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[CW] A world in which garbage men are equally respected as much as world leaders and are considered celebrities
*Tap. Tap. Tap.* I'm nervous. I know I offended him. Will he forgive me? I really need him to take my garbage out. It's such a pain to take it out myself. I see the truck pull up across the street. I spring out of my chair and rush out the door. I run out to where Tony is. He's signing a photograph of himself and giv...
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Jim Davis picked up the trash pail with a practiced hand. Swinging it over his shoulder, he deftly emptied it into the truck with one motion and set it down without so much as a rattle. The crowd went wild. "Look at that! Davis does it again," the announcer declared. "His form is spot-on despite doing this all mornin...
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[WP] "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
Do I like what I do? No, but it has to be done. If I didn't, someone else would have to. Someone like... my son, or brother, or daughter even. And I can't allow that. When the war started, we thought it might pass our little village. We couldn't have been more wrong. The beauty and wonder became our downfall. The two ...
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[WP] "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
The F-302 is the most advanced fighter that the world has ever seen. Two twenty millimeter cannons, eight space-capable air-to-air missiles, a solid fuel rocket, two jet engines, and two liquid fuel rockets. It's capabilities against targets both in and out of atmosphere have been well proven at the Battle of Antarctic...
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[WP] "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
^(Disclaimer: these names are purely fictional) *With Lissandra Summers finishing with a score of 200.56, that places her third in the rankings just behind Taylor Pennz with a score of 223.51 and Jacqueline Charles, our current first-place competitor with a score of 239.02.* The male announcers voice seemed too energ...
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[WP] "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
Jenny smiled at Jack as he pulled on the VR helmet in the university basement lab. The wires trailed to a computer console she sat at. Jack sat in a comfortable office chair, both his hands set into VR gloves. He twitched his fingers in impatience. "Oculus? What kind of stupid name is that," he asked chuckling to h...
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[WP] "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
I am a leaf on the wind. My destination relies on the whim of those far greater than my dry, shriveling self. I float through the air without a care, because I fear what caring may bring me. The world is vast, a pot of boiling storms and hungry beasts; I know not where I go, but fear where I may be. I was once apart o...
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[WP] "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
He couldn't help himself smile as he clicked the last letters into the document. His excitement had forced him to go ahead, writing up pages and pages that leaped ahead of his schedule. He leant back in his chair, and found that the smile was still present on his face. Proudly printed amongst a sea of dialouge, there...
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A man is getting drunk in a bar on the anniversary of his girlfriend's death when she walks up and sits at the bar on the stool next to him.
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[WP] Superman is sued for copyright by a Chinese man who created a bootleg action figure called Man Super.
I missed the WP part and thought this was a stupid headline.
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[WP] Superman is sued for copyright by a Chinese man who created a bootleg action figure called Man Super.
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[WP] Seduce me.
Oh, how my heart aches to be nearer to thee. To know you greater and greater, this is my only desire. How I long to feel the warm soft embrace of your arms and look forever into your eyes of silver. How I wish to hear your voice float through the air, it is that of pure bliss. Oh, I will ever be enthralled by your beau...
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[WP] Seduce me.
Your existence amazes me and I love you. It's a silly thing to say straight off but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't true. You see I love myself, I love who I am. I love that I'm a tiny fraction of a massive supernova. I love that I'm the result of a planetary collision. I love that 4.6 billion years ago the same atoms...
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I had a dream about us, you know. I saw us sitting on a bluff overlooking a canyon with the sun just ending its journey across the horizon and sinking behind the mountains in the distance. But we could have cared less about our surroundings. With a toss of my hair and a knowing yet warm smile, I drew you in like a f...
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You don't know me. But I know you. I passed you on the morning commute, but you were in your own world, and after a small glance, I fell back into mine. The day carried on as usual, until you crept back into my mind. I did my papers and sorted the useless and the useful, and everything was done. It was time for lunch, ...
