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Why can I only seem to create ideas in the "spur of the moment" as opposed to when I sit down at my at my computer and attempt to write? | I would love to see this in something like /r/explainlikeim5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 6,400 |
[WP] A spy is captured and takes a cyanide pill. It turns out to be candy. | "Ve will torture you until you talk. Ve have vays of making you talk. You will an hour to compose yourself."
They leave alone in this dark wet cell. Working quickly, I rip the sole of my shoe off. In it is a vial with a cyanide pill in case of capture. I pop the cork off and shake the pill into my hand. I dry swallow ... | 26 | 0 | 23 | 6,401 |
[WP] A spy is captured and takes a cyanide pill. It turns out to be candy. | I knew as soon as it hit my tongue that something was wrong.
See, Cyanide doesn't need a candy coating. That shit is the last thing you're ever going to eat, it doesn't need a watermelon-flavored sugar shell to make it more appealing. It was supposed to be chalky, not fruity and delicious, and in the dark, with the do... | 17 | 0 | 23 | 6,402 |
[WP] A spy is captured and takes a cyanide pill. It turns out to be candy. | "Secret agents are a strange commodity." Mused Colonel Kazimov as he stood across the room from his long time quarry. "They are only truly valuable once you break them."
Max Turner stared into the colonel's dark, effortlessly calm eyes. They'd both been in the game for long enough, and both shared an understanding of ... | 15 | 0 | 23 | 6,403 |
[WP] A spy is captured and takes a cyanide pill. It turns out to be candy. | "Open the door."
The nervous guards leaped aside without even asking for an ident card. The Inquisitors' unmistakable sharp steel collars and pressed black suits threatened any who stood in their way with a future of agony.
With a bright hiss, a loud clunk and a billowing white cloud, the lock raised and the door sli... | 2 | 0 | 23 | 6,404 |
[WP] A spy is captured and takes a cyanide pill. It turns out to be candy. | Candy. A fucking candy. I knew it was the moment it went in my mouth. A peppermint Tic-Tac, to be precise. I started laughing uproariously, causing guards to burst into the room I was being held in. I couldn't help it. Visions of what would happen to me danced in my head. The soldiers found my laughter distasteful. One... | 6 | 0 | 23 | 6,405 |
[CC] Linus | This is a good piece. A couple suggestions I have:
The story is from Linus's POV, except for the paragraph,"He had parked... ... avoid a collision." Linus's confusion is a strong element here, so I would cut that. You reveal where he parked later, so this is unnecessary.
"... had to stay alive, and suddenly--" seems ... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6,406 |
[CC] Linus | "simply parked his car."
"That hardly seemed fair."
Seem's like you're shoving opinions down the reader's throat. Also, show don't tell. I forgot what these were called, but words like "simply" and "truly" should be avoided whenever possible. They aren't convincing and usually takes away rather than add to the piece. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6,407 |
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[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | I look in the mirror. I don't recognise the man staring back.
The man looking back is visibly older, 10-15 years so. His skin is so wrinkled. It's tired and sagged, grey. His eyes are empty and lifeless, the eyes of a man with no reason to be alive. And he has a beard. I have a beard too, but his is... different. It's... | 27 | 0 | 25 | 6,409 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | “The problem,” I explained patiently, “Is that my mirror is broken.”
Doctor Kavanaugh smiled, and made a note on his clipboard without breaking eye contact. “I assure you,” he replied, “That the mirror is perfectly intact. Carol saw it just this morning, when she brought you your meal.”
The nurse nodded from the ... | 22 | 0 | 25 | 6,410 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | I had changed. After the accident, I'd lay awake for hours... days. Each agonizing moment that the scenes I'd witnessed danced upon my mind, a small piece of the person I once was shattered at my feet, and the wondrous person I dreamed to become someday withered away a bit more into the abyss of improbability. I wished... | 3 | 0 | 25 | 6,411 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,412 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | As Dave passed through the hall, he lingered in front of the mirror for a moment.
Why did you cover it? He looked at me.
I stared back, not sure what to say, and shrugged. Dave lifted one corner of the heavy curtain I covered the mirror with, checked his hair and put on his sneakers.
When the door closed behind him... | 3 | 0 | 25 | 6,413 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | Ever looked in your mirror and saw your reflection? Of course you did. Ever had a hard time recognizing yourself? I doubt you if your answer was yes. I'd doubt my own story if someone else said it - and my story isn't staright out of some scary movie; no, my story made me realize something about myself because if you s... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,414 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | -011
The most terrifying things in the world are not those that are physically possible, but those that aren't, out of the sheer virtue that they should never *ever* happen.
