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[IP] Our local priest saved us from demons | "Back, foul beasts! Back to whence you came!" he screamed, his crozius maul swinging and catching red shapes as they rushed him, flinging them high and far. His voice was powerful, inspiring, even in this most tumultuous of hours. I could barely see him amidst the furious flames that encircled him at the village gate, ... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 38,800 |
[EU] You run into a Silent Hill monster. Your unusual reaction gives it pause. | Soaked in fog and mist and blood and shadow, he turned to the little creature. It did not stir from its place as they usually might.
He twisted around and lined up his shoulders, prepared to move, but it did not budge. Simply staring upwards.
Slowly, it approached and he waited. Waiting to see what its little arms co... | 4 | 0 | 8 | 38,801 |
[CC] Please critique me! | Here are some quotes I recommend removing
"Under the Roc's brown and gold head were corpses of several cows, blood and bones littered the ground, soaking into the crops that were there to feed the families of the innocent. In the distance to the left, Kallisto saw a young boy running towards his mother, crying in f... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 38,802 |
[CC] Please critique me! | > "Stand your ground! Be ready!" Kallisto yelled to his men, waving his spear in the air. Kallisto's wife Eugenia and daughter Demetria were probably away safe. He had to tell himself that to keep his nerve. In that moment he saw their faces in his mind, smiling. He was coming back from a harvest that day in his wor... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 38,803 |
[CC] Please critique me! | Just a few comments:
"Only a man of 29, Kallisto gripped his wooden spear as tight as he could." You want to avoid putting physical descriptions or background info in with the action or dialogue, generally. It can come across as awkward. It can work if the info is related to the action--like, "Bob lifted up the hem of... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 38,804 |
[CC] Please critique me! | > Kallisto looked at the men behind him. He examined each of them with both fear and anger.
Show this happening; it's obvious that he's looking at people when you go into detail about them. Describe the fear and the anger without outright identifying them. What is his mind doing, his heart, his breath?
> his p... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 38,805 |
[CC] Please critique me! | What we have here is a scene of action and violence, and while our characters may not be bold and decisive, our writing must be. Other posters here have noted the need for some basic reduction and some grammar issues, and I agree with them.
A story like this can be interesting because it allows the reader to examine ... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 38,806 |
[WP] The Transformers encounter their greatest threat yet: Superglue | Dude, that's the plot of the Lego Movie, and we all know nobody's gonna write something better than that. | 2 | 0 | 18 | 38,807 |
[IP] A new home | Vyn felt the cool wind blow across her skin. It was a touch cold and she knew it would get colder as the suns came down. She took a deep breath tasting the rich scent's. A willowy shadowy taste far different than the sterile taste the ship air unit provided.
"Quit, mucking about, we need to set up this recon unit, so... | 8 | 0 | 5 | 38,808 |
[IP] A new home | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 5 | 38,809 |
[IP] A new home | The memories still stained his mind, like coffee on fresh china they left a trail of gunge that would forever mar his thoughts. Oceans of brackish, acidic water stretching into what would of been the horizon had it not been for the smog. Smog that made the air so thick and putrid that even a single breath would reduce ... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 38,810 |
[IP] A new home | "It's real Shawn! Look there are even flowers blooming in the tall grass!"
Shawn was still unloading the surveillance equipment as per protocol, but Deborah was never truly that disciplined.
"Don't wander to far from the ship Deborah, even if the terra prompt said this planet can sustain human life we don't know what... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 38,811 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | I killed everyone you love. | 2 | 0 | 6 | 38,812 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | "Mommy, Daddy's leaving! Stop him, please!" | 10 | 0 | 6 | 38,813 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,814 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | The small golden puppy pushed her way through the hedge, her tail wagging in excitement. "Master!" she thought "You forgot me!" she thought. The puppy burst out of the hedge and ran onto the hot black gravely surface.
*SQUEEEEE-BANG* | 5 | 0 | 6 | 38,815 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | It doesn't matter what you tell them. I'm the voice in your head, but you're still the one that pulled the trigger. No one can bring her back now and it's all your fault. | 3 | 0 | 6 | 38,816 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,817 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | I'm sorry I don't love you. | 2 | 0 | 6 | 38,818 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | "I'm sorry, sir. There were some...complications during the procedure. Your father...he didn't make it." | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,819 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,820 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | He sat down slowly, somberly, sadly.
He sat down at the table they shared for his last meal: a bottle of painkillers.
