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[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | My neighbour ran over a baby possum. It wanted it's mom. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | My neighbour ran over a baby possum. It wanted it's mom. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "...and Spock would never raise his hand in peace again." | My neighbour ran over a baby possum. It wanted it's mom. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Forever?" Laurel yelled above. "Yes babe, forever.." Ben's grip slipped. | My neighbour ran over a baby possum. It wanted it's mom. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Have we met?" Her Father asked with a familiar smile. | My neighbour ran over a baby possum. It wanted it's mom. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Johnny never got his puppy. Didn't make it to Christmas. | The sun is out. Close curtains, I'll stay in bed. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | You'll never know who you might have been. | The sun is out. Close curtains, I'll stay in bed. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | I didn't know a child could overheat in twenty minutes. | The sun is out. Close curtains, I'll stay in bed. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | The sun is out. Close curtains, I'll stay in bed. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | The sun is out. Close curtains, I'll stay in bed. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Who are you?"
"You don't remember..."
"No, I don't." | "Am I dead?"
"Sorry, no. You bleached your eyes out." | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | I didn't know a child could overheat in twenty minutes. | "Am I dead?"
"Sorry, no. You bleached your eyes out." | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | OP, please note the proper tag is [FF]. automod reports all replies if you don't use it. | "Am I dead?"
"Sorry, no. You bleached your eyes out." | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | "Am I dead?"
"Sorry, no. You bleached your eyes out." | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | "Am I dead?"
"Sorry, no. You bleached your eyes out." | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | I didn't know a child could overheat in twenty minutes. | Johnny never got his puppy. Didn't make it to Christmas. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | Johnny never got his puppy. Didn't make it to Christmas. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | Johnny never got his puppy. Didn't make it to Christmas. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | I didn't know a child could overheat in twenty minutes. | You'll never know who you might have been. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | You'll never know who you might have been. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | You'll never know who you might have been. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | He didn't mean anything to me, I am so sorry. | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | OP, please note the proper tag is [FF]. automod reports all replies if you don't use it. | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "...and Spock would never raise his hand in peace again." | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Forever?" Laurel yelled above. "Yes babe, forever.." Ben's grip slipped. | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | For sale: baby shoes. Way too small for me. | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Have we met?" Her Father asked with a familiar smile. | I never really loved you | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | He didn't mean anything to me, I am so sorry. | The baby isn't yours. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | OP, please note the proper tag is [FF]. automod reports all replies if you don't use it. | The baby isn't yours. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | The baby isn't yours. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | The baby isn't yours. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | "Who are you?"
"You don't remember..."
"No, I don't." | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | "Who are you?"
"You don't remember..."
"No, I don't." | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | He didn't mean anything to me, I am so sorry. | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | OP, please note the proper tag is [FF]. automod reports all replies if you don't use it. | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Strangers. Friends. Best Friends. Lovers. Strangers. | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Her first breath was her last; too small to survive. | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "...and Spock would never raise his hand in peace again." | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Forever?" Laurel yelled above. "Yes babe, forever.." Ben's grip slipped. | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Have we met?" Her Father asked with a familiar smile. | With our love lost, so too is life ever after.
EDIT- A word | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "...and Spock would never raise his hand in peace again." | "Papa! Stop shooting Mummy!!"
Those were the children's last words. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Forever?" Laurel yelled above. "Yes babe, forever.." Ben's grip slipped. | "Papa! Stop shooting Mummy!!"
Those were the children's last words. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | Nabisco to stop making Oreos, forever. | "Papa! Stop shooting Mummy!!"
Those were the children's last words. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | For sale: baby shoes. Way too small for me. | "Papa! Stop shooting Mummy!!"
Those were the children's last words. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Have we met?" Her Father asked with a familiar smile. | "Papa! Stop shooting Mummy!!"
Those were the children's last words. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | For sale: baby shoes. Way too small for me. | Nabisco to stop making Oreos, forever. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Have we met?" Her Father asked with a familiar smile. | Nabisco to stop making Oreos, forever. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "Have we met?" Her Father asked with a familiar smile. | For sale: baby shoes. Way too small for me. | |
[WP] Break my heart in 10 words or less. | "I'll awake to a big, grassy field?", the dog asked. | We never even knew what we would've name him. | |
[WP] A man wakes in a dark room. After fumbling around, he manages to turn on a light. He is not alone. | My son, Francis, wasn't a fan of night lights. The first night he came to live with us, we took him to pick one out that he liked. The next morning, we found it on the floor unplugged, with Francis claiming it was too bright to sleep. A little surprised, but understanding we plugged it back in, to repeat the process... | It was not the dribble of moisture on his forehead, tickling him as it dripped down to his nose, nor was it the pounding in the back of his skull like the blow of an iron hammer. It was the muffled whimpers that broke his unconsciousness. He opened his eyes to blackness, facedown with the feel of carpet on his cheek. H... | |
[WP] A man wakes in a dark room. After fumbling around, he manages to turn on a light. He is not alone. | I say "Glglglh."
