“I’m not really enjoying myself here,” said Carl.
“Oh, come on!” laughed Bernard. “Where’s your Joie De Vivre?”
“I’m _dead….
A sequel to For Change's Sake
Ben Paddon's inspiration
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No More Games used:
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Getting Into Character used:
Susan would have been surprised to know that the crystal bowl she routinely filled with candy would be the weapon that kille…
A prequel to Getting into character-Pre1
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Getting Into Character used:
Susan would have been surprised to know that the crystal bowl she routinely filled with candy would be the weapon that kille…
A prequel to Getting into character-Seq1
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Getting Into Character used:
Susan would have been surprised to know that the crystal bowl she routinely filled with candy would be the weapon that kille…
A prequel to Getting into character-Pre1
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Getting Into Character used:
Susan would have been surprised to know that the crystal bowl she routinely filled with candy would be the weapon that kille…
A prequel to Getting into character-Pre1
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Getting Into Character used:
Susan would have been surprised to know that the crystal bowl she routinely filled with candy would be the weapon that kille…
A prequel to Getting into character-Pre1
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The Closing Bulletin used:
To: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Funeral…
From: Sebtacular
Date: 27 Mar 2008, 12:02
Subject: A quick He…A sequel to Message Sent Successfully
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Message Sent Successfully used:
“Hello?”
Seb couldn’t get over just how fantastic her voice was. In fact everything about her was just incredible. It’d take…
A sequel to The Call That Changed My Destiny
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Message Sent Successfully used:
“It’s not happening,” said Seb as he walked into the pub. He’d assumed Mark would be sat in his usual seat, pint in hand, try…
A prequel to The Closing Bulletin
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The Call That Changed My Destiny used:
“What happened then?” asked Mark.
“She gave me her phone number,” replied Seb, smiling.
“Nice!” said Mark, enthusiastically…
A sequel to Serious Business
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The Call That Changed My Destiny used:
To: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Funeral…
From: Sebtacular
Date: 27 Mar 2008, 12:02
Subject: A quick He…A prequel to Message Sent Successfully
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Serious Business used:
“Just hanging out”? Seb wanted to take off his shoe and beat himself to death with it. He was certainly in the right place to…
A sequel to A Moment's Silence
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Serious Business used:
“Hello?”
Seb couldn’t get over just how fantastic her voice was. In fact everything about her was just incredible. It’d take…
A prequel to The Call That Changed My Destiny
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A Moment's Silence used:
As he walked towards the door, Seb wondered how many people had gone to a funeral parlour knowing they were neither attending…
A sequel to One Week Later
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A Moment's Silence used:
“What happened then?” asked Mark.
“She gave me her phone number,” replied Seb, smiling.
“Nice!” said Mark, enthusiastically…
A prequel to Serious Business
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One Week Later used:
“There she is,” whispered Seb.
“You weren’t lying about her looks, were you?” said Mark, wide-eyed. He started to walk over,...
A sequel to Waiting for the Right Moment
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One Week Later used:
“Just hanging out”? Seb wanted to take off his shoe and beat himself to death with it. He was certainly in the right place to…
A prequel to A Moment's Silence
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A Moment with a Hero used:
Emily had always been the type of woman who overreacted. It had been the death of her. She recieved a call from her husband a…
A prequel to Always Listen to Your Superiors {Make Someone's Day Challenge}
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Waiting for the Right Moment used:
As he walked towards the door, Seb wondered how many people had gone to a funeral parlour knowing they were neither attending…
A prequel to One Week Later
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For Change's Sake used:
Carl stretched his foot toward green, his hamstrings burning as he stretched to his limit. Carl had always thought once he di…
A prequel to The Other Big Guy
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For Change's Sake used:
Carl hadn’t wanted this. He’d believed in an afterlife. He’d believed there’d be clouds. Harps. Wings. An open buffet. He did…
A prequel to No More Games
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Down the Hatch used:
The three of you continue east, headed toward the spot marked on the map as “Blitzkrieg Bay”.
As you press through the jungl…
A sequel to The Blitzkrieg Bop
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Run used:
You trudge through the thick undergrowth. You step on things that go squish, crack, and crunch, but you don’t even want…
A prequel to Look For Your Companions
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Run used:
You climb up on the trees. You look outwards and you see nothing but a vast expanse of green canopy, and then in the far off …
A prequel to Climb the Trees and Scout
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Run used:
You check the body, trying not to retch while the scent clogs your nose. Instead, you breathe through your mouth.
