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[WP] Grim reaper job application aptitude test. | Interviewer: Alright, Mister Gravy, these are just a couple of routine questions we ask everyone who's interviewing for this position.
P. Gravy: The position of death, right? That's what I'm here for, to be the grim reaper.
Interviewer: Yes, yes yes. Anyway, have you ever killed anyone?
P. Gravy: Not...per say, but ... | 8 | 0 | 34 | 12,800 |
[WP] Grim reaper job application aptitude test. | 1) Name something sharp and pointy.
*A triangle. I was going to say knife, but it's a trick question, isn't it?*
2) What comes to mind when you think of cloaks?
*The invisibility cloak. Duh.*
3) How do you feel about cats?
*Meow?*
4) How about dogs?
*Woof*
5) You get five marks deducted for ... | 2 | 0 | 34 | 12,801 |
[PM] Requesting prompts. Surprise me. | You call 1-800-MEAT. Describe the ensuing conversation and its results. | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12,802 |
[PM] Requesting prompts. Surprise me. | Your meat processing factory has been investigated and strains of human DNA found. | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12,803 |
[PM] Requesting prompts. Surprise me. | Are we still doing this? Write a story about a time in the future when the moon is made 'safe' and rich people go there on vacation. Also (optional) the meat tastes strangely better than it does on Earth because meat. | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12,804 |
[PM] Requesting prompts. Surprise me. | There has been a pandemic, a great plague that kills 90% of everyone infected with it, as it turns out, you're immune | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12,805 |
[PM] Requesting prompts. Surprise me. | Your whole life, you've only ever been romantically interested in those of the opposite sex. Someone walks in to your place of work, and for the first time, you become attracted to a member of the same sex. | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12,806 |
[Modpost] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | Doing pretty well. I fall a few days behind here and there if things in my personal life get busy or I'm not particularly inspired by any prompts. I'd rather not force it if I can take a step back and come back later when the time is right. So yeah, that's probably my advice. Don't force it, don't feel like you *mu... | 5 | 0 | 12 | 12,807 |
[Modpost] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | It's going pretty well. I've never been this active in a subreddit before. Trying to respond to at least one prompt a day, although I might motives able to here and there for whatever reason. Been here for about a week and I'm taking this as a serious way to improve my writing. The community is lovely, too.
So great... | 5 | 0 | 12 | 12,808 |
[Modpost] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | I'm trying to do the 50,000 challenge, but I'm having trouble with the opening of my story. I know the plot, the direction it will go, basically everything, but I can't figure out how to start it. | 3 | 0 | 12 | 12,809 |
[Modpost] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | Going through writer's block and not writing as well as I used to. | 4 | 0 | 12 | 12,810 |
[Modpost] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | This last week has been a good one. I've gotten quite a bit of approval (ie, upvotes) for a few of my responses, and one of them I like so much that I hope to extend it to a larger work--but not until after I've got my contest novelette done. I started it yesterday, after stewing over a few of the titles, trying to g... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 12,811 |
[Modpost] Weekly 2014 Challenge Thread | Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday folks. I'm going through a bit if a rough patch, and it could continue until early March.
I would like to thank /u/storyboardthis for taking up the initiative to post this up for me.
Kudos to all of you that have made it this far! And welcome those that are accepting the challenge... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 12,812 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 84 | 12,813 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 84 | 12,814 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | "Sarah?"
She was over in the distance, standing completely still. The sky was pink and hazy, and the silhouette of Sarah's spacesuit stood on the horizon. Commander Jason Green, along with Sarah, was making history as the first people on the planet Mars. Sarah had a dangerous habit of wandering.
Green began to approa... | 26 | 0 | 84 | 12,815 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | **Part 1 (more coming tomorrow)**
**Watney Base, 2099**
"So what's that big secret that you've been keeping?" asked Jacob. He was called to the central habitat, the original lander that brought astronauts back to Watney Base way back in 2035, to have this very question answered.
"You've signed the oath of secrecy, c... | 16 | 0 | 84 | 12,816 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | “It’s not far,” assured Doctor Reshlin, his hand resting gently on the steering wheel. His tan space suit bore the red markings and insignia of Genesis Colony. They had been sending our ship reports for weeks now, and I was getting that feeling that I used to get when I would go see major motion pictures back on Earth ... | 7 | 0 | 84 | 12,817 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | Being one of the first astronauts on Mars was a dream for James, as a child he would replay the first moments on the moon in his memory, replacing Neil with his own face. It made him laugh looking back now that he was strolling around on Mars' surface. He had landed a few days earlier and had already explored around 10... | 9 | 0 | 84 | 12,818 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | The distance between Earth and Mars varies from fifty five million kilometers to three hundred and seventy eight million kilometers, this means that the delay for communication between the planets can be as low as three minutes and as long as twenty one minutes.
