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[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 377 | 5,600 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | Nicholas had just found firm footing when he heard Jon's frightened yell. He froze at the sounds of cleats and hooks scrabbling on hard ice, at the whipping of nylon blend rope as gravity yanked it away, at the frantic gasps of his friend below. Nicholas did not panic. He calmly removed his pack, stepped safely away fr... | 14 | 0 | 377 | 5,601 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | If you enjoy this prompt, you may enjoy Cormac McCarthy's *The Sunset Limited.* | 2 | 0 | 377 | 5,602 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | The skinny Arab looking boy trembled as he stood there at the front of the bus, no one noticed him but me. Newspapers rustled, the hobo in the back sneezed, and the old woman whose knees and ankles bore the same girth coughed a sickly sputter before touching her lips with a bundled handkerchief.
After two men had got... | 84 | 0 | 377 | 5,603 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | Great prompt!! | 2 | 0 | 377 | 5,604 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | Two men in a war
One detests God for killing
One thanks God for peace
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[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | September 11th. 1914. Meaux, France.
The trenches were particularly cold that morning, hundreds of soldiers had already frozen to death during the night. There had been no clouds, several of the corpses were gazing upwards, toward the stars.
Then the alarms sounded, whistles and shouting from the officers, orderi... | 4 | 0 | 377 | 5,606 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | And, like that, the bullet hit me in the chest.
I wheezed, and looked up. There was a fear in his eyes. It was as though he had passed me more than just a brass cap and a warrant to die.
He wasn't ready to feel as he did. But then, neither was I. | 1 | 0 | 377 | 5,607 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | *The summoning circle flairs to life, the holy angel Raguel bound within the black salt circle. Three men stood outside the circle, one a heretical priest, believing it is the job of humans to control angels. The second is a priest with steadfast faith, only participating because he was lied to by the heretic, thinkin... | 1 | 0 | 377 | 5,608 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | *A bit late, but I hope people are still reading. This is my first time writing (been wanting to for a while) and I would greatly appreciate any feedback/criticism.*
Khaled's eyes lit up as the Prophet approached him. The soft touch of his hand and charismatic smile had him overcome with peace as Muhammad greeted him ... | 2 | 0 | 377 | 5,609 |
[WP] Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | Charlie's Journal
February 9th, 1986- Maria and I took Damian to the park tonight after his birthday dinner to look at Halley’s Comet. I brought my telescope from work and we perched ourselves right on top of a hill, with the clearest view of the night s... | 2 | 0 | 377 | 5,610 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | She was a princess, but that wasn't enough. She wanted to conquer the land and the sea, but unfortunately her lack of legs seemed to get in the way. Thankfully an "evil" sea witch granted her wish at the cost of her voice which, lets face it, was kind of annoying. In the end she wins the heart of a prince, they get mar... | 4 | 0 | 18 | 5,611 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | The missing link they called him, and hunted for him. The Ape-man who fell for a modern woman, a love unheard of. His deep-chested roar instilled fear upon all those who heard it echoing through the tropics of Africa. He was advertised in newspapers as Jungle King and not but a few were in the know of his true title: T... | 9 | 0 | 18 | 5,612 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | There once was a man from Bethlehem,
Whose wife bamboozled him with a sham.
Their son turned out to be a messiah,
And the Romans deemed him a liar.
And now we're all fucked by this scam. | 8 | 0 | 18 | 5,613 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | Two cousins, fair and kindly both, leave their home behind for the forests - with none but a fool in their sweet company - where a duke, though duke no more, roams there among his men and a melancholy nobleman. Disguised and hidden to throw off their past, the maidens meet shepherds, one foolhardy in love and one wize... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5,614 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | Her stepmother hated her with a burning passion, and would have her killed. She ran and ran and ran, until she found sanctuary and safety in numbers. She thought she had escaped her fate, but she never was the brightest of girls. Pretty lucky for her that a necrophiliac prince showed up, or she would have been encased ... | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5,615 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5,616 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | Buggers going to invade again soon, we need to train the perfect commander.
We'll choose a kid, the most brilliant there is, break him down to nothing.
His training is going as planned, becoming a leader, moving on to command school and learning from the best.
Final test before the real work begins, the boy's tired ... | 7 | 0 | 18 | 5,617 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is distraught when his mother marries his uncle very soon after his father dies.
