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Facing extinction in a war with a brutal alien race, a mankind that has forgotten how to go to war reaches into the past and clones its greatest, but most evil Warmasters. Will our monsters save us? | Commander Heur cried out. The lapse in professionalism was brief, but he could not contain it. The emotions bubbling up from deep within him had demanded an outlet. All around him he could hear the sound of uproarious applause. The entire bridge abandoned protocol, and for a moment merely celebrated their victory.
Heu... | 7 | 0 | 54 | 7,300 |
Facing extinction in a war with a brutal alien race, a mankind that has forgotten how to go to war reaches into the past and clones its greatest, but most evil Warmasters. Will our monsters save us? | The Spear careening into the mountain range unleashed a deafening groan, its neocarbon frame splitting and fraying as it was pierced by the jagged peaks. Bright green and blue blurs could be seen showering upon it as it fell, cracking the hardened plating. If not for the horrifying implications for humanity, it was t... | 15 | 0 | 54 | 7,301 |
Facing extinction in a war with a brutal alien race, a mankind that has forgotten how to go to war reaches into the past and clones its greatest, but most evil Warmasters. Will our monsters save us? | There is an old saying about those who fight monsters. Well, I doubt that humans had much choice, really. They were on the verge of extinction, after all.
For what seemed like eons, we had spread out amoungst the stars, creating little republics and vast empires. We bickered with each other, fought over this system o... | 31 | 0 | 54 | 7,302 |
Facing extinction in a war with a brutal alien race, a mankind that has forgotten how to go to war reaches into the past and clones its greatest, but most evil Warmasters. Will our monsters save us? | A plain grey, iron door stood in front of him. He had always had an affection for things that were plain and hard, my master. The man standing alone in the darkened elevator was the last of his kind. Only a single reel of film had been recovered which depicted his great deeds. It is theorized that his reign had been ... | 3 | 0 | 54 | 7,303 |
Facing extinction in a war with a brutal alien race, a mankind that has forgotten how to go to war reaches into the past and clones its greatest, but most evil Warmasters. Will our monsters save us? | Not a prompt, but it you have time for a 10 page long story, I recommend reading *The Monster* by Alfred van Vogt.
You can read it online [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BNwqRpFxTyozu8l6zO1ZnDYsZhOzhJM-Wq1a00-XDHE/edit?usp=sharing), or download as a RTF file [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwMO6eG... | 6 | 0 | 54 | 7,304 |
Facing extinction in a war with a brutal alien race, a mankind that has forgotten how to go to war reaches into the past and clones its greatest, but most evil Warmasters. Will our monsters save us? | "First Commissioner, we have defeated the enemy on New Cornwall and Aries III, and have fought it to a standstill on XM435. However, Plusepheron, Malachiteris II, and all three moons of Blen have all been Converted, and there are reports of enemy probes entering the Spinward Reach."
"We can make the tools we need, bu... | 2 | 0 | 54 | 7,305 |
[WP] The first alien ambassador to Earth has died of natural causes. Describe the funeral. | “How can you be sure he’s dead? It’s not like it had a goddamn heart that suddenly stopped beating.” The prime minister pounded a fist on the desk making the pictures of his wife, mistress, and beloved purebred Samoyed rattle. He surveyed the personnel in his office shifting nervously from foot to foot. He still had ... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7,306 |
What if the NSA was real? | Santa sat at his desk, candy cane chair nearly overpowered by his mass. Taking his North Pole patented toy mouse in hand, he maneuvered his cursor over to a folder entitled NON. He double clicked on his pride and joy, the mechanism by which he monitored all of the human race 24/7.
A window popped up, a program ran. ... | 9 | 0 | 4 | 7,307 |
What if the NSA was real? | Hi there!
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[WP] If you give a man $20 and never see him again, it was worth the $20 | The beggar kept walking, just beside and behind me. Even in the bustling crowd, he somehow managed to keep his place.
"And that's why I'm saying, man, I'm saying, if you give a man twenty dollars and never see him again, it was worth the twenty dollars!"
