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[WP] A rich philanthropist gives away all his money to charity and lives a humble life with his family. Then his daughter gets cancer...
"So," I said. "What are we going to do?" Lisa's eyes were fixed on the road ahead, her hands white as she clenched the steering wheel. It was an agreement we'd worked out in our first year of dating: when we were stressed, she drove. I got too easily distracted by my anger, but she used it to focus, driving like a rob...
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[WP] A rich philanthropist gives away all his money to charity and lives a humble life with his family. Then his daughter gets cancer...
If I had known back then that this would happen, I wouldn’t have done it. I don’t understand why this is happening. I was good and did things that would help others and make them happy, which in turn made me happy. But now, now I need someone to show me that kindness, but nothing happens. If I could take it all back, I...
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[WP] A rich philanthropist gives away all his money to charity and lives a humble life with his family. Then his daughter gets cancer...
This isn't my life. It can't be. They told me I would be happy now. I have been alive for 50 years now, but I guess I can still learn things. And tonight I learned something I should have learned long ago. No good deeds go unpunished. Lord knows, my punishment is upon me.
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[WP] Write a Sea Shanty about an island full of dragons, guarded by three fierce women.
Oh, off the port side We spotted the shore A place full of dragons and treasures galore But our excitement soon faded When off of the rise Came trundling three women Of monstrous size *Chorus* Yo Ho! Raise your swords! Three hellish lasses be runnin’ these shores. The island holds dragons and tre...
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[WP] Write a Sea Shanty about an island full of dragons, guarded by three fierce women.
Oh, they say there's an island Out in the north-west Full of monsters breathing fire and If you pass the test Of the three vicious ladies And their vicious breasts Well You might end up crazy But you'll emerge the best. You know they say there's an island Out in the south seas Feared by all pirates Between...
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[IP] Meteor And The Milky Way
The camera squats in the tripod, waiting. I sit on a flattish rock nearby, shutter release in hand, and look up. As always, my eyes are drawn to the Southern Cross. Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma Crucis. Four dots that make me feel every one of the twelve thousand miles between me and dad. We used to go out in the ...
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[IP] Meteor And The Milky Way
>Stars are never stars. Stars may be made of plasmatic gasses, burning >like a halogen lamp set on 100 when the scale only goes to 10, but they >aren't. Stars are existences of dreams. They embody hope, and their >personalities change with the season. It isn't often a hope fails, but >when it does, it...
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[IP] Meteor And The Milky Way
I kept my eyes closed as I rested against the rocky outcrop, still warm from the afternoon sun. The last of the sand sprinkled from my legs with the slightest motion. The restful roar of the surf in the deepening darkness soothed my thoughts. A moment's wind drew a coolness, and Melissa snuggled a little closer. Sh...
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[IP] Meteor And The Milky Way
The truck ground to a halt at the foot of the mountain. Jakob set the parking brake, reached into the glove compartment and pulled out a set of wooden chocks. From the backseat he heard a small yawn, "are we there yet daddy?" A sleepy voice asked. "We are, just let me get the gear," he responded. Jakob pushed t...
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[WP] A game changing moment in a League of legends game, from the champions perspective
Coming upon the camp of Wraiths, Darius knew he had to act fast. His team was deeply behind and the bounty coffers were running dry as his teammates had been resummoned far more than his opponents. He quickly laid into the wraiths, his axe cleaving and rending them asunder, blood spilling and staining the grassy moss...
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[WP] "Do you have it?" "Here." "That's not what I asked for!" "But it's what you need." Give this ambiguous dialog context in a story! Any genre!
"D-Do you h-have it?" I ask, shaking so hard I can barely speak. Or stand. Or think. I never meant for it to go this far. I didn't mean to get hooked. It was just an easy way to escape the hell that is my life. Too easy. I swallow hard. Or I try to. My mouth is so dry. I shouldn't have waited this long. I need it. I...
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[WP] "Do you have it?" "Here." "That's not what I asked for!" "But it's what you need." Give this ambiguous dialog context in a story! Any genre!
Twilight zone?
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[WP] "Do you have it?" "Here." "That's not what I asked for!" "But it's what you need." Give this ambiguous dialog context in a story! Any genre!
I paced up and down my room, waiting for her to show up. She was now my only chance, my only hope. A week ago, I had slipped up. Made a mistake. Almost a costly one. And someone had found out. I don't know how, but someone had found out and told my parents. Then down came the hammer of parental authority and I found ...
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[WP] The start of the invasion of Afghanistan by the US through the eyes of one of the 92% of Afghans who have no idea 9/11 happened.
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[WP] A man/woman realizes that they were the bad guy all along.
Lex Luthor from Smallville: "I am the villain of this story."
