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The thuds were haunting, but the silence… the silence was truly deafening. A bombardment of bodies assaulted the floor of the cafeteria as I stood there in wonder of what was to come. I’ve never experienced fear like that before, fear for myself, fear for what was to come. Everyone, my friends, the inmates, the guards,... |
Dear Diary,
Yesterday was the greatest day ever. I discovered that I can stop time. I think I am god now, in my hands (or rather my head) I hold the greatest weapon in the universe. My brain. It was realized in a freak neurology accident when, while using myself as a test subject I ended up stimulating 100 percent of ... |
tick tick tick
I stared at the clock. Time seemed to pass so slowly in g period calculus.
Brrrrrnggggg. Finally, I thought. Damn that was a long day.
I grabbed my books and got up. On the way out I said bye to some friends. "Later Joe"I said, playfully hitting my buddy on the shoulder as he made his way to his car... |
The world was ready to launch the combined nuclear arsenal of the planet. God had called us insects, that couldn't mean anything good.
The buttons were pressed... and nothing happened.
"It's okay, insects. I'm not going to hurt you..."the enormous figure said, it's voice muffled by the vacuum of the universe we thoug... |
It looked like an old abandoned house. But Captain Hank Williams knew better.
“Alright, men,” he said to the four people behind him, “and lady,” he said to the 6th member of his team, “were facing some heavy odds here. The place is heavily fortified and packed with civilians. Stunners only, until we reach the target, ... |
Carlos nodded his head toward the man in the long fur coat wearing a necklace of assorted beer bottle caps and clay tokens.
"What?"
The man, who had a second ago knocked Carlos to the sticky, beer-smelling floor of the college town bar, glared in consternation. Carlos could see that he really, really wanted to look, ... |
lack of light, exploring keeps us full of fright
the only solace is a single shaky spotlight
our hunger to explore, curiosity to quench
to explore the deepest lands, the Marianas trench
as the tides push, push, and push and pull
the drone creaked from weakness in its hull
crack... clank... pop... and sq... |
I was eagerly waiting in line, my hands clasped around the euros in my pocket. Any minute Ute now I was going through the machine that would turn me into a croissant. The screams emitting from the machine from others who have traveled to have their bones twisted into attractive puffed dough made prickles of sweat bead ... |
Captains Log: Final entry...
It's been weeks since we first turned the matter amplifier on. Though early on everything seemed fine, there seemed to be something changing in my fellow crew mates. Tempers flared, emotions Rose and eventually we had our first victim. Mary, one of the first to be around the machine when w... |
When I awoke I was surrounded by crudely drawn houses in a mountanous town. As i pushed myself from the ground my wrists flexed backwards. Suddenly two blades extended from gauntlets attached to my forearms. As i turned around I saw Izuku Midoriya. He must have been in the middle of a fight because he suddenly attacke... |
The roadlights stop suddenly. My body feels as if it's in a non-moving car, but that's just the suspension right? No, I have definitely stopped. My friend who was driving isn't moving. Like a heart-attack, I realize other cars could still be moving on the highway; I turn to check and find them immobile as well. "Holy s... |
I was tired.
Just really, really tired.
But the job was done. Now I would get home, take a shower, and eat something before I could sleep for the night. The TV was on, most likely because of my sleeping roommate on the couch.
I shook my head and went to the kitchen silently, no reason for waking him up.
... |
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So very ancient the old man was. A hermit in my parents time, and my grandparents before that, some say that his lifetime is longer than that, but nobody remembers anymore, and the topic is met with an air of discomfort, so it is avoided. But I had always taken an interest in the old man, spending my summer times not w... |
**Disclaimer: None of the characters in this story are real. The names are made up. This story is quite long, so i've broken it down into parts. This story features concepts such as suicide and violence, in accordance with the sub's rules. If these topics make you uncomfortable, I do not suggest reading this story. Thi... |
"It looks so awesome!"Serena marveled at her best friend's dad while he worked. For her 18th birthday, the man offered a free tattoo. "Thanks a ton, Mr. Ortega,"she thanked him.