"I'm not feeding your habits." I tried to shake him between a f... | 6 | 0 | 5 | 7,309 |
[WP] If you give a man $20 and never see him again, it was worth the $20 | I always knew it was cold when my breath materialized in front of me like some ghost I freed into the atmosphere. *Today is one of those days*, I thought to myself as I looked out from the fourth story window. The world below me was covered in a disgusting grey snow, probably nature doing it's best to suck up the smog ... | 5 | 0 | 5 | 7,310 |
Explain a very mundane activity like a film noir (don't forget the twist at the end) |
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Explain a very mundane activity like a film noir (don't forget the twist at the end) | I was sitting at my desk in a dark room. The only light came from my computer, making harsher shadows from the dark circles under my eyes. It was daytime, but that hardly matters when you're in a small apartment with the only window looking out onto a brick wall. Either way, darkness has a way of breeding trouble.
The... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7,312 |
Explain a very mundane activity like a film noir (don't forget the twist at the end) | Light filtered into the room through the blinds, skimming the cluttered desk and casting long shadows from the naked light bulb that hung overhead. It landed on shoestring straps hanging lop-sided off the shapely shoulders of the womanly figure, looking unkempt, neglected like a broken window in a derelict building.
T... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7,313 |
[WP] A bus leaves the station at 7:30 AM with 42 passengers. You are crossing the street at 7:45 AM when that bus crashes into a nearby building, and discover that the bus is completely empty. What happens next? | *Damn! Dude, you see that shit?*
*Did that bus just ram into that building?*
*Yo, lets go look for survivors.*
*Anyone here?*
*You seen anybody?*
*Hello?*
*Na.*
*Shit.*
*But there aren't any bodies. What the fuck is going on?*
*Hey man, you know what--*
*Yeah. Radio's saying that this bus had 42 passenger... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7,314 |
[WP] A bus leaves the station at 7:30 AM with 42 passengers. You are crossing the street at 7:45 AM when that bus crashes into a nearby building, and discover that the bus is completely empty. What happens next? | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7,315 |
[WP] A bus leaves the station at 7:30 AM with 42 passengers. You are crossing the street at 7:45 AM when that bus crashes into a nearby building, and discover that the bus is completely empty. What happens next? | Not much happens up in this small and cold mountain town and that's the way I like it. It's quiet. The snow dulls out the sound of vehicles as they drive down the road. This particular stretch of road is my favorite part of the walk to work. Not much traffic. Tall pines surround the scattered commercial buildings in th... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7,316 |
[WP] A young adult women, who lives in a small rural town, learns the meaning behind her having special powers. You decide what abilities she posseses. | [deleted] | 6 | 0 | 6 | 7,317 |
[WP] A young adult women, who lives in a small rural town, learns the meaning behind her having special powers. You decide what abilities she posseses. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7,318 |
[WP] A young adult women, who lives in a small rural town, learns the meaning behind her having special powers. You decide what abilities she posseses. | [-013](http://samwise-stories.tumblr.com/post/73297589641/14-1-14) | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7,319 |
[WR] Two strangers are on a disastrous date. The first person write one perspective, and the second person write from the other perspective of the date. | The atmosphere is different in this restaurant, but we'll just have to settle for this one I guess. Did that waiter just pick food off the ground? Oh god, the owner's yelling at another customer. Oh no...I might have forgotten my wallet at home. Yup, I left it at home. God, she's so pretty. I want to touch her silken r... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7,320 |
[WP] Waking up toothless in a KFC parking lot. | I saw Bobby's grin before I even got into the car. But I guess, if he was the one calling me at two a.m. with a heavy slurr and destination of a KFC two towns over, I would be wanting to throw a few jibes too.
"I've heard that chicken's got a little kick to it."
"Thesus Obby...Weally?"
"Although I think you're a li... | 4 | 0 | 6 | 7,321 |
[WP] Waking up toothless in a KFC parking lot. | I walked out of the KFC with the cup of coke in my hand, sipping it from the straw. Mindlessly browsing reddit on my cellphone, in the direction of my car. The fog was thick, that day. So thick i could barely see three cars away from me.
