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[WP]The Best Paragraph You've Ever Written | I wrote this for a short story contest last fall. I had titled it the Death of Memory and this is midway into the plot when the main character is meeting her older brother to prepare for their father's funeral:
In the distance I can see the outline of my brother huddled under a tree outside the church with a lit ciga... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 900 |
[WP]The Best Paragraph You've Ever Written | This isn't the most poetic thing I've ever written, but I think it is endearing.
"The call to action excited an eruption of fretting, each child running in circles, examining faces and crudely comparing height by the foolproof childhood standard hand-to-forehead system. We arranged ourselves by height shortest to tal... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 901 |
[WP]The Best Paragraph You've Ever Written | There are only five minutes in my day. Five minutes where the world explodes, where my eyes watch the glistening shards of all the tired moments, all the seconds whizzing past my head. There are only two eyes that I ever want to meet. Two eyes that, whether drowning in tears, or showing the smallest spark of warmth, a... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 902 |
[WP]The Best Paragraph You've Ever Written | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 903 |
[WP]The Best Paragraph You've Ever Written | The pain settles in, even after he vanishes, and my love finds me on the ground, too weak to make any form of movement. His gentle touch is a godsend. I know this time that I must bid thee farewell for the last time, my time has come. My frail body has taken all the damage it can take. I will leave this world and my lo... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 904 |
[WP]The Best Paragraph You've Ever Written | Trying to respond to this has made me realize how short my paragraphs are... so here's something from a long time ago, maybe five or six years. It's the only thing I could think of that's remotely interesting without requiring a lot of context. Basically the story is a postmodernist near-future (no advanced technology)... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 905 |
[WP]The Best Paragraph You've Ever Written | They told me, I was fighting for America’s freedom. I obeyed. I trained and they shipped me out—calling me a hero. They put a gun in my hands. They call me a hero. They taught me how to aim and kill. They call me a hero. And one day, when they ship me back with blood on my hands. They’ll call me a hero.
But where is my... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 906 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was about at 1 AM when I realized sleep was not the answer. I stared up at the ceiling, desperately hoping its linoleum tiles would reveal a greater truth than my mind could generate. Because I'm presently at a loss for how things went awry, why she left me. It's been three months now and I still can't get her out... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 907 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was about 1 AM that I realized sleep was not the answer. Unconsciousness solves no problems and passiveness allows the world to watch over me. Fuck that noise. She called me a weenie, this bitch is going down.
I asked Roger for a kit. he said he'd have it ready in a half hour. That was about how long it took me to ... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 908 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. I pulled the blanket off my half-naked body, and headed toward the kitchen. I had a longing for food, not because my stomach was empty, but because my mouth felt empty. 'Insomnia', I thought, 'has grabbed my by the fat of my stomach and given it a t... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 909 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. I bent over, reached under the bed I was lying on in my hotel room and pulled out the shoebox I had been given earlier that day.
I examined the box. It was about seven by four inches, completely black save the familiar Nike "swoosh" embedded on the... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 910 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. I leaned forward in his easychair and turned on CNN again. *Micrometeorites.* *Rapid decompression.* *No survivors.* I listened to the anchor repeat those words over and over as the station replayed the breaking news from six hours ago. The meteorit... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 911 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. There was no way I could take a "nap" and wake up with enough time to finish studying for my exam. I'm a dead sleeper who wakes up to no alarm, and I knew I'd have to tough it up and pull an all-nighter. I called up Liz and asked her what she was do... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 912 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. I had often boasted that I could figure out any problem in my sleep; I guess what that really means is "in my dreams." It was clear that I never truly intended to sleep anyway; save for my coat and my hat, I hadn't undressed at all for bed. Thunderc... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 913 |
[RE] It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. | It was at about 1 AM that I finally realized sleep was not the answer. I've been mulling over the package that was on my doorstep today. There was no return address, but I could tell from the handwriting that it was from...from my mother. I wondered how she found me. It's been ages since I've seen her last. I couldn't ... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 914 |
[PI] The Alphabet Game - The Final Snows | it's actually depressing how long that took me to write, compared to how fast i read it. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 915 |
[PI] The Alphabet Game - The Final Snows | When writing, you have to remember your audience. Everyone does not have such an expansive vocabulary. Bigger words are great, yes! But you have to consider your message; is the audience able to understand what Zephyrs, gauntly gagging, scarved and carroty smear means? If not, your message, your story, will not offer a... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 916 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | This was the only place they had left.
