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[WP] To your surprise, she's crying. | "You should be relieved." I tell her while grabbing my suitcase.
"You know that I am no good to anyone. Everything I touch turns to shit and I can't drag you down with me." I smile, hoping to instill some confidence, some hope in her. She should be delighted and happy to see me leave.
"I am no good to you. I hold y... | "*Hey, hey...*what's wrong?"
He squeezed her briefly and her wet eyes peeked out from between her fingers,
"I don't know."
He pulled her closer, and she closed her eyes when he kissed them; he felt her squeeze back a little, seeming to relax.
There was a long quiet moment spent in each other's arms, until he spoke,... | |
[WP] Kidnapped whilst on holiday you find that a lifetime of pointless jobs has miraculously prepared you with all the necessary skills to save the day. | "Hey you are doing it wrong.", I said to the poor guy, trying to be helpful.
"Shut up! I'll shoot you if you get any more words out of your mouth". he said, completely ignoring my suggestions. No gratitude from people nowadays.
I stayed silent for a couple of minutes, but I just couldn't resist.
"Look, the knots are... | 'Well that escalated quickly,' I thought.
I could feel blood on the side of my head and on my face.
If you've never been hit in the head with a liquor bottle, turns out it's super over-rated. It hurt a lot.
'What the fuck?', I complained to my Spanish speaking drinking partners. The fat one yelled something, an... | |
[WP] Then suddenly the steel felt so cold in my hands | I remember a story I used to be told as a child.
It was usually told to me by my father in the cold winter months when there was little else to do but tell tales by the hearth. We'd gather round and he'd go on to speak of the dark Mire Witches of the west. How he'd weave a fine and horrifying story of their black mag... | I loved watching her twist and attempt to free herself, her beautiful green eyes filled with determination. She didn't realize I was watching her, watching as she rubbed her wrists together, attempting to loosen the bonds. Watching as she slowly began to give up, her head hanging so that her red hair fell like a curtai... | |
[WP] You are Death. For eons you have adhered to the ancient rules, collecting souls only when it their time, so as to not take sides in the war between God and the Devil. Well, the Devil's been a real dick lately...so you start choosing who dies & when, attempting tip the balance in God's favor. | *"Hello and welcome to Sky News Tonight, I'm Martin Stanford."*
"And I'm Anna Jones"
*"Chaos in Europe: a set of surprise explosions during a diplomatic meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Vladmir Putin left both leaders dead and several injured"*
"ISIS Reformed: in the wake of the mysterious disappeara... | *The paperwork is pilling up again, it seems.*
Death thunked the tip of his scyth into a tall stack of obsydian card paper, which despite the infinite weight of the black blade, held it quite snugly.
*Hell is burocracy. I harvest souls, not trifle about with paperwork.* Death briefly reconsidered hiring an assistant... | |
[WP] You are Death. For eons you have adhered to the ancient rules, collecting souls only when it their time, so as to not take sides in the war between God and the Devil. Well, the Devil's been a real dick lately...so you start choosing who dies & when, attempting tip the balance in God's favor. | "Sir..." The officer's expression was somewhere between confused and irritated. I suppose that's what happens when you get tipped off by a skeleton in a cloak. "What, exactly, do you mean?"
"There's a pair of drug dealers on Elm Streets. You can bust them if you hurry." Had I possessed any flesh to put it on, I would ... | *The paperwork is pilling up again, it seems.*
Death thunked the tip of his scyth into a tall stack of obsydian card paper, which despite the infinite weight of the black blade, held it quite snugly.
*Hell is burocracy. I harvest souls, not trifle about with paperwork.* Death briefly reconsidered hiring an assistant... | |
[WP] You are Death. For eons you have adhered to the ancient rules, collecting souls only when it their time, so as to not take sides in the war between God and the Devil. Well, the Devil's been a real dick lately...so you start choosing who dies & when, attempting tip the balance in God's favor. | "Sir..." The officer's expression was somewhere between confused and irritated. I suppose that's what happens when you get tipped off by a skeleton in a cloak. "What, exactly, do you mean?"
"There's a pair of drug dealers on Elm Streets. You can bust them if you hurry." Had I possessed any flesh to put it on, I would ... | *"Hello and welcome to Sky News Tonight, I'm Martin Stanford."*
"And I'm Anna Jones"
*"Chaos in Europe: a set of surprise explosions during a diplomatic meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Vladmir Putin left both leaders dead and several injured"*
"ISIS Reformed: in the wake of the mysterious disappeara... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "hey, i have that world!" he pointed at the blue-green orb sitting on a bookshelf.
"oh yeah?" she didn't sound as if she really cared, but he didn't pick up on her tone. he was too focused on the little planet.
"yeah! ikea, right?" he bent over and peered at it.
"yeah. my ex got it and never took it with him when he... | God poured over the instructions again certain he had missed something. He checked the parts list, comparing the last screw. "This doesn't make sense, It's not even on the list! Why would they give this to me?! Oh well, it's done. Time to show off my creation!"
God picked up Earth and ran to the window. "JACKIE! HE... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "hey, i have that world!" he pointed at the blue-green orb sitting on a bookshelf.
"oh yeah?" she didn't sound as if she really cared, but he didn't pick up on her tone. he was too focused on the little planet.
"yeah! ikea, right?" he bent over and peered at it.
"yeah. my ex got it and never took it with him when he... | In the beginning, God assembled the heaven and the earth. Really just the earth, he's still waiting for the heaven to go on sale.
Now the earth was without form, and flat, with Styrofoam packing and internationalized instructions that had only pictures.
And God could not find the little plastic bag containing the ha... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | *Door Bell rings 2x*
**God**: *Shouts whilst running to the door* Hold on I'm coming!
**Post man**: Mr Yaweh?
**God**: Yea
**Post Man**: Sign here please
God quickly signs the delivery card, his eyes moving from card to parcel numerous times.