***
Captain Alan Hastings was technically the highest r... | 5 | 0 | 84 | 12,819 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | We have been in cryo for the last 5 months. My first few breaths are difficult. It's been almost 300 days since we left Earth to discover what Curiosity saw before going dark.
"3 Hours until arrival" sounds across the vessel.
The nausea kicks in and I fill my breathing apparatus with bile and whatever else was left... | 3 | 0 | 84 | 12,820 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | "Victor! Victor you'd better see this!"
The astronaut, hearing his name, bounded across the red landscape. He had been sent to search Mars for life and possibility of colinization two months ago, and by now the excitement had faded, replaced by a longing for home, for company other than Lola.
"Yes Lola?" In responce,... | 2 | 0 | 84 | 12,821 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | The wind whipped against his suit. It was colder than he imagined, and he wasn't quite used to the silence inside it. His head pounded, reverberating the nauseating echo of his own pulse. He didn't sign up for this. Four years, and a better life for his new born was all he was looking for. That was before the sickness.... | 1 | 0 | 84 | 12,822 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | **Captain’s Log, February 26th, 2037**
The construction equipment landed without a hitch – the five step deceleration process was even more successful than expected. Project Alpha begins at dawn tomorrow.
**Captain’s Log, February 27th, 2037**
While digging the foundation for Project Alpha, we found something. Its... | 2 | 0 | 84 | 12,823 |
[WP] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 84 | 12,824 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "Not much money in cryptozoology, unfortunately." | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12,825 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "I don't think you should touch that, sweetheart." | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12,826 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | There's never an easy way out, is there? | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12,827 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "I *told* you they were dangerous." | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,828 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "If you go down this path, there is *no* turning back." | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,829 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,830 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "Call now and we'll double the executions, **ABSOLUTELY FREE!**" | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,831 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "If it was *that* simple, I wouldn't be a *sir* ." | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,832 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,833 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | I'd love for you to stop trying to save me, seeing as soon as you do my boss will call asking for that damn project, and there it is.
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,834 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "Bigfoot, you son-of-a-bitch, don't you dare go on this mission without me." | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,835 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | Well, now who's fault is that? | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,836 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "If it didn't work the first time, it ain't gonna work the second time!" | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,837 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,838 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "We loved and loved again, never losing our minds but forever lost in the depths of our own dreams." | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,839 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | It's not my fault you weren't listening, is it now? | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12,840 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "Now we understood what the signal meant." | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,841 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | Mommy, I'm sorry. It just... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,842 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "I miss who we were, and fear what we will become" | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,843 |
[PM] Give me one sentence of dialogue | "I don't care if I live or die." | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12,844 |
[WP] Write a myth or legend about the origin of snow. | In the time before people walked the earth, gods roamed. Eumaeus, God of Cold, longed for Autolycus, God of Wind.
Autolycus was one of the High Gods, charged with overseeing creation. While Eumaeus was powerful, he was no High God. So he could not simply take Autolycus.
Eumaeus went to a great mountain, the moun... | 5 | 0 | 15 | 12,845 |
[WP] Write a myth or legend about the origin of snow. | Before time, on this very planet there once lived 4 siblings. Sapling, the green. Bloom, the red. Shed, the yellow and Snow, the white. Together they strode across this earth, they walked across great rivers, vast forests and lumbering mountaintops. They conversed with flower, animal and wind alike. Like this they had ... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 12,846 |
[WP] Write a myth or legend about the origin of snow. | The druid shuffled on the log in front of the communal bonfire. Gazing at the expectant crowd around him his soft eyes sought for a topic for the night's entertainment. Glancing upwards as a sharp pang hot his forehead he smiled, saying: "Ah yes, one of the oldest tales of all: the cycle of the seasons and why it snows... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 12,847 |
[WP] Write a myth or legend about the origin of snow. | After the creation of Mother Earth, the High God Rakuk was tired. He divided up the duty of maintaining the functions of the Earth to several lower gods.
Two of these gods, Shmael of the Rain and Gonrad of the Ice, were bitter rivals from their genesis. The worshippers of Shmael, however, were always higher than that ... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 12,848 |
[WP] Write a myth or legend about the origin of snow. | "Where does snow come from, daddy?" Baylee asked sweetly.
