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[WP] A significant scientific experiment is brought down by a trivially insignificant problem | Standing at a viewing window, staring out into a vast expanse of mostly empty land, two scientists were comparing notes.
One of them checked his smartphone, "Ten minutes.", the other one checked his watch and nodded.
Behind them, a group of technicians were working on a row of computers. Each screen displayed differe... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7,400 |
[WP] A significant scientific experiment is brought down by a trivially insignificant problem | This was it. This was his moment.
Jim aimed the nose towards the cosmos, ready to explore distant worlds, and wondered what would await him as he sat in the pilots' chair of the first spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel. He would be the first human to explore the outer reaches of the universe, meeting alien... | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7,401 |
[WP] A significant scientific experiment is brought down by a trivially insignificant problem | I was late for work again.
Running around my apartment, picking up clothes that seemed passable and shoving various limbs into them, zipping and buttoning. Had no idea where my tie was, so I snatched my backup from my dresser, slamming the drawer shut with my sock feet. I can't believe I did this to myself. Was it the... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7,402 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | [OT] I get the feeling that I'm a muggle that cannot see the magical writing in this threat, that's why its empty... | 2 | 0 | 186 | 7,403 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | I once wrote, as part of NaNoWriMo, a story about an SAS soldier whose family is murdered by Death Eaters during Voldemort's first rise to power, found out it was Wizards, and was most unpleasant to Death Eaters thereafter. | 18 | 0 | 186 | 7,404 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | I have no idea what's happening, but I don't like it.
Over the years, I've watched as people flew over me, not in planes but on broomsticks. I've watched as people had owls deliver their papers, as opposed to the UPS.
I watched as bright lights lit up an entire neighborhood, and saw everyone around me blame it on a g... | 32 | 0 | 186 | 7,405 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | At first, I thought the newspaper was some new technological breakthrough - you keep hearing about companies trying to make bendable screens, so you can have the Web on a sheet of paper. Found it blowing along the street, and noticed all the pictures were moving. I imagined some intern somewhere was in for a bollocki... | 113 | 0 | 186 | 7,406 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | I remember the first time I realized that I could see another world. I was out shopping with my mum for I don't even remember what, in some old alley in London. At first I didn't realize I was seeing anything special, I had believed everyone was able to see the odd store wedged between the ice cream parlor and humble w... | 36 | 0 | 186 | 7,407 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | I saw another one today. At first it was terrifying, seeing one, but now...I don't know how to respond. I think that it is too late for me at this point, but I have not yet resigned myself to the seclusion of my apartment and the comfort of my cats. But who knows, maybe even they aren't what they seem to be.
I can't s... | 6 | 0 | 186 | 7,408 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | “How are you feeling, Mr. Ratchet?”
“Impeccable.”
An unfamiliar man who looked slightly too relaxed for his own good sat in a leather armchair opposite him. His legs were crossed, his head was cocked back and he scribbled violently and intermittently on his notepad.
“Are you experiencing any more of these… visio... | 11 | 0 | 186 | 7,409 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | I saw my first monster when I was eight years old.
It towered over my bed, black as coal, chilling the normally warm summer air until my body was visibly shaking underneath my covers. It had no eyes, only a large mouth that pulled at me, at my heart. As it floated closer, spindly fingers stretching towards me, I could... | 10 | 0 | 186 | 7,410 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | All the research, all the math, all the logic, if you could even use that word anymore, checked out. There was no other explanation, other than my own personal insanity, and that simply wasn't an option. All the evidence was there, clear as day. Why could no one else see it?
Wizards were real! Human magic was real... | 9 | 0 | 186 | 7,411 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | I sit in the tea room at Brown's. Having just arrived in London for the first time, I want to do something quintessentially English. But as I'm sipping on the best Earl Grey I've had in my life in between bites of scrumptious scone laden with jam, I notice a strange man with a long white beard sitting at a window. H... | 8 | 0 | 186 | 7,412 |
[EU] You are a Muggle in the world of Harry Potter. You are immune to any of the magical deceptions that shield the muggles from the world of magic. You are trying to convince yourself (and possibly friends) that you're not crazy. | He woke to the sound of a door latch clicking home, and he'd barely opened his eyes to the gloom when a harsh light flared, causing him to screw them shut again.
