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(Didn't quite hit the nail on the head by the end, I'm off to bed, can't help it I'm dozing where I stand! Nice prompt.)
"Explain to me why we have to watch it in 2d, aren't there 4d mods?"
"How are you supposed to get the classical experience in 4d?"
"What...the heck is that?"
"Pretty sure they call it a TV."
"Wh... | 47 | In the year 3014, a bunch of bored college students gather together to laugh at 21st century sci-fi films | 28 |
It had always appeared in the corner of my eye, just out of sight. I'd turn to look at it, but it would be gone. People would ask what I was looking at, and i'd brush it off as a figment of my imagination. Every time I saw it, I noticed the little bit of writing. What did it say? Was it a name? A date? An oddly specifi... | 12 | There is a piece of paper with your true love's name written on it that intermittently appears in your life, floating away from you like a plastic bag in the wind. You will never catch it but you know that it is accurate. You see it today, on your wedding day. | 16 |
Looking back I may have cheated slightly and gone a bit off prompt but it's written so here you go:
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He touches her. Paralyzed. She doesn’t move. Doesn’t respond. He leaves his hand resting on her body. Nobody else is in the room. She is barely dressed. Her favourit... | 13 | make the reader jittery; 2nd time, make the reader calm. | 25 |
Her voice was calm, slightly regretful. She looked about nervously, wringing her hands - it reminded me of the motion a bartender makes when cleaning glasses, if the glasses had been made of ice.
"I'd forgotten," she said, "what it's like to be with you. You use people, James. You don't let them near you."
I swallowe... | 12 | "I remember why I don't love you" | 15 |
It's hard to describe my life. Like something out a fucking comedy movie. You know, that unfortunate kid, the perpetual third wheel, the guy that the main character looks at strangely and the audience laughs at, then is forgotten about. That's me.
There is always a problem with my day. There is always something, somet... | 307 | Create a story that ends with a sentence that you never thought you would utter in your entire life | 70 |
Honestly, I think the brand was an even better invention than the test. I mean, what good is it knowing that 2/3rds of people aren't really there if there is no way to use that information?
Like here, when they first came out with the test, a lot of people hated it. It was marketed as redefining what it meant to be h... | 36 | 2/3rds of all people are philosophical zombies, behaving indistinguishably from "normal" people but totally lacking in conscious experience. Despite outwardly appearing the same a majority of humans have no consciousness | 71 |
The first one had taken him longer than expected-- /r/Fermata simply refused to let go, despite the encouraging percussive blasts of a rock to the skull. Pure luck, a mutual surprise where years of quick-time events gave him the edge. Retreating to stealth mode let him silently dispatch poor /r/Outoftheloop, still stru... | 110 | Snoo has called for death match for the 10 random subreddits. Only one survives. | 125 |
Senna stood up and glared at the teacher. "*No.*" was the last word we heard from her, the last act of defiance. The teacher looked back in shock, nobody had stood up against her and the things she stood for for decades, especially not a student, especially not like this. Senna crossed her arms, knowing what she had d... | 26 | Make the must mundane item you can think of the Ultimate Symbol of Revolution | 31 |
*EDIT: This is god-awful. I'm embarrassed I wrote this. My only excuse is that I've never tried Noir before.*
The Cafe Tango is not a cafe, it is a bar/nightclub/tavern kind of place, somewhere on a coastal town in the middle of nowhere in Mexico. Where everyone is dark, mysterious, beautiful.
Because of it's bizarr... | 17 | Write the most cliche-ridden film noir setup you can think of | 16 |
"There is always someone out there that is more happy with less than what you have."
That was the saying that started it. When the rich realized the poor could be happy, with the working man's sweat to be good enough for him to smile, it had to come to an end. Those with less could *not* have more than them.
It was a... | 25 | Showing any signs of happiness becomes punishable by death | 26 |
They were naïve, to invite us into their council. They underestimated us because of their power, their intelligence. We were a race to control.
Most of all, they underestimated our ambition. Our ability to blindly strive for something for the sole purpose of attaining it.
They had waited years, thousands of years,... | 103 | Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | 105 |
The saffron carpet looked ill bearing his dried blood. His face was contorted in shock, like he was still trying to scream. A butcher's knife to the throat. Donaghue grimaced. Not the nicest way to go and not the tidiest either.
"The incision is 4.8 inches deep at the point of entry. The wound isn't wide however: not ... | 15 | a murder investigation keeps getting sidetracked by John Doe's hilarious tattoo | 46 |
She looks somewhat familiar to me. I find myself staring, though I'm trying my best not to. She looks gaunt. Ill, almost. Her hair falls limply around her face. I think it's brown but really it looks colourless. She's probably a similar height to me but significantly skinnier. Her hands are like bird claws, skeletal an... | 60 | The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | 51 |
This is the last message of Yxyatra. Forward to all spacecraft and Central upon receiving. Orders: Do no approach estimated location of this message broadcast without highest level of caution. Details below.