That night, Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, who reveals that Hamlet's uncle in fact assassinated him in order to steal the throne.
Hamlet feigns insanity in order to have free reign to investigate, but... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5,618 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | A young boy from the desert, witnessed his surrogate family executed by his oppressors, and enlisted in the rebel cause to stop their tyrrany. Trained in the ways of a great and ancient art, he rescued a princess from their employ and destroyed their great battlestation. His friends and he were forced to go into hiding... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5,619 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | Silently, the child advanced towards me; like some sort of fucking monster from a horror movie he never stopped. In an effort to destroy him, break him, bring him to his knees, I took everything he held dear; yet he did not break, he did not falter. This child, this boy, this master of time, this FUCKING MUSICIAN WOU... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5,620 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | Taming of the Shrew - Bitches be cray.
MacBeth - Witches be cray.
Romeo and Juliet - Stay away from jailbait.
Midsummer Night's Dream - Why do fairy queens always go out with ass ... -holes?
Sonnets - Pretty boys and fine black booty. | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5,621 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | The greatest warrior of them all, somehow he had managed to pressed past all of the adversity. His name would be echoed through time long after the the ground closed around him. He would be known as the ...oh I'm sorry, *SHE*. The sent daughters when you asked for sons.
[Mulan (1998), sorry I always figured this was w... | 4 | 0 | 18 | 5,622 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5,623 |
[CW] In 4 sentences or less re-tell a well known story. | No liar can be a true guardian.
The first time those who would defend his flock learn of his dishonesty, they will be irritated.
The second time they see he cannot be believed, trust will be broken.
And the third time, when the predator appears in the flesh to terrorize and scatter the flock, no aid will be given to... | 2 | 0 | 18 | 5,624 |
[WS] You've just signed onto a freelance mercenary crew, describe meeting your SL (Squad Leader). | (Brock is the new recruit, Weasel is the NCO looking after a crewmen nicknamed Scout who got beat in a sparring match.)
The man had pale grey hair and sun-crusted skin. He wore Disukan scatter-gravel combat fatigues and spoke Kartoa with an easy, fringer Tautoan accent through a chaw of dip. Overall the look of a man... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5,625 |
[WS] You've just signed onto a freelance mercenary crew, describe meeting your SL (Squad Leader). | I knew I'd made when I heard he wanted me on his team, and when he came to find me personally I felt like a God. But you know how they say *"never meet your heroes"*? Never meet your heroes.
I was in a bar somewhere in Africa, the South I think, when he found me. He kicked the door open in his full get up, including ... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5,626 |
[WS] You've just signed onto a freelance mercenary crew, describe meeting your SL (Squad Leader). | I leaned heavily against the wall and frowned. Sighing didn't seem appropriate in this situation so instead I increased the wrinkles on my forehead and squinted, hoping to look every inch the bedraggled warrior. Work is work after all, never that exciting but certainly never boring. I'd certainly been around, seen th... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5,627 |
[WP] You can hear people's inner opinions of others. | [deleted] | 12 | 0 | 13 | 5,628 |
[WP] You can hear people's inner opinions of others. | People always think of reading minds as like hearing another person's voice in your head. As if the internal monologue people always have is being tapped into.
It's more difficult to explain than that.
I can read your feelings. My name is Derek.
I was 16 when I read someone for the first time. She came home one day, an... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 5,629 |
[WP] Three Missing Days | I'm sick of this. The endless spiral of work and stress numbs the senses. Sleepless nights leave my brain spinning. No way out. Dreams of white sand and endless blue sky. Alone with thoughts of normality. Sleep is a luxury for the rich, I have more work to do. So so much more work.
- 009 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5,630 |
[WP] It turns out that the 'superhero' and 'supervillan' that have been terrorizing the place are actually just a couple of normal people, running a scam on the city | I'm Candice Sugreen, reporter for the Ivory Quill, a small paper out of Mouncie City. I'm unlikeable, dreary, and serious--very serious. I don't believe greater good. I don't believe in absolutes like God and the Devil. I believe in what I can see, measure, and quantify. I'm a reporter. I ferret out the lies and discov... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5,631 |
[WP] God invites you to His retirement party. Now you have to get him a gift. | He knew what it was already. He had to know. Why did I even bother wrapping it? All the other gifts were wrapped sure, but why even bother with the formality? God knows what is in every single box.