They couldn't be around society, they had no way to try and fit in.
They could only find one place to live - the abandoned city of Pripyat.
Their irradiation caused for them to be a danger to the rest of the world. They lived by themselves in a small abandoned building in Pripy... | 4 | 0 | 33 | 917 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | She and I would meet here sometimes, near the big red wheel whose long-ungreased axles sang sweetly whenever the wind blew. The place was never truly quiet and the echoes of the place's slow decay followed us through long hours spent pondering small flecks of rust and peeling paint. It all seemed so beautiful then, our... | 6 | 0 | 33 | 918 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | I always come back here. I don't know why. It hurts me to be here, but it lets me know I can feel. Tomorrow will mark nine years that my mother has been dead due to a freak accident while riding the Ferris wheel. Immediately, I knew something was wrong with the way the night was going. The worst part of all this is tha... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 919 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | Although the light of day will visit this god forsaken place, it rarely stays for long. Nothing else will, why does it have to? It doesn’t bother spreading its warmth. It should stay cold, derelict and forgotten. Why should anyone want to remember, the fun the laughter, the embarrassed parent of a screaming child, its ... | 1 | 0 | 33 | 920 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | Morris wiped his tired eyes. Looking at the rusted Ferris Wheel, he remembered all the joy it brought. But now it was all gone. Only he was left to clean up. | 2 | 0 | 33 | 921 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | “Oh, oh! Remember the Swing-Around?” asked Seth excitedly, his eyes flashing with something Jessica had thought perished long ago. “He pulled and pulled, threatening to run away from home if I made him ride it.” Genuine laughter escaped him followed by a deep pause. He stared at the decrepit ride, several of the swings... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 922 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | He led her forward slowly, the heavy jackets they both wore rustling with each step.
"Ugh, how much farther is it? It's freezing!" she said.
"Not far now" he replied, smiling.
"I swear, Jay, if this is another one of your and Dave's pranks-" she started.
"Yeah yeah, you'll kill me, I know" he laughed, she always t... | 5 | 0 | 33 | 923 |
[IP] Abandoned Funfair (Inevitable Chernobyl) | "Before the religious politicians sold their wars on everybody else this was a place of joy. These machines used to work and children laughed while parents brought them plenty of food."
"Nuh uh grandpa! Mom says the world was never a happy place!"
"Your mother wasn't born until after it all happened. Come, let us go... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 924 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | The black bars of the cage manifest themselves again, not appearing solid as they shift through various materials, but as I try to move my hand through it a sharp pain makes itself known and repels my hand back. Perhaps that was my fault for trying.
Sometimes the bars get so close that I barely have any breathing room... | 3 | 0 | 15 | 925 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | Everyday is the same. At 8, a nurse comes in to check my readings, to see if there's any change. There isn't. Every time, I try to talk. I can't. I want to say, "Hello there Heather. Nice day/shitty day/boring day/busy day we're having isn't it? I hope your mother is feeling better and that your brother is staying out ... | 4 | 0 | 15 | 926 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | How long have I been in a coma you ask? Seven and a half years. I know I have because I've watched myself lie there, day after day, unable to move. I've begged myself to wake up, to move just an inch while someone is watching, but my body doesn't seem to hear me. I'm pretty sure the Doctors have given up on me recoveri... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 927 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | Oh white room, oh white room. You have ensnared me in your brilliance, your lack of shade or hue, your eternal light.
But there is so little to do in this white room. There are no doors to any outside world, there are no windows to the sun, there are no locks with which to leave. Nothing, nada, zilch, null. All I can ... | 14 | 0 | 15 | 928 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... |
A figure in thick red coats and modern finery approaches me, his arms outstretched. He has brown skin and intense eyes, and a furious look on his face. "I am the master of ALL that I survey! All things bow and crawl before me and my kin!" The world behind him explodes, becoming a vision of a star in the distance. Chun... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 929 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | Nothing was the same. Everything flowed around itself in a miasma of objects, colours, sounds and thoughts. I remember walking. Each step presented me with something different. In that fleeting moment where one foot was off the ground, moving forward, I experienced environments from huge floating islands which bore gra... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 930 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 931 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 932 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | I'm laying on a beach. Water and sand mingle between my toes as I lie outstretched and welcoming. I'm in the right place, I think, with a sun glowing right above me and a drink in my hands. Relaxed and timeless. Maybe a friend comes, maybe a relative, maybe some machination of mine own. I realize this is a dream, but ... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 933 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | A coma is nothing like what I thunk about. I know, here and now, on a bed in a room in a place I hope is a hospital and not a hospice. Thunk it about a while back and around. The squishy computer crashed and it's all like, you know, thunk about it. Lucid dreaming the here and now, it's all fu - Am I talking? Can t... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 934 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | "Wake up. Please, open your eyes."