I/we have encountered more intelligent life. The procedures were followed: release of Scent and universal photo... | 12 | A sci-fi story where humanity are the monsters. | 32 |
The king was beginning to be annoyed by the constant messengers interrupting his breakfast.
"Sire, once again, our daily count of the kingdom's gold reserves shows 20 pounds missing."
The King's eyes widened and his nostrils flared.
"Where were the gaurds?"
"Incapacitated, sire. Again, they babble on about a myster... | 62 | A classic Disney movie, but the protagonist is now the villian | 95 |
*Lots of bad science in this. I wrote what I thought was interesting, not what was necessarily possible.*
The lab was the stereotypical white fluorescent room of children's cartoons. Racks upon racks of brightly coloured test tubes and flasks bubbled, hissed and popped through tubing that looked like the glassblower h... | 10 | Black holes throughout the universe are actually the result of different intelligent species wiping themselves out with a particular experiment. Humanity is about to conduct that experiment. | 26 |
I have never met the man I love, I hardly know anything about him. He knows everything about me, except this one secret. I am nothing but what he made me, I do not know my mothers name or my favourite outfit, because he never told me that. He never included it, it was irrelevant. I grew out of what he gave me, beginnin... | 11 | You are a character in a novel who falls in love with the author | 25 |
Jack rested his hand on the cold handle of the door and stopped. Rain and thunder sounded faintly from the thick, stained-glass windows behind him. Even through the thunderclouds, the moon was shining bright, and its light shone through the windows to create eerie silhouettes of angels and bowing figures. He took a dee... | 50 | As a young boy, he stole something. He then spent the rest of his life trying to return it. | 39 |
It is said that death is inevitable.
Mark loved his life. He had no family to weigh him down, no job to burden him, and no friends to bother him. His apartment, Sunshine Plaza, ironically had no sunshine due to the height of adjacent buildings. His dream had come true. So why not prolong his life? He prayed to whoever... | 27 | Two people are granted any wish they desire. One wishes for super powers, the other ........ to know the answer to *any* question. | 31 |
Just another normal day. I awoke to birds singing, and the sun shining through my window. It was a beautiful day and I had a good feeling about school today. Well better get ready. I had a shower, got dressed and made my way downstairs for breakfast. I walked into the kitchen and said "Good morning, mom," and what happ... | 20 | Everyone forgets who you are overnight, you are approached by your startled family when you come downstairs. | 93 |
"White chocolate mocha!"
"That's me." I smile, taking the hot coffee from the barrista. Absently, my eyes trace the pale length of her neck, and how easily I could wrap just one hand around it and-
Goddamnit. I slipped again.
"Have a nice day!"
My smile twitches, and I only barely manage to grunt in acknowledgem... | 18 | Your family tradition is to become a serial killer. Your dad loves to kill, your mom does the clean-up, grandma and grandpa had some times too, and your little sister is an experienced one as well. you refuse to be a part of this....But its in your blood | 23 |
Stout Oliver Alexander stood sweating over a ham, cheese, lettuce, mayo, and pickle sandwich on white bread that was not there, on his island, the day before. It was wet, but still looked edible, delicious even. Before he could consume it, though, it spoke.
"I wouldn't," said the sandwich.
"You wouldnt?" replied Oliv... | 17 | A sentient ham sandwich washes up on a island populated by a single starving man. | 22 |
"And we are back live with our emergency broadcast from the White House, where President Barack Obama has entered the Oval Office 6 hours ago.
At first he has moving back and forth between the fireside and his desk for most of the time. It looked like he could even leave the room again, before he encountered a potted... | 14 | TwitchRunsAmerica. | 35 |
The mewling from beside the bed dragged me slowly towards consciousness.
"Jewel, be quiet." I muttered, turning over and burying my head in the pillow. She just meowed louder, scratching at the bed. I shoved my hand out from under the covers to push her away. "Nooo, don't scratch the bed..." Her soft head butte... | 11 | One morning you wake up as a character in your favorite video game. How well do you fit in/survive? | 26 |
Jerry picked up the paper as he walked out of the deli he went to for lunch. The main story "Blopeca Man Foils Bank Robbery" took up nearly the entire front page. Jerry had gone to that bank the day before, but he didn't remember anything like that happening. As he recalled it was something more like this:
>It w... | 58 | Your main character is Placebo Man. Although he/she never does anything special, crime drops in the city because everyone else thinks he's a super hero. | 151 |
Dave stood waiting in the school playground. Bits of litter danced across the tarmac, remnants of lunches that mothers had so lovingly packed.
His mum had never done that. Too busy sending off for competitions in tabloids she'd never win or desperately searching for pennies beneath the sofa to be able to afford a pac... | 15 | A drug user and his dealer run into each other as they pick their respective children up from preschool. | 39 |
"My girlfriend told me I'm fat."