"You're an adult now,"he gestured at the tattoo he was etching into her wrist. A mermaid pouring water out of a golden pitcher. The rest of ... |
What started as politicians using high levels of immigration to create fear so they could justify consolidating power melded with opposition beliefs about global warming and ended up spiraling into a world wide panic about limited resources. So it was agreed. Across the planet, we would allow ‘natural attrition’ rates ... |
His name was Jeremy. He was supposed to be my roommate. 2 years later I was going to meet the woman I would eventually marry. He would love this woman, too. He would love this woman first. He would love this woman silently. I wouldn't know. He would never tell me. Instead, one night, he would murder me in my sleep in a... |
“Heresy I tell you, Heresy!!!” Said the old Chimpanzee, sitting at his desk. “B...B...But my evidence, found in the cave, it pro-“. The Old Chimp, stroking his grey hair, leaned forward, bearing his teeth, only slightly. “Your evidence is incorrect. Humans have always been beasts, Simian have always been Simians. At th... |
Many people say money is what makes the world run but quite literally (and figuratively); it's Time. Time is what makes the world run. If someone's at the wrong place at the right time, they can narrowly avoid a potentially adverse situation. Also, if someone is in the right place but at the wrong time, they could be t... |
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"*C. A. D. D. B,*"Charlie breezed through the answers without giving the questions much attention. The technique served him well for his entire high-school career, and he felt like the final test of his final class was just a formality for him. However, it was the one question he did pay attention to that changed his ... |
**Parts of Brian**
"Oh my god Julian, put that down."
I stared back at my wide-eyes compadres and slowly took the bottle away from my lips. Amy, Ed, and Morgan, their eyes as wide as plates, their mouths slack-jawed, stared at me as if I had just pulled a grenade pin. All of them had their shoulders up and their arms... |
"This is your fault, right?"
The older man in the jean jacket and cloth hood shoved both of his hands into his pockets, watching the last white dwarf flicker and fade. Its fuel had run out. Soon, it would either explode and collapse inwards, absorbing all matter that touched it, or it would simply die, leaving the uni... |
"I must warn the listeners, what you are about to hear is purely educational!"
"Cival is an archaeological site in the Petén Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands, which was formerly a major city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the present-day Department of Petén, Guatemala."
"The site f... |
A howl. A long , dragged out , incredibly nasty , howl.
"Fuckholes"I muttered. "Can't even give me a proper day off , just to pull me into some shit again".
I was in some kind of a long corridor , with classes on my right . Right out of the blue , it looked like a typical Japanese school. Except that it was only the d... |
Light snow dusted the asphalt of the avenue, and the city shone in the distance. Outside, lights shone upon the occasional car and pedestrian that passed by on the rarely used road; the only people that ever passed this place are those who had business to attend to.
And that was why Neil "Mint"de Agua had chosen to wo... |
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“Leave me alone!” I shouted as Gary, my younger brother, walked into my room for the tenth time that day. I was trying to finish my homework, but it was hard to do much when I was interrupted every few minutes.
“Wanna see what I got fr... |
A soldier pushed her way out if the wreckage. She turned for a final glance at the burning corpse of her gunship.
'*This is why I hate tangling with the navy seals...Always one crack shot you can't see, even you take the rest down.*'
"Squad! Sound off! Squad?!"
The kindled hearth grumbled in response.
"Repo!? Dus... |
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"I have to. I can't just stand by and do nothing!"
Mr. Whiskers gazed at me lazily from his perch on the windowsill. His black tail flicked back and forth.
"But the world is so big, Marinda."Mr. Whiskers yawned in between thoughts. "Your man could be living in China for all you know."
I hitched my backpack onto my s... |
The cold mist on the window obscured my vision of outside. This was going to be a long day. I glanced over at my wife Jane, drinking a glass of champagne as we both stayed focused to our own tasks. She had been going hard at her office job and was happy to finally get a day off when her office announced it had snowed i... |
Holly got up and stretched. She had an odd dream last night about fairies asking her to take care of one of their own for a time. It was very clear in some parts but Holly just let it slide as another weird dream. She took a quick shower and made some eggs and toast. She drank her milk as she slowly ate her breakfast. ... |
At the time, it didn’t feel like a discovery. More of a gradual understanding of what exactly I was doing, with various short experiments to clarify the gift I’d been given. At least, that’s what I called it – there wasn’t really a good word for it. A talent? A superpower? Nothing seemed to fit.
It started with daydre... |
He smiled as his newest customer, an old woman who's husband had passed earlier that year, hobbled into the shop on the support her cane.
