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[WP] The invisible Man had been dating a blind woman for awhile with no need to bring up his "problem", but tonight, he's meeting her parents. | I hate my friends.
When you're an invisible dude, it's not exactly easy to make friends. I happened to run into three idiots over the course of my life who didn't seem to mind and I genuinely thought I hit a jackpot with them.
My friend Jake, who unironically likes police procedural shows, I grew up with. For the f... | 113 | “I’ve got to tell you something, sweetheart.”
“Yeah? What is it?”
“I’m...” He thought paused and thought hard about the next words about to spill from his mouth. “Afraid... of old people.”
“Oh? Well I thought everyone was.” She replied.
“Dammit,” He said under his breath.
“Dammit what?”
“It’s nothing. Hey wait wa... | 45 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Write a poem to make me uncomfortable. | I'm all packed
With heavy bags
And yet my luggage
Has no tags
My ticket small
and silver-lined
It's coolest touch
Is on my mind
Exhilaration
now takes hold
Never normal
No fitting mold
Departure time
Is very near
Peace and calm
No hint of fear
Leaving now
With no regret
No goodbyes
or looming... | 20 | Skipping high happy and gay;
Oh goodness me, what a glorious day!;
I bring her along, tailing by hand;
We journey far and wide across the Unknown Land;
The sights and the stares she brings to our point;
They cannot believe our mysterious joint!;
No one has seen us before, but we've seen them all;
No one loves he... | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] A teenage boy finally builds up the courage to ask out his crush but when he pops the question her face darkens as she utters to him “you’re not supposed to be able to see me” | "I know" I answer the boy. " No one sees me either"
He makes a questioning noise before actually looking at me more closely. As realization hits him, his eyes start to shine, making him look even mire beautiful
"You... You are like me" he stammers "You are also not in the same place as them"
I nod, and glance at all... | 55 | "W-what?!"
"I have been dead for years..." The girl replies.
Now that he thinks of it, no one has ever interacted with her for as long as he remembers.
"I-i dont understand...what do you mean 'your dead'?"
"I mean, dumbass, that I'm dead. God, mortals are so stupid!" She whispered the last part under her breath, o... | 24 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You have died. While waiting to be judged, you are offered the chance to clear one entry from your file before the decision is made.
Let me add: apologies for the cliché of judgement after death. I just want to see how you guys play this one out. | "Welcome, my son," the voice said with a smile;
"You're dead, I'm God, and this might take a while."
"You have lived and you've loved, you've won and you've lost;
But now that you're dead, there's one more line to be crossed!"
"Look at this list," he said, and produced a sheet
Of items so long that it hung down to hi... | 23 | "Choose" said the voice.
This was my chance. For the last 50 years of my life I had resigned myself to hell, it's what I deserved anyways. Yet here I am, able to erase the one mistake I made so long ago.
I laughed. Even a disgusting wretch like me could get into heaven. And I know I will. Besides that one mistake... | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Someone murders another person for a motive that sounds extremely petty at first but makes total sense by the end of the excerpt.
The motives cannot have anything to do with drugs (i.e. he was an alcoholic beating his kids so his wife had to put a stop to it), cannot be political, and cannot be committed in an em... | He couldn't remember my name.
He could never remember my name.
I had no choice but to do it.
When I started with the company, I remember, he shook my hand and looked at me with a semi-confused smile, he eyed me and said, "I'm sure I've met you somewhere before, what was your name?"
I just chuckled and said that I... | 30 | "Why did you kill him?"
"His had nice shoes." I said, cradling the dead man's shoes.
"Shoes, really?" I was sitting in an interrogation room, facing this stranger. This stranger tried to take the shoes away from me, but I fought, tooth and nail. I wondered how many other strangers sat in this room, and how legitimate... | 19 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Write the script and dialogue for two separate first date scenarios. One that goes well, and one that goes poorly. HOWEVER, they must both have the same exact dialogue in both stories. | "Travelled far this evening?" Steve pulled out Helen's chair and waited until she dropped into it gracefully. She adjusted her blonde hair over her shoulder and grinned at him across the table.
"You know I haven't," she replied. Her gaze dropped to the tablecloth as she shyly returned his smile.
"Would you like ch... | 130 | “Oh, God.”
She was beautiful, but the restaurant I’d chosen was clearly garbage. I never should have trusted just one review on Yelp.
I sat down in the chair at our table, trying to ignore the layers of caked-on rust near the legs. She was staring at her phone, her nose crinkled. Perhaps it was pre-emptive disgust.
... | 61 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] A blind-man on his death bed asks you describe color to him.