Lucifer studied Death, a frosted sigh escaping his canine teeth. Blue skin shifted over toned muscles. "Listen, Davy, there are some times where listening to your girlfriend is a good idea. This is not one of them."
Death grimaced, his seat groaning in protest as he shifted his neglig... | 17 | Lucifer has a conversation with Death. He is angry that not enough souls are bringing brought to Hell. | 22 |
"I tell you Cheryl, it gets worse every year. All these damn people, you can't walk a half a mile without bumping into something."
"Well Edith it's all about keeping up with the times now isn't it. I suppose these days everyone's is just in such a hurry. Is there anywhere to sit?"
"Well I say, none of the tables are ... | 24 | An inept group of elderly mall-walkers have no idea that they are marching side by side with the zombie apocalypse. | 28 |
All these years of chasing mythical beasts around the world and never catching anything on film but shadows and muffled static were taking their toll on my faith. Sure, I could tell you about the time I chased Bigfoot through the mountains of Colorado, or the days I spent frantically hiding from a hungry Chupacabra in ... | 73 | The Loch Ness Monster washes up on the shore. Half of it's body was eaten. | 231 |
"A dragon!" Lenny exclaimed, pointing at the behemoth.
"Meh. I've seen bigger." Graham remarked, dismissing the oddity. It was New York after all.
"But, it's a dragon?" Lenny cried. "A really, real dragon." Graham gave the dragon another look and shrugged. "If this were Jersey, I'd be impressed."
"How can you dismis... | 15 | An enormous dragon lands in the middle of Central Park, and declares itself the King of New York. What happens next? | 18 |
As I stood outside, trying to compose myself for the ordeal ahead, I felt a hand grab my elbow and turned towards the person wondering who would grab me so abruptly at this trying time.
It was my sister, Jennie. We hadn't talked much since she'd gotten out of the hospital a year ago, but I was glad someone had gotten... | 13 | A new antidepressant is launched. It does the job, but it radically changes who you are and what you like to do. People who take it like their new personality and who they've become. Their (former) friends miss the original person. | 37 |
I sat in the hard-backed wooden chair in the nursery. I should have been in the living room watching television or something. But the baby would not go to sleep. It just sat staring at me with wide, impassive, dark eyes.
There was something disturbing about the baby. About the whole house, actually. It was all di... | 63 | You're babysitting an infant and you're getting irritated because it kept staring at you the entire time. but when its gaze changed slightly, you realized it wasn't staring at you, it was staring behind you. | 70 |
I sighed nervously and straightened my tie. I could hear the quiet murmur of the crowd behind the curtain. Straining my ears, I tried to ascertain people's individual voices.
Was that Scarlett I heard, whom I had spilled Diet Pepsi on, on our first date? Reflecting, that wouldnt have been so bad If I hadnt grabbed my... | 13 | Everyone from the most awkward memories of your life has assembled for a speech you've prepared for the purpose of redeeming yourself. | 30 |
This was it. I'd spent two hundred dollars getting a really good dye-job, it looked all-natural, unless someone actually spent time looking at it; now to put the dye to use. These gingers, the aristocracy, planned these galas as a meeting for their children, to keep the blood pure, they said.
To advance social stratas... | 32 | Social status is decided by hair color. At a ball for gingers, a girl with dyed hair walks in. | 53 |
"Mr. Rudolph, thank you for coming in today. We’re going to run a few questions past you about an event that occurred last night. Any help you could give us would be great” said Officer Miller. “Sounds good to me”. I managed to get out. *Shit, they found me so fast.*
“Last night a man wearing a clown mask stole 60 mi... | 16 | You are called in for questioning for a crime you did commit. The cops, however, have all the details wrong. | 30 |
Molebag the Destroyer rapped the skull-shaped gavel on the table three times.
"This meeting," he intoned, "of the dark principalities of the four corners is now convened. Presiding, Molebag the Destroyer, Lich-King of the Western Darkness."
He looked to his right. Wild, red light burned brilliantly from within the ... | 43 | A ancient Lich have grown tired of the evil ways. he opens up a Tavern, it quickly becomes the most popular Tavern in the lands. | 54 |
It was almost exasperating for little Mikey Turner to have to repeat himself so much.
“Be serious now. Where are your parents and how can we contact them?”
The man must have been crazy. He was dressed in the most outlandish outfit Mikey had ever seen, wouldn’t respond to Mikey’s answer (which he had given at least 5... | 15 | A child has wandered out of the woods, with torn clothes and mud-stained clothes. When he's asked if he knows what day it is, and where he's from, he says "July 1, 2201" and "The Moon." And he's serious. | 65 |
Julie,
By the time you read this I will be gone. I wish I could still be there with you, but we all knew the time would come when I would have to go on. You mean the world to me and I want you to live your life and be happy, and that is why I am writing this letter to you. I have watched you growing more and more dist... | 66 | A child has the ability to control every aspect of their dreams and treats their life as only a waiting period between dreams. Convince them that life is worth their effort. | 203 |
His father built me the day he was born, I was made of spare parts found around the house. I was always built to serve him, I was upgraded as he grew older. At first I was a pram, then a television, a computer, his first and only car. I was everything to him and we did everything together.