He sat down the way he did most things since the last day he saw her.
He sat down with a muted sigh. | 3 | 0 | 6 | 38,821 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | *That fleeting glance and hint of a smile ... she loved me. She loved me, didn't she?*
I'll never know. | 2 | 0 | 6 | 38,822 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | "Let this be our first and last beer together, son" | 3 | 0 | 6 | 38,823 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | I saw your eyes go hollow, your body go limp, and I saw you die -and in that final moment, I realised I loved you.
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[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,825 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | The smallest coffins are the heaviest | 6 | 0 | 6 | 38,826 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | It was the same face that shot burning lightening through my heart when we first said hello that they now lowered into the cold, soft ground as I say goodbye. | 2 | 0 | 6 | 38,827 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | "You have no talent as a writer! You are delusional if you think you can ever succeed! I worked so many late nights and sacrificed so much just so you could be the first in our family to go to college. You are not going to throw this opportunity away! You are going to be an engineer! End of discussion!" | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,828 |
[WP] Make me cry using as few words as possible. | You're fat and ugly. | 0 | 0 | 6 | 38,829 |
[WP] An eccentric scientist has built a time machine and is about to test it when he is visited by a future version of himself... | Finally the machine was ready. Steve caressed the keys and smiled, soon time travel would be a real thing, soon he'd prove everyone wrong, he'd show the world that his theories on time and relativity were accurate. He looked at the dials and wondered where to go. He had to disrupt some big event and then tell people ab... | 6 | 0 | 20 | 38,830 |
[WP] An eccentric scientist has built a time machine and is about to test it when he is visited by a future version of himself... | “I feel like I should warn you.”
Eli turned towards the voice, lowering the key he was about to use. “Well I guess it works.”
“Of course it does. We built it.”
Somehow Eli recognized the voice, but the body it came from seemed too old and scared to be real. A scraggly beard hung from his face, his eyes were old and ... | 3 | 0 | 20 | 38,831 |
[WP] An eccentric scientist has built a time machine and is about to test it when he is visited by a future version of himself... | Crash.
The man jumps, turning to face the intruder. To his surprise, he finds himself staring at himself, if a somewhat less hairy, more annoyed, and rather thoroughly singed version.
"..."
The newcomer turns towards the blackboard containing his notes. He picks up a piece of chalk, crosses out a '3' and writes a '5... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 38,832 |
[WP] An eccentric scientist has built a time machine and is about to test it when he is visited by a future version of himself... | ##"A Doctor and a Gentleman"
"What are we supposed to do with the bodies?" the good doctor asked. She was always focused on the immediate practicalities of a thing, rather than the potential of its possibilities. Where I preferred to watch a problem and see what interesting happenings might arise from it, she preferre... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 38,833 |
[WP] 5000 years ago a cataclysm rendered the earth inhabitable. Today the descendants of those who escaped on The Ark will set foot on their homeworld for the first time. | The planet Earth has changed a lot recently, 23 years ago- almost to the day, the storms on the surface ended. The same storms that had been raging for roughly five thousand years, a few weeks passed whilst the cloud formations disintegrated, and then we got our first clear view of our home.
I was five years old at th... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 38,834 |
[WP] 5000 years ago a cataclysm rendered the earth inhabitable. Today the descendants of those who escaped on The Ark will set foot on their homeworld for the first time. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 38,835 |
[WP] A pirate crew of varying personalities, may face their final battle. | *Arrg there be the Kraken, men powered up the cannons, I smell me some calamari*
*But Captain sir, that cephalopod is enormous. I reckon the tentacles to be thicker than trees and tougher than steel rope to make calamari*
*Argg, that's just me figure of expression, I course I don't want no calamari, I want it dead!... | 5 | 0 | 9 | 38,836 |
[WP] A pirate crew of varying personalities, may face their final battle. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 9 | 38,837 |
[WP] A pirate crew of varying personalities, may face their final battle. | His mind wandered, bright holograms flashed past his dull lifeless eyes, his gaze darting from one image to another. He slumped his body against the hard leather chair, his elbows rooted deep into the frayed armrest and his head supported by his metallic, robotic hand. It served as a reminder of his last crew, dying in... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 38,838 |
[WP] Human civilization now spans the galaxy, and no life beyond "animal intelligence" has been found. Humans experiment with bio-engineering to create another sentient species, but they cannot have predicted what happens next. | It had finally happened. Humanity was in every star system. Ever since the great exploration of the 24th Century, Humanity had burst into the Galaxy, doing what it had done countless times before on its Home-world, and colonize all that it saw.
