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[IP] The Universe is in Us. (Xpost /r/images) | When I was younger you told me that we are made of stardust, that the very components of the Milky Way and the beyond universes course through my veins. I am made of the same stuff as stars.
And then I grew up.
I learned people are made of organs and tissues and little tiny blood vessels. Humans have a four-chambere... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4,200 |
[IP] The Universe is in Us. (Xpost /r/images) | Responsibility is a bitch.
Sarah flicks the lighter under the spoon as she's done a thousand times before. As the flames dance momentarily in her dark brown eyes, I feel a little bit more in love with her than usual. The syringe hungrily laps up the heroin through the cotton, the bite of the needle no longer regist... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4,201 |
[IP] The Universe is in Us. (Xpost /r/images) | It's been a long time since we've told stories, but this one needs to be told.
We would tell you the year, but we've since lost count. Time has no meaning to us; we are one with it, as we are one with space.
We are not human; we are long past it. Humankind evolved to a point where it no longer shared any resemblan... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4,202 |
[WP] Stephen Hawking throws a party, then sends out invitations to the party the day after it happens. (Bigger explanation on the inside) | I'm sincerely hoping "bigger on the inside" was intentional | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4,203 |
[WP] Stephen Hawking throws a party, then sends out invitations to the party the day after it happens. (Bigger explanation on the inside) | *ding dong*
I hate waiting for doors to open, it's so annoying. Forced to stand outside somewhere so that someone can grant you access to their hovel or office. The worst part is standing outside when you've been invited.. They've invited you so shouldn't that grant you the right to just enter. In most cases I'd say y... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4,204 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imagined the kind of trouble yoga would get me in. I mean it started out innocently enough. A few stretches, a little bit of soreness, but that's all normal. I thought it was actually going pretty well all things considered. Yet here I am, stuck with my legs behind my neck, my arms trapped between my thighs and... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4,205 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imagined the trouble learning would get me in.
In this day and age, where everything we could ever possibly want to know is at our fingertips. No piece of knowledge is inaccessible, some would have us live on in ignorance to keep them in power. That's why I don't have long. Only a few more moments before they ... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4,206 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imagined the kind of trouble cocaine would get me in... It all started with the occasional line during parties at university. After all, we were all young, good looking, and, in our minds at least, guaranteed future successes. Then we saught to work on guaranteeing our future successes, spending long hours in t... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4,207 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imagined the kind of trouble talking to her would get me in. Let me back up a bit. There is this colleague at office who is great at making matches. So he just goes around making matches. Say he sees a girl and he knows someone who is single, he tries to set them up. This is often done in a fun way, just to eli... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4,208 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imagined the kind of trouble a bunny would get me in, but here I am, in quite the predicament. Perhaps I should start at the beginning… I was just walking along, minding my own business. I don't usually go for walks, but it was the first bearable day outside and my body was begging for some sunlight.
As I ... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4,209 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imagined the kind of trouble the Order of the Broken Mirror would get me in.
We had all heard whispers of the organization. I personally thought they were a myth. It was a harmless pastime for me, following the cryptic trails they left across the internet: strange messages, ciphers within ciphers, riddles tha... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4,210 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imaged the kind of trouble friends would get me in. I just wanted some people to drink with and fuck occasionally, not people who I have to actually fucking talk about my 'problems' with.
I lust for a drink, oh man do I lust for a drink. But no, apparently we can't drink since one of their ex-alcoholic friend... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4,211 |
[FF] You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO! | I never imagined the kind of trouble a simple tissue would get me in. I was on my way to a client appointment - life of a advertising salesman and all - and felt the onset of a sneeze. So, I do what any normal person does - turn their head into their sleeve and sneeze. Being that Poseiden himself controls less fluid... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4,212 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | I looked at my girlfriend in disgust. I can’t believe she was fucking Hitler. I can’t believe I had just fucked Hitler. “Curse this stupid power” I thought and all because of that genie. Seriously, whose genius idea was it anyway to be able to see their past lives? I mean, most people just wish for more money or better... | 5 | 0 | 35 | 4,213 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | You lost yourself a long while ago - in your other selves. It gets boring when you’ve had every experience and experienced every feeling there is to have. about everything. ever. That’s how many lives you’ve lived. What else is there left to feel? Who else is there left to be? And the shitty part about this is that you... | 2 | 0 | 35 | 4,214 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | I had become a people watcher with each life, enjoying my time, writing about the lives I see and who I once was. It had kept me afloat for many, many years. Seeing that some old lady was one a great king who lead his troops into battle, or to see some greedy fat cat now someone who is just barely making it by the skin... | 12 | 0 | 35 | 4,215 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | I couldn't tell who he was, but he certainly wasn't the mailman I was expecting at my door.