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[WP] A man/woman realizes that they were the bad guy all along.
Falling Down
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[WP] A man/woman realizes that they were the bad guy all along.
"So my friend, here we are. You are finally at my mercy. You can't stop me. You have put up a struggle, but your villainous efforts are all for naught." I chuckled softly to myself. "...what? Villainous? Me?" the bound man looked up perplexed, despite the blindfold and steel grips binding his neck to the chair. "Yes....
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[WP] A man/woman realizes that they were the bad guy all along.
She was so beautiful. I loved her so much. But she confused herself. She said she didn’t love me. But that’s wrong. She was just going a little bit crazy. I had to protect her from that. I was just trying to protect her! She would’ve realized. If she just stayed a little while longer she would have begun to understand....
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[WP] A man/woman realizes that they were the bad guy all along.
Smoke blacks out the sky as buildings burn and crumble. Chaos. The city was devastated, thousands of people killed in mere moments. Amidst it all were two men, relatively unscathed compared to the wanton death and destruction around them. The blood and dust had ruined one of the men's once resplendently white clothing...
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[WP] seven words
On rooftop. Miss you. Loved you. Bye
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[WP] seven words
I just wanted to prove I existed.
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[WP] seven words
"Free Will? Why is he in prison?"
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[WP] seven words
So I can use any seven words?
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[WP] seven words
This is [CW] not [WP]
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[WP] seven words
We left as human, we became tools.
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[WP] seven words
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[WP] seven words
It boiled down to one thing, revolution.
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[WP] seven words
"Dad" I looked at straight to her eyes "Please" It was now or never "Don't" I tried to keep my composure "Let" I was about to lose it "Mommy" Tears were running down my face "Kill Me" Those seven words had me, I grabbed the knife from Elise and stabbed her like a mad man. I released my daughter from those le...
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[WP] seven words
I got on one knee. She hesitated.
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[WP] seven words
She closed her eyes; *we* stopped breathing.
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[WP] seven words
Maria had been sobbing ever since. When Roger had first received his station, she was absolutely ecstatic. There were so many more risky places he could have been sent. Hawaii was beautiful. He wrote and told her how they would come back in safer times, they could vacation there when the war was over. He told her about...
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[WP] seven words
"Seven words? They took all of my teachings and boiled them down to SEVEN WORDS!?" Take it easy, Jesus. They're not exclusively from your teachings. "No shit! I spent 35 years of my life promoting a lifestyle that helps people help other people, and they think they can do the same with seven words?!" Sins, technical...
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[WP] seven words
"Lie to me again." "I love you."
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[WP] seven words
I have seven words left until I
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He came from a time of Hope.
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[WP] seven words
Clutching her bag, she smirked. Then left.
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[WP] seven words
She collected her children, and then ran.
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[WP] seven words
He unbuckled his seat belt, then exploded.
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[WP] seven words
Why are you in my dreams constantly?
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[WP] seven words
When did I stop being human? Help.
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[WP] seven words
The adventure was over. He could rest.
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[WP] seven words
On the longest journey of my life, I was alone, scared, battered with strife, With every step of my tattered shoes, With every draw of the frosted air, Farther away from everything, from worldly cares, Away from those demons that hunt me. On the other side of the world, I stand before the cliffs and see, ...
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[WP] seven words
I would write a long story, but...
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[WP] seven words
"A long time ago, in a galaxy..."
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Alone, finally. A knock at the door...
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[WP] seven words
With his somber gaze, I fell crying.
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[WP] seven words
Everyone in the courtroom rose. The judge looked down at the paper handed to her moments ago one last time. She folded her hands together and asked the jury if they had come to a decision. Of course they had, that's why they were back here in this room. I've always hated the formality of court rooms, more so at that mo...
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[WP] seven words
In Case of Fire, Break the Glass.
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[WP] seven words
"I thought I was a person too." Spoken with tears from the mouth of an African child being whipped in the New World.
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[WP] seven words
And once again, my family is homeless.
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[WP] seven words
That was the last I saw her.
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[WP] seven words
Your "greener pastures" were full of shit.
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[WP] seven words
My hands, as wet as his lungs.
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[WP] seven words
BANG. One less zombie to worry about
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[WP] seven words
I was wondering what you're doing here...
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[WP] seven words
In that moment, I lost it all.
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[WP] seven words
Death - it took longer than I expected. The bullet wounds burned in my gut. The battle raged on all around me. Yet I lay forgotten with the rest. Our tide has turned, their victory assured. Yet I won't be around for it. The fire burns white hot down below. I scream and cough up black blood. A boot crushes my face in ap...
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[WP] seven words
Goodbye, my child. Welcome to the world.