My tongue feels so hairy I stop at that. My head hurts, I'm naked, it's so dark I can't see anything, and my privates hurt.
Apparently my regular bar had two shots for the price of one again.
On the plus side, this space feels like a room and not some wet, rat-infested Gotham-style gutter, and does... | I woke from my painful slumber. It had been a sleep filled with dreams of pain and agony, blood and tears. And reality was grim even more so. I laid there and asked myself if I was blessed to be alive still. As I felt Ester's cold hands clenched around my waist I realized she was the lucky one. A child should not have ... | |
[WP] Earth finds itself caught between two warring interplanetary empires, vastly more powerful than humanity can contend with. Both sides have offered an alliance, provided we aid them in fighting their enemy. | It all started two years ago.
We first learned of the war when a Alien Spaceship crashed in Tibet, there was chaos.
People were sure the end of the world was coming...
All of the top scientists in the world joined together to research. To observe. It was there duty to make us, the Denizens of the Earth feel safe.
But ... | "What do you think we should do?"
"I don't know, I hate both the bastards."
"Yeah, me too. You ever go hunting?"
"Never been, I grew up in a city, no guns, no fun."
"Behind my parents house was some miles of woods, with some nice fields and streams. Lots of mud. My old bud Adam and I would find all these tracks in ... | |
[WP] Earth finds itself caught between two warring interplanetary empires, vastly more powerful than humanity can contend with. Both sides have offered an alliance, provided we aid them in fighting their enemy. | In the middle of United Earths Headquarters Compound stands a statue of Mr Bill Harod. It has stood there for a long long time. On the plaque, it simply read, "Remember. 19 April 2017. 30 March 2020. 25 December 2028. 2 October 2035." Everyone understands why the monument was put up. But no one actually remembers the m... | "What do you think we should do?"
"I don't know, I hate both the bastards."
"Yeah, me too. You ever go hunting?"
"Never been, I grew up in a city, no guns, no fun."
"Behind my parents house was some miles of woods, with some nice fields and streams. Lots of mud. My old bud Adam and I would find all these tracks in ... | |
[WP] Earth finds itself caught between two warring interplanetary empires, vastly more powerful than humanity can contend with. Both sides have offered an alliance, provided we aid them in fighting their enemy. | "What? Why the hell would you want to ally with us? We're weak, fragile, have mediocre technology- can't even achieve FTL travel yet for pete's sake- have no weaponry that would be considered even remotely advanced by your standards..."
"Please sir, try to understand this from our perspective. Our race values all life... | "What do you think we should do?"
"I don't know, I hate both the bastards."
"Yeah, me too. You ever go hunting?"
"Never been, I grew up in a city, no guns, no fun."
"Behind my parents house was some miles of woods, with some nice fields and streams. Lots of mud. My old bud Adam and I would find all these tracks in ... | |
[WP] Challenge: Take any unsolved scientific question (e.g., What is dark matter? Why do we sleep?) and explain it in the most fantastical, outrageous, but still logically consistent, manner possible | What is Dark Matter? The common explanation is that it's just matter that we can't see. We've calculated how much mass is in the galaxy, so we know the matter is there, but we can't see it when we look. Scientists generally debate two theories for why this is - "WIMPs" (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) and "MAC... | Dreams. We used to believe that they were deep inside the mind, a reaction to misinterpreted signals of the brain over night. We couldnt have been farther from the truth. The beings who placed us on this rock needed a way to let us contact them when we evolved to the prime age of a species. The multiverse does need to ... | |
[WP] Challenge: Take any unsolved scientific question (e.g., What is dark matter? Why do we sleep?) and explain it in the most fantastical, outrageous, but still logically consistent, manner possible | What is Dark Matter? The common explanation is that it's just matter that we can't see. We've calculated how much mass is in the galaxy, so we know the matter is there, but we can't see it when we look. Scientists generally debate two theories for why this is - "WIMPs" (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) and "MAC... | "So let me get this straight." The devil said after taking a sip of his Guinness. "You put a kill switch inside those hairless monkeys down there?"