"You know what the problem with people is don't you? They never change. Sure, you can point to the extremes and say person 'A' is very different than person 'B', or how person 'C' made this miraculous transformation overnight, ... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 4,216 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | Marty's girlfriend politely shoves him through the fortune teller's curtain. "Stop being such a braniac and talk to her! She won't read us both at the same time. It'll be fun. I'll be out here looking at crystals."
Marty sighs and walks into the darkened chamber. In middle of table sits a crystal ball. Marty pokes a... | 2 | 0 | 35 | 4,217 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | "So you see, darling, it wasn't _really_ cheating, I-"
_SLAP_ | 3 | 0 | 35 | 4,218 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | I think fate likes irony.
I've had this skill for a while you see, so I've had plenty of time to study the people around me, and how their past lives influence them now.
Despite this, however, I still have no idea how reincarnation works. You'd think it'd be fairly simple - an eternal soul or essence is released in... | 2 | 0 | 35 | 4,219 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | The apartment building's stairwell smelled terrible, almost as if the access doors hadn't opened in a decade. How that was possible with an elevator that had been broken for at least as long I didn't pause to reflect on. I hurried my way downstairs instead. There was no way I was going to risk being spotted by nosey ne... | 2 | 0 | 35 | 4,220 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | Searing pain. That's all I'm feeling right now and I have a goddamn 8 year old to thank for that.
"Why the Christ did you kick my junk and who the fuck are you?"
His small pipsqueak voice rang out "Hey your the douche bag who didn't attend my funeral 8 years ago." Then then slightly chubby boy delivered another small... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 4,221 |
[WP] A world where reincarnation is real. One person remembers his previous lives. And who everyone else was. | My dad is lying in his bed, a smile on his face. All my other siblings are laughing from his last joke. I am the only one that cannot managed to fake it, so I crack a smile too.
I know he doesn't want to see us sad and that's why he did it. He's always been so strong in the face of adversity.
In fact that's the only... | 2 | 0 | 35 | 4,222 |
[WP] The child of an ex-drug dealer becomes a kingpin at his elementary school. | First day of fourth grade and the little bastard was already raising hell.
Of course, he wasn't actually a bastard son. His mother and I had been married since I was a dru.... uh, drugstore owner. She was my... "pharmacist" on call, so to speak.
Anyways, back to him. He goes in to fourth grade and begins to plan his... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4,223 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | The world wasn't always like this you know. It started out as a study of alzheimer's, the intentions were good, it was only meant to be a memory retention program, but like everything, it became corrupted.
It started slow, people trading memories for other memories, it was fun, it was exciting, people were able to re... | 7 | 0 | 109 | 4,224 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | The cold wind fluttered at the edges of my tattered coat, swirling between my knees and chilling me to the bone. December, and the sky was a grey bowl over the city. Walking slowly, I had to keep stopping to rest my weary legs.
This was it. Down to my last. The economy had crashed, and when all of those derivatives an... | 41 | 0 | 109 | 4,225 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | -006
When he was younger and tried harder he knew someone very important to him. Once the heroin hit him, his memories started to blur, and everything important to him faded away like sighs in the dark. As he got older his thoughts were destroyed. The past, the beautiful past was destroyed. Yet one memory stayed with ... | 2 | 0 | 109 | 4,226 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | "Take him wherever he wants to go, Charles."
Charles, my driver - sorry, *ex*-driver - clears his throat with a sort-of half-cough, half-choke. "Sir?" he inquires.
"Just take him, dammit. It's his car now, anyway." I crouch down next to the homeless man, who is staring at the wad of cash that I had thrust into his h... | 13 | 0 | 109 | 4,227 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | *So I read the prompt slightly wrong and thought it said to write it before they lost the memory, so it's slightly different from the actual prompt. Also, my own story actually made me sad. I'm gonna go sleep now. :'(*
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He looked down at his tattered journal with regret and sighed deeply. The pages were roug... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,228 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | There are 237 slabs of concrete sidewalk between Third and Broadway. It’s the only new thing I can remember nowadays.
