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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Upstate NY
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There was an uncomfortable silence on the other end of the phone when I asked the telemarketer if his cleaning service could get blood out of ceiling tiles.
While I was writing this, Pandora served up Eno's "Baby's On Fire." I think that would qualify for this thread: Baby's on fire Better throw her in the water Look at her laughing Like a heifer to the slaughter
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riding the sun
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Southern California between the Desert and the Mountains
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He loathed me, and I loved the possibilities that hate presented during the long days living in the same room.
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New Fish; Learning About Thick Skin
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Sighing, Doug opened the first of his dead mother's journals and read a few lines; eyes widening, he read them again and discovered his mother had lost her mind.
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'Tis true, she is a monstergirl
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Betwixt a nightmare and a veil of shadowy dark
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The sound--high-pitched and shrieking--pushed its way in, and the fat man fell to the floor, writhing as his eardrums shattered.
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'Tis true, she is a monstergirl
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Betwixt a nightmare and a veil of shadowy dark
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The thing that walked in the door at six o'clock wore my husband's face, but its terrible eyes were neither human nor anything close to sane.
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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I knew it was going to be a bad day when the entire wall of my office blew in.
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Unofficial Jester
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In your dreams
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I dreamt about killing my wife and woke up next to her severed head.
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So Goth That I Was Born Black
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: In The Darkside's Light
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Crimson pools of blood called me so sweetly. A red siren's song and one that I can never resist.
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Unofficial Jester
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In your dreams
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He signed the divorce papers with her lover's blood.
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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It was one of those days when thunderstorms were rolling in and the light filtering through the clouds overhead had this yellow tinge that makes things look weird.
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Can you even begin to imagine not seeing the sunrise or even any hint of sunlight for a day, a month, a year? How about a hundred years? How about four hundred?
I haven't even seen the light of a cloudy day since I was turned. But the stars? Oh, I can tell you all about the stars...
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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It shouldn't be this easy, I thought as I swung the bat again. It shouldn't be this easy to kill someone.
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Ten thousand years is a long time to be gone from anywhere and I'd been gone for that long and more.
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Today is your last day.
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I woke knowing there were ten thousand tons of rubble in the building collapsed above me.
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Today is your last day.
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Sergei sprang at me, seeming slow in the microgravity, as the first spark of fire erupted from the space station's wall.
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Today is your last day.
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Bitchin' Betty began yammering her "Pull up, pull up" monologue as my aircraft rolled into a dive and plummeted toward the waiting sand below.
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Today is your last day.
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Nine billion names of God, my ass. He's only got one and that one starts with a$$hole.
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'Tis true, she is a monstergirl
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Betwixt a nightmare and a veil of shadowy dark
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"Baby, is that you?" I whispered, waiting with one hand on the door jamb, the other clenched into a fist.
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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That's funny, I thought there'd be more blood.
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Bump!
Setup: Quentin Dallas has just tracked down a nest of ghouls operating an all-night diner and is confronting them as they dig a corpse out of a grave. "Are you gonna' eat that?" I asked. (from my short story Plots)
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Today is your last day.
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"It's eternity out there," Michael said. "You can't imagine it. It just goes on and on and on. One long endless eternal night." He turned and looked at me with eyes of blood.
"It's the perfect place for my kind to hunt."
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Today is your last day.
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I looked over my shoulder at the people following. I looked ahead. The look in their eyes told me everything I needed to know and I drew my weapon.
All those people were willing and we were about to storm the Gates of Hell together. I was prouder than I'd ever been before in my entire life. I raised my hand, looked back, and yelled something stupid.
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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The in-laws are coming to visit, permanently.
... okay, different kind of horror, but it's still a scary first line
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Boston, Try this,
Mary just told me our in-laws are coming for a visit. I intend to make it their last one...
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You Cheated! "Pirate"
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Sailboat on west coast of Mexico
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A poisonous millipede raced the length of his jaw and then pausing pulled itself up to move along his lips stopping only to explore his nostrils, delicately poking its long fangs momentarily inside each.
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