...
I got out of bed half-awake, cursing the frigid winter under my breath, muttering to myself why anyone should have to wake up in this tempe... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,415 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | I stare at him smiling behind the walls of the glass cage, nothing but the dripping tap keeping me tethered to earth.
"I got rid of you." I mutter.
"You know it isn't that easy." He replies.
"I spent my life tryng to erase you... to keep you away."
"And look where that got you. Does it make you happy?"
"I don't ha... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 6,416 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | Oh boy... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,417 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,418 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,419 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | The first time it happened, I hardly noticed. Walking down the street past a building with mirrored windows, I glanced over to see if the wind had disturbed my hair, but I couldn’t find myself. It was a crowded street, and I was able to brush it off as a trick of the light.
The next morning, however, when I entered ... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,420 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | Well I guess it finally happened. I'm more her than me.
The brain transplant was deemed a huge success. I don't understand much of the procedure. I was in a coma for months prior to the event. But then I woke up with parts of some dead girl's brain. I haven't been me since.
They said nothing that made her an indiv... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,421 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | Waking up on Mondays is the worst thing ever. It's almost unbearable. 7:45 a.m., the alarm starts ringing, I try to pretend it doesn't exist, then I realize that I just have to go to work, and take the decision of opening my eyes. Now the hard part is done. The successive actions usually follow in a fast and almost inv... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,422 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | ***note: this is my first time posting here. it is really, REALLY long. I considered not posting it at all, but I spent a while writing it so here you go.***
My reflection is sentient. Yours is probably sentient too. They all are. Or at least, that's what mine tells me.
It all started a few weeks ago when I was getti... | 3 | 0 | 25 | 6,423 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | Two months they had told me. Eight months I had been in coma after being run off the road by some drunk college student who thought it would be a "fun" time to see my shiny new black Audi r8 tumble down the hill and into the ditch that laid just beneath the guard rail of a certain section of the i-97 highway. How fun i... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,424 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | *You're not real.* It was just a thought. How could that reflection of me be real. It couldn't be me. The scars belonged to someone else. I was normal. I closed my locker and headed to class.
"Why do you keep following me?" The geek in the Green Lantern shirt looked at me, thinking I was insane to be talking to my ref... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,425 |
[WP] You look in the mirror one day, but the reflection staring back isn't you. | He has the same eyes.
He has the same hair.
He has the same nose, same ears, same skin.
Our hands are the same.
Our mouth is the same.
I do not know this man.
Our arms are identical.
Our legs match.
I am not this man. Why do I look in the mirror, when it does not look back. I need reflection, this mirror murders ... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6,426 |
[WP] "Don't make a girl a Promise, if you know you can't keep it." | She's covered in blood, stalking towards me, angry passion in her Latin lips and two revolvers in her hands. I'm sitting behind my desk, struggling to keep my head calm and my hands from shaking. She blows away my secretary without glancing at her and a small whimper I do not intend escapes from my lips. She pauses, re... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,427 |
[WP] "Don't make a girl a Promise, if you know you can't keep it." | "I feel like I'm broken inside like there's some plaque weighing down on whatever organ makes a person feel. But not with you. Cause you're my medicine when you're close to me, and when you're gone, I feel the weight of my insecurities hit me all over again. Please, I need you."
I said those words.
I can feel my face... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,428 |
[WP] After a long time, you are finally back home.. | My stomach fluttered and somersaulted as my feet guided themselves around the corner of the road I had once known all those years ago.
The road was shorter, the once-baby trees taller, wider and maturely decked in golden leaves. The houses felt smaller too, their bricks of smaller dimensions and of weaker colour, thei... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6,429 |
[WP] After a long time, you are finally back home.. | This used to feel bigger, the first time. The plane part...like a child, I would sit there, the engines rumbling conspicuously as the wing outside my window began to trace back along the runway.
Seatbacks up, no turning back. The heart rending act of leaving an international driveway, and counting on yourself to have ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6,430 |
[WP] The normal sleeping pattern for everyone on Earth is to sleep for 23 hours and be awake for one hour. Except for one little girl. | It was another beautiful day for her, with the moon shining high above her head, the stars twinkling back upon her misty reflection. There was nothing irregular about it.
