LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generation
Paper • 2311.15208 • Published
index int64 1 15.3k | prompt stringclasses 923
values | name stringlengths 1 238 | story stringlengths 837 27.9k |
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8,770 | Write a story that involves a reflection in a mirror. | Heather Lynn Finds Her Groove |
Heather Lynn Stone was a Caucasian female, as well as an albino. The white eyebrows accented the icy blue eyes and her many, various tattoos accented her beliefs. With a face full of metal piercings, there was something freaky about the teenager. Her hair, usually worn in braids, was also white.
She often loo... |
6,078 | Write a story about an adventure in a small town. | A lake in the middle of a forest |
I remember Anna, she told me about the lake in the middle of a forest which was in the middle of our busy town. The Forest Lush green and scary It was Pete, Anna’s brother, a little boy of ten, with a fancy hat and chirpy smile, who walked out of his home, when their parents started to yell for the fourth time tha... |
10,964 | Write a story from the different perspectives of two people meeting for a blind date. | Anatomy and Blind Dating |
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While sitting at the upscale bar in a fine restaurant, I wondered how big a mistake this was. What’s the worst that can happen - an early night and web surfing back home? A beautiful black woman came in and looked around. I forgot to ask about race. I tried to catch her eye and flaunted my emerald green “It’s ME” ... |
284 | Write a story where someone sees the shadow of someone standing behind them. | At Dawn There Are Poppies |
This story contains sensitive themes including: mental health, grief, death, and blood.
At Dawn There Are Poppies
On the last night of August, when the hazy summer heat blurred toward an autumn chill, Emily found a single poppy growing in the woods behind the house.
A spot of sunset in the dark of the forest... |
956 | Write a short story about someone who refuses to write New Year's resolutions. | Entertaining Yesterday Now |
“What’s the point?” “The point is: resolve to make a change in your life,” said Beatrice with soy-firm resiliency as she sliced her toast with a butter knife. “For the better?” “If you’re so inclined, I supposed that’d help.” Beatrice shrugged, her jade moon-faced necklace glittering in the morning light from the ... |
5,374 | Start your story with the arrival of a strange visitor in a small town. | Garnet |
Adelaide Runner’s cow died the morning the stranger first came to town.
It had been ailing for weeks and had been unable to give over any milk. Adelaide had known for some time that the cow would have to be put out of its misery, yet she could not help putting off her part in such an event. She hoped every mo... |
14,745 | Set your story in a Gothic manor house. | Hidden Under the Floorboards |
“The art of investigation is a fickle one. Many think of themselves as one of those marvellously witty detectives you see on tv. But few ever put their energy into the mysteries that matter. The legends of ghosts lurking in the dark and monsters out of sight. The cases that get you labelled as the craziest nut in tow... |
1,649 | End your story with a character looking out on a new horizon. | Hippo Campus |
This story contains substance abuse, explicit language, and mention of brain surgery.
You saw it floating in a jar before the doctors did the procedure. One of the best brains money could buy. A bioartificial brain. They took stem cells from your bone marrow which to be brutally honest hurt like a bitch.
Then th... |
15,149 | Write about a character who wakes up in their past life, or as a future reincarnation of themself. | New Year's Eve Dinner was a Superb Affair |
December 31, 1999— a new millennium would begin in a few hours.
I finished my glass of wine and went through to the sitting room, cozied into my favorite chair near the fireplace, smiled at the mayhem surrounding me— and died.
All of my living children, two daughters, and a son, along with thirt... |
3,591 | Write a story about waiting — but don't reveal what's being waited for until the very end. | Sommelier |
I pull the wine through my lips and think about what it would be like to be someone’s first taste. It’s a dry one, sharp on the tongue, bitter in the throat. Something made in Argentina, I think. Dry. Sharp. Bitter. It would be an assault to the senses for a first-timer. But for someone who’s older, who’s lived enoug... |
1,525 | You thought he was dead, but there he is, right in front of you on the street, smiling at you. | Tarnished Blade |
“Have you ever considered how far away the stars are,” Alice asked,” how big they are... then pretended they were on a canvas not much higher than your reach?”
I rolled up to my feet,”I don’t know how you can see the stars with so much light pollution...”I smirked and held out my hand.