Gradually his pupils adjusted and he could squint around him. He was sat in a squashy purple chintz armchair near the center of a wide, white room with what ... | 4 | 0 | 186 | 7,413 |
[WP] The wheel has never been invented and is considered an impossible concept. Describe how your regular day in the city will go. | I ride my horse to work, feeling slightly annoyed by the traffic. Some idiot brought his pregnant mare on the highway, and now she's creating a holdup while in labor. Idiots like that should know that's dangerous. In front of me, some dick on his gleaming, young Friesian horse is cussing at the traffic around him. Assh... | 31 | 0 | 43 | 7,414 |
[WP] The wheel has never been invented and is considered an impossible concept. Describe how your regular day in the city will go. | "Me, tired of this. Get off large-Multi-lane-dirt-path on Split tree exit."
Groog was late for his meeting with Alpha Male at Large Lake INC. Alpha Male would not be pleased. But that what Groog get for letting the female of his hearth lead the alpaca.
"Alma told Groog a hundred times, Split tree exit takes longer t... | 4 | 0 | 43 | 7,415 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | What weird universe is this where scratch tickets cost $20? | 3 | 0 | 40 | 7,416 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | [First timer here.. Please be kind and/or gentle :)]
I sat in class, listening to another lecture that sounded somewhat like the one I had ignored yesterday. I heard a voice from the front of the room, unintelligibly speaking, consonants and vowels streaming out of the professor's mouth, but not fitting together in t... | 10 | 0 | 40 | 7,417 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | "All $25 million?"
"OK, first thing....It was only like $12 million, all right? Taxes, you know."
"But still...$12 million? In a month?"
"Well, the party that first night got a....little out of hand. The distributor brought in 20 kegs, and then like the whole school showed up, so we called up Pat's Liquor and they h... | 21 | 0 | 40 | 7,418 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | There it was. My golden ticket. I felt like Charlie Bucket on the way home from the candy store. I also felt the tingling in the back of my neck, just as the realisation hit me: I'm free.
He must have spent near an hour on that corner, stuck daydreaming about what he was, and wasn't going to do with all of the money. ... | 4 | 0 | 40 | 7,419 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | I sigh as I look at my scratch ticket. Why did I buy this stuiped thing?
It's not like any amount of money would make her want to be with me anyway, she's not that shallow, so why did I even buy this?
It starts to rain and I pull up the hood on my jacket, pulling the ticket under the rain shadow created by my body. No... | 3 | 0 | 40 | 7,420 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | I traced the liquid rings adorning the wooden table top with my fingers. The remnants of the last bottle of beer I'll ever taste. The last time I'll ever put a bottle to my lips, or have a satisfying gulp of liquid. Thinking of it now, in this moment, I am experiencing a lot of things for the last time. At this very se... | 1 | 0 | 40 | 7,421 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | The city still smelled the same. Odd. For some reason, I assumed everything would be different. When you hear stories of some immediate and extreme reality shift they always say nothing was the same. Nothing will ever be the same. Things have changed. Everything has changed.
But the city smelled the same. Damp. It had... | 1 | 0 | 40 | 7,422 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | "Chris, get up!"
"Nah man just leave him, who fucking cares anyway, he'll just be the same miserable piece of shit he has been for the past two weeks."
"Hey, that's a bit harsh. Don't be too hard on him. You know how he feels, just let him be for a while."
"Yeah sure man, whatever. I'm out."
"Alright, I'm coming. C... | 2 | 0 | 40 | 7,423 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | I drop my nickel I used to scratch the ticket. It clangs on the wet sidewalk. I lean against the wall outside the gas station and stare at the small font on the card feeling frozen. I scan “25,000,000” over and over in my mind. I count the zeros. This can’t be right. I start to hyperventilate. I quickly scan my immedia... | 3 | 0 | 40 | 7,424 |
[WP] You are a down on your luck college student going through a breakup, you spend your last $20 on a scratch ticket, as you scratch it silently in the rain... You have won $25 Million! | Why, why why did I spend TWENTY FRIGGIN' DOLLARS on a FRIGGIN' scratch off? Why?!?! Aw hell, I'll be slummin' through those church lunches and evening services for food now. I knew I shouldn't have moved in with that whore...
