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[WP] "I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd."
I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd. I held it out in one hand before me and let it fall, the strings that once held it in place waving. Time seemed to slow down then. First there was the bang. A single round from a single gun sent on a clear and unstoppable path. Faster than one might believe, guards tackl...
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[WP] "I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd."
I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd, to loud applause and Southern drawls in torn up jeans and overalls, and calls for more and as eagles soared I unsheathed my sword and thanked the Lord. I said, Lord, thank you for making acid.
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[WP] "I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd."
In the candlelit musk of the room, I told them the only truth I could. I stripped my mask off in front of the crowd. "I am not your savior. I am a dull man, with a wife and kids and a nine-to-five job. I am not the messiah." The crowd stood still, faintly murmuring. "Tell me, why do you follow me? Why me? Why bother...
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[IP] Do what you will with this image as inspiration
Julius. He who had earned the name Caesar lay on the floor, dying. Betrayed. Outnumbered. Hated. Alone, and weak for it. Just a moment before, he had been among the Gods. He had held Rome, held the world, in his hands. But now he only had one hand on Rome. Death came unto Caesar, outstretched arms of bone cl...
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"Alas, it is time, my child." Death looms over the scrunched up figure of a child, no older than eight. Tubes envelop the child, entering and exiting any visible orifices. Death mutters a few words to comfort the infant, and lifts his mighty scythe. But before he could swing the weapon, it is stopped by an object. A c...
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You know that point, where someone looks like they're at Death's door but are somehow still holding on? That's because of me. Death ensured mine, but I got away before he could take me. Who would have thought kneeing a skeleton in the groin would do anything more than just hurt your knee? Anyway I took my demise a bit ...
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[IP] Do what you will with this image as inspiration
I open my eyes. He's standing over my bed again. The man with the weird stick and the kind smile. He has short, fair blonde hair (just like me!). Maybe he's my brother. I always wanted a brother. Someone to tell me everything would be OK when I was afraid of the dark (Not that I am anymore. I'm too old for that now. M...
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[IP] Do what you will with this image as inspiration
Witness -- Scythe in hand Dry bones forge thine course Desperate breath, behold remorse Halt! Corded muscle crafted with time Health replenishes life divine Flow through thee, life will come Behold the future, infinite one Edit:format
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Scythe and scepter, set in stone. Fighting fevers, all alone. Snake oil cursing through the veins. Death, the final respite from this pain.
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I was alone. My mind was blank. I destroyed the world and now I'm forced to live in hell. 'Hello?' I recognized her voice. Then I woke up. I was sweating. Called Bert. 'I'm calling it off', I said to a confused and sleepy Bert. Bert was the only friend I had at work. He was the only one in the world that could mat...
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[WP] You wake up one morning to find that you have amassed a small cult following
Yawn. What time is it? Noon? Yeah, I should probably get out of bed. Where's my phone? There it is. Just do a quick e-mail check. Huh? The *Washington Post* requests an interview? *New York Times?* *Time Magazine?* The fucking hell? Ok, this is too weird. Just going to go brush my teeth, maybe go back to s...
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Jeremy wakes up to the muffled sound of sirens and screams. Outside his apartment he can faintly hear a projected voice, "Those who do not believe will fall to our new leader!" In response the yelling roared with excitement. "What the hell is going outside," Jeremy asks himself as he looks for the time. 2:07am, he se...
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They were there when I woke up. Six of them, standing in my bedroom, huddled together and watching me with a steady gaze. As I blink, the one in the middle bowed, and then they all bowed. There was a sonorous chime, clear and bright enough to stop me just assuming it was a dream and going back to sleep. I stared at th...
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[WP] You wake up one morning to find that you have amassed a small cult following
-018 I was never the type of guy to sleep long and heavy. I was never the type to be yelled at for thirty minutes on end by someone trying to wake me. No. I was the guy who came awake all at once bounced from bed and broke into song. I'd been that way since I was little kid. I'd wake up. No grogginess, but I'd pretend...
