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[WP] An immortal man is serving a life sentence. He is the only person alive from when his crime was still illegal. | It's not that there's anything so bad about this place itself. The "inhumanity" of this institution is a bit overstated. In here we're all just junkies who can't get our fix - that's all.
What would be killing me (if my withdrawal weren't already the greatest pain of my life bar none) is how reviled we are - I am - by... | 3 | 0 | 325 | 40,900 |
[WP] An immortal man is serving a life sentence. He is the only person alive from when his crime was still illegal. | *(Warning: I got carried away, this is long)*
As the guards scanned, the man in charge started giving a speel that he obviously repeated to every visitor and journalist.
"The prisoner may - quite physically - be in chains but that does not make him any less dangerous so avoid rising to his insults and jests, avoid mo... | 11 | 0 | 325 | 40,901 |
[WP] An immortal man is serving a life sentence. He is the only person alive from when his crime was still illegal. | Hey Johnny, it’s your turn to look after the inmate.
Yes, coming.
After having a chat with the inmate, Roy left Johnny guarding the cell. He was called by his superiors.
*Heh, new guard*. They just disappear. I already lost the count. So many years ago.
Keep it quiet, said Johnny, enthusiastically.
It doesn’t ma... | 2 | 0 | 325 | 40,902 |
[WP] An immortal man is serving a life sentence. He is the only person alive from when his crime was still illegal. | She was not what I expected. I was to interview the oldest inmate here. I figured they gave me the youngest as a joke. She looked to be in her late teens by her face. Smooth skin, not even a hint of where a wrinkle would start. Her long blonde hair pushed behind her ears made her look young. Her attentive brown eyes an... | 2 | 0 | 325 | 40,903 |
[WP] An immortal man is serving a life sentence. He is the only person alive from when his crime was still illegal. | A lone figure sits staring at shadows on the wall. The world moved on but the shadows remained. This ..."man"... barely moves, barely feels. Surreal, he exists only to think, as he always had.
He was the first to truly think, he thinks.
He was the first to create, he thinks.
He was the first to love, he thinks.
... | 1 | 0 | 325 | 40,904 |
[WP] An immortal man is serving a life sentence. He is the only person alive from when his crime was still illegal. | I heard the footsteps echo along the hallway. The other inmates didn't know what was happening, which didn't happen often. Someone was coming to visit me. I rested my head back against the stone wall. Whatever they wanted didn't matter. The footsteps stopped some distance away, and I heard a muffled conversation. Doors... | 2 | 0 | 325 | 40,905 |
[WP] An immortal man is serving a life sentence. He is the only person alive from when his crime was still illegal. | Kaitlyn felt her hands grow hot at the sight of the man behind the glass. She had been in rooms like that before, thick enough to protect those who were keeping your prisoner. She'd only been in there for a few months.
"How long has he been there?" Kaitlyn asked. She pressed her hand against the glass. "Is he new?"
... | 2 | 0 | 325 | 40,906 |
[WP] A society that relies entirely on magic and a main protagonist who is the only one in the world without it. | See the book series called, if I recall correctly, Codex Alera. A good read, and this is the exact premise.
Edit- removed a spoiler | 3 | 0 | 10 | 40,907 |
[WP] A society that relies entirely on magic and a main protagonist who is the only one in the world without it. | Saving this for later, boy am I going to have fun with this one. | 1 | 0 | 10 | 40,908 |
[WP] A society that relies entirely on magic and a main protagonist who is the only one in the world without it. | RemindMe! 0 days 6 hours "Writing Time!" | 2 | 0 | 10 | 40,909 |
[WP] A society that relies entirely on magic and a main protagonist who is the only one in the world without it. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 10 | 40,910 |
[WP] A society that relies entirely on magic and a main protagonist who is the only one in the world without it. | Hooray Xanth! | 3 | 0 | 10 | 40,911 |
[WP] A young man is going into a surgery with a 50/50 shot of dying or living. The night before he leaves two letters on his desk, one labeled "If I live" and one labeled "If I die". What do the letters say? | One letter printed twice, placed in each envelope.