"Come with me, and I'll tell you." Her daddy whispered, wrapping her in a blanket. He carried her out on the patio, swaddled and cozy and sat down on the lounge chair and looked up a the stars. "You ready?" He asked, tweaking her little button nose. She nodded ... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 12,849 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | the land without seas
nor age, nor death, nor disease;
to feel divine grace | 5 | 0 | 9 | 12,850 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | warm sun lights the dew
shimmering radiant dawn
fuck that I got PC
| 2 | 0 | 9 | 12,851 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | Roads paved of laughter,
Buildings lit with happiness,
Sea of joyful tears. | 3 | 0 | 9 | 12,852 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | sand between my toes
water clear enough to drink
gazing the daybreak | 3 | 0 | 9 | 12,853 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | A world of nice things;
all the ones you've ever loved
waiting for your hugs. | 2 | 0 | 9 | 12,854 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | An endless journey
Through the boundless universe
Let's stop for ice cream | 2 | 0 | 9 | 12,855 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | And now there is time
To sit beside our own peace
And reflect, reflect. | 1 | 0 | 9 | 12,856 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | Virgin flesh of sand
Deflowered by the footsteps
That I leave behind | 1 | 0 | 9 | 12,857 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | Soft vibrations sigh
A sea of unnamed colors
It is beautiful
Edit: Once again, I cannot seem to format my way out of a box. | 2 | 0 | 9 | 12,858 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | A warm pile of shit
as far as the eye can see
I am a maggot | 3 | 0 | 9 | 12,859 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 9 | 12,860 |
[CW] Heavenly Haiku | fields of green, live, grass
a market of everything
and a big mountain | 1 | 0 | 9 | 12,861 |
[WP] This was the worst part of being a double agent. | Sitting at my desk I popped open the laptop. I'd spent the last five hours in a dark almost abandoned hotel in the seedy underbelly of the only major city in a third world country. I lied, I cheated, I stole. I told people who trusted me with their lives that I was their friend. When they turned around, I shot them in ... | 5 | 0 | 10 | 12,862 |
[WP] This was the worst part of being a double agent. | "And the rest of it?" Old, calm, English fingers pushed the plastic bags into another neat line, making new connections, forming new assumptions on the polished mahogany desk.
"Burned or buried" came the smart English reply, "No witnesses. When the AC-130 was called in, they were already circling." The SAS soldier kep... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 12,863 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 52 | 12,864 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | Oh my god, seriously?
What did he do, email you? I swear, I'm this close to calling health & human services on the guy.
Listen June, I know you sorta like the guy and feel sorry for him, but you don't know the half of it. I've refrained from telling you some things because I didn't want to freak you out, but the ... | 29 | 0 | 52 | 12,865 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | The lights of the arena fade as the audience quietens down. This is what everyone was waiting for. The final battle between the great emperor and the son of a farmer; an old rivalry that had been around for decades is finally about the reach its climax in this very arena. How this rivalry actually started doesn’t reall... | 9 | 0 | 52 | 12,866 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | First, it was the frisbee. We lost it early in the barbecue. It just went flying and landed in Old Man Burns yard. Next, came the football. Cousin Marcus did in fact have a pretty good arm. Then, we lost the baseball. That one was not the best idea as it broke Old Man Burns's window. Aunt Liz brought a cantaloupe to th... | 3 | 0 | 52 | 12,867 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | It was exactly five days ago that I discovered that my "elderly neighbor," one Hargrove Johnson, was not in fact an elderly man named Hargrove Johnson, but was in fact a vicious, soul-sucking monster from a different planet, who was draining my body of life slowly. Every day, at exactly 3:45 AM, I discovered through th... | 7 | 0 | 52 | 12,868 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | “Sit down, Jason.”
She gestured towards the chair in front of her with a look on her face that told me she meant business. Of course. She always meant business. I’d only been to her a few times – she was one of the more expensive shrinks in town, and she knew it. Sharply dressed, well-decorated office, a lingering... | 6 | 0 | 52 | 12,869 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. We thought we could trust my neighbor, Karl and we told him about our forbidden love. He seemed supportive. You know that. Well...
I told him about our plans to run off and have a splendid life together. We deserve that!
He didn't share the same joy that I... | 2 | 0 | 52 | 12,870 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | "Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantalope?" Jimmy asked, calmly, steeping out onto their shared porch. The old man and his wife had retreated into their house by now, presumably to call the police, but Jimmy had watched the whole spectacle through the window.
Gabriel shrugged. "It seemed like the right th... | 2 | 0 | 52 | 12,871 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | Woah, hold on a sec. A cantaloupe? That's what he told you?