All of a sudden, I see.
The bright light assails my eyes. I blink furiously, willing my vision to sharpen. It does. I see the deep blue of a cloudless sky, sunlight streaming from somewhere behind me. I sit up and look around. I am in a large, grassy clearing in the woods, sitting o... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 935 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | I woke up, it was insane. I was being sucked out of paradise to a room full od beeping machines and a man coughing his life away in the bed next to mine. I looked around frantically, pupils shifting to the change of seeing *real* things. I caught the calendar out the corner of my eye.
"Eighteens months!" I screamed, ... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 936 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | A land that's far away... a land that's fair and bright... a land of milk and honey... There is no need for money. Bees buzz. Cigarette trees. Soda water fountains. Lemonade springs. Bluebirds sing. There's a lake of gin. The hay is newly-mown. The bars have free lunches. A mail train stops there. Never any cops there.... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 937 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 938 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | I awoke in the hospital bed, dazed, confused. White halls and shiny floors. I can hear the errant squeak of a nurse's shoe, or the whistling creak of an open window. There was... something. I can't remember what though. Mom and Dad are here for the first time in... I can't remember. Weeks? Months? Even my older sister ... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 939 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | I don’t remember the exact day I went down the rabbit hole. I only remember the intense desire to end everything – it was an anxiety so all-engulfing I could think of nothing else. The drive to the Golden Gate Bridge was a blur of tears with hiccups and sobs the whole way. There was a hesitation before I jumped but I c... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 940 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | A flash of blindingly white light permeates the darkness I am immersed in. I brace myself, because I know it will be quickly followed by the familiar burst of pain. It's as if the sensation is that of synesthesia. But, is sight connected to physical sensation, or is it the other way around?
I don't know where I am, or... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 941 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | The Coffee was burnt and cold again. The Diner was empty. How long had I been here? It was hard to tell, The City had a manner of draining away the time. Its cold steel walls would reflect The Sun at day and The Moon at night, living in eternal brightness was never pleasant. As I took another stale sip of The Coffee, I... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 942 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | The light wasn't like any type of light you experienced before. It wasn't natural or artificial or colored or anything like that. It was warm--no, not just warm, it was consuming, consoling, peaceful. I was bathed in constantly. I inhabited this light, lived in and with this brilliant, calming light.
The light placed ... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 943 |
[WP] You're trapped in a coma and live in a mental world that you've constructed. Describe that world... | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 944 |
[IP] The window in the iceberg- fantasy prompt | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 945 |
[RE] There's a sign in the window of my door with two words on it. | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 2 | 946 |
[PI] Scrabble Poem *Moonlight* | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 5 | 947 |
[PI] Scrabble Poem *Moonlight* | Might I...no. No, not I.
Not I.
High tin loom, thigh to hilt, toil in night.
Toil in Night.
Moonlight on him; molt on.
Molt on. | 2 | 0 | 5 | 948 |
[WP] What would you do if you shrank to the size of a pea? | I would be outside. That’s where all stupid things start. In my backyard on the highest elevated level. My cat a blue Russian will slyly watch me as I attempt another stupid trick, one more failed plan. But this time, something different happened. I guess parts of my trick worked, some parts definitely didn’t. First ca... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 949 |
[WP] What would you do if you shrank to the size of a pea? | "HELLO! HELLO! CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?!!!" I yell at the top of my lungs.
*What the fuck just happened? And why doesn't anyone hear me? I'm jumping up and down, screaming at the top of my lungs.*
*Damn, of all the days to go for a run in the park.*
All around me are these massive trees that look like bamboo shoots. Bu... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 950 |
[WP] What would you do if you shrank to the size of a pea? | The web extends in all directions as far as I can see. Here I am, a man of the world. Trapped. Just like a common house fly, my existence is now only as important as the nutrition I shall provide her.