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That way you told me you couldn't look into my eyes. I knew then that our connection was so deep, so meaningful, but you refused to let it be. You refused to let my eyes lock into your soul. You captivated me through my very being, rocked me through to the core of all my hope. I've never longed for anyone's touch, soun...
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[WP] Seduce me.
Seduce you, you say? Well, alright. I could try. I mean, I've never been good at this kind of stuff. Remember your birthday last year. I spent an hour and a half in Victoria's secret trying to find the right frilly get-up to set the tone that I wanted. My friends gave up after the first twenty minutes of purple leopa...
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[WP] Seduce me.
Hi. I'm Michael. Do you mind if I sit down? How're you doing? Well, I'm glad to hear that. My day is going well, thanks for asking. So what do you do? No, I don't mean, how do you make money, I mean, what do you do? What's your thing? Oh really? That must be interesting. How do you do that? So what does a no...
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You posted a writing prompt on Reddit. I wrote a gimmicky Craiglist Missed Connections thing for it. At first you thought I was being too meta with the whole piece, but you were only on the third sentence and, little did you know, the fourth sentence was going to blow you away. Well, I thought it would but then your f...
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I'm folding your clean clothes, remembering how you look like wearing them. The pointy-eared dog on the balcony upstairs is watching me, while I’m gathering big T-shirts with obscure logos, huge hoodies I could use as a sleeping bag, and pairless socks. I like you better when you’re dressed; I like it how the fabric ad...
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You know that all people are alone right? You, me and the rest of them. It doesn’t matter what’s your color, or what fridge or Tv set you have back home. You’re alone. Even when you’re married or you have kids or if you live in a house that’s two square meters with four other people, you’re alone. So what do we do? We...
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I am a woman! I like my men DANGEROUS! MYSTERIOUS! You want to be MY LOVER? Earn it! Seduce me!
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[WP] You're at a job interview when your body suddenly converts to osmosis for sustenance, absorbing, engulfing and digesting objects it comes in contact with.
God, and I thought my last interview went bad. But this? It was, well disastrous wouldn't even begin to descrbe it. There I was explaining why I wanted to work there, and my pencil, just, well, melted. I *absorbed* it; I don't know how it happened. The interviewer was very freaked out by this, after all a pencil just m...
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[WP] You're at a job interview when your body suddenly converts to osmosis for sustenance, absorbing, engulfing and digesting objects it comes in contact with.
I tried pretending that I was a Personal Trainer, standing there, in the middle of the office, desperately paying no attention to the expensive office chair that now had entire swathes of genuine imitation pleather unceremoniously sucked from it. "I'm quite fit, you see, must keep the heart rate up!" as I ran on the s...
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[WP] You're at a job interview when your body suddenly converts to osmosis for sustenance, absorbing, engulfing and digesting objects it comes in contact with.
And midway through my response to "What do you believe is your biggest weakness?" I felt my undershirt and briefs begin to... tighten. I paused for a second, attempted calm myself and reply "heh, well I'm a bit of a late riser." The interviewer stared at me, mouth agape but otherwise silent. I matched her stare, and...
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[WP] The devil is brought in front of an ethics board not because his punishments were to severe but because they weren't severe enough
Today he had chosen the form of a woman of above-average height, probably about six feet six inches tall, considering his sense of humor. Though he was a woman today, I can't help but think of him as a "he". Habits, I suppose. Obviously, the part of the Church I'm in doesn't exist. We joke that we don't know who'd be ...
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[WP] The devil is brought in front of an ethics board not because his punishments were to severe but because they weren't severe enough
"Can you please speak clearly for the record," a voice speaks out across a darkened room. "I am Woland, Lucifer, the Morning Star." He is lit by a single spotlight, revealing a luxurious velvet and oak armchair. His hand rests over a silver wolf's head, topping a his sleek black cane. A small toothy smile reveals one ...
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[WP] Take these four lines and make something of it
The overbearing hum of the bus engine was almost loud enough to swallow the music coming from Lauren's earphones. Almost. The thin, angular body the girl bore was sprawled awkwardly over the dark, grimy blue bus seats. Hazy shades of yellow light from the pale overhead bus lamps above cast a piss-yellow filter on eve...
