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9 | 1,478,088,990 | 189 | As humanity faded away, another civilization colonized the once vibrant Earth only to discover a relic left behind by an ancient king known only as Slim Shady. | Not much is known of the former civilizations of earth, their technology, or customs; however, a recent discovery of a king known as Slim Shady sheds some light on the matter. Historians argue the exactly who Slim Shady was or where he ruled. Seeming to originate from the ancient city Detroit, the extent of his kingdom... | 50 | most_different |
2 | 1,423,116,654 | 23 | A story where the first sentence or few re-occur as the last few sentences in the narrative. | This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang, but with a whimper, so T.S. Eliot said, once so long ago, I thought to myself as I looked out over my control panel. Bathing me in green light, I watched the pictures unfold across my screens.
Sudan, gone.
Russia, gone.
United Kingdom, gone.
United States, gone.
... | 10 | most_different |
86 | 1,425,721,868 | 360 | Teleportation is possible, but it creates a copy of you and destroys the original. Unforseen effects pile up after a while. | Jack didn’t
underst. Jack
didn’t understa – st. st.
He/L? Is he th- th- th- th-Re-
eeeeeeee-e-e-e bo
oooooot. Reboot. Reboot unsucess////ful
…
When he came out again with his body intact they breathed a sigh of relief, because no-one had known what the fuck had gone wrong. Little red blinking lights and a kla... | 391 | most_different |
8 | 1,416,106,750 | 47 | A man takes a wrong turn and ends up in a paradise-like town populated with people that have all went missing or died mysteriously- And he's told he can never leave. | "Come on you piece of crap, work!"
George sighs in frustration as his GPS displays the "Searching for satellites" signal. He checks his watch and impatiently stares at the tiny screen of the GPS.
"Screw it..." he sighs, making the next left on the empty country road.
He continues on that stretch of road for a h... | 26 | most_different |
4 | 1,599,421,224 | 131 | it is said that if you throw a woman off a ship to avoid bad luck she becomes a mermaid, but instead of getting revenge and drowning the crew, people are abusing this system. now that the superstitions are gone, women are joining ship crews to be willingly thrown overboard to become mermaids | #Southport Tribune
*Drowning death linked to Mermaid superstition*
The recent death of 54 year old Diana Smith after falling overboard the Royal Cardiff cruise ship has been attributed to a local superstition that women thrown from ships turn into mermaids. Having heard the legend while visiting Southport, Mrs Smith ... | 15 | most_different |
82 | 1,462,080,153 | 1,100 | 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. | Top Businessman Takes the Plunge, Along With His Stocks
I cut the headline out of the paper, and file it neatly away in my 67th folder. I really need to run down to the stationery store to get more.
My shelves are lined with folders – cheap plastic folders of all sorts of garish colours. There is the hot pink folder ... | 579 | most_different |
10 | 1,651,228,776 | 174 | Astronauts head into space to save mankind. Their mission? To paint the moon Vantablack as a final solution to the ever growing werewolf epidemic. They don’t realise this is how black-holes are actually formed. | People afraid of werewolves, decide to paint Moon. But nobody knew what was coming...
This summer... From director Michael Bay. And assistant producers the wachowski's.
TOTAL BLACK OUT
STARRING CHRISTIAN BALE as MICK DEVLIN, a disgraced former Air Force pilot with a well maintained buzz at all times.
When scienti... | 21 | most_different |
25 | 1,478,007,693 | 83 | The day after Halloween, everyone has magically turned into what they dressed up as. | “So, we are here with Carter, a local at Huntington Hill,” the reporter said. “In your own words, can you describe what’s going on here?”
“Between the vampire and ghost attacks, nobody is safe,” said the chubby man referred to as Carter. “Luckily we have half a dozen Rambos dealing with the matter, and since the new G... | 39 | most_different |
7 | 1,466,288,558 | 16 | You're being followed by a poisonous mushroom that is persistent on being eaten. | Fungus Venatione. The Hunting Mushroom. Once it's caught sight of its prey, it is ruthless in tracking down and killing its prey via poison.
I should know, I've been tracked by one for four days now.
An idle walk in the woods, an unusual specimen; too late, I recognise the distinctive Cap, with two ear-like pro... | 10 | most_different |
12 | 1,470,768,270 | 44 | Never fall asleep with an empty seat facing towards you. You don't know what sits there whilst you sleep. | *The following pamphlet was found in a dumpster in San Francisco, California. Looking through public records, it was determined that no such establishment actually exists and the address stated on the pamphlet leads to an open grassland.*
...
Welcome to the Coastal Motel. We are committed to providing a relaxing an... | 18 | most_different |
8 | 1,440,034,446 | 31 | finds himself [WP] | Who am I? Who *is* Waldo? I put on the hat and the funny sweater then just stand in crowds. My whole shtick is that I nearly fit in because, of course, I don't really. Its not for some profound reason either, I just dress funny. Thousands of people have stared into these stupid pictures to find, what? Waldo? They don't... | 12 | most_different |
25 | 1,395,683,594 | 52 | It started raining heavily all over the world, and it hasn't stopped for five/ten/fifteen/twenty years... | --July 15, 2023--
"Finally started raining, has it?" said James, talking to Francine. Francine, his nurse, just looked at him and smiled. "Why yes, I do believe it has James." His room had no windows, but anyone could hear the deafening downpour. Francine changed his bedpan and left the room.
--July 15, 2024--
"I c... | 63 | most_different |
5 | 1,656,211,074 | 76 | "You may want to sit down..." The doctor said, giving you a pitying look, "All the tests came in. The colored hair, the good looks, the infinite potential... I'm sorry but your child is a main character... You have at most in arc to live." | ...Those results did hit hard.