How incredibly meaningless and futile my life seems now. I could say how it could have been different, of course. How ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 951 |
[WP] What would you do if you shrank to the size of a pea? | I was born a wealthy man's son, and this is the only reason I am still alive. Today we sit comfortably inside the Lt. Governor's left ear, and whisper his big speech to him as we step to the master podium in slow-motion. It's all for one thing. For him to win over the world. I sip living wine from a sodden ball of lint... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 952 |
[WP] Revisioning a nightmare | Imagine that they're scared of the sun. The sun makes their skin boil. This fear manifests itself in seeking revenge. To ruin other's nights to compensate for a lack of enjoyment of the daylight.
"Are they scary?"
The most fearful feeling is uncertainty. Vampires should look like everyone else so that society lives ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 953 |
[WP] Revisioning a nightmare | This is different from what you were asking, but it still matches the criteria. I just started writing and couldn't stop.
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Vampires are why humans fear the dark. Have you even been sitting in bed, watching the darkness with frightful eyes? What if a fang caught th... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 954 |
[WP] Revisioning a nightmare | In my opinion, Vampirism is like zombeism in a sense that it's a virus. Once you're bitten, you die, and you come back. Except unlike the zombie virus, vampires become very strong and very fast upon resurrection. They can only die by something piercing their heart, otherwise they regenerate from the heart out. (As in, ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 955 |
[WP] Revisioning a nightmare | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 3 | 956 |
[WP] Identity | *I'm a terrible writer, but here's something anyway!*
>A single, harsh buzz intrudes into her sleep and she is forced to awaken so that the noise will stop. She dreads to open her eyes because she knows what will be there- the same harsh, clinical white as in everyone else's cubicles. The buzzer sounds again, so s... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 957 |
[WP] Identity | I know this is probably not what you were looking for, but this is what I had envisioned.
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**Day 1**
Monotony. Monotony everywhere. That's really the only way to describe it. Walking down the street, you know the one, the one that's exactly the same as every other... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 958 |
[WP] Identity | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 7 | 959 |
[WP] Identity | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 7 | 960 |
[WP] Identity | Why?
A single little word. A word of three little letters, none of which are the least bit odd. I mean sure it is an unusual word in that is is one of the few where 'y' is the vowel, but otherwise is is perfectly normal.
Normal, something I once was and no longer am. It was because I used the precarious three let... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 961 |
[WP] Story Of The Sidekick | Oooh, I did this for my Shakespeare class.
I should have taken Margaret’s warning that “his venom tooth will rankle to the death/ have not to do with him, beware of him” more to heart rather than dismissing it so quickly. Richard promised to pay me very well for supporting him. I thought he was a friend as well as a p... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 962 |
[WP] Story Of The Sidekick | Milhouse adjusted his glasses. He always wanted contacts, but Mom and Dad were always fighting about who should pay for them. Ugh, parents.
Death Canyon. Just saying those words made him shiver with excitement. He had enough of people ignoring him. It was always about Bart. Bart, Bart, Bart. No one ever cared about M... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 963 |
[WP] Story Of The Sidekick | I preferred spending my time in the cave; the walls were more comforting. They were just bigger than the mansion's, but they seemed to squeeze in on you, warming your insides.
For years, my footsteps were the only sounds heard in the mansion. Living alone in the beautifully bedecked South Wing, I grew restless. I h... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 964 |
[WP] Story Of The Sidekick | The Black Mask curses at me. Roman Sionis- Mask burned to his skin.
He's pinned under my boot and disarmed. I extend the staff in my right hand and smash it down on the man's temple. He falls silent. I bound forward- I don't have alot of time. The train has to be stopped.
The door opens. A man aims a gauntlet at me.... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 965 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | They all went for shotguns. I went for a haz-mat suit. I had warned them that it wasn’t like the movies or video games, that there were serious biological hazards that had to be considered. They didn’t listen. When I rejoined them, they had SPAS-12s and sawn-offs strapped to their backs. I couldn’t fathom where they go... | 21 | 0 | 36 | 966 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | The first thing you need is water. The second thing you need is food. Beyond that, you start dealing in wants, not needs. I wanted to be alone, though, solitary, and I got that. This is isn't a boy scout camp, this isn't Remember the Titans, comradery won't win this championship, other people are a liability.
When it ... | 32 | 0 | 36 | 967 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | There were hundreds. If not thousands. And only 68 of us. We all had a rifle, shotgun, and knife per person. We were organized before hand, but it didn't last during the attack. After the first few hundred kills personal ammo was beginning to be an issue so we started retreating. We weren't friends, we were tryin... | 8 | 0 | 36 | 968 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | “Play some Jethro Tull!”
