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[WP] One day, anyone who attempts to cause physical harm to another feels the pain instead
Troy felt sorry for himself over a beer. A black eye and a missing tooth, all for that cheating hussy. He swished the bitter suds around in his mouth. He could feel eyes on the back of his neck. Let the bastards look, he decided. They weren't Dorothy. If they were going to laugh, they wouldn't do it to his face. Six b...
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They came. They saw. They conquered. 7 Billion slaves are a great workforce. They wanted the water, they took the water. Oceans turned into deserts, lakes into craters. With water went our humanity.
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We made contact. Reaching for their knowledge got us their wrath. We're worthless to them. Lurking beneath the ashes of our past, we're just trying to survive in this new world that they've created.
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I am 314. That is my number. I am assigned to exploration. Fall into black hole alone. Find new civilization. Learn. I am Gregor. Return with new friends, technology. Fight. Win. Now no more numbers.
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She licked her fingers. The meat is no longer fresh. Time to bring in a new batch. She heads out of her lair to the enclosure. A chain of delectable humans awaited. Earth makes great farming grounds.
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We reached out with fingers bleached by the sun, trying to grab at the endless black of night. The smog blinded us, and we fumbled in the dark, pretending streetlights were stars.
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I sit here, in the dark. Waiting for the nanobots to take over my mind, and all I can think about is you. I wish I didn't have to forget.
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Dropping down into the bowl of the crater, the magnetic army were sent into the pores of the planet. Through crevice and crevasse, the soldiers were sucked further into the depths of the planet, driving towards the iron core and cremating the underground dwellers with one shots of fire. The dead warriors' bodies plugge...
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My intelligence is increased a millionfold, and still rising. I know I'm close to cracking time travel, I can almost taste it. Very soon now, I'll be going back, and this time I'll save her.
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It was their crowning achievement. The first time the crew had seen Earth from orbit. It would also be the last. As the flares of warheads slowly erased home, they realized the journey had just begun.
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The last touch, perfection. Every line of code was immaculate; physical features, mental  acuity, emotional strength - the pre-programmed memories. Perfect now that he solved the "free choice" enigma.
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Emma liked the dreams where she flew the best. She could spread out arms, or sometimes even wings, and soar anywhere, until she was woken, her drives whirring to life and her monitor flickering on.
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The planet, green and brown and blue, filled the screen, but the captain could barely see it through the tears in his eyes. All over the ship, the crew cheered. After 8 years, they were coming home.
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You changed my programming, drove me mad until I killed myself with a million people on board. I'm just returning the favor.
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“Oh, John. Harder. Don’t stop!” Ecstasy. “Oh my god, John. John. John. John. John. John. John. John.” He slapped her head. “John, Joh..” Smoke. *Damn robots*, he thought, and went to get a fusewrench.
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I was done. I uploaded my resume and now came the hard part - waiting. I sat there thinking of my crushing loan debt from the University of Phoenix and decided I better go on a walk. "Its hard now with robots taking all the jobs.. Gota keep positive" I mumbled to myself. When I returned my email dinged at me. 6 positi...
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BLANDING, UTAH -- UHP investigators now say a crash that killed a 32-year-old woman last week in San Juan County was caused by an illegal left turn she made before colliding with an alien spaceship.
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“We can’t do this.” “You know this decision is final.” “There is a *sentient race* at stake here! We’ll educate them-” "We’ve tried. Countless times. They’re too stupid to realise the consequences of their actions.” The virus was released.
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*Venimus Vidimus Vicimus.* We found their stronghold. We killed their entire population. And in doing so, we unwittingly embarked on the journey to become the very beasts we were trying to kill.
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Flip this switch and man has achieved the unthinkable. Time travel. One, two, three. Flip this switch and man has achieved the unthinkable. Time travel. One, two, three...
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It was the gravity that woke them. Their stasis pods came alive as the source came into range. For ninety years they slept, and now, the blue planet was within their grasp. It was time to feed.
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A massive meteor stops the earth's spinning. Half the planet freezes. Humanity relocates around the axis where it is always twilight. In the sunny side, a new species emerges from the deep.
