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Silas Greep is just an average guy... or is he? Everyone he encounters seems to have a different memory of him, as if he's lived a completely different life with each person in his town. It's a perplexing situation and he starts to question who he is and if reality is even what it seems. Can he get to the bottom of this before he completely loses his mind?Based on prompt 77: Everyone in town remembers you differently, as if each person has lived a completely different version of your life.…

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The residents of Quartzwater City have gone mad in the hunt for a hidden treasure and Max thinks he can use his "unparalleled" detective skills to get an inside track. But can he compete with a mysterious seemingly all-powerful being that seems to be one step ahead at all times? Meanwhile Maurice remains trapped in the body of a chicken and Zeke's wandering around somewhere getting himself into trouble like only he can. And one of Dr. Octavius's past experiments has the potential to save the world... or doom everyone.…

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[A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY] Okay, so Dr. Octavius is a kooky but lovable mad scientist. You'd really like him if you ever met him. But one day he disappears through a secret door into another world. His niece Sarah and his lab assistant Zeke set out to find him and end up in Quartzwater City, a bizarre land filled with talking animals, mythical creatures, bloodsucking plants, and the strongest alcoholic beverages ever concocted. They enlist the aid of local private eye Maximillian J. Toad, who might be incompetent at his job and also might possibly have a serious drinking problem. Oh yeah, some freaky dude with razor-sharp teeth who hates outsiders is after them as well. This outrageous fantasy comedy adventure features chills, thrills, and, of course, forbidden monkey love.…

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Something weird is happening in Quartzwater City. Roving gangs of chihuahuas are stealing everything that isn't nailed down. Rumors abound about some entity known only as the Warlord who might have insidious plans. Also the color green seems to be vanishing out of existence. This last item is of particular concern to Maximillian J. Toad, famed detective of questionable skills and moral character. Being a toad, the color green is kind of a big deal. He travels across universes to the distant planet Earth to seek help from his friends Sarah and Dr. Octavius in an attempt to figure out what the heck is going on. And what's the deal with all the strange doors that they keep finding everywhere?Meanwhile Zeke, our hapless protagonist from the first book, finds himself lost in deep space after being kidnapped by a group of condescending aliens intent on displaying him in a zoo on the planet Hoobler. Can he and his new friend Sadie find a way off the spaceship and back home to Earth? First they'll have to survive dangerous creatures, hostile planets, black holes, bad joke telling robots, and the greatest threat the universe has ever known. Take a trip into the farthest reaches of space and into unknown alternate universes in a story that its author is calling "A triumph!" "A real tour de force!" "Truly one for the ages!" "Wuckster has really outdone himself this time!"…

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***OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS*** This is a collection of stories by different writers all of which feature chickens in some capacity. Do you have a chicken story you've been yearning to tell? Or do you just want to enjoy some fascinating works about poultry by a diverse and talented range of writers? This is the place!…

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(ONC 2025 Shortlisted) It's been more than twenty years since Dwayne last saw his childhood imaginary friend. But in a sudden hail of bullets, explosions, and car chases, Mr. Foo Foo comes roaring back into his life in a major way with trouble hot on his tail. Dwayne's boring and mundane life is about to get upended in a serious way, and the bonds of friendship will be put to the test like never before in this wild and action-packed adventure.This story is based on prompt number 105: Your childhood imaginary friend, who disappeared years ago, suddenly returns - only this time, they're real.…

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(ONC 2024 Longlisted) Not all fairy tales have happy endings, which Arthur is about to discover in a big way. After an especially bad day of work, he makes a wish on a star that all of the magical stories his Nana used to tell him when he was a boy were real. Life in the mundane everyday world might not always be great, but fairy tales might not be all they're cracked up to be either. Can Arthur get things back to normal or is he going to be stuck in a fractured fairy tale world (not so) happily ever after?…

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I've decided to jump into the latest smackdown hosted by LayethTheSmackDown and Ooorah. This is where I'll be posting my entries.It's been fun and challenging doing these in the past and it's good motivation to churn out some stories. I haven't managed to win one yet, but in a way that's beside the point. Hopefully I can last a few rounds, but if not, that's okay, too. Good luck to all who decide to participate!…