This wasn't even recent, dude.
Look, you know I'm not the most... balanced person on my two feet. I like having the kitchen windows open and let the breeze roll through on nice days. Well, I had just come back from the grocery store and laid all of my goodie... | 1 | 0 | 52 | 12,872 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | “JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, DAVE!” Eric shouted. He’s alarmed, he’s startled. Obviously.
“Oh, just shut up, Eric,” I retorted, “you weren't fucking *there*!” And he looks at me incredulously, like I’m some sort of weirdo maniac that’s high
on crack cocaine.
It’s only coffee and cigarettes. Not even alcohol. Okay, so mayb... | 1 | 0 | 52 | 12,873 |
[WP] Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | 'Why?' I asked, shrugging my shoulders just a tad, enough to annoy but not provoke. 'Because I missed with the watermelon of course.' | 2 | 0 | 52 | 12,874 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | My legs ache. I’ve been at this for two months and it’s getting harder, not easier. Fifteen miles today, I need to do 20 by next week to qualify by September. I think my shins will burst into flames if I run anymore but I can’t stop now. All my friends, or what’s left of them, think I’ve lost it but I haven’t, not yet.... | 11 | 0 | 25 | 12,875 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | The siren play their off-key tune in the distance, striking a chord against the setting sun and falling with it, dragging the light down into the darkness. Anne huddles next to me, moaning in fitful dreams and I pull her gently to me chest, doing my best to shelter her from the cold.
When the silence of the quays eng... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,876 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | The fire flickered in the corner of my vision, stealing attention from the blade in my hands. Fire could do that, primal energy had a right to my attention and I gave it gladly, somehow staring at it soothed the pains in my legs and the hunger in my stomach, yet I feared the flames. Sure a blade was powerful in the han... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,877 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | My sleep is terrible recently. I can't get even a half-hour of decent sleep. My brain is twitching, and keeps me awake almost all the time, I've never been so tired in my life. But I know i have to do this. I wake up every 10 minutes, looking intensely into the dark. My ears up, scanning everything around me, but all I... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,878 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | I’m so far behind. 40 years old and just getting ready to be a father in under two weeks. A genetic time bomb of a heart in my chest that historically goes off at 45 years and has proven fatal in the past, hopefully a heritage I don’t pass down to my son. I’m not going to be an “old parent” but I am going to live to... | 6 | 0 | 25 | 12,879 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | The mirror, it mocks me. It hangs there, never moving yet ever judging. The perfect reflection of my secret thoughts. Stopping for a moment, I stare at what others see. One step forward, I pause then look down. A quarter the weight of a female hippopotamus. 3 years, the only excess that comes easy it seems. I turn m... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,880 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | January 27th: I am going to leave. Tomorrow. I don't want my little girl to know what happened. I want her to think that her daddy was out on a morning stroll and he got lost, and that he'll be back, which I will be someday. I'll be back. And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel, I will go out and... | 2 | 0 | 25 | 12,881 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | When you get used to having no air in your lungs, the feeling becomes eerily comforting.
It takes a while to get to that point – a surprising amount of time, in fact – and by the time you’re there you’ve covered more ground than you thought possible. Always putting them behind you. One foot in front of the other; th... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,882 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | It felt like it was only last week. Tigger. That was what they'd call me as I came running down the trail in the cool, fall air. I remember feeling like I could run All. Day. Long. without getting tired. 20 miles seemed like a warm up. Then you wake up one day and fifteen years has come and gone like a blown out... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,883 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | This is definitely the most tired I've ever been before in my life. I set out before dawn, leaving that shit-hole behind. I don't know exactly where I am or how far I made it before collapsing underneath this bridge. From the glimpse of the map I saw the day before I made my escape, I think I'm about fifteen miles nort... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,884 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | It was a routine really. And if Jimmy was anything he was a man of routine. Wake up, shower, run, breakfast (normally grapefruit juice and a piece of toast or an apple and some coffee), drive to work while listening to NPR, work, lunch (a salad and some water, maybe dinner leftovers), more work, drive home, run, dinner... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,885 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | The days since the operation sure have dragged. The hospital walls fit more snug than when I first come in, and the longer I'm here the more I feel like I'm in prison. But I know the worst is behind and that in a while these four white walls'll be nothing but an old memory. What haven't wrapped my head around is that t... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,886 |
[WP] And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | One month. Just one month.