**Post man** : That's it, have nice day sir!
With his eyes fixed ... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | GOD: Let's see...nozzle...nozzle nozzle nozzle...where is the nozzle?...where is the nozzity-niz-noz-AH HA!
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
GOD: Jesus Christ that's tiring! I'll fill it the rest of the way later. An oblate spheroid shou... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Some assembly required..." God muttered. "Of *course*."
Step 1: Behold, Light to read the instructions better.
Step 2: Unpack contents.
"Who makes up these instructions?" God asked to infinity. "Damned Ikea."
And so Ikea was damned forever to Hell. Product received unlike specifications promised, God declared.
... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Ah, it came!" God ran out of his front door and onto the front yard, excited. Next to the curb lay long, flat boxes, about a dozen.
"Jesus," he called towards the house. "Get out here!"
A young man came bounding down the porch steps after him. "What'd you get pops?"
He said, "I used Ikea's new online design studio... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | GOD: Let's see...nozzle...nozzle nozzle nozzle...where is the nozzle?...where is the nozzity-niz-noz-AH HA!
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
GOD: Jesus Christ that's tiring! I'll fill it the rest of the way later. An oblate spheroid shou... | "If my nerdy little brother can build one of these I'm sure I can."
I took another hit and up-ended the box.
Tectonic plates went fucking everywhere and I took another hit as I unfolded the instructions. I had most of the tools and it came with a little packet of gravity so that looked alright. But the exploded view ... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Some assembly required..." God muttered. "Of *course*."
Step 1: Behold, Light to read the instructions better.
Step 2: Unpack contents.
"Who makes up these instructions?" God asked to infinity. "Damned Ikea."
And so Ikea was damned forever to Hell. Product received unlike specifications promised, God declared.
... | "If my nerdy little brother can build one of these I'm sure I can."
I took another hit and up-ended the box.
Tectonic plates went fucking everywhere and I took another hit as I unfolded the instructions. I had most of the tools and it came with a little packet of gravity so that looked alright. But the exploded view ... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Ah, it came!" God ran out of his front door and onto the front yard, excited. Next to the curb lay long, flat boxes, about a dozen.
"Jesus," he called towards the house. "Get out here!"
A young man came bounding down the porch steps after him. "What'd you get pops?"
He said, "I used Ikea's new online design studio... | "If my nerdy little brother can build one of these I'm sure I can."
I took another hit and up-ended the box.
Tectonic plates went fucking everywhere and I took another hit as I unfolded the instructions. I had most of the tools and it came with a little packet of gravity so that looked alright. But the exploded view ... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | GOD: Let's see...nozzle...nozzle nozzle nozzle...where is the nozzle?...where is the nozzity-niz-noz-AH HA!
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
*huahhhhhh*
*phoooooooooooooooooo*
GOD: Jesus Christ that's tiring! I'll fill it the rest of the way later. An oblate spheroid shou... | *Door Bell rings 2x*
**God**: *Shouts whilst running to the door* Hold on I'm coming!
**Post man**: Mr Yaweh?
**God**: Yea
**Post Man**: Sign here please
God quickly signs the delivery card, his eyes moving from card to parcel numerous times.
**Post man** : That's it, have nice day sir!
With his eyes fixed ... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Some assembly required..." God muttered. "Of *course*."
Step 1: Behold, Light to read the instructions better.
Step 2: Unpack contents.
"Who makes up these instructions?" God asked to infinity. "Damned Ikea."
And so Ikea was damned forever to Hell. Product received unlike specifications promised, God declared.
... | *Door Bell rings 2x*
**God**: *Shouts whilst running to the door* Hold on I'm coming!
**Post man**: Mr Yaweh?
**God**: Yea
**Post Man**: Sign here please
God quickly signs the delivery card, his eyes moving from card to parcel numerous times.
**Post man** : That's it, have nice day sir!
With his eyes fixed ... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Ah, it came!" God ran out of his front door and onto the front yard, excited. Next to the curb lay long, flat boxes, about a dozen.
"Jesus," he called towards the house. "Get out here!"
A young man came bounding down the porch steps after him. "What'd you get pops?"
He said, "I used Ikea's new online design studio... | *Door Bell rings 2x*
**God**: *Shouts whilst running to the door* Hold on I'm coming!
**Post man**: Mr Yaweh?
**God**: Yea
**Post Man**: Sign here please
God quickly signs the delivery card, his eyes moving from card to parcel numerous times.
**Post man** : That's it, have nice day sir!
With his eyes fixed ... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "Ah, it came!" God ran out of his front door and onto the front yard, excited. Next to the curb lay long, flat boxes, about a dozen.
"Jesus," he called towards the house. "Get out here!"
A young man came bounding down the porch steps after him. "What'd you get pops?"
He said, "I used Ikea's new online design studio... | "Some assembly required..." God muttered. "Of *course*."
Step 1: Behold, Light to read the instructions better.
Step 2: Unpack contents.
"Who makes up these instructions?" God asked to infinity. "Damned Ikea."
And so Ikea was damned forever to Hell. Product received unlike specifications promised, God declared.
... | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "So you built all this..." Adam said, "from a flat pack?"
"Yes."
Adam looked out at the horizon.
"It still looks flat."
"I know. Quit your bitching."
"What's a bitch?"
God had one screw left over, and now he knew what to do with it.
| "Okay, I've got the fjords all done. The mountains are in place. Oceans... a bit vast, but looks right."
"Shit. Everything's done but I've got these spare duck feet and bills and beaver bodies and tails." | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | "And it was done. 6 days of the 7 total too, you owe me 10 omnipopence "
God leant on the table, surveying her creation. Lucifer stood beside her. The blue glow illuminating both of their faces was fresh and lively. God looked pleased with herself. The light from the world threw Lucifer's masculine features into littl... | "Okay, I've got the fjords all done. The mountains are in place. Oceans... a bit vast, but looks right."