“I don't know any!”
“Aw!”
An orange flew across the room. The alcove burst with the smell of citrus.
“Here.”
The fruit passed through several hands, disappearing. It ended in the palms and mouth of a little girl.
Chords sprang over the steel strings and onto the sewers. Wielding a hunting... | 7 | 0 | 36 | 969 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | Two weeks have passed and I'm still alive. I always assumed that when this day came I would be with friends in somewhat familiar grounds, yet here I was, 1000 miles away from home, my friends, my guns...and her. Sadly though I'm thankful that they aren't here with me, witnessing the darkness of the human soul. Maybe t... | 5 | 0 | 36 | 970 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I itch. I remember what happened. I don’t want to remember, so much blood. Why am I still here? What’s the point of this? Is there a point? What kind of God would let this happen? It was so quiet and peaceful before. We had just sat down for dinner. Roast beef, potatoes, green beans, oh what I would give for a... | 12 | 0 | 36 | 971 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | In a situation like this, it pays to know what is safe, and what is likely infested. The real trick has always been doing the opposite of what your instincts tell you. Hospitals are usually the worst, for obvious reasons, followed closely by police stations and warehouse stores. In the early days of the Plague, these p... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 972 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I was walking trough the still landscape, not a sound was to be heard but for the treading of my feet. This "apocalypse" wasn't anything like the video games or movies. It was just cold. Oh so cold. The all following fear of that when you go to sleep, you might not wake up.
Not a single soul beside me was there. Not e... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 973 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | When it all went down, my first thought was to go to Wal-Mart.
Bad choice; everybody went to Wal-Mart. Its walls, stocked with ample, bountiful food and seemingly limitless resources, morphed into a cesspool of the undead. The dead attracted more, and the retarded masses endlessly attacked the lost fortress.
In a ru... | 5 | 0 | 36 | 974 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 36 | 975 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | To whom that have survived,
As you know, it happened about two weeks ago. I took my shoddy little bicycle and pedalled towards the west coast, where you now stand. Has it really only been 2 weeks? The rain has drowned out the sun; I should be gracious as it’s the only thing that’s kept me going. I built a funnel for m... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 976 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | Mom always said I was wasting time with horror movies.
When the dead stopped staying dead, I thought she saw my value. One thing I learned – evacuations are like a moving feast. The crowds and chaos would be a magnet for the undead. So as the neighbors evacuated, we scavenged.
Pantries, many left surprisingly full. W... | 7 | 0 | 36 | 977 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | They called it an apocalypse. I called it a minor inconvenience.
The zombies roamed the land, demolishing buildings, and everything they could see, breaking down barricades and killing everyone in sight.
But honestly, zombies are actually quite stupid. They don't even bother to look down. | 7 | 0 | 36 | 978 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I’ve lit my third cigarette of the day. My hands don't shake anymore. I've become cold-hearted. It's what got me this far. I guess I was lucky, in a sense, that my first kill was also my toughest. She didn't deserve to die, but as the adrenaline kicked in, I realized that either two people were going to die or only one... | 5 | 0 | 36 | 979 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | We got lucky, that's all there was to it. My cousin Scott had talked me into a week long camping trip along with visiting a popular archery and shooting range not far from where we had planned to camp.
So, as luck would have it, we were fully packed and provisioned as well as armed to the teeth.
By the time the new... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 980 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | The outbreak was quarantined inside of an apartment complex. There were only five of them, and we managed to trap two of them in a closet. What you need is to boil water, keep lots of canned food and be good to your neighbor. The zombies- Well, we only really killed one of them. He begged for forgiveness and screamed a... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 981 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | Looking back, the only thing that really let me survive was the same thing that cost me all of my girlfriends. I’m an asshole. So, zombie outbreak hits in the city center and I’ve got to get survive the oncoming stampede? Alright, time to start stealing the essentials: water, food, gasoline, batteries. Shoved that shit... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 982 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I didn't survive, I evolved. While others perished, consumed by the crashing red tide, and others fled into the hills. Rats fleeing a sinking ship, I- adapted. I wasn't what you would call "a nice person" before. I worked as a lobbyist for big coal. I lied to people, I spat talking points and drove a BMW. I liked the m... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 983 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | The first day was pure panic. By the end of the first week, half the city was dead. Or undead, I guess, would be more appropriate.
