Max and Sam are archaeologists. They were at a site, digging around to try to find anything in general because they did not want anything destroyed when this site becomes an apartment complex. Sam was digging on the north side of the area, and yelled, "COME OVER HERE, I FOUND SOMETHING!!!!” Max and everyone else ran over to Sam. He jumped into the dig site, and started looking at the object that Sam was pointing at. “Let me see,” he said as he put on a pair of thin glasses, but he couldn't tell what it was. Then he put on another pair of thicker glasses to try to get a better look, now he is starting to see some small print and a pattern. Then he put on another pair of glasses, this time safety glasses to be able to work in the dig site. He was using a hand brush and brushed the soil from around the object. After several hours of working, he was finally able to get it out. It was a piece of papyrus paper with a map of the area from centuries ago. What he thought was a pattern ended up
Haunted Video Games Help With Life by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Haunted Video Games Help With Life
Jasmine wasn't in a good place. Her parents are separated, always fighting, and using her as a way to get back at each other. Her “best friend” started spreading rumors about her and now no one wants to talk to her or hang out with her. He pet dog,Flippy, just passed away from cancer. She feels lonely, is depressed, and most of time she plays video games to escape her crappy life. One day, when she was walking around to get out, she came upon an estate sale. She went in and looked around, there was nothing of interest on the first floor. But upstairs, on the second floor, she found a treasure. An old video game that she could not find anywhere, the copies for sale online cost around $500; way too much and she couldn't afford to buy it. At the estate sale it cost $20, she bought it without hesitation. She was excited for the first time in years and couldn't wait to get home to play it. She walked home quickly and put the game in her Super Nintendo and turned it on. When she saw the
Be Careful With Old Computers by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Be Careful With Old Computers
Ian is a great hacker, he can literally hack into anything from any computer. He was able to start his own business fixing up computers for his friends and family; and he fixed up any old computer that he found. His grandparents recently passed away and he was looking in their attic to help clean it out. He found a super old and dusty computer. There was an old style tower, keyboard, and heavy CR monitor. He dusted it off and brought it down out of the attic. He brought it home and began cleaning it. He started by popping out all of the keys and began soaking them in a solution to get them to not be yellow. He also dusted and cleaned off the keyboard and took it apart and thoroughly cleaned, then he used the same solution on the keyboard to restore it back to its original color. Next, he dusted off the monitor, cleaned the screen and used the solution on the body of it until it too was not yellow. By now, the keys are clean and he took them out of the solution and dried them off and
My best friend, Steve, and I have known each other since middle school and have done almost everything together. He comes from a well off family and has a lot of money, while I come from working class and never really had money; my parents lived paycheck-to-paycheck and never had any left over to put into an emergency fund. Every year we would go to his family's vacation house on the beach. We swam, played volleyball, partied, and went on their boat. Today is his birthday and I've invited all of his friends to go onto the boat with us out in the ocean, we had plenty of food and drinks to last all night. All of the guests were already on the boat setting up everything and getting ready to surprise him. After we had driven to the beach house, I suggested that we get on the boat for a day trip. He was excited and we walked to the boat and got on. When he made it inside, everyone yelled, “SURPRISE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!” He was surprised and super excited for the party. After several hours of
Hannah and Jenna are close sisters. When they were kids, their parents had very good paying jobs and they went on vacation every year. Instead of taking a plane, they would drive to their destinations. Its been a couple of decades and now their parents are retired from working, living off of their pensions. Their dad was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia after he had a stroke. He had minor memory problems due to this. When Hannah and Jenna would visit their parents, he would not remember some of what they would say and definitely did not remember most of their childhood, or his own life. After several months had gone by, his memory deteriorated so bad that he did not remember his wife or children anymore. Their mom did her best everyday to remind him of their lives together and their children, but he's forget before she's even finish talking to him. Eventually, she was too saddened to continue doing that and just stayed in her room; until one morning when the doctor of the