The procedure is just as easy as selling plasma, or anything else for that matter. You sign a waiver, they search around for a bit, and zap, you walk out none the wiser. They say they use the memories... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,229 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | I woke up this morning with the nagging sensation something was missing. It was like there was something just in the periphary of my vision, I couldn't quite focus on whatever it was that was causing me so much unease. The watery sunlight slipping through my curtains finally persuaded me to leave my bed. It was most... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,230 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | It's been just over 2 years since my first memory was sold off. After the family business got shut down, I've been low on cash, looking for anything to get me by. Odd jobs here, plasma donations there, even selling most of my clothes couldn't help ends meet. Nobody wants to hire a man in his 70's.
Walking into the cl... | 2 | 0 | 109 | 4,231 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | Dana, Oh Dana how I miss you. Maybe things would be different if you were still here. Maybe we'd be okay yknow? Maybe. They took everything Dana, they trashed the house and took anything they could find and still put the price up. They took that photograph, yknow, the one of us at the beach? They took it, I don't even ... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,232 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | They say money won’t buy you happiness, but happiness sure as hell can get you money.
I need to eat. Haven’t eaten for at least two days and all I had was that damn half-eaten burger from the trash down at the station. I sold the last part of me, but hey, it isn’t like I’m not used to exchanging long term happiness f... | 2 | 0 | 109 | 4,233 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | They say that money can't buy you happiness. This is a good phrase, a great phrase to make people value the happiness that you have to experience. Nowadays, however, it only means that money can't buy you your own happiness. Clinics opened up like so many McDonald's, offering the purchase and sale of happy memories for... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,234 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | The holes are pretty much all the time now. Who am I? Who...... was I? Did I care about anyone? Did anybody ever care about me? I remember some fights... Fighting with a woman. Name? Age? Relationship... No... Just.. Nothing.. It's all gone..
I remember once, a time when these questions were fuzz.. just fuzzy.. ... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,235 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | Please understand that this is my first go at writing anything, especially to be read by other people.
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*“A cold lot, a wet hand…”*
This time it's left a tingling numbing effect on the back of his head. He rubs it methodically as he continues to ret... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,236 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | Someone was walking down the street. You don't know who and frankly you don't really care. But that's just because you don't know his story and neither does he.
His long, darkened coat is pulled up close to his face, he wore torn trousers and no shoes. Two things burned in his mind. I'm poor and THE MEMORY. He doesn'... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,237 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | "I'd like to buy your wedding day, Mr. Foster."
"Why don't you buy my first marriage, save us all some trouble..." | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,238 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | “We’d been in that room for many hours when it finally happened. Clara was screaming and grasping my hand so hard I could swear she was breaking bones, but the pain I was experiencing was nothing compared to the torture she had endured so far. Doctors and midwives bustled around the room, preparing for the new arrival.... | 1 | 0 | 109 | 4,239 |
[WP] We live in a world where one can sell their memories in exchange for money. A poor man has just sold his last happy memory. | When Jessie strolled into the pub that night, the regulars were all quiet. They shared a single glance up and down the bar, a collective, breath-held nod in anticipation of a sure-fire train wreck. There was a little crack in the big mirror behind the bartender that Jessie had promised to pay for three nights ago. Ther... | 5 | 0 | 109 | 4,240 |
[FF] Write the conversation (or witty one-liner) between the hero and the villain right before the hero kills the villain in the book you've always wanted to write. | "Something tells me I can't change your mind about this."
"Something tells me you can't either."
Two forms upon a rising tower, tall as the mountains covering the range in the distance. Snowflakes dotted both men, sticking to their hoods, faces, and shoulders. Beneath their feet the tower's roof was covered in ice. D... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4,241 |
[FF] Write the conversation (or witty one-liner) between the hero and the villain right before the hero kills the villain in the book you've always wanted to write. | *it's not exactly 'flash' but...*
"You know I've often wondered what I'd say in these final moments. I've played it out in my head a hundred times. More, probably, if you count the minor variations. Sometimes, it's bombastic, pompous, to full of gaudy pretension that I almost begin to see the inevitability of victory ... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4,242 |
[FF] Write the conversation (or witty one-liner) between the hero and the villain right before the hero kills the villain in the book you've always wanted to write. | "I hope you realize, this won't bring them back."
