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[FF] Make me cry in two sentences.
This is a terrible prompt. You should feel bad.
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Knowing they cannot survive, they stared each other in the eye with a silent grin coming from both sides. They decided to enjoy what's left of that moment and ignore both the screams of people outside trying to rescue them and the fire that was eating over 50 years of marriage history.
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All the love in the world couldn't make her stay. All the hate in the world couldn't make the memory leave.
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I found an earring. Suddenly it was if she had never gone
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Mother cried, father triumphed. I left. *This is not mine. I looked for source but couldn't find it. It's one of those 6 words stories by famous authors.
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My son was my pride and joy: my boy, the one who I had held as a baby, and watched mature into young adulthood. I found him on the end of a rope yesterday.
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Everything slowed down as she went airborne, and a million thoughts crowded her brain. Visions of her young daughters future life without a mother hit her as the car collided with the ground.
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As the light faded from his only son's eyes, a father realized that he had failed his dead love's wish. All her effort for nothing.
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Even before the dust has stopped pillowing around him they spit on him. "Who needs friends, anyway?" he thought.
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I shook her awake, as I did most mornings, until I realized she was cold to the touch. "Mommy...?"
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I'll never forget the last thing I told my parents. "I hate you!"
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The boy's mouth was agape for what seemed like hours during the whole ordeal, hugging his heroes and talking their ears off. The Make-A-Wish representative asked the little boy, "what was your favorite part?"
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I was destined to leave the world in some fashion, whether it was the stream you found me in, or the bucket you mercifully drowned me in. But I am grateful that I wasn't alone in the end, and that someone loved a sick kitten like me.
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So it was the end, and there we were...even with his last labored breaths, he looked me in the eyes, and I knew he was concerned for me. His name was Good Boy, but it should have been Best Boy, as he was the best dog that had ever lived as far as I'm concerned.
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The sole survivor, I had travelled for more than a millennia alone. As Earth finally came into view, grey not blue, I realized I might as well have died with the others.
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"Thanks for coming to the hospital to see me young man; I'm sure my son will be here tomorrow." "I'm sure he will... Dad."
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A solitary crane picked up the engine,it was mangled beyond repaid, I saw what looked like a arm , it was my dads' .
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He threw the bag into the lake. The meowings and bubbles stopped as he drove away.
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As they led my little girl back into the examination room, she rushed at me, tail wagging and licking with joy at my face. "I'm sorry," the vet said, "But I'm afraid the tumor is inoperable."
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Nervously, I opened the jewelry box. With tears running down her cheeks, she said yes!
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"Daddy? Are we ever going to see you again?" A tear welled in my eye; I was speechless.
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One day, your parents will die. You will regret not spending more time with them.
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My grandpap was the kind of grandfather who loved children and woodwork, always forgiving, always smiling, the kind of man that had always been a loving father and then ready to be a loving grandfather... I miss him, even though cancer took him before I was old enough to remember.
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She made her way out of the ruined craft and started walking towards the gloomy reddish sun, smiling. There would be no other witnesses to the first step on Mars, no return trip, no refill of her oxygen tanks.
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I just buried the man who raised me.
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I loved her. She loved heroin more.
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Baby shoes for sale. Worn once.
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With drowning pleading eyes I told her I loved her. With somber cold eyes, comforting noose to take away the pain cozy around her neck, she took her last step and uttered, "Not enough".
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I hate you and so does everybody else because you're annoying. Also funny looking.
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He was one of the last handful of survivors from the Great Burn, and he held in his hands the last surviving book. He joined the others huddled around the fading campfire, opened the book and started reading aloud from the autobiography of Honey Boo Boo.
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He looked over the body while blood dyed the snow like dark fruit. As Johnson pulled him away to head back to the helicopter, he kept stealing glances behing his shoulder.
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I went to the bathroom. No toilet paper.
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It wasn't fair. No coffin should be that small.
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How come he don't want me man? How come he don't want me?
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You can't ever know with absolute certainty that anyone loves you in a way you find meaningful. Eventually, you will go into death alone.
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Thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good, so I never tried. Note: This is Leonard Cohen, not me. But it has always seemed like such a perfect example, I couldn't resist.
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"HARRY, don't do this it should be me!" "Take care of my daughter, Ben Affleck."
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He gripped the old dog's fur, no longer fighting to hold back the tears. The dog looked up calmly with chocolate brown eyes and blinked slowly as if saying, "It's going to be okay, my old friend, I know you are here with me."
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The dog waited patiently outside the house for two years for Jim to return. It ate garbage scraps and whatever else it could find until it grew sickly and defeated and one of the neighbors stepped in to put it out of its misery.