She bounded from roof to roof, across alleys and past windows, in the sprawling urban shanty town where she played her game, with her bag over her ba... | 10 | 0 | 37 | 6,431 |
[WP] The normal sleeping pattern for everyone on Earth is to sleep for 23 hours and be awake for one hour. Except for one little girl. | Mommy and Daddy always said it's normal for everyone to sleep for most of the day. But I can't. I lay awake in bed, staring at the sun, but it's no use. I get up and play, and read my books. Sometimes, I even make my own peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but the jelly gets everywhere. Mommy always wonders why the count... | 8 | 0 | 37 | 6,432 |
[WP] The normal sleeping pattern for everyone on Earth is to sleep for 23 hours and be awake for one hour. Except for one little girl. | I sipped my coffee slowly, staring at the monitors. They bathed the room in a soft white glow, displaying thousands of people sleeping in their isolation pods. A couple janitorial workers sat idly, waiting till their hour was up so they could go back into the world where they belonged. I checked my watch. Fifteen more ... | 3 | 0 | 37 | 6,433 |
[WP] The normal sleeping pattern for everyone on Earth is to sleep for 23 hours and be awake for one hour. Except for one little girl. | I push the button on your Sleep Chamber and blow you a kiss as it tucks you in. Grabbing my tool kit, I settle in for another long day.
It has been like this for as long as I can remember. My mother told me tales of disease and violence that nearly destroyed the human race. Doctor and Government mandated Sleep Cycl... | 2 | 0 | 37 | 6,434 |
[WP] The normal sleeping pattern for everyone on Earth is to sleep for 23 hours and be awake for one hour. Except for one little girl. | The girl walks around the abandoned town, shivering in the cold, alone, scared. All the people still haven't woken up. She always believed that one day, one day, she will wake up with the people around her. With her mom and her dad. But they were always asleep, and no matter how much she shook the bed, or how loud she ... | 2 | 0 | 37 | 6,435 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | And then she peeled it off. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6,436 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | I've heard that you shower naked.
"That's not my finger." Your doctor. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,437 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,438 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Googling "trypophobia" will give you trypophobia | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6,439 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Something is crawling up your urethra. | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6,440 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Are you scared of the dark? | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,441 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Muted scream
Dearest, please calm down | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,442 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Two-ply toilet paper has been discontinued. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6,443 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | You've asked before, Don't you remember. | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6,444 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | You sleepwalk and awake on ice. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,445 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,446 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | I can imitate my mom's orgasms.
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[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | /r/sixwordstories exists for a reason. Stop. | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6,448 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | The worm wriggled inside of me. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,449 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Naked grandma loves licking daddy's armpits. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,450 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | There was affirmation in her protests. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,451 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | You're suddenly aware of your tongue. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6,452 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Needle in your dick hole, bro. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,453 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Don't turn around, it's behind you. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,454 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Your mothers room needs new locks. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,455 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | That's no condom, its my scrotum! | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,456 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | Your skin itches from the poison. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,457 |
[FF] Make me uncomfortable in six words. | I'm watching you through the window. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6,458 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | On the morning when I crawled from my hole in the creep without the hive in my head I felt alone and I felt confused and I felt scared. I knew immediately that something was wrong. At first I just followed the rest of the swarm. That's what I always did.
It was different than before. I ran the same as ever, but I did... | 44 | 0 | 56 | 6,459 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | "MEAT. MEAT. MEAT. MEAT. MEAT." | 7 | 0 | 56 | 6,460 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | A huge D6 tumbled through the air, landing with a tremendous thud into the war-blasted dirt. The side that faced up showed a huge, single dot. I immediately disemboweled myself with my talons. Fucking Tyranid codex. | 13 | 0 | 56 | 6,461 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | "Security doors shut. Psi-disruptors are prepped and ready."
"Gentlemen, prepare for Phase 2."
A dozen scientists raised their heads, anxiously staring at the monitors lining the room. This was the day, the day where a year's worth of development would be put to the test.
And for Lead Scientist Josh Tinderdall, an... | 15 | 0 | 56 | 6,462 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | "Go OuT aNd PlAy WiTh ThE tErRaNs" the hivemind had ordered the newly hatched brood of four legged xenomorphs and they spread out through the jungle sinking long hooked claws in the moist ground, propelling themselves between parting trees at breakneck speed with powerful elegant moves, taking in the many smells rich w... | 6 | 0 | 56 | 6,463 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | There is an official story called Overlords, in which this happens to an overlord. Gonna look it up when I'm at home.