The hunger is constant, the thirst unrelenting. I’m exhausted but can’t sleep. My head feels stuffed with cotton wool because of all the crying I’ve done - not two days ago I saw Cookie g... | 1 | 0 | 36 | 984 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I was there during first infection. I saw the whole situation unfold with patient zero. And I learned one very important thing as my colleagues were devoured... Zombies are like women: they're repulsed by the smell of my cologne. | 1 | 0 | 36 | 985 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | How did I survive, you ask? Truth be told... I didn't. No, no, I'm not one of *them*. I'm still breathing, not rotting. But I didn't survive. Not really. The person I was Before is dead. He died sometime in the first day. When a man sees certain things, it changes him. The Man I Was saw things that changed him. Did thi... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 986 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | A buzz beneath, pulsing infinitely, and the shadow ahead. Shift off the buzz and train the laser sight, aggressive and loud, on their head. Reach over to switch on the maglite and signal "HALT" in Morse code. They place their hands up in friendly gesture. Illuminated from the back; dark angel with clipped wings.
Lower... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 987 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | How did I survive?
It's really quite simple.
First, I taught them to love.
Secondly I taught them to fight.
Then I taught them to harvest.
After that I gave them a strict moral code.
Next, I gave them laws.
And finally, I gave them currency and taught them greed.
Now, they're so obsessed with power that they do... | 4 | 0 | 36 | 988 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I used to be afraid anytime I was alone. Now those are the only moments I feel safe. See what happened was that the zombie outbreak created a new breed of monsters, but they weren't the infected "undead" that most people were afraid of. Those are surprisingly easy to handle. The hysteric populous of the United States h... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 989 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I have spent days preparing for this moment. All those hours of playing Minecraft and Day Z for the coming of this day. I knew this was coming. I could feel the tingle on my hairs as the disease spread. When the outbreak happened I knew what to do. First thing you need is tools. So what you need to do is to go up to a... | 1 | 0 | 36 | 990 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I live in New York City. Actually, I survive here; living is to be socially and psychologically alive. But when you see the things I've seen, done the things I've done you start to die, little by little inside.
It started during an animal rights parade on 5th Ave, around 2 weeks ago.I am the only survivor of our famil... | 1 | 0 | 36 | 991 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | // This is my first FF, and compared to the majority of the ones I've read this is nothing. I figure the only way to improve is to keep at it so here it is
Nobody said life was easy, and it sure as hell isn’t easy now with the whole life after death thing that’s going around. It’s been two weeks since death stopped, s... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 992 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | "Ya know what it is, kid? Know what really kills you? It ain't the stiffs, or the starvation, or even those goddamned a-toms."
He peers down, through the splintered remains of the basement door. Raising his weapon, he surveys the room beneath. corn. beets. apple pie filling. Enough for a lifetime. And for me, totally ... | 3 | 0 | 36 | 993 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | Survival. They always ask me that first. “How’d you survive those first two weeks? How do you plan to survive the next?” Bastards miss the point.
I play along, though. See, my folks? They never liked me much. See, my mom cheated on and left my dad when I was a kid. And me, well…I made a mistake. My dad? Guess who’s a ... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 994 |
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[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I had planned for it. We had planned for it. Late nights, lots of beer and so much talk about what we would when the zombie apocalypse happened. It was simple, we would enclose our area, make a safe haven for human refugees and together we would outlast the outbreak.
It’s funny isn’t it, how when the shit does hit the ... | 1 | 0 | 36 | 996 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | You need to be heartless. When my dog was downstairs barking his head off due to the zombies breaking in, I knew that all he would do for me in this world was cause problems. So I abandoned him, knowing that he would keep barking until the zombies broke in. When I was in my best friends' house, securing things, and saw... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 997 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | I'm not going to lie to you. I shat myself. You pray and pray for the fucking apocalypse, hoping for the world to become interesting and when you hear the first screams, cups and bins hitting the ground, what do you do?
Me, I shat myself.
It was an invaluable lesson in both humility and survival.
I wore a skirt t... | 2 | 0 | 36 | 998 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak | Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, the good ol' US of A, over a long enough period all civilizations fall; Who could have known we would fall victim to a massive zombie outbreak? At first no one believed they were really zombies, "Just kids on bath salts", they would say, but I knew what I was seeing.
Knowledge: The currency... | 1 | 0 | 36 | 999 |
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