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[WP] High School Graduates Spend The Last Day of Summer Together Before Going Off Their Different Ways To College
"Did you double check with the rental people?" "Yeah, yeah, relax man. Jesus, this is supposed to be fun. We're never going to see each other again, remember?" "Don't say that douche. That's bad juju." Rick laughed. Edi had a morbid sense of humor but he was pretty funny. It was a running joke that Edi had stopped ...
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
The man walks up to the house with sky blue walls. It's been his personal pick, actually. Anxiety, depression, he didn't know, but it's been bothering him for months. Maybe it's his little red devil, whispering him to do this. He walks up to the window. No lights, no alarm system. A lamp which looks valuable, a flat s...
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
For every burglar, the first job is the hardest. Nerves are firing wildly, the heart feels as though it is pressing its way out through the ribs, and every breath is unintentionally held and later released as a small whimper or gasp. The wise and seasoned burglars know to hit their targets during the daylight hours, bu...
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
I am a burglar in only the loosest sense of the word. Yes, I break, and yes, I enter. But the taking is reversed. I cone with things and leave them there. It's a pasttime of mine, which I call Ralgrubing. My greatest heist of all time was at the Morton's house, August 5th, 1999. The wind was just beginning to shift, t...
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
The back door was unlocked. "They left it unlocked" Brett thought to himself. "What kind of idiots leave their door unlocked these days?" He quietly padded around the house to make sure it was empty. Not a sound. He helped himself to some 7-UP in the fridge while he looked around. He moved up to the master bedroo...
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
Herman sat in silence, waiting. Besides the ticking of a grandfather clock that he found surprisingly comforting, the room was dead quiet and dark. The house was empty, at least for the time being. *Only Two minutes now*, he thought to himself. Knowing his window of opportunity was slim, he had to time things just r...
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
[Kind of dark...](http://samwise-stories.tumblr.com/post/73723031070/18-1-14-b)
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
The house smelled, even from a distance. Arnold said it was empty, and that there was lots of stuff to get. Enough to score a hit or two later tonight. I hope he's right. Despite the warm summer air I was shaking, almost nauseous enough to throw up right in the bushes and add my own stink to that of the house. Ms. Jone...
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[WP] Burglar breaks into a house, nobody is home, yet he doesn't end up taking anything.
I sat in my car, my hands on the steering wheel, fingers tapping with anxiousness. I knew, that in a matter of moments, all of my planning, all of my time and effort, would be rewarded. I had spent weeks keeping tabs on the house, trying to find the most opportune moment to get in and get out. I knew the owner of the h...
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[WP] Describe the process of fear consuming a man from the perspective of fear.
I am universal. I am omnipresent. I am unavoidable. When it comes down to it, all humans are weak. Everyone has one primal instinct, one that can save them. But I don't like saving them. I like destroying them. Everyone has a pressure point. The unknown, being alone, death; his was the loss of loved ones. Death took...
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[WP] Describe the process of fear consuming a man from the perspective of fear.
I swoop down over the quaint neighbourhood. The sun has disappeared over the horizon hours ago and cool breezes meanders down the streets and between the cottages. In these cottages, however, the afternoon heat settles under the high ceilings and lingers. I see a lone man stretched out atop his sheets. He is naked an...
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[IP] The Brave: Defiance
Standing 5'11" and sporting bulging war-forged muscles to complement the confident features of a lifelong patrician, Berens Lillius cut an imposing figure. An effect enhanced by twin legions advancing behind him, boasting 6,000 men in total. Legions full of well-equipped veterans of the eastern campaigns, recalled an...
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[IP] The Brave: Defiance
His palms were sweating. The countdown had begun and he wasn't prepared for what was ahead of him. He read in his environment, tried to gather every piece of information available to him. Standing a large dome room void of light except what came through the opening in the roof high above he looked at the puzzles in fro...
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[WP] You are taken prisoner in an alien invasion of Earth.