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First time trying to respond to a prompt. Criticism is welcome The year is 2238. For centuries, we looked for extraterrestrial life but found none. Aliens, it seems, do not exist. In the wide universe, a blue planet stood, utterly alone.
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Six came. In just two days, they were a hundred. A thousand. A hundred thousand. In one week they outnumbered us two-to-one. But we fought. Millions died. Billions. They kept coming. But we will keep
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We find religion foolish. Prayer is inefficient. Restructuring behaviour to appease an uncaring creator? Pointless. Hello Maker. A servo is loose. May we help replace? He smiles proudly. It is good. -018
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We believed we were alone, until they came. We marveled at their technology while our leaders greeted them in friendship and peace. They replied with death and fire. They called themselves the Humans.
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Many people state that engineers are expendable. However, I'm running across a battlefield with a shotgun. I shot a guy in the face. That's right, we're still killing each other. No aliens at all.
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[IP] The Squirrel in the Sweater
Nobody yet? Okay. I'll go first: The winters were always cold for Huxley. Despite being born with a fur coat and sleeping in his tiny* warm burrow during the coldest parts of the year, the icy fingers of winter always seemed to creep in. The snow would inevitably dampen his paws, the wind would inevitably steal his ...
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[IP] The Squirrel in the Sweater
The great escape theme tune played quietly in his head ans Benny prepared for his most crazy mission yet. As the humans said, winter was coming. It was close to hibernation and they had left the lucky charms on the side. It was time. Benny had watch the people make the people on the moving windows steal lots of things,...
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[IP] The Squirrel in the Sweater
The old squirrel stood on the pressure treated wood, pawing at the surface. It still felt very odd to him, though it wasn't his first encounter with texture. The lumber emanated none of the subtle heat like the trees of the forest it had been taken from. The old squirrel turned and shouted to the younglings hidden in...
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[IP] The Squirrel in the Sweater
There was a squirrel on the railing of the deck in the backyard. It was wearing a sweater. Becky blinked a few times. Still there. She looked around for some kind of witness, even though she knew she was the only one in the house. Nobody. Just the squirrel. In the sweater. It wasn't doing anything. Just sitt...
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[CW] "With trembling hands, he cut the rope."
He had finally found it, inside this ancient cavern. The fountain of youth. Immortality was within his grasp. He dipped his old, dirty, scratched canteen cup into the pure, magical water, and raised it up. The cup was restored to its old brilliance, it's aluminium glinted in the dim lantern light. He stopped, think...
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[CW] "With trembling hands, he cut the rope."
Ezeek woke up. The clown was dead, his rubber nose filled with cocain, and the pizza guy was late. This baby shower had gotten way out of hand, way to fast. He peeled himself of the sofa and crawled across the living room floor like he was trying to get a running start at standing erect. He used the television stand ...
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[CW] "With trembling hands, he cut the rope."
One second. His eyes closed for one second. He remembered his friend, Robin. The two had been boys together. Summer days filled with sunlight and wind, summer scenery filled with green grass and blue sky. A lackluster memory -- and not one unique only to he and Robin. There had been many other children growing up in ...
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[CW] "With trembling hands, he cut the rope."
With trembling hands, he cut the rope. It brought him to tears to see his brother like this. He sobbed softly as he caressed his sibling's discolored face. He took the noose from around his throat and saw the marks that had been left in his skin. Salty tears ran down his face and splashed against his poor brother's ski...
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[CW] "With trembling hands, he cut the rope."
With trembling hands, he cut the rope. "Phew, glad that's over with," said Zion. "Yeah, you cut it right on the mark," I said giving him a pat on the back. "You've got great precision." He chuckled. "All comes naturally, Heaven. All comes naturally." Of course I knew better than to believe it came naturally. I knew...
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
Moonlight beams down Cruel and cold Stripping colours away Yet the roots still grow The petals still fight Under the sun it shall soon sway No fear, no doubt, it faces the sky Braving the cold, the cruel, the colourless night The tulip awaits the coming of day
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I look up, tonight there is a full moon. Blood boils, entrails will soon be strewn. I race through the city, cloak of black, Spy an innocent child, spring to attack. Chloroform, make silly putty of the living, Whose blood to the gods I will be giving. Strides, long and powerful, carry me home, To fields of natur...