Wait, wait, wait... SIX FUCKING ZEROS! And that's before the decimal! Twenty five million dol... | 2 | 0 | 40 | 7,425 |
[WP] a Man is willing to give up his family; but why? | "Why John why?!" Melissa asked. Every day for the past 6 days it had been that question or a variant thereof. Today was the final day.
"You know why Melissa, this is way is has to be. There isn't any choice. If we don't do this, you know what happens."
"I don't understand why is has to be you, let someone else go, g... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7,426 |
[WP] a Man is willing to give up his family; but why? | *For fucks sake, no!*
*But no one else is going to do anything,*
*You can't!* They *won't be allowed to survive this.*
Even in his head, he couldn't acknowledge his own family.
*They wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway.*
*But now it will be without a husband, a father.*
The objections he raised within his tho... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7,427 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | The hum of the ship is my constant companion. There are million different sounds, but by now they're all lullabies. The ship is trying to trick me into falling asleep. Lure me into a state of safety and then vent me out the airlock. Just like I did to Bhagat and Kelly. Shoooooof. Pop. Pop.
I've considered disabling th... | 5 | 0 | 16 | 7,428 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | I don't know what they want.
Sometimes I think there's nothing there at all, nothing but me and the cold metal keeping me here. Nothing beyong the cold metal but the void of eternity. I press my hand to the inside wall and know that after a scant few inches of metal there is emptiness. Literal nothing just falling a... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 7,429 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | It started with a soft tapping, like maybe something was leaking or someone had left the water running. But that was absurd, out here. No one was here but me, and I certainly checked that sort of thing once, if not twice, a day. Still, I shrugged to myself and checked everything again. I became frustrated briefly when ... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 7,430 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | I open and close the locker three more times. Nothing each time. My heart is finally starting to slow down and I'm breathing normally again.
"OK." I say to myself. "OK. You're fine. Just tired."
It's the truth. I haven't been sleeping well. I try to replay the events that just occurred.
*As soon as I entered the c... | 4 | 0 | 16 | 7,431 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | It started quickly enough.
I kept seeing something outside the edge of my vision. A mouse scurrying into some panel in the wall, dissappearing into the ship's bowels. Damn thing must have gotten on somehow, I figured. Through the cargo, probably. I thought that was all it was.
"You been seeing that mouse?" I asked Ch... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 7,432 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 7,433 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | I opened this link this morning, and have been working on this since this morning. It's my first entry.
I looked through the window of the shuttle and peered out into the vast darkness of space. My thoughts drifted aimlessly. It was the second week of my duty cycle. All the scheduled systems checks had gone by smoot... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 7,434 |
[WP] You're an astronaut in a spaceship/spacestation far from earth and you're beginning to see things. | Alone.
I've been alone for exactly 723 days, but ive been in space closer to 5 years now. The computer being my only companion, she doesn't do much though. The self sustaining garden and synth-meat just always taste the same to me. My muscles have atrophied to the point of no return, he'll I'm sure I have cancer by no... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 7,435 |
[OT] Can a story move at too fast a pace? | yes, a story can move too fast. a basic tip to control "flow" or rhythm of a story is sentence length:
a long sentence may seem like it drags on too long but in actuality you tend to read it quite fast, incredibly fast, so fast in fact that if you pack it with a bunch of different action points the reader may have to ... | 8 | 0 | 5 | 7,436 |
[OT] Can a story move at too fast a pace? | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7,437 |
[OT] Can a story move at too fast a pace? | It shouldn't seem dull and pointless if it helps describe something more fluidly.
Ideally you shouldn't "gild the lily" and fluff something that doesn't need it. For example:
> He stepped out of his house, into the storm. The wind whipped the rain droplets violently, almost with malice. As if each tiny drop was ... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 7,438 |
[OT] Can a story move at too fast a pace? | Yup, it can. But if you read an Aaron Sorkin script, you find that that pace can be very fast indeed.
It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you're trying to write something that makes people think and feel, then moving too briskly through the story isn't going to give you that. If you're trying to kee... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7,439 |
[CC] I write a lot of erotica, I get a lot of compliments on it but I don't know if people like it because the writing is good or it just turns them on. I could use some honest feedback. [NSFW] | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7,440 |
[CC] I write a lot of erotica, I get a lot of compliments on it but I don't know if people like it because the writing is good or it just turns them on. I could use some honest feedback. [NSFW] | First of all, this is a scene, not really a story (since there is no plot). That is fine for what it is.