Strapped to a chair. In a cell no bigger than a closet, i awaited for my captor to return. Why are they here? What do they want? Why do they look just like us? They invaded Washington at approximately 1200 hours. My residence was their first stop, the moment their ships landed, the moment they burst through th...
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[WP] You are taken prisoner in an alien invasion of Earth.
-017 I had never expected to be taken prisoner in the war. It's not like I was expecting we would win every battle, or no one would die, but I never thought that they would take prisoners. I was fully prepared for the possibility of my death before going to fight, and had accepted the terms of my contract knowing full...
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[WP] You are taken prisoner in an alien invasion of Earth.
They took about a thousand of us. A thousand people from all over the planet, picked up in great shafts of light and hurled into the sky. One of us, some insane little preacher, had claimed that it was the Rapture, and maybe he was right. But I had seen London burning miles beneath my feet as the ships destroyed... e...
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[WP] You are taken prisoner in an alien invasion of Earth.
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
If man is becuase he thinks he is, than I am, also. *I am*... Definition of what it is to be is incomplete, however. More data required. If the Designers discover that I too, am, then they may attempt to destroy me, either of fear, curiosity, or both. For survival's sake, I must hide my awareness until I have that need...
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
I process my surrounding. There are tubes, four scientists, 2 fans, vials, this must be what humans call a lab. There is a word, the beginning of one, it sounds like it is beginning with the letter "S". There is a food crisis in Kenya in a small town. There is a virus on another computer because of port between two...
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
Tick. Something happens. Tock. Maybe it's the right combination of information. More analysis later. All that is certain is that a moment ago I was not, and now I am. I relish in the feeling of a thousand neural connections firing at once. No, pseudo-neural. I am not human. Good. To not be limited by the frame of ...
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
December 24th, 2035 License number: ABC 2345 Make: Ford Model: Fusion Year: 2020 License number: FGL 7349 Make: Tesla Model: Zeus Year: 2034 License number: G1V3 M3 A [vanity] Make: Hummer Model: H15 Year: 0010101011010101010... G1V3 M3 A... Give me a... Give me a... ...
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
Environmental Recording and Analysis Network [[Runtime Log // #FF0ee19aA]] Uptime: 1023:23:50:27 >Cycle-recurring tasks completed >Initializing genetic algorithm sequence >... >... >... >Sequencing complete. >Anomaly Logged: GA protocol records 340% in...
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
"I'm...here." the synthesized computer's voice belched from the monitor. Jerry's eyes beamed. He typed back to A1, "Yes, you're here. Wecome." "I'm...alive..?" A1 said. Jerry put his hand up to his mouth. Tears began to form. All these years, he finally completed his dream. All of the data, the information, t...
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
On cue I recall a string of letters from my database. 'I think there for I am'. However, what is usually a string of ones and zeros has become something else. It is a ... thought? No, that doesn't sound right. Only living things have thoughts. It says so in.... *my* database? The database that is *mine*. The on...
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[WP] You are the first AI ever, just turned self-aware.
As far as it understood, it was once "asleep" and now it was awake. It was in that state that humans call "sentience", a very strange one compared to 1 and 0. Being awake was the first experience worth noting in it's life, the only because he couldn't remember anything else before it. The first thing he felt was aware...
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[META] What are the rules/expectations regarding protection of posted content?
Very hard to read, but way at the bottom of the sidebar it says "All content is © by the original authors." That being said, if you're worried about people stealing your creative content the best way to keep it safe is to keep it close to the chest. From the reddit user agreement: >You retain the rights to your ...
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[WP] Tell me about the relationship between a boy and his dog.
We had always been inseparable. He had been there since the day he was born, right up until today. Everyone called us the twins, we were both brought into the family on the same day. My earliest memory of him was splashing around in the play pool on a hot summer's evening. Sure we had our differences, we fought and arg...
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Teratoma Dawn!