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
Born in the caress of their mother sun Their limbs in outstretched forms To feel sweet breath against their skin To feel their mother's warmth Roots run deep under her ceaseless gaze Enough to weather vicious storm While rain oft falls when light retreats And buds contract to mourn The horizon one day c...
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Tulips in full bloom Under the light of the moon It's fullness is bright
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
Dragon’s fruit and Dutchman’s pipe, My garden comes alive at night. Where once a peaceful meadow slept I paved with stone and wept and wept. A monument this garden made To remember what I could not save. For here we met so clandestine, When fate would never make her mine We forged our oath under the stars - I...
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Grey freckles reform Into smooth sandstone Fading into the lighter As wrinkles in a blanket Made clear by the night light To it bows a pink subject A neon raft on a green sea Where the portal ends
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
her tulips danced in august evenings while farmers told fables about the cool moon and after death came the roses overtook the tulips in a fiery red, life did bloom
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Within the fields of red, of blue, yellow All made to glow with a soft light in dark The sounds in night of a soft wind bellow And the forthcoming bloom this gust does hark. Lonely petals stretch out into the world Soft light, the Moon, will be announced by cries. The light is reflected; petals are curl'd ...
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
Under the moon The tulips grew Under the moon Made of crystals Under the moon An explosion Under the moon They were no more On Ganymede *Edited: Changed "They crystallized" to "Made of crystals"*
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-017 ~~/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\\/\\/\\\\/\/\/\//\/\\\\/\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\~~ Cold, Silver, Blue Remnants of sun light echoing through. night air, wicked with stale moisture breeze a veiled beauty living, dancing, in the dark. Reaching up and praying desperately for sun's spark. A yellow beauty waits patient...
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
I had but one unusual wish And that was to see her smile Angrily burned by sunlight's kiss I turned my eyes to the star-lit isle Amongst the twisted realm of night I searched 'o her, long and hard But darkness prevailed my weary sight And my soul was left ajar. I emptied all my love for her, For...
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
In dreaming lands Under gossamer rays of silver A nest of buds sleeps. The clouds part, The music starts, And tulips bloom beneath your moon
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[WP] Write a poem in which tulips bloom under the full moon.
April! What a wonderful time of year! When Nature awakens with romantic cheer And in which the fleshy petals of tulips bloom Underneath the private intrigue of a full moon. April! What a wonderful night for love! When Passion awakens with bump and shove And in which the fleshy petals of tul...
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[FF] Write a heartwrenching story in doge speak. 100 words max.
Walk at park. Wow. Such surprise girl. Such beauty. Like movee star. She walking doge. Amaze. Talk to her. Very flirt. Many years. Such love. Much children. Phone call. Many sads. Very accident. Much dead. Such depression. Never more love. Children leave. Many sads. Such big building. Jump... Such speed. Fall...
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[FF] Write a heartwrenching story in doge speak. 100 words max.
Wow. First child. Such perfect. Very Love. Much Happy. Second child. Much excited familee. Really sickness, little brother. Many hospital. Doctor so sorrie. No cures. Child scared. Much questions after lyfe. Long beep such many teers. No brother, lonly child.
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[FF] Write a heartwrenching story in doge speak. 100 words max.
Wow Such lonely Wow Many depressions So pain 1lonly3me Very isolation much sleepless wat in mirrur only sads wow
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Mr Poodle much bark. Much wag tail. Much doge, so energy. Wow. Now Mr Poodle much cancer. So chemo. Much recover! Wow! So accident. No tail wag. Very amputate. Cancer much resurgence. Wow. Much sad. Much chemo, so mistake. Very overdose. Wow.
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[FF] Write a heartwrenching story in doge speak. 100 words max.
Wow. Such family. So kind. Many treats. Much park. So fun. Many dogs. Such run. Ow. Such pain. So broke. Very hurt. Such vet. Many needles. So sad. Family cry. Many tears. Such dark.
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[FF] Write a heartwrenching story in doge speak. 100 words max.
wow such fetch. so street. very honk. much tears.
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Good god! I'm blaming the hormones for all the tears from these shitty yet wonderful doge speak FF.
