JMBauhaus' Favorites
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[Mode For Love Challenge] Lifelong Commitment

Gorby ordered his wife from Sony on April 17, 2050. She was on clearance, and his recent raise in salary improved his credit …
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Rising From Ruins

We were an overconfident card shark, carelessly casting our coins. Our faith in our fathers had failed us the fight, and the …
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N1t3W4tchr
I didn’t didn’t intend to work late that day, but late in the afternoon an urgent order came in. The mysterious customer refu…
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Intervention

Zeus took pity on my mother, remembering his own ill-fated loves. He felt a woman as beautiful and strong-willed as her did n…
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Weaknesses at Bedtime

After the lights were turned out and the parents were out of earshot, which thanks to a friend Jack Daniels and a visitor fro…
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The Convention {Vampire Challenge}

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Limits of Immortality
“Do you remember the first time you were badly hurt?”
“Not really. Don’t we all experience our share of scrapes and bruises …
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Killer Queen
She’d long since had enough. Grabbing her rocket launcher, she climbed the stairs onto the roof of the building. She could se…
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The Flying Lie
“You know why flying cars sell so great?”
“Why is that?”
“I’ll tell you,” he says with that used-car-salesman tone that imp…
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On Being Wil Wheaton (Tad's Pen Name Challenge)

He sat back in his chair and brooded. The mounting deadlines from various projects were beginning to take their toll on his m…
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On Sea or On Land

Suddenly Frida felt the submarine slowing, and she nearly lost her footing as it rounded a corner. The captain signaled a ful…
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A New Challenge, You Say?
Most of my challenges are dry, sorry to say, and I thought I’d take a crack at this one…Well, here it is:
Challenge!
Ev…
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Order Now

“Finally?” he says. “What do you mean, ‘finally’?”
“I ordered it months ago, and it was only supposed to take six to eight w…
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Infinity

“There’s a hand holding a gun in our mailbox,” he says again.
“Finally” she says with finality.
“What do you mean?” He hang…
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The Dragon and The Sphinx

The room fell silent save for the rhythmic tapping of Lady Huxtable’s boot toe on the wood floor. Her thin, nearly lipless mo…
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The Wonderball's Message

Emily was seized with the sudden urge to fling the Wonderball out the window. Am I going insane? she thought as she looked …
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Who are you?

Emily quickly tosses the “plastic ball of death” into the bathroom sink and closes the door. Both stare at the door waiting f…