Having a kid with blue hair, a secondary character or even a comedic relief one is something you could brag about to your friends in your favorite bar. However, the main character is an entirely different story. Most of the time they have tragic backstories and their relatives outside of... | 19 | most_different |
10 | 1,632,342,134 | 784 | When you gained the power to heal yourself and others, you were ecstatic. Instead of being invited to the hero league, they called you "the mad doctor" and claimed you robbed hospitals. At first you were confused, but then you noticed just how many "billionaire playboys" were heroes. | **"How do you plead!"**
"Not Guilty! I was..."
**"Did you, on the 23rd of September, enter the Mount Sinai Children's Hospital in new york, posing as a doctor?"**
"Posing? I'm a healer! my powers granted by Mithras himself!"
**"Are you a qualified and registered medical professional of any kind under state law?"**
... | 250 | most_different |
7 | 1,419,523,752 | 118 | Like Saint Nicholas, through some accidental miscommunication, your deeds and normal routines have been immortalized into an over-commercialized holiday for kids. Tell us about it! | So you'd like to know how the Payday Holiday got started, would you? I'll tell you, it's really not all it's hyped up to be these days You see people decorating their homes with scales and ledgers, and banged up delivery truck figurenes, and those rain misters that kids like to run through, and TV commercials selling a... | 30 | most_different |
6 | 1,466,531,212 | 32 | You are a sci fi author from the year 1016 writing about the 21st century | Jean du Mer loaded the last of his belongings into the wagon and calmly stroked the hindquarters of his mechanized horse. Even at the great speeds which the iron beast could easily maintain, it would still be a three-day trip to reach London. At least with the tunnel beneath the Norman Channel having finally been compl... | 11 | most_different |
16 | 1,523,236,056 | 230 | you and a group of developers just released an augmented reality device capable of time travel with 100% accuracy. 87% of users chose to visit 19th century Confederate America. Baffled, You use your dev option to secretly peer into some of their playthroughs disguised as an NPC. | 'What's so interesting about-' I checked my area. 'Weehawken, New Jersey on July twelfth 1804?" I looked around carefully, surveying my surroundings. Astonished, I noted five men standing near a copse of trees. One looked to be a doctor and two were wielding guns. One of the wielders had glasses on. "What the?" I said ... | 23 | most_different |
28 | 1,527,068,934 | 361 | The polish army has been crushed. All the generals are dead. Only one person of rank remains in command: Wojek, the Bearer of artillery. | *Bearer of Arms*
by **Sabaton**
1944, the hills of Italy
Polish soldiers manning artillery
Monte Cassino their final destination
Finest troops of the Polish nation
Deadly German counter attack
Direct hit on the general staff
Nobody left to lead the line
Wojtek the bear knew it was time
*(Chorus) Polish ... | 160 | most_different |
240 | 1,419,961,485 | 1,256 | Walt Disney actually WAS cryogenetically frozen, but he's now been cured, unthawed, and is being briefed on what has happened with his company since 1966. | "So where is my Scrooge McDuck money vault?" Walt asked
"Sir?"
"Did I fucking stutter? Scrooge McDuck money vault. Where I can swim in the massive wealth you guys made for me while I was asleep?"
"Ummm. We didn't make it."
Walt spun. He looked around the room. Not a single man in the room had a mustache. "I d... | 1,024 | most_different |
13 | 1,460,640,559 | 66 | A horror movie monster is waiting outside the bathroom for its next victim. Unfortunately, the victim really likes to sing in the shower. Things get awkward. | Dalton opened the bathroom door, the sound of him entering the bathroom masked by Chelsea singing a rendition of Rolling In The Deep by Adele. Fuck, he loved this song, but he had to do what he had to do. As Chelsea sang "The scars of your love remind me of us...", he drew his knife and approached the shower. Finall... | 21 | most_different |
10 | 1,472,463,958 | 38 | Born in the future, you're only attracted to tall women, so you move to the Moon, where you marry a taller woman. Years later, the low gravity has made you taller than her. Write your /r/Relationships post. Commenters, help OP. | I [35M] moved to the Moon [4530000000Satellite] to be with my wife [33F]. A large part of my attraction [1000Scovilles] was due to her height [6'2''] versus mine [5'9''] however as time has passed my spine [33Vertebrae] has lengthened to the point where I now am taller [3Inches] than her.
Things [1House1MoonDog2Child... | 13 | most_different |
9 | 1,404,436,548 | 26 | The Impossible Prompt: Make me sympathize with a friend who just lost their pet mosquito. | I sat and cried with him. What else could I do? I was only six years old at the time. My friend had just lost the most precious thing in the world to him.
He’d found Steve a couple days ago. Steve was always there for him, during the day, and during the night. When his parents would be passed out somewhere, he was abl... | 21 | most_different |
56 | 1,410,526,904 | 523 | Thousands of years in the future, a lazy anthropology student put off his "Mating Rituals of Ancient Civilizations" project until the last minute | Based on contemporary magnetic films made of Mating Rituals, Ritual often initiates with the male presenting himself at the door of the female's dwelling, and presenting an offering of flat-bread based foods or metal phallic totems (A "Screew-driveer", figure 1). The female, often wearing loose attire (A "Toweel", figu... | 337 | most_different |
18 | 1,421,866,482 | 21 | Describe a devastating disaster that claims the lives of thousands in the style of a children's book. | September eleventh, two thousand and one
was a day that was terrible, not at all fun
Some very naughty people thought "let's fly a plane
into a pair of buildings that will never be seen again!"