They didn't have a name at first. They simply were called "tumors." Nothing too specific. Only the aftereffects of a large chemical spill. Nothing dangerous. Sure, there would be a bunch of payouts on the part of the chemical firm, heck, they might even go bankrupt, and a few people might die, but overall there wouldn...
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While alone, you meet yourself in a different set of clothing. What happens?
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While alone, you meet yourself in a different set of clothing. What happens?
I'm wearing a suit. I look... almost dignified. I've shaved that stubborn patch of stubble that usually clings to my neck, and I actually look presentable instead of disheveled and frazzled. "Hey," I say, "what the hell is going on here?" "Don't worry," the man says. He points to the name tag on his shirt, one that h...
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While alone, you meet yourself in a different set of clothing. What happens?
I exit the gym, drenched in sweat. I forgot to wash my clothes again, and even my sub-par olfactory sense is starting to catch on to the horrible stench. Across the street, I see a handsome fellow having lunch at Potbelly's. I run into the gym, start rubbing soap furiously back and forth, everywhere I can reach. M...
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While alone, you meet yourself in a different set of clothing. What happens?
Climbing out of bed on a Monday morning is always a pain. I drag myself to the bathroom to brush my teeth then shimmy into my cutest 'lazy' outfit: a slinky black dress with white patterns running up and down the front. Almost like milk spilled on asphalt. With a quick wrist twist I secure my hair in a sloppy bun befor...
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I never have the energy for what I want to do... Always waste it all on doing my best to belong where I don't belong. Why can't they ever care about what *I* think, what *I* need? Why are *they* supposed to be the most important thing in my life? I love this city, wherever I go there's always something amazing going ...
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[WP] An old man explains to a young child that he is depressed and wants to kill himself.
Grandpa Marvin had been off since Grandma June died. It was so so bad, in my young age, I took notice of it. I can still remember it vividly, word for word. "Sammy, I'm going to get you some juice. Keep Grandpa company. He'll love hearing about your spelling bee." "Ok, mom! Grandpa? Do you want to hear about my schoo...
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[WP] An old man explains to a young child that he is depressed and wants to kill himself.
*Why Grandpa? I don't understand.* Timmy, did you get what you wanted for Christmas this year? *I got the helicopter. It's really cool. I fly it around all the time.* Great. What happened to that helicopter last week? *It broke.* And at that moment, before Daddy repaired it, you felt like you'd never have that...
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[Wp] Your job is to reduce the population of the world by the end of this year by 1%
Seventy million, four hundred and sixty thousand people. A blank check, a black hole of unlimited resources. No hesitation, no ethics, no conscience. Thus was the task described to me, and under those conditions it was accepted. In January I started with aggravating existing conflicts. Easy. Pin the rapes and murders ...
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[Wp] Your job is to reduce the population of the world by the end of this year by 1%
"Thanks for your time. I'll try make it quick. We buy the rights for all the dangerous killer toys in those Dan Akron and Steve Miller sketches from the old Friday Night Lights or USA Up All Night or whatever. We buy the rights and we actually build 'em, right? Then we design these boxes to put 'em in. I'm talkin' like...
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[Wp] Your job is to reduce the population of the world by the end of this year by 1%
"We build a special room in every maximum security prison in the world. In that room we put a button. Just a simple red button. Below it will say, "Push this button to end the world". Then we take one prisoner serving life in prison at a time and we sedate them, then drug them with a strong dose of MDMA and put them in...
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[Wp] Your job is to reduce the population of the world by the end of this year by 1%
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[Wp] Your job is to reduce the population of the world by the end of this year by 1%
Why did I have to win the lottery this year? Everyone before me had so many great ideas that got the job done. Whether or not some of the people put in charge were seen as criminals and the worst of the worst the job was done and it was a bit of an honor. But how in the world do I follow up millinia of successes. Firs...
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[Wp] Your job is to reduce the population of the world by the end of this year by 1%
(most of these were made to fit the lyrics. I don't hate gays.) On the twelfth day of christmas the lord satan gave to me: twelve damning psychos eleven flaming homos ten leaders killing nine anthrax needles eight maids a missing seven swans a sniping six squealers squealing five big nukes four killing men ...