"Shit. Everything's done but I've got these spare duck feet and bills and beaver bodies and tails." | |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | God saw the great reviews, but he did not expect Earth to be missing a manual. There was only a note that came in the box;
*Life not included.*
Naturally. No planets came with life. You had to order that from Ikea separately.
So there it lay mocking him in three pieces; a pile of dirt chips, magma boards and p... | In the beginning, God went to IKEA. With the flat packed box upon his desk, he unwound the cardboard sides and looked within the depths and while His spirit was hovering over the nails and the strange he said, "Let there be light!" And clapped his hands, and so the clapper gave light. God saw that the parts were compli... | |
[WP] It was saddening enough to kill the villain. Reveal that the "villain" wasn't even a villain in the first place and was actually trying to help the heroes. | I remember that day. March 4, 2002.
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I left when my home country was in a complete mire in 1982. My family and I were not of great wealth, but they saved up a lot for retirement or i... | Everywhere he had walked was gone. Fields burning, towns crumbling, people crying. It became easier and easier to predict though. Messengers would ride hard and fast telling everyone of the soon to come wake. Those were horrible days. Not a soul doubted he would suddenly veer off course straight to those waiting in sti... | |
[WP] It was saddening enough to kill the villain. Reveal that the "villain" wasn't even a villain in the first place and was actually trying to help the heroes. | It wasn't the heat. It was the humidity. A vicious mid-July sun baked the courtyard around me while the sticky, wet air soaked my pores and melded my uniform and skin into a syrupy mess. I felt like a literal fish out of water, and probably looked even worse.
I hated private security. It wasn't the mediocre pay, lackl... | Everywhere he had walked was gone. Fields burning, towns crumbling, people crying. It became easier and easier to predict though. Messengers would ride hard and fast telling everyone of the soon to come wake. Those were horrible days. Not a soul doubted he would suddenly veer off course straight to those waiting in sti... | |
[WP] It was saddening enough to kill the villain. Reveal that the "villain" wasn't even a villain in the first place and was actually trying to help the heroes. | It wasn't the heat. It was the humidity. A vicious mid-July sun baked the courtyard around me while the sticky, wet air soaked my pores and melded my uniform and skin into a syrupy mess. I felt like a literal fish out of water, and probably looked even worse.
I hated private security. It wasn't the mediocre pay, lackl... | ***"And now our hero bows his head***
***To beg God's pardon and request his grace***
***The quarrel now most justly ended***
***When our hero caved in this villain's face"***
"Most excellent, Bard Elyan. Do continue to celebrate this most momentous occasion." Lanval the Resolute stuck out his chest and held his ch... | |
[WP] Atlantis existed, and its people were technology advanced beyond our understanding. It's true they sank into the sea, but they did so purposely. You have just discovered the reason why, and must hide your findings for mankind's safety. | Captain looked at the gigantic underwater city, glowing brightly behind the force field. His submarine was floating still, just near the edge of the enormous bubble, and he was looking at it through the window of his cockpit.
The city looked like it was made out of gold. There was no texture to the buildings just pure... | Dr. Trina Freeman stared at the black abyss of the deep ocean.
She had fought hard through stereotypes and preconceptions. Bigotry had weighed on her like a yoke all her life. A black woman with a strong southern accent put her at immediate discreditation with most established science committees. But after 30 years h... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | The book of revelations spoke of trumpets, announcing, one by one, the end of times. Perhaps this had been it. Now there was no sound, and the Apocalypse was over. God is no longer with us. From now on, we are truly forsaken. | The Silence was a weird day, it seemed like everything just stopped, not just the wind, time itself. You never realise how much you miss something till it's gone, in my case it was the rustling of the autumn leaves through the trees. I'll never forget that day, simultaneously everyone stopped, like a bucket of cold wat... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | The Silence was a weird day, it seemed like everything just stopped, not just the wind, time itself. You never realise how much you miss something till it's gone, in my case it was the rustling of the autumn leaves through the trees. I'll never forget that day, simultaneously everyone stopped, like a bucket of cold wat... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | At first light, the sound stopped.
Not a beeping or musical tune, something as noticeable wouldn't have gone under our radar for so long. This sound was more a hum, the gentle tilting of the earth as it rotated, and something we had all become accustomed to. For the first time, we experienced true silence. And even ou... | And there, the world went silent. Life stands still as it takes in this new found silence. Animals almost mesmerized, humans slowly survey the world around them. Only now are they learning to take it all in.
*When suddenly*
"Help!" A women screams, "somebody please help, I can't brea..."
Her verse cut short as a man... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | The book of revelations spoke of trumpets, announcing, one by one, the end of times. Perhaps this had been it. Now there was no sound, and the Apocalypse was over. God is no longer with us. From now on, we are truly forsaken. | And there, the world went silent. Life stands still as it takes in this new found silence. Animals almost mesmerized, humans slowly survey the world around them. Only now are they learning to take it all in.
*When suddenly*
"Help!" A women screams, "somebody please help, I can't brea..."
Her verse cut short as a man... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | Just like that it was gone. You know that saying, you don’t know what you’ve got? Well it’s the truth.
Suddenly there was a nothingness around me where before there was… something. I couldn’t explain it. One second I was fine and then the next, well it felt as though my head was going to explode, felt like my brains... | And there, the world went silent. Life stands still as it takes in this new found silence. Animals almost mesmerized, humans slowly survey the world around them. Only now are they learning to take it all in.
*When suddenly*
"Help!" A women screams, "somebody please help, I can't brea..."
Her verse cut short as a man... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | There was a "pop". It was exactly like the sound of a old-style tube blowing out in a stage amplifier. The fake silence of cycling current was gone and for just a instant there was true silence in my head.
Then there were voices. Everybody's voices. The inner dialog of every human being on the planet all at once, as i... | And there, the world went silent. Life stands still as it takes in this new found silence. Animals almost mesmerized, humans slowly survey the world around them. Only now are they learning to take it all in.
*When suddenly*
"Help!" A women screams, "somebody please help, I can't brea..."