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[WP] Take these four lines and make something of it
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He knows my name. But he pretends that he does not because it is more convenient not to associate with *that* girl. You know the one. Everyone talks about her in dagger whispers that pierce her fragile shell. He knows my every thought. After all, who couldn't? I am as transparent, as see-through an...
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[WP] Take these four lines and make something of it
*He knows my name*. 16 missed calls from Scott. I was debating whether I had let him feel guilty enough and should call him back when the shadows in front of me shifted. The man who stepped out of them was most definitely a stranger - I would know instantly if we had met before. Yet he breathed a word that cut through...
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[WP] Take these four lines and make something of it
I fell through the air from a forty storey building. I had taken one step too many after trying to run away from those burglars and this was how I was how I was to die. It was kind of pleasant in some ways; I could see all the pretty lights on the sidewalks, watch all the people go about their business and it is all so...
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You go to reddit, only to find the website has been replaced by an edible arrangement catering e-shop. What happens next?
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You go to reddit, only to find the website has been replaced by an edible arrangement catering e-shop. What happens next?
"Another empty day in this far away city from all my friends, and family, and the only thing that gets me through life is my weekends," gets reese's puffs, and beer from fridge, and opens up laptop. "No more boss, no more deadend job, no more li-" Last night's porno that I didn't finish filled the morning silence, not...
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[IP] Why Not This One?
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[IP] Why Not This One?
"What about this one?" Asked Kira kneeling over the skeletal remains of what had once been a soldier. Rihn sighed, but explained patiently, "No Kira, this one's missing its flesh, its muscles. They work in much the same way your gears and Pistons do." "Kira looked at her forearm where her plaskin was transparent, and...
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[IP] Why Not This One?
The forest was silent, save for the soft crunch of footsteps in freshly packed snow. Flakes of white drizzled down, brushing gently against the synthetic skin that covered Aeris' face. Her pace matched that of the dark figure by her side, but when she noticed the strange shapes in the snow, she ventured forward as far ...
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[IP] Why Not This One?
There's four different kinds of white lamp shades. My wife told me to get the "white lamp shade like this one." I hold up the photo she took. All four lamp shades here look exactly like her picture. I haven't a clue on which to buy. As I'm staring at these impossible choices, I look down and stare at my sneakers, w...
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The god of death visits you in your sleep. You wake up.
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[WP] You awake to find yourself in the body of a WWII soldier just seconds before his death, somehow you save yourself and awake to find the world irreparably changed! How did you escape, and how did your actions re-shape the world.
Eyes still closed, your first thought is, "I would rather die than deal with my prick of a boss today..." An unnatural shaking startles you and you wake to a sight that looks as though it came directly from an old war movie. Men in various states of undress are running around you and it appears as though you are in som...
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[WP] You awake to find yourself in the body of a WWII soldier just seconds before his death, somehow you save yourself and awake to find the world irreparably changed! How did you escape, and how did your actions re-shape the world.
"Получить ебать вниз!" I opened my eyes. The ground shook with the force of an earthquake. The sky filled with planes shooting at each other. Something rumbled behind me. "БАК!" *What the hell was going on?* An explosion threw me forward onto the ground, my ears rang deafeningly. A soldier wearing a mustard green...
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[WP] You awake to find yourself in the body of a WWII soldier just seconds before his death, somehow you save yourself and awake to find the world irreparably changed! How did you escape, and how did your actions re-shape the world.
if Hitler counts as a soldier, someone should attempt a story moments before he shoots himself.
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[WP] Putin plans to turn all gay people straight, and only a flamboyantly gay hero can stop him.
If we could start promoting positive, non-stereotype portrayals of Gay people on this sub, that'd be nice. Instead, I've noticed a trend of exclusive prompts that force people to follow a hetero guide-line. There is nothing inherently wrong, but it's getting old that people will fill the sub with positive hetero prompt...