Billy and his friends go to uni in London and are going on a break. They purchased train tickets to travel from London back home to Perth. Since it will take several hours, they bought tickets in the quiet carriage to play games for a few hours and to sleep. They packed their stuff the night before because they had to leave early for the train. The next morning, they woke up at 5 am to leave from their flat to Uber to the station. They got on the train, walked to their seats, and put their stuff down. They sat down in their seats and fell asleep for an hour. When they woke up they played Fortnite and Super Smash Bros Ultimate for a couple of hours; they had a lot of fun. After that, they started falling asleep again, just as Billy was almost there, he was startled awake. He heard someone yelling, ”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!”. The child's mother got up and said, “Michael, you stop that right now.” He was laughing because this was the designated quiet carriage and he was
Illegal Animal Experiments by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Illegal Animal Experiments
Dr. Schwitzberg has been collecting and doing illegal experiments on animals for years. He would try to reanimate the dead ones; he made microchips that can control whatever they are on, so he would put them on the animals brains. Since the chip is still in the experimental stage for controlling live animals, most of them have died and he was never able to reanimate the dead ones for too long. For the most part, his experiments have been failed attempts, but there were very few animals that survived having the microchip placed into their brains; so he continued to research on the few that survived his experiments. The animals that survived were: a hawk, a weasel, a domestic cat, a ferret, and a mouse; he kept them in cages that he thought were big enough to hold them. His continued research was checking to see if he can control them. He got the hawk out of its cage and brought it to the research lab. When he activated the microchip in it, the hawk got very aggressive and it did not
Maturing And Coping With Life by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Maturing And Coping With Life
Dan has autism and high anxiety due to these he doesn't handle change well. Every time he has to go through changes he screams a lot and has meltdowns. He couldn't handle the change between elementary school to middle school and middle school to high school. When his family got kicked out the house they were living in because the owner decided to sell it, he went berserk. His parents have been putting him through therapy to get better at handling change. Over the years, his meltdowns have decreased, but only if he knows about the changes in advance; if they are just thrown at him, he'll still have bad meltdowns and scream a lot. He did better in community college because he got to pick his courses and make his own schedule. He especially loved that his professors would give out a semester schedule on the first day. He was always able to keep up with the school work and he did very well. Eventually, he had to transfer to a university. Because he had known for a couple of years that he
Kristine is a world renowned hairdresser, she is the hairdresser to all of the big celebrities. But it wasn't always like that. When she first rented her chair in her local salon, she was just an average hairdresser, nothing spectacular or stood out. Her boss was always condescending to her, no matter what she did; the client likes her new hair cut and style, the client likes their new hair color, even when she was working on a client; there were no exceptions to the condescension. She has looked at other chair rentals, but they were so much more expensive than where she is working at, so she couldn't move to another salon. On her day off, Kristine got a random package delivered to her front door, there was no return address. She didn't know what it could be, so she opened it; she didn't care if it killed her she was miserable anyway. It was wrapped in bubble wrap and the instructions were taped to the bubble wrap. She unwrapped the item and did not know what it was, it looked like a
Venetians are a small species because their planet's air pressure on the surface is 90 times that of the air pressure on the surface of the Earth. The Venetians liked being on their planet, but grew tired of Earthlings always sending machines and robots to there and having them get destroyed so easily because they never clean up their messes. So after years of enduring the humans littering their planet with their garbage machines and robots, they gathered all of their troops, led by the general. They all got into their ships and flew to Earth, their destination was the United States because they produce the most amount of garbage on Earth and waste the most natural resources for useless things. The humans saw a bunch of UFOs flying in the sky and freaked out. At first the Venetians landed in the middle of the Great Plains and got out of their ships and began walking around looking for a human to communicate with. After what felt like miles, they finally found one. The Venetians used