God pulled another wrapped boxes from a pile that towered much taller than he was (and he was a giant). "Greg!" he said ... | 25 | 0 | 32 | 5,632 |
[WP] God invites you to His retirement party. Now you have to get him a gift. | What to get the man who has everything? Last Christmas every present I gave was re-gifted.
“I think there’s some unopened Proseco in the garage” I said.
“Oh come on Phil. This Our Lord and Saviour we’re talking about. Be a tad creative for once” Mimi replied.
“Well what about those novelty ashtrays we alway... | 2 | 0 | 32 | 5,633 |
[WP] God invites you to His retirement party. Now you have to get him a gift. | A highlight video of all the stuff he just let happen. Make sure to show it in front of everyone to create a nice awkward situation. The Plague. The Holocaust. Sweatshops, etc. Passive-aggressively keep asking him if he's comfortable in his chair and if you can get him anything. | 2 | 0 | 32 | 5,634 |
[WP] God invites you to His retirement party. Now you have to get him a gift. | "Why is He retiring? Does He feel that humanity no longer needs Him?" John asked Emily.
"Well, I have no idea to be honest. And besides, it's not like He was doing much anyway right?"
Emily was being facetious, she always did this, even when they were "alive". But something was up, this was just too strange, was He ... | 1 | 0 | 32 | 5,635 |
[WP] God invites you to His retirement party. Now you have to get him a gift. | What do you get the guy that is everything?
I felt sorry for the poor guy, though. They let him call it retirement but really, the company just didn't need him anymore. He wasn't making money, most people felt like they didn't need him and he sure as hell wasn't effective.
Luckily, 19.8 billion years isn't too far o... | 1 | 0 | 32 | 5,636 |
[WP] God invites you to His retirement party. Now you have to get him a gift. | Let me just start off by saying -- I am terrible at giving gifts.
No, really. Ask anyone. People have come to expect it. Although it's not for a lack of trying. Perhaps it's because it requires so much thought and my mind too easily wanders, or maybe it's the way I second guess myself. Either way, it always ends up th... | 4 | 0 | 32 | 5,637 |
[OT] What is the purpose of many people's -00X numbers in their posts? (where X is a number) | New years resolution WP count. It's their count from Jan 1st. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5,638 |
[OT] What is the purpose of many people's -00X numbers in their posts? (where X is a number) | What Prolixitasty said, it's the [New Year's Resolution Writing Challenge.](http://redd.it/1u5qwn)
A few of us took the challenge to write a short story every day of this year, and we mark which short story we've written by number. January first you would have marked it -001, next day would be -002, and so on. So toda... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5,639 |
[WP] What if... | What if OP hadn't written this post but instead chose to ask us to write a letter to his daughter of how much he loves her, so that she can read it in the near future.
A dozen submissions later, one strikes a solemn chord for OP. He takes the letter, tweaks it over the course of a few nights and days. Adding lines her... | 7 | 0 | 7 | 5,640 |
[CC] To the prompt: Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | The plane crashed. The religious man saw the burning bodies, some clutching their crosses, and lost his faith. The non believer saw the only survivor, a smiling baby, and found God. | 8 | 0 | 42 | 5,641 |
[CC] To the prompt: Two men witness the same event. One finds God. The other loses his faith. | Just a quick quip on my part:
2 points of contention. The first is your use of tone. I understand you use shortened words in the main text to create a sort of middle America/small town speech, but I found them a bit distracting, and they didn't really serve your story since it's third person.
The second thing I had t... | 3 | 0 | 42 | 5,642 |
[WP] Pick up the nearest block of writing to you, be this a book, the synopsis of a dvd, a random leaflet, whatever it is close your eyes and pick a word or two at random, then write something inspired by them. | I pulled my words from "Disobedience" by Jane Hamilton. They are:
+ "Forbidding" Pg. 213, Par 2.
+ "Gut" Pg. 192, Par 4.