You take a…
A prequel to Inspect the Body
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[Lost Love Challenge] An Altered Definition used:
So I’m going to make a challenge for y’all!
The challenge is to make the best lost love story you can.
It can be as long as y…A sequel to Lost love challenge,by I LOVE FRANK IERO AND WILLIAM BECKETT!!!
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He Said used:
Telling him what I’d done was easier than I had imagined it would be, but his reaction wasn’t what I’d expected. He didn’t sh…
A sequel to She Said
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She Said used:
“I have something I need to get off my chest,” she’d said. I could feel this knot tightening in my gut as she told me, as she…
A prequel to He Said
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Mundane Moments - And the Winner is... used:
I proof read it again, just to be sure, I don’t want to get anything wrong and the spell check on this thing doesn’t pick up …
A sequel to Achieving Nirvana
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Five Things: Like a Dream Upon Waking used:
Going to bed seems like a pretty basic thing, but people prepare a lot for it. They change their clothes, and wash their face…
A prequel to Five things: And sleep.
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He'll Need to Grow a Beard used:
“Let me put it this way,” said the man behind the large oak desk. “Have you ever seen that Kirstie Alley movie, ‘Toothless’?”...
A sequel to An Employment Opportunity
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
Waking up on a lazy cold Saturday morning in January.
Nothing pressing to do as usual. Maybe read yesterdays paper, do the cr…A prequel to The Trouble with Toothpaste{Ben Paddon's Mundane Moment Challenge)
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
This morning I watch from across the room Hilda make her self a cup of coffee.
Coffee to Hilda is the single most important …
A prequel to Hilda First Cup Of The Day
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
Evangeline took a deep breath and began.
“Just put one foot in front of the other. Take it one step at a time, honey. There’...
A prequel to Evangeline takes a step. [Mundane Moments Challenge]
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
He pulled up the page. It was easy, and far too quick. He had it bookmarked.
“I have mail!” He cried. No one was home, so wh…
A prequel to A Random Guy Checks His Email [Mundane Moments Made Magnificent Challenge]
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
It was the 2,070th time I said it. Those words I knew by rote. I had said them every weekday of my childhood. It was compulso…
A prequel to Pledge of Allegiance (mundane moment challenge)
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
I’m trying to make my way down the corrider after the final bell, squeezed in by a bottleneck of people trying to shove their…
A prequel to Saying Hello (Mundane Moments Challenge)
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
This is no stroll.
A neighborhood rises around me, stately forms of hundred-year-old Eastlakes shrouded in elms lining the…
A prequel to Of Shoelaces and an Untied Life
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
I proof read it again, just to be sure, I don’t want to get anything wrong and the spell check on this thing doesn’t pick up …
A prequel to Achieving Nirvana
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
He slowly tipped the pot, gently pouring the midnight-black coffee into the waiting pool of creamer at the bottom of the mug….
A prequel to Morning brew [Mundane moments challenge]
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
The doorbell rang, so I opened it.
There was a package there, so I opened that too. With an X-acto knife.
There was another…
A prequel to The Package (Ben Paddon's Mundane Moments Made Magnificent Challenge)
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
“Just sign it and all of this can end.” hissed the interrogator.
“Never.” rasped Gil. His voice was ragged, as if he’d swal…
A prequel to Just Sign It (Mundane Moments Challenge)
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
“Mommy, I’m thirsty.” I’d pip-squeak upwards to my tall, towering mother.
The fridge door would whump open. Glug, glug, glug…
A prequel to grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Mundane Moments Made Magnificent - a Challenge used:
“Mommy, I’m thirsty.” I would pip-squeak upwards to my tall, towering mother. The fridge door would whump open. Glug, glug, g…
A prequel to Juice Mug Glug
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Origin of Species: A Prologue used:
Unit 42A crossed his extremities and lowered his Upper Feature Expressors into an angry frown. “I can’t believe you still cli…
A prequel to b:\lief\
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Twain and Tesla: Funeral for a Friend used:
Sparks flew from the chest of the fallen Edgar Allan Poe with a terrible grinding sigh. His servos were in agony.
“He’s a ro…
A sequel to Twain and Tesla's Excellent Adventure
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Twain and Tesla: Funeral for a Friend used:
Mark Twain took a long, deliberate pull from his cigar. “You know, we probably shouldn’t have buried the chap. He might have …
A prequel to Twain and Tesla and the Raiders of the Lost Morlocks
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b:\lief\ used:
It happened so long ago now that it’s not even history anymore.