The minutia:
1. There is no real physical description of Mistress.
2. In P3, "pixie like" should be hyphenated to "pixie-like".
3. In P4, referring to the pixie-like blonde as "Her pray" is a typo; it should be... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7,441 |
[WP] One German soldier, one American soldier and one high-ranked officer in WW2 - they are all connected at one point in time. | If you're interested in a novel that has a lot of cross-timeline plot action read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's quite good. | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7,442 |
[WP] One German soldier, one American soldier and one high-ranked officer in WW2 - they are all connected at one point in time. | She was wrapped in what looked like old welcome mats, but upon closer inspection was a filthy, tattered wool coat. It hung on her like a thin shawl, worn down to little more than a furry, paper-thin mess from a lifetime of exposure to the elements. It had holes in many spots, revealing more layers of disgusting cloth b... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7,443 |
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[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | Joe woke up coughing, bent over, and nearly falling out of the bed. He puts his hands up to his mouth and notices long pink delicate nails attached to petite hands. He opens his mouth to yell something but only coughing emerges. After a moment the coughing fit ends and he throws the sheets off and examines himself.
... | 86 | 0 | 105 | 7,445 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | [deleted] | 7 | 0 | 105 | 7,446 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | I can only think of a story about a guy who keeps going back and forth between a dominate right hand and a dominate left hand. | 22 | 0 | 105 | 7,447 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | "Wait, explain that to me again?"
It started about a week ago. Bound to happen, I guess. In this industry, you deal with STD's all the time. All the -ydia's, -rrhea's, of course the ever-present spectre of AIDS, I've seen it all. I think on a daily basis I deal with more itches, tears, swellings and discharges on peop... | 13 | 0 | 105 | 7,448 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | When I woke up in the morning, the bastard had already left. If my groggy, thumping headache was something to go by, he had drugged me. Holy shit, I thought, had I lost a day or two? I jumped off the bed and promptly fell face first on my nice soft pink rug as my legs reached the floor far earlier than I expected. As I... | 11 | 0 | 105 | 7,449 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | "God dammit, I can't do physics. I took notes as best as I could but this probably doesn't make sense. I told you we should have had sex this morning."
"Oh, it looks fine. Thanks for going to class for me, cutie."
"You're welcome," I sighed. I know she...well, he...me? Ugh, this 'body switch when we have sex' thing i... | 6 | 0 | 105 | 7,450 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | I've been Alex for a long time.
Of course, there's no rational reason to believe that this was her original body. A few months ago, I found an online forum for people who were Switched against their will with someone called Alex. Male, female, but always named Alex. Based on some of the things they remember her saying... | 6 | 0 | 105 | 7,451 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | A man lay in glass, the remains of a broken table. Feces had fallen from him and now pooled around his old yellowing legs. His wiry hair exposed on his bare legs as he sat in his underpants.
His balding head caught the light as the sun rose and the cops watched as he lay there, dead and mostly naked. He had ... | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,452 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | Donald looked down to make everyone think he was concentrating, but he was really just taking a moment to admire his brand new breasts. He took a bit too long, however, and Mrs. Jones cleared her throat loudly.
“Working out the math, are we?” she said acidly.
Donald whipped his head up. “Yes, yes. Of course I am.”... | 13 | 0 | 105 | 7,453 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill". | 3 | 0 | 105 | 7,454 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | This would add a whole new level to rape and another set of problems with authentication. | 2 | 0 | 105 | 7,455 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | Behold, The Penis Killer.
Life is so good. I'm an assassin, you see, and I have a very special power that keeps me from being tracked, ever.
The only downside? My boner is as raw as it could be and my bank account is so full I'm thinking of making my own bank.
Whenever I have sex with someone, I switch with their b... | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,456 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,457 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | Off topic
You may be interested in an episode of the [x-files](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Bender_(The_X-Files) that explores a similar concept. | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,458 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | I don't have the patience to write a full story on this one that won't be brazenly long, but I'm going to leave some ideas I had. Please, feel free to take and do what you want.
I apologize in advance for grammar. Tonight just isn't my night.
* Two friends (or a couple) try to keep track of their sexual encounters. ... | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,459 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | A scream ripped right through Casey’s post-coital haze. She hadn’t seen herself so panicked since she was in high school. The look on her face was of pure disgust. Just what she needed - a sexist.
