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The peanut butter jar was empty. They say that at some point in your life you come to the mystifying realization that you are alone in the world and have to do things for yourself. I had just come to that realization. Never before had the peanut butter jar been empty.

Lmao"
Hahaha, that's an awesome first sentence! There's so much you can do with that....
"Something was chasing her."

"Sorry... Don't mind me... I'm just a rambling here in the corner..."
"'There was a raccoon in my luggage.'
'Welcome to Manitoba!'"

"The cult began in a instable mental hospital run my Frank Putnam in the mid-ninteen twenties..."

Not so random, I've bn thinking about a story going along those lines for awhile. It's not a creeper van, no worries.


The lanky tree drooped over the girl. From a distance, she appeared to be dead though this was a falsehood. In fact, she was quite alive, except for the fact that time had stopped.

and I'm somhow attracted to Al's creeper man...
"This will be the last letter I ever send, because I sent it with my heart attached."

"I'm standing there, alone, just breathing in the tang of jasmine and oranges before I dare to open my eyes."

"A midnight colored drop of blood runs down the wall at the back of my bunk. As the rounding glare of the lighthouse's beacon catches the bit of fluid it shines the red like a sparkling ruby. The person in the bed above me, is obviously, dead."

and ooo creepy Summer!
I had a matchstick stuck in my shoe. Don't ask me how it got there, because I have no idea. All I know is that now, I'm a suspected terrorist.

You see this? This little piece of paper with the latin on it? It can take you back in time!

I'm thinking of writing a story that starts out like this:
Dear Mr. Currior,
I'm sorry this assignment is three years late.
Dear Mr. Currior,
I'm sorry this assignment is three years late.

I'm scared.

Death lurks around every corner, waiting in the darkness. The story of life is nothing more than the lucky times the hero out runs what's waiting around every turn. For me though, the story ends every two pages. For me, death has become insignificant. Regular. I was never good at running. Talk about a re-incarnation failure.


He dug his nails painfully into the stone barrier. It crumbled away beneath his fingernails, little bits at a time.
The city was burning to the ground. The palace was being ransacked. He was falling apart. The wind whispered revolution. Today was not his day. He jumped.


~ The answers to all the problems and obsticles in your entire life will be on the next page. The key to happiness and solutions to life are all here in the book. But if you want to know them, you can't turn the page. You can not turn the page. You understand? DO NOT TURN.
~ I want to be a water buffalo.

~ Someday I knew I would make a difference. Someday. But it didn't come to me. So I had to go to it.

~ That crumb on the table was bothering her. Her eye twitched. He fingers figited below the table top. She began to hyperventalte. Then, when no one was looking, she swept it off the table and calmed down. That's when the cookie crumb chose to attack.
Here's the first lines from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earth: Mostly Harmless that I think are amazing:
~"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."
Isn't that awesome?
Why did this happen to me?