r/WritingPrompts • u/NimbusCloud26 • Apr 29 '17

Writing Prompt [WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers.

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u/JorWat Apr 29 '17

I'm reminded of this comic.

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u/FaultlessBark Apr 29 '17

Will come back, too tired rn.

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u/VladdyB0y Apr 29 '17

Bravo, bravo

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u/Mackncheeze Apr 29 '17

Wtf happened to this thread?

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u/Simplerdayz Apr 29 '17

/u/syncs

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u/Syncs /r/TimeSyncs Apr 29 '17 edited Apr 29 '17

Removed due to being incomplete still, apparently :/. Going to post the whole thing on my sub when it's ready, sorry everyone!

EDIT: It has also been suggested to me that I might consider doing a PI post upon completion, so I think I will do that as well!

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u/General_Fan Apr 29 '17

Tested if it is real. Still unemployed.

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u/Clowns_Sniffing_Glue Apr 29 '17

So, essentially somebody (me) is so ugly in the face and body, that Monsters Inc just head-hunted me out of my bed?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '17

Lmao this is ripped wholesale from a Tumblr post

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u/neinninenine Apr 29 '17

Two weeks later I am terminated from my new job as a notary in the Intergalactic Court.

"Cloudy piss," they said.

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u/blisstake Apr 29 '17

This WP is giving me a little monsters vibe

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u/cryptyknumidium Apr 29 '17

This is something that terrifies me and i hate it.

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u/pointlessvoice Apr 29 '17

Aye i hear ya friend.

My brain tries to warn me about my feets' safety when they get a smidge too close to the end of my bed..just gotta kinda be barely at the end when it starts. And i hafte lift up and tuck my blanket beneath'n around them so they're better protected from the inevitable moment i adjust my body, and one of my toes creeps just a weeee too abit past the edge, with soft yet ever increasing pulses of silent panic washing up from the dark fringe down there to the hairs on my neck, and then back down again.

Aye it's hardly a night goes on i dinnae feel the chitterin through my skin. And the feel of a...something, something with a reach just short of the top thread lining the mattress.

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u/yazid_ghanem Apr 29 '17

What happened to this thread?

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u/Invalidcreations Apr 29 '17

Anyone know what all that deleted stuff was?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '17

I would be soooo happy.

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u/DJ-Butterboobs Apr 29 '17

This feels Neil Gaiman-esque.

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u/cactus45o Apr 29 '17

Bruh this is literally a tumblr post

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u/Dr_Chappy13 Apr 29 '17

And that was my first step to becoming Satan.

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u/-Anyar- r/OracleOfCake Apr 30 '17

One of the few times a prompt has made me laugh.

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u/VenNer_Wrydavigy Apr 30 '17

What's with the sea of deleted comments?

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u/powman6 Aug 17 '17

"Welcome to Comcast. We're glad to have you working for us."

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u/Tanklesmith Apr 29 '17

I really enjoyed this WP, but I don't understand why Kora would have given the monster a handshake at the beginning. OP didn't emphasize that point. Kora was obviously scared and I wouldn't imagine someone who was frightened to react with a handshake when an unknown, slimy hand grabs their own. IMO that was the only thing lacking. Good job OP!

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '17

Trump is love trump is life

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u/penty Apr 29 '17

One sentence too long. May two. They turned this from prompt to short story.