So that Tuesday morning at quarter to nine
the plane hit the building; people were dying
Twenty minutes later the second... | 10 | most_different |
11 | 1,465,022,044 | 102 | A New App callled Butterfly can tell you the short term and long term outcomes of any current choice the user faces with a 99.99 percent accuracy rating has lead to a new daily life. | Ever since my friend introduced me to the butterfly app, my life’s become incredible. I asked what I should work with to make the biggest change in human history. The app said that working in the cancer treatment lab in california would change the world. I did as the app said. I applied for the job and after 10 years I... | 42 | most_different |
7 | 1,627,842,797 | 45 | You're beginning to notice and wonder why your child's lemonade stand seems to be making more money than you and your spouse combined. | The lemonade stand had a line down the block, with dozens of people craning their necks to see the front of the stand. Brandon’s lemonade stand had seems quaint at first to his parents, an endearing way for the seven year old to learn the value of a dollar. The sweetness turned sour when adults started knocking on the ... | 22 | most_different |
91 | 1,441,597,074 | 1,809 | The year is 2340 and Dreamworks is filing for bankruptcy due to uninspired movies and their big brother disney is at the height of it's popularity, before filing for bankruptcy, they make one last movie. The story of the boy fishing on the moon. | SCENE: The Crescent Moon
The BOY looks down from his spot on the tip of the crescent moon sadly. He grabs another piece of fishing line next to him and carefully threads it into his rod.
BOY: [morose] Please be long enough this time. Just this once.
The BOY casts off the Moon. For the first time, the camera follows ... | 985 | most_different |
20 | 1,399,051,359 | 155 | You have the ability to read peoples' thoughts by kissing them. You use this power to become the world's most uncomfortably successful detective. Solve a case. | "Mister Eteny," her radiant red lips beckoned. "I think my husband is cheating on me."
"There's only one way to find out," I responded. "Come here." She knew the drill. She knew who I was, and she gave herself over- I dropped that sexy little dame into my arms and I put one on her good. When she came up for air, she w... | 135 | most_different |
4 | 1,599,460,420 | 22 | Pregnant women get powers. They typically peak at birth and fade over the first year. Often they are practical- super speed or strength, reduced need to sleep. Your powers are not typical, and show no sign of dissipating. | Mary torpedoed the baby out of her uterus, and it smashed into the giant robot. Boom! one of the robot's legs disappeared in a fiery inferno of baby guts. Crash! the robot fell sideways into a building, the building crumbling like wafer.
Silence and dust filled the air. Then...
Loud metallic noises.
Mary covered he... | 12 | most_different |
3 | 1,409,573,030 | 24 | A convention where diseases of the world come together to talk, socialize and gossip. | "Welcome, diseases of the world, to the 54th annual Outbreak Awards! I'm your host, Common Cold."
[applause]
"2014 has been a tremendous year for epidemic. But before we announce the winner of the 54th Outbreak Awards, let's acknowledge some of the unforgettable plagues from years back."
[applause]
"First, he kille... | 14 | most_different |
25 | 1,645,978,175 | 599 | You are a Immortal and your Wife is a Reincarnation of all Wifes that you had. Some may say it's a Tragedy that you have to see her die over and over, but at this point it's a Game between you and her to see who finds the other first. | The woman at the dock is hunched over, her figure faint under all the layers she’s wearing, seemingly unnoticeable beneath the dark sky.
In the distance, a cat mewls and a car skids against asphalt. The watch against her hand strikes midnight, but the woman merely hums, looking up from the vast waters below to gaze u... | 86 | most_different |
46 | 1,402,822,693 | 66 | There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed | "You do understand the law regarding divorce proceedings, don't you Sir?"
"I do, your honour."
"So you are aware that the termination of your marriage will result in the subsequent termination of 7 year old's life?"
"...Yes your honour"
"And you understand that there is no law preventing this course of acti... | 68 | most_different |
8 | 1,432,487,708 | 35 | You play an online game in which you repeatedly kill and flame and harass another player in the enemy team. That player is a leader of a country and he declares a war on your country giving an official public statement that you and your actions are the reason for the war. | "why the fuk would u build vladimir on cm u autistic shit"
"Что ебать ты просто чертовски говорят обо мне, вы немного сукой? Я вас знаю, я закончил вершину моего класса в армии, и я принимал участие в многочисленных секретных рейдов на Аль-Каидой, и у меня есть более 300 подтвержденных убийств. Я тренировался в горилл... | 11 | most_different |
35 | 1,438,005,830 | 161 | Life is a hellish nightmare. Death, violence and distrust are ubiquitous as everyone fights to survive. Except on Tuesdays. Tuesdays are fine. | A knock came at the door.
Joe answered, "Who are you?"
A voice came back through the door. "Hey, man, it's Steve. Just wanted to see you again. I even brought you a present!"
Joe suspiciously peered through the padlocked door, but to no avail. "I've lost my calendar somewhere... what day is it again?"
Steve replied... | 78 | most_different |
21 | 1,427,555,003 | 119 | Humanity has achieved immortality. Due to resource concerns everyone must submit to a council their chosen manner of death at 150. The more amusing the death the longer the council lets you live. | Young shemp stood before the council awash in fear. He, at the tender young age of 150, had to come up with a routine so comical, so amusing that the esteemed council would see him fit to be granted the immortality they themselves had achieved. This would be no easy task. The esteemed council of three, the mighty Moe, ... | 41 | most_different |
13 | 1,393,605,815 | 18 | Describe yourself in the third person | She lingers at the top of the stairs, chin lifted, face proud. She wears a sweeping dress of red silk and a crown heavy with jewels balanced on top of her perfect hair. She is, in every way, perfect. The room stops and stairs. Hushed conversation is stilled as she begins, delicately, to descend the marble staircase. Ur... | 12 | most_different |
9 | 1,443,626,145 | 24 | You are a super hero, but your super powers only work when you're insanely drunk... | The man stumbled out of the bar into the city. He held an almost empty bottle in his hand. He quoetly grumbled about how the lightweights in there couldn't believe how well he could handle alcohol.
