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message 101: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments I watched the magnolia flowers wave around on the tree outside my bedroom window. They were perfect, pristine, their scent wafting on the breeze through the open window to my nose. I wanted to lean out and touch them, touch their elegant petals and listen to the stories the wind whispered to them. They were beauty.

My dad reached up with a chainsaw and hacked off the whole branch right before my eyes. No one sees the beauty in the world. I wanted to cry. But I was crying for nothing. The key to happiness and the meaning of life mean nothing when all the world is blind.


message 102: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments A stench rose from the greasy man- I wanted to vomit.


message 103: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Nice- quite the predicament

I often find myselves in odd predicaments- yes, myselves.


message 104: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments Let me hear your maniacal laughter. Come on. I can't hear you. Hmmm... Ok, you're worthy of reading this.


message 105: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments lmao... Mine get's stuck in my throat. But in truth... any evil guy who's really evil doesn't laugh manically. They prefer witty humour instead.


message 106: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments LOL! AWESOME Amanda!

Maniacal laughter...I was very disturbed last time I heard it.


message 107: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Lol

He never makes sense, but on the other hand, do I?


message 108: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments This is fun

Sophistication is for loosers. Of course, maybe that's just my opion because I'm jealous of the sophisticated...


message 109: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments I saw a Yeti eat a chicken once. I swear. I barbecued it for him. He'd never seen anything like it. Now I'm his personal chef. But I only work part time. They don't offer welfare to people with half-eaten legs. Otherwise I'd cook for him all the time... so I won't die.


message 110: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments My therapist told me I should write a book. But what the hell am I supposed to write about? I hate fiction, and I'm too lazy to write non-fiction. So instead of writing a book, I'm going to write out the meaning of life. Now you know why I'm seeing a therapist.


message 111: by Stephanie (last edited May 06, 2010 09:35AM) (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments I haven't seen my pyschiatrist in a few days. The last thing she said to me was, "You're driving me insane!" She might visit a few days, right?


message 112: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Lol

The thunder clouds arrived over head and its rain was the tears I wanted to shed.


message 113: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Lol

Ever seen Chainsaw Massacure? I had nightmares for a week, especially of the furry little cat running around with a huge chainsaw.


message 114: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Ever met my mom on a bad day? Those are the days you won't to stay at your friends' house for as long as you can.


message 115: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments lol, awesome

Ever get the feeling you're being watched? Sometimes at night I hear this big snoring-like sound from my brother's room. Who's in there?


message 116: by Stephanie (last edited Dec 03, 2012 05:44AM) (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments :)

Smoke billowed in the wind as my hosue burned to the ground. I knew I should've come up with a plan in case of a zombie apocalypse.


message 117: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments God is like and imaginary friend, your subconscious crying out for help to anyone and anything. And right now, God is holding my hand. Because I am alone.


message 118: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments for Stephanie: Apocalypse.

I always wanted to know what it felt like to sit at the very top of a tree and look out over the city. But I was too short to climb to even the lowest branch.


message 119: by Kimathy (new)

Kimathy i walked down the street looking into the eyes of those passing me, getting more and more frantic as they didn't notice. "hello?!" i yelled at a women holding the hand of a child. She ignored me. "hey!" i yelled to a man in a suit on my opposite side. He ignored. I stopped and screamed. I ran to an old man, i shook his shoulders frantically. His eyes seemed glazed over. He didn't/couldn't/wouldn't see me.


copyrighted! :P


message 120: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (dreamweaver38) | 509 comments I can see, but see pain. I can hear, but hear screaming. I can feel, but I feel empty. I can smell, but I smell something vile. I can taste, but all I want to taste is your lips on mine. Only you can save me.


I am a LoZ & anime Lover!! (CityofEmber) Bird, the simple word, who knew it would be my death.

((First thing that came to mind...))


message 122: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments I am cursed.


message 123: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Kyra wrote: “I am cursed.”