"I know. That's why I'm going with you." | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4,243 |
[FF] Write the conversation (or witty one-liner) between the hero and the villain right before the hero kills the villain in the book you've always wanted to write. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4,244 |
Fandoms have become religion. What are their sermons like? |
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[WP] Fandoms become religion. What are their sermons like? | *Warning; Pony.*
"Welcome to the Canterlot Commune. Here is your Equestria Daily, and we wish you a picture perfect day.", boomed Digibrony's dulcet tones.
Scott walks through the doors to the Commune, parents following close behind. The automated jingle really grated on his nerves, but it was tradition. His vision ... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4,246 |
[WP] Fandoms become religion. What are their sermons like? | Many filed into the make-shift temple which had once been the place of creation for something which was simply known as "entertainment" in the early days. Yet words could not grasp the memories and intellect of what had been conceived in that building.
In a separate and heavily guarded area of the holy land were sever... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4,247 |
[WP] Fandoms become religion. What are their sermons like? | "Today we read from the book of John.", the Great Detective said to his congregation.
The building was filled to the brim, most wearing scarves even in the middle of the summer.
"Let us not forget, that our savior fell from Reichenbach and rose again! Everyone deserves a second chance. We must also remember that he h... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4,248 |
[WP] Fandoms become religion. What are their sermons like? | Nika nervously waited in the large blue box. Today Nika would finally go through the ritual which all in the Continuum would go. Nika would finally become a Companion to the Lords of Time.
From a distance Nika heard the familiar vrooop vrooop and stood up, donning the robe that they had given Nika.
Nika walked throug... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4,249 |
[WP] Fandoms become religion. What are their sermons like? | “Welcome to the 'Verse, my friends. Please, sit, as today we read from the Book of Mal.” Preacher clears her throat, adjusts her brown vestments, and begins to read. “The 'Verse is a dark place. Full of Reavers and those ruttin' Feds.” A murmured chorus of “Wang Ba Dahn” is heard in reverent response before Preacher co... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4,250 |
[WP] Fandoms become religion. What are their sermons like? | Thank you fellow Z-Warriors for your wonderful singing of today's hymns.
Please be seated. Brothers and sisters today marks the day that Saint Goku reached Saiyanhood. If you would please open your mangas to the Frieza Saga Verse 16. "And so Krillen was dead. Goku reminded of his everlasting friendship let his pain ... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4,251 |
[wp] Two sociopaths make it to their wedding day before realizing that they are both manipulating one another. | Commenting to save for tomorrow when I'm not drunk. I LIKE this one.
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The first date had gone well. I took Maggie out to dinner, and then for frozen yogurt. We discussed politics and music, and seemed to have many similar opinions. By the third date, I had decided to keep this going. The inane nagging of my moth... | 20 | 0 | 86 | 4,252 |
[wp] Two sociopaths make it to their wedding day before realizing that they are both manipulating one another. | The two sociopaths, unbeknownst to each other, while they assumed the roles of affection and intimacy were truly locked in a power struggle since the start of the relationship. Some time passed and the couple made it to their wedding day, still oblivious to real hands played by one another. At the alter, the preacher s... | 25 | 0 | 86 | 4,253 |
[wp] Two sociopaths make it to their wedding day before realizing that they are both manipulating one another. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 86 | 4,254 |
[wp] Two sociopaths make it to their wedding day before realizing that they are both manipulating one another. | *For Christ's sake, you look fucking ridiculous.*
"It looks great, honey," I told her, with a smile I feared was too obviously forced.
Her eyes lit up like the Manhattan skyline at my false words.
"Thank you so much, darling," she twirled in her dress towards me and kissed me. A genuine smile crept across my face, leav... | 1 | 0 | 86 | 4,255 |
[CC] Sökaren | This is a long post, not intended as trolling or flaming. Just tossing out comments as they came to me while I read your story. I hope they are helpful.
>"Well, at least for once 'umankind is actually united 'nd not tearin' each other's throats apart over damned land and made-up deities," geologist Talbern Sheff... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4,256 |
[WP] Write a few paragraphs from the perspective of someone who's interacting with themselves (time travel or what not)... without differentiating from the two perspectives. | **I just realized after writing this it sounds like a complete rip of the lutece twins. That was unintentional.**
"Wait, you are me"
"And I you"
"Well this is bizarre"
"How?"