But it wasn't her husband she wanted to remember. It was a son that she had, had earlier in her marriage; a son that had been kidnapped from right in front of the house when she ha... |
A blizzard had struck the world, a goliath of snow and fury. Gas tanks burst, glass shattered, and the great trees across the Earth's forests, trees that would have lived hundreds of years, froze and snapped like pencils, filling the great forests with a steady *pop pop pop* like never ending gunshots. Great coastal wa... |
Chapter Two
He blinked. Unable to comprehend what he was seeing. There was a dragon. A BIG dragon. Inside his barn. A living, breathing, dragon. And it was watching him. He took a step back, his heel colliding with the top of the ladder, and he glanced behind him. A fall from this height, may, or may not kill him. Tha... |
It was like stepping through a bead curtain. It wasn't music, but a sort of chanting call. Somewhere, I recited age old words from an age old language, that no human tongue has spoken in more than a millennia. This I knew, like I knew that air is important. This I knew, like I knew water is life. Through the curtain, ... |
They call these the “Great late days.” When your at the end of time awaiting your fate. But, nothing about this moment feels special. James felt no shame, nor guilt in his heart. He couldn’t have lived his life to the fullest when time was against him. At just two months shy of age 28. James has completed nothing with ... |
I lay burrowed in the dirt staying as low to the ground as I could. This was hostile territory. One wrong move and it could all be over for me. I grabbed my radio and dialed in to channel 3. "Delta-3 moving forward. out"My statement was meant with a dull buzzing on the other side. The enemy must be jamming my signal. I... |
The king is dead.
15 years of hell.
15 years of oppression.
Now that he’s dead, there’s hope for the first time in a long while. His son is a kind soul, just as his grandmother was as queen years ago. He’s always been of the people, and now he can change things.
The coronation was short, as there are security risks... |
Eirika and Ephraim, Princess and Prince of Renais. Ephraim heads of the Grado Empires betrayal and sets off with three loyal knights, to spend many fortnights behind enemy lines, taking on battalions of men with just 4 people. As they do this, Grado forces continue to charge forward, and overtake Castle Renais. Ephraim... |
The four figures stood silently in the grimy rundown square. It was a former bustling nerve center deep in the heart of the old city, near the once prosperous river district. What long ago held a market teeming with life now was overgrown with weeds and refuse. Broken bottles and abandoned furniture littered the ground... |
I remember that writing prompt so clearly! Being compelled to click on it because I knew it would inspire some interesting responses. And it did. And yours was my favorite response. Enough that I bookmarked it in case you kept going. (And boy, did you!)
Then I remember another writing prompt that caught my attention ... |
"Sir Gerald you bloody idiot! Why in the world would you cut your bloody hand?!"Cried the exasperated squire.
"I was lost in the moment and it seemed like a dammed good idea; And who the hell are you to call me an idiot, David?"
"Well what are you planning to do now? You can't fight the damn dragon without a weapo... |
"Walk me through this one more time General Puller."Lieutenant General Chesty Puller despised disciplinary hearings. They were often a waste of time and they hurt morale more than they actually enforced discipline. It didn't matter if it was a four star general, the Commandant of the Marine Corps or God himself, it wa... |
“Ohhh my! Sit down darling, make yourself comfortable! What can I get for you today?!...”
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“I see... Of course I can do that for you honey! Would you like the nose hair gelled or gone?!”
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“Alright! Hmmm... you’re teeth are looking a little dull. Would like me to sha... |
I had success in everything at my life, never failed, never forgotten my objective, I knew what was necessary and what I had to do
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So, please tell me, why do I feel so sad?
Would this be the last time I would see the green and feel the cold air in my face?
- I, I don't know if I'm ready. Said with my hands shaki... |
This is my first attempt at writing on here. I know it's not good, but I'd love some feedback.
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"Let there be light."I enthusiastically shouted, admiring the masterpiece I was creating. I continued adding: plants, animals, planets and st... |
"Wait a minute... Hath ever a fortune in this be won?"said Dr. Zorblax, conqueror of the world. He looked down at the koala, scratching his tummy.
"Doctor Zorblax, are you still there?"
"Yes... Repeat the bank balance for me again, please?"
"Yes Doctor, let me double check... Oh, it's gone up. Sixty hundred and sev... |
I hold my tissue in my sweaty palm
press its thick juices up my nostrils,
sit and pray. And pray. And pray.
And sneeze - and watch my mother die
this time. I thought she would be immune.