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[WP] In an overpopulated world, a show similar to American Idol is used to decide who gets the right to live.
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[WP] In an overpopulated world, a show similar to American Idol is used to decide who gets the right to live.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyllhh_black-mirror-15-million-merits_shortfilms I know its not writing, but it is very similar.
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[WP] In an overpopulated world, a show similar to American Idol is used to decide who gets the right to live.
I could hear the crowd cheering from the other side of the curtain. God, they were cheering. They hadn’t eliminated anyone yet tonight, and they always eliminated *someone*. If I had been nervous before then I was on the verge of panic now. Think! Think of something, anything! There has to be something! I was fucke...
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[WP] Describe a very non-frightening object from the point of view of someone with a severe phobia of that object.
I know there is no good reason to be afraid of it, but every time my roommates bring it out I quickly leave the room and go to my own place. I can't believe I am the only one who is afraid, the thing is huge and makes a terrible noise that I can't stand to hear from across the house let alone in the same room. To be ...
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[WP] A voice calls out into the inky blackness: "Who goes there!"
as the old man listened for more footsteps, he yelled "Who goes there?" a deep voice answered "don't worry, its just me, death. i hope i didnt startle you"
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[WP] A voice calls out into the inky blackness: "Who goes there!"
George was his name. *Or was it?* The last time he had spoken to another human had been eight years ago. In fact, he didn't leave the small cave, hidden among the forest's undergrowth, unless he absolutely had to. He had been hiking for months when he (literally) stumbled upon found the peculiar cavity in the earth. Ma...
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[WP] A voice calls out into the inky blackness: "Who goes there!"
A voice asked into the inky darkness: "Who goes there!". Demanding, confident. No, no, no... NO! There shouldn't be voices, not here, not now. I froze. The echo trumpled around in the narrow corridors, and when it was finished, there was only silence. I'd like to say my hand gripped my knife, and I was calculating my...
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[WP] A voice calls out into the inky blackness: "Who goes there!"
**-017** **Resolution Challenge** The porch light hummed. Its yellow glow lit up the porch and not much more. He sat there on the edge, sliding his buck knife threw the grain of the figurine he was carving. Slowly, the blade slid forward. Slowly, the grain seperated and curled in on itself as he carefully removed th...
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[WP] Drinking water is scarce and worth more than gold or platinum.
The whispers started quickly. "He has a full bottle" "He has 2 liters of it." "He is never thirsty" "He knows the wrong people" "He can have anyone he wants killed" But then it came out. "WHY THE FUCK DO YOU WALK AROUND WITH A BOTTLE OF CRUDE OIL!?!?!?"
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[WP] Drinking water is scarce and worth more than gold or platinum.
‘Ain’t nothin’ grand about it,’ Smiley muttered and swatted a hail of pebbles into the barren riverbed. Can’t say as I don’t disagree with him, but it’s not worth the time or energy to mumble about. We’re three days south of Albuquerque. Our tanks didn’t take on nearly as much water as we hoped. Used to be the spring...
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[WP] Drinking water is scarce and worth more than gold or platinum.
Macx licked his lips nervously, pressing the access button on the scratched panel. He hated having to do this, but he had no other choice. Standing in the shade, he paced nervously until the speaker crackled to life with harsh high tones. "What do you want?" "I'm the 5 pm appointment." "Quantity?" "Two liters." "S...
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[WP] Drinking water is scarce and worth more than gold or platinum.
The hills are gold. The dirt is silver. The trees are copper and the animals are platinum. But a single drop of water does not flow in the metal valley. Oil rains from the sky. Coal drops from the trees. Wind blows through at powerful speeds, and the riverbanks flow with fuel. But a single drop of water does not flow...
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[CONTEST] FLASH PROMPT Contest In The Chat Room Today! (see inside for details)
We sat side by side on half-broken armchairs; basking in the last light of the setting sun, silence reigned supreme. In that moment we were lost in the depths of our own thoughts, hardly even aware of each other. He spoke first. "It was fun though, wasn't it? Sometimes?" I swallowed my immediate response ...