I reached the place where i parked my VW, but a noise distracted me. A low, grumb... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7,322 |
An overheard conversation from another thread has the makings of a good story, tell me that story. |
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[WP] A twenty year old, independent mother; her working class(often out of town) high school sweetheart; and the handsome new regular at the bar she works (a college student with limitless potential). Pick your protagonist. | Laura flips off the tv. The blue glow fades and it takes a moment for her eyes to adjust to the darkness that slowly creeps into her vision. The living room re-forms in blurrier shapes. The apartment creaks and it takes everything in her not to be afraid.
This is the worst time. When the house is just dark enough, jus... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7,324 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | Hey, it's not something I do everyday. In fact, it was only one day out of 365. And man, was it a bad day. So here I was, moderately attractive girl, slightly too old to actually be jailbait and slightly too young to be thought of as not, hanging around in a dingy coffee shop in an area where drug deals were as common ... | 17 | 0 | 104 | 7,325 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | Rebecca had been the most important person to me, when i was in high school. We had been together at the time, teenager love story. We broke up and we lost track of each other for ten years. The biggest regret of my life. Until a couple years ago. I looked her up on facebook, and surprisingly found her. I sent her a fr... | 12 | 0 | 104 | 7,326 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | He was fast asleep when I finally went to bed at 3.30am. He was snoring steadily, facing the other side of the bed. As I slowly slipped myself underneath the thick and soft quilt, his snoring stopped but he remained motionless. I paused for a while fearing that I might wake up him but later his snoring returned and I s... | 9 | 0 | 104 | 7,327 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | Now, I'm something of an odd case. Division 1 athlete, probably the most physically fit guy on campus. Literally get numbers thrown at me walking down the street. But I was born in Aspen with a burger in my mouth, if you catch my drift.
Cajones though, I got in spades. So when the art folks come round to the ath... | 2 | 0 | 104 | 7,328 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | I was having a great time with my friends. We first went to watch the Enders Game movie at the cinema. It was a great movie, but the only thing I could think of was that the boy I had a crush on was sitting right next to me, and my other friend to the right of me. *I have to do something about this someday*, I thought.... | 6 | 0 | 104 | 7,329 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | May 15, 2003
A group of us at work all decided to go to the midnight showing of The Matrix: Reloaded. I lived five minutes from the theater. As was my custom for midnight showings, I spent the hours leading up to midnight smoking bowls. I drove to the theater and when I got to the lobby I didn't see any of my co-worke... | 6 | 0 | 104 | 7,330 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 104 | 7,331 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | I posted this in a separate thread but I felt it carried over perfectly I hope that's ok.
Mistress sat in the corner of the dimly lit room. The bright red glow of her cigarette was all I could make out. I would glance over between hard thrusts to try to make out any sign of her approval.
She got off on watching me f... | 7 | 0 | 104 | 7,332 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | I was never really a fan of long bus rides; sitting in those uncomfortable seats, making awkward conversation, staring at the bland flatness of the Virginia coastal woodland rolling past at fifty for a few hours, all that jazz. Sure, some people are into it. You’ve got your nature fans and your extraverts, the people w... | 2 | 0 | 104 | 7,333 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | Do you know what happens when you let two polar opposite ends of the spectrum in one enviroment?
Well, that was something I learned in one of my ordinary days of hormonal teenagehood. Though I was only 16 year old midget, in my minds eye, I was somehing more. I was a persona. I was a man. I was a centre of the univ... | 1 | 0 | 104 | 7,334 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 104 | 7,335 |
[WP] Either tell us a true story from your own experience that slips into erotic fiction OR tell us a fake story that slips into a real sexual encounter you've had. We'll guess which you chose. [NSFW] | They met online. One of those free online dating sites that are predominately used for hookups and probably also drug trafficking. He would confess later that it wasn’t just her adorable pixie hair and hazel-green eyes that made him message her, but also her unabashed pride for still loving to play Zelda: Ocarina of Ti... | 2 | 0 | 104 | 7,336 |
[WP] You're a child in an ex-soviet state. You live on a farm and your parents are about to be sent to gulag for being capitalist activists. You are adopted by the soviet chief of secret police in your area. | I was told never to use my old name. I was told my old name was as disgusting as my parents. My parents abandoned me. I came home from school one day and they were gone. I waited as the night drew in close and the cold air blew straight through me as I sat on the wooden floor boards a few steps back from the front door... | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7,337 |
[WP] He's a high powered unscrupulous defence attorney, but one day he's stuck by lightning and he's given a conscience and the power to make people shit their pants using only his mind. His first day back in court he says "Your honour, I have a few question for the witness...." | "That is... beautiful... "
Rob Schneider stared intently at the screen. He had discovered this part of the internet entirely by accident whilst trying to Google Judd Apatow's phone number, and now it seemed that providence had given him the inspiration necessary to finally create his opus. This is what he would be rem... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7,338 |
[WP] Unexpected (new) ending for an anime | Samurai Champloo
Half-blunted blades clang noisily against each other. From their blades protrude handles, spattered with blood and grime. Each man is covered in wounds. Each man struggles to maintain his grip.
