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05-31-2006, 10:41 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Fergus, Ontario CA
Posts: 2,660
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Oscillation
Oscillation
Dark matter’s pulling us apart. Everything’s expanding. Soon, see the sun die. Further, see the galaxies fade. Closer, see the atoms grow. Everything’s exploding. Faster and faster. Faster than light. Stop—go back. See Merlin age. See those deadlines re-approaching? Again they don’t matter.
Last edited by Chris Miller : 06-05-2006 at 11:41 AM.
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05-31-2006, 11:29 AM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sitting in your computer chair. Now will you get off my lap? My legs are asleep.
Gender: Male
Posts: 919
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Off Topic:
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Originally Posted by Pawn
I think we're ready to declare a winner.
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After reading some of these posts, I'd have to disagree 
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If you were me, you'd be sexy by now.
Last edited by Pawn : 05-31-2006 at 02:03 PM.
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06-01-2006, 01:32 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 230
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Decisions
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Off-topic.
I'm totally changing this piece from when I first posted it. I hope that's within the rules, since the deadline has not yet arrived.
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Flat Line
Are you the wife?
Watch his chest. So still.
Extraordinary measures?
What is ordinary? His face is still. Is he waiting for my choice?
The time window is closing.
Watch the flat line stretching off to… where?
Ma’am, you have to decide.
How can he be so still?
Ma’am?
Last edited by voicesinmyhead : 06-05-2006 at 12:55 PM.
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06-02-2006, 02:45 AM
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#19
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Writing Machine
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 1,741
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Deadline
The young man feels a chill and a calm run straight through him. Everyone is deathly quiet. All eyes on the red phone. tick-tick-tick.
He hands the governor a red phone. "Goddamit Jack! this line is dead"
Tick- tick....
Switch. Slick. "oh God, no.... " his mother whispers.
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each time we see the face ...it is our own ideas of him which we recognize. Proust
Last edited by huni : 06-02-2006 at 09:34 AM.
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06-02-2006, 02:48 AM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 1,741
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Off Topic:
how do I get italics for line three? Actually, how do I get 'Off topic'?
huni.
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each time we see the face ...it is our own ideas of him which we recognize. Proust
Last edited by Pawn : 06-02-2006 at 07:07 PM.
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06-02-2006, 04:22 PM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 5,240
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Off Topic:
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Originally Posted by huni
Off topic: how do I get italics for line three? Actually, how do I get 'Off topic'?
huni.
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Code:
This will be italicized.
To make something off topic, remove the spaces and do this:
[ ot ]This will be off topic[ /ot ]
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Ruthless comments encouraged!
Last edited by Pawn : 06-02-2006 at 07:07 PM.
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06-02-2006, 04:39 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
Gender: Private
Posts: 18
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A Race of Hands
Panicked pens write faster than can be read, and the tick-tock man runs onward. Sheets fly and nibs scratch. Time is the problem but the questions are harder.
One man alone dodges between the seconds and the minutes, but falls at the end. Obituary: never saw the hour hand coming.
Off Topic:
50 exactly assuming that 'tick-tock' is one word Topical, too, as my last exam for my degree was today...
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06-03-2006, 04:39 PM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Oregon
Gender: Male
Posts: 824
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Deadlines or Priorities?
(Exactly 50 words)
“Sir, can you shut that off?”
“Just a few more minutes.”
“We don’t have that kind of time.”
“Make the time.”
“She needs you.”
“She’ll be okay.”
“We need help! We can’t do it without you.”
“Look, babies are born every day. The Superbowl only comes once a year.”
“Nevermind…Doctor.”
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06-03-2006, 10:44 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 1
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“The Office”
“Hello police; hello, can you hear me? Oh God, this damn phone won’t work! Please God help me, please!”
The heavy knocking on Raymond’s office door intensified as he struggled to save his life. His first dead line was his last.
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06-03-2006, 11:11 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: May 2006
Location: United States
Gender: Male
Posts: 51
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To Rise Again
Wake from the fanciful dreams and plunge into the morning. Arrest the droning of the alarm and greet the sun. It's only a matter of releasing the cloak of sleep, forgetting instantly the land beyond reality, shattering the dream, and starting the journey toward sleep again. Every morning, again.
Spaetz.
Last edited by spaetzlemeister : 06-07-2006 at 01:05 AM.
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06-04-2006, 07:15 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: May 2006
Location: I don't even know.
Gender: Male
Posts: 221
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Actor?
“Dear God she’s dead.” The actor said in a deep monotone.
“Wait. Again John,” said the director. “But with feeling this time!”
“Dear God she’s dead.” John repeated.
“John, your brother killed your wife! Act like you care!”
“Dear God she’s-“
“ACT!”
“Dear God-“
“You know what, forget it. Next!”
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06-10-2006, 04:59 PM
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pliable
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Juneau, Alaska
Posts: 12,607
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Two days left. Don't keep putting it off -- you won't meet the deadline.
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06-11-2006, 03:01 AM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sitting in your computer chair. Now will you get off my lap? My legs are asleep.
Gender: Male
Posts: 919
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Hey, Hodge, add a title, and you could have a winning story there.
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06-11-2006, 10:25 AM
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Mentor
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: cape cod, USA
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,814
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The Ads
Wanted,
Stripper. Must enjoy working in tight places, Has to be physically fit, Must be flexible, Must have good knowledge of tools and props, It would be helpful if can hold your breath for prolonged periods and are acquainted with scuba gear.
Contact Al’s Boat refinishing by Monday the 7th
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06-11-2006, 02:38 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 4,826
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Haha, good one eggo.
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