"I love you, and will see you all later. " | 47 | 0 | 30 | 40,912 |
[WP] A young man is going into a surgery with a 50/50 shot of dying or living. The night before he leaves two letters on his desk, one labeled "If I live" and one labeled "If I die". What do the letters say? | **If I die..**
Lisa. I sat down to write this letter and I can think of nothing to say to you that would let me go in peace. I went through so many drafts, and honestly, there are just too many words and not enough space. But before you close this letter, please listen. I just want to say I'm not that guy anymore. I d... | 22 | 0 | 30 | 40,913 |
[WP] A young man is going into a surgery with a 50/50 shot of dying or living. The night before he leaves two letters on his desk, one labeled "If I live" and one labeled "If I die". What do the letters say? | If I Die
Mom, if you're reading this, I'm probably dead. If I'd survived the operation, you wouldn't be reading this. You never come into my room. Not even to clean. So I know that I'm dead. Please don't be sad. There was no way to help it. The doctors treated my heart as soon as they could, and even with a transplant... | 10 | 0 | 30 | 40,914 |
[WP] A young man is going into a surgery with a 50/50 shot of dying or living. The night before he leaves two letters on his desk, one labeled "If I live" and one labeled "If I die". What do the letters say? | As Collin was wheeled out to surgery he pressed two folded pieces of folded cardboard paper into the hands of his favorite nurse.
**If I liv** No one getz my toy bo^x and mommy get me icream DaDDy have to smile more Docter haz to stop hurting me
**if I dy** All my toys go to DaDDy | 15 | 0 | 30 | 40,915 |
[WP] A young man is going into a surgery with a 50/50 shot of dying or living. The night before he leaves two letters on his desk, one labeled "If I live" and one labeled "If I die". What do the letters say? | I walked into his room. We had all tried to convince him that everything would be fine, but the two letters on the desk indicated that he didn’t believe us. Unfortunately, he was right to doubt us. He had a 50/50 chance of coming out of the surgery alive, and it would be hours until we found out whether he was still al... | 3 | 0 | 30 | 40,916 |
[WP] A young man is going into a surgery with a 50/50 shot of dying or living. The night before he leaves two letters on his desk, one labeled "If I live" and one labeled "If I die". What do the letters say? | *If I Die*
Fuck you.
*If I Live*
Fuck you. | 3 | 0 | 30 | 40,917 |
[WP] "Her dying words were 'this isn't the first time.'" | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 11 | 40,918 |
[WP] "Her dying words were 'this isn't the first time.'" | 100-Word story attempt:
Remy buried his dirk in the Dark Queens' abdomen. Her mouth opened with a sharp inhalation of breath. Blood streamed in thin lines from her mouth. He thought of all he had sacrificed to infiltrate her vile syndicate. Years wasted away in sycophantic worship and servitude.
"I'm going to enjoy... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 40,919 |
[WP] "Her dying words were 'this isn't the first time.'" | You know the place.
The setting is the nightmare world. A black and blue cacophony of darkness, laced with terror and knitted with short, icy stabs of false hope. A swirling whirlpool sucks her in. Somewhere in the background, a radio announcer calls the plays for a big game. His confident voice reassures Susan.
Su... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 40,920 |
[WP] "Her dying words were 'this isn't the first time.'" | Her dying words were “This isn't the first time.” Those words were spoken while I was the only one in the room with her. I don't know why she chose to say them to me, but she did. Perhaps it was because I'd known her my entire twelve years by then, but I never thought I was important to her. I only knew her because her... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 40,921 |
[WP] For the first time in history, a robot has adopted a human child. | Respected Master,
Its been four months since I found Obertan. No information regarding his parents and family has been found or recovered from the boy. In the current situation it would be best for all if Obertan stays with me permanently. There have been objections by many humans. And my partner Mr. Sakh was one of... | 1 | 0 | 44 | 40,922 |
[WP] For the first time in history, a robot has adopted a human child. | Bottles were thrown into the side of the brick mansion. They crashed, exploding into a million pieces of shards. They glittered white and silver as they fell towards the ground, first reflecting the moonlight in mid-flight, but then reflected the red torches that the mob carried as they finally settled on the ground.
... | 40 | 0 | 44 | 40,923 |
[WP] For the first time in history, a robot has adopted a human child. | As she cast her eyes down the list, she realised her mistake far, far too late. In all the years she'd been sat at this desk, she'd never had this sort of sense of impending dread before.