The samurai with long, flowing black hair raises his arms and strikes downward, a traditional strike. ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7,339 |
[WP] Write about the cultural values and motivations of an orc-type always-evil race or group. Make them reasonable, if not sympathetic. | Note: I grew up playing Dungeons and Dragons, but I could never wrap my head around how an entire thinking, sapient race of things could all be "evil". Our incredibly gifted GM, crafter of stories I and my friends still remember and reminisce about to this day, agreed. This is for him.
> They are among us, but th... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7,340 |
[WP] Write about the cultural values and motivations of an orc-type always-evil race or group. Make them reasonable, if not sympathetic. | You see them as savages, cruel, uncaring. You couldn’t be more wrong. They care. Deeply. More than you ever did.
You call them godless heathens. Ha! They know a thousand and one gods, the living, the dead, the unknown and the forgotten. They do not worship them, but they know they exist.
You think they are without be... | 5 | 0 | 5 | 7,341 |
[WP] Write about the cultural values and motivations of an orc-type always-evil race or group. Make them reasonable, if not sympathetic. | [I really enjoyed writing that! I hope you enjoy reading.](http://samwise-stories.tumblr.com/post/73301392022/14-1-14-b) -014 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7,342 |
[WP] Write about the cultural values and motivations of an orc-type always-evil race or group. Make them reasonable, if not sympathetic. | **(DISCLAIMER: I'm terrible at making names for fantasy stories and things like that, so these names will probably suck. Just a word of caution.)**
I never knew how it happened. What I did to offend that witch, but I knew that I would have to face repercussions for whatever it is she thinks I did. I just wish that the... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7,343 |
[WP] Write about the cultural values and motivations of an orc-type always-evil race or group. Make them reasonable, if not sympathetic. | The smoke bellowed from the camp, the flames blazing on the backs of fallen men, The Rogashu march on. The Black flag of the high lord Rogash, emblazoned with the symbol of the tormented dragon, flapped in the wind.
The sandy hills now silent, the echoes of screams and clatter of swords on shield long since lost on the... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7,344 |
[WP] Write about the cultural values and motivations of an orc-type always-evil race or group. Make them reasonable, if not sympathetic. | “Mothrak tol’kal razt don asunkun!” as bellowed from coarse throats filled the Agon, a sort of arena, in rhythm. Women wearing masks of terrible visage whirled and wailed about the Pyre with hatchets in hand. Those Dosun that wondered mortally near the Pyre were hamstrung and drowned in scorching smolder. Plethora of b... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7,345 |
[WP]: start writing as an adorable children's story, but halfway through turn it into its own gritty reboot | Once upon a time there was a magic forest. The forest was filled with every kind of magical creature. There were unicorns, centaurs, fairies, pixies, nymphs and every other kind of magical thing you can imagine. They all lived together happily in the forest, playing hide and seek and having tea parties from sunrise t... | 6 | 0 | 14 | 7,346 |
[WP]: start writing as an adorable children's story, but halfway through turn it into its own gritty reboot | Fluffles, the bunny princess, hopped merrily through the orchard.
“Now remember, Fluffles,” said her father, the king, before she left. “Be careful of snakes and dogs and foxes. If you see one, you must run as fast as your little legs will carry you.”