This should be fun :) | "Any regrets?" I asked.
"Yeah. Wish I could have see what you've seen." Issac laughed, his blind eyes staring off into oblivion. "I dearly wish I could have seen color. My world was always so dark and featureless."
"Any color in particular?" I asked.
"Blue. I've always heard people talk about the color blue. They se... | 37 | "Yellow," he says.
Turning away from the window, I furrow my brows. "Uncle?" I haven't spoken in so many hours, the word comes cracked out of my dry throat. The tiny, frail little man in the bed raised me after mom and dad died. Raised me, in spite of, you know. Being blind. I don't know, maybe we raised each ot... | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] In order to create a more intelligent society the government executes students if they fail a course in school | At first it seemed like a great idea. The wording of the law made it sound like it would create a perfect utopia. When Law 388 passed, it was revolutionary. Anyone with an IQ less then 40 would be shot on site. Testing would begin at 10 and you would be retested every 5 years until death. In a few years, population was... | 20 | John, you have to admit there's a problem. We have 7 students in our entering class.
And those 7 are the absolute best.
The university's going to shut down. We have to relax our grading scale. Get a bit more lenient.
That is not what the University of Chicago stands for.
MIT doesn't even give anything lower th... | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You are playing video games one day when an in-game item suddenly grants you all the abilities of the character you play in the game. With these abilities in real life, you decide to take care of business. | Soon. SOON! Oh yes, world, soon you will all know me, and all fear me!
You laughed at me while I played games all day. Well, while I played games all *night* but still, there was laughing. You mocked me when all I wanted to talk about was video games, when all I wrote about was video games, when all I thought abou... | 29 | Of course. It was the game.
Suddenly everything made sense. Why I can't sleep, not unless I write those strange letterings, the codes, on my diary. Always the same: 19012205. Why I keep going forward and never going back. Why, after so many years, my reflection never changed.
I bolted. My feet never made a sound, nev... | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Your adopted teenager doesn't seem to age, it's getting suspicious after a decade. | "Hey kitten, can I talk to you?" Sabrina looked up at me from where she was lounging on the couch. "Sweetie," I said, sitting next to her. "It's been ten years since I adopted you. Do you remember?" She opened her mouth, but I continued before she could make a sound. "You were sixteen. I thought it was so sad, how gett... | 23 | The morning started like every other. It was just me and Daisy sitting next to each other at the table. I didn't even have to wake her up anymore; she was always sitting there waiting for me to make her breakfast.
It used to be a struggle getting her out of bed before her mother died. Well, not a struggle for me. ... | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Spaghetti is now illegal.
[deleted] | As the law passed, they never thought of specifying what type of spaghetti is illegal.
If it was about the food, fixing this was easy. They just removed spaghetti from all the stores and stopped the production.
For me, however, my job became the most dangerous -- yet important -- job in the world. At least, that is h... | 37 | Karen gasped. ''Is this for real?''
''I'm afraid so.''
''But...why?''
''Enough wealthy donors supported it.''
''On what grounds?''
Lindy sighed. ''Religious grounds.''
''You don't mean-''
''I do.''
''The Flying Spaghetti Monster?!''
''The church has rapidly gained followers over the past years. I guess the est... | 20 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You are a children's television show superhero by day, but a real superhero by night. Your mannerisms do not change. | "Come on! Get the money in the truck! We've only got a few minutes until the poli-"
The overhead skylight exploded, sending glass raining into the bank lobby. "Fuck it's the SWAT! Get your wea-" The words froze in his throat when he noticed what had just landed atop the statue in the center of the lobby.
"Stealing i... | 104 | I look at my gloved hands. Red gloves, latex, perfect for the cameras. Real heroes don't wear gloves.
A flickering.
A spotlight.
A body on the ground.
"ACTION!"
I quickly analyse the scene of the crime. I see fingerprints on the man's belt that coincide with my memorized fingerprints database for a Warner Tucker -... | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] As a joke you were buried with "respawn in 9..." Your grandkids visit the graveyard 100 years later. A scraping sound startles them as the nine transforms into an eight.
Credit to
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/54qoa5/what_do_you_want_your_tombstone_to_say/d849ucs
For the prompt | Dying wouldn't be so bad.
I get that impression every time we visit this graveyard. I mean you don't have to eat, deal with heartburn, or fight off leg cramps as you try and wipe yourself. The only requirement is that you sleep in a dirt hole all day.