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It's not easy being a thief. You just don't get the same level of respect as fighters or clerics or those goody two shoes paladins. Heck, even wizards are held in higher regard. Stupid wizards with their stupid magic. Nobody trusts a thief for some reason. But really, what's a little petty larceny among friends? Thieves are supposed to steal stuff. It's part of the job description, for crying out loud. And you're definitely going to want a thief on your side when it comes to disarming a trap or needing to sneak up on some monsters or something without attracting their attention. The point is, thieves can be just as big of heroes as anybody else. On the other hand, they can also be gigantic jerkfaces.Fabian is a legendary hero and adventurer... in his own mind. People should have heard of his brave and noble exploits far and wide, except of course for the fact that they haven't. He is a pretty skilled thief though, even if he does have delusions of grandeur. Those dreams of being a hero are about to be put to the test in a major way as Fabian embarks on his biggest and most epic quest yet: finding some rich broad's missing cat. Dungeons will be explored. Fantastical creatures will be encountered. Monsters will be battled if they seem like they're weak enough to actually be defeated. And Fabian will attempt to lie, cheat, and steal from virtually everyone he meets. After all, that's what a thief does.…

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(ONC 2023 Shortlisted) Shannon Meadows thought he was renting a house in a quiet secluded neighborhood that would allow him to focus on writing his literary masterpiece. Little did he know he was living next door to 80's rock legend Antony LeBon Lacey. Their personalities clash immediately, but soon they are forced to work together to discover what happened when two months disappear overnight and they appear to be the only two people left on Earth. Can they overcome their differences to find an answer to this mystery?…

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When my parents were recently cleaning out their house my Mom discovered some of my old stories I wrote when I was a kid. I was tempted to read them right away, but upon realizing I had created a table of contents with titles, I thought it might be fun to write new stories now with the same titles and see how they compare to my efforts at age 6. To be clear, I have not re-read the old stories and I don't remember writing them at all. After I finish writing a new story with the same title I will read and type up the old story and both versions will appear in this collection for comparisons sake.…

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A Collection of stories for the multi-genre smackdown…

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Megafantastic Man is the greatest superhero on Earth. His little brother Marvin is decidedly not. It's tough living in the shadow of greatness, and although Marvin possesses some super powers of his own, things just never seem to work out quite right. When an especially nasty supervillain pops up to threaten the world just as Megafantastic Man is called on to lend aid to another planet, Marvin might be the only chance at saving the day.Earth just might be in really big trouble.…

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(ONC 2021 Shortlisted) Lenny Legend works for the Intergalactic Government's Anti-Vigilante Agency. He's the best in the business, but he may have bitten off more than he could chew when he gets mixed up with the notorious and certifiably insane Captain Marmalade and his crew of misfits. *** ONC 2021: Prompt #6 "Your job is to track down vigilantes and infiltrate their groups, with the aim of gathering information and turning them into the authorities. You're successful at your job, until one day, a group of vigilantes changes everything."…

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Like pretty much every writer out there I have a whole lot of random stuff stockpiled. Some of it is actual completed short stories. Some of it is things I started but never finished for one reason or another. Some stuff is just the odd sketch of an idea. Some of it I think is actually pretty good. Some probably not so much. Rather than have it all sitting around collecting dust and not doing anybody any good, I thought I'd start posting it here. Just going through the stuff I've found I've already been inspired to complete a couple of things, which is good. I figure I can also add to this as new random ideas pop up. So think of this as sort of an ongoing, unending collection of odds and ends. A veritable junk shop, if you will, that gets in new stock from time to time.…

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The continuation of my daily writing log for 2022. Let's see what happens in the second half of this crazy year.…

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In theory, a daily writing log for this year. Come experience the weirdness that is sure to be 2022 with me.…

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Entries for Gloves Up Smackdown…

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This is a short work I wrote in college. I had misplaced it for awhile and then recently found it again. Then I lost it again for a bit, but located it once more and decided to share it here. It details the first manned mission to Mars and the more or less colossal bungle that's made of it. This story makes reference to the old Viking probes, but not the Curiosity Rover because that hadn't been launched at the time this was written and I'm far too lazy to update this. After posting this I realized it also makes reference to Pluto as a planet, a title which has since been stripped from it. That will remain unchanged as well because I still like to think of Pluto as an underdog planet.Anyway this was an important early work for me in that I definitely felt it was the best thing I had ever written up to that point, and it probably was. It also had the distinction of getting rejected by my school's literary magazine 3 times! This includes one time where they strung me along for awhile sending me notes about how it was a finalist for consideration before it ultimately got rejected in favor of a story about a depressed college kid who thinks about sex and death a lot and eventually attempts suicide. I believe there were two other stories in the same edition with the exact same premise. I guess this just didn't fit the "tone" they were going for. But it's okay because now I present it here for the first time online. Hope you enjoy.P.S. What's the deal with my fascination with chickens? I don't know. They just crack me up for some reason.…

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A place to stick stories for the Humor Smackdown…