"I built a device to pass through universes. You see it takes advantage of some tricks of quantum..."
"...physics. Yeah I got that. But thi... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4,257 |
[WP] Write a few paragraphs from the perspective of someone who's interacting with themselves (time travel or what not)... without differentiating from the two perspectives. | Not really time travel, but this is a coversation between 1 person
This is actually part of a story I am writing for the year long writing challenge. This character happens to two personalities so, same person, different personality.
This is also edited slightly from my story.
okay, there’s a big elephant in my head, ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4,258 |
[WP] Write a few paragraphs from the perspective of someone who's interacting with themselves (time travel or what not)... without differentiating from the two perspectives. | It was as unlikely as it was inevitable. In the Crossroads, I have walked alongside those that were, those that are yet to be, and those that never would. And one day, I saw a familiar figure.
"Ho, fellow wanderer." Said I as we drew near.
"Ho," answered I, "Would you walk with me a while?"
"The company would not go... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4,259 |
[CW] In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it. Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim. | This is so strange. What is this feeling? My heart is thumping. It's like my stomach fell out. He hit me like I was a baseball. Swinging for the stands right into my leg. God it hurts. I want to *run*, but where do I go? What do I do? I can't move my leg. Oh god here he comes. What is this feeling in my stomach!? Why a... | 10 | 0 | 18 | 4,260 |
[CW] In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it. Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 18 | 4,261 |
[CW] In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it. Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim. | What was going on? Why was this happening to me? I did nothing wrong, did I? There was no reason this was happening to me. My brother was just jealous of everything about me. Jealous of the fact that I was father's favorite. But no, this was something more than jealousy. This was something that demanded him to act on i... | 5 | 0 | 18 | 4,262 |
[CW] In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it. Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim. | "You were never meant to see this."
She was pacing back and forth under the portico, her eyes darting between the window where the child sat, and my shoes. Occasionally her glance might travel up as far as my hands as I fidgeted with the camera case, but never as far as my face. Her gaze flatly refused to meet my ow... | 17 | 0 | 18 | 4,263 |
[CW] In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it. Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim. | I feel this indistinguishable sensation perforating my fragile skin. The word "force" has never had this undeniable amount of significance, it never dawned on me that this unrecognizable scenario was even a slight possibility. That a state of consciousness could ever take such presence and rule the mind inhabited in my... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 4,264 |
[CW] In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it. Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim. | I am laying here dying.
I mean we all die. I've seen both people and animals die of old age, and a few by accident. Not a moment ago I saw a billiecat die by accident, when it fell off of a ledge and it impaled itself on one of several shards of quartzglass stacked against the dumpster. But this is different.
It was ... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 4,265 |
[CW] In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it. Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim. | As I waited for my bus, a heavy man leaned against the lamppost. I half expected it to bend. His eyes connected with mine and he greeted me with a smile and a nod of the head.
Just like yesterday.
And the day before that.
And every day since I’ve been working at the office.
In eight seconds, an elderly lady will a... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 4,266 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | The darkness clings to me like my tattered clothing. It's always dark here, even when the sun rises, everything is shrouded in that terrible blackness. I can't escape it. None of us can. It's that kind of sticky blackness too, the one that makes everything around you sticky and stagnant, like somebody's scooped out a t... | 4 | 0 | 19 | 4,267 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | I looked into the distance as I removed the sunglasses from my face. The sun shot into my eyes like a bullet piercing my skin.
Ever since the nuclear war hundreds of years ago the sun is so much stronger than it was before, and people thought global warming was going to do it, little did they know the real destructiv... | 2 | 0 | 19 | 4,268 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | August 22nd, 2322
Ran into some Skinners today. Killed one, but two others made off with my water supply. I have to go back out West to go find some more. What a shitstorm that will be. It's a long, dangerous path, and teeming with cracked up Skinners out there, but I will certainly die if I don't try. Hopefully I can... | 5 | 0 | 19 | 4,269 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | Wearily I opened my eyes. Something clicked and a sudden flash of pain ran through me as the bright light bombarded my eyes.
Time becomes a drift at suddent pain.