These last few years I have ... | 15 | A dying man gives a robot one final mission | 21 |
Upon breaking the warp veil thirty degrees north of the fourth Aethersea trading route, First Lieutenant Joyce told Midshipman Fletcher to get down the leather logbook and note down the details of the journey.
"Uneventful," Fletcher wrote down, noting the date and time in SEMT (Standard Earth Mean Time) "Good weathe... | 26 | Far into the future, humankind has finally mastered interstellar travel. A crew on a recon mission to some solar system discovers a planet covered in ruins of what appears to have been an intelligent civilization; a civilization that appears to have destroyed itself... | 54 |
"Well I am the last man on earth. What's the harm in doing a little question and asnwer. It's not like someone will reply or anything, right?"
This was his thoughts before the posted it.
"Hi, ummmm.... You're not quite the last man on earth but where do you live?"
"I live at the Empire State Builiding cause you can ... | 30 | The last man on earth does an AMA. Someone responds | 17 |
“I am sorry for the great amount of resistance to your arrival. On Earth, after years of war and strife, we’ve come to the belief of equality of opportunity. Every single person should have equal opportunity and freedom. Nobody is necessarily below others. This… this idea of people being food is absolutely against our ... | 20 | Our first alien visitors seem like nice folks. They've evolved a caste system where each different caste performs a function, and they're all sentient. Our problem is that one of the castes serves as food for the rest. | 28 |
First post on here, and I'm tired, so I hope it's decent.
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She hates orange juice.
Wait, what? How could I know that? I didn't know her, I'd never seen her before. But somehow, I know her name, her birthday, what kind of dog she has.
I waved at her just t... | 77 | A man wakes up one morning to discover somehow he shares meaningful past experiences with every human being on the planet. He has 7 billion close friendships. He leaves the house and takes a walk through the city... | 93 |
I thought I'd get there early, beat the lines. The Department of Legal Homicide opened at 9am. 9am was a foreign concept to me. Sometimes, in my insomniac's stupor, as dusk turned to deep, purple night and then back to rosy dawn, I'd imagine people waking up, making coffee, reading the paper, sitting down to toast. ... | 4,946 | You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | 2,206 |
"Help me..."
Gary jolted up and looked around the room. Where was he? This wasn't his room, it wasn't anywhere he'd ever seen. The walls were completely white, not painted that way, but rather devoid of all color. Did he just hear a voice?
"Uh," Gary stood up slowly, "where am I?"
There was a black box in the cente... | 106 | You are trapped in a white room. There is a black box in the centre and a note on top saying "DO NOT OPEN". As time passes you hear something from inside the box saying "HELP ME". (Be creative, and let your imagination run wild) | 107 |
They say history repeats itself, because it does, that saying seems to fall on deaf ears every time. It happened first with the advent of fusion energy. The surplus allowed for plentiful new technologies, and for some time, things were peaceful. We had eliminated most disease and poverty, the world was generally peacef... | 19 | There is an outcry from the galactic community, but with our new-found technology we have the upper hand militarily. | 39 |
I awoke to the smell of toast, which was surprising for more than one reason, considering my girlfriend had moved out a month ago and stole my toaster.
I leaped out of bed and ran downstairs as fast as I could. I figured that if something was on fire I'd be able to put it out before it got too large, or at least be ab... | 10 | A household appliance, after becoming sentient, begins to attempt to convert it's owner to the appliances newfound religion | 22 |
The first Facebook ad appeared innocuously, squeezed in next to a best friend's engagement pictures and an overexposed photo of someone's lunch. The picture was an empty square and the text read, "Tired of caring? 10% off sale if you click this ad." Jenny didn't click it.
As the months wore on, the ad still appeare... | 19 | A popular social establishment begins to encourage sociopathy. | 26 |
He crawls through the undergrowth, trying not to disturb the members of the group, who are seated in a tight circle around some unknown object, shoulders raised high against intruders.