EDIT: http://media.blizzard.com/sc2/lore/just-an-overlord/just-an-overlord.pdf Got the name wrong, it's "Just an Overlord" | 2 | 0 | 56 | 6,464 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 56 | 6,465 |
[EU] - A zergling breaks free from the control of the hive mind. | It started out like any game of 2v2.
I built a hatchery at 15 supply like usual, and ordered my first batch of zerglings to a rally flag right next to the bottleneck for our base. The first four did exactly that, but #5 didn't even spawn. I made sure I wasn't supply blocked, saw that I definitely wasn't lagging, and ... | 1 | 0 | 56 | 6,466 |
[WP] Somebody dies. They wake up. | I never believed in life after death before. I'm not that kind of guy. Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation. All they were to me were really good Scrabble scores. But even a cynic has to die sometime, and for me, sometime was Sunday morning between five and eight am. An unnamed assailant broke into my apartment, stole all the s... | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6,467 |
[WP] Somebody dies. They wake up. | Awake, eyes open, what? I can hear it in my chest, in, out, my breath is rasping. I feel like I have run a long distance only to be told to restart. I cough, there's fluid in my lungs, more coughing and more coughing. Eventually the dark before my eyes recede. There's people around me. They look so shocked. What's wron... | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6,468 |
[WP] Somebody dies. They wake up. | I wake up staring at my alarm clock, just as I do every morning.
*7:12AM*. "Fuck!".
I can't be late again. Because 'there is an expectation of at least *some* level of professionalism' at my job, but mostly because my boss is a hardass. I'm already out of bed, and I reach the door just as I manage to pull a shirt ove... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6,469 |
[WP] Someone discovers that their SO has been a figment of their imagination. | Amy told me to wake up this morning. She’d never done that before, not on any of the other seven hundred and fifty-six mornings since I’d moved in. I’d remember that tone in her voice if she’d used it even once; disappointment wasn’t an emotion my girlfriend wore on her sleeve. *“Wake up. It’s over, Tommy,”* she’d ... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6,470 |
[WP] Someone discovers that their SO has been a figment of their imagination. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6,471 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I might be making a mistake trying to do every response I do from the eyes/perspective of a single character for a single sort of universe, because I'm running out of ideas and there are very few prompts that will work for it. Might have to stop doing that, which would suck. | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6,472 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I have been doing a lot of writing privately each day for my own personal use with only a few responses towards the challenge in the sub, but I have been consistent! | 5 | 0 | 10 | 6,473 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | i started off good....but i'm off by 3 days now, mostly cause i just hate everything i write. i'll try and force myself tomorrow. determination! | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6,474 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I'm having a blast. I've responded to way more prompts, but I'm trying to put my best foot forward for those who read my stuff. Hell, I even got a couple who have taken to following my efforts. It's rather rewarding. My only concern is that most of mine fall on the dramatic. I'm trying to interject more humor and short... | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6,475 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | This is a fantastic challenge! By far, the most collective fun I've had in this sub, both writing and reading others' responses. I'll fully admit that, when I started posting here, it took me *far* too long to write up anything I felt was worth reading (the perfectionist in me really can't let a good thing go). But ... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6,476 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I wish for some more feedback, I've recently started writing here and I'm usually late in the thread of several hours, and I feel my publicly writing like an exposing myself to other people's judgement, a thing I'm not very comfortable with or used to. I know I'm not very good, and that I could only benefit from a wide... | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6,477 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I am doing awesome. This sub kept me contributing to it pretty consistently. I even almost won a weekly challenge about Vacancy. | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6,478 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I got a lot of advice from /u/A_Larch on my Sins as Saints concept for my D&D campaign, which is wonderful because it's the backbone for an area they'll be going into if they do this one quest.
Otherwise, work has stabilized and I can't blame that for any mistakes. Though other sources of stress have gotten in the... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6,479 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I found /r/shortscarystories, which is an awesome sub that serves as a sort of gateway drug to probably every other horror-themed writing sub on reddit. The word count for every submission is capped at 275, so it's a great way to get a quick one in. It can also be a nice change of pace if you're not particularly insp... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6,480 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I'm currently on 4,004 words and I've yet to write today's prompt. This challenge has helped me immensely; I've become more immersed in writing, and am doing so more freely. I feel I have greater clarity in my expression and in my day-to-day life, I see something and think 'how would I describe that?' There have been a... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6,481 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I started but now I'm off by a little... I'll be doing a PM soon to catch up though. | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6,482 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | So far going 10 for 11 on both the fill and prompt front. I missed day one with the prompts and I'm yet to write a fill for today, but I'm extra-happy with yesterday's. It must be because it's a story [about a dragon](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1uxjq6/ws_the_dragon_in_the_den/cen1na8).