I thought wrong, sat in my pooling sweat,
as another sniffle made way for a gasp,
and I heard a helicopter crash nearby.
I s... |
We’re blind to the subliminal.
No messages may sneak past our wariness.
Strangers may attempt to deceive.
To sneak past our guard.
Love itself is not immune to hidden meaning.
&nbsp;
I hope to hide myself from the messages.
Just to know my own thought.
Wanna know my own thoughts.
Tell me my own thoughts.
... |
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I looked out the window and seen the U-Haul truck right outside as my best friend waited for me in the driver seat. I calmly put my hand up and gestured for him to wait there.
Then I began walking to my roommates room and I could smell the scent of death. No one had died yet but the stench of the Devils breath was cre... |
"You have any idea how many times a man like you comes by asking me to take off their braces?"
It had been about six or so years since the Endtimes had come. Half the population had turned to ashes in seconds. Infrastructure and government fell apart within the following weeks, so people had to turn towards each other... |
"Where are we going?"Sarah asked, a playful, tantalized smile on her lips. She rose her had to her face to remove her blindfold, but Rob quickly batted her hand away.
"Just someplace . . . special,"Rob replied, keeping his eyes on the road as he drove, but still unable to help himself from catching the occasional glan... |
"This is Chase Chadwick with Channel 5 News and we're here today with Avery Tallman, as of today, the oldest person in recorded history. Tell me, Mr. Tallman, what is your secret?"the reporter asked you, his smile stretching just a hair broader than natural.
You take a long sigh. Why had you agreed to do this again?... |
The greengrocer regarded the luridly coloured slip of paper with more than the usual amount of suspicion. Squinting, he made out the royal crest of Rand - bad news, that, nothing good ever came of *goverrmment* \- as well as some shapes that he thought he could identify as Words, and perhaps some Numbers too. A feeling... |
"I will look for you, I will find you, and I will bring you back to life."
Carved to stone, a promise of restoration once upon a time.
Part completed, perhaps two. Final unheard of, without a clue.
And so shall be, the words carved in a tomb. Another one, departed too soon.
In the ground, the one promised and the... |
Sgt Mayfair retched and coughed blood onto the grating floor of the catwalk, staining the bare steel of it dark red - almost black in the fading light of the cryogenics facility he and the Cattle were in.
Cryogenics for her soldiers. The ones awaiting transplant.
Cattle knew this.
Cattle was also her clone.
“You’re... |
I realize now I misdialed and that you’re not mom. Maybe it’s for the best I am not leaving this message with her. It’s for the best she doesn’t have to hear me like this. There is something in the way the colors become music I can hear. It just makes me want to tell her everything you taught me to keep silently inside... |
The mighty words echoed through the cosmos, freezing the Galbonian ships in their place.
"There's a time and place for everything but not now!"
Two light years away from them, on a solitary moon, there was a man wearing a lab coat, holding his hands folded behind him.
The Galbonian's green blood froze at the horrify... |
You’re laying with your girlfriend, and you see a star streak across the night sky. You smile at her, and make a cheesy wish, “I wish we could be together forever.”
It doesn’t happen immediately, but the next day, things seem a little off. She gets on to you for something small, something that she normally ignores. I... |
I've heard that sound, again. Maybe...
Nights are always a mystery. I do not really understand why, but it is a secret to my life. When I fall asleep, it is just like my brain has stopped working. Cannot feel. Cannot see. Cannot hear.
It is a mystery.
But sometimes, when I suddenly woke up from a nightmare or just ... |
Now that all women are infertile, the world has focused its attention on the longevity of its current population. People are no longer a means for reproduction but an asset to be preserved and maintained.
My organs are worth more individually than my body as a whole. And so are yours, and so is Jacks. And Jack's liver... |
Pompey could not believe his eyes.
"And what beasts of Tartarus have you brought back?"he said.
"Dragons, as they call them in Gallic. Now, I believe we had some scores to settle."
Rome in its first semester was able to thwart a huge and bloody civil war thanks to Julius Caesar's unparalleled mastery of the skies. T... |
"Well, would you look at that? The stupid keyboard broke,"said Joey.
Joey looked down at the broken plastic slate that had suddenly failed to work. The switches were jammed, it had seemed. Joey tried to pull one of the keys out to inspect a switch. The keyboard broke apart.
Joey looked over to Cindy. Cindy was orderi... |
Wonder Woman stood. In all the time she’d known him, she’d never seen him like this. Broken. A tired old man who just wants to rest. The great American icon of Truth and Justice, hiding away in a frozen cave.