Jane Collins had been a primary school teacher for some 35 years now- she was part of the furniture, and she enjoyed her work as mu... | 9 | 0 | 44 | 40,924 |
[WP] For the first time in history, a robot has adopted a human child. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 44 | 40,925 |
[WP] For the first time in history, a robot has adopted a human child. | The room was quiet but for a dry, metronomic ticking, her mother's antiquated mantle clock on the shelf above her bed. She hated that clock, its hands like skeletal arms, its persistence loud and jarring in the midnight quiet when she woke from bad dreams.
He'd get rid of it now. He could do that.
"Emily," he said... | 3 | 0 | 44 | 40,926 |
[WP] For the first time in history, a robot has adopted a human child. | ##"Deprecated"
"Do you even know why I'm here?" she asked, with bitter amusement pouring into her tone.
Underneath her voice, the faint whirrs and clicks of artificial tendons could be heard as she looked back up. Her face was an older model, its chromed plating polished to perfection. It was not designed to show sad... | 2 | 0 | 44 | 40,927 |
[WP] A prestigous wristwatch that falls from the hands of the mayor to an ignorant high school boy. | Tic toc
Tic toc
Choices, choices
Lemon voices
Lost and found Or
Found and exploited?
The golden watch. So limp, so loose,
So cold. Its weight
Drooped over and under and noosed
Around Jake.
Tic toc
Tic toc
Staring at the ticking hand,
Feet won't move, only stand.
Here is where the choice of Man
Reveal... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 40,928 |
[WP] A prestigous wristwatch that falls from the hands of the mayor to an ignorant high school boy. | He knew. The well-spoken man at the podium knew this would be the last time he saw the smiling, familiar faces of the townspeople gathered to hear his press conference, which he hastily assembled upon learning of their plan. He could not tell the townsfolk, who had become like family to him over the years he stood watc... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 40,929 |
[FF]Write the longest sentence you can, while maintaining internal consistency. You can break common grammar, punctuation, and syntax rules; but you have to be consistent. | The "etc; etc; etc" at the end is the point where I realized I was in a recursive loop. I could have kept it up, using the same structure, for as long as I could come up with arguments against torture, of which there are plenty. I could have even busted out some hyphens if I wanted to really elaborate one one of those ... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 40,930 |
[FF]Write the longest sentence you can, while maintaining internal consistency. You can break common grammar, punctuation, and syntax rules; but you have to be consistent. | Whereas, as you may have recalled prior to that certain incident, of which, as we all have an excellent understanding of the certain agreements that we will have made regarding said certain incident which had occurred prior, if, by chance, any of us were to be subject to inquiry, we will have no recollection, we had in... | 5 | 0 | 11 | 40,931 |
[FF]Write the longest sentence you can, while maintaining internal consistency. You can break common grammar, punctuation, and syntax rules; but you have to be consistent. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 11 | 40,932 |
[WP] "I built him up to be a hero, then to discover he's nothing but a psychopath" | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 10 | 40,933 |
[WP] "I built him up to be a hero, then to discover he's nothing but a psychopath" | It isnt a easy thing to raise a son while apart of the greatest military on this earth.The roman empire was spreading fast and they needed all the soldiers they could get, so they forced me into battle. Im not complaining of course i love to serve my country, but its so hard to carry around my child with me. His mother... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 40,934 |
[WP] "I built him up to be a hero, then to discover he's nothing but a psychopath" | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 10 | 40,935 |
[WP] "I built him up to be a hero, then to discover he's nothing but a psychopath" | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 10 | 40,936 |
God is dead. His sons, Lucifer and Michael, talk together for the last time before preparing for war between Heaven and Hell. |
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[WP] A Immortal woman ate gods sandwich. So god ate a orphan instead, make me sympathetic with god. | > [WP] An immortal woman ate god's sandwich. So in return god ate an orphan, make me sympathize with god.
FIFY | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40,938 |
[WP] A Immortal woman ate gods sandwich. So god ate a orphan instead, make me sympathetic with god. | It was his sandwich, perfect in every way and form. From the specially made bread from Italy to the perfectly crafted meat from Greece. Perfect, ripe, juicy tomatoes from Romania. Bacon made from the fattest sow on earth.