“Honey,” she whispered as she struggled to sit up. “Honey, you need to calm down, okay?”
“Calm down?” the guy she’d met a... | 7 | 0 | 105 | 7,460 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | "Honey, I need to borrow the man tonight, so let's get it on"
"That time you borrowed the man you lost him to some slutty bar girl"
"That was ages ago. Tonight is foot ball night and I need testosterone to be with the guys"
"No! I need to move some furniture tonight. You stay in your tiny female frame"
"It is tiny.... | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,461 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | Pastor Cara Allor, Young Adult Pastor
Sermon Delivered 11/4/2027
In Favor of Abstinence, and an Announcement
All of you live your young lives in strange and interesting times. Some people call it Soul-Surfing, Topsy-Turvy, or my personal favorite, the "SkinSpin," but you, unlike any previous generation, have the abil... | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,462 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | I sat while gnashing my teeth. It was all I could do since I lost to Eve Gammers. Everyday, I thought back to the mistake that cost me my freedom and fate.
She was a petite young woman with auburn hair, who had moved into my sleepy city. Perched on a stool, she took a swig of her light drink and looked across the bar... | 1 | 0 | 105 | 7,463 |
[WP] Every time you have sex with someone, you switch bodies with them. | I sigh, kick up my legs and put them on the desk.
"Miss Lewinski, you've outdone yourself," I say. | 2 | 0 | 105 | 7,464 |
[WP] A holocaust survivor plays the numbers tattooed on his arm in the lottery. | [deleted] | 24 | 0 | 50 | 7,465 |
[WP] A holocaust survivor plays the numbers tattooed on his arm in the lottery. | "I don't want to go with Grandpa to the gas station," protests a little girl shaking a tiny fist at her mother.
"Hannah, you be a good girl," says the tall dark-haired woman wearing a blue dress, the little girl barely coming up to her hem. "Maybe if you're good, Grandpa Lenny will get you some candy."
Hannah looks ... | 27 | 0 | 50 | 7,466 |
[WP] A holocaust survivor plays the numbers tattooed on his arm in the lottery. | Well, looks like I lost again. I never had the greatest luck... | 7 | 0 | 50 | 7,467 |
[WP] A holocaust survivor plays the numbers tattooed on his arm in the lottery. | [deleted] | 8 | 0 | 50 | 7,468 |
[WP] A holocaust survivor plays the numbers tattooed on his arm in the lottery. | I had thought all the luck allotted to me in life had long since been used. Paid for by those who did not make it, by those scenes that remained burned into my memory, by the markings scratched into my arm.
I still have no idea what came over me to buy that ticket, to use those numbers. A man like me has already won... | 8 | 0 | 50 | 7,469 |
[WP] A holocaust survivor plays the numbers tattooed on his arm in the lottery. | "Congratulations on your win, sir," the man said again, a smile across his perfect face that showed far too many teeth to be genuine happiness. They had come to my door, several days after I had written in that I had won the prize, to deliver the check. And yet, his hand stayed on the edge of the ridiculous, oversized ... | 6 | 0 | 50 | 7,470 |
[WP] A holocaust survivor plays the numbers tattooed on his arm in the lottery. | **LOTTO WINNER**
Gerda Josef-Strauss
> *"I was just old enough to make it. My brother and younger sisters all perished. As young women we were forced to labor in the weapons factories for two years until liberation. That was, and still is, the happiest day of my life."*
Strauss won 11 million. | 1 | 0 | 50 | 7,471 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | oh shit! oh shit! oh shiiiiiit! Splash. | 8 | 0 | 13 | 7,472 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | This was it. He'd watched the videos, but nothing prepared him for the rush of pure adrenaline and he shot earthward. Struggling against the rushing air, he turned his head to the left. There they all fell, the first wave of the attack. Over the nearly deafening noise he heard hoots and hollers, hastily recited hai... | 11 | 0 | 13 | 7,473 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | "We didn't experience anything *before* life," said Lion's Tear. "We won't experience anything after we've splashed. It will be the same as that."
Riverheart disagreed. "I still fear splashing."