It's funny, the way blood feels as it slides between your fingers and runs thin tracks along your forearm, causing you to wonder if it'll slip under your sleeve and ruin that favorite shirt ... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5,643 |
[WP] Really cheesy but I found this super helpful: It's time for you and Writer's Block to part ways. Write a letter breaking up with Writer's Block. | [My letter](http://lightthecandleofmysoul.tumblr.com/post/72778445050/009-writing-prompt-breaking-up-with-writers-block)
-009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5,644 |
[WP] Really cheesy but I found this super helpful: It's time for you and Writer's Block to part ways. Write a letter breaking up with Writer's Block. | Sorry in advance for the use of the F word and all the other ones. We've had a complicated history ;-)
Dear Writer's Block,
I have wanted for months to tell you this, and since you never liked it, well I found it fitting to write you a letter. So let me make it clear from now on: WE ARE OVER!
You are probably wonder... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5,645 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | The chairman of the board of Arch Angels stood atop the podium composed of pearl white pillars and braces of gold. Across the front of the podium, large lettering read “A.A.” His glasses were tipped down to the edge of his nose as he read from the sheet in front of him. A large crowd gathered before him. Angels listene... | 3 | 0 | 37 | 5,646 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | The angels were getting restless, God could feel it. He'd never been the most popular with them but He liked to think that his quiet approach to ultimate power had left him quite in tune with them.
1 was their Mother, and in the beauty and confusion of the new Earth with brand new sentience to play with, the angels ... | 23 | 0 | 37 | 5,647 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | Superglue for a Supergod? | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5,648 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | We made this one. We made the New God.
We pumped salty blood through it's veins with vines and vids, and clothed it's bones with the flesh of tags and tweets. We connected him to ourselves and each other and all others.
It is our mother, our father, our sibling, our friend and our out of touch grandmother. It is ou... | 8 | 0 | 37 | 5,649 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | Celestial light erased all shadow, all darkness and all doubt as the seraphim took their place at the divine conclave. Reverent silence gripped the entire sphere. More than two thousand human years had passed since the current incarnation of God had taken the throne, his reign was drawing to a long overdue close.
... | 2 | 0 | 37 | 5,650 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | “All right, the time has come to choose the next God. In our timetable that we have established, the time for the Fourth God, the Quiet God, has expired. We have come here to decide who will fulfill the role of the Fifth God, the God of the End Times,” said the First God.
“I don't know about this whole timetable you s... | 3 | 0 | 37 | 5,651 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | Buried deep inside the minds of the ancients is the real story of everything. Since long ago humanity has created storys and myths about the origin of life and the gods, they were almost right.
In a far away dimension there are creatures, with a power hard to be described, but they can't use it. Only one of them ... | 5 | 0 | 37 | 5,652 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | I sit alone in my cave. I have never ventured into the lit world beyond. There was a point in time when I realized that I existed, and since then I have been here.
I had first recognized my existence when I heard a voice echoing through the cave. It was a loud voice, high-pitched and almost gurgling. I instinctively l... | 1 | 0 | 37 | 5,653 |
[WP] There have been four "Gods" since the beginning of the world. It's time to choose a new God. {Prompt Continued Inside} | Four was bit weary now. His subtle machinations could no longer be contained. With the advancement of man, and his unyieldingly connected world, there seem to be less and less of a need for him. He lost all need to be the puppeteer. His creation, humanity, for the first time was starting to lose their need for god. No ... | 1 | 0 | 37 | 5,654 |
[WP] Write an enormously long piece about someone lost in the woods and I promise to read it. | I didn't set out to get lost in a forest that never ends. I still don't really understand how it happened.
Every day, I run. Sometimes it's only for twenty minutes, if that's all I can spare, and sometimes it's for an hour or more. The bike trail loops around almost the whole town, and there's a good amount of dece... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5,655 |
[WP] Write an enormously long piece about someone lost in the woods and I promise to read it. | Her mother had cried.
Her mother always cried. She cried when Alethea had ripped her dress when she had been playing with the boys in the village instead of doing her chores. She cried when Alethea had asked for a bow and arrow for her birthday instead of a new cooking pot. She had cried when Alethea had cut all her b... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5,656 |
[WP] Write an enormously long piece about someone lost in the woods and I promise to read it. | Macx knew the first rule, "Never walk like you have a purpose." It wasn't just the motion of your legs, the swinging of your arms and the weight of your pack. Its the moment you are moving forward with scarcely any thought of what your limbs are doing. It becomes one of those fancy movie camera tricks, with the added b... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5,657 |
[WP] Write an enormously long piece about someone lost in the woods and I promise to read it. | I looked around after crawling through the underbrush near the edge of the forest. The village looked smaller from here, the top of the hill where the forest started. I turned towards the forest, peering into its forbidden depths. My whole life I was told to stay away from it. Several dozen stories were circulating abo... | 5 | 0 | 14 | 5,658 |
[WP] Write an enormously long piece about someone lost in the woods and I promise to read it. | The picnic was where my wife and I met, you should really know the story of how we got together. Want to hear? Yes, no, not sure? Think of this as a mini reprieve, the longer I am talking, the longer you are breathing but if you would rather die than listen I can be very accommodating.