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[WP] When the revolution finally came I thought I'd have been the first against the wall. Instead... I turned out to be no more than an afterthought.
The room shook and dust filtered down as a plasma blast struck the reinforced throne room doors. His Majesty, Emperor of the World, Highest of the High, Leader of the Free Republic of Earth, Beauford James Xaviar III hunched down deeper in his sprawling throne. Courtiers in full court regalia exchanged looks and twit...
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[WP] When the revolution finally came I thought I'd have been the first against the wall. Instead... I turned out to be no more than an afterthought.
For years the citizens of the United States had watched as the goverment took their civil liberties without standing up for a fight. The people had finally grown restless. Ryan watched steadily through his front window, the curtains drawn tenderly, gently resting on his left hand. He let out a deep breath. For so many ...
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[WP] When the revolution finally came I thought I'd have been the first against the wall. Instead... I turned out to be no more than an afterthought.
** First post on this sub so I'll try to get better. Also punctuation and grammar have never been my strong points...** So this isn't exactly the high point if my life but at happens all to often these days. I try and justify it, survival of the fittest and all that nonsense but looting a corpse is still looting a cor...
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[IP] "Mayday, mayday, we are going down!"
It was the war of the millennium, and the beginning of what would become the age-old battle between meat-eaters and vegetarians. As the drought progressed, the tension had escalated from simple territorial skirmishes to the manufacture of advanced weapons that scorned the world. Wide spathes of green either wilted or b...
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[WP] The United States military has turned on and enslaved its citizens.
They marched upon Texas. We heard their boots first, striding in time to an old military tune. The optimistic fife notes of Yankee Doodle didn't give us any warning, but the tales of the other states had reached us and we were ready. We alone had defied the gun control laws when every other state had already succumbed ...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
"Hold my hand darling. Just hold on tight and look into mommy's eyes and everything will be ok." "Ok Mommy. I love you." I wish it could be true. I would give anything for it to be true. "Mommy, the sirens hurt my ears." "The will turn off soon love. Very soon now." The plane flies overhead. I can barely make out ...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
I have a beer, and a cig, and a dirty magazine. I haven’t smoked a thing since that time in college when Nancy Doolan bet me a fiver I couldn’t smoke a whole pack without taking a break. I threw up for hours after, but I was five pounds better off. Then it was all health scares and stained fingertips, neither of which ...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
Dead people line the streets. I try to shield the little girl's eyes but her innocence has been lost somewhere in the last few months. She knows what happened to these people. For my sake, she holds my hand. The little girl never offered her name, and never asked mine. Yet we knew each other like a father and daughte...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
"Hey kid, I need to talk to you outside for a sec." He nods silently and you guide him just outside the house dragging his teddy bear with him. You get down on one knee and you look into his deep blue eyes trying to come up with the right words to explain the situation nicely. You know that deep down inside that there...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
There was a silence I couldn't seem to fill. It grew bigger and swallowed me whole as I looked at the little girl, who had just woke up after the accident asking where her mummy and daddy were. My chest was tight, my lungs suddenly forgot how to work and my tongue seemed to have been replaced with an extra absorbent sp...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
The boy can't remember a time when people weren't angry. He was born into unrest. I don't remember a time when the news wasn't bloodshed, so I reckon I was born into it just the same. But he hero-worships his Uncle Oisin, you see, and Oisin wants him to grow up understanding the way things are. I don't agree with him e...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
"Nana, what's happen-" "I'm sorry" "What's going on...?" "Don't look!" The girl, trembling in anger, slowly covered her little brother's eyes while she carried him over to the next room. Cobwebs covered the floor in some areas, the room evidently decaying. "Now, count back from 50nto 0, okay, Erin?" "Mhm...." "Don't ...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
"Hey kiddo hold tight, ok? I can't have you letting go now." "Daddy?" "Yes." "Where is that noise coming from? It doesn't sound happy." *begrudgingly smiles* "No, it isn't very happy." "But where is it coming from?" "Down the hall maybe, I don't know." "Daddy?" "Yes, son." "Why are you so scared?" "Not all pa...