The cargo ship Forthright embarked on its forty-second jou…
A sequel to Origin of Species: A Prologue
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Twain, Poe and Tesla: Journey to the Center of the Future used:
Without warning, the aft bulkhead shuddered and a scruffy mustached man stumbled out from behind it.
“A stowaway!” cried Poe…
A sequel to Twain and Poe Have Words with the Inventor
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Twain, Poe and Tesla: Journey to the Center of the Future used:
“Didn’t we fight him once before?” Poe asked.
“That was Jules Verne, you dope. Remember? Verntopia?” Twain said.
“Hell, the…
A prequel to Twain, Poe and Telsa: At War With the Emperor
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An Employment Opportunity used:
I followed his directions to what was now my new “department”. Down the hall, turn right at the first junction, and it’s the …
A prequel to He'll Need to Grow a Beard
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Rap II: The Rappening used:
B to the E to the N to the P To the Addon,
Babblin’ and incoherent like John Madden,
Didn’t pick myself a clever nom de plume…A sequel to [YodaOnCrack's Rap Challenge] An Unexceptional Nom de Plume
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[Minimum Length Challenge] Hesitation used:
Write a 64 character ficlet that is captivating and imaginative.
And the winner is . . .
WOW the 1st got here really fast -...
A sequel to Exact minimum length ficlet [And the winner is . .]
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Journey of the Sorcerer used:
“How the fuck does he do it?” Gerkyn steamed.
“How the fuck should I know?” Werdle The Lesser snapped. “All I know is if you…
A sequel to Later, In The Common Room At Ten Faeries' Den Hostel
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[YodaOnCrack's Rap Challenge] An Unexceptional Nom de Plume used:
My name is Yoda
That’s what I told-ya
Come an inch closer and I’ll smoke-ya
with my light saber or a _jedi mind tric…
A sequel to The YodaOnCrack Rap Song
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[YodaOnCrack's Rap Challenge] An Unexceptional Nom de Plume used:
Oh, drat! Another rap, just like that! What am I thinking?
This sinking ship slips into the drink, and I sit blinking.
I’ve q…A prequel to Rap II: The Rappening
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Learning Curve used:
Five feet eight inches, 260lbs, he’s a Cheyenne man leaning on the bar at the coffee shop every morning. He looks over at me,...
A sequel to The indian
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Acrylic Bars used:
He was the greatest craftsman our town had seen. He painted the mayor (and family), he painted the infamous entrepreneurial F…
A prequel to Biography of a Captive
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An Unexpected Implication used:
“People often make the mistake of assuming that monsters lurk in the darkness. This is not true. No, the real monsters are ou…
A prequel to An Undesirable Happenstance
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An Unexpected Implication used:
“Now you’re sure that this is gonna work, right?” asked Clive.
“I calculate the chances of success at ninety-six point nine p…A sequel to A Degree of Difficulty
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To Serve Man used:
Next to the lounge was the master’s bedroom. The droid entered the room to complete its sweep. It dusted the nightstand, the …
A prequel to To Serve Droid
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Head games used:
He walks down the hall, quick steps, eyes down. He hopes, as always, he can get to class before anyone notices. He knows, as …
A sequel to One Little Push
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But Wait, There's More used:
“How the fuck does he do it?” Gerkyn steamed.
“How the fuck should I know?” Werdle The Lesser snapped. “All I know is if you…
A prequel to Later, In The Common Room At Ten Faeries' Den Hostel
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Unfathomable used:
The steady banging awakens her and with eyes closed she listens.
The floorboards are cold beneath her bare feet.
Goosebumps…A prequel to The Shed
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A transmuted Universe used:
Another unfortunate result of the jumbled Universe was that it spawned an entire new tribe of people off the coast of Wales (...
A prequel to Of Wales and Sharks
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Death of a Boring Callcentre Employee used:
“Only eighty-five dollars for a Black Lotus, and it’s a buy it now price? I’ve gotta have this!”
Dave looked around at the s…
A sequel to The Pros and Cons of Online Purchasing
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Death of a Boring Callcentre Employee used:
As Dave walked across the seemingly endless field of white his mind started to slip into the introspective auto pilot that he…
A prequel to Automaton and on and on......
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An Undesirable Happenstance used:
They’d been wandering for days, and they’d found nothing. Was this all that was left of their world? Tentatively, Clive tried…
A sequel to An Unexpected Implication