What is going on? Can't think straight. My head is clouded with cobwebs.
A smack somewhere close and an infant begins to scream.
My eyes begin to a adju... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4,270 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | Another day, another watch.
I had my supplies all dealt with, and my little farm was working just fine, water in the tank and the filter all working.
All in all, a day to relax.
I sat on the roof of our house, me and Jer's house, and watched for anything of interest. Sometimes Jer would join me, but he was still doz... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4,271 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | July...something...2314
Me and James were on a scavenging run. we stopped near New York that was and we entered one of them apartment buildings. We made quick work of it, and began to leave when we saw it, it was a thing with a green top, and huge brown stick that was holding it up, I went in to check, and saw that th... | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4,272 |
[WP] It's 300 years after a nuclear war and a survivor finds something out of place... | He knew they were out of place the moment they appeared over the horizon. Nothing gleamed like that anymore.
Not since Putin went insane.
But, there they were, in the ruins of a glorious city by the sea. Two shining, gleaming towers, rivets of metal running fluidly down their sides. As he approached he saw their trem... | 2 | 0 | 19 | 4,273 |
[WP] Write in the perspective of someone who is having the perfect, idealistic dream but is starting to realize that they are dreaming and slipping into conciousness | This existence is perfect. It's as though my being is wrapped in a blanket solely comprised of humanity's collective happiness... It's a strange thought, but an accurate description.
Unbelievably, that's not the most beautiful element of this moment. The entirety of my concentration for the last... Something... has be... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4,274 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | climbed onto the machine. He entered the tank and appeared to be speaking with the operator. Moments later, he emerged holding the severed head of the driver. He held it high and screamed. Soldiers converged on the tank and opened fire. Tank Man ignored the hail of gunfire and launched himself at his attackers. The sce... | 5 | 0 | 20 | 4,275 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | It was then left to sirs Barrington and Scythmore to carry the plangent strain of motive assigned them and their noble horns, which unfortunately fell upon the listeners’ ears like crap-balls flung by angry zoo apes. Lofty moments of true melody did appear sporadically, though only to be driven quick to ground by a can... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 4,276 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | --after being taken down by one unarmed police officer dressed in a banana suit. Beiber's reps have declined to comment. | 7 | 0 | 20 | 4,277 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | ... reportedly told police, "It was the prettiest sheep he'd ever seen."
Mr Doncaster's wife refused to comment, however a source close to the family claimed to have a poodle that would often act skittish when walking past the Doncaster estate.
Speculations continue about the physical logistics of Mr Doncaster's...
| 6 | 0 | 20 | 4,278 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | and four hours ago we have confirmed that this epidemic has been caused by Tom Cruise. He was reluctant to say much other than "It's my left arm." Scientists are working on a cure, until then, please stay inside your homes until it's safe. | 8 | 0 | 20 | 4,279 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | Gordon-Levitt disagreed with these statements, and when asked he replied, "I just don't get everyone's fascination with her. I pay her to do it, and she does it. It's the free market."
Tom Cruise declined to make a comment on the allegations. | 3 | 0 | 20 | 4,280 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | *it is currently unknown if any of the rubber ducks have been found or what STDs the ducks have* | 2 | 0 | 20 | 4,281 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | A local man who had said he too had been involved in the recent event has now recanted his original statement. He says "I was mistaken in saying I had also been a victim." Our reporters have uncovered that he had not been anally probed, but had sat on his hot tub's jet and confused the two sensations. | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4,282 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | The sudden cancellation of the press conference only an hour after its announcement caused quite a stir among both supporters and critics of the Mayor's most recent pet project. It is not known at this time if the elephant parade, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 4pm, will be canceled as well, but the Mayor was se... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4,283 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | news comes as a shock to the educated populace and undermines millions of scientific discoveries of the past 600 years. The main scientist behind the discovery has stated " we don't know how we could have been wrong all these years", adding that "now the world maps from the Middle Ages make more sense". The implication... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 4,284 |
[WP] [FF] Write a snippet from an absurd news article. Give no context, and make sure it feels like a clipping, where we are left to figure out what you're talking about. Try to include at least one well-known name. Any time period. | a | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4,285 |
[CC] I was prompted about "The Taste do Freedom." How'd I do? | You've got the balance of action to words sorted here :) it's fast paced with enough description :D I love the idea of discovering the true taste of freedom | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4,286 |
[WP] Death has become a mentor for a random person. | [Death already has an apprentice.] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort) | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4,287 |
[WP] Death has become a mentor for a random person. | Well since I've never read Mort, this hopefully won't sound too similar to Pratchett's work.