This abomination! A woman granted mortality from the devil, Beelzebub's whore, ate his perfect s... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40,939 |
[WP] A Immortal woman ate gods sandwich. So god ate a orphan instead, make me sympathetic with god. | Callista closed her eyes in ecstasy. The ambrosia sandwich was truly the food of the gods. The bread was a perfect Italian roll, crusty on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. The tender roasted pork was thinly sliced and dripping in its own juices. Callista wiped a drop of the warm greasy Au Jus from her... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40,940 |
[WP] Captain America shows up at your front door with two things: Nick Fury's personal cell phone and a distinct lack of his shield. What happens next? | So I'm sat watching TV, nothing exciting was on but I had to be up at fucking o'clock in the morn and you know i like falling asleep in front of the usual 9pm crap. I think it was big bang theory or something, anyway, I my eyes were just closing when...
***BAM***
Some freak in a skintight blue costume comes barging t... | 13 | 0 | 13 | 40,941 |
[WP] Captain America shows up at your front door with two things: Nick Fury's personal cell phone and a distinct lack of his shield. What happens next? | It was midnight. I was wasting my life on television like a patriotic average American should be. Thinking of how great it'd be if there was some kind of hero to save me from the mundane day to day life we're all slaves too. I guess someone was listening that night. I'm not even sure what was on TV, some kinda flashy ... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 40,942 |
[WP] Captain America shows up at your front door with two things: Nick Fury's personal cell phone and a distinct lack of his shield. What happens next? | He stood in front of me, the real deal. Captain America, they called him. I didn't know much about him, but I did know about the Avengers. They had been on the news recently. After a while, people started to notice that crime was disappearing. It wasn't that the Avengers were doing anything different or going off the d... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 40,943 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | "The Melted Waste", our Paladin stated with a hard look on his face.
It was like nothing that I had ever seen before. It seemed like something that the old cleric at Stone Church would describe during his fiery sermons.
Liquid fire filled every crevice and smoke choked the desolate ruins.
"Boy," the Paladin turned ... | 18 | 0 | 15 | 40,944 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | "Finally," he muttered under his breath as the last of the stone was placed, "it's complete."
Harren looked out of his castle, his hand held a firm grip on its stony bones; the first light had
dawned on the sky, its reach had spread far across the world, painting all it touched with crimson and
gold. *The Gods a... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 40,945 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | "So you're saying that in the center, there is a city?" The bard was hanging on their every word as they spoke. The Dwarf had arrived in the night, asking questions about the local legends. He claimed to be looking for a lost fortress of his people from long ago.
"Aye, not sure how much of it could still be called a c... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 40,946 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | I looked out upon my kingdom, the beautiful green fields replaced by the murky reds. The cool blue streams replaced with the burning red lava plumes. I wish I could say I didn't know how it ended up like this, but I did, All of this was my fault. I still remember my wish.
"Make my Kingdom Impregnable."
At the time it... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 40,947 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | "Looks like the rain's stopped."
I peered out the window. Art was right; time to get to work. "Alright, let's move out." I could hear the scraping of the stone armor as the men slowly stood. Despite the training, conditioning, and stamina spells, moving in this blasted rock suit was still a chore.. unless you popped... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 40,948 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 40,949 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | _(In progress...)_
Walker swore. _Rain again_. He'd been detouring around the toxic vapor plumes and superheated flows for hundreds of miles, but the precincts of the Palace were beyond all expectation. A day of scouting found no approach that did not involve leaping over streams of raw lithic feedstocks. In the e... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 40,950 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | They call themselves the Unleashed. They were demons once, not even that, demonic beasts, barely tamed and bred for war by the unholy hordes. Now they are something else, something between people and monsters. And in the desert Badlands, on the slopes and in the valleys of the Charred Peaks they built a home for themse... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 40,951 |
[IP] Lava Ruins | The world isn't always compliant with our wants. Life doesn’t work the way we desire it to. It’s not that the universe is against us. This is the paradox that exists. All around us, change happens, and evolution occurs and continues without us. We are the ones that build the walls in the middle of this river and are de... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 40,952 |
[WP] You're a nerd who has never had a girlfriend before. One day you order a fully customized sex toy online. It arrives but there was something odd about it: it's alive. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40,953 |
[WP] You're a nerd who has never had a girlfriend before. One day you order a fully customized sex toy online. It arrives but there was something odd about it: it's alive. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 4 | 40,954 |
[WP] You're a nerd who has never had a girlfriend before. One day you order a fully customized sex toy online. It arrives but there was something odd about it: it's alive. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 4 | 40,955 |
[WP] You're a nerd who has never had a girlfriend before. One day you order a fully customized sex toy online. It arrives but there was something odd about it: it's alive. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40,956 |
[WP] You're a nerd who has never had a girlfriend before. One day you order a fully customized sex toy online. It arrives but there was something odd about it: it's alive. | This post should have been labeled NSFW. It has been done for you, but please remember next time. | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40,957 |
[WP] Rewrite a fairytale in the style of an epic mythological, religious or fantasy legend | This is a tale of three brothers.