Amongst its first star systems humanity step into there was life, true a... | 13 | 0 | 16 | 38,839 |
[CS] [PI] [WP] The Telepathic Teens Saga -- a few days, after they realized they were not alone. The boy approaches the girls and asks for a *huge* favor... | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 14 | 38,840 |
[CS] [PI] [WP] The Telepathic Teens Saga -- a few days, after they realized they were not alone. The boy approaches the girls and asks for a *huge* favor... | She could feel Randy getting close. "Sorry Rebecca, but this is bad, really fucking bad." his thoughts entered her mind.
"You really have no idea how shitty your timing is." she thought back to him and bowed her head. "Deal me out for a little while." she said to the dealer as she got up. She could hear Randy in the ... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 38,841 |
[WP] You are standing in a burned down building, with rain gently disturbing the dry, scorched husk. | The house itself resembles a rotting carcass of some great sea beast from the Pre-War times. The wooden supports jut out, burned and spiked, like a charred ribcage. The brick and mortar of the house has been blown away for the most part, with the lower parts of the walls barely intact, like the house was destroyed from... | 5 | 0 | 8 | 38,842 |
[WP] You are standing in a burned down building, with rain gently disturbing the dry, scorched husk. | "This used to be my home" I said to her, not that she was listening, she was tied to a chair, she was unconscious and she was bleeding from her mouth. The smell of kerosene was in the room, probably because there was a can of kerosene not five feet away from the chair, and the cap was open.
I looked around, the walls ... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 38,843 |
[WP] You are standing in a burned down building, with rain gently disturbing the dry, scorched husk. | I am standing in a burned down building, the rain gently disturbing the dry, scorched husk.
Why am I standing here? Shrouded in the darkness of night in the shell of someones home? It feels familiar yet alien a the same time. Each gust of wind brings with it more soft sheets of rain. The smell of burning mixed with the... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 38,844 |
[WP] You are standing in a burned down building, with rain gently disturbing the dry, scorched husk. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 38,845 |
[WP] A person discovers they can't feel physical pain. | hey, listen, not trying to put in a story, not sure if you knew this or not, but there is such a condition in real life (Congenital insensitivity to pain), and the results really arnt as pretty as you think they are. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,846 |
[WP] A person discovers they can't feel physical pain. | She had found out when she was nine.
That was the day when her friends had been jumping from her roof to the trampoline, and she'd jumped right alongside them. But she had missed, fallen, and broken her arm.
It didn't hurt.
Everyone crowded around her, worried, but she brushed it off and said simply, "It doesn't hur... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 38,847 |
[WP][CW] Why did you do it? | Took me 5 tries, officer. *Five fucking tries before he would go down*
I wasn't thinking right.
No, actually, none of us were. Just kind of happens.
Wait - what is that? Oh, I didn't answer your question? Why did I do it?
Can't say, officer. Don't know. You know, that's what's so scary about us. We've got compl... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 38,848 |
[WP][CW] Why did you do it? | Have you ever passed by someone walking along the street and realized you could have killed them? If you’d had a knife, it’d be the easiest thing in the world. Just wait until they pass by, and then slice their throat from behind. They’d never see it coming. But you won’t. Why would you? You have no reason to kill some... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 38,849 |
[OT] Using you guys as inspiration, would /r/WritingPrompts like to see... | Heck, if you guys want to give me a few requests here, I'll try to reply to them in the next day or two =) Feel free to be as broad or specific as you like! | 2 | 0 | 13 | 38,850 |
[OT] Using you guys as inspiration, would /r/WritingPrompts like to see... | Sounds like a good idea to me. Shows your work off to others, and keeps you in good practice. (However, I would like to add I am not a professional writer in any capacity) | 1 | 0 | 13 | 38,851 |
[OT] Using you guys as inspiration, would /r/WritingPrompts like to see... | YEEEEEESSSS
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[OT] Using you guys as inspiration, would /r/WritingPrompts like to see... | I don't get it, would be exactly what we do here except on your new blog? How does that help the community here?
