SHARON KERNOT
- Birdy
A fairytale. Once upon a time there lived a lonely old woman at the edge of a forest. Her house creaked and groaned with clutter. Paint peeled, iron rusted. She sat in her worn old armchair with her scrawny cat, Stinker, and waited and waited for forty-five years for her daughter to come home to walk through the door to say, Hi Mum. But she will not come home. She disappeared one cool January evening. Vanished, gone. The end.
STEPH TISDELL
- THE SKIN I’M IN
The alarm shrieked at me like a kookaburra. I opened a sleepy eye and looked at the clock: 6;30am. This was it - my first day of Year 12. The first day of my last year of school. Or, the last year to make sure that the next major phase of my life began correctly. No pressure. My crusty eyes weren't keen on the depth of that thought. Thinking about the rest of your life isn't easily accomplished when you can feel your own drool on your chin.
ERIN GOUGH
- INTO THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF
Iris Moretti was sick of the road. She would never admit this to her mother, but it was true. She hated the engine noise. She hated the smell of exhaust. She hated the petrol station toilets with their damp loo paper and puddled floors. She hated crowded cap sites and shop-bought sandwiches and dashboard dice. She hated speed cameras and stashing her clothes in overnight bags an the in-betweenness and the passing-throughness sand the never, ever staying long.
Anonymous
- Another Disappointment
I read a headline that Joe Biden had edited himself into a family portrait. I got really excited because I thought he had edited himself into the portrait of some random family. I felt deflated when it turns out it was his own family. Maybe Bill Murray can do it. I want him to.
hvjgc
This is a typing test that we will use to figure out how fast you type. Be very careful because you will need to lap the timer exactly when I tell you to. If you miss the time, you will need to start over. Stop the timers exactly now! That was fifty words. The nest time you will stop the timer will be at a hundred words. We will use this data to create a graph, which we can extrapolate to find out how fast of a typist you are. You will be lapping the timer again right now!
Isobelle Carmody
- Comes The Night
Will stepped from a white-hot dazzle of sunlight into the shadowed lane between two long, high bricks walls. The sudden coolness made him dizzy. He squatted and put his head between his knees, wondering if something had gone wrong with the weather metrics. As his eyes adjusted to the shade, he noticed dense moss growing in the cracks of the broken pavement. He touched it with his forefinger. It was soft and cool, like a green pelt.
lost guy
- All i want
It's April 2025, My head feels so heavy with thoughts, with pain, with silence. I just want to rest it in your lap and forget the world for a while. But every time you push me away, it breaks me in ways words can't heal. Still, no matter how much it hurts, I can't stop caring for you, just remember this-everything I deserve from you, all the love and care you're withholding right now, it's not forgotten. It's waiting. And one day, when you're truly mine, I'll take it all back every bit of it.
A Gentoo Penguin
- My Life in the South Orkney Islands
To summarize, I live far away from you. I'm pretty tall. My neighborhood is comprised of 1,000 of us. Chinstrap penguins and Adelie penguins live in adjoining neighborhoods. PENGUINS RULE THE ISLANDS! And I'm a great swimmer.
Quotes from a non-existent novel~~
I usually do better," they heard her say. "It's just because this was practice and there was nothing really to encourage me to do better than someone else. That's my biggest motivation - fear and THEM... my teammates. To be better than is to be acceptably good, and they expect nothing less than an utterly perfect performance, else face their pity and 'kind' words. I would rather force myself far beyond capacity than to listen to their 'sympathy' and encouragement.
shang88
- fear
I fear that you will never love me as I love you. I fear that I will never receive the same amount of care, dedication, or loyalty that I give you. I know that to love someone is to love them regardless of what you might receive in return, but I fear that you know this and use me. I would burn the world for you, do all and anything that you would ask of me. Really what I fear is that you will ask me to burn the world, and I do, and you move on without me in the new world.
Jeremy Clarkson
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven't seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.
Megan Lloyd
He sent me a number of seeds sealed up in very small, unmarked manila envelopes. He said they were all poppy seeds and that I could use the poppy plants to make opium. He said it could prove to be a lucrative hobby. None of those seeds has ever sprouted. He was always sketchy.
Kentaro Miura
- Berserk
Even if I force back what was lost, it still won't be the way it was. Even if I force back what was lost, it still won't be the way it was. Even if I force back what was lost, it still won't be the way it was.
Felix Cambrensis
- Wyclif and the Dullards
During this reign the memorable preacher Wyclif collected together a curious set of men known as the Lollards or Dullards, because they insisted on walking about with their tongues hanging out and because they were so stupid that they could not do the Bible in Latin and demanded that everyone should be allowed to use an English translation. They were thus heretics and were accordingly unpopular with the top men in the Church who were very good at Latin.
Mark Twain
- Huckleberry Finn
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell"-and tore it up.
lost guy
- everyone does not deeserve love
I know how much I cared about her. I gave her all the love I never received from anyone else. I tried my best to make her feel comfortable and safe. I know she was hurt in the past, and I never expected her to give back everything I was offering-I just wanted her to accept the care I was pouring out, heart and soul, just for her.
ChatGPT
- FingerTwisters
Don't lose the loose laces before you choose whose shoes to use. He definitely didn't mean to defiantly define the rule differently. The effect of her affect was oddly effective and affective alike. A desperate effort to separate the desperate from the deliberate. A perfect complement earns a polite compliment, not a complaint. The principal's principle is principally practical yet unpredictable. Whether the weather is wet or whether it's not, we wither a lot.
Protomartyr
- Don't go to Anacita
Against the sea, a hidden incorporated town that glows like zircon in a fire its straight white streets. They crawl with consumers and their dogs, migrant workers tend the transplant poplars. The liberal-minded here, they close their eyes and dream of technology and kombucha. The anti-vagrant system sounds like 20 dollar bills being sorted in a counter. Don't go to Anacita! They got their goon squads on patrol! Don't go to Anacita! They're gonna throw you in a hole!
Guru Hank, the One True Sage
What do you know about Kalmykia? Only Buddhist republic in Europe. Used to have a president who had actually been abducted in a flying saucer and produced a graphic autobiography showing himself playing in a band with Jimmy Page. And many other adventures. Also, Kalmykia is home to the undiscovered Exploding Death Worm.