Max and Sam are archaeologists. They were at a site, digging around to try to find anything in general because they did not want anything destroyed when this site becomes an apartment complex. Sam was digging on the north side of the area, and yelled, "COME OVER HERE, I FOUND SOMETHING!!!!” Max and everyone else ran over to Sam. He jumped into the dig site, and started looking at the object that Sam was pointing at. “Let me see,” he said as he put on a pair of thin glasses, but he couldn't tell what it was. Then he put on another pair of thicker glasses to try to get a better look, now he is starting to see some small print and a pattern. Then he put on another pair of glasses, this time safety glasses to be able to work in the dig site. He was using a hand brush and brushed the soil from around the object. After several hours of working, he was finally able to get it out. It was a piece of papyrus paper with a map of the area from centuries ago. What he thought was a pattern ended up
Haunted Video Games Help With Life by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Haunted Video Games Help With Life
Jasmine wasn't in a good place. Her parents are separated, always fighting, and using her as a way to get back at each other. Her “best friend” started spreading rumors about her and now no one wants to talk to her or hang out with her. He pet dog,Flippy, just passed away from cancer. She feels lonely, is depressed, and most of time she plays video games to escape her crappy life. One day, when she was walking around to get out, she came upon an estate sale. She went in and looked around, there was nothing of interest on the first floor. But upstairs, on the second floor, she found a treasure. An old video game that she could not find anywhere, the copies for sale online cost around $500; way too much and she couldn't afford to buy it. At the estate sale it cost $20, she bought it without hesitation. She was excited for the first time in years and couldn't wait to get home to play it. She walked home quickly and put the game in her Super Nintendo and turned it on. When she saw the
Be Careful With Old Computers by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Be Careful With Old Computers
Ian is a great hacker, he can literally hack into anything from any computer. He was able to start his own business fixing up computers for his friends and family; and he fixed up any old computer that he found. His grandparents recently passed away and he was looking in their attic to help clean it out. He found a super old and dusty computer. There was an old style tower, keyboard, and heavy CR monitor. He dusted it off and brought it down out of the attic. He brought it home and began cleaning it. He started by popping out all of the keys and began soaking them in a solution to get them to not be yellow. He also dusted and cleaned off the keyboard and took it apart and thoroughly cleaned, then he used the same solution on the keyboard to restore it back to its original color. Next, he dusted off the monitor, cleaned the screen and used the solution on the body of it until it too was not yellow. By now, the keys are clean and he took them out of the solution and dried them off and
My best friend, Steve, and I have known each other since middle school and have done almost everything together. He comes from a well off family and has a lot of money, while I come from working class and never really had money; my parents lived paycheck-to-paycheck and never had any left over to put into an emergency fund. Every year we would go to his family's vacation house on the beach. We swam, played volleyball, partied, and went on their boat. Today is his birthday and I've invited all of his friends to go onto the boat with us out in the ocean, we had plenty of food and drinks to last all night. All of the guests were already on the boat setting up everything and getting ready to surprise him. After we had driven to the beach house, I suggested that we get on the boat for a day trip. He was excited and we walked to the boat and got on. When he made it inside, everyone yelled, “SURPRISE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!” He was surprised and super excited for the party. After several hours of
Hannah and Jenna are close sisters. When they were kids, their parents had very good paying jobs and they went on vacation every year. Instead of taking a plane, they would drive to their destinations. Its been a couple of decades and now their parents are retired from working, living off of their pensions. Their dad was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia after he had a stroke. He had minor memory problems due to this. When Hannah and Jenna would visit their parents, he would not remember some of what they would say and definitely did not remember most of their childhood, or his own life. After several months had gone by, his memory deteriorated so bad that he did not remember his wife or children anymore. Their mom did her best everyday to remind him of their lives together and their children, but he's forget before she's even finish talking to him. Eventually, she was too saddened to continue doing that and just stayed in her room; until one morning when the doctor of the
Billy and his friends go to uni in London and are going on a break. They purchased train tickets to travel from London back home to Perth. Since it will take several hours, they bought tickets in the quiet carriage to play games for a few hours and to sleep. They packed their stuff the night before because they had to leave early for the train. The next morning, they woke up at 5 am to leave from their flat to Uber to the station. They got on the train, walked to their seats, and put their stuff down. They sat down in their seats and fell asleep for an hour. When they woke up they played Fortnite and Super Smash Bros Ultimate for a couple of hours; they had a lot of fun. After that, they started falling asleep again, just as Billy was almost there, he was startled awake. He heard someone yelling, ”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!”. The child's mother got up and said, “Michael, you stop that right now.” He was laughing because this was the designated quiet carriage and he was