"See here Billson." He whispers to his caddy, who is currently carrying the high-tech camera (an exposure time of only thirty second... | 386 | Click "random", and study the subreddit you got. Write about your discoveries like a victorian wilderness explorer | 660 |
Almost unharmed was a oven, unharmed in the way that the pilot light was broken, but nevertheless, was a pan of bread that had survived. In the small bakery, the French man stared the German down, as the German man was doing the same. Both were well trained snipers and very well equiped, but you can't eat bullets, as t... | 18 | WWII. A bombed-out town is abandoned save for two snipers, one German, the other French. They've been hunting each other in circles for weeks. No word from HQ. They're starving. Finally, they meet while scavenging in a torched bakery. | 21 |
"Now, if you'll open your books to John 19:1 -" The priest was interrupted by the opening of the large wooden church doors. The congregation turned their heads to see that the disturbance was none other than Timothy Smith who seemed to have something important to say to the priest. Murmurs could be heard as the seven y... | 16 | God makes himself known to humanity. What does the next 24 hours look like? | 18 |
*Landall, the last man, was working on another page in his memoir when he heard a knock at the door. "Who is it?" he grumbled. He slowly limped to the door, opened just by a bit, and peeked out. It was ~~a woman~~ ~~a dog~~ ~~a cat~~ ~~a zombie~~ ~~an alien~~*
James crumpled yet another page and thrown it into the bin... | 16 | The last man on earth hears a knock on his door. | 24 |
I was furious. I knew what had happened, and I wasn't prepared to do anything about it. It had been too long. This was my place now. How dare he do such a thing, the psychopath. What could he possibly have against me? Why would he ever wish such a fate upon me? I had finally found my place! I WAS FINALLY AT PEACE! And ... | 14 | You are trapped in a room. The room is dark. Suddenly, you see a flash of light in the corner of the room. The light disappears, and the room is dark, again. | 26 |
"The tools of my trade? It starts with a knife and ends with a knife. Baseballs and barbells are feel-good equipment. They make the job more visceral. They add flair. But you can't beat the precision, the goal-orientation, of the knife.
I warn you, this is the real fuckin' deal. Go any further down this road and you'l... | 15 | "Doesn't that hurt?" "If it didn't hurt, it wouldn't work." | 38 |
It was a dark and stormy night.
"Well screw us."
"What's the matter, Edgar?" his wife Gladys asked.
Edgar pointed a bony finger out the window where snow flurries collided into the window like kamikaze pilots on suicide runs.
"That doesn't even," Michael said from his place, leaning against the mantle of the roarin... | 47 | Guests at a small inn are snowed in for the night. The characters realize they are in a short story and anticipate a twist ending. | 45 |
The early 2000's otherwise known as the YOLO era. This was quite the backwards time in our evolution. Online records show that those who were hated, were actually the most liked. We still don't know if they meant it literally or if cultivating hatred was considered a grand achievement. But history does show many record... | 12 | Write an entry in a history book 10000 years in the future, describing the current era. The conclusions can be accurate or not, but the evidence should be solid. | 36 |
Not dinosaurs, but a piece with a somewhat similar vibe that was inspired by your prompt..
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Inside an annoyingly colorful classroom, various world leaders scribble furiously with crayons while a bouncy little boy darts around, looking over their shoulders.
Mr. Putin, what is this you're painting?
It's me wrestlin... | 12 | A six year old boy or girl teaches a lesson on dinosaurs to various heads of state and world leaders. | 20 |
I could see a light on in his downstairs office, he was typing away furiously. I know he was writing about me. My "adventures". I wonder if he was writing what I'm doing now, what I'm thinking now. If he was he would know. Maybe he can't stop, maybe he can't bear to look out the window and see me standing in the s... | 20 | You find the person writing your story. | 33 |
The priest entered the booth.
"Hello Father Peter."
"Hello my son. What brings you here? Have you something to tell me?"
"Yes Father." I turned to the screen, trying to look past the veil and into the priests eyes. "Father, I have sinned."
"Tell me your sins."
"It has been two years since my wife was murdere... | 17 | A man enters a confession booth and confesses horrible things to the priest | 26 |
It's kind of sombre, because no one knows how many you have left.
It's registered next to your birthday, a little black stamp - day and month. Time, too, if you slip the nurse a note and look a little sad. 29th March for me. No time, dad didn't have any money on him when I finally came out.
You don't get candles,... | 62 | As well as yearly birthdays, everyone has yearly 'deathdays', which mark the anniversary of the day they will die. | 110 |
"In this moment, I will become the master of my own story". The man spoke to himself. He was more man than god, but he believed himself to be above all. His powers had been given to him, not by chance in a twist of fate, but by a creator that existed outside the bounds of any physical law that man is capable of observi... | 200 | The protagonist, after achieving god-like powers, attempts to overthrow the narrator. | 307 |
[*TALIBANTER was filmed in front of a live studio audience.*]
<KASIM enters through the front door looking dejected. MO is reading a newspaper on the couch.>
MO: So, how did the suicide bombing go?
KASIM <Hands on hips>: How do you *think* it went?
<Beat for laughter>
KASIM: I got all the way out... | 37 | OFFENSIVE. Write a witty workplace sitcom about terrorists. | 43 |
*Author's note: Haha, this is a great prompt! Lots of potential.*
"Hey! Welcome to North Korea, the hottest new vacation spot in the world! I haven't seen you here before, you must be a new member. Here, let me take your coat?"
"Yes, the weather's actually quite nice! It turns out that we have a very favorable m... | 12 | North Korea is actually a really nice place to live. They put up the facade of a miserable third-world dictatorship because of... reasons. | 27 |
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"Shannon saw her face before the medics zipped up the bag. Dammit, Eric, he's real." Jill stopped talking when she saw me sit down. Eric and Jill avoided eye contact with me. David and Cecil picked at their food, glancing over frequently.