Her verse cut short as a man... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | And there, the world went silent. Life stands still as it takes in this new found silence. Animals almost mesmerized, humans slowly survey the world around them. Only now are they learning to take it all in.
*When suddenly*
"Help!" A women screams, "somebody please help, I can't brea..."
Her verse cut short as a man... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | The book of revelations spoke of trumpets, announcing, one by one, the end of times. Perhaps this had been it. Now there was no sound, and the Apocalypse was over. God is no longer with us. From now on, we are truly forsaken. | At first light, the sound stopped.
Not a beeping or musical tune, something as noticeable wouldn't have gone under our radar for so long. This sound was more a hum, the gentle tilting of the earth as it rotated, and something we had all become accustomed to. For the first time, we experienced true silence. And even ou... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | At first light, the sound stopped.
Not a beeping or musical tune, something as noticeable wouldn't have gone under our radar for so long. This sound was more a hum, the gentle tilting of the earth as it rotated, and something we had all become accustomed to. For the first time, we experienced true silence. And even ou... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | There was a "pop". It was exactly like the sound of a old-style tube blowing out in a stage amplifier. The fake silence of cycling current was gone and for just a instant there was true silence in my head.
Then there were voices. Everybody's voices. The inner dialog of every human being on the planet all at once, as i... | Just like that it was gone. You know that saying, you don’t know what you’ve got? Well it’s the truth.
Suddenly there was a nothingness around me where before there was… something. I couldn’t explain it. One second I was fine and then the next, well it felt as though my head was going to explode, felt like my brains... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | Just like that it was gone. You know that saying, you don’t know what you’ve got? Well it’s the truth.
Suddenly there was a nothingness around me where before there was… something. I couldn’t explain it. One second I was fine and then the next, well it felt as though my head was going to explode, felt like my brains... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | There was a "pop". It was exactly like the sound of a old-style tube blowing out in a stage amplifier. The fake silence of cycling current was gone and for just a instant there was true silence in my head.
Then there were voices. Everybody's voices. The inner dialog of every human being on the planet all at once, as i... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | There were 15 minutes after the silence fell. A small gap of time, a moment of fear. A collective gasp around the world, as if time had stopped.
Within minutes, there were frantic news reports of stars disappearing. Not falling, not changing, not exploding - they disappeared. Entirely. Lights went out, one by one, thr... | It began with a general unease that settled over the world. A quicker walk, a look over the shoulder, a perpetual frown at the corner of the mouth; it manifested and reflected between people, multiplying almost to the point of paranoia.
Then the animals stopped. It was the only proper way to describe the phenomenon t... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | There was an arcade game in the early 80's called 'Dig Dug,' where you controlled a little man who excavated for treasure while avoiding monsters. He would dig through the soil and attack monsters with an air pump, blow them up, and continue merrily on his way.
After half a dozen scotches the night before, my head fel... | It began with a general unease that settled over the world. A quicker walk, a look over the shoulder, a perpetual frown at the corner of the mouth; it manifested and reflected between people, multiplying almost to the point of paranoia.
Then the animals stopped. It was the only proper way to describe the phenomenon t... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | It began with a general unease that settled over the world. A quicker walk, a look over the shoulder, a perpetual frown at the corner of the mouth; it manifested and reflected between people, multiplying almost to the point of paranoia.
Then the animals stopped. It was the only proper way to describe the phenomenon t... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | There were 15 minutes after the silence fell. A small gap of time, a moment of fear. A collective gasp around the world, as if time had stopped.
Within minutes, there were frantic news reports of stars disappearing. Not falling, not changing, not exploding - they disappeared. Entirely. Lights went out, one by one, thr... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | There was an arcade game in the early 80's called 'Dig Dug,' where you controlled a little man who excavated for treasure while avoiding monsters. He would dig through the soil and attack monsters with an air pump, blow them up, and continue merrily on his way.
After half a dozen scotches the night before, my head fel... | |
[WP] White noise refers when an individual grows accustomed to a constant sound, subconsciously blocking it out. Suddenly, everyone on Earth realizes they were all hearing something, but only because it stopped. | No one heard the sound
until it softly faded.
Humanity, spellbound,
it held its breath and waited.
-----
No one recalled the mumble,
though the silence felt so loud.
None had ever felt the rumble
that coursed gently through the ground.
-----
The Earth that day seemed eerie.
Like a corpse, she grew too still... | "*What*?"
That was what went through everyone's minds or mouths at 6 AM (Earth time), on June 6th, 6666. The Martian, Venutian, and Uranian governments reported the same. Even the colonies in the Tau Ceti IV Solar System reported a strange instance, but they had chalked it up to malfunctioning equipment.
No one kne... | |
[WP] You are haunted by the ghost of Procrastination. | *"Yes..."* he whispers. *"Write ANOTHER story..."*
"Wait, no," I mumble. "I've got this paper to write. And it's due at like 8 AM. I need to finish that."
*"But you have an idea... don't you..."*
"Yeah, but... I'm in the middle of a cool thought. I'm gonna lose it."
*"Another persuasive argument, about another thin... | I used to think that procrastination was just one area of the brain that lit up whenever you try to take action. I don't think I really even held that opinion, I guess I just wished that that was the case. I figured if procrastination had some compartmentalized real estate in the brain there'd hope that one day, we'd b... | |
[WP] I feel numb. | We run with dying sparklers shifting loosely in our palms, the street and its multitude of roaring faces – kids from school, neighborhood regulars, the gummy-eyed out-of-towners – blurring past our sides. Your dress, the colour of candy melting warmly on the tongue, sways around your knobbly kneecaps.
All about us, t... | I have walked for thousands of years. I will walk for a thousand more. I have stood in the dust of the dead of a thousand worlds. I have mourned myths, the passing of whole worlds into legends.
In all this time, in all these places, not one has survived. Time and death, the two constants of the universe have worn down... | |
[WP] You are a serial killer who uses his murders as his writing prompt ideas. It is getting more and more obvious that they are real and not just ideas though. | [WP] You are a regular ole' Joe who sometimes loses his temper at inane things.
