Findings:
- We've got all this beauty and just enough time to figure out how to destroy it.
- what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
- The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
- So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
- The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
- Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
- The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
- Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
- I Came Out Here To Have A Good Time And Honestly I Am Feeling So Attacked Right Now
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- how loud to you have to be to put out a housefire with just your voice
- I am just going outside and may be some time.
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- unfortunately, his entire corpus was composed in English, and so has been lost to the ravages of time
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- I got the feeling the Fairy Council was mad at me when the president knocked over her coffee to get a better grip on my neck
- I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
- God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
- can it be that it was all so simple then
- It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
- The transition out of misery begins with discipline. You have always known this. It's time you resigned yourself to it.
- I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- i kissed her one last time, then walked out of her life forever
- Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
- It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
- Don't be afraid, you've just got your eyes closed
- His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
- I felt a disturbance in the fun, as if a million playgrounds cried out, and then
- If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
- Trying to catch one clear promise out of the jittery confused language the night was whispering
- I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
- I got kicked out of a focus group
- The day I found out I was a guy
- Some time when I was a teenager
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
- I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
- She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- Terminating a pregnancy due to Down Syndrome
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
- Starving in the greenhouse
- got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see
- The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
- I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
- Life is material; you just have to live long enough to figure out how to use it
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- this is unlike the story it was written to be
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- Dust mop so magic she can not believe how fun it is to clean up after people
- This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
- i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
- We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
- I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
- I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
- I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
- I got a good giggle out of this...
- I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
- I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
- Out of practice but my heart hurts so
- After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
- and when all the stars have fallen one last time and the skies are crumbling into my hands and the sirens are bleeding out on the beaches and the earth fades; you will remain
- Stand up for yourself, OR: How I got the shit kicked out of me
- Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
- why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- The Tale of a Youth who set out to learn what Fear was
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- You're not going to be happy until you put someone's eye out
- You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
- We wanted to be together, so we worked it out.
- David Bowie freaked me out and then some
- I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
- And as the dreaming was danced, a sound went out
- Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
- There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
- I worry that no matter how hard I pray, you'll always be just out of my reach
- Why don't you just rip my heart out, it would be quicker and less painful
- Some things just fall out of favor
- And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
- If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
- I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
- every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
- I don't know who Amber is, but she's got a stalker
- But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
- I want to be alone until God rips a rib out of my chest and makes me a woman
- I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
- If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
- The end will be a sellout
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
- If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
- she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
- Into the Heart of the Whole :: Anderry Inne, But Not Out Again
- Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
- I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
- The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
- This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
- Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
- Brother Damien Takes Out the Moose
- Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
- Where's the kaboom?
- I Wish My Brother George Was Here
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- Wouldn't it suck to be God's mom and not even get laid in the deal?
- It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
- strange and too short but I was lonely
- Brothers Gonna Work It Out
- Waiting to be wiped out by natural selection
- It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
- I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
- Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
- it wouldn't be so bad if people like you would have become ghosts too
- The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
- a dream was faintly clinging to my fingertips. accidentally i brushed my lips, poisoning myself.
- i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
- I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
- I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
- It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
- Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever?
- But I have seen the sun just once
- I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- Ah, if you should turn out to be a fairy I don't think I'd put you in a jar
- Fall tried to come this week but Summer chased it out of town.
- They've Got the Guns but We've Got the Numbers
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
- When the aliens attack my workplace, I'm going to be so damn READY
- You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
- The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
- I've lost my memory but I have ink, so.
- we ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain
- Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
- It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
- If God was willing to let it be
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
- Why people who get the wrong number make it out to be your fault
- if a cycle can be broken, then it will have been worth it
- Hitchhiking used to be so much fun
- it's good for me to go and not have there be words
- in a world where the bar keeps seeming to be lower, where stupidity has got a foothold, there is room for excellence and uncompromising vision
- Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
- RIT was supposed to be built in New Mexico
- Some words live to be kept close to the skin
- masturbating right after working out
- What was left after the party
- You've got to be kidding me
- After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- Your angel stayed long after everything else was gone
- I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
- It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
- Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
- But I got a B- in penmanship
- After a six-month diet of blues and greys I was back to white. I was an empty plate.
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
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