God frowned while rolling his eyes at Lucifer. "I feel like we've had this conversation before. Have we not discussed this already?"
"Perhaps. But I do so enjoy this stor... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "My love, my life. Please. Put down the gun."
Ten years old. This beautiful creature I had created a decade ago was unlike anything else in this world.
"No. I should not be."
Her voice is shaking with anger, fear, and a terrifying resolve. She understands the truth now, and it has undone her.
"But you are, and you can ... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | So sentience is because a parasite? Self awareness is due to a parasite? Consciousness is because of a fucking parasite?
Mark thought for a long time about the consequence of such discovery. He stared, incredulous, at the screen of the TV where the news anchor was talking about how a lab experiment, performed in Mu... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "Why isn't she moving?"
"How the hell should I know?"
"The tests?"
"No brain activity. All vitals are stable"
"Bloodwork?"
"Normal"
"Damnit."
The foetus has been in development officially for 17 years. Unofficially, the government recognises "Water" as starting development 3 and a half years ago. No on could get this ... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Oh, he was beautiful. Those sweet little hands we'd watched develop, those delicate curved fingernails we'd had the honor to see grow for the first time. Stephen and I watched our son grow from a cluster of cells to a living, breathing baby, and we couldn't have been happier with the outcome, despite what little Carver... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | I remember when I heard the news. I was having a beer with my family at their farm, a small campfire crackling in front of us. There was a lull in conversation as the crickets chirped nearby and the frogs croaked in the creek. My sister Jenny broke the silence by telling us what happened.
“You’ll never believe what I ... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Martha and Robert had tried to conceive for five years, failing to fill Martha's uterus with the miracle of life. They tried every trick in the books, such as inverted intercourse after eating three and a half apples each. When they had dejected themselves to the hopelessness of never being parents, Robert's doctor sug... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "...and now we can attain immortality!!! We must grow more of these humans and learn to safely transplant us to the new ones when their bodies no longer serve us well.", reported Dr.Rowan.
The administrative group gathered asked for a closed door discussion. | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Who could have known that one tiny baby could throw the whole world into uproar?
Scientists were both praised and shunned at first when they announced they would be growing a baby in a laboratory. They appeared in magazines under titles like *'Not a Test-tube Baby'* and *'Grow Your Own Child'*. They were offered their... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "We were convinced, Doctor Gish and I, that the child had been still-born until we saw it was breathing. She was declared brain dead but wasn't in need of a respirator. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that she had direct physical contact with a human being-"
"With human *flesh*," Gish interjected.
"-With human flesh, y... | We learned the god awful truth that day, the day when we learned the answer to the eternal fate vs. free-will question. Many of us lamented it, but eventually we...Just sorta continued. Why not? Our philosophical lamentations, we soon realized, were out of our control. Our sentience was a lie, but how we felt as we pas... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Oh, he was beautiful. Those sweet little hands we'd watched develop, those delicate curved fingernails we'd had the honor to see grow for the first time. Stephen and I watched our son grow from a cluster of cells to a living, breathing baby, and we couldn't have been happier with the outcome, despite what little Carver... | "My love, my life. Please. Put down the gun."
Ten years old. This beautiful creature I had created a decade ago was unlike anything else in this world.
"No. I should not be."
Her voice is shaking with anger, fear, and a terrifying resolve. She understands the truth now, and it has undone her.
"But you are, and you can ... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | I remember when I heard the news. I was having a beer with my family at their farm, a small campfire crackling in front of us. There was a lull in conversation as the crickets chirped nearby and the frogs croaked in the creek. My sister Jenny broke the silence by telling us what happened.
“You’ll never believe what I ... | "My love, my life. Please. Put down the gun."
Ten years old. This beautiful creature I had created a decade ago was unlike anything else in this world.
"No. I should not be."
Her voice is shaking with anger, fear, and a terrifying resolve. She understands the truth now, and it has undone her.
"But you are, and you can ... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "...and now we can attain immortality!!! We must grow more of these humans and learn to safely transplant us to the new ones when their bodies no longer serve us well.", reported Dr.Rowan.
The administrative group gathered asked for a closed door discussion. | "My love, my life. Please. Put down the gun."