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[OT] Using you guys as inspiration, would /r/WritingPrompts like to see... | I'd like to see it! | 1 | 0 | 13 | 38,854 |
[OT] Using you guys as inspiration, would /r/WritingPrompts like to see... | Personally, I already have a [blog](http://lexilogical.wordpress.com) for the stories I have here, so it sounds like a solid idea to me. Let me know if you make one, maybe we can link exchange or something.
Judging by some flairs, there's a few other posters here with blogs too. | 1 | 0 | 13 | 38,855 |
[OT] Using you guys as inspiration, would /r/WritingPrompts like to see... | I'd be down for that. I'd probably end up submitting some of my work there too as well as here. | 1 | 0 | 13 | 38,856 |
(Wp) A man begins writing a story. After every chapter he finishes his nose gushes blood and he has a seizure as a vision of the chapter's events plays out in his mind. | A distorted gray light shines upon my face...
A woman's voice cries out...
"Why? Why do you need to kill my son"
The people around her throws plastic cups and bottle shards at her.
"Freak, freak, freak, freak!" they chanted
Everybody laughed at the woman's dying autistic son.
Her wails of despair couldn't be hear... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 38,857 |
[WP] You're the first human born who can see (only) infra-red. | Susan kept to herself as she walked down the busy sidewalk, giving other pedestrians a wide berth. Suddenly, she jerked away from a woman walking in the opposite direction, shooting her a disgusted glance. The woman could only look back in confusion.
Things weren't any better at the bus stop. It was far too crowded, a... | 6 | 0 | 32 | 38,858 |
[WP] After moving away from his home country and settling in a first world nation, a former sweatshop worker encounters in a store the very product he used to make. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 47 | 38,859 |
[WP] After moving away from his home country and settling in a first world nation, a former sweatshop worker encounters in a store the very product he used to make. | “Finally,” she thought to herself, “a day without classes.” It was her first day without a full schedule of schooling and filling out paperwork. It was her dream to study and see the land she had once caught a glimpse of on the small television all those years ago. A white family driving across a huge orange bridge in ... | 11 | 0 | 47 | 38,860 |
[WP] After moving away from his home country and settling in a first world nation, a former sweatshop worker encounters in a store the very product he used to make. | Shipment #102562 // USA - S.P. Distribution Ltd // Onward delivery 26.04.14 confirmed, Austin TX - Rick's Sports.
Anton logged out the VPN and finished the dregs of his long black, drinking down the coffee granule sludge at the bottom of the cup. He pulled out a few single dollar bills from the bill fold he'd been si... | 4 | 0 | 47 | 38,861 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | *"What was it like? The Internet?"*
His childlike face looked up at me asking to tell him what it was like once again. I've told him many times before but it never ceases to amaze him, the complexity and diversity of the world before the collapse is like a fairy tale. The Internet interested him the most, so that's th... | 154 | 0 | 200 | 38,862 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 200 | 38,863 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | Once... once I could talk to anyone on Earth. Anyone. At any point. I could be anonymous, or I could shout my name from the moment I arrived. I could annoy thousands of people at once or fall in love with someone I'd never even met. I could learn anything there was to learn without ever getting up.
Now all I have left... | 41 | 0 | 200 | 38,864 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | They guided me out gently. My sight had long ago left me, only shadows danced behind my eyes. They sat me in a comfy, albeit decaying lazy boy. I could feel a stray spring dig into my thigh, but I didn't say anything, after all, this was the best seat in the house.
Young forms moved and shuffled around my eyes, youthf... | 14 | 0 | 200 | 38,865 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | Well, what was the internet, really? I knew what it *really* was, but no technical specifications lead to the conclusion that the internet was some sort of magic. It's something that everyone, from past, present, and future, could think about and still be held in awe by its size and complexity, still not even understan... | 1 | 0 | 200 | 38,866 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | Walking into Brazzaville these days, there is a mild chaos in the complex bustle of markets, of which I observe so joyously.
The streets are decorated with the controlled swarm of minds that come as a side effect to lassiez-faire mercantilism. Luckily, the rouge doctors we have left have been enough of a help to keep... | 6 | 0 | 200 | 38,867 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | "How the hell did only children survive?"
"Hey bitch! We lived on the streets! We ain't children!" said the tall scraggly one.
"Oh great so you're a bunch of crack babies, do you even know what the fuck internet is?" His face twinged, and so did my stomach, I'd gone too far. "Look, I'm sorry, the internet was a big ... | -1 | 0 | 200 | 38,868 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | [deleted] | -1 | 0 | 200 | 38,869 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | [deleted] | 6 | 0 | 200 | 38,870 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | The mine shaft had finally ceased from shaking and the fallen debris had stopped but it was all too little too late. A rock had crushed the world’s last computer, with such force the desk it sat on shattered in half.