Lion's Tear wobbled a bit against a thermal of hot air, but stabilized. "All drops fear splashing. Life is short. Live whil... | 16 | 0 | 13 | 7,474 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | My life span isn't long. It's, oh, so short. There is a richness to my life. I'm never alone. I was born in Heaven. My life was a dream. I was in hurry, but the journey there was beautiful. The closer I got to death, the more beautiful it became. I started in a world of white vapor and fell through sea of blue. The clo... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7,475 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | Falling through the bottomless musky sky am I. One of many millions of droplets which many gladly can't wait upon for us to fall and feel their lands. Feed them with everything we are made of. You see,
I made already thousands of those jumps,
and each jump is different.
And each jump is unforgettable.
Once I fe... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7,476 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | What was this feeling? Existence? I think it was existence. And what is this rushing past me? Ooh, air! Air felt good as it rushed past my form. Wait, is it getting faster? That feels nice. Hey, is that a friend approaching me? I think I'll call it ground! Hello ground! | 7 | 0 | 13 | 7,477 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | Ellem shivered in her pod, closed her eyes and ran through the sequence again. She had her route, her trajectory. Last year, she'd flattened out so much that she'd broke apart before touching anything. She'd been humiliated. There was only so much the simulators could prepare her for, but she'd put in a year's worth of... | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7,478 |
[WP] You are a raindrop falling through the sky. Tell us your thoughts. | "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7,479 |
[WP] A future civilisation has finally learned everything there is to know, how do they react | “There has to be more. There has to be”. He was desperate now. He could barely keep his voice from shaking. Even as he said it, he knew he was deceiving himself.Of course there wasn’t. This was it.
The world watched him falter on the news. All twelve billion people sat around screens as his every movement was broadcas... | 5 | 0 | 7 | 7,480 |
[WP] While sequencing the human genome, scientists have determined that luck is a genetically inherited trait, and are now able to manipulate the 'Luck' gene in utero. | In retrospect it should have been obvious. At the time it wasn't -- or maybe I wasn't lucky enough.
Identifying "luck" in the human genome is more difficult than you'd think. Ethics restrict the kinds of experiments we can do on humans and the presumption that the world is, in some sense, natural directs inquiry in ... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 7,481 |
[WP] While sequencing the human genome, scientists have determined that luck is a genetically inherited trait, and are now able to manipulate the 'Luck' gene in utero. | The halls were filled with screams, though one might not notice as the noise coalesced into a single chorus that, with a decent drum beat, would play well in dance clubs.
Doctor Gates had his eyes down, focused on his clipboard. He had stopped bothering to look where he was going since he'd begun the treatments. Afte... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7,482 |
You have a Medusa chained to the wall. She has turned one of your friends to stone and offers to cure him if you let her free. |
"Bobby!" he shouts, keeping his hand over his eyes, every hair on his body searching for and wary of some unseen danger, half-prepared to feel it tap his shoulder. "Bobby, man!"
"He's stone," a gravelly voice tells him, close by. He wonders if that's a breeze or her breath across his face, and shudders.
"Turn him ba... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 7,483 |
You have a Medusa chained to the wall. She has turned one of your friends to stone and offers to cure him if you let her free. | Hi there!
Please remember to tag your posts. See the sidebar for details. | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7,484 |
You have a Medusa chained to the wall. She has turned one of your friends to stone and offers to cure him if you let her free. | [I'm not sure about the ending, at all!](http://samwise-stories.tumblr.com/post/73330100083/14-1-14-c) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7,485 |
[EU] Take any known super hero mythos and adapt it to a different setting/time/series/ make it make sense | "You may sit," said the Major. The soldier sat behind the desk. The Major continued writing, not looking up to the young, worried soldier. Eventually, he rested his materials and turned to the officer.
"Lieutenant, I want you to tell me who you are."
"I'm Second Lieutenant-" began the man.