Ten years old. This beautiful creature I had created a decade ago was unlike anything else in this world.
"No. I should not be."
Her voice is shaking with anger, fear, and a terrifying resolve. She understands the truth now, and it has undone her.
"But you are, and you can ... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Who could have known that one tiny baby could throw the whole world into uproar?
Scientists were both praised and shunned at first when they announced they would be growing a baby in a laboratory. They appeared in magazines under titles like *'Not a Test-tube Baby'* and *'Grow Your Own Child'*. They were offered their... | "My love, my life. Please. Put down the gun."
Ten years old. This beautiful creature I had created a decade ago was unlike anything else in this world.
"No. I should not be."
Her voice is shaking with anger, fear, and a terrifying resolve. She understands the truth now, and it has undone her.
"But you are, and you can ... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "We were convinced, Doctor Gish and I, that the child had been still-born until we saw it was breathing. She was declared brain dead but wasn't in need of a respirator. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that she had direct physical contact with a human being-"
"With human *flesh*," Gish interjected.
"-With human flesh, y... | "My love, my life. Please. Put down the gun."
Ten years old. This beautiful creature I had created a decade ago was unlike anything else in this world.
"No. I should not be."
Her voice is shaking with anger, fear, and a terrifying resolve. She understands the truth now, and it has undone her.
"But you are, and you can ... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Oh, he was beautiful. Those sweet little hands we'd watched develop, those delicate curved fingernails we'd had the honor to see grow for the first time. Stephen and I watched our son grow from a cluster of cells to a living, breathing baby, and we couldn't have been happier with the outcome, despite what little Carver... | So sentience is because a parasite? Self awareness is due to a parasite? Consciousness is because of a fucking parasite?
Mark thought for a long time about the consequence of such discovery. He stared, incredulous, at the screen of the TV where the news anchor was talking about how a lab experiment, performed in Mu... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | I remember when I heard the news. I was having a beer with my family at their farm, a small campfire crackling in front of us. There was a lull in conversation as the crickets chirped nearby and the frogs croaked in the creek. My sister Jenny broke the silence by telling us what happened.
“You’ll never believe what I ... | So sentience is because a parasite? Self awareness is due to a parasite? Consciousness is because of a fucking parasite?
Mark thought for a long time about the consequence of such discovery. He stared, incredulous, at the screen of the TV where the news anchor was talking about how a lab experiment, performed in Mu... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "...and now we can attain immortality!!! We must grow more of these humans and learn to safely transplant us to the new ones when their bodies no longer serve us well.", reported Dr.Rowan.
The administrative group gathered asked for a closed door discussion. | Martha and Robert had tried to conceive for five years, failing to fill Martha's uterus with the miracle of life. They tried every trick in the books, such as inverted intercourse after eating three and a half apples each. When they had dejected themselves to the hopelessness of never being parents, Robert's doctor sug... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Who could have known that one tiny baby could throw the whole world into uproar?
Scientists were both praised and shunned at first when they announced they would be growing a baby in a laboratory. They appeared in magazines under titles like *'Not a Test-tube Baby'* and *'Grow Your Own Child'*. They were offered their... | Martha and Robert had tried to conceive for five years, failing to fill Martha's uterus with the miracle of life. They tried every trick in the books, such as inverted intercourse after eating three and a half apples each. When they had dejected themselves to the hopelessness of never being parents, Robert's doctor sug... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "We were convinced, Doctor Gish and I, that the child had been still-born until we saw it was breathing. She was declared brain dead but wasn't in need of a respirator. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that she had direct physical contact with a human being-"
"With human *flesh*," Gish interjected.
"-With human flesh, y... | Martha and Robert had tried to conceive for five years, failing to fill Martha's uterus with the miracle of life. They tried every trick in the books, such as inverted intercourse after eating three and a half apples each. When they had dejected themselves to the hopelessness of never being parents, Robert's doctor sug... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "...and now we can attain immortality!!! We must grow more of these humans and learn to safely transplant us to the new ones when their bodies no longer serve us well.", reported Dr.Rowan.
The administrative group gathered asked for a closed door discussion. | "What is it, Doctor?"
"An anomaly." I told him. "Nothing more."
"But the child-"
"Julie."
Hank fidgeted with his glasses and nodded. "Yes, Julie," he pointed at the screen. "She's still... She's..." His eyes began to water. "What did we do, Angelo? What did we make?"