And with the number of times I've rolled off the bed, I'm alread... | 30 | I hate memorial day. The colors red, white and blue flooding the streets with people screaming "Merica!" from their gas guzzling F-350 Super Charge. It's like they actually think America has ever done something for them. Sorry to burst your bubble people, but this country has never done jack shit for you. I learned tha... | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] The Moon is now habitable and millionaires are purchasing the best land there. You can’t afford anything like that, but after going through your inheritance, you find documents from the early 2000s that your great-great-great-grandfather had indicating that he owned grade-A Moon land. | I was ready to finally move onto the moon. I had saved up over the past twenty years on a measly doctor's salary and have secured myself a small plot of land near the borders of the dark side. Twenty years of toiling away seeing the less fortunate patients who could not afford MedBot's. Twenty years of frugality, cheap... | 305 | Aiden looked at the documents in disbelief... He thought about it, but there was no way it was true. It was almost impossible to own land at the time. He sat in the large dusty storage room of the courthouse looking at nothing. No... The sky. The moon. He knew he'd have a nice luxurious life on the moon. It was going t... | 21 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] A new President is elected, only to resign within minutes of being sworn in.
Why? What is the country's reaction to such an event? What happens next? | It was a cold day in January, with an additional chill of foretelling in the air. There were thousands people in attendance to watch the most popular politician get sworn in and billions watching it on Television. The air was electric and filled with history as it was being made.
" I John Abraham do solemnly swear to... | 33 | It was the first time in the history of Washington, D.C. that a politician had kept his word.
President Franklin Sharpton had gone to the Oval Office, picked up a single piece of paper and a pen, wrote a short statement, then rose from his chair and walked out.
The Vice President watched as the most-powerful man in t... | 22 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] Highschool Never Ends. The morning after you gradute highschool you wake up to the first day of freshman year. At forst it was unbelievable, but by now you have lost track of how many times it has happened
Death just resets to the morning of Freshman year. You have all your memories and relatively fitness level ... | Edit: words
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I've tried out a lot of things.
The first time I thought I had gone insane, ended up being diagnosed with a severe unclassified psyc... | 134 | He waved off the first day as a very detailed dream.
The second day, he began to get concerned.
By the third day, he was outright panicking.
High school. Why did it have to be high school? And not just any time, but back to the beginning. Back to the beginning of hell. He had just finished climbing out of that dark ... | 21 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You decide to order the everything bagel. All seems to be fine, except... Oh no. They really did put everything on it. | I watch in horror as the short man behind the counter keeps reaching into a box of apparently infinite capacity.
Everytime he draws his hand out of the mysterious box, another completely new object is within his grasp, seemingly at random.
He looks only mildly perturbed.
"Gotta say, making these Everything Bagels rea... | 23 | Garlic. Onion. Sesame. Poppy. Black sesame. Ginger. Baked beans. Coffee. Cilantro. Rhubarb. Eggplant. Twix. Every ingredient in trail mix. Ice cream. Salad. Guacamole. Candy canes. Champagne. Ravioli. Chicken. Earthworms. Pancakes. Slippers. Pencils. Sunglasses. Chocolate. Zippers. Umbrellas. Sidewalks. A shovel. Loose... | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] You are an incredibly powerful villain that loses to each new hero on purpose, as deep down, you aren’t evil. After your recent “defeat”, the peasant healer in this hero’s party noticed you had been holding back. | I sat in the cell they had put me in, and thought back on the group who had "captured" me They had potential, I could see it, but...they would never reach it currently.
"Prisoner 5 you have a visitor." The guard's voice pulled me out of my thoughts, "Try to behave."
I looked and saw a familiar face. The healer of th... | 269 | *huff... puff...* "You win, hero... but I will recover... and will continue my plans... for now, here's your reward..."
"NOT SO FAST!" The healer of the group causes everyone to freeze at this point, with those words. He stares directly at me. "You weren't using your full strength, were you?"
"What are you talking ab... | 81 | 0 | 0 | ||
[WP] The first mate mutinied against the captain's tyranny. But it turned out that the first mate sucked, so the second mate mutinied against him. The second mate is a terrible leader too, and the third mate promises the crew he'll be better. As the fourth mate, this trend is starting to worry you. | They say culture starts at the top, but why does the top never spare any thought for the bottom?
The mutinies started two months ago. The first time, everyone was able to forgive. It made sense. We were becalmed, adrift amid the Sunless Sea where the world is madness and disaster and the sirens can’t sing in tune. A s... | 131 | How many captains could a crew go through in a month? If you asked me that question a month ago, I would have told you one at most, but somehow, we have gone through ten in the past four weeks. TEN BLOODY CAPTAINS! Forced each captain to walk the plank and meet their grim fate at Davy Jones’ locker. I give it three mor... | 73 | 0 | 0 |
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