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STORY STARTER
"How long have I been asleep? It must be close to a thousand years."
Write a fantasy story that contains this line. The character who says it can be whoever you choose.
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein had been before her time. She could dream it but no one at that time could create it. But now in 2023 an ambitious but reckless young doctor was going to make it happen.
At a young’s age he had received the nickname Frankenstein. This loved the nickname and even more he couldn’t get enough of that original story. He could practically recite Mary Shelley’s book by the ...
The guardian laid motionless on her pedestal. The woman approached with caution holding her breath. Was this truly the same person she danced with all that time ago. As a dragon her life was eternal. She mistook the guardian for a human and so quit searching for her. ‘I regret not finding you sooner my love.’ She took the pale green hand of the guardian into hers, god it was so much smaller than h...
“How long have I been asleep? It must be close to a thousand years.”
The dryad trapped in a slowly corrupting Forrest spoke in the sleek slender arms of the elf.
“You dramatic piece of driftwood, you got high again, didn’t you?” Eyed down the barbarian cradling the dwarf acorn dryad in his veiny arms.
“Found a new mushroom… have you noticed how the waters full of ugly tree people?”
“If Wiz was h...
Bzzt, Bzzt, the world glitches with a voxelated effect; cubes shake in to place and disappear, as a blue hue makes place for full color, while Logistic and Maintenance Droid 3 restarts.
LM3 begins a physical systems check. No areas of major damage detected. Limited movement in right arm and hand. Require basic maintenance.
They then try to access their data banks, bits and pieces of information ...
How long have I been asleep? It must have been a thousand years.
Turns out I was only blind
Put on a pair of new glasses to look through
Because I had figured I was in love
Before I met you I put them on
and when the flags popped up I never saw their red hue
I only noticed their shimmer and ripples in the wind
"How beautiful they are. It's like they were planted here just for me. How kind of him."...
I’m too impatient to rewrite, so this is just a first draft :/
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How long have I been asleep? It must have been close to a thousand years.
No one responds anymore.
No one starts talking with me.
No one follows me out the door
into the cool, September breeze.
No one twirls in the sunshine
That enhances your judging eyes.
“Who is that girl?
She’s so incomplete.”
But I’m more complete than...
Once upon a time in a distant future, a man named Ethan woke up to find himself lying on a crude makeshift bed in what appeared to be an abandoned building. As he gazed around, he realized that the world he now found himself in was drastically different from the one he remembered.
The cityscape outside was crumbling, overrun by nature and ruins from a long-forgotten civilization. Ethan stumbled o...
It’s been a thousand years
Cried a thousand tears
Lost in time through the fears
No longer is it what a I hear
Forever am I waiting
Time slows while hesitating
Not sure what they want from me
Not sure what it is I see
Sitting quietly watching clocks
Sleeping soundly doors locked
Birds fly formationed flocks
Round we go throwing rocks
XxTwisted...
Certruse, in a deep deep sleep for 2 weeks. 14 days no one has spoke to her. 336 hours and nobody realized she was gone, except one person. The prince of the kingdom of miredore. Miredore was in the smaller side of things most people new everyone, but Certruse was very secretive, emotional, and fragile. She fell in love with the prince but insisted on keeping it a secret. Keeping that secret meant...
“how long have I been asleep?” i ask my parents. apparently it’s been about 30 minutes . it’s not like i’ve had a hard day, all i did was go to school. i’m not exhausted from school work, i’m in almost all on level classes. i’m not exhausted from anything else, i do nothing. so why am i so tired? the second i come home from school, i head to my bed and fall asleep. the truth is, i fall asleep to a...
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