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[WP] Your holding the hand of a child too young to understand the dire situation coalescing around them, but believe they deserve an explanation.
Look, sweetie, we have to stay in here until its sunlight, okay? There are a lot of sick people outside that want to hurt us, and remember what Daddy asked you to do? To protect me, right? Well, he was sick too and didn't want us to get sick, that's why he stayed behind. ...yeah, it was because that guy bite his arm. B...
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A Nazi doctor conducting human experiments encounters his alive brother on the operating table.
I shall count to three. Then you shall move the coin
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[IP] Tell the story of this ship's demise
we did not feel cold until we hit the icy water blueblack and swalloing all our fear froze and our teeth tuned to glass
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[IP] Tell the story of this ship's demise
Note by: Dmitri Dostroskev Date: 2087 A.D. 17th of May Occupation: Miner Excerpt one: This world was beautiful. Absolutely fucking beautiful. The money that was buried deep beneath the white tundra, the endless expanse of white desert meant nothing but wealth. And I will be the first to reap its rewards. I l...
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[WP]Your Father owns a small chain of ski resorts, and one of the oldest locations has gone belly up. In the month after closing you secretly begin turning on the lifts for just yourself. One day you become aware of how alone you are. On the side of a mountain that nobody has reason to visit.
It was another slow weekend at Sleek Steven's Ski Resort, mostly because it had been closed down with an executive decision by my father just under a year ago. I started visiting the lodge after my mother died, as the only getaway I could find. My father was away managing his other ski lodges in Europe, and college had...
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[WP]Your Father owns a small chain of ski resorts, and one of the oldest locations has gone belly up. In the month after closing you secretly begin turning on the lifts for just yourself. One day you become aware of how alone you are. On the side of a mountain that nobody has reason to visit.
The chair creaks as I'm lifted up the side of the mountain. The only sound I can hear is the sound of the old wood and steel. Just me and the mountain. Just me and MY mountain. I know this rock like a brother. A somewhat older brother, but still. As I'm slowly floating up the hillside I notice a flash of color in the...
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[WP]Your Father owns a small chain of ski resorts, and one of the oldest locations has gone belly up. In the month after closing you secretly begin turning on the lifts for just yourself. One day you become aware of how alone you are. On the side of a mountain that nobody has reason to visit.
It didn't seem real for for the first half of winter. It was just like closing up for summer, only it hadn't gotten warm yet. I packed away the cottages, and closed up the lodge and settled into the caretaker's house, moving around in a bubble of unreality. At the beginning of February, I went up to work on the ski-lif...
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[WP]Your Father owns a small chain of ski resorts, and one of the oldest locations has gone belly up. In the month after closing you secretly begin turning on the lifts for just yourself. One day you become aware of how alone you are. On the side of a mountain that nobody has reason to visit.
I’m alone. Snowflakes are drifting past just like people walking on a busy street. Their flow is undisturbed except for when they collide with me. Some land on my face and the flicker of what they were just disappears into tiny droplets. A bigger droplet is gliding down my cheek, rooting from the corner of my eye. It ...
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[WP] Write a story that is engaging from beginning to end, but is also meaningless.
It didn't take me long to realize Earth had been cheating on me. I mean, really though, always turning the other cheek and letting me sail by without a second thought. What was she getting at? As you might have guessed Sun (who I hear is cheating on Earth with seven other women and a midget) is the cuckold. Alright, ...
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[WP] Write a story that is engaging from beginning to end, but is also meaningless.
Even though I'm built like a football player, I listen to different types of music. On one mixtape I have Nine Inch Nails on one side and Enya on the other. I listen to my walkman and go for long walks. I go down to the south Jersey shore with my mom and dad so they can check on their house in the winter. The fir...
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[WP] Write a story that is engaging from beginning to end, but is also meaningless.