"What? Did you guys just read a book on how to be awkward and couldn't wa... | 10 | You made up your own Urban Legend, told it to your friends just to scare them a bit. It was all fun and games until the legend you came up with slowly came to life... | 24 |
Boring. Need to pee. Want food. Little she-human walks into kitchen. Food? No food. Little she-human talks with big she-human. Little humans had become big humans too, Tessa just never noticed when. Doorbell rings! Doorbell doorbell doorbell doorbell! Little he-human! Awesome! And someone new! A new little she-human! ... | 64 | Write about a teenage boy's new girlfriend from the viewpoint of his dog. | 75 |
There were rumors about the war ending, but for us, in that moment, they didn't matter. The war could last another 1000 years for all we cared; we both knew we were gonna be dead in hours.
The war was a lost cause for our side, everyone knew it now, but we were still supposed to attack as scheduled. Those of us left ... | 193 | Two best friends are each smoking a cigarette, knowing that when they are finished, they will never see each other again. What do they talk about? | 321 |
"Excuse me, Deary"
Jordon turned to see an elderly woman speaking to him, the lady wore the most vibrant of floral dresses, completed with swirling rose and peridot colored designs with deep violet trimmings, much too flamboyant for any occasion of any matter. It was clear that she was senile.
"Lady, I'm robbing th... | 16 | A young man or woman enters a gas station and holds up a gun. This robber demands all the money, but an elderly person shopping starts talking to them. | 20 |
Here, bobbing on the waves of the Pacific empty, I watch the exploration team pick the science officers out of the submersible.
"I thought you'd said this wouldn't happen." I say.
"It wasn't supposed to," the psychologist says, "the others are fine."
Something about this whole affair's reeked from the get-go. Tak... | 14 | 2 scientists sent to bottom of the Mariana Trench came back up babbling mad. | 45 |
I felt the cold of space seep through my suit and hit the pores in my skin. I stood in the long walkway out form the space station, ready to enter the small metal capsule at the other end. My home for the next few months. My home for eternity. I wasn't expected to return, though it was a for a good cause.
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The targ... | 14 | Every species in the universe is racing to get to the centre of the universe which is Earth. The reward is unknown and Earth is still unaware of outer E.T life. | 39 |
A huge shattering pain expanded through my cheek as the concrete smashed against it. As a knee pressed into my back I started to weep. Even with the extreme compression of my chest, breath struggled in and I continued to reach for the latch, but I could not see through my one open eye, which was swallowed in tears.
I... | 16 | You are the guardian of a boxed AI. Your job is to never let it out. | 36 |
Oh man. I know what you're thinking. I discover that my wife's having an affair, that none of my friends like me, that my boss thinks I'm a dick. Eventually I go mad and go and live in a rusting VW van in the middle of fucking nowhere to get in touch with my inner self, finally setting fire to myself before I starve to... | 228 | A man develops the ability to read minds. Due to this his life suddenly crumbles around him. | 177 |
I didn't find him on a rooftop. We didn't meet in a dark alley. It wasn't a cold night, and there was no rain. Real confrontations are not as dramatic as the movies. There is no build up. There is no climax. There is only you, sitting face to face with the man you spent your life searching for.
"Hey, Dad."
"Son."
I ... | 11 | The Confrontation. (Contest) | 36 |
From the day you're old enough to know what love is you look out for it, at the top of the thigh, a tattoo of half a heart, or half a bird, half a tree. I've seen books sometimes, or cars. Takes all sorts of people I guess. Some people parade theirs, you can see them in the high street, girls with low cut jeans, the ne... | 98 | Everyone in the world is born with a tattoo that matches their soulmate's. You fall in love with someone who isn't your match. | 201 |
(I decided to use Warhammer 40k orks, Tolkien elves, and Discworld (Terry Pratchett) dwarves. I hope it turned out okay. 1100 words.)
In the grim darkness of the present day, space travel remains one of the most treacherous enterprises known to sentient life. Orks continue the dread endeavor for one reason: war.
The... | 72 | Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and Humans were the 4 major races in a Galactic Civil War thousands of years ago. Humans were believed to be wiped out. Earth was a human outpost that slipped through the cracks. Today it was rediscovered. | 253 |
"Are you nervous?" His father asked, ruffling Norm's hair with his left hand.
"No, dad. I'm fine." Norm insisted. He lied.
He was nervous. He had never liked rides like this one. They were too fast, too loud and too scary. Norman swallowed and took a deep breath, thinking of the ice-cream his dad would buy him after ... | 29 | A ten year old boy goes to Disney World with his family. At one point, they ride Space Mountain. When the ride emerges from the darkness, only the boy is left in the cars. Upon exiting the ride, he discovers the entire park is empty. | 72 |
In the end, despite tens of thousands of dollars from grants, and the countless years the best minds of the world studying the secrets of REM sleep, it was not a scientist who discovered the true meaning of REM. It was a slightly drunk grad student from the Department of History at MSU who had the epiphany.