Before the beginning of time, there were three worlds. Each of these worlds were inhabited by one of the three brothers, and were thriving blissfully on their own. However, the three brothers each had different views on life, and existence, and as such their worlds were different.
Th... | 11 | 0 | 23 | 40,958 |
[WP] Rewrite a fairytale in the style of an epic mythological, religious or fantasy legend | For years and years a great war had been waged between three emperors. Each ruled over their own province, none of them willing to agree to peace. Until one day after all the swords were blunted, and arrows broken, the emperors ceased their fighting. As each of them sheathed their blades and the haze of battle cleared,... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 40,959 |
[WP] A scene from Shakespeare's lost tragedy: 'Who let the dogs out?" | LUCA:
Ma'am I repeat the question, "was it thee?"
Didst thou set free the dozens of fury,
Filthy, small animals pestering me?
MARIANNA:
And why,tell me, am I accused thusly?
It occurs to me that maybe they escaped
Without a single person who's helping.
Haven't you heard? Canines detest being caged?
Go both... | 14 | 0 | 12 | 40,960 |
[WP] A scene from Shakespeare's lost tragedy: 'Who let the dogs out?" | "Who let the dogs out?"
"Who?"
"Who."
"Who!?"
"Yes, why do we hunt in this wolf den when the forest around us is so full of fox holes? I mean, I welcome adventure as it comes, but I prefer conquest."
"This place *is* a foxhole, Todd. And these lacking ladies are the Beagles, as much members of our hunting party as... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 40,961 |
[WP] A scene from Shakespeare's lost tragedy: 'Who let the dogs out?" | Which man doth let the canines out today?
Thine party bumpeth, every man rejoice.
Until a gent didst call on us, profane
Ladies respond, the vagabond doth say.
And lo, a ship with fevered speed approach
Mine lady speaks of leaving town this day.
Get thee back hence, thou scruffy, cruffy dog
The fleas upo... | 11 | 0 | 12 | 40,962 |
[WP]It turns out that when mum & dad said the family pet had just "gone for a long nap" all those years ago, they weren't lying. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 18 | 40,963 |
[WP]It turns out that when mum & dad said the family pet had just "gone for a long nap" all those years ago, they weren't lying. | "Ryan!"; I cried, in disbelief, when I saw him again, waiting at my door; he must have found me after all these years somehow... Maybe by my scent... Whatever...
He was suddenly away when I was a child, and my parents told me that he's gone only because his kind got to take a really long nap from time to time. Just li... | 7 | 0 | 18 | 40,964 |
[WP]It turns out that when mum & dad said the family pet had just "gone for a long nap" all those years ago, they weren't lying. | It is very cold and something is beeping.
I yawn wide, a good long one, and a squeak comes out of my mouth just before I clamp shut.
A light on the console in front of me flashes, first gray then a lighter gray, and there is a hissing sound. I feel warm air rushing toward me, as if it is summer and my head is out the... | 6 | 0 | 18 | 40,965 |
[WP] A tattoo appears on your body, and at regular intervals you either find a new one or the old one expands. | Proud to say I've written a story a BIT like this in another writing subreddit, linked [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/worststory/comments/1fwd82/write_a_story_about_an_individual_who_is/)
I'm glad to repost it, though.