I keeled before it as one would at a grave site, holding the dust of computer chips as it sieved thr... | 3 | 0 | 200 | 38,871 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 200 | 38,872 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 200 | 38,873 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | Gather round young ones, for I have a story to tell.
Well, a description really. Wow. Many years. Many years have past.
*Dad, are you making up lies again?*
No, I tell the truth for once. A place where I learned, grew, laughed, sat in horror, and made friends I would never truly meet.
*What are you talking about, g... | 1 | 0 | 200 | 38,874 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | The young girl looked up at me with big brown eyes, asking me question after question about the world that was. Generation after generation had passed, and I was now old, with a bad back and grey hair. I wanted to nap, but my granddaughter would not have it. I had already told her about cars and television, iPods and t... | 1 | 0 | 200 | 38,875 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | Look up, in that tree. Do you see the spider? No, there, between the trunk and that dead branch. Now? Good. Look at her web.
It's beautiful, isn't it? Look at how she's anchored it, every spoke attached to something.
Now, imagine: each anchor point a person. Every person is connected to every other person. Do you see... | 1 | 0 | 200 | 38,876 |
[WP] Civilization has collapsed. You are the last person alive who can remember the internet. You try to describe it to people who have never even seen a computer. | Look kid: I'm sorry I can't answer your question. I was an artist back then see? I liked to be in the forest and in bars with people - never at home in the computer see? Yeah. Big waste of time that was. If I could go back I would have done things differently...
Now back to your question. Best way I could describe it ... | 1 | 0 | 200 | 38,877 |
[WP] The Korean Peninsula has been reunifed | Coincidentally, I'm writing a novella about this. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,878 |
[WP] The Korean Peninsula has been reunifed | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,879 |
[WP] The Korean Peninsula has been reunifed | It was a hot summer day in Pyongyang. Much hotter than it usually was in the past. The foliage is at its maximum and the cicadas are chirping. As I lay in my apartment I can hear the streetcar running by. The old rails were still in, but the trams were newer. You could almost hear the rails bending under the weight of ... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 38,880 |
[WP] A nuke is dropped on a small town, describe the day leading up to the explosion. | **8:00 am**: day starts, nothing is wrong.
**9:00 am**: gunshots are heard, some are scared
**10:00 am**: more gunshots are heard, closer this time
**11:00 am**: raiders invade city
**12:00 pm**: invaders keep the mayor hostage
**1:00 pm**: plans that reveal the mayor wanted to keep the citizens as slaves leak out... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 38,881 |
[WP] A nuke is dropped on a small town, describe the day leading up to the explosion. | “Charlie dear, how was your day?”
The small boy’s head shot up immediately, a small frown on his face, “It was alright mom, school was boring, but still alright I guess.”
His mother, Ms. Johnson tipped her head in concern, “I thought you liked school?”
“I do, but today was just boring, Ms. Davis gave us a test on... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 38,882 |
[WP] Tell me the story of the Prop Hunt. | I awoke, in a cage. My fingers bleeding, my heart pounding, I looked around for escape.
Before I was captured, I was just a simple soldier. Not like THE Soldier, but instead a near-nobody. I was fighting my best against the BLU, but eventually, we just got replaced by those clones that the higher-ups practically wors... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 38,883 |
[WP] Tell me the story of the Prop Hunt. | *The leading company of aesthetics, arts, science, and cosmetics. Alvenhof now presents you, Jumper. Ever need to find your keys? Well, in one drink, you could easily look for them and actually possess them to come near your body! Using the new technology of Verencorp, the "Astral Splicer". You will be completely trans... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 38,884 |
[WP] It has been ten years since Harald's time machine was destroyed, leaving him stranded in the 21st century. With the help of his new wife, he has assimilated well. Mostly. | "Look I just don't like the texture of it, it's weird." said Harald as he placed the morsel of food into his napkin with his tongue.
He watched the brown red blood seep from the unloved ribeye steak on his plate, contaminating his mashed potatoes.