Yeah I thought you would see it... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5,659 |
[WP] Write an enormously long piece about someone lost in the woods and I promise to read it. | The computer screen was the only light in the room. Jerry stared at it, lost in thoughts for a long time, shifting slightly sometimes. He hadn't shat in a week.
The last mail he got was still on the screen.
*"dude, you gotta check this, the woods turn to stone at night, i swear on my mum's grave. i took some picture... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5,660 |
[WP] A man has lost the ability to discern his dreams from reality, so he decides to kill himself in what he believes to be the dream. | And we welcome our new contestant: Jeremy!
A round of applause for Jeremy!
So Jeremy you know the rules of the game.
In the previous stage, you chose the red pill. Bold move! Right, people!? Hahaha
So now you may be IRL or still hooked the Matrix. You are not sure. Heck, even I don't know if I am real or not. Ha... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5,661 |
[WP] A man has lost the ability to discern his dreams from reality, so he decides to kill himself in what he believes to be the dream. | A while ago I stumbled on a scientific website. The headline red, ''Our universe is a hologram, and we're floating inside of it, suggests new research''. People are terrified by this theory thinking that it may indeed be true. Why are they terrified? They run scared because they think there are no repercussions to what... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5,662 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done, winning a safe spot between driving a trolly off the roof of a church and asking the police officer who arrested me for public drunkenness whether his mum was still walking funny. But when Greasy Bazzer comes round your place with a cricket bat, two balaclavas and... | 10 | 0 | 30 | 5,663 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | “It was probably the third dumbest thing I’ve ever done. That’s saying something. I’ve done some stupid shit in my day.” I scratched the back of my head as I accelerated through the intersection.
I glanced in the rearview mirror. “The second stupidest thing I’ve ever done was letting my brother join the army. My littl... | 7 | 0 | 30 | 5,664 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | It was probably the third dumbest thing I’ve ever done, the first being the time I “emancipated” our class hamster because I thought keeping him in a cage was slavery (and then Mrs. Knight and our whole school watched in horror as a hawk eviscerated him). And of course the second was trying to start a new trend in seve... | 4 | 0 | 30 | 5,665 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done. Brad McCormick had played me for a love struck fool. Who can blame him? Brad was an all star. He had his hand in every school group and sport. He even led the morning prayers at the school from time to time. Castle High School was his sandbox and he was just being... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 5,666 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done.
No wait, back up a second. You're probably wondering about the first two. And seeing how I'm here, on my knees with a bloody nose, surrounded by cops, your mind is stitching together assumed facts and broad strokes - none of them flattering. Let me explain.
The ... | 3 | 0 | 30 | 5,667 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | “It was probably the third dumbest thing I’ve ever done, fellas. I swear to the Good Lord I wouldn’t have ran that stop sign if my Blurred Lines jam hadn’t been playing. You know the one right?” I asked, pointing to the bald guy in the sleeveless Harley Davidson t-shirt. “Ahhh, yeah, you know it. The one that goes ‘hey... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 5,668 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | Took kind of a different slant on it. Almost dialog-only, but such fun to write.
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“It was probably the third dumbest thing I’ve ever done.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“I find that hard to believe.”
“You’ve never streaked across the white house lawn.”
“Shit, that’s the stupidest thi... | 2 | 0 | 30 | 5,669 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done, blowing off Kinky Kate that day for the chance to spend five minutes talking with a stranger who saw right through me from the outset. Jasmine told me afterwards that Kate had accosted her in the bathroom blocks, Kate was equal parts threatening and tearful, at fi... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 5,670 |
(CW) Write a story that starts with the phrase "It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done" and ends with the phrase "I'd do it again." Must have more than one paragraph. | It was probably the third dumbest thing I've ever done. Right after failing the gallon challenge because that's what landed me into this mess. However there are only so many things one could do in this precise situation. Sadly, a bet is a bet.