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[WP] seven words
Don't. Turn. Around. It. Only. Attacks. When. Seen. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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[WP] seven words
The lifeguard, smiling obliviously, waved happily back.
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[WP] seven words
Best I can do is six.
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[WP] seven words
Sun. Moon. Sun. Moon. Sun. Sun. Sun...
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[WP] seven words
"You talk too much." "You don't talk."
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"I...," she began. The bullet silenced her.
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[WP] seven words
Smoldering ruins are seen in the distance, Escape is their one and only hope, Villains had completely crushed and destroyed resistance, Eleven citizens had no time to cope, No time to even mourn the dead, Willingly they flee into the dark night, Others soon follow to keep their head, Readily the band ...
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[WP] seven words
The last man on earth. Doorbell rang.
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I looked back, but she did not.
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[WP] seven words
I am still in love with you.
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They were threatening us. "Bring it on."
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I had been forgotten. This occurred regularly.
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[WP] seven words
The peace has been broken, to war.
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The church burned and behind; God appeared.
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[WP] A suicidal man stops right before hanging himself just to indulge in one last huge meal. He then decides he will live a month longer not giving a f*** about risks to live fully his last days, becoming a popular guy and falling in love with a girl until his last night.
The young man stands at the stovetop watching his steak sizzle in its juices. He's picked out a good one, lean but not dry, thick, flavorful. He's not using the charcoal grill, like he'd have preferred; he can just make out its shape through the window, tipped on its side in the yard, blown over in the driving rain, as...
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[WP] A suicidal man stops right before hanging himself just to indulge in one last huge meal. He then decides he will live a month longer not giving a f*** about risks to live fully his last days, becoming a popular guy and falling in love with a girl until his last night.
The stool wobbled beneath his toes, barely grasping the wood. The rope itched and burned his skin. He could barely breathe as it was -- at least he could tie a knot correctly. Jason could imagine himself slowly slipping away from the hell he had created for himself over the years. All of the lying, cheating and abusive...
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[WP] In junior high, a shy & awkward girl was constantly picked on by male students for being ugly. Today, she's now a beautiful college freshman, and she's hit on by one of her old childhood bullies, who doesn't recognize her.
Is there a cliche limit or can we go wild?
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[WP] "We all stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized that they're inside of us"
Fear. An overwhelming, controlling emotion. It drives us and motivates us like nothing else possibly does. People hate being afraid, hate everything that makes them afraid. I'm not talking about silly fears like horror movie scares; I'm talking about fear at its basest, a mindless panic that seizes you and doesn't let ...
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[WP] "We all stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized that they're inside of us"
I felt powerful. I stumbled up Bleecker Street, my fingers interlocked with hers. She wore a wild, wide grin of sheer excitement. I’m sure it complemented my own smug smile well. In all honesty I didn’t really care much. I had won tonight and she was my prize. It was a successful hunt. I chuckled at the thought o...
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[WP] "We all stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized that they're inside of us"
He was afraid of the dark, once. That's why he always sleeps with all lights on. He didn't have that luxury as a child, when his father would yell at him for wasting electricity, and his mother would cover all windows with black cloth, to confuse the demons (*Why do you think Hell is full of fire?*). Now he sleeps ...
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[WP] "We all stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized that they're inside of us"
Up close, the murderer didn't look so frightening. Desmond had expected someone larger, perhaps more muscular. Killing your wife and two children wasn't a job for someone without enough upper-body strength. Instead, the man sitting on the other side of the table was a middle-aged man, his head already balding. The two...
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[WP] "We all stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized that they're inside of us"
"But, Daddy, I don't want to go in there." Baylee whined. "Why not?" He asked quietly, lifting his little girl onto his lap. "There are monsters under the bed." She said in a small voice. "That's what I used to think." He told her. He picked her up in his arms and carried her back to her room. He pulled back the cov...