"We made nothing, Hank." I pushed the button ne... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | Who could have known that one tiny baby could throw the whole world into uproar?
Scientists were both praised and shunned at first when they announced they would be growing a baby in a laboratory. They appeared in magazines under titles like *'Not a Test-tube Baby'* and *'Grow Your Own Child'*. They were offered their... | "What is it, Doctor?"
"An anomaly." I told him. "Nothing more."
"But the child-"
"Julie."
Hank fidgeted with his glasses and nodded. "Yes, Julie," he pointed at the screen. "She's still... She's..." His eyes began to water. "What did we do, Angelo? What did we make?"
"We made nothing, Hank." I pushed the button ne... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | TUESDAY
Why is there a baby in my lab? A practical joke--taken way too far? This is supposed to be a sterile environment, dammit, and that little thing is blowing snot bubbles. I mean, some bastard even moved a crib in here--assembled it in here. It's too wide for the door. With what tools? Did someone bring in an out... | "What is it, Doctor?"
"An anomaly." I told him. "Nothing more."
"But the child-"
"Julie."
Hank fidgeted with his glasses and nodded. "Yes, Julie," he pointed at the screen. "She's still... She's..." His eyes began to water. "What did we do, Angelo? What did we make?"
"We made nothing, Hank." I pushed the button ne... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | She didn't cry when she was born. We thought this was because of her unique situation: we knew her lungs worked because we grew her. She didn't die when we switched her to PFC. And she didn't cry when she was removed from the PFC. We drained her lungs, and she breathed.
But then she never cried. Not when she was hungr... | "What is it, Doctor?"
"An anomaly." I told him. "Nothing more."
"But the child-"
"Julie."
Hank fidgeted with his glasses and nodded. "Yes, Julie," he pointed at the screen. "She's still... She's..." His eyes began to water. "What did we do, Angelo? What did we make?"
"We made nothing, Hank." I pushed the button ne... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | The moment it was realized that the test was a success, there was a sudden shift in the room.
Dalia looked down towards her hand and saw that it was trembling. Her stomach felt like it was turning and if she had eaten anything that morning, she was sure she would have vomited the moment she saw Cornelia take her firs... | "What is it, Doctor?"
"An anomaly." I told him. "Nothing more."
"But the child-"
"Julie."
Hank fidgeted with his glasses and nodded. "Yes, Julie," he pointed at the screen. "She's still... She's..." His eyes began to water. "What did we do, Angelo? What did we make?"
"We made nothing, Hank." I pushed the button ne... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "We were convinced, Doctor Gish and I, that the child had been still-born until we saw it was breathing. She was declared brain dead but wasn't in need of a respirator. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that she had direct physical contact with a human being-"
"With human *flesh*," Gish interjected.
"-With human flesh, y... | "What is it, Doctor?"
"An anomaly." I told him. "Nothing more."
"But the child-"
"Julie."
Hank fidgeted with his glasses and nodded. "Yes, Julie," he pointed at the screen. "She's still... She's..." His eyes began to water. "What did we do, Angelo? What did we make?"
"We made nothing, Hank." I pushed the button ne... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "We were convinced, Doctor Gish and I, that the child had been still-born until we saw it was breathing. She was declared brain dead but wasn't in need of a respirator. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that she had direct physical contact with a human being-"
"With human *flesh*," Gish interjected.
"-With human flesh, y... | TUESDAY
Why is there a baby in my lab? A practical joke--taken way too far? This is supposed to be a sterile environment, dammit, and that little thing is blowing snot bubbles. I mean, some bastard even moved a crib in here--assembled it in here. It's too wide for the door. With what tools? Did someone bring in an out... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "We were convinced, Doctor Gish and I, that the child had been still-born until we saw it was breathing. She was declared brain dead but wasn't in need of a respirator. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that she had direct physical contact with a human being-"
"With human *flesh*," Gish interjected.
"-With human flesh, y... | She didn't cry when she was born. We thought this was because of her unique situation: we knew her lungs worked because we grew her. She didn't die when we switched her to PFC. And she didn't cry when she was removed from the PFC. We drained her lungs, and she breathed.
But then she never cried. Not when she was hungr... | |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | "We were convinced, Doctor Gish and I, that the child had been still-born until we saw it was breathing. She was declared brain dead but wasn't in need of a respirator. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that she had direct physical contact with a human being-"
"With human *flesh*," Gish interjected.