Suddenly, a scream pierced the air. The man's head turned to the direction from which it came. He slowly wandered towards... | 11 | most_different |
6 | 1,602,735,129 | 36 | Finally sick of the jesters nonsense, the king draws his sword and goes to behead the jester. As the kings sword hits the jesters neck, a loud clang is heard as the blade snaps in two. | The sword gleamed as the king held it to his side, the light bouncing off the colorful gems studded in its hilt. Though only a ceremonial sword and therefore untested, its edge is nonetheless sharp. The ministers' eyes widen as the king swings the sword, bringing it down on the Jesters neck. But in the next instant, it... | 17 | most_different |
8 | 1,475,569,801 | 62 | North Korea's Twitter account is following 3 others: 2 are used by North Korea as propaganda, and the other is some dude in Texas. You find out why when you visit him. | Is this really what modern journalism had become: meet and greets with twitter celebrities? I miss real stories, honestly, as a journalist, I miss war. War is exciting and vivid and worth writing about; I don’t give a shit about Buzzfeed top 10s and Kardashian tweets. But that’s what the editor demands, and with the jo... | 10 | most_different |
10 | 1,443,986,366 | 81 | Adolf Hitler got into art school. Though in his 90's he ends up hosting the 'Joy of Painting' instead of Bob Ross in 1983. | Somewhere in an alternate 1980s, a family gathers around the television. Dad finally manages to get the remote off of little Bobby Sue, who's trying to watch the latest AVA video on MTV. Everyone famous in this alternate universe is Nazis, for some reason. Just roll with it.
Dad turns on the nightly news, and America'... | 31 | most_different |
179 | 1,465,687,157 | 1,455 | You're a man who's tired of his life, so one day, while driving home from work, instead of stopping at your house, you just decided to keep driving. | Hands on the wheel
and eyes on the road -
Dad taught me safety
all those years ago
He said, "Get a good job
and get a nice wife
and look out for strangers
and don't ruin your life."
He said, "Play it safe, son,
you need security,
so just keep your head down
and don't end up like me."
... | 1,199 | most_different |
11 | 1,641,415,100 | 83 | - A cover letter by someone who really wants to work as a dentist but has no qualifications, or really any idea what teeth are. | # Joe Person
**Dr. Phillip Ralston**
*Dentist of Human Faces*
O'Fallon Family Dental
501 Grant St.
O'Fallon, MO 63367
Dr. Ralston,
Since as long as I can remember, I have loved teeth. When I tell you about this love, I must emphasize that my passion for human dental bones is entirely innocuous. I do not eat t... | 54 | most_different |
19 | 1,475,801,916 | 447 | Hurricane Matthew is approaching and at this point there is only one force powerful enough to stop it. Florida Man. | He was seven rounds deep with the mutated gator what had tried to snatch his balls in a Taco Bell shitter when the call came in.
"Git, Shitter Gator! Git!" roared Florida Man over the twinkling peel of his Nokia. He grabbed out the syringe of butterscotch pudding he kept in his boot for such and like occasions and sta... | 96 | most_different |
16 | 1,590,966,815 | 128 | Monarchs have gotten tired of sending their princes to death to rescue princesses as a means of finding a spouse. You decided to capitalize on this by assembling a team that does princess extractions efficiently and effectively, for a price of course. | If you want your princess saved, come on down to Me and Dale. Dale and I will save your damsel with the utmost care and attention. We also do rat extermination.
Out of any other princess extraction service in the Tri-State Area, Me and Dale is the only one to actually exist. Some people say that's because there are no... | 22 | most_different |
10 | 1,443,720,257 | 43 | Instead of football, the world is obsessed with a sport involving a ruler, cosplay, a field of Jello, 2 bowling balls, half of a golf club, and 3 small children. | "He's chosen his suit. not a conventional choice Terry but the long robes of the Jedi order can counteract some of the bounce if used correctly. Here the Captains; Atikins and Pardoe taste the field, as per tradition, before assuming the Left-handed Aardvark position - And there's the fudge! Just look at those fishnets... | 11 | most_different |
883 | 1,418,220,081 | 3,546 | Wikipedia is shut down and all copies deleted for lack of funds and loss of net neutrality. This is the founder's "I warned you, jerks" notification. | Dear Wikipedia Readers: We’ll get right to it. We’ve never asked for much, maybe a few dollars here and there—to be honest, we've averaged maybe $15 in donations. That’s it. Did you know that 99% of other charities average $15,000 *per day*? Probably not, because we made that statistic up. Do you know why we made it up... | 4,509 | most_different |
16 | 1,462,891,461 | 34 | You are a construction worker on a government job. Everything seems normal, until one day you discover the true nature of what you are helping to build. | In the dusty, smoggy afternoon sun, a cacophony of men working berated the Xinyi district of Taipei’s streets. Workers working and materials moving intermingled with busy cars and pedestrians. This chaos was Taiwan’s effort to build the world’s tallest building in their capital city.
Within all of the commotion, a w... | 11 | most_different |
8 | 1,451,900,291 | 16 | A world where everyone talks in puns. | 'The problem with her', said the Marquis, 'the problem with her is that she's terribly badly bread'. And it was true: the girl was awfully crusty, and spent most of her time baked or loafing around the Yeast End.
'Anyway', continued the Marquis, raising his glass, 'let us toast her nonetheless'!
'Though she may well ... | 13 | most_different |
8 | 1,457,906,173 | 32 | Color is man-made and created in factories. Some cities can't afford to have color distributed to citizens. | A man from a grey city called Drock was walking home from work. He looked up in the sky and saw a Color Vessel, most likely flying a color shipment to the wealthy neighbouring city, Skyleen. He watched in awe at it's enormity. He thought to himself, *even the Color Vessels are grey, you aren't going to be able to affor... | 10 | most_different |
12 | 1,475,161,191 | 66 | Mankind has just discovered life on another planet. The first comprehensive report on their biology, culture, societal structure, and the rest of their civilization as a whole is being prepared. Use your imagination to describe an entirely alien world. Nothing is taken for granted. | 134 | *Study of Proxima b : TSAL* | Section 8 *Historical Technology*
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use of radio telescope. Interestingly, despite many of their differences, optical technology is very similar to how it was developed on Earth. In the early period of their technological development, many of their telescopes used refracting lense... | 13 | most_different |
45 | 1,650,835,197 | 2,775 | An enterprising mad scientist opens a shop to sell supplies to other mad scientists. However, the store becomes very popular with the local college students for cheap hardware repair, access to forbidden knowledge, and adorable mutant pets. | It’s hard to explain, but there’s something special about the girl who works Montmartre’s forbidden knowledge desk. I told my buddy Ian yesterday and I don’t think he understood. Will you?