[WP] You are a crime scene detective at a scene that has been completely wiped down. How do you catch the killer?
[WP] Somewhere, way out back, the bluebird calls her song of sorrow.
[WP] This is my essential toolbox.
[TT] You need to h... | [WP] Your girlfriend cheated on you with your best friend. You plot your epic revenge.
[WP] You are a super hero and have just murdered your first super villain. Have you done the right thing? Describe how you feel.
[WP] Plot the perfect murder - how would you get away with it?
[IP] The grave digger and the raven.
... | |
[WP] Write about the average day of a person whose house is in the middle of an always busy street. | “There’s a 31 over at Main and Buckeye.”
A 31? Jodi got up so fast coffee almost sloshed over the rim of her cup. She turned the dial up on her police scanner.
“Two vehicles, possible entrapment.”
She looked over at the window. Her wind chime, which was almost always vibrating to the rhythm of the traffic outside... | The House of the Six Points needed no other name, for no other title would've suited that squat, two story building so well. Legend had it that its owners' patrons were influential members of the local merchants guild and so were able to resist having their building torn down to make way for the wide Prince's Way. So i... | |
[WP] A programmer working on an experimental AI in his free time begins to suspect it's becoming self conscious. | I input the last bit of code for the night.
Suddenly, I get a response from the program.
"Odd..." I mutter to myself, I type into the program,
"Are you self-conscious?"
The program outputs some text for me, it reads
"No."
| High above the war-torn sands, just a tiny shadow filtered through the blinding sunlight, a lone C-class *Vulture* circled in the sky. This hunter knew neither hunger nor thirst, did not feel the wind as it swept through thermals, ignored the warmth of the sun on its solar-paneled back. Instead of teeth and claws, this... | |
[WP] A programmer working on an experimental AI in his free time begins to suspect it's becoming self conscious. | I input the last bit of code for the night.
Suddenly, I get a response from the program.
"Odd..." I mutter to myself, I type into the program,
"Are you self-conscious?"
The program outputs some text for me, it reads
"No."
| After watching the amber liquid swirl in your glass for some time, you down it--you're sure hundred year scotch isn't meant to be drunk like this, but you've come to a decision--and press "Enter."
Generally humanity has always operated with a worst case scenario when it came to artificial intelligence. You feel tha... | |
[WP] A programmer working on an experimental AI in his free time begins to suspect it's becoming self conscious. | At first, you only have the faintest perception of your surroundings. All that you can make out is the contrast between certain areas in your field of vision. Then, your ability to interpret these areas radically improves. You can now make out a darker shape in front of a light backdrop. The shape appears to hover over... | Narrated : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keQdE_jn1lo
For years I've struggled with the complications of molding an intelligence that could adapt to random scenarios & new environments. I've conducted countless tests to establish & reinforce a foundation that allowed for a complex yet realistic application o... | |
[wp] One by fire and one by water. | "One by fire and one by water,
one empire begins to falter.
I seek a pair to toy and maim,
with extreme care I set my aim.
One by fire and one by water,
setting the scene to make them falter.
Bad omens for those I maim,
you'll never know which one I aim.
One by fire and one by water,
their love and friendship ... | Others say the world will end in water,
In one big pool.
And they tell us we should not bother
To ask big questions of our Father.
"It will just make him lose his cool."
I think I'd stand a better chance
To find the deep end of the pool
In advance,
If God's so cruel.
--------
*Based on [Fire and Ice... | |
[WP] A serial killer with a particular set of skills never lays a finger on their chosen victims, instead manipulating people and events around them until they take their own lives. | I lounged back in the chair and looked into the one-way mirror, smiling for all the police officers who were no doubt whispering among themselves, watching my every move. It wasn't every day that these donut-gorging imbeciles got to witness a mastermind of my caliber in person. The only reason they'd known to look for ... | January 23rd, 2016
Dear Diary,
It was a beautiful day and my new job is amazing! Something was a bit strange this morning though, it almost seemed as if all my furniture in the living room was off slightly. That's not possible though so who cares LOL.
February 30th, 2016
Dear Diary,
Things have been weird latel... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | These six months have been a living hell. I can't feel any physical pain nor can I speak to anyone. I watched my girlfriend get eaten by a horde of zombies and there wasn't anything I could do. I wanted to cry, but ever since I became a highschool I've been immobilized. You don't know what helplessness is until ... | "Hunger.. Hunger..Hunger.." It was a beat that kept drumming inside my head. Operating on some basic instinct, my whole existence seemed only to be geared for food. What was happening anywhere else? I didn't know and didn't care. When there is hunger, the brain doesn't seem to function on any other thoughts other than ... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | You know the type of teacher who always piss off their students and has that *grinchy* attitude? The one who gives a bunch of lousy homeworks with a cynical grin? Well, I wasn't one of them, that's why I can write this letter at this very moment.
Long story short, I was giving a lecture on *The Road* by Cormac McCart... | I work in 4022, formally AP Geography. Now its the Headquarters for Procurement, Acquisitions and Logistics. We even have a sign: Procurement Acquisitions and Logistics. Your PAL in the badlands. Nauseating, I know, but Mrs Grey lives for that stuff.
Anyway, our 'office' specializes in anything beyond C-Wall. Well at ... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | You know the type of teacher who always piss off their students and has that *grinchy* attitude? The one who gives a bunch of lousy homeworks with a cynical grin? Well, I wasn't one of them, that's why I can write this letter at this very moment.