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They've finally greenlit a new season of Firefly. It's written by George Lucas and directed by Michael Bay.
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*The last astronaut on the red planet* I have been looking at the gun for so long, waiting for someone to stop me.
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"Is mommy sleeping now?" "Yes darling, Mommy's sleeping now, she's resting now."
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With a few covert glances I spied scars, fresh ones. She's at it again.
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Over and over I told myself I was being smart and independent. I kept busy to block the realization that the best thing that will ever happen in my life has already happened.
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The enemy had cut the cables and destroyed the data centers. The internet was dead.
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$50,000 in the red with a college degree. Got fired by a high school dropout for not making the $500 quota.
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How long have you known you aren't my son? About two seconds dad.
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He listened as the priest went through the last rites, hearing each word to the last. She never did.
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In blue crayon, the words "I know you hate it when I cry, I'm sorry mommy," were scrawled on a brown piece of construction paper, creased down the middle, and warped by 26 years of storage in Timmy's Box of Important Things. Tim stared blankly at the card before returning it to its place and waiting for his mother to ...
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From the cradle, she cared for the bear like a human child. There was no room in the enclosure and no fit in the wild, so she watched as it jumped off the cliff.
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She cradled the limp furry body, feeling the softness. A tear she couldn't see fell from a useless eye, splashing onto her lifelong companion's muzzle.
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How glorious it would be to open her eyes and look, not on the grim realities of the world, but eternal paradise. But when she did, all she saw was a doctor leaning over her, saying, "Don't worry, you're still alive."
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"Mommy?" "Don't worry, sweetie, I'm right here."
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*I won't love him for the rest of his life*, she thought, leaving the hospital room quietly. *I'll love him for the rest of mine.*
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His father remained stoic for the sake of the family. When everyone else had left he wept for his son.
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Inside her head, she saw her little girl smiling, giggling with frosting on her nose, and crying because of the boo-boo on her knee. Outside, her daughter saw the same things in photographs, and gave the doctor permission to pull the plug.
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At first, she couldn't tell if she was writing a letter or a suicide note. He never found out.
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The driver didn't even stop mom. He felt the bump that was once my best friend and he still kept driving .
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After the night nurse left, Eugene breathed deep, unplugged his oxygen, and rolled his wheelchair around the room. The squeaking of the wheels faded, and he remembered the smell of Anne's perfume as they turned to the music in his head.
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Imagine your penis in the teeth of a drunken Mexican. You cry now.
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Have I shown you this photo of my wife before? My son said she's just popped out, I don't know where; my memory isn't what it used to be. Edited to be more clear.
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The boy, thin, yellow and hollow eyed, cradled the three legged dog heaving beside the pile of clothes and rags that served as the boy's bed. "I'm so sorry, Blue, but Daddy says that Sissy needs to eat."
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My brother knelt in front of me, shrouded all in black. He'll never look the same again and she wouldn't ever come back.
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I know I caused you pain, but being different didn't give you the right to hurt me; your own special flavor of abuse.
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His world was ending, but for her it was a new beginning. "I'll take care of our daughter, I promise," the man sobbed to his dying wife.
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My dad is a magician. When I was 4, he disappeared.
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Jimbo lay in the strange cage and watched the unfamiliar white door. Any day now his master would come to take him home.
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All the best is now behind you and there is absolutely no one left on Earth you can lean on. In the end, you never mattered.
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She's been around for as long as he can remember. He holds her in a bear hug, as the vet raises the needle, within minutes, his best friend, his faithful dog, goes limp.
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He'd always tried to be protective, to show his almost painful loyalty, but here, in his time of illness and depth of need, he recognized that the same love would be denied him. As his mind struggled to maintain his identy and he growled his suffering, Yeller could only stare into the barrel of Travis's gun.
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"Where's the yogurt?" She asked from the kitchen. I started to tell her we were out, but she collapsed to the floor, already dead.
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"I'm sorry...we did everything we could..."
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She lay on the floor curled up as her once loving husband kicked her over and over, screaming about what a worthless whore she was, when she heard a loud pop, and he fell over. She uncovered her face, and saw her precious 8 year old daughter holding a smoking gun.
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She swore to God she would relive another two hundred days of body-wrecking, soul-draining labor if it meant she wasn't alive for this moment. "Wake up," she pleaded to the too-silent bundle in her arms, "please, wake *up*."
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She said no. She said I wasn't good enough.