"Katie?... | 33 | REM sleep is indeed rapid, but it isn't random. The eye movement is a code, and someone just discovered how to translate it. | 134 |
"I'm sorry, am I wearing the robes that say 'RETARD' on the back?"
"Huh?"
"Don't 'Huh,' me, motherfucker. I'm the anthropomorphic personification of Death. Do I look like some fucking rube right off the bus willing to buy the bag of shit you're selling?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Fuck you and your ... | 30 | Someone one you love has just died, but when Death arrives to claim their soul, you try to convince it that *you* were the one that just died, not your loved one. | 46 |
Edit: God-damn formatting.
Double-Edit: Trimmed a single word. :)
"You got a light?"
*"Yeah, sure. Here-"*
"Thanks."
Silence.
*"You know what I hate the most about this?"*
"The weird porn?"
*"Oh, god. You know, I could have lived my whole life without knowing what a vore fetish was."*
"I've got you beat."
*"... | 315 | Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | 331 |
Click.
"Damn." Another firewall.
He tried the window again, opening and closing it, but even as the screen brinked bright and purple, announcing that the Chrome browser could access the Internet of 2024, the firewall still nipped him in every bud.
He went back to Google. That was the same, at least, and familiar. On... | 23 | A user opens a new browser window with access to the Internet of 2024. | 15 |
At first it seemed like we would never win, could never win. But that never bothered us. We were fighting for what we believed in, for our very selves. Giving in was never an option. Some of the greatest minds of the century were with us and for a bit we kept up with them technologically. They had omnipresence, we had ... | 18 | It's the year 2176 & technology to sync up minds and technological systems together is now possible. The world is torn between two ideological parties, the Hivemind-Collectivists and the Individualists. War breaks out between them to decide the future of human consciousness. How does it end? | 44 |
Emily wiped the tears out her eyes as she sat alone on her hospital bed. She knew Dave wouldn't come, but knowing and seeing weren't the same thing. She hadn't cried since she was a child, forced to give up her childhood to raise her siblings, but she couldn't control it now. She began to sob lightly.
"You okay?" A so... | 62 | A man and a woman share a hospital room. She is pregnant and could start giving birth anytime, he is dying. Separated by a curtain, they talk. | 69 |
"I accept your terms," I said, almost before the dragon had finished speaking.
It cocked its massive head. "Excuse me? Did you say you accept?"
"Obviously," I said. "*Many* people die every week right now. You're offering to reduce the number to one. It's not as if the deaths-by-dragon are vastly worse just because w... | 17 | You, a world leader, are offered by a dragon the potential for human immortality in return for one human sacrifice a week. | 17 |
He came coughing. We all stepped back a few feet, blinking at the spittle coming from his throat, listening to one cough after another.
"He's not... choking?" A cameraman asked me.
"No." I replied, almost too entranced by the sickness to try to diagnose the patient. The old medical book on the shelf gave me everythin... | 119 | Human disease has been virtually eradicated centuries ago. You are a very old member of a small medical society known as "The Last Doctors" and a new, unknown and deadly plague has emerged. | 248 |
"Hey. You want to go get some Taco Bell and ice cream?"
We load up in the truck and take off. It is always like this, and never like this. Over the years we have been on countless trips, totally enjoying each other's company. She never suspected today would be different.
I already know what she wants. She loves chi... | 16 | How to kill your best friend and get away with it. | 22 |
O'Malley's is one of those terrible faux Irish pubs, but I drink there because I work there. The owner has an exploitable weakness for sequential art so I've been drip feeding him with single issues of *The Avengers* from the early '90s for a couple of months. He sends punters my way and lets me conduct business in a... | 57 | All books have been banned. Describe a drug deal of books. | 94 |
I'm getting old. There are more lines on my face than there ever were before, folding out from around my eyes like a fan of creases. I smooth at them desperately, pinning my skin back against my face like some demented plastic surgeon. My mouth pulls into a grimace, teeth bared.
"Come to bed, Lise." George calls fr... | 179 | You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | 195 |
"Have you ever been in love?" Thrasher rasped at the guard.
His massive, titan-like body was restricted painfully by the reinforced steel restraints that covered nearly every inch of him. Captured after an epic battle with Boltman, Thrasher was being taken to the Vasuvius volcano, the only place hot enough to destro... | 15 | On a Plane to a Top-Secret Penitentiary, a Captured Super Villain Tries to Explain His Love for Teen Soap Operas to His Guard | 20 |
It is dark. I am kneeling in the mud, soaked through and shivering. I never want to leave this spot. It isn't real until I move.
=
The sun is making its slow progress towards the horizon. We walk into the centre of the field and set out the picnic. We begin to eat, and we talk of all the good things we hope for in th... | 12 | Stars fell around us like rain. | 16 |
Welcome everyone to the Thursday night Monologuers Anonymous. If you haven't grabbed some soda and cookies yet, do so before Sinestrax obliterates them...literally.