Approximately seven months ago The United States of America decided to blow up the world. They announced it on all the broadcast stations so everyone heard it. It caused quite a scare. Everyday people thought that today would be their last. It has been about seven months now. 211 days to be exact. Every one has pretty ...
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[WP] The world is suddenly a place where everybody's thoughts are displayed in writing on their foreheads. do some people try to cover them up with hats? do some try to outwit others?
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[WP] The world is suddenly a place where everybody's thoughts are displayed in writing on their foreheads. do some people try to cover them up with hats? do some try to outwit others?
"I sweat too damn much during sex." For a half second when my skullcap slipped off, that benign thought hung in the air above my head. As I looked down into her eyes, the next thought was "Oh shit" She roughly shoved me off of her, flinging my orange skull cap back in my face. "Amy Adams? You're thinking about AMY ADA...
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[WP] You are the most perfect boy/girl that I have ever met, and that is why I cannot give you guitar lessons.
"How old is he?" I asked the boy's father. "Eight." his father replied. I strummed the guitar, purposefully leaving the high E flat. "The top string is low." Henry answered. I used my electric tuner to fix it. I strummed the strings again. "How's this?" I said. "Now you're in tune." The boy said. He was swing...
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[WP] You are the most perfect boy/girl that I have ever met, and that is why I cannot give you guitar lessons.
"I'm sorry Matt." I said as packed up my guitar. "Why not?" He asked. I didn't look at him, since I knew he would give me some puppy face that would make it even more difficult for me. "I can play the piano. It'll be easy for me to learn how to play the guitar." Matt waved his hands around like one of my fans trying ...
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[WP] You are the most perfect boy/girl that I have ever met, and that is why I cannot give you guitar lessons.
Hey, I owe you an explanation after handling this whole thing so badly. You are the most perfect girl that I have ever met, and that is why I cannot give you guitar lessons. I know how stupid that is. And I know how dumb I look. You are just too perfect. And I'm just not. It's not the college thing or your beauty or...
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[WP]: A writer and the characters keep disagreeing about the genre
He walks through the dimly lit streets. The girl walks ahead of him. She does not see him. Does not know what is coming next. If she was a little mindful she would have seen him staring through the city crowd, looking through trees, through windows, through empty smiles. When the charming man with the brown hair and gr...
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[WP]: A writer and the characters keep disagreeing about the genre
*I drew my dagger. I raised it high into the air and brought it down with all my might. I caught the guard at the base of the neck and a geyser of blood rush forth to greet me.* Hank read the words back to himself. *I produced my pistol and pushed it into his back, my hand upon the man's shoulder. Usually, I would no...
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[WP]: A writer and the characters keep disagreeing about the genre
Lord Pendlebrook entered the hall to the sound of his name and titles being bellowed by an elderly servant. The lords and ladies of the country stared up at him, their dancing paused by his arrival although the music played on. They stopped not out of courtesy but because of his famed and evident handsomeness. He adju...
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[WP] A duel to the death. The weapon of choice? Insults.
Doug and Dean hurried into the nearest abandoned townhouse, seeking refuge from the mass hysteria consuming the streets. The lifelong duo stared at each other from opposing walls, sore and out of breath. The world had descended into chaos, the powers of good finally submitting to the reign of evil, with the energy of n...
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[WP] A duel to the death. The weapon of choice? Insults.
Jesse took a swig of water from his old, battered tin flask, never taking his eyes off Samuel Henderson. They stood out on the dusty road, a few feet apart, with the sun beating at their red raw necks. Some folk had stayed to watch. Most had run indoors, a couple of God-fearing types even covering their ears as they we...
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[WP] A duel to the death. The weapon of choice? Insults.
As I walk down these familiar rodes one piece of advice keeps coming back to mind, "Your wit needs to be twice as sharp as you sword." That's the advice I got from Captain Smirk. Its absolutely true here, just walking down the road can end with you looking down the end of a cold piece of steel. But the sword only do...
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