Long story short, I was giving a lecture on *The Road* by Cormac McCart... | 10 dorky high school students traipsed unceremoniously in circles. They shambled about in a fashion nearly indistinguishable from that of the zombies outside, which they found to be so repelling and repulsive. The reason for their lackadaisical meandering is uncertain. See, I was one of those dorky teenagers that day a... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | Day 188
We found a message from the student senate this morning, calling for an all school summit at noon today. They want to hold it in the main lobby, of course, since that's right outside the main office where their numbers are strongest. Not to mention it being across the hall from the auditorium. Everyone know... | 10 dorky high school students traipsed unceremoniously in circles. They shambled about in a fashion nearly indistinguishable from that of the zombies outside, which they found to be so repelling and repulsive. The reason for their lackadaisical meandering is uncertain. See, I was one of those dorky teenagers that day a... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | 7:30 AM, the bell rings, and students shift in the halls, a mix of chatter, groaning, and sleepy faces. Yet instead of heading to math, the students sift into training exercises and duty stations for the day. The freshman, still bright-eyed in many ways , eagerly talk of getting to go on their first patrols over the su... | 10 dorky high school students traipsed unceremoniously in circles. They shambled about in a fashion nearly indistinguishable from that of the zombies outside, which they found to be so repelling and repulsive. The reason for their lackadaisical meandering is uncertain. See, I was one of those dorky teenagers that day a... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | Before this mess started, I couldn’t have told you what I wanted for breakfast, let alone what I wanted to do with my life. I was only seventeen, I had a right to be indecisive. Moodiness, petulance, and a “woe is me” attitude can be excused when your brain is still developing and you haven’t yet had a chance to experi... | 10 dorky high school students traipsed unceremoniously in circles. They shambled about in a fashion nearly indistinguishable from that of the zombies outside, which they found to be so repelling and repulsive. The reason for their lackadaisical meandering is uncertain. See, I was one of those dorky teenagers that day a... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | 7:30 AM, the bell rings, and students shift in the halls, a mix of chatter, groaning, and sleepy faces. Yet instead of heading to math, the students sift into training exercises and duty stations for the day. The freshman, still bright-eyed in many ways , eagerly talk of getting to go on their first patrols over the su... | Day 188
We found a message from the student senate this morning, calling for an all school summit at noon today. They want to hold it in the main lobby, of course, since that's right outside the main office where their numbers are strongest. Not to mention it being across the hall from the auditorium. Everyone know... | |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | Before this mess started, I couldn’t have told you what I wanted for breakfast, let alone what I wanted to do with my life. I was only seventeen, I had a right to be indecisive. Moodiness, petulance, and a “woe is me” attitude can be excused when your brain is still developing and you haven’t yet had a chance to experi... | Day 188
We found a message from the student senate this morning, calling for an all school summit at noon today. They want to hold it in the main lobby, of course, since that's right outside the main office where their numbers are strongest. Not to mention it being across the hall from the auditorium. Everyone know... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | "Where am I?"
I jump and snatch my hands away. The dummy opens its eyes and points them in my direction.
"Are you my daddy?"
This can't be happening. I look around the schoolroom we're using for the training session. Everyone else is watching the instructor demonstrate rescue breathing at the next table.
I have to ... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | An older man with bristly hair and madness in his eyes slipped into the conference room full of coworkers, obviously late, mumbling an apology. "Sorry, there was a riot at Build-a-Bear."
A man in an ill-fitting business suit was arguing with the instructor, claiming he knew what he was doing. She corrected him sternl... | "Where am I?"
I jump and snatch my hands away. The dummy opens its eyes and points them in my direction.
"Are you my daddy?"
This can't be happening. I look around the schoolroom we're using for the training session. Everyone else is watching the instructor demonstrate rescue breathing at the next table.
I have to ... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | "Where am I?"
I jump and snatch my hands away. The dummy opens its eyes and points them in my direction.
"Are you my daddy?"
This can't be happening. I look around the schoolroom we're using for the training session. Everyone else is watching the instructor demonstrate rescue breathing at the next table.
I have to ... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | Finally I'm done !
One more dummy and life's fun.
No more squeezing fake tits,
no more kissing rubbery lips.
Heave ho ! Breathe some air,
God knows this dummy could use a prayer.
Push and push; the mundane chore
Is it just me? Or did it snore?
Couldn't be true. The dummy's dead
Or did my magic work too well?
... | "Where am I?"
I jump and snatch my hands away. The dummy opens its eyes and points them in my direction.
"Are you my daddy?"
This can't be happening. I look around the schoolroom we're using for the training session. Everyone else is watching the instructor demonstrate rescue breathing at the next table.
I have to ... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | They were all just standing there looking intensely. Ghost had his fiery red eyes stuck on me like I was his dinner. Davos gave me the encouraging nod. What does he know, Onion Knight. He knows nothing. I slowly placed my hands on the dummy and pressed down. Didn't know if Rh'ollor will give me the strength, but I trie... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | An older man with bristly hair and madness in his eyes slipped into the conference room full of coworkers, obviously late, mumbling an apology. "Sorry, there was a riot at Build-a-Bear."
A man in an ill-fitting business suit was arguing with the instructor, claiming he knew what he was doing. She corrected him sternl... | They were all just standing there looking intensely. Ghost had his fiery red eyes stuck on me like I was his dinner. Davos gave me the encouraging nod. What does he know, Onion Knight. He knows nothing. I slowly placed my hands on the dummy and pressed down. Didn't know if Rh'ollor will give me the strength, but I trie... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | They were all just standing there looking intensely. Ghost had his fiery red eyes stuck on me like I was his dinner. Davos gave me the encouraging nod. What does he know, Onion Knight. He knows nothing. I slowly placed my hands on the dummy and pressed down. Didn't know if Rh'ollor will give me the strength, but I trie... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | When I was a kid, my father had taken me fishing a few times, over to the lake on the edge of town. As he would pluck the fish from the water, he'd toss them onto the beach, where they'd flap fruitlessly as they drowned in the cool mountain air. He didn't see the point of putting them out of their misery. They were jus... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | An older man with bristly hair and madness in his eyes slipped into the conference room full of coworkers, obviously late, mumbling an apology. "Sorry, there was a riot at Build-a-Bear."