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When Jim Frank woke up, he knew it was going to be a normal day, but he knew wrong. He go... | 0 | 0 | 17 | 40,966 |
[WP] A tattoo appears on your body, and at regular intervals you either find a new one or the old one expands. | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 17 | 40,967 |
[WP] A tattoo appears on your body, and at regular intervals you either find a new one or the old one expands. | Days pass.
One morning I wake up feeling like I hadn't slept at all. The sun slants in through the windows, casting orange spears of light into the room that burn my eyes with intense heat. The air is stale, and as I rub my wrist against my face and try to lick the dryness out of my mouth I notice motes of dust float... | 3 | 0 | 17 | 40,968 |
[WP] A tattoo appears on your body, and at regular intervals you either find a new one or the old one expands. | I rolled over in my bed, the covers soaked with my sweat. I could never feel them expanding over my chest, and there wasn't any pain. I just knew they were larger because I woke up, smelling of sweat and drool, every single time.
It started as an "X" below and left of my right nipple. It was like a old typewriting fo... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 40,969 |
[WP] A tattoo appears on your body, and at regular intervals you either find a new one or the old one expands. | John sat in the cafe sneering at a man in a cheap suit who was crossing the road. "Look at that one all, all dressed up like he's something" he said to the newspaper sitting across from him. "And you know what makes it worse, i bet he's dressed like that because he's off to some job that a good honest white man shou... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 40,970 |
[WP] The south not only wins the civil war but also conquers the north. A black man in New York whose been free all his life faces a lifetime of slavery and oppression. | there is a book on this idea, not the north being conquered though you might want to check it out | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40,971 |
[WP] The south not only wins the civil war but also conquers the north. A black man in New York whose been free all his life faces a lifetime of slavery and oppression. | Or...12 Years A Slave. Kidnapping free blacks and selling them as slaves was common then.
A more interesting prompt would be what the United States would be like with a Confederate victory. Our nation's capital would be somewhere else, we might have a much different set of Amendments, laws and social norms today, ou... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40,972 |
[WP]A religion has swept the globe, the principal tenet of which is that reality is a dream of God's, and that when every human on Earth believes this we (as God) will finally be able to awaken from our dream. (bit more inside) | It was 9.30 pm. The people outside were very loud. They were chanting and singing, some of them shouting and screaming.
"So is that it then? If I believe, we will all just wake up?"
He took another sip of the tea. He came on a mission I disagree with, but there was no reason to be rude.
"That is the gyst of it, yes... | 19 | 0 | 22 | 40,973 |
[WP]A religion has swept the globe, the principal tenet of which is that reality is a dream of God's, and that when every human on Earth believes this we (as God) will finally be able to awaken from our dream. (bit more inside) | not a story, but interestingly, this "reality is a dream of Gods" concept is something mentioned in Hinduism. | 2 | 0 | 22 | 40,974 |
[WP]A religion has swept the globe, the principal tenet of which is that reality is a dream of God's, and that when every human on Earth believes this we (as God) will finally be able to awaken from our dream. (bit more inside) | I sat down on my couch, staring at its odd pinkish yellowish color pattern. I looked up at the clock, and saw that the time was going slower than it usually would. *You're going crazy, nothing is wrong with that clock. You're just nervous, that's all.*
I spent what felt like an eternity trapped within a minute and a h... | 4 | 0 | 22 | 40,975 |
[WP]A religion has swept the globe, the principal tenet of which is that reality is a dream of God's, and that when every human on Earth believes this we (as God) will finally be able to awaken from our dream. (bit more inside) | ##"A Wandering Mind"
"Surely, if the rest of the world believes it, it must be true, no?" he asked the young lass, as he sat at her small kitchen table.
"What's popular isn't always right," she replied curtly, standing at the counter and fidgeting with porcelain bowls.
"And what's right isn't always popular. Yes, I'... | 2 | 0 | 22 | 40,976 |
[PM] prompt me | Tell me about the day God gave up on humanity | 1 | 0 | 2 | 40,977 |
[PM] prompt me | You've been captured. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 40,978 |
[PM] prompt me | The obesity rate of planet earth has been 100% for twenty years to this day. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 40,979 |
[PM] prompt me | A werewolf who can control when he changes and lives in a city with a secret werewolf society, has fallen madly in love with the cake decorator who is human. He will do anything to get her attention. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 40,980 |
[PM] prompt me | Why did he have to die? | 1 | 0 | 2 | 40,981 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | What a joke.