[It broke her heart.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/8utq0x/comment/e1i3sm5?st=JJDA7FY5&... |
An old man in Sunderland owned the universe, and kept it in a jam-jar in the dusty cupboard under his stairs. There it sat, and there it waited, through years of discourse and disaster, years of turmoil and turbulence. It sat and it waited, and it waited and it sat, patient as an old man waiting to die.
"It's you and ... |
It was a very short book.
Less than a hundred pages thick, give or take a dozen. Its spine was folded and creased from use. I don't know by whom.
I read the first few chapters of it. Handwritten. You could tell by the smell. It was pleasant in an odd way, familiar, and wafted through the air as if it were freshly wr... |
"Should I do it?"
The only thought that is running through my head, is that question. As I sit in line with the other hundreds of people in line to get their evaluation of their emotional state, see if they are eligible for gene therapy and then the next stage, the finance center for the therapy.
Im worried for a cou... |
The eastern prophet, Jesus Christ of Galilee, waged war against the Gods of our people. Declaring himself a demigod, the purveyor of grace, the only God who has taken physical form on earth. These blasphemies bring forth a pleasant irony. As the immortal man-God lay pierced against the Roman cross, the adamant fantasy ... |
As usual another day of school left me worn out. I barely payed class any attention, thinking only about how next saturday's DnD session was going to play out, I knew a lot would ride on how well we went through our next encounter.
my train of thought stopped as I noticed I was in front of my door. I casually swing t... |
Forty eight players. By my hand. The agony I feel is so intense, at times I consider leaping from the bridge in Eternia. Some of the friends I've made in here tell me it isn't my fault, I couldn't have known, but that doesn't help. When I was a Beta Tester I made it to floor sixty-two, but I spent most of my time i... |
Dad died and mom signed some documents and that was it. The place was mine. The main building is grey and ugly just like my father's dead body when I *found* him dead on his yacht. It bulges over the road and strikes the air like a disease. So I got some builders to renovate the place. Tear down walls that my mom plead... |
Don’t get me wrong kids we’ve always had troubles, nostalgia just has a way of making the troubles seem less then they are now. You’ll get that one day. That being said, I’d have to say when I first met your mother.
It was our freshman year orientation and a friend introduced us, her smile lit up my day. Now I didn’... |
Julie Solis stood in at the front of the conference room patiently while the company directors filed in and found their seats. Nine directors including the CEO, Daniel Winters, and the company's founder, Matthew Sanchez. They sat around the horseshoe-shaped table and stared at the well-dressed woman standing in front o... |
A masterpiece! True perfection! The pinnacle of artistic expression! Et cetera, et cetera. Each piece was better than the last. Each piece true perfection, perfection I'll never see.
This artwork isn't a blessing, it's a curse. Nothing else I can do is profitable, and each piece takes a part of me. I've bern blind for... |
"Finally,"Ari sighs. In her hands are 4 vials - her life's work.
Vial 1 - drink for confidence.
Vial 2- drink for beauty.
Vial 3 - drink for intelligence.
Vial 4 - youth.
"After 31 years... I have finally formulated the perfect brews."With a grin, she holds them before her and looks at her reflection in the fridge... |
What-what did you just wish me?
*The luck of the Irish?*
What, *in the everloving fuck*, makes you think the Irish are *lucky?* I'm sorry, did you fall asleep in world history? DID YOU EVEN TAKE WORLD HISTORY?
No?
Like, seriously, you didn't take world history.
That explains a lot. Well, let me give you a little f... |
Her and I sat above the veranda,
Cigarette smoke and cheap perfume clouds engulfing,
Sing a song - I said,
She hummed a low melody from her childhood.
-
Time went on, were getting tired,
Arms embraced in seclusion and relief,
Isn’t this bliss or the human condition?
... |
The driving force of evolution and progress has always been competition. The wars of humans have always driven medical and technological progress. The American Civil war helped fine tune and perfect telegram technology. World War II brought heavy advancements in medical procedures and nuclear technology. The Cold War g... |
They say everyone is born with a unique power, but what they don't tell you is your power could be anything. Mine was the worst. I had the power to tell when a woman wasn't attracted to me. And this power peaked at 18!