Fluffles had laughed then, and she laughed now. No big bad doggy... | 16 | 0 | 14 | 7,347 |
[WP]: start writing as an adorable children's story, but halfway through turn it into its own gritty reboot | Mittens the kitten curled up and smiled as he released the dead man's switch. | 5 | 0 | 14 | 7,348 |
[WP]: start writing as an adorable children's story, but halfway through turn it into its own gritty reboot | This is Cecelia.
[Picture of a little girl, cartoon style, against a green and happy background]
This is Cecelia's friend Aldo.
[Picture of a large black dog]
Aldo is Cecelia's favorite dog because he can do tricks. He can play fetch.
[Cecelia, against the happy green background with a big yellow sun, throwing... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 7,349 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | Jean woke up in the middle of the night. At least, she thought it was the middle of the night; the city still sounded asleep and she couldn’t see the sun. She looked at her alarm clock. It read 10:00, which was odd considering that her clock was a 24 hour one. Perhaps it had died? She checked her phone and it read 10:0... | 3 | 0 | 25 | 7,350 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | It was late. Too late to be alone in this part of town. The damp pavement was oily in the dim light. I stopped a moment to look around and get my bearings, but the fog was so thick I could barely see a few feet in front of me. There was a laundrette and a kebab shop behind me, and a small off-licence across the narrow ... | 11 | 0 | 25 | 7,351 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | It happened gradually, really. There was no sudden realisation, no one moment I was blah and then blah. It came in increments, so slowly and so gradually that it put me in mind of that old joke- or tale, or whatever- about how to boil a frog. You know, where you increase the heat so slowly that it doesn't realise it's ... | 5 | 0 | 25 | 7,352 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | *"I'll take your hand and then your worries too."*
At 7 in the afternoon all stores were closed. The gates and doors locked tight. The city was shut down.
As if the inhabitants of Innsmouth weren't well aware of the fact that there are some things locks and chains can't keep out.
"Shit" David kept checking his wat... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 7,353 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | It's night. The fog is thick. Jason is alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. He feels a shiver down the spine. He checks the rip of notebook paper in his palm for the tenth time for the address. He is going in the right direction. His mother and father insisted he attend their book club's quarterly dinner pa... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 7,354 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | "The city is empty."
He kept thinking those words as he ran trying to find someone to talk to; to find someone who could prove that he wasn't crazy. The heavy fog made finding his way through the streets of New York near impossible, but he kept running. There were no cars, people, or even planes. Steadily, despe... | 4 | 0 | 25 | 7,355 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | I pulled out my knife and tried to cut my way throught he fog. My knife sliced away tuft after tuft, which swirled away.
"Damn thick fog tonight." I observed.
"Yeah. It kind of is. The street lights aren't even helping." Dallas, my longest and most beloved friend, replied.
He was right. The tall lights we could see... | 4 | 0 | 25 | 7,356 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | The moon is full. I find it oddly comforting since it's the only source of light I have. The fog is dense and thick, like waves of cotton surrounding me. I'm on a dirt trail on the outskirts of a city, I have no recollection of who I am and how I got here. I hear sounds in the distance ahead of me. Unsettling noises. I... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 7,357 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | It happened to me once. The fog, that is. It's something you just don't forget. You can't forget.
It was late at night. I had been out window shopping at the local gaming store. Nothing really caught my eye, but I'd stayed longer than I ought to have. Having bought nothing but a bit of conversation with some fellow g... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 7,358 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | Hmm, i just discovered this sub-reddit, i never wrote but i might as well give it a try since its interesting.
Fog surrounded me, anywhere i looked at i could distinguish nothing, i stepped forward.
The floor rumbled, and i staggered, whats going on? I looked around a second time to find myself lost in a formless lan... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 7,359 |
[WP] It's night. The fog is thick. You're alone, on foot. The city is oddly silent. You feel a shiver down your spine. What's going on? | Ok this is the first time I've done anything like this. So please be easy on me, but do criticise because I really want to learn.
“My shoes? what happened to my shoes?” he thought. It felt like he had just woken up from a very hazy dream or a long night out. His eyes felt heavy and the first few steps he took caught ... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 7,360 |
[WP] Sci-fi. A planetwide Circus | Malik watches as one of the Lilows juggle three other Lilows, while balancing on top of a ball. The people around him applause, but he remained silent.