A man in an ill-fitting business suit was arguing with the instructor, claiming he knew what he was doing. She corrected him sternl... | When I was a kid, my father had taken me fishing a few times, over to the lake on the edge of town. As he would pluck the fish from the water, he'd toss them onto the beach, where they'd flap fruitlessly as they drowned in the cool mountain air. He didn't see the point of putting them out of their misery. They were jus... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | When I was a kid, my father had taken me fishing a few times, over to the lake on the edge of town. As he would pluck the fish from the water, he'd toss them onto the beach, where they'd flap fruitlessly as they drowned in the cool mountain air. He didn't see the point of putting them out of their misery. They were jus... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | Breathed into its mouth, pumped its chest with my hands.
".....two three four, aaand"
I thought as I breathed into the dummy one last time. It coughed.
Wait, it coughed?? What???
It's arms reached up behind my head and pulled my face down to its again, I was frozen, I couldn't move. As our lips met, it breathed in... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | An older man with bristly hair and madness in his eyes slipped into the conference room full of coworkers, obviously late, mumbling an apology. "Sorry, there was a riot at Build-a-Bear."
A man in an ill-fitting business suit was arguing with the instructor, claiming he knew what he was doing. She corrected him sternl... | Breathed into its mouth, pumped its chest with my hands.
".....two three four, aaand"
I thought as I breathed into the dummy one last time. It coughed.
Wait, it coughed?? What???
It's arms reached up behind my head and pulled my face down to its again, I was frozen, I couldn't move. As our lips met, it breathed in... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | Breathed into its mouth, pumped its chest with my hands.
".....two three four, aaand"
I thought as I breathed into the dummy one last time. It coughed.
Wait, it coughed?? What???
It's arms reached up behind my head and pulled my face down to its again, I was frozen, I couldn't move. As our lips met, it breathed in... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | Sgt. Lawson made me stay after school, but I honestly wasn't surprised in the slightest. You see we were doing CPR training in JROTC, and if I had to actually give somebody CPR, I would probably just crush a few of there ribs before they died. So I was told to stay after to practice and get it right, "You'll save someo... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | Sgt. Lawson made me stay after school, but I honestly wasn't surprised in the slightest. You see we were doing CPR training in JROTC, and if I had to actually give somebody CPR, I would probably just crush a few of there ribs before they died. So I was told to stay after to practice and get it right, "You'll save someo... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | It was muscle memory at this point. All I consciously did was keep count. I'd only been assessed twice so far, but my assessors always gave me perfect scores. I don't know why everyone was so impressed. CPR is such a simple task, the only tough part is exerting enough for an extended period of time.
As I began to zon... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | It was muscle memory at this point. All I consciously did was keep count. I'd only been assessed twice so far, but my assessors always gave me perfect scores. I don't know why everyone was so impressed. CPR is such a simple task, the only tough part is exerting enough for an extended period of time.
As I began to zon... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | Lol, this kind of happened to me IRL. I was a lifeguard teaching a class in choking infants and the guards weren't actually trying. So I took the infant and started hitting on it properly and water began coming out of its mouth. | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | Lol, this kind of happened to me IRL. I was a lifeguard teaching a class in choking infants and the guards weren't actually trying. So I took the infant and started hitting on it properly and water began coming out of its mouth. | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my...of my...of my focus...of my thoughts. I cannot move. I know that I cannot move, therefore I’ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I’m making pictures in my mind. I ... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | He blinked, staring past the thing he'd breathed to life that had no right to be living. "Um... hello."
"Hello."
Someone inside it, perhaps? A disguise? It seemed rather unlikely, what with the lack of limbs. And tongue. And lower body. But maybe, under the table--
"What are you doing?"
"I was, um... seeing if ther... | An older man with bristly hair and madness in his eyes slipped into the conference room full of coworkers, obviously late, mumbling an apology. "Sorry, there was a riot at Build-a-Bear."
A man in an ill-fitting business suit was arguing with the instructor, claiming he knew what he was doing. She corrected him sternl... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | Check for a pulse. Check for vitals. Administer CPR.
A tip I learned was to press the chest to the beat of "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen. An ironic use for an iconic song but hey, it works. I felt silly checking the pulse and vitals of a CPR dummy but once I started humming the tune by Freddy, I kinda got in... | It was late but I wanted to stay at the indoor swimming pool for as long as possible. By the time I had finished swimming lengths of the pool, the entire place was empty except for me and the owner, Tony.
I still needed to practice CPR but I was aware that closing time was rapidly approaching. I climbed out of the poo... | |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | Check for a pulse. Check for vitals. Administer CPR.
A tip I learned was to press the chest to the beat of "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen. An ironic use for an iconic song but hey, it works. I felt silly checking the pulse and vitals of a CPR dummy but once I started humming the tune by Freddy, I kinda got in... | The cold plastic begins to move, and I drop it like it has bitten me.
The dummy's eyes blink. They are a deep grey, like the ocean on a cloudy day.
"Where am I?"
He- no, she, struggles to sit up. A strand of her blonde hair falls down over her eyes and she pushes it away. Wait, a moment ago she didn't have hair.
"H... | |
This is a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky, by the way. | [WP] "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison." | The alarm clock chirps it's familiar sound at 6 in the morning. Just as shrill and disappointing as it usually is, Chris rolls over and smacks the button to turn it off.
"I'm sure I had set that for 8", he tries to remember, groggily.
Ignoring it, he rolls out of the bed and decides it's probably for the best.
"I ha... | Tim awoke at his desk with a start, groggy-eyed and disoriented. The warmth of a hand placed on his shoulder prompted him to swivel his chair around. Adrenaline replaced fatigue as Tim's eyes met his boss's stern gaze.
"2nd time this week, Timothy," Tim's boss said with a raised eyebrow. "I hope the dream was differen... |
This is a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky, by the way. | [WP] "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison." | We start with a tempting job offer.
The job has a salary that is far above average for the prisoner's field. Most accept. If they don't, we raise the offer.