He turned to his wife, "Can't we just have it once? You'll like it! ... | 9 | 0 | 12 | 38,885 |
[WP] It has been ten years since Harald's time machine was destroyed, leaving him stranded in the 21st century. With the help of his new wife, he has assimilated well. Mostly. | The air was full of smoke. The whole room was overly bright and filled with an orange glow. Harald was panicking. He barely had anytime to readjust from what just happened and he was already in danger of dying. Damn his curiosity. There was a woman near him, screaming and clearly terrified. As he looked around, he saw ... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 38,886 |
[WP] A superhero wakes up one day to find that they've been erased from time, and the only one who still knows of them is their nemesis. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 12 | 38,887 |
[WP] A superhero wakes up one day to find that they've been erased from time, and the only one who still knows of them is their nemesis. | "Who the hell are you?" Demanded officer Blanks.
"What do you mean? I am The Gavel and this is Smash Boy!"
"Who? Man, get out of here. We are waiting for the real hero to show up."
"We ARE the real heroes, officer."
"Look, I'm telling you caped nutcases to get back. The bank robbers are unstable and have been firin... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 38,888 |
[WP] A safari expedition goes terribly wrong when the crew is slowly hunted by a savage attacker every night. | The stars over his head were magical. Joe looked across the savannah. Even with no moon or sun everything was clear. It was the fourth day of the tour he had paid with his wife, Irene. So far it was worth the extra money to go on the more longer tour. Out here away from civilized life, you can really get connect with n... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 38,889 |
[WP] A safari expedition goes terribly wrong when the crew is slowly hunted by a savage attacker every night. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 38,890 |
[WP] A safari expedition goes terribly wrong when the crew is slowly hunted by a savage attacker every night. | The heat was unbearable, all of us could agree on that. Michael in particular was having a tough time with it, his shirt had been soaked in sweat and sagging against him for the last twenty four hours. They were a group of seven: Michael, Jenny, Thomas, Andy, myself and the two gentlemen navigating the savanna for the... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 38,891 |
[IP] [WP] Make-up or break-up story | They'd been fighting for days. It had started when Ella found out Mark's cheating habits, and angrily progressed from there. Even the smallest inconveniences turned into full-blown verbal battles.
So they decided to take a walk together, in their favorite park, to try and soothe hurt feelings.
It wasn't long before... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 38,892 |
[WP] A man is on his deathbed when he discovers that the Grim Reaper / Angel of Death does exit interviews | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 6 | 38,893 |
[WP] You're a pet who used to be Human. Convince your owner. | "I'm leaving now, King. I'll be back in about fifteen minutes. Be a good boy while I'm gone." I try to respond, as I always do, but it comes out in a futile bark.
Don't ask me how I went to bed as John C. Mayer one night and woke up as King, faithful dog to a Mr. Roland Vinson.
Does the dog now occupy my head? Are my... | 15 | 0 | 19 | 38,894 |
[WP] You're a pet who used to be Human. Convince your owner. | I'm honestly not sure what I'm supposed to do here.
I don't even know how it happened. One day I just woke up and... well, here I am. Body of a cat.
Its probably fortunate that a lady picked me up and brought me into her home on the second day. Whatever hunting instincts a cat is supposed to have, I don't have ... | 9 | 0 | 19 | 38,895 |
[WP] You're a pet who used to be Human. Convince your owner. | I looked at the food bowl on the floor and then looked up at my new owner. "Do we have to go through this again? I want a plate, a knife and fork, and a table." They patted my head and said something I couldn't understand. I was hungry though, so I picked some food out of the bowl, resigned to eating with my hands. Cle... | 4 | 0 | 19 | 38,896 |
[WP] You're a pet who used to be Human. Convince your owner. | My dreams the night before were fitful. I cannot remember what they were about, only that the whole time I could feel as if I was... disconnected. That something was wrong with me.
The next day, I woke to darkness, and something covering me. I moved about, and I found I was not moving as I usually did. My body somehow... | 2 | 0 | 19 | 38,897 |
[WP] You're a pet who used to be Human. Convince your owner. | BARK BARK BARK BARK GRRRRARF. BARK. BARKBARK. RUFFFFF. shit this isn't working | 3 | 0 | 19 | 38,898 |
[WP] You're a pet who used to be Human. Convince your owner. | I deserve this. I don't deny it. I know that's why I'm here. It's because of my daughter's death. She was four when it happened. She'd been begging all week to take her to the park. My head was pounding that morning from one of my usual hangovers. In an attempt to shut her up, and spare my head, I gave in.
She wanted... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 38,899 |
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