Illegal Animal Experiments by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Illegal Animal Experiments
Dr. Schwitzberg has been collecting and doing illegal experiments on animals for years. He would try to reanimate the dead ones; he made microchips that can control whatever they are on, so he would put them on the animals brains. Since the chip is still in the experimental stage for controlling live animals, most of them have died and he was never able to reanimate the dead ones for too long. For the most part, his experiments have been failed attempts, but there were very few animals that survived having the microchip placed into their brains; so he continued to research on the few that survived his experiments. The animals that survived were: a hawk, a weasel, a domestic cat, a ferret, and a mouse; he kept them in cages that he thought were big enough to hold them. His continued research was checking to see if he can control them. He got the hawk out of its cage and brought it to the research lab. When he activated the microchip in it, the hawk got very aggressive and it did not
Maturing And Coping With Life by GabbieMeza, literature
Literature
Maturing And Coping With Life
Dan has autism and high anxiety due to these he doesn't handle change well. Every time he has to go through changes he screams a lot and has meltdowns. He couldn't handle the change between elementary school to middle school and middle school to high school. When his family got kicked out the house they were living in because the owner decided to sell it, he went berserk. His parents have been putting him through therapy to get better at handling change. Over the years, his meltdowns have decreased, but only if he knows about the changes in advance; if they are just thrown at him, he'll still have bad meltdowns and scream a lot. He did better in community college because he got to pick his courses and make his own schedule. He especially loved that his professors would give out a semester schedule on the first day. He was always able to keep up with the school work and he did very well. Eventually, he had to transfer to a university. Because he had known for a couple of years that he
Kristine is a world renowned hairdresser, she is the hairdresser to all of the big celebrities. But it wasn't always like that. When she first rented her chair in her local salon, she was just an average hairdresser, nothing spectacular or stood out. Her boss was always condescending to her, no matter what she did; the client likes her new hair cut and style, the client likes their new hair color, even when she was working on a client; there were no exceptions to the condescension. She has looked at other chair rentals, but they were so much more expensive than where she is working at, so she couldn't move to another salon. On her day off, Kristine got a random package delivered to her front door, there was no return address. She didn't know what it could be, so she opened it; she didn't care if it killed her she was miserable anyway. It was wrapped in bubble wrap and the instructions were taped to the bubble wrap. She unwrapped the item and did not know what it was, it looked like a
Venetians are a small species because their planet's air pressure on the surface is 90 times that of the air pressure on the surface of the Earth. The Venetians liked being on their planet, but grew tired of Earthlings always sending machines and robots to there and having them get destroyed so easily because they never clean up their messes. So after years of enduring the humans littering their planet with their garbage machines and robots, they gathered all of their troops, led by the general. They all got into their ships and flew to Earth, their destination was the United States because they produce the most amount of garbage on Earth and waste the most natural resources for useless things. The humans saw a bunch of UFOs flying in the sky and freaked out. At first the Venetians landed in the middle of the Great Plains and got out of their ships and began walking around looking for a human to communicate with. After what felt like miles, they finally found one. The Venetians used
Gangrene’s takin’ the foot with the nail. Behind me, the kettle screams bloody murder. Pain screams through my foot when I think about taking a step. I let the kettle melt on the stove as the winds shudder the fields. When I walk the silver road, it’ll be the last journey I take. I’ll trade one wound for another, walkin’ with two good feet, my heart in my hands. If I’m to be weighed as such, God won’t you take some little pity? O’ Lord, command me as you will, but take some pity. There’s an angel kickin’ back in my old Ford truck. He don’t seem to care he’s up on blocks, tank on E. As my vision blurs, I see great wings that block out the last of the sun. I don’t do nothin’ but rock on the porch, waiting for judgement. I think of my life, where the bottle was the norm, always chasing some little dying piece of self-respect. I think of a wife, a child– I think of ghosts in the corn. When I walk the silver road, I’ll do it alone, in silence, the soft beating of wings behind me.