He hated the circus. The Nicron Traveling Carnival is one of the most famous pastimes available in this sector. It's disgusting, Malik thought. It reminded him of the ... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 7,361 |
[WP] Sci-fi. A planetwide Circus | Sorry about the length, this prompt really got me going.
The Shed
I can't remember a time when I didn't encounter a circus attraction every day. My dad told me that it started in Kansas in 1978 and spread through the whole country within a year, but I never believed that. Every city, every town is dying of technicolo... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7,362 |
[WP] Sci-fi. A planetwide Circus | Divine-Vessel-Justice and his mate, Harvest-Moon-Bloom, decided to spend their off-duty day on a regional attraction: the Circus Planet "Progressive Menagerie". Divine empathically stated he did not want to waste his time on lesser beings, but Harvest said that it would give him greater appreciation for his own work. F... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7,363 |
[WP] Sci-fi. A planetwide Circus | Coming Next [Galactic Cycle]!
Daring feats! Bloody duels! Amazing creatures! From the team that brought you [The Palladium Moon] comes [Planet of Chaos], the biggest, most extravagant, most intricately designed display in the supercluster!
Watch as custom-tailored lifeforms perform your your entertainment! The acroba... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7,364 |
[WP] Sci-fi. A planetwide Circus | Please reread the prompt before reading this. Thanks!
" This is ridiculous" I mumble to my girlfriend as another ad passes on the TV.
Its the same basic premise as all the other shows: a bunch of clowns get together and their actions are filmed. These are my least favorite shows on our circus world. The real surpris... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7,365 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Empty words compounded, nothing of importance.
Ten out of ten. | 6 | 0 | 8 | 7,366 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Gave me the shits. Would not recommend. 0/10 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 7,367 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | 'La Roseraie', where your soon to be ex gets diarrhea. | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7,368 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | The waitresses were only hired for their measurements. Terrible service. | 5 | 0 | 8 | 7,369 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Fortunately for all those involved, not a NeverEnding Story. | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7,370 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | If you like to waste your money, you'll like this. | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7,371 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Left my wife at the altar for the chef. 10/10 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 7,372 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | I have never been so insulted by a stranger before. | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7,373 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7,374 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Pizza inside a hut, not a hut made of pizza. | 7 | 0 | 8 | 7,375 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7,376 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7,377 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Blueberry muffin had faint accents of blueberry. | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7,378 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Two hours late, forgot our soda, worst pizza delivery ever.
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(This actually happened to me once in college, and the driver got all huffy when we wouldn't tip him. The nerve! We never ordered from that place again.) | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7,379 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | My attempt:
Accumulate a bar tab worth selling your kids for. | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7,380 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | Kurt Vonnegut nails humanity's greatest flaw: the love of contrast. | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7,381 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7,382 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7,383 |
[WP] A review of a restaurant, a bar, a book or a meal, whatever. But only use ten words. | The author's book would have been better left a tree. | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7,384 |
[WP]Keep staring at your phone's screen - the caller's ID won't change. It will still show your Reddit account name, and you know damn well YOU have never added it to your contacts. | "We know who you are and we don't like what you have become."
- Message from 'golf4miami' @ 12:33a
The message just sat there and I didn't know what to do with it. Obviously it had been sent while I was sleeping as I never stay up past 11p and am generally too asleep to wake up to anything that isn't someone calling... | 12 | 0 | 10 | 7,385 |
[WP]Keep staring at your phone's screen - the caller's ID won't change. It will still show your Reddit account name, and you know damn well YOU have never added it to your contacts. | I look down at my phone, then back up at my laptop screen. I have to be sure. Are they both one and the same?
I check the letters. All of them. The Ds? All there. The first and last ones are even capitalized.
By now the phone has rung a total of five times. Too many more and I'll lose the call altogether. I appr... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 7,386 |
[WP] Tell us what you miss about being a kid. | I used to long to be a "grown-up".
I couldn't wait to stay up as late as I wanted, to eat whatever I wanted, and pretty much do whatever I wanted. No one would be able to tell me what to do. My parents? Ha! Once I was a grown-up, they would have no say in anything.
