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Ooooh, SNAP! This is a really good one. I love anything that makes fun of the plastic posters plastered all over my school libraries growing up, so this gets a standing ovation from me

Good stuff. Cats do like to stare. Gotta be at something, right?

Good stuff. Cats do like to stare.

I liked the early part where the soul was fed to creditors. Felt that was going somewhere interesting. The end is good, but there's something about 'you lived without a soul for years and never noticed' that I find intriguing.

I liked it! Seems like a lot of work to raise and feed a child for just one small meal though.Kudos to their devotion!

You can't run from it. It'll pull you under, drawing you into itself. You'll have to breathe eventually. You are one with the wave and the wave is you. At first, you'll struggle. Then you'll accept it. The wave will take you away. Perhaps it will have mercy and spit you out again in a faraway place....

I saw him dancing and swaying through the cornfields in the pale moonlight. A husk in tattered rags, his dead limbs creaked like an old barn door. I could feel it as he looked at me from the places where eyes used to be. I've tried to get away from him, but still he follows me. He wants my feet to j...

Nice ending.

Can we have more prompts please?

One of the best I've read in awhile. Good stuff!

I quite liked this! A good little set-up, though I wish more of the governess' intentions could be inferred.

Hmm. I think it's a little clunky. I feel like reworking the idea might help though. The last line is also very on the nose.

Mrmf. I feel ill.

Nice. Enjoyed that one.

Got a snort outta me.

We could do with more nonviolent 'Om' video games.

Got a snort outta me.

We could do with more nonviolent 'Om' video games.

Well, a punishment should fit the crime, and there's nothing as horrific as crimes against English.

Pffff hahahahahah Why did I ever leave this place? Wonderful.

kwooderson wrote:Yep, a hundred words exactly. Makes sense as far as I can see, though I'm not partial to 'toned inviting physique' -there's something off about it. Hope that helps?

Yup, it does! I think it can be phrased better. Thanks!

How could you, Brian? Why do you possess so little self-control? Why did you have to meet that woman? What was it? The golden hair? Her toned, inviting physique? You’ve kept yourself in check so long. But now I see the true you. I think we'll have to move on to other people. Again! And I'd just gott...