I took a sip of my coffee with one hand and scrolled on my mouse with the other. It was just a hot coffee, only a little half and half and even less sugar in it, so I made it a quick sip before putting it back down. Just business as usual. My hands moved …
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[WP] You’re a ghost, but your body isn’t dead. It’s undead, and Zombie-You is an absolute moron without you at the wheel. I shot up in bed. I’m not sure if I even screamed. But Jesus, fuck that nightmare. It’s always the same one, where you’re falling and you wake up the second you hit the …
You are blind, and always have been. One day, while riding the bus to the store, you see a girl sitting across from you. I heard people talking about me when I approached the bus stop. They weren’t very subtle about it, but that doesn’t bother me much anymore. I’ve learned that people really aren’t …
[WP] A mighty jock. A frail but deadly goth. A nerd who can stack the odds in his favor. And a sheltered homeschooler whose abilities are shrouded in mystery. These are their adventures, and this is Detention and Dragons. They all came in one by one, my next players. I sat at my desk, holding …
[WP] It's been 10 years since the Drought. Now you walk along the Atlantic Desert, searching for others who might be in hiding. Very few people ever swam across the Atlantic. Benoît Lecomte was, allegedly, the first-known solo swimmer, going from Massachusetts to France. Jennifer Figge swam from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad about …
[WP] While visiting a memorial for veterans, you spot a man in a stained and dirty uniform. After asking him what war he served in, he sadly laughs and responds "all of them". I had always seen the veterans’ memorial every time I drove into work. It was right outside one of the gates to …
[WP] You are the Chosen One. You go to kill the evil tyrant, only to find that he’s actually the previous Chosen One. Water doused fire. Air obliterated earth. No matter which spells I cast, he seemed to know before I did. I thrust my staff out, creating a flock of birds in a burst …
[WP] After you laze about in a looped day for years, God finally stages an intervention to tell you that you’re supposed to be trying to get out of the loop. I’m not usually this irritated. Rather, I’ve always been perceived as the very opposite. I mean, at least sometimes. Don’t dwell on that too …
(To preface this piece, I made an account on Reddit recently, and the prompt below comes from the subreddit Writing Prompts. So I wrote my response over there, and I wanted to put it here, too!) [WP] Write a short story where the first sentence is 20 words, the second is 19, and so on …
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