Joycellyn, my girlfriend of three years, is an accomplished seamstress. Nee... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 5,671 |
[WP] A chemist with schizophrenia finds his creations trying to talk to him. This fills him/her with incredible despair and misery but also love. | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 24 | 5,672 |
[WP] You, a bird, are enjoying a quiet morning when your birdhouse catches on fire! | "Here, kitty kitty kitty."
I swooped, darted, teased the white ball of fluff, trying not to notice the five razor claws swiping at me.
"Come get me, kitty." Acrid smoke made my eyes water. My brain rattled with the screams of my dear, sweet Mathilda and our newborn twins. "Hurry up, kitty!"
Furious, the fluff ... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5,673 |
[WP] You, a bird, are enjoying a quiet morning when your birdhouse catches on fire! | SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5,674 |
[CC] An abstract of a movie I want to direct myself with a real film crew. I wish someone to give me Constructive Criticism to see if this is too cheesy and unrealistic or if this has any potential. And just simple opinions too. Would you watch something like this if it was in cinemas? | First off, I don't think writing prompts is the place for this - have you tried /r/writing? Or maybe any other subreddit specifically for cinema or screenplay ideas?
I think the idea is not completely coherent, I'm afraid. I had trouble understanding who Fred and John are - are they the same person? Or is Fred a ment... | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5,675 |
[CC] An abstract of a movie I want to direct myself with a real film crew. I wish someone to give me Constructive Criticism to see if this is too cheesy and unrealistic or if this has any potential. And just simple opinions too. Would you watch something like this if it was in cinemas? | I have an idea for the ending, if you'd like to hear it.
In any case, Fight Club hasn't interested me enough to watch it, and I can't help but feel this would be the same way. It's a bit unclear, and just not the sort of intellectual mood that I would have to be in to understand it. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5,676 |
[WP] A father comes into contact with the man who killed his daughter. | The handtowel wipes the sweat off the man's brow. His eyes stare up to me in rapt attention. I can hear the thudding in his chest from here, and I can see his jaw tighten whenever my hands come near.
"You took her from me." I whisper quietly, my grief matching his own. "I have never loved anyone as much as I loved my... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5,677 |
[WP] I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee... | Oh god.
*Alright.*
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It was just another day - that is to say grey, silent and forever cold - and Skyrim Adventurer emerged into it from yet another convenient dungeon exit just west of Whiterun. It had been a bust. Someone had picked the place clean, recently as far as he could tell, and by the time... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5,678 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. | *Ki-LUNK!*
Tony slammed the door shut behind him so hard that the faux-pine finish actually crunched slightly under the force. He didn't care, and he loved that he didn't care. He had never been more livid in his life, and in a somewhat sick way he relished this feeling. To be completely and unequivocally justified in... | 44 | 0 | 96 | 5,679 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. | "Men, this is our final stand. The foreign scum march on our fair city from both the East and West. We will be severely outnumbered. Our divine leader is delegating orders from a secure location. His life is safe. Ours however, will be put on the line for the glory of our wonderful nation. Know that God has chosen us a... | 7 | 0 | 96 | 5,680 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. | It was a simple move. Queen to rook, checkmate, and the match was over. It had taken all of six moves for Adam to beat the world champion of chess.
A hush had fallen over the room when the match had started, and even now not a whisper could be heard. Magnus was stunned. He sat across from Adam, keenly aware of what h... | 11 | 0 | 96 | 5,681 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. | "There is nowhere to run now. I finally have you!" Abel screamed through the winds as he reached the summit of the tower and climbed out upon the rooftop. "Your days are done brother." He saw Cain, stood at the edge, his tar black hair one with the night sky. This was the end of his journey.
"Why are you doing this br... | 8 | 0 | 96 | 5,682 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. |
“There is an inherent line we draw between good and evil. Paddling our paths through the currents, correcting courses, leaving it all to the winds that blow our sails.” brimming from a toxin scorched voice. “You see...” a slight tilt of the head and a grin that can only be described as possessed continued “We have... | 5 | 0 | 96 | 5,683 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. | This isn't a family. We aren't a family.
Piercing rage and drunken slurs littered the memory of our relationship, slurs I became accustomed to much too young. Verbally put in my place, I remembered apologizing for my existence, something I couldn't fully understand, but longed for your approval. As if that wasn't enou... | 3 | 0 | 96 | 5,684 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. | Rob drew his sword and ran into Ezra's chamber.
