven from bone, smoldering. My senses slowly ret... | 6 | 0 | 21 | 37,683 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | After all the noise. All of the screams in pain. All of the loss and all of the bravery it was over. The last stronghold taken the last man killed. After it all I couldn't think of anything but my own guilt. The lives I have taken washing over my mind. Every single face, every single name. It never leaves. I couldn't b... | 1 | 0 | 21 | 37,684 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | I watched the flashes erupt in the black expanse. Frozen, mouth agape. So many years, entire lifetimes devoted to this campaign, on the forefront of the Empire of Man. We thought we were winning, plunging deep into Takathi territory like a spear into the heart of our most wretched foe.
We moved too far. Lost instant c... | 1 | 0 | 21 | 37,685 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | A few things go through a man's mind as he dies. Some dream of home, of the families they left behind. Of beautiful wives, listless nights, and a longing for the green fields now tarnished with scarlet rivers. All, however, share the same hope for peace.
He lay on the ground, staring into the cold, grey sky looming ab... | 1 | 0 | 21 | 37,686 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | Flecks of hot ash danced around the city and came to rest upon my sweat-beaded brow. There was something calming about kneeling in hot ash and waiting for my enemy to approach. It did not matter if I lived or died now, my work was already done.
He stood before me, his battered armor still managing to shine under the ... | 2 | 0 | 21 | 37,687 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | Run.
That was the only thought that went through my mind when I saw my commander get blasted by an energy beam that none of was saw coming. How could this happen? We where so sure that we had this battle in the bag. This was our final assault and we failed. The entire Caste army was waiting for us.
There was no tim... | 1 | 0 | 21 | 37,688 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | As usual, I'm playing D3 with my barb. Now, I'm on Act IV of my whateverth playthrough, so there are a lot of "bosses" and powerful critters, one of whom is a demon named Rakanoth. I'm like, "No big deal. I'm not exactly pushing it with Torment Level 1. He'll go down just like everybody else." I sit through the stu... | 1 | 0 | 21 | 37,689 |
[WP] The final battle is over. The war is finished. And you have lost. | Rather late, but I like the prompt.
Backed into an uncharted nebula surrounded by rebels, Federation leader Anthony Davis contemplated his options. With the base and flagship destroyed, the only thing left fighting for was survival among Federation loyalists. A Galactic witch hunt,propagandized by rebel leaders, had t... | 1 | 0 | 21 | 37,690 |
[WP] A race car driver fights with man, machine, and nature as he drives through the night, all while a storm opens up over the track/course/road | The Thunder rumbles
louder than the engine's roar,
Nature is stronger.
He pushes harder,
faster, to outrun the storm
without and within.
Lightning shows the road-
curves and cliffs, flash on the soul;
the loss of control
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[WP] A race car driver fights with man, machine, and nature as he drives through the night, all while a storm opens up over the track/course/road | Completely off topic, but this REALLY reminds me of Cake's song "The Distance". No idea why. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 37,692 |
A race of beings is incapable of consuming energy. They are born with all of the energy they will have for their entire lives. Once they run out of energy, they die. |
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[WP] A man talks his way out of a hanging or execution with his last words. | They stood around, grouped like a murder of ravens, faces blank. The noose was chafing. His skin felt raw. Behind him he could hear the trees rubbing their boughs together. It was a quiet moaning punctuated by the creak of the rope. They were waiting for him to speak.
He licked his lips. He was out of time.
"Our Fath... | 4 | 0 | 2 | 37,694 |
[WP] A man talks his way out of a hanging or execution with his last words. | I stood at the altar, the eyes of tens of thousands on me. It was almost time. It would be so, because i had foreseen it.
"Do you have any last words?" asked the executioner, drawing the ceremonial clay-more from it's sheath.
"Yes." i said, looking toward the crowd, my eyes scanning them, searching for the movement I... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 37,695 |
[WP] Children play on a railway line at a deserted, closed down train station... | It had been ten decades past,
Since trains had seen those rails.
Betwixt those ties, youth had a blast,
Regaling fiction's tales.
They walked in lines along the track,
And chugged themselves along.
Caboose kid bringing up the back,
They sang a cheerful song.
But do you sense that clanging sound,
The sou... | 5 | 0 | 7 | 37,696 |
[WP] Children play on a railway line at a deserted, closed down train station... | “Hey Jordan, you’ve gotta see this!”
What could it be this time, I wondered. Ever since we were in the grade school, Dave and I had been inseparable. We had spent every moment we could together, playing in a fantastical world, fighting dragons and ruling our massive kingdom. The adventures were usually light hear... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 37,697 |
[WP] A fresh and original scary story about a cliche monster. | It started in the colleges, universities and secondary schools. Lamprey they were calling it. The latest sexually transmitted disease.
And it spread like a wildfire.
Teenagers and young adults with oval shaped bleeding marks on their necks. They showed 4 weeks after intercourse and were easily combated with Coagulan... | 8 | 0 | 18 | 37,698 |
[WP] A fresh and original scary story about a cliche monster. | You remember how everyone was freaking out when the dead began rising from their graves?
End of the world, "Zombie" apocalypse. Pfft.
You know what country we live in? The U S friggen A.
A gun absorbed culture with a love for freedom and democracy. We treated it like a damn sport - had events on who would shoot d... | 16 | 0 | 18 | 37,699 |
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