Pointless Midnight 'Fights' by Super-Weirdo, literature
Literature
Pointless Midnight 'Fights'
Evil Overlord Alastor was getting ready for bed. He slipped into his pajamas (A dull red, long sleeved shirt with the words “Eat Sleep Oppress” and a pair of black sweatpants). He flicked his wrist, and his day time clothes flew into the wardrobe. He was fluffing Mordred’s pillow, when thunder rolled outside and someone burst through his window. The glass scattered across the floor. Mordred hissed. Lord Alastor glared. The teenage rebel somersaulted and jumped to his feet. “YOUR REIGN OF TYRANNY IS OVER DARK LORD!!!” Alastor covered his ears. “Ugh, lower your volume, child!” The boy brandished a knife. “Prepare to be stopped!” His Evilness raised an eyebrow. “Seriously?” The teenager ran at him, swiping the knife around in the air. “Take that! And that! And that, Evil one!” Lord Alastor stood still. The boy could barely aim. Did he even know what he was doing? He continued his “attacks.” This was getting boring. Alastor flicked the air and the boy’s knife flew out
Imaginary Therapy by SubjugatedSandwich, literature
Literature
Imaginary Therapy
A transparent mass of what appeared to be swirling melted wax lit a cigar and stood up. “Hello guys. My name is Flumbo and I’m an imaginary friend.” “Hi Flumbo!” A medley of strange and colorful individuals called back. In one chair sat Grommle, a purple ostrich with a comically long neck. In another, Bopper, a pink rabbit with orange and brown mallets for hands. Next to them was Holly, a shattered mirror that reflected a faceless young woman with gaping holes where her eyes should be. And leading this little therapy session, Gerk, an olive colored slug who stared daggers at Flumbo through a pair of bifocals. With a bubbly, mucus-filled voice, Gerk spoke, “There’s no smoking in group, Flumbo.” Flumbo took a long drag and blew a green cloud of smoke in Gerk’s direction. “It’s a good thing it’s imaginary then isn’t it?” He gave his best winning smile, sneaking a glance over at Holly. She blushed and looked away. His eyes swerved back over to Gerk as he sat down mumbling
Hamlin and the Oar [FFM2022 #14] by Wearyrains, literature
Literature
Hamlin and the Oar [FFM2022 #14]
The mist enveloped the ragged man at sea. Bony, pale hands steered the rowboat forward. His jaded eyes remained glued to the obscured horizon. Paradise. Past the fog, past those he'd left behind, in a superior land divided by the very sea he paddled in. Hamlin's breath hitched just at the thought. Memories of the past ate at him like a parasite, merciless and starved for his attention. He once was merely a card maker. Quiet, poor, unwed. He'd prepared to close shop for the evening, when guards rushed to apprehend him. A noblewoman had been killed. Her husband sworn he had seen the assassin's face, and in hysterics, screamed at pointed as Hamlin was thrown into a cell. During his trial, Hamlin had no one to defend him. People had bought his items, but shared the unanimous notion he'd been antisocial. With wide eyes, he looked in a state of constant confusion, they said. The judge didn't care, either way. A man in the court even used his time of arrest as evidence, stating him
Jim Stevenson was driving his car with his sister Samantha in the passenger seat. Jim was taking Samantha to her new photography course. Samantha’s car had broken down so she had called Jim and asked him to give her a lift. Jim knew that this course was very important for Samantha and so understood the urgency that was required. The car ride had been pretty smooth so far. Jim was feeling hungry, so he was thinking he would stop in at McDonalds while waiting for his sister. Jim saw that there was a huge line of cars that were stopped. He also saw flashing police lights in the distance. There were so many emergency lights flashing that it almost looked like an aurora. Jim was worried there had been a serious accident that ended in tragedy for some driver. He came to a stop at the end of the line and put the car in park while they waited. Samantha turned on the radio to see if there was any news about what was going on. An announcement came on that there was a
Gideon sat behind his desk, staring down at the most unlikely visitor, but one that caused him to sweat bullets. “I don’t understand. How did I come up short?” The elf in the chair across from him made a coin appear and quickly rolled it across his knuckles. “It’s simple, Gideon. Your boats bring the donations to us, and we process the cargo in to gifts for children around the world. This year, one boat didn’t make it. Yours. So you’re short.” “That can’t be right.” Gideon pulled up the shipping logs and scanned for the one tagged “sunshine.” Other companies might have used more obvious names, but he didn’t want to risk seeing that many game consoles and games getting stolen. He brought up the status and felt his heart lurch. UNKNOWN. “Oh. god.” The elf sneezed. It sounded like a little toot. Gideon offered him a tissue. “So what happens now?” “It’s too close to Christmas to make up the lack, which means the big man takes a hit in
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