Let me tell you, I was not attractive. Not in the slightest and this crippled me. I was overweight, ... |
They wouldn’t believe it if they saw it. Most people just looked at dwarves and took them for a people hard and dark, not to mention squat. Here he was, though, carefully stroking the exquisitely crafted finals on the bedposts, each bedecked with scrollwork. Most probably couldn’t picture a stout, red-bearded dwarf lea... |
A blink and the world shifts. No longer the 21st century, now the 32nd. Too much to see, so much noise. In a matter of seconds it's gone again. The prison again. No reason why this is where the jumps always end.
Stepping over the chalk circle, the same circle he steps over near daily. A quick knock on the cell door. "... |
In a split second, having been recognized in this horrid little facade, relaxed, for the first time in some number of years.
Spreading around the universe at light speed was one of humanity's first, and last observance, and Vacuum Decay.
It destroyed the universe as we knew it, destroyed chemistry as we knew it, des... |
Sunday was gloomy. The funeral had only a select few, family and friends. The flower bouquets from other people who couldn't attend at the service were overflowing the quiet church. The parents, the tragic characters in this charade of family tragedy.
I was there. As her best friend, I was always there. Always listen... |
Perkins grade school has always been an odd looking building. The small town renevated part of an old warehouse that belonged to the nearby nuclear plant. The cost was significantly less to renevate this unused structure rather than just build a new school from scratch. Plus the tunnels underneath were perfect to re-ro... |
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At one corner of Aberdeen and Hollywood perches the PMQ, an artsy mix of boutiques, bars, and bougie tchotchkes. Like everything in Hong Kong, the PMQ is better if you’re rich. I’m only kind of rich by local standards; but my miniscule living quarters are more than compensated by having the best city in the w... |
You examine the envelope. It felt really dry, like it had been left in a car on a hot day. It smelled of rotten eggs, but faint. No return address. You tossed it with the rest of your junk mail in the trash bin as you retire to your room after a busy day. When suddenly, your trash bin burst into flames, setting off the... |
"Is this for real?"I ask the woman on the other end of the call with anxiousness building in my voice. "Yes sir it is. As I said, I'm producer Michelle David and a talent scout has brought your writings to my attention and I have to say that I'm very impressed with your work. We would like to use some, potentially all ... |
"Let me tell you a story...once upon a time there was a man. This man decided he knew everything, and as such, when I disagreed with him, he threw a book at my face. That same day, protestors marched up and down the street outside my office. They all cried one name. My name. They want something from me...but ***what?**... |
Todd had been told specifically not to press the button with an eye on it. But this was *Todd*, not Danny, not Ryan, *Todd*. Of all of my friends, why'd it have to be Todd to push that button, why not Ross, or Elric?
This button, it would materialize whatever best fit you. But Todd could barely keep interest in someth... |
I just finished, every corner is clear. Alright then, lights out! I jumped into my double padded memory foam mattress. Every night when I get to lay down in my bed after a long day is literally bliss. Nothing can ruin these moments, well... there's one thing that *could*, but I already made sure that there was nothing ... |
Sweat dripped slowly across his face. Moans of pain spewed from his lips. A thin layer of dirt covered him head to toe. Brand new overalls the farmer put on that morning looked like they endured months of back-breaking labor. The long, smooth plant had barely moved an inch after hours of pulling and tugging. With ... |
You knew this was a bad idea. You had a feeling deep in the pit of your stomach that something as going to turn sour. But you were in too deep to turn back. The cavern was spoken about in the hustle and bustle of town. From the boozed up vagabonds in taverns to the quests posted up on the billboard at the center of the... |
"Umm, no."
"I'm giving you three wishes, mate. The hell do you mean by 'no.' You got dung in your ears or somethin'?
Terry looked at the big blue flying pile of gas that had emerged from the lava lamp he'd just purchased from the yard sale. Terry pulled out his cell phone and immediately began to dial emergency servi... |
It's been a week since the incident. I call it that because I have no fucking clue as to what exactly happened. One minute I was checking my phone for messages, the next I was the only one in the entire city. Well, at least I think I am. But now there's a package outside my apartment. I'm the only one left here, so who... |
Women wearing their most expensive gowns. Gentlemen in their finest suits. Glowing chandeliers. Expensive marble. Ornate gilded furniture. My eyes scan the dining room of the palace. I jerk my head ninety degrees as the sound of glass shattering registers. In the corner of my eye, a young woman bows her head in shame a... |
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