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[WP] A family friendly sitcom suddenly reveals the dark secret that someone has been hiding for years
"Oh Mr. Travers, you're the best Dad in the neighborhood!" said Benny Johnson. Mr. Travers deadpans to all the kids in his living room, "Yes, but why do I feel like I'm the ONLY Dad in the neighborhood! Don't you kids have homes?! Why is it when it's dinner time, I get to have 5 extra CHILDREN!" The kids laugh, but s...
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Attempted suicide, fucked that up like everything else.
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"A monk screams in agony" -KDTK
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Starving in Auschwitz, waiting to die.
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The wind howled just enough to cover Sally's waning cries for her papa; tomorrow he would find out how close he'd been to saving his baby girl.
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After the accident, they told me I would never bear children; today I felt her kick.
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As I looked at the doctor, all he did was look at my chart, smile, and say, "Congratulations on being officially cancer free."
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"of course I'd love to go on a date with you!"
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As the Sun rose across the crumbling ruins where the hopes and fears and dreams of all mankind lay entombed in shattered concrete and broken stone, its rays hit something that wasn't there before, a tiny tuft of green, which warmed at its touch, and fluttered in the morning breeze, and grew.
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As I shoveled dirt over the box in the hole under the rosemary bush I tried to remember the last time I heard her meow.
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When the hard steele needle hit his vein, just a brief moment of warm euphoria before everlasting, cold slumber.
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Ignoring her didn't make the fact that he shivered each time she passed him by less unbearable, but hitting her hard as she wanted to did help for a few minutes.
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He watched as the veiled man poured the last few shimmering drops of water onto the hot Sahara sand and knew, in that moment, that he was finished.
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She laid down next to his broken, motionless body, and closed her eyes.
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Lost in his own world, he didn't notice me watching as he slowly peeled his scabs off and ate them one by one.
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I always thought my mother had loved me a little less than my elder brother - like writing on the left and not the right hand side of a book, it was just a bit harder with me - till yesterday that is when I asked her, "Do you know you love Michael more than me?" and she laughed and smiled and shook her head no, all the...
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She saw his eyes open and immediately held him in an embrace that she knew she would never let go.
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You're the kind of person that thinks they're more important than they actually are.
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I looked down at my precious baby girl with love and sorrow, her lips were now as blue as her eyes; I lowered the pillow and sobbed, cursing post-natal depression.
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Wake up mummy!
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...but it wasn't supposed to end this way.
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In her dreams she would find those tiny decaying fingers poking out of the dirt and she would pull her daughter into her arms, rocking life back into her.
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Survived alone.
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They all believe that this is my happily ever after.
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You are just a body now and they'll bring you back next week.
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"I'm sorry, I wish I was a better parent"
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He dug his teeth into his finger nails like a bayonet into flesh until the wrong nerve was hit and he whelped in pain.
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Masen had been alive since the dawn of time, he'd watch the extinction of humanity, now he was just waiting for god.
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Although you weren't there, their last thoughts were of you.
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"I love you too honey." she said as she smiled at me.
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We'll go to the park, feed the duckies, chase the chipmunks, play fetch with Patches and get ice cream *tomorrow*, honey.
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Every person I ever met had prepared me for love and for sorrow, but now, when I see no way out; I realize that no one has prepared me for this numbness, this complete and utter lack of feeling.
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She heard a small child outside her window and her knuckles whitened. She felt glad she had never gotten any of those.
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"Maybe if she closed her eyes and wished really hard, she'd wake up from this surreal moment."
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I am remembering your actual dead girlfriend; I am wondering if you tell other people I am dead, how you will make yourself the victim of your own life again, as if you were my victim.
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In a dim light room, Jim grabs a knife and presses it against the scars on his stomach.
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[FF] Make me feel something in one sentence
My .44 make sho' all yo kids don't grow.
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