<group laughs>
Anyways, we want to start tonight by welcoming a new member, Dr. Doomageddon.
<group claps politely>
"Hi everyone, I'm Dr. ... | 12 | A support group for super-villians who are addicted to monologuing. | 28 |
"I see. Volcanoes. Very...original."
Adonai grinned. "Yeah! I worked really hard on them. It took aaaaages to get the tectonic plates to smush up right. Look at this one!" He jabbed His eternal index finger toward a particular spot in Italy. "It totally erupted last millennium and buried a whole city and it was *aweso... | 101 | Earth is God's science fair project, and it's being judged. | 89 |
Fred’s horse suddenly stopped, almost throwing him off. In front of him was the magician he had been hunting for the last two months. The magician’s wand had been broken at their last encounter and so the only ‘weapon’ he had left was a single biro. Fred unsheathed his sword, ready for the easy end to this month long q... | 16 | Two characters battle. One man has a sword. The other has a pen. | 28 |
"Tacos Tacos, this is Julio." The thick, comical Hispanic accent was just good enough to fool someone for a moment, and so obviously over-the-top that they would recognize it soon. It always tripped them up, and he'd give them a good bit of snark before they recovered their wits.
The small, excited voice of a child w... | 20 | You get a call from an unknown number. Thinking you're about to have some fun with a telemarketer, you answer. To your surprise, the person on the other end is you when you were the most happy. | 31 |
Saago pried his gaze from the monitor that was nestled comfortably in front of him. "Dycaas..."
Dycaas looked up from his own monitor. "Hmm?"
"Look at these coordinates..." Saago reached down and swiped and pressed his monitor several times until finally it beeped. He watched as Dycaas peered at his own monitor.
D... | 111 | A few centuries after their last visit, aliens travel to Earth again to observe the planet from their space ship. Upon closer inspection they notice something horrible that our species is completely oblivious to. | 123 |
He arrived at the central server, anxious as a noob on his first day.
*"Checking for adress confirmation...."*
*"Confirmed! Welcome to reddit!"*
He approached the console, not ready to make a life-changing decosion.
"Ok. Think, Girdon. What the hell are you going to choose...."
"Not /r/athiesm. They're all too Eu... | 24 | Subreddits are something you choose when you are 18 to live for the rest of your life. You get 1 choice. You turn 18 tomorrow | 37 |
It's been an hour since William locked himself in the back of closet; his father's yelling has now been reduced to a barely audible whimper, but he still wouldn't take the chance of checking until he knew it was safe.
Still curiosity got the better of him and he cracked open the door the tiniest of bits. In the cente... | 24 | Death is a supernatural being that can only see one person at any time, and he knows he must always kill that person. | 29 |
"It's public humiliation!"
Owen had never seen his dad's face so red before. He was practically bursting a vein with rage, leaning over the headteacher's desk and spitting in his face.
"This is illegal!"
Mr. Paulson, a mild mannered man with bad taste in ties and a worse taste in shoes, removed his frameless g... | 248 | A teenage boy is sentenced to a fate worst than death. His internet history is to be publicly read at his high school assembly. | 165 |
“Well, this is a mess we’ve gotten ourselves into indeed isn’t it?”
Greg Alexander mused to no one in particular as he assessed the space he would, presumably, occupy to himself for the foreseeable future. All things considered it was not overly oppressive.
The walls hinted at something that might have once been whi... | 170 | A schizophrenic get admitted to a mental institution where he meets another schizophrenic who hears the same voices as him. | 587 |
"Guys, I don't want to play anymore! I don't want Glenn Beck to come in again!"
"It's fine. We only have the last question card. Let's just finish the game and pack these troubles behind us."
"Fine. My turn. Lord have mercy on us. The question is...
*what would grandma find disturbing yet oddly charming*"
"Oh no... | 104 | A group of teenagers decide to play Cards Against Humanity but immediately regret their decision when the game comes to life Jumanji-style | 151 |
The ship was cold and dark, the interior illuminated only by dim red lights, which were used to indicate that it was nighttime. Carson didn't know why the lights were red. He would have preferred a different color, though he didn't know what. Red lights left too many shadows, too many dark corners. Carson had gotten ov... | 34 | After the Earth is destroyed, you wander through space with only your ship's AI for companionship. | 35 |
"You're a good actor, Cam." Penelope smiled, as though somehow that made this less awkward.
"What can I say, Penny? Just a natural, I guess." Cameron kicked his feet over the edge of the brick wall, looking down fifty floors to hard pavement. Fall like that, he wouldn't survive, Cam imagined. He flicked a coin into th... | 60 | You met a girl with the magic to play with peoples emotions to make them follow through her every whim. She became president, the extreme ruler of the whole world, you're immune to this sorcery...she finds out | 35 |
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