To start, there is Montmartre. I think the name itself is a reference, though I’ve never figured out if it has any special meaning... | 443 | most_different |
9 | 1,645,027,138 | 87 | The USA is destroyed. You go across lifeless streets scavenging for something to eat. Your house is one of the few still standing up. Nostalgia is what's keeping you from departing to find a new home after the Apocalypse... Then you hear a knock on the the door. It's the IRS. | INT. apartment - day
A disheveled post-apocalyptic apartment: broken furniture, junk dragged in off the street, dead plants in pots, door along back wall. Furniture includes sofa with no cushions, a card table, and a char with one leg missing. At the kitchen counter is a MAN dressed in filthy rags. He is stirring a po... | 12 | most_different |
33 | 1,417,789,137 | 61 | Your so-called "chosen one" has decided to join the ranks of your sworn enemy. | My answer to this prompt is a sequel to another answer I wrote [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2o0b5a/eu_sokka_and_katara_never_find_aang_as_a_result/cmil979), where Aang is found by the Fire Nation. And if you don't know the names, this is all from the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe.
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5 | 1,641,448,414 | 111 | The Aztec guide raised his palm, signaling his conquistador companion to halt; “Do not go into that cave. There are no riches, no gold, only death. It is not a place of God”. | Juan Pablo Soria Hernandez Vega Almanzar de Garcia smirked. One hand rested on the pommel of his sword while the other fished a metal cross out from underneath his collar, brandishing it proudly.
"Thankfully, I bring God with me wherever I go. Just as I brought him to this primitive land."
The Spaniard strode forward... | 38 | most_different |
18 | 1,419,336,196 | 52 | Due to bafoonery in both the democrat and republican campaigns, a write-in candidate wins the 2016 presidency; Uncle Iroh gives his inaugural address. | “It is time to look, to start asking the big questions. Like who we are, and what do we want? We have two great and powerful parties, the democrats and the republicans, but they have become divided and lost balance with each other. We must remember that our brothers across the aisle are not our enemies, but our family.... | 23 | most_different |
3 | 1,659,451,039 | 85 | After a person dies they will be presented with a customization screen to create their ideal body upon reincarnation. You however made your character as monstrous as possible. | “Oh… wow… another free thinker who wants to stand out from everyone else,” the angel says with a bored voice.
“What? What’s wrong with being pink Shrek? You said I can customize myself however I please and being Shrek but neon pink pleases me!”
“Huh…” The angel sighs and messages the bridge of his nose. “Look, kid. L... | 24 | most_different |
18 | 1,627,991,990 | 394 | A multi-billion dollar company with near limitless reach has targeted you as an enemy. They made the mistake of thinking you were just an ordinary person that would be easy to silence. They are about to find out what happens when they incur the wrath of an old god. | / /*The train now standing at Platform 16 is the 07.57 to New Hawthorne, calling at Reeve's End, Queen Street, Riversdale...and New Hawthorne.*\\ \
A man in a smart, plain black suit walked over to the coffee stand and ordered a coffee. The station was busy; there was nothing remarkable about him; nobody would look tw... | 155 | most_different |
9 | 1,658,940,738 | 326 | “The end is nigh!” the old warning went, or so we thought. It turns out the prophecy was misunderstood. The end is Nye. The Science Guy. | # Bill Nye
*This article is about the American science educator and former President of the United States. For the British actor, see* [*Bill Nighy*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nighy)*. For other people, see* [*Bill Nye (disambiguation)*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)*.*
**William Sanford Nye**... | 51 | most_different |
83 | 1,592,494,918 | 2,301 | In 1941, Vampires successfully infiltrated the Red Cross and started collecting blood. Many years later, they are no longer parasites, now in a mutually beneficial relationship with humanity. While bringing cookies to a nursing home, you lock eyes with a former vampire hunter | Vampires are conservative. Reactionary. Very rarely do they adjust to the times, and it is not uncommon that if one has the pleasure of meeting one, they're still wearing the fashions of their day. Of course, with the upheavals in vampire society that happened in the 20th century, it is more common to see a vampire wea... | 671 | most_different |
9 | 1,479,811,530 | 169 | Humanity has progressed so much that it was now possible to mass produce alternate universes. Everyone's favorite pastime was to create and nurture a single species and have them fight against another universe. | ”Come on, Jack,” Lance said, a crease of annoyance across his forehead. “We’ll be late!”
    The two friends picked up their snacks before hurrying to the grandstands. The stadium was packed this evening, and they barely reached their seats before the host started talking. They look... | 14 | most_different |
35 | 1,432,212,306 | 255 | You are 70 years old, and see your granchildren playing with the newest electronic. It looks complicated, and when you ask to use it, you say "Where's the touchscreen?". | ”what's a touch screen?” The boy looked perplexed but was starting to get used to grandpa's senile ramblings.
” you know the part with the picture you touch to make it work” grandpa was confused, senile and wondering why the boy didn't know what a touch screen was. the boy looked at the calculator his father had given... | 306 | most_different |
13 | 1,439,050,518 | 88 | You and your party survive the zombie apocalypse by hiding in a sock warehouse. You're surprised by the fact that you rarely need to leave for other supplies. | "God, guys," the survivor below the sock factory's window calls up, "I would kill a man for a fresh pair of quality socks."