“You just have to pretend then... |
9,962 | Write about a character who keeps ending up in the same place. | Ten for you, Twenty-six for me |
The metro I take to work, the polluted air of Mumbai, the faces I smile at and the faces that don’t smile back— they are stained a coffee-brown. The same color as old pages and medieval fables. The lives lived in abandoned childhood homes. Memories turned cinder. The air inside the all-women compartment threatens to a... |
11,919 | Write a story featuring an element of time-travel or anachronism. | The Bloody Regret |
Five years had passed.
The alarm clock rung with the humming of the birds outside, and Larry still woke up with the unforgettable nightmare he had for five years.
In the nightmare, an emaciated and short boy stood in the gym feebly with a long scout rope in his hands. Larry clearly know that he was trying to save... |
14,097 | Write about an animal species that doesn't exist in real life — an alien, new discovery, imaginary creature — it's up to your interpretation! | The usual knight in shining armour story |
The chainmail suit was starting to itch. Badly. The long trudge had started at dawn and now here I was, sweating buckets as the sun blazed over my head. I pondered my dilemma. In one hand I carried a giant wooden shield, in the other my sword. I inspected the glinting sword carefully. Sharpened steel seemed like the p... |
12,602 | Start or end your story with someone saying “You’ll never know unless you try.” | You’ll never know unless you try. |
“You’ll never know unless you try.”Her eyes were as blue as the ocean behind her. As I stared into them I half wondered if someone was playing a trick on me. Like if someone had put a cardboard image of Sarah in front of me, with the eyeholes cut out. The waves rolled in over my toes, it felt nice but did little to wa... |
1,006 | Start your story with someone receiving a one-star review. | "The one star reviewer". ⭐ |
CW: contains some abusive words.Notice: This story doesn't aim to portray "critics" as bad reviewers. In some cases if necessary, Critics are very important to any writer who wishes to publish a book. They can serve as a guiding light to a writer's piece of work for the best interest of his readers.----- The Laptop be... |
8,891 | Start your story with a major news event breaking — one that will change the world forever. | Breaking News Not For the Weak |
Breaking News Not For the Weak
Patty Morland sat at the anchor desk with the map of the world behind her. There was a red dot at the centre of attention. The hot button was Detroit, Michigan.
“It has been completely confirmed that aliens have landed on earth. I repeat aliens have landed on e... |
1,267 | Two strangers meet at a New Year's Eve party. They spend the party together, and then never see each other again. | FIRST LOVE |
It was a New Year's party at my friend's house.I had designed a new three piece dress.The dress was made with a soft synthetic fabric in wine colour.A short skirt,contrast top with frilled neckline and a short fitted jacket in the same floral print fabric was the dress.To add grace to my walk I selected a high heeled ... |
13,166 | Write a post-apocalyptic romance. | Pandemic Yearning |
“It’s funny”. He spoke through a rictus grin. “I don’t remember you being this angry”.
“Angry”? She said sarcastically. ”Why would I be angry”?
“I don’t know. Especially as, if I remember correctly, you were the one who made all the decisions”.
“Decisions?”
Zack leaned a little closer to her.”Not to meet me? ... |
6,167 | Write a day-in-the-life-story about a first-time parent and their newborn child. | THE FIRST TIME |
Advice from a mother to her adult child when she becomes a new mother: The first time I saw your face, I was in love. You were soft to the touch, and crying uncontrollably. I was so emotional looking at your distress, desiring for your free flowing tears to stop streaming down your cheeks. Your arms and legs we... |
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This is a medium-length story dataset introduced in LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generation : https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15208.
The dataset was collected by the authors from Reedsy Prompts : https://blog.reedsy.com/short-stories/, as of May 2023.
In the original paper, the authors use a 60k/4k/4k train/validation/test split.
For comparison:
WritingPrompts (Fan et al., 2018): ~768 tokens per story
Booksum (Kryściński et al., 2021): ~6,065 tokens per story
BookCorpus (Project Gutenberg): ~90,000 words per story (approx.)
(ours) ReedsyPrompts : ~2426 tokens per story
Use this :
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("Iyan/reedsyPrompts")
print(ds["train"][0]['index'])
print(ds["train"][0]['prompt']) # the prompt of the story
print(ds["train"][0]['name']) # the title of the story
print(ds["train"][0]['story'])
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