Also consid... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6,483 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I've written at least one response a day so far, some off sub but most in response to prompts. | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6,484 |
[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I'm liking it a lot. Even if I'm only writing one thing a day, I still feel like it's helping me improve. Half the time, I wonder if what I've written is any good, but I think now matter how good a piece of writing is, it can always be improved.
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[OT] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | It's nice to HAVE to write, even for just pride. I had some problems with inspiration around day 9, but I should be good from now on right? I even have a project I'm working on. | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6,486 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | "Oh Officer, I have just had a blast with our little friends up here! They're laughing so hard, THEY HAVE TEARS IN THEIR EYES-HAHAHAHAHhahahahaha" The voice raved through the phone. Wade couldn't take this.
Wade was an average cop, not smart enough to be a detective, but calm enough to be a hostage negotiator. He was... | 21 | 0 | 35 | 6,487 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | Nothing was ever supposed to happen in this hick town, that's why I got the job here. I got shot my eighth day on the job in the big city, and I just lost it. Everything about that day is still in my head: getting the call that the convenience store I was headed to for coffee had an armed robbery in progress, being s... | 10 | 0 | 35 | 6,488 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 35 | 6,489 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | Officer Johnston hadn't had a decent breakfast since his wife passed six months prior. They had a rocky relationship to put it mildly, but Mrs. Johnston's eggs and hash browns gave the officer a reason to wake up happy every morning. After washing it down with home brewed coffee that could only be described as motiva... | 5 | 0 | 35 | 6,490 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | Three people, gagged and tied up on the 68th floor of the office building. An armed, belligerent, and ski-masked captor. And a team of police officers at the other end of the now abandoned row of cubicles. The usual.
But when the police did their routine inquiry as to the demands, the direction of this hostage situati... | 16 | 0 | 35 | 6,491 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | “Hello, who am I speaking with?”
“Phil. Who am I speaking with?”
“My name is Brad Kinney. I’m a sheriff’s deputy.”
“Nice to meet you, Brad. May I call you Brad?”
“You can. Can I call you Phil?”
“It’s, ‘May I.’”
“I’m sorry?”
“You meant to ask, ‘May I call you Phil?’”
*[Pause]*
“All right. May I call you Ph... | 4 | 0 | 35 | 6,492 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | The impact of the bullet snowed glass across the backs of the fleeing officers. If they had been a second slower, Jacob’s bullet would have ripped through either of them rather than just burying itself in the door frame.
“What the hell was that, McDowell?” Jacob screamed into the telephone receiver. “We had an agreeme... | 4 | 0 | 35 | 6,493 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | It was getting harder to breath now. The strip of fabric in my mouth seemed to have grown thicker, and each gasp for oxygen came more painfully than the last. I blinked back tears and craned my head towards the man in the corner of the room. He was just standing there, staring at a picture on the wall, muttering to him... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6,494 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | Officer Milton nervously picked up the loudspeaker. This was his first time in a hostage situation, and due to a series of hilarious sitcom-esque coincidences back at the station, his first time bargaining with hostage-takers.
He nervously put the speaker to his lips and shouted in as firm a voice as he could muster,... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6,495 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | "An entire cruise ship?!?" I said, walking into the office.
"'Afraid so, sir. They're anchored five miles off shore and they're threatening to blow the whole thing if any vessel comes within a mile of the boat. These guys were clever." said Lieutenant Jones. "We've established a phone line with the bridge. Taylor did... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6,496 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | **-013**
**Resolution Challenge**
**(Part 1)**
"I'm sorry. Say that again? You want me to get you what?" Murdock asked, clearly in disbelief of their commands.
"Twenty-two main sails from a forty foot sloop, twenty-two main sails from a forty foot schooner, twelve sticks of two inch PVC pipe, twenty elbows, fiftee... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6,497 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6,498 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | -010
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Three hostages stood with their backs against the wall. In front of them was liquid hot anticipation, boiling over into a vividly stark imagination where the the violent demise of everyone... | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6,499 |
Subsets and Splits
Top Gilded Writing Prompts
Retrieves potentially popular or noteworthy posts from the training dataset, but only provides basic filtering without deeper analytical insights into the data patterns.
SQL Console for euclaise/WritingPromptsX
Provides a limited set of records with high post scores, offering basic filtering but minimal insight into data patterns.