Weapons, food, water, protective clothing - all that I can source without any problem. There's plenty of time. But one month to get fit? It's going to be tough. I know what you're thinking - zombies are slow, right? - and you'd be right. Those fuckers are slow, but you can bet to hell that ... | 1 | 0 | 25 | 12,887 |
[WP] A Student and a teacher are the last two people on earth | An old man rests next to a young man on the top of a mountain overlook. Below them, the base of the mountain descends into a luscious green valley. A chorus of nature plays through the air.
“We did the right thing.” The older man says, as he puts his arm reassuringly over the younger man’s shoulder.
“But what abou... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12,888 |
[WP] A Student and a teacher are the last two people on earth | Every computer monitor was blank, every cell phone a brick, all the scrolling digital marquees in front of banks and offices and gas stations only faded relics sinking into the earth. He wanted to carry a watch to keep the time with at first, but Mr. Lanceford effectively forbade it.
"Could you make a new battery f... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12,889 |
[WP] A Student and a teacher are the last two people on earth | Across an endless gray expanse, beneath a vast dark sky, a lone figure trudges onwards. His steps are slow, stumbling, for he sinks as if trying to walk in fine, shifting sand, but it is not sand underfoot, but ashes; an endless plain of ashes, broken only by charred bones and ruined buildings. Even the wind has died, ... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12,890 |
[WP] A 35 year old man/woman still believes in and talks to his childhood imaginary friend, but tries to hide it from his family and friends. | "Why are you masturbating again?" Guntiger asks.
I flip in the chair and fumble with my pants, belt buckle clattering on the floor. "Goddamn it, Guntiger, I told you to leave me alone when I'm on the computer."
"I can't pick when I show up," Guntiger says. He sheepishly scratches his two double barrel shotgun arms to... | 11 | 0 | 16 | 12,891 |
[WP] A 35 year old man/woman still believes in and talks to his childhood imaginary friend, but tries to hide it from his family and friends. | Jerry waited patiently until his wife had left the room.
>"It's been, what, 5 years? We have to tell her."
I was dumbfounded. It couldn't be coming to a head like this. We'd all lived a happy, if distant, little family life up until now. Sure, half the household was unaware of the other, but we got by.
>"She's... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 12,892 |
[WP] A 35 year old man/woman still believes in and talks to his childhood imaginary friend, but tries to hide it from his family and friends. | I hear the soft vibration of my phone. I quickly turn off my phone's alarm and look at the time. 3:14 AM, just like always. Wide awake, I slowly get out of bed looking to my right, listening for the deep breaths from my wife to see if she was still asleep. I slid into my slippers and proceeded to the kitchen where I ge... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 12,893 |
[WP] A 35 year old man/woman still believes in and talks to his childhood imaginary friend, but tries to hide it from his family and friends. | "Wake up, John! Its a beautiful day outside! I think we ought to take our bikes out. Maybe go down to Kirby Park, feed the ducks." Linda said, as she pulled back the curtains and opened the window.
John could feel the nice warm breeze on his bare legs, the sunshine on his face. He never particularly loved being awoken... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 12,894 |
[WP] Make me fall in love with a character, then make me hate them in the last line. | "Drinks for the table on me!"
And while everyone cheered I checked my bank account, reassuring myself that I'd be fine until next week. We were on our fourth stop of the night on our way out the door to the fifth on the St. Party's Day Pub Crawl for Cancer and we've already raised about $5k. Life is good, I'm calm and... | 7 | 0 | 9 | 12,895 |
[WP] Make me fall in love with a character, then make me hate them in the last line. | The sun shines upon my face today and forever. I am heralded for my successes. I sit in my room alone, free of distractions. I am the richest man on earth, the fruit of my tireless labor. Though no one acknowledged my work, I am the reason behind the latest breakthroughs of humanity. My inventions have rendered human d... | 5 | 0 | 9 | 12,896 |
[WP] Make me fall in love with a character, then make me hate them in the last line. | She hadn't eaten all day, had barely nibbled on a few saltines yesterday, but there was no time to make herself food now. She slathered the peanut butter and jelly on some rapidly-hardening white bread and placed the plate on the cheap laminate table. The table leg wobbled under the added weight. These rental trailers ... | 15 | 0 | 9 | 12,897 |
[WP] Make me fall in love with a character, then make me hate them in the last line. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 9 | 12,898 |
[WP] Make me fall in love with a character, then make me hate them in the last line. | She was barely eight when he came to save her. Isabelle was half starved in the corner of the empty room, clutching the empty VHS case which once held the story of Cinderella. It was the only movie she had ever seen. Since her mom forgot to remove the video when she sold the TV, Isabelle was left with only the case as ... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 12,899 |
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