*Just one more thing to take care of and this is over. This entire bloody war.*
He skidded to a halt as he looked inside. The man in front of him was nothing like he had pictured. He'd been expecting an angry, vicious man- a man worthy of the reputation that surrounded h... | 6 | 0 | 96 | 5,685 |
[WP] A hero confronts the villain in a final showdown, only to find out that their roles have been reversed the entire time. | He had torn his way through the king's army, his once white uniform now red, drenched in the enemy's blood. Having made his way to the front of the castle, he snuck his way in before the drawbridge had closed, sticking to the shadows, destroying anyone in his way. He knew this destination, the throne room, but he had t... | 2 | 0 | 96 | 5,686 |
[FF] It's discovered an obscure religion is true. Restriction: Max one paragraph. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5,687 |
[FF] It's discovered an obscure religion is true. Restriction: Max one paragraph. | It was never expected that they would find them. People never took them seriously, centuries previous and people had been burned at the stake when this was the explanation after all. They would be mocked when the religion came into popularity, the believers considered to be undesirable. Nobody expected it all to be rea... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5,688 |
[FF] It's discovered an obscure religion is true. Restriction: Max one paragraph. | Somewhere in the Amazon, a fading tribe praised the Gods of the ocean deep. They believed that when one dies they would be reincarnated into a half human, half fish creature and be ordered to live amongst them. The outside world threw their heads back and laughed poking fun of their so-called Gods. When the tribe final... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5,689 |
[FF] It's discovered an obscure religion is true. Restriction: Max one paragraph. | "Wait...so you're telling me..that somewhere, out in the cosmos, is a massive, all knowing blob of sentient spaghetti? Dude that is seven shades of fucked up. But what the hell. I can dig it." | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5,690 |
[WP] A soldier conscripted at 16 returns to his birthplace after being released from service 40 years later. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5,691 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | Stickied. Good luck to all who participate! | 5 | 0 | 31 | 5,692 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | They always said it gets better. That it was just a phase I was going through. That was before I was diagnosed with depression. Now they just said that there was nothing wrong with me, it's just my brain that's being all messed up. But that was before they left me because they did not want to take care of me.
Now I st... | 3 | 0 | 31 | 5,693 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | You ever fallen asleep somewhere you haven't?
Me, I always do. Even as a kid. Used to fall asleep in class all the time. Some teachers would yell, some teachers would just leave me be and one teacher got all the other kids to draw on me. Had to go home with dicks all over my arms and various declarations of love to s... | 3 | 0 | 31 | 5,694 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | "The teeth? Oh, if you follow me, I'll continue our tour of the Tooth Fairy Teeth Factory right away. If you please, madam." He beckoned the nearest lady and indicated the party of excited visitors should follow. The tour guide was small: around four foot, and dressed entirely in purple except for his tall, pointed hat... | 3 | 0 | 31 | 5,695 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | As awareness crept back into my mind, it was chased by an uneasy feeling. A feeling that drew my attention like someone in the distance waving their arms in the air, a stranger crying out for me, words lost on the wind. Trapped in the wilderness that is the mind escaping the confines of unconsciousness, I couldn't see ... | 6 | 0 | 31 | 5,696 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | There is a sort of simple bliss that comes with making a decision. Even the hardest, worst decisions can bring a comfort once they've been made. That was the case this time. A handful of pills and a very tall ledge was all that it took. I would nod off and that would be it.
I had written a note. Several, actually. Se... | 3 | 0 | 31 | 5,697 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | In the beginning, the Lord was lonely. He made the Morning Star, and I smiled and promised to be with him eternally. And so the Lord made others of my kind.
The angels sang songs of love and laughter, and the Lord grew tired of their endless worshipping. And He made all, and rose great titans upon the land and seas, a... | 4 | 0 | 31 | 5,698 |
[FF] Contest. The three chosen prompts are... | Prompt 3.
No!
No, no, no! Of all the things I'd failed previously, this one took the cake. I was hesitant to look downward, though I could feel the warm wetness that covered my hands. How did one fail killing themselves so badly? The thought sent a wave of sadness through me and I very nearly smashed the mirror I was... | 5 | 0 | 31 | 5,699 |
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