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[WP] "We all stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized that they're inside of us"
We did the best we could to hide it The stories of things that live under the bed was simply a cover that made us feel better The darkness twisting our smiles into snarls A simple glance that contains a hunger unsated The words we speak are nonsensical growls This mask we put forward every day it's all a ruse, a...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
Getting a job as a mortician was the greatest thing to ever happen to Peter. No one was around to bother him or make fun of him or call him 'Pete'. He hated that name. No one was around to distract him from his thoughts. "A-CHOO!" Peter jumped up from his stool and turned around, wielding a magnifying glass as a kni...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
"Damn it!" "Jesus Christ Cesar, you gave me a heart attack! What the hell are you doing in there?" I unzip Cesar from the body bag. He had a large grin on his face. "Dude, if I didn't sneeze I would have pulled off one of the biggest April fools pranks ever!" "Cesar, what are you talking about?" Cesar gets out o...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
The heck? No, I must have been hearing things. Real things, because now the bag is sniffling. The cart was just brought in, it'd not been here more than five minutes, and already it's the worst cadaver of the night. They couldn't accidently put a living person in one of these bags. They check for those things! They ...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
The life of a Medical Examiner is not a glamorous one. Sure I gained a few creepy pick up lines I could drop when I signed on to the morgue ("I inspect bodies for a living... and yours looks amazing" and so on) but overall the work is boring at best, disgusting at worst, and all around morbid. My birthday was spent mu...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
The fact that it had happened exactly 13 seconds after midnight had not escaped my attention. The final toll of the church bell from down the block was still lingering in the air when, as if on cue, someone sneezed. My sub-conscience mind had already triggered that non sequitur response programmed into every Southern f...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
I didn't really like working in the morgue, it was dark and lonely especially at night but it paid well and gave me plenty of time to do homework. The overhead florescent lights flickered in the tiny office next to the storage are my head bent over the desk with my text book on it. It had been a long day and sleep had ...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
Jimmy rolled his eyes and flopped his magazine down on his crossed legs. Silence. The wide bulbs in his head scanned the room intently, waiting. And then... achoo! "Hey, keep it down!" Jimmy barked. Another moment of silence followed, before... "Sorry," gargled out from the body bag. "Fuckin' undead assholes," Jimm...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
James had a lot on his mind these days: his fiancee was late, his mortgage was even later, and the only source of income he could find to stem the oncoming deluge of financial responsibility was the graveyard shift at Center City General's Morgue. It was stable, but spending the dark hours of the day locked in a room a...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
I heard it first, upon my perch, Eating grub my lady had packed, I grabbed my chest and heaved a sigh, As I fumbled about my lunch sack. I set down my sandwich, held up a hand, Which I used to grab a lantern, I held it ahead, in front of my head, To venture in the deathly cavern. *It is a job; it pays the bills...
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[WP] You work in a morgue. From inside a body bag, there comes a sneeze.
"God bless you!" Jordan shouted. Then he realized what just happened. As he rose my head up from the last of the paperwork, he reached into the drawer next to his desk and pulled out his small, compact pistol. This had happened before, someone coming in late at night to loot what had been collected from the bodies a...
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[WP] A veteran Holocaust Jewish survivor meets a man in the elevator. As they strike a conversation, he slowly realizes the man was his brutal Nazi prison warden.
I just stared. I saw those eyes that put me on my knees and beat my back. The blood that touched his whip. The one piece of food he threw at the floor so I can eat with the dirt. I remember it like it was yesterday. His posture, his attitude, his stern eyes. How can I remember this man so vividly and he thinks I'm j...
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[WP] A veteran Holocaust Jewish survivor meets a man in the elevator. As they strike a conversation, he slowly realizes the man was his brutal Nazi prison warden.
"...is it too late to apologize...?" "Never."
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[WP] A veteran Holocaust Jewish survivor meets a man in the elevator. As they strike a conversation, he slowly realizes the man was his brutal Nazi prison warden.
How we both ended up on an elevator in America, I can never be quite sure. It had been years since the war, and the appeal of the states had drawn me from my war-torn home in Warsaw. I had noticed the man briefly before entering the elevator. We were both on the top floor of the skyscraper, looking out over the pristi...
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[WP] A veteran Holocaust Jewish survivor meets a man in the elevator. As they strike a conversation, he slowly realizes the man was his brutal Nazi prison warden.
**Edit: Formatting** Another wasted afternoon talking with puffed-up businessmen. It's funny, really. My shallow commercialization of the horrifying trauma I experienced. Now I'm a *motivational speaker* for modern prisoners of the capitalist system. They didn't listen today. They never do. I'm over it. I just need...
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[WP] A veteran Holocaust Jewish survivor meets a man in the elevator. As they strike a conversation, he slowly realizes the man was his brutal Nazi prison warden.
There had been something unsettling since the beginning. A nagging feeling crawling its way from the bottom of my stomach towards the tip of my tongue. He was a nice enough man. Asked for my floor number in a thick German accent which struck me. It’s not often that I ran into people with thick German accents in this ...
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[WP] A veteran Holocaust Jewish survivor meets a man in the elevator. As they strike a conversation, he slowly realizes the man was his brutal Nazi prison warden.
Edit: Strayed a tad bit from the prompt. He entered the elevator with me. At first I doubted. A mere coincidence, nothing more. Yet when he politely smiled at me, I saw the smile I saw long ago and the blue eyes in sunken sockets and was not mistaken. He was much older, his hair gray and thin. When he pressed t...
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