They would try to tell me to go to bed early, and I ... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7,387 |
[WP] Tell us what you miss about being a kid. | The ignorance associated with choldhood. Discovering is euphoric. | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7,388 |
[WP] Tell us what you miss about being a kid. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7,389 |
[WP] Tell us what you miss about being a kid. | If it wasn't for the days I lazed around on the couch, catching fairies and collecting rupees, a lot less focused on the fight, I think that I would be at a loss for what adulthood means to me.
Things weren't so rushed then, the sun hanging motionless in the spring sky as we danced through sprinklers and mid-day d... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7,390 |
[WP] Tell us what you miss about being a kid. | In times like these you wonder what it used to be like as a child, a kid. A young boy with the freedom of expression because nobody cared what a young boy was doing. He could do what he liked, and he did. He did everything in the world there was to do... but then he grew up.
I grew up.
Taller and a bit wider, time ha... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7,391 |
[WP] Tell us what you miss about being a kid. | My back is warmed by afternoon sunlight, melted butter soft and sweetness filling my world. Red and beige gravel of my country road crunches as cars pass by me in my roadside hideout. They are far and in between, but I can hear them from far down the road and duck behind the blind of dry autumn grass—the invisible wat... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7,392 |
[WP] Tell us what you miss about being a kid. | In a practical sense, what I miss most about childhood is the freedom from any sort of financial obligations. No bills, no debts, no need for a job. No real need of money for any necessary purpose. Sure, it could be frustrating begging my parents for something they'd repeatedly say no to, but I didn't need any of th... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7,393 |
[WP] A timid man regularly fantasizes about dying while heroically saving others. Today his opportunity reveals itself, what is it and how does he respond? | Walter punched the button on the elevator. It was only to the second floor, but he got winded. Embarrassingly winded when he walked too quickly or climbed more than 4 steps in less than 5 minutes. The elevator shifted then shuddered as it started moving. "You need to get serviced" he said to the elevator. "You're sound... | 10 | 0 | 25 | 7,394 |
[WP] A timid man regularly fantasizes about dying while heroically saving others. Today his opportunity reveals itself, what is it and how does he respond? | Ross Medkiff had always seen his coworkers as lesser. Not one of them would nod in greeting when he left the elevator on the way to his desk. Not one of them would stop to talk to the homeless. Not one of them would give his life for another. No, his coworkers were lesser. When he saw that scared little man robbing a g... | 0 | 0 | 25 | 7,395 |
[WP] A timid man regularly fantasizes about dying while heroically saving others. Today his opportunity reveals itself, what is it and how does he respond? | The Expo-Line from King George to Waterfront whizzed by, messing up Luke’s carefully combed hair and meticulously flattened suit. Shivers ran down his spine from the wind chill. He looked on jealously at the young, beautiful college student beside him wearing a thick winter coat. It was almost spring now, he thought bi... | 7 | 0 | 25 | 7,396 |
[WP] I laugh only to keep myself from crying. | He checked his watch once more. 8:59. *Of course she'd be late,* he chuckled. That was Jenna for you - always the last one in, the last to show.
He sighed, and looked out the window again. He wasn't used to this view - this side of the restaurant - but he'd decided to change things up a bit. Might as well give her a l... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7,397 |
[WP] A significant scientific experiment is brought down by a trivially insignificant problem | Static buzzes over the intercom, and a voice echoes throughout the control centre
"Control, we have a problem..."
Dozens of faces look up from several banks of computers spread in a semi circular pattern, all facing a large wall onto which a live feed is projected.
The feed is actually not quite live, but has a dela... | 4 | 0 | 9 | 7,398 |
[WP] A significant scientific experiment is brought down by a trivially insignificant problem | "What did you just -"
"A bird, sir."
"A bird", he echoed weakly "You can't be serious"
"Yes, sir. I mean, no, sir. Absolutely serious"
"Do you have any idea how much this is going to cost us?"
"Yes, sir. Approximately five-million-and- sorry. Right. Rhetorical question"
"It's fine, it's fine. But a fucking bird!... | 3 | 0 | 9 | 7,399 |
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