If it were possible for an immortal creature with no sense of humour and no face to scowl, Death would be doing it. Signing up for Random Acts of Kindness as a drunkenly decided New Year's Resolution had been the worst deci... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 4,288 |
[WP] The reflection of an asylum. | I sit on my bed facing my wall, my arms strapped into the straight jacket. Wondering why I was here, why I am on this side of the door.
Peering through the small window in my door is Orderly Jensen. His smile reaching ear to ear, sending shivers down my spine. His maniacal laugh ringing through my ears as her opens th... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4,289 |
[WP] The reflection of an asylum. | *"Hu....hehe....hehehe....heheheheh..hehehahhahhahahhHAHAHAH"* The laughs echoed down the hallway. My pulse was almost loud enough in my head that I honestly feared anyone around would hear it. I couldn't take this shit anymore, I needed to get out.
What the hell had happened? How had we lost control so fast? Everyth... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4,290 |
[WP] Two strangers discuss their problems in a bar: one just heard his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce, the other had his married girlfriend break up with him. They don't know this concerns the same woman. | More of an intro than anything;
It's such a damn cliché, man comes home early from work, finds wife in bed with another man. Fuck. I didn't even get a good look at the bastard, I don't even know what I would have done, nothing probably. God, I'm a pussy. I probably would have apologised for interrupting, *you look ti... | 6 | 0 | 29 | 4,291 |
[WP] Two strangers discuss their problems in a bar: one just heard his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce, the other had his married girlfriend break up with him. They don't know this concerns the same woman. | "Another" John slurred loudly at the bartender. The man frowned, but obliged him nonetheless. John gripped the glass hard, incapable of touching things softly.
"Me too" A younger man seemed to deflate asking for a scotch. John turned to look at this new arrival. The bartender obliged him also, they both watched the y... | 2 | 0 | 29 | 4,292 |
[WP] Two strangers discuss their problems in a bar: one just heard his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce, the other had his married girlfriend break up with him. They don't know this concerns the same woman. | Daniel stared at the empty glass before him, as though pure will alone could refill it.
He was vaguely aware of someone taking a seat at the bar beside him but spent no effort to turn his head and check.
“Whiskey. Neat.” He heard from somewhere to his right. “Make it a double.”
Glancing up, Daniel licked his li... | 27 | 0 | 29 | 4,293 |
[WP] Two strangers discuss their problems in a bar: one just heard his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce, the other had his married girlfriend break up with him. They don't know this concerns the same woman. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 29 | 4,294 |
[WP] Two strangers discuss their problems in a bar: one just heard his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce, the other had his married girlfriend break up with him. They don't know this concerns the same woman. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 29 | 4,295 |
[WP] Two strangers discuss their problems in a bar: one just heard his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce, the other had his married girlfriend break up with him. They don't know this concerns the same woman. | "Hey you! Yeah asshole, I'm talking to you! You deaf or something!?"
"I'm gonna throw you out if you keep screaming like that," the bartender replied in a frigid voice.
"I'm.. I'm sorry," the bald, middle-aged man who had been shouting seconds earlier quickly deflated. "I just... could you please... another..," he ga... | 3 | 0 | 29 | 4,296 |
[WP] Two strangers discuss their problems in a bar: one just heard his wife is cheating on him and wants a divorce, the other had his married girlfriend break up with him. They don't know this concerns the same woman. | Off-topic, but I got the impression of [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFnKgIptbq0) as soon as I read the prompt. | 1 | 0 | 29 | 4,297 |
[WP] A teenager's cheesy fanfiction turns into something else......... | >Sherlock adjusted his trusty deerstalker and examined the evidence: somebody had tampered with the car-assembling factory robots, new Datsuns were rolling out of Yokohama with engines rigged to explode after 1000 miles, and Ichiro Datsun’s office smelled faintly of perfume. Dr. Watson and the elderly Japanese man s... | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4,298 |
[WP] The tale of a horrible retail or IT experience is shared as if it were a campfire ghost story. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4,299 |
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