. . .
*Knock knock. Who's there?*
An interruption. Not an interrupting cow, but it still breaks my concentration, then, it breaks my heart. I'm trying to come up with my next standup routine -- got to keep the material fresh, even if my clothes aren't -- when a toy soldier rings my doorbell. "Sir, is Mr... | 12 | 0 | 23 | 40,982 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | A Mormon girl walks into a bar.
She looks around, lost. Amber's has never done this sort of forbidden thing before - no, that's not right, she's done a lot of forbidden things lately. She's sinned.
And she's not gone to the bishop, not confessed to him the ugliness inside her soul, not received his counsel.
There'... | 8 | 0 | 23 | 40,983 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 23 | 40,984 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 23 | 40,985 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | I walk into a bar for the first time in years. I have not been able to walk since seventh grade.. | 1 | 0 | 23 | 40,986 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | A man walked into a bar and said 'ouch!'.
Not because the bar was a metal bar, mind you. Real life doesn't usually follow the rules set forth by purveyors of terrible puns. No, the bar was a a full-on vendor of alcoholic beverages and chewy finger food, full of taps filled with some ambiguously-branded beer and of exo... | 7 | 0 | 23 | 40,987 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 23 | 40,988 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | A man walks into a bar...
Just kidding. He hasn't left for a long time now. | 2 | 0 | 23 | 40,989 |
[WP] Your generic character "walks into a bar", but instead of getting to a punchline, the story transitions to a depressing and insightful story. | A priest, a veteran, and an atheist walk into a bar. It’s a quiet place this time of day; the only patrons are a few men in the corner arguing quietly about sports or politics or some other mundane topic. The veteran sips his whiskey and though he is certainly occupying space on the bar stool, at heart he is in a place... | 4 | 0 | 23 | 40,990 |
[WP] A man dies in a terrible accident, and Death comes to show him the world, give him a second chance, yada yada yada. But Death is new at the job, and can't convince the man he wants to live again. | Rodney wakes up in the middle of nothing but grey clouds, he's already standing but everything seems to be sideways, it doesn't take him long to realize that his head is stuck to the side. Rodney tries to correct his head but finds it stuck in place.
"Oh, let me help you with that." A dark hooded cloak appears before ... | 10 | 0 | 8 | 40,991 |
[WP] A man dies in a terrible accident, and Death comes to show him the world, give him a second chance, yada yada yada. But Death is new at the job, and can't convince the man he wants to live again. | "And over here is your girlfriend who loves... well... ah... that's not good..."
Suddenly, James was staring at the love of his life, having sex with a man he had never seen before. He tried to look away but couldn't. He was helpless and no matter what he did at this point, he could not change the events unfolding be... | 6 | 0 | 8 | 40,992 |
[WP] A man makes a deal so he can switch to alternate universes whenever he wants, but he can never switch back | Twelve years ago, I struck a deal. And it's been twelve years since I've seen the man who I struck it with.
He said I could escape the universe to where my imagination wanted to go, any time. He said I could do anything.
I could.
He said I would meet the woman of my dreams. He said I would be a traveler.
I would.
... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 40,993 |
[WP] A man makes a deal so he can switch to alternate universes whenever he wants, but he can never switch back | This was a really neat idea for a prompt, sorry it didn't get much traction. :( | 2 | 0 | 6 | 40,994 |
[PM] Prompt me and I will respond in poetry! | A city full of ancient wonder, discovered among the clouds. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 40,995 |
[PM] Prompt me and I will respond in poetry! | I met him in a city of death.
Another prompt:
I met her in a city of death.
Don't think about the difference, just write what comes into mind. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 40,996 |
[PM] Prompt me and I will respond in poetry! | Defend this position: Poetry is a boring, terrible waste of time
(note, I don't actually believe this. I just feel like it would be interesting to read a poem in defense of the opinion) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 40,997 |
[PM] Prompt me and I will respond in poetry! | Tell us about a concept you were taught that you understood, followed by one that you did not want to understand. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 40,998 |
[PM] Prompt me and I will respond in poetry! | You find money laying on the ground! | 2 | 0 | 2 | 40,999 |
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