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[WP] A scene from a sitcom that takes place entirely within an assisted living/retirement community
Disclosure: I'm not used to formatting stuff like this, so hopefully it's not too difficult to read. -- [A 16-year-old boy and 30-something woman enter a large dining room that looks like a several decades old Luby’s. Elderly men and women sit at different tables. The old man who sits nearest to them catches ERIC'S a...
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[WP] A scene from a sitcom that takes place entirely within an assisted living/retirement community
[Cheers! We have Friends in this Full House of Nursing!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w0uQLHrVw0) *Sheila, Gertrude, and Edith are resting in their wheelchairs in the meal room, playing cards.* Sheila: What do you want to play today, girls? Edith: What? You want to play cards, Sheila? Sheila: Yes, Edit...
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[WP] "Tally-ho, right 3 O'clock, i'm in!"
Integrated units are so annoying. Did you know that British pilots incessantly say "tally-ho"? It's fucking stupid. It was my bad luck to be part of a military experiment - an integrated British and Canadian fighter wing that skirted the English Channel flying a CAP (combat air patrol) against stray Luftwaffe intercep...
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[WP] The Crowdsourced Child: Let internet users raise a child by letting them vote on major decisions.
"So, what do you do?" "Anything you want me to babe;)" "That's cute but seriously... what do you do." "No, I was serious too. I'm the crowd-sourced kid, well crowd-sourced adult now." "Oh my god, I knew you looked familiar!" "Yeahh..." "So what's that like?" "Sometimes it sucks, the rest of the time it's all rig...
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[WP] A man is sitting at a cafe, staring at a piece of paper on the table intently. The door opens as several people walk into the cafe, and the draft of cool air blows the paper out into the bustling street. The man looks up and says "I am dead."
Then the man dies. The End.
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[WP] A man is sitting at a cafe, staring at a piece of paper on the table intently. The door opens as several people walk into the cafe, and the draft of cool air blows the paper out into the bustling street. The man looks up and says "I am dead."
The smell of coffee used to relax me. My mom was the coffee drinker in the family, and when I smelled it brewing I knew she had gotten home from work. The white sheet blows like a surrender flag and I see it disappear down the street. It's been sucked away by the city. Inhaled by it. "I'm dead" the words are thin an...
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[WP] A man is sitting at a cafe, staring at a piece of paper on the table intently. The door opens as several people walk into the cafe, and the draft of cool air blows the paper out into the bustling street. The man looks up and says "I am dead."
Sitting in my favorite coffee shop always gave me a sense of relief. The cold, bustling streets of the city were uninviting and cruel. The warm, comfortable arm chair of the coffee shop was always welcoming. Today began like any other day, I think. I can't remember very much about the morning to be honest. I try to t...
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It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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[WP] Someone names their child "Zoosmell Pooplord Smith", "Zoosmell Pooplord" being their first name.
My daddy left home when I was 3 and he didnt leave nothing for ma and me except a beautiful comb and a run down blue ford. Now I dont blame him that he run and hid but the meanest thing that he ever did was before he left he went and named me zoosmell pooplord. (Rest of the song carries on mostly the same until they ...
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[FF] Finally. I've always wanted to drown.
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[FF] Finally. I've always wanted to drown.
Kurt looked at the console and realized that his oxygen was depleted. His gaze swept out the windows of his ship at the strange aquatic creatures that were languidly passing by. He shivered involuntarily; these beautifully alien forms were in such stark contrast to the dust-laden leathery beasts of his home world. The ...
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[FF] Finally. I've always wanted to drown.
Fred's heart was failing. He'd been a coal miner in Kentucky for years when he was younger and never took care of himself. Only recently had he even seen anybody about his health, and that was only because Elizabeth, his wife, had nagged him almost to death. The diagnosis wasn't good. Fred had congestive heart failure,...
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[WP/HP] You are a soldier at war scavenging the dead for valuables. You come across an addressed letter the enemy combatant has written home. You decide to send the letter along with one of your own.
[WP] Ms. Houten, I cannot tell you who I am, exactly, but I am a soldier in the United States Marine Corps. I do not know how you were related to Corporal Houten. I do not know who he was or how he lived. I only know that one of my compatriots has killed him, and, for that, I am so, so sorry for your loss. This war h...
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[WP/HP] You are a soldier at war scavenging the dead for valuables. You come across an addressed letter the enemy combatant has written home. You decide to send the letter along with one of your own.
[HP] September 25, 1781 Dear Ma, I am writing to let you know that I am well. Today my regiment arrived in Yorktown, Virginia. You would not believe how fortified everything is! Lieutenant Hartford said it was because of the French, which is strange because I was told we were fighting rebels! He also said that I'll ...
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