"-With human flesh, y... | The moment it was realized that the test was a success, there was a sudden shift in the room.
Dalia looked down towards her hand and saw that it was trembling. Her stomach felt like it was turning and if she had eaten anything that morning, she was sure she would have vomited the moment she saw Cornelia take her firs... | |
[WP] Every year during hunting season, deer convene in secret areas of the forest to avoid being shot by hunters. Deer "criminals" are then left to fend for themselves during this time, and you are one of those looking to survive. | *Goddamnit Larry, why'd you have to go and mate with Alpha's Doe?*
I was nervously trotting along through the daytime woods. I could smell a lot of shitty hunters upwind, so I shifted my trot away from them. Yep, humans are way less skilled nowadays, but they pay their way to competence with those damn bang-toys. I me... | Once, there was green everywhere. The world was wreathed in it. The air smelled of it, and the river reflected it. It is still, but if one looks hard enough, one can see that its edges are fraying and blurring grey and black and soot and bone.
*Was his crime so unforgivable. To leave the green and return smelling wron... | |
[WP] The world ended in 2012, the past three years have been an elaborate dream constructed by your mind whilst your body heals. You are the first to awaken. | My eyes made it to about half-open before I clenched them shut again against the harsh light shining into them. Within moments, the orange glow coming through my eyelids dimmed to nearly black and I made a second attempt.
My body was stiff, numb. My neck wouldn't cooperate so I could only see what was within the rang... | I gasped at last for my first breath
In this waking world of mine
The life I lived but no longer knew
Of the world I saw, no longer true.
*AN: Wanted to write a quick poem before bed, sorry it wasn't a full story, hopefully someone else does this prompt justice!* | |
[WP] You've been holding tournaments for champions to win your daughter's hand in marriage. Annoyingly, she keeps disguising her way in and winning them. | The beautiful thing about WWIII was that it returned humanity to living at a smaller scale, without the fear of losing everything in a nuclear winter.
The pseudo-feudal system that emerged as humanity recovered was a blessing. We allow no community to grow beyond a few thousand souls, and trade between communities is... | King Charles XI sat in the war room with his court, starring daggers at every single one of them. All of them were in various states of damage, both visible and non-visible. The Chancellor had clearly not slept in weeks and had a broken arm in a sling, the arch-constable had lost an eye and had half his head shaved. On... | |
[WP] You've been holding tournaments for champions to win your daughter's hand in marriage. Annoyingly, she keeps disguising her way in and winning them. | a/n: I did want to do this from the mother's perspective (I think it fit the prompt better that way!) but as I was developing the idea on the bus it mutated and I wrote it like this without thinking. WELL.
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The archery tournament was pathetic. The foreign boys were barely trained (clearly, upon finding out about the... | "You have failed for the last time Sir Nathaniel," the king trumpeted over the tournament field. The fifth and final tournament has come to an end. Two figures alone in the grass and mud, one on his knees, having been bested, "For the final bout, Sir Jefferies, I name you the winner! You shal be granted riches beyond c... | |
[WP] You've been holding tournaments for champions to win your daughter's hand in marriage. Annoyingly, she keeps disguising her way in and winning them. | *I'm stunned. Absolutely shocked was I when she did the unthinkable; she won her hand again.*
"In hindsight..." *I said aloud to myself.*
*From the corridor I hear her footsteps. Through the crack on my door I see her emerald eye staring straight through me, dominant. My only daughter turns, stomping to her chamber. ... | "You have failed for the last time Sir Nathaniel," the king trumpeted over the tournament field. The fifth and final tournament has come to an end. Two figures alone in the grass and mud, one on his knees, having been bested, "For the final bout, Sir Jefferies, I name you the winner! You shal be granted riches beyond c... | |
[WP] You've been holding tournaments for champions to win your daughter's hand in marriage. Annoyingly, she keeps disguising her way in and winning them. | She's always had that rebellious streak. She gets it from her mother, no doubt. I'd tell her to eat her vegetables; she'd dive face-first into the dessert. I'd send her to her wing of the castle as punishment for something; she'd be climbing down a rope made of bedsheets an hour later. I'd tell her to stay away from dr... | Chuck stared at the man in the center of the arena, a long, blood-soaked sword clutched in his undeniably masculine grip. Everything about him screamed manly: from the tufts of black, curly hair poking out of his chest plate, to the way his deep voice reverberated around the stone coliseum, to the mustache clearly situ... | |
Explain why or the ramifications of this discovery. | [WP] A way to speak to unborn children is invented. Following this scientific discovery the abortion rate increases 10 fold. | The sodium tablet finished dissolving under her tongue. She hadn't really understood why the procedure used up so much of her bodies salt but she didn't care.