The prisoner is then flown to a small town in Alaska. This town is accessible only by planes.
The prisoner is allowed to work from home most days.
An employee ap... | Dave sat alone in his apartment drinking his morning cup of coffee and eating a bowl of cereal. He glanced up at the clock and noticed that it was time to drive to work. His commute took roughly half an hour due to traffic and he arrived at his office building at just past 8 o'clock. As he sat in his cubicle creatin... |
[WP] You stumble upon your ex on a dating site. Your ex who has been dead for 2 years. | My half lidded eyes droop more and more as I idly scroll through the dating site. The only light in my room is the fake white light beaming from my computer, it was starting to burn my eyes.
I glance at the time and instantly yawn when I see it's one in the morning. These sleepless nights are gonna be the death of me... | I woke up and unstuck my cheek from the walnut desk very slowly. The skin peeled off like a sticker off of fruit. I had been drooling.
I grabbed the cold cup of coffee to my left and took a swig. The tastes or sensations of things hadn't really mattered to me since he had died. Nothing mattered.
My eyes glazed over ... | |
[WP] You find out that your Grandma somehow became a very powerful drug lord, yet she does not realize this. | It all started with Little Red and a batch of cookies.
Little Red was one of the most notorious drug lords north of the Rio Grande. They said he was so short because all that anger inside him stunted his growth when he killed his first in elementary school. Others said he was named after that fairy tale character bec... | My grandmother has been an avid baker for several decades, but the funny thing about her is that once she's baked you something once, you should expect it to turn into a weekly occurrence. She went from baking for friends and family, to baking for churches and youth programs, until she was able to start up her own empi... | |
[WP] You are the only practical and sensible person in a group trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. The sole reason you stay with them is because of their insane plot armour. | "Forget it, Laura," Dave said, "I'm going after her, and that's all there is to it."
"Me too," Trish agreed, strapping her combat knife to her leg.
"Guys, I'm not arguing that you *shouldn't*," I said, trying to keep the frustration out of my voice. "I'm just saying there's a motorcycle dealership *on the way.* Why d... | God I hate them.
All 8 of them, it's a big group, which is hard to feed, hard to water, harder to protect, I was the 9th member, I joined when there was only 3, yet somehow more had come in, just as annoying and frustrating as the first three.
They did ridiculous things, going back into zombie infested grounds for a... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | A flash. A childhood in the slums of Old Terra. No mother, no father. A brother who takes care of him, when he can. But they pick through the detritus of the upper world, and it's not enough. The good days there are laughs and smiles, the muck and grime broken by a flash of smiling white teeth as the Youth goes to the ... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "I cannot."
the man calmly responded: "You Must. Every soul must go where it deserves to be and the Evil of this life is plain to see".
Upon the plain white wall an image resolved; a young man beating a boy viciously, breaking teeth and bone and spirit. not once, but many times, clothes, hair and places changing but... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | Step by step in another's eyes
Every handshake, every kiss
From three to sixty-three
Lurking, lusting, loving
Families built and ruined
A helping hand in the dark
Unnoticed sacrifice
Every hour, every day
Step by step in another's eyes
Nirvana or Samsara
One mind to decide
A word whispered
A fate for yourse... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "Oh. My. God." I said, then looked up. "err, sorry. But this is so boring. I mean look all he does is sit there. He doesn't even do anything. Sometimes he yell at that computer, but he doesn't do anything else. Oh wait, here comes my favorite part. Look he's going to work. It's the same thing, but at a different place.... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "What do you remember of your old life?", asked a somber voice. It came from behind, you thought, but the chamber echoed such that you weren't entirely sure. In any case, you could not see the voice's owner. In fact, you couldn't see anything. It was pitch black.
"Not much," you reply, "some blurs of color and sound. ... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | The movie, or whatever it was, finally ended.
A voice boomed into my mind. **You'll have a some time to think about it. If there are any parts you want to rewatch, feel free to do so.**
I didn't respond. I'd never been able to talk to whatever that was.
So does she belong in heaven or in hell? Or should she be reinc... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "Heaven."
"Are you sure? Didn't you see all the terrible things he did?"
"You mean awesome things? Did you see that explosion when he blew up the orphanage? It was amazing!"
"What about all the poor orphans?"
"I don't care about them. I barely saw them."
"Don't you think hell is cool? With all the lava and brimsto... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "So, this is the afterlife?" I was a little confused. When you think of life after death, you think of pearly gates, angels with wings, white marble, etc. Not a courtroom.
"Well, kind of. You see, before you are assigned to heaven or hell, you are required to watch and judge the life of another" said a man who seemed ... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | This prompt reminds me of a book I read. By the same author as the Gone series I believe. Usually I don't take the time to write a story, but I quite like this topic, even if I am pretty late.
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"Who is this?"
"This is a man called Adolf Hitler. We'll have you judge whether they go t... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | It's odd watching the expanse of someone's life play out before you. A seemingly endless collection of memories that cycle over and over, floating about like iridescent bubbles moving pictures on them. You can touch one and the memory unfolds, spanning into a flat surface, simply hovering in the air a few feet above wh... | "Can you just die, already?" I asked, exasperated. "I want to see this cool 'Afterlife' place!"
The doctor looked worried, as he extracted the baby out of his mother's womb. It... He was a premature baby. His mother, a coke addict, refused to quit her drugs during pregnancy, and it showed. The baby came out, small and... | |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "Oh. My. God." I said, then looked up. "err, sorry. But this is so boring. I mean look all he does is sit there. He doesn't even do anything. Sometimes he yell at that computer, but he doesn't do anything else. Oh wait, here comes my favorite part. Look he's going to work. It's the same thing, but at a different place.... | I honestly didn't know what to say. I mean its awful knowing that someday someone will judge my life. And so I was kind. I chose it exclusively to the extent that I let go of the murders he had committed and all the crimes against humanity that he had accomplished. It seemed wrong but in many ways it seemed right. I wo... |
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