"Uhh, no," Jim replies from above. "However, we will take trade--in material goods. Food, preferably. Ammo, maybe."
"I have two cans of ravioli."
Jim confers inside with his friends. "That'... | 62 | most_different |
13 | 1,433,848,438 | 66 | A tearful confession using the word 'Bro' as often as possible. | "She said, 'No,' bro," Bro One says, shifting his gaze toward the ground.
"It's alright, bro," Bro Two says. He puts an arm around Bro One. "You'll find a bro-ette, one day." A tear slides down Bro One's cheek. "Just keep going, bro. Be a strong bro for me. Do it for me," Bro Two says.
"I don't know if..." Bro One... | 46 | most_different |
20 | 1,463,478,889 | 240 | A mad scientist finds a method to shut off what makes us human. Expecting chaos and anarchy, he releases it upon the world. Unfortunately, "being human" was not exactly what he thought it was. | README.docx
Author: Will Dalton
If you are reading this, I am dead. Not probably, definitely. After all, the secure encryption on this is tied to my brain. No, not my heart – so they can't incapacitate me with that hellspawn.
But of course, you don't know who I am, or why it matters. I am Will Dalton. My name has ... | 84 | most_different |
12 | 1,441,760,273 | 22 | Take a commercial's jingle and incorporate it into a satanic ritual. | The cult's leader showed no emotion as he slit the throats of six innocent people, each abducted from their homes in the middle of a lightning storm. He stepped back from the tables to allow his servants to bind the twitching bodies in chains, hanging them upside down to drain the blood faster.
The crimson streams fou... | 13 | most_different |
5 | 1,605,653,088 | 127 | Your small town is home to the local superhero, Fred, who has the power to hypnotize people and make them do his bidding. At least, that's what everyone let's him think. He always seems to use his "power" for the betterment of others and his town, so everyone else just kinda... goes with it. | The little boy dashed through the town with his pocket watch in hand. He ran past Mister Anderson, his pocket watch waving through the air like a madman. Fred was after the supervillain who had taken this town for his liking. The evil Mister Yokeman!
His little feet scampered across the floor, as he opened the door to... | 28 | most_different |
36 | 1,426,522,110 | 477 | The Pope is calling God to discuss upcoming world events, but God accidentally turns on speakerphone and the whole world hears. | "Is there anything we in the church should know about, for the coming months?" The pope asks God and the cardinals all gather up their notebooks.
"Well, yes. In three weeks, there will be a 8.1 earthquake fifty miles west of Panama. Be prepared for Tsunamis in Papau New Guinea, Ecuador and Hawaii." God answers, and th... | 196 | most_different |
3 | 1,434,442,961 | 26 | You are a claims adjuster in the city of Metropolis. Your most common claim: 'Acts of Superman.' | Dear Mr Rathcone,
I am writing to advise you that your claim for 'Act of Superman' is not covered as it was not the proximate cause of the damage that occurred to your home. On the 17/04/2015 there was an incident in your area that caused several million dollars in damages, and we investigate each claim fully.
You a... | 16 | most_different |
14 | 1,427,293,056 | 37 | You’re being praised for a revolutionary work of art … which you actually created by accident. BS your way through your artist statement. | "I was committed to a deep sense of oneness with the inherent randomness of life and the universe. The chaos of the piece might first look like it arose by accident, but that is an expression of chaos itself - representing both the attempts of humanity to force order on the universe and the failure to do so."
"At the... | 24 | most_different |
7 | 1,478,885,854 | 144 | John Denver returns from dead to claim rightful place as King of Northern Colorado | John Denver shook his head as he walked along an L.A. Beach. He cracked his neck and felt the son along his skin. He smiled as he remembered a nice day skiing with Anne. He frowned as he remembered what happened next. They always seemed to be fighting in those days. He shook his head and begin waking up the beach towar... | 15 | most_different |
72 | 1,403,225,119 | 122 | A man goes to the bathroom, and while he looks in the mirror while washing his hands, he discovers that his reflection is slightly out of sync. | Looking down at the sink, he washes his face. Looking back up at the mirror, he sees no reflection. But wait... yes, there is a reflection. But ever so slightly behind. He blinks, waits a moment, and his reflection blinks.
"What the--?" this is what he tries to say. His lips move but no words come out. Then a moment l... | 55 | most_different |
15 | 1,457,795,831 | 319 | when you look at the death and destruction surrounding you. You wonder if it was really worth a Klondike bar | After a few seconds of self-doubt, you casually take a seat on the armchair behind you. You watch as the city in ruins around you is engulfed by an inferno of your own making through the bombshelled walls of some random apartment you just happened to stumble into at the moment you had completed your task. Don't know wh... | 65 | most_different |
102 | 1,601,853,414 | 7,553 | "They said that gluing salt to a baseball bat to fight ghosts was a stupid idea, but who's laughing now?" you say as you whacked the ghost again. | “And you said it was a bad idea!” The child cackled and continued his swings at the ghosts before him. “You owe me!”
His father raised his hands, “Alright, so you got me this time, now keep it up or they’ll get to ya!” Dexter continued to watch his son swing at the creatures advancing towards them. Street lights barel... | 1,136 | most_different |
15 | 1,450,745,144 | 35 | You are an IT Engineer. The aliens have tasked you with connecting their internet to ours. | Chief Network Engineer Khazrad na'Gruag flared his brilliantly pigmented crests, the sharp, spiny points rising over his head as he glared at the insolent Human.
"Small and squishy, aren't you" his translator spat, its tinny autospeech echoing in the server room. "Why don't you worm under the serverbank and scrape the ... | 19 | most_different |
6 | 1,656,556,071 | 302 | In a chaotic, crime-ridden world, two heroes cross paths by destiny. One is an American weeaboo who dresses as a samurai. The other is a Japanese man who dresses as a cowboy. | Their fates will be forever intertwined.