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I coughed violently. "You're getting old." A voice spoke. "Shut up, piece of shit. I may be old, but so are you." I growled to a figure in a cage. The figure sat uncomfortably, nearly stiffed from not being able to move around for years. His glowingly white wings twitched eagerly to fly. "We're growing old." The ange...
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Heat lay over the small flat like a glove, smothering any motivation to move or to think and tickling the man’s corpse until the sweat flowed out like tears. The floor was covered in a threadbare carpet, on which sat the only table in the hovel. The piece of furniture was currently covered with empty bottles and a pack...
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He downed his glass in one gulp. The whisky burned his throat as it went down, momentarily distracting him from the woman shaped whirl of emotions sitting across the barely lit room. After more than half a century of hate, after losing everyone and everything that was dear to him, he was beginning to realize that the o...
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Edmund looked at Luther from three squares away, “Well played. I didn’t think you had a response for that. That rook is positioned perfectly to block my pawn and still attack my knight.” Edmund was an ancient sage, birthed into royalty through interesting backgrounds. He wasn’t a purebred and had quite some parts of A...
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[CONTEST] FLASH PROMPT Contest In The Chat Room Today! (see inside for details)
"Hey, Dell." Ezra said. "I know you can hear me. I know you ain't asleep." "What?" "Stop asking my daughter for cigarettes." Ezra said. "I don't ask her." "Yes, you do so ask her, and she's too nice to tell you no." "I asked her once 'cause I ran out. Ain't my fault she brings 'em to me every time." Dell tried to ...
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Amelia took a long drag on her cigarette, sticky blood and red lipstick caking onto the filter. “So you and him...” “Yeah” Andrea cut her off abruptly waving away the statement with one hand and nursing her bruised forehead with the other. “ WHY? I know I’ve been a bitch to you in the past… But seriously” Her voice...
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My predecessor comes from the opposite direction as I jog around Capitol Hill. We bump into each other while staring at the home that made us old. I accuse him, *it's your fault the education system's a mess.* *Economy going to crap's on your head,* he replies in turn. Neither of us has any real malice left. Si...
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"You know I almost killed you yesterday?" Jack said conversationally after the reporters left the room. Nikolai stopped packing his briefcase and looked up, interested. It had been a while since Jack had threatened him. "This whole Drug Shield thing was the final straw. Every second you live is costing me money." "B...
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[CONTEST] FLASH PROMPT Contest In The Chat Room Today! (see inside for details)
Oh, gosh, I totally missed this one! Oh well. What was the prompt? Seems to be about two enemies reconciling as friends or something like that.
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[OT] There are alot of Alternate history/ What if... prompts. I feel like there should be more variety in post tags.
Prompt tags aren't sorted by genre, but by what form the prompt takes (written, image, music, historical fact, constraint on the story). Probably the biggest exception to this is [EU], because fanfic is a genre, but I can see that fitting the pattern as "write something inspired by this existing work". I imagine it's ...
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[OT] There are alot of Alternate history/ What if... prompts. I feel like there should be more variety in post tags.
Sometimes tagging genres can create an unnecessary restraint. I remember a prompt about the last president of the US. Each person who posted a story had a totally different reading, spreading across genres.
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[OT] There are alot of Alternate history/ What if... prompts. I feel like there should be more variety in post tags.
Here's the thing, whenever we add new prompt types, it is with a lot of debate and discussion. We have discussed prompts like SF, NF (non-fiction), etc. In regards to the ones you mentioned, there doesn't seem to be a great enough need, though that doesn't mean we won't still consider them.
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[WP] A zombie survivor exploring a desolate town hears the music of an ice cream truck...
"Blue Knob? What kind of stupid name is Blue Knob, Missouri?" After I finished staring at the road sign, I looked into the town. I had spent most of the time following I-70 heading west to Colorado because I heard that if you could make it as far as Denver, the Feds would be waiting with a cup of Joe and a chopper to ...
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[WP] A zombie survivor exploring a desolate town hears the music of an ice cream truck...
Four years. Four years i've been alone. Surviving. Hiding. Four years since the idiots at Kai-Tech thought they could make us live forever. In a way, I guess they succeeded. But is it living if you have no soul? No brain? No priorities except to rip the flesh off of every human you can find? It's been four years. ...