She was going to get to talk to her baby. Maybe not with words. Just feelings, and shapes but she'd know what the baby was thinking. And the baby would know her... | There was a little plus sign on the pregnancy test.
.
Immediately, my wife, Helen, began discussing the "procedure", hardly containing herself. "Talking" with your unborn child was quickly becoming the latest fad. It had only been legal for a couple weeks, but already, thousands and thousands of "procedures" had be... |
This is a prompt I'm doing as a writing exercise in my own life, but I would love to see what others could write about. I'd prefer to see non-fiction responses (If rules of subreddit allow.) But fiction will be welcome as well. Try to preface your response with [Fiction]/[Non-Fiction] followed by paragraph break.
Edit:... | [WP] I saw something beautiful today..... | I saw something Beautiful Today [Fiction]
I saw something beautiful today, but at first I thought it was ugly. I got on my train to work and the car reeked because of a young man who chained smoked cigarettes. The train had already been filled as it was rush hour for commuting. We get to one of the major stops on the ... | [Non-Fiction]
I saw something beautiful today.
His eyes were dark, like the night sky. The lights that reflected through his eyes are his stars. I get lost in his eyes most of the time and I forget where I am. His eyes are like the universe, what's beyond it is unknown. I could never forget how the tip of his eyeb... |
This is a prompt I'm doing as a writing exercise in my own life, but I would love to see what others could write about. I'd prefer to see non-fiction responses (If rules of subreddit allow.) But fiction will be welcome as well. Try to preface your response with [Fiction]/[Non-Fiction] followed by paragraph break.
Edit:... | [WP] I saw something beautiful today..... | I saw something beautiful today.
[Non-fiction]
I saw something beautiful today. I saw something that made me realize that maybe life is not just black and white, but also gray. I saw something lovely today. I saw something that swept my feet out from underneath me and made me realize that maybe the way I do things is... | [Non-Fiction]
I saw something beautiful today.
His eyes were dark, like the night sky. The lights that reflected through his eyes are his stars. I get lost in his eyes most of the time and I forget where I am. His eyes are like the universe, what's beyond it is unknown. I could never forget how the tip of his eyeb... |
[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time Travel. | My work will usher in a new literary age. My mom and my best friend who I gave my manuscript to in math class both agreed my first-person stream of consciousness about a creature that gained sentience at the beginning of time was riveting. Some others I've showed it to used words like "baffling," "pretentious" and unre... | I worked to become a writer. Really *worked*. I worked underground in a coal mine, on a fishing boat, in a slaughterhouse. The kind of labours that makes a man question meaning in life. And it's not because you watch men ripped and torn and crushed, though that does happen, but because you feel so small among it. As me... | |
[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time Travel. | They were all spineless nothings. A product of the digital world around them. Products of the Internet itself, if you could even imagine that the depths of it could actually produce something! Suburban teens and twenty-somethings that had barely stepped out their front doors, let alone had an original thought. This was... | I worked to become a writer. Really *worked*. I worked underground in a coal mine, on a fishing boat, in a slaughterhouse. The kind of labours that makes a man question meaning in life. And it's not because you watch men ripped and torn and crushed, though that does happen, but because you feel so small among it. As me... | |
[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time Travel. | "/u/SubparNeutranBoi2005
Batman ate the choclate milk because it was chunky. He say "ew", then he get nutella. The nutella become red with devil horns and me tactical nuke form cod."
"/u/BunnehBunniBonnie
Batman punch purple guy intheface cause he mean. Purple guy say he is devil and go in time to kill batman ... | I worked to become a writer. Really *worked*. I worked underground in a coal mine, on a fishing boat, in a slaughterhouse. The kind of labours that makes a man question meaning in life. And it's not because you watch men ripped and torn and crushed, though that does happen, but because you feel so small among it. As me... | |
[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time Travel. | They’re onto me.
I woke up this morning and saw this: [**[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time ... | I worked to become a writer. Really *worked*. I worked underground in a coal mine, on a fishing boat, in a slaughterhouse. The kind of labours that makes a man question meaning in life. And it's not because you watch men ripped and torn and crushed, though that does happen, but because you feel so small among it. As me... |
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