The American's name was Shinobi. He wore a black mask over his face and carried a sword, which he used to cut down his enemies. His eyes were hidden behind the mask, but he still had his trademark smug smile.
"So that's the way it is, huh? You're just gonna stand there and w... | 34 | most_different |
23 | 1,621,567,270 | 203 | All of your prompts on r/WritingPrompts get a lot of upvotes, but no comments. Today you plan to do something about it. | “La dee da,” the nameless protagonist said.
He had no features. The place in which he existed had no real features either. It was a blank white space save for a handful of non-descript black figures scattered about. The protagonist had a general idea of what he was doing here. Those observing him had suspicions of wha... | 30 | most_different |
30 | 1,411,472,149 | 26 | With prose or verse, tell me how wonderful I am. | **A poem to /u/FailureOfAWriter whose walls I live in.**
You face, your skin, your lovely eyes,
I'll be with you all day,
Your smile, your laugh, your shiny hair,
I love you every way.
No one knows the feelings,
I bear inside for you.
No one can imagine,
All the things I'd do.
I'd like to ho... | 21 | most_different |
33 | 1,438,691,162 | 93 | Write me a story with a really likeable protagonist until the very last sentence, where he becomes a huge asshole | Jonny's favorite thing in the world to do was eat. From dawn to dusk he would cook, often giving away his marvelous concoctions to neighbors and friends to enjoy when he himself could not finish the food. Everyone loved Jonny. On Christmas, Jonny decided to cook a meal that would feed the whole town. He added all kinds... | 43 | most_different |
22 | 1,409,684,053 | 35 | Use the first line of a literary novel and spin it into an entirely different story | Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
But their normal lives were would never return once it was interrupted by a soft but sharp rap on their door in the middle of the night.
Vernon Dursley, his face turning the color of his scarlet ... | 23 | most_different |
10 | 1,645,987,709 | 1,062 | Just like usernames on the internet, everybody in this world must have a totally unique name that nobody else has. When a person dies, that name becomes available. John fears for his life's safety. | When John Anderson was born, he didn’t quite understand the danger he was in. After all, a baby’s sense of self-preservation was on par with a dry branch trying to jump into fire. It was the period where one tried anything and everything.
Through many dadas and mamas, he eventually learned how to say his own name—Jo... | 166 | most_different |
216 | 1,448,737,651 | 4,193 | Nicolas Cage is completely unaware that he is an actor. All he knows is strange men with cameras follow him around while he gets into crazy situations and money shows up randomly in his bank account. | I sat at my computer, typing away at the second volume of my memoirs when my phone rang.
"Hey Nic" said my agent
"Yeah"
"We have to talk about your book"
"What about it"
"Well…it would seem that you're claiming it's your memoir"
"Yeah"
"But nearly every event in the book, is a scene from one of your movies"
"Wh... | 2,307 | most_different |
23 | 1,444,109,261 | 50 | Write the titles on /r/upliftingnews in the year 2050 that paints a terrible picture. | “Dust storms over the California Badlands lightest in nearly a decade, experts say.”
“China agrees to new United Nations arbitration deal, United States released from debt, must cede Hawaiian Islands and Alaskan Territories. ‘Fair deal’ says U.S. Secretary of State.”
“Radioactivity within the Tehran Dead Zone contin... | 40 | most_different |
10 | 1,463,724,005 | 17 | Write a beautiful poem about the most mundane of topics. | Keep watch for a ship with white sails
that rides the wind as easily as the sea,
for which each gentle zephyr's breath
are paid passage to new shores of mystery.
Keep watch for a ship with white sails
that holds no captain and no crew
it floats unmanned across the land,
a phantom drifting: up, around, and throug... | 17 | most_different |
16 | 1,471,557,255 | 303 | It finally happened: Stephen King has replaced Shakespeare as required reading in high schools. | "Good morning students!" Ms. Avery said excitedly. "Welcome to year six English."
The student body replied only with a 'sigh' that said "why the hell are we awake at 9am?"
"Let me start by outlining the corriculum for the year," she continued. "As required we will all be reading Stephen Kings 'The Dark Tower' in its ... | 25 | most_different |
4 | 1,443,903,528 | 14 | There has been confusion in the media about which victims belong to which serial killer. The killers have a round table discussion to mark territory, names, and demographics | Minutes of the meeting between The City Strangler (CS), The Mad Choker (MC), The Belt Killer (BK) and Crusher (C)
As no minutes of previous meeting were recovered from the biannual Arsonists' Consultation, the agenda proceeded straight to the first item on the agenda.
BK raised an objection to the improvised nature o... | 11 | most_different |
7 | 1,646,577,212 | 57 | You're walking down the street when suddenly a stranger dressed in weird clothes stops you and asks: "excuse me, could you tell me what year is this?" | Lily gaped, before grabbing the strangers arm and pulling them a few steps into an alleyway.
The stranger, looking to be about 15, was out of place in downtown Seattle. Their clothes look normal enough at first glance, but if you looked at them for long enough, you could see stark differences between the regular clot... | 13 | most_different |
5 | 1,589,856,416 | 15 | It's the Paleolithic Era. Grog is dead. As his closest, lifelong companion, it's your job to give the eulogy at the funeral. | **The Eulogy of Grog**
Grog was man with big rock, and bigger heart.
Grog death was not surprising. Grog should know not to chase mammoth from front! But Grog was distraction. Grog wanted tribe to eat, but more: Grog saved daughter. My daughter! Grog, hero.
Recall to time when Grog was hunter.
Grog was brave an... | 11 | most_different |
19 | 1,417,458,957 | 48 | ou're a composer with synesthesia. Describe your works without using sound. | The violins open with bows to their strings
in a crisp rolling field of electric, hot greens.
The landscape sweeps by and its vistas stand clear
with sharp blades of grass: bold staccato veneers.
Dread fire above lights the air in the sky:
the sound of the trumpets ignites all on high.