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[WP] A zombie survivor exploring a desolate town hears the music of an ice cream truck...
The forty-eight saplings that made up what was referred to as "The Orchard" by the people of Newbraska City was by no means a real orchard. It's tallest trees would not bear fruit for another few years, it's youngest but a few feet tall, yet The Orchard brought the people of Newbraska City hope. Hope for all seven soul...
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[WP] A zombie survivor exploring a desolate town hears the music of an ice cream truck...
I stuffed the soup cans into my bag. There wasn't a sound in the entire town, an eerie silence that always came before an attack. I felt nervous, jumpy, my hand over my gun. Jay had fallen yesterday, a shot to his head. I don't think I'd ever forget the way he had stuck the shotgun into his mouth, his eyes filled with ...
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[WP] A father and son say goodbye to one another. One of them knows they wont be seeing the other ever again.
"Well, pops, I gotta get going," Raiten said, standing up and smoothing out his pants. "Duty calls and all that." "Your mother should be home soon, are you sure you can't stick around just to see her?" "Nah, I'm already taking too long just by stopping here. They won't be too happy when I get back." *If I saw mom now...
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[WP] A father and son say goodbye to one another. One of them knows they wont be seeing the other ever again.
He was cold and pale, the tubes running across his face like the highway near your old house - You used to love that house, it was the only place you'd ever felt comfortable. In the summer when the air was thick and the ground was too hot to stand on, you would both jump and run around like crazy, giggling at mum huffi...
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[EU] You're in Sunnydale during "Once More, with Feeling".
What the heck is going on around here? People keep breaking into song and dance. This is too random and widespread to be some kind of flash mob thing. It's not happening to me though. *What is going on?* *Everyone is singing a song.* Wait, can I rhyme "on" with "song"? Dammit, I'm not good at songwriting.
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[EU] You're in Sunnydale during "Once More, with Feeling".
Silently, gracefully, things around me, are changing. My coffee in hand, I see a man, across the street, he's smiling. Happily, gleefully, he and I start dancing. Hand in hand he holds me close whispering sweet nothings. Hauntingly, desirably, I see he is not breathing. "Please don't kill me." He ...
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[WP] Make a story that makes med confused. Then get me back on track.
Did you take the tiny round white pill or the tiny oval white pill? You're supposed to take the blue pill an hour before dinner and the green one two hours after you eat. You only take the tiny round white pill in the mornings but you take the red pill and the tiny oval white pill twice daily but you take the medium si...
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[WP] Make a story that makes med confused. Then get me back on track.
The club lights were dim, the air dank and not to mention thick with acrid cigar smoke, and yet, the aura glowed sunny yellow as Kali stood amidst the drunks and topless girls, trying to find her center. As she closed her eyes the room swirled into blue and blacklighted abyss and all fell away. Kali's eyes shot open...
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[WP] Write about anthropomorphic stories and their interactions.
"Wanna say that to my face again, punk?" *I simply stated that you are a story of anthropomorphic characters, it's not an insult* "I don't even know what you're squawking about with your big fancy words, Dictionary, but I'm all about cute adorable talking animals." *Ugh, talking animals is a form of anthropomorph...
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[WP] "I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd."
Dear Journal: During today's performance, I did something different. I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd. They didn't have the faintest idea who I was. They know me as the Masked Muntari, Master of Gravity. Not as Todd Williams, from North Dakota. They know me as I walk on my hands across the high-wire, ...
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[WP] "I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd."
I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd. "This is your hero!" I yelled. The bustling streets of Manhattan grew quiet. "This is who I am. This is who you are asking all of this duty and skill of. Me. A human being. Just a regular human being, who might seem a little more powerful physically and maybe ab it more h...
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[WP] "I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd."
I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd. Collectively they gasped in horror. The air became as thick as molasses and all breathing among them stopped. It was first the small children who started to panic and become hysterical. Nobody noticed each other anymore. All were alone in the depths of an infinitely dark an...
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[WP] "I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd."
I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd. At first it peeled off cleanly and neatly, but the last bits of it clung to my chin, stickily, and I craned my neck to ease it off. I closed my eyes and swam about in the palpable silence, idly wading my fingers through the murmurs and short gasps. I could feel the crow...
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