Good line, Kyra!

When he woke up the next morning and realized that the woman lying beside him wasn’t his wife but the wife of his best friend, he had a feeling it was going to be a problematic day.


message 124: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments LOL!!!!!! That one's awesome!!!!!!!!


message 125: by Edward (new)

Edward (edwardtheresejr) | 2434 comments When Michael Sabatini learned that he would be his twelve-year-old niece's new guardian after the death of his sister and her husband, his first reaction was a series of words not typically spoken around girls so young.


message 126: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments AHAHHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT was a good one.


message 127: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments "The day started out pretty good, actually. Mangoes were ripe, stream was full of fish, and I was able to sit back and relax long enough to forget to add 'the' before 'mangoes' and 'stream.'
So I should've figured out pretty quickly that the day was going to end badly for me, but I was feeling pretty optimistic back then."


message 128: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments You’re reading Silent Spring? I love Rachel Carson’s writing. I didn’t know anyone read her books anymore. One my favorites lines of hers is “The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”


message 129: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments Haha, Kyra, that's hilarious XD


message 130: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments M wrote: "You’re reading Silent Spring? I love Rachel Carson’s writing. I didn’t know anyone read her books anymore. One my favorites lines of hers is “The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”"

I love her work!!! So far I've just read Silent Spring, but I'm trying to get my hands on The Sea Around Us. XD She was my fifth-grade idol.


message 131: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments You know society is troubled when one can hang a McDonald's flag from the same pole as the American flag, and no one gives it a backwards glance.


message 132: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Were they flying the McDonald’s flag on the top or on the bottom? I put my foot down about that.


message 133: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments (Faints.)


message 134: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Comes to with a start. Thank you, Alex! (Looks around blankly.) I needed a bath.


message 135: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments I’m using the old air card. The service is obsolete, and I have to go offline then back on every time I want to go from one thing to another on Facebook or Goodreads. When I disappear, it means that what’s on my screen is stuck.

Oh, I forgot about the laundry. I better go get the clothes out of the washer. Tomorrow is Monday. Is tomorrow Monday? This certainly has been a short weekend!


message 136: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Happy Monday! I’d better go starch and iron some clothes.


message 137: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments (laughs) Merry Monday to y'all!!!


message 138: by Edward (new)

Edward (edwardtheresejr) | 2434 comments Death and I are old friends; I met him around the fall of the Roman Empire.


message 139: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments Edward, I like that one :D


message 140: by Jenny (new)

Jenny (aldersoj40hotmailcom) | 46 comments I know this is for sentences but I have some titles I've never found any use for:
"I'll Fly Away"; "The Art of Self-Absorption"; and "The Candidate and the Preacher." I had one "My Funny Valentine" but I think I have finally found a use for it.


message 141: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Ooooo, nice one, Edward!


message 142: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments I looked at the x-ray. Yup, just my luck. Of course I had to be completely healthy.


message 143: by Edward (new)

Edward (edwardtheresejr) | 2434 comments Nice. I would read a story starting with that.


message 144: by Edward (new)

Edward (edwardtheresejr) | 2434 comments I'm not a violent person. I just kill at least one person a week.


message 145: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Haha.

Is it wong that I actually like that sentence for a beginning?


message 146: by Edward (new)

Edward (edwardtheresejr) | 2434 comments Naw. I would make it into a story about a beauracrat who authorizes black ops or something. Hence the fact that he's not a violent person by nature - he only looks at the violence through a veil of paperwork.


message 147: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Okay. That sounds pretty cool.


message 148: by Jenny (new)

Jenny (aldersoj40hotmailcom) | 46 comments Say Edward. The "I'm not a violent person; I just kill two people a week"? I think technically that's two sentences. Of course, I had a few suggestion titles.


message 149: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) "To be truly original you must first know enough to tell."


message 150: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments When I came to understand that I knew enough was at the very moment that I understood that my understanding had come too late.


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