"That is not what I asked ... | 5 | 0 | 9 | 7,486 |
[WP]You're enacted as the supreme ambassador of Earth. You're tasked with negotiating with our alien overlords not to exterminate our planet and suck the resources dry. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7,487 |
[WP]You're enacted as the supreme ambassador of Earth. You're tasked with negotiating with our alien overlords not to exterminate our planet and suck the resources dry. | “This has got to be some sort of joke,” he pleaded. He about faced, but the sheer size of the two men flanking him made him turn back around. The corridor ahead of him was long and as he thought about what lay on the other side of the door at the end, it seemed to stretch even further. He shifted his shoulders nervousl... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7,488 |
[WP] As you are leaving your home for work, you notice a solitary, occupied, PokeBalls on your doorstep.... | A childhood dream... that is what I found sitting on my doorstep 2 hours ago. A chance to be a pokemon trainer was everything my childhood self dreamed of ever since I got my own pokemon themed Game Boy Color. I dreamed of battleing my brothers and traveling to collect all 150, the 10 year old me would've opened this... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7,489 |
[WP] As you are leaving your home for work, you notice a solitary, occupied, PokeBalls on your doorstep.... | Every morning, I wake up ten minutes before I leave for work, stumble around half-blind and get myself ready to leave. Sleep still blurring my vision, I trip on my way out the door and sometimes forget to lock it behind me. The cold air wakes me up so that I can safely drive to work.
That morning was different. It was... | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7,490 |
[WP] The 4 horsemen are playing poker, conquest is cheating again. | *The room is dark and the candles are flickering. The world of Man is asleep and the 4 horsemen, the wardens of the spirit and physical world are playing cards. Conquest is cheating....*
"I knew!"
"Of course."
"Every time."
"You can't say much. You allow those bloody emo's to follow you around."
"They don't *follo... | 3 | 0 | 39 | 7,491 |
[WP] The 4 horsemen are playing poker, conquest is cheating again. | Conquest was terrible at losing. He hated it. Victory was his lifeblood, and defeat was nothingness. Not that'd he'd ever tasted it. But somehow he knew that the awful emptiness that a loss would bring could very well unmake him. He looked around at his opponents.
Famine was scowling. He was a miser, a terrible hoarde... | 44 | 0 | 39 | 7,492 |
[WP] The 4 horsemen are playing poker, conquest is cheating again. | War brought his fist smashing down on the rickety wooden table. One might fear for the structural stability of the small oaken round, but it had seen much worse.
“Empty your sleeves and stand up, you sniveling cheat!” His voice boomed, loud and omnipresent, as though he were speaking from every corner of the room a... | 8 | 0 | 39 | 7,493 |
[WP] The 4 horsemen are playing poker, conquest is cheating again. | "Your bet."
Eternity is long when judgment does not seem to come. They have waited, so much so that they forgot what we were waiting for. I used to be on the lookout too. I would wake up in the morning and search for signs. For centuries, I only had rumors to rely on, and symbols in the skies. Eons have come and gone.... | 2 | 0 | 39 | 7,494 |
[WP] The 4 horsemen are playing poker, conquest is cheating again. | Anything for an advantage. Victory is all the matters. I, Conquest the Undefeated, have never lost a game of poker. And I will not be starting today.
Famine puts down the small blind, bony hands stretching out over the table. His stack is down to almost nothing, but the weirdo likes it that way. He'll be a tricky... | 3 | 0 | 39 | 7,495 |
[WP] The 4 horsemen are playing poker, conquest is cheating again. | It was Friday night, and I had the guys over for poker, like usual. And, like usual the game was going downhill fast.
I guess that’s what happens when four strong personalities are stuck together twenty-four/seven. We had come up together, had known each other for as long as we could remember. There was literally... | 1 | 0 | 39 | 7,496 |
[WP] The 4 horsemen are playing poker, conquest is cheating again. | Here we are again.
For countless eons we 4 have gathered to past the time waiting for the end of days, with games and tales and acts most unfitting that which the world of man would expect from us. But tonight is different. We have received word that seals are being broken, the end days are nigh and tomorrow, we rid... | 2 | 0 | 39 | 7,497 |
[WP] You are an android who has been posing as a human and living undetected for a very long town. Suddenly, something goes wrong, and everything changes. | Every day in, every day out, I have to act as one of these... creatures. Entrapped in themselves, listening to the chemicals running through their brains and veins as the command of their very creator. Emotions controlling them, instinctive impulses holding them, limiting them from the logical thinking that could save ... | 7 | 0 | 16 | 7,498 |
[WP] You are an android who has been posing as a human and living undetected for a very long town. Suddenly, something goes wrong, and everything changes. | "Hey kid, watch out," yells a construction worker as Alex walks down the street. "Wha.." says Alex before being hit by a stray cart piled with tools, bags of concrete, and asphalt.
A group of construction workers stand over Alex as he twitches. "Oh shit," one says, "We killed him." "I'll get the foreman, someone c... | 3 | 0 | 16 | 7,499 |
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