Their rays scour land like ... | 28 | most_different |
128 | 1,420,489,029 | 1,183 | You have dishonored your family and you must commit Sudoku. | The wan light shines upon the gritty paper of Sudoku puzzles, and John's face grows more perplexed by the second. Two gentlemen in uniform stand on each side of him, and wails (most likely coming from his wife) could be heard through the door.
"I'm confused...what exactly do you want me to *do*?" he asks.
The man on... | 683 | most_different |
4 | 1,428,595,549 | 15 | Describe a war fought by the factions of /r/thebutton | “We contributed just like you did,” said a purple one.
“NOT like one of us,” responded one of the greens. “And because of purps like you, the end is nigh.”
“It isn’t over yet,” called out a purple one, atop a hill and looking down at the sea of purples and greens. There were a few blues, but they were sparse and disj... | 15 | most_different |
13 | 1,655,338,187 | 160 | On the phone they excitedly ask "How is the premiere going?" "Uh turns out the film is so historically inaccurate it's caused a riot. I'm hiding from the angry mob right now." | From the makers of AIRPLANES THAT DIDN'T FLY WELL and HOW TO INSTALL YOUR NEW SAMSUNG DISHWASHER, it's:
#### Pharaohs of Egypt!
Created by a team of real historians who were actually present during the events portrayed, Pharaohs of Egypt is the most accurate sci-fi romance time-travel docu-drama ever to grace the dir... | 43 | most_different |
73 | 1,617,130,570 | 2,512 | You bought an instant-print film camera 5 years ago, but to your surprise the film never ran out. Inside, instead of where the film should be, is a note, "The film runs out when you photograph your soul mate." This led you to become a professional photographer, with a very successful career. | In the age of instant photographs on our phones, I found fascination in the idea of a photograph that was instant but also that you couldn’t alter. From filters on Instagram to the ones built into your cell phone’s camera app, the possibilities were endless. But with an instant-print camera, that was it. Take the shot,... | 384 | most_different |
12 | 1,460,920,091 | 51 | The apocalypse has come. The only survivors: a young child, and the monster under the bed... | A boy within a mostly empty room,
with nothing but a cot to rest his head.
The world outside is quiet as a tomb,
Alone, but for the beast beneath his bed.
His mother and his father? Burnt to ash,
in conflagrations nuclear and vast.
The silence is soon broken by a crash,
The monster crawling upwards from the past.
Th... | 24 | most_different |
5 | 1,403,816,900 | 22 | In the near future, in an attempt to fix political corruption, the President is now chosen by lottery | Alana Thompson, age 47, sits with her obese husband and kids, waiting in anticipation.
The president of the United States, Plo R.P., walks on to the stage to great thousands of obese faces.
"Today, we will reveal our new leader, our new president, who will lead this great nation to victor!" Plo said in the microphon... | 11 | most_different |
18 | 1,421,163,949 | 104 | At birth, everyone is given a DnD alignment at random and they must act accordingly, regardless of what they actually think. | Finally, ISIS was crushed by the West and the new Republic of the Islamic State which encompassed both Syria and Iraq had had its first election. Finding out who was an enemy to world peace was no issue; most insurgents and terrorists carried the Chaotic Evil alignment and acted as such.
That's why the new President ... | 40 | most_different |
9 | 1,609,744,095 | 501 | You are a dragon that has slept for 100 years due to being bored with the humans and their warring clans. After waking into a Victorian age, you find that humans have grown more civilized. You don your disguise and prepare to mingle in high society, where words are more powerful than swords. | QUEEN VICTORIA’S DRAGON
[Part I]
Kuldrum, Lord of the Skies, Champion of Yellow, Seeker of Riches, whose wings were each the size of a Blue Whale, whose spiked tail could crush ten grown men in a single swoop, whose impatience with humanity’s self-proclaimed “enlightenment” pushed him into another early hibernation,... | 93 | most_different |
7 | 1,470,231,021 | 38 | The year is 2023. In a decision that shocked the world, the US has officially ended the war on drugs. In the wake of this decision, a new sporting event has been taking the world by storm: The Drug Wars. | ”And remember, Doctor Trump’s Home Remedy is made with only the safest of government-approved medication, including morphine, heroine, THC and more! Treats the common cold, depression, fatigue, boredom, sexual impotence, hair loss, night sweats, fuzzy ear, sore feet, rough gut, rust gut, tough gut…”
**Click**
"Tonig... | 10 | most_different |
11 | 1,438,532,952 | 94 | In an alternate timeline, marijuana and alcohol are legal. Caffeine - as well as anything containing it in appreciable quantity - is not. | Why do people use it? Is it the good feeling afterwards? Is it the taste of the things it's mixed into? No. That can't be the reasons. Not when the side effects literally stop you from sleeping, make you irritable and can in some cases cause what is known as "the shakes".
I've only had one experience with "Red Bull" a... | 42 | most_different |
6 | 1,601,952,147 | 89 | The creature crawls from under the bed, ready to feed. It then smells it, milk and cookies. It crawls down the stairs and sees some fat guy eating the first food it’s seen in weeks. | I scurried around under the bed, seeing that the giant left, I could finally go out safely, Mother tried to go out yesterday and was killed by the giant, so I am not going to make the same mistake.
​
I haven't eaten in weeks, this might be my only chance of getting any for a long time, I dashed down th... | 11 | most_different |
3 | 1,590,717,363 | 152 | In a world where psychics are killed upon discovery, you have hidden you abilities. However, using telekinesis on your arms allow for stronger punches and you become a boxer. When you are sent to get a physical, the doctor starts to become suspicious of you. | "When did you say you started boxing?"
"When I was 17," I said coolly. Having been interviewed one two many times (from match promotions to sports magazine articles, even daytime television talk shows) I have the answers to basic questions asked locked and loaded in this brain of mine that keeps getting banged against... | 22 | most_different |
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