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“DISAPPEARANCES LINK TO ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK” Local law enforcement made a new breakthrough today regarding the Disappearances of 12 College Students who left their dorms for a night out to celebrate the end of the spring semester at Rutherford B. Hayes College in Canton.

Mr. Sprinkles on the Pizza Magic Carpet

It was a beautiful day all around the world. down in Italy charlie was cursing Americans while eating cookies with farty the cow as his own mother did not want to hear this at 7 am. and far away in Central America, in cuba che guevara was doing the same.

“Listen to me please”, the woman begged her journalist friend who she had invited over for dinner, she had a confused yet scared face on her as if she had seen the ghost. “You’ve got to stop this please” there was a long silence in the room after saying that. “I saw his body”

How do you milk an oat?

Vanessa Barton dreamed of seeing her father who was in the military. It had been almost a year. It was the only thing that she wanted this year. She was at airport but didn’t see him. “Where is he” she asked.

Give me your wurst

The story starts she John meet a Karen at his job in the supermarket

The stickiest trick

"Trick or treat!" I called as my friend, a zombie, rang the bell. As we waited, I turned to him: "Does my clown makeup still look good?" He nodded. "Does mine?" "Yeah." Before someone answered to the door, some kid came screaming towards us. "Help! Help me please!"

I take a deep breath and I get real high

Once upon a time there was a little sus living in a mansion

“Is it possible to determine that we’re not alone out here?” The Scientist asked his coworkers who were talking to him via video call. “It depends what you mean by alone”

The song would not leave my head. I tried everything but a self-lobotomy to free my mind. And I very nearly would have accomplished that self-lobotomy if my grandmother hadn't walked in the room that second to ask me if I wanted perogies or pizza for dinner. Of course, I told her

Joey Pepperoni and The Conspiracy of Pizza Ninjas

Joe puts a pizza into the oven, and he has a gun (I don't know why). It was this really cool gun that could shoot five hundred rounds with only a few! Truly a technological marvel to be wielded, and by such a simple man! We mortals can only imagine the kind of power he possesses!

A Strange World

The first contact humanity ever had with an alien race was a dead alien race, their dead lifeless bodies scattered among endless ruins on what was left of a huge advanced civilization. The four crew members of the Perses Mission which was named after the Greek Titan.

They Found the body mutilated beyond recognition. The stomach area was slashed and ripped apart up towards the chest area with a long bloodied like symbol across and up, the face was much worse as the eyes were ripped out of its socket and shoved into the victims mouth.

He pushed opened the doors that led to the abandoned ballroom once used long ago. Looking around he could that almost everything was preserved, other than moss growing in its separate places.

Little Pumpkin Runs Free

It was a good day to be a little pumpkin in a pumpkin patch

This one got grim

"Why am I here?" I thought, walking through the old "haunted" house at the end of the neighborhood. The last time I was here I was only a small lad, no older than 7, so why am I feeling an urge to suddenly come here to investigate this place again? Were the ghosts taking me here?

Undercover Alien

A band of light could be seen in the sky that night, channeling down like a knight’s sword, slicing through the terrible dark. The entire population had all turned their heads right at that moment—either asleep or ignorant—completely unaware of the astronomic oddity. All but one.

How do you get to purrrnegie hall?

Let’s go back to the beginning. My name is… well, that’s not important. I don’t quite know who I am, so what’s the point of identifying myself? Anyway.

The world ended at midnight, that was what most people agreed to although there weren’t many people left in the world at the moment. It ended when there wasn’t screams of terror or pain, but with screams of happiness as billions around the world gathered to watch the countdown

Blue Butterflies

A child sits by a creek in the middle of the forest with beautiful, glowing blue butterflies flittering around. How did she get here? She didn’t remember wandering this far from home. In fact, she didn’t remember leaving home at all!

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The misty streets were empty as he walked to work that morning.

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Elly et James son de jeune villains , ils ont enfin décider de joindre la plus grande organisation de criminels au japon.

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“Vacationing in Alaska in February might be the worst idea I ever had!” She said aloud, to no one in particular. But someone answered.

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Moses picked up the newspaper and sighed. “Man steals prize-winninggoat, makes millions at county fair.” How could I have let this happen? he thought.

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North & South Dakota. Eventually, though, the Mole Folk of Yumaria got sick of the dirt sprinkling on their city. When Princess Mulalum's eyes got infected from the falling soil, her people had had enough. War was quietly declared as they armed their mole machines & digger tanks.

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"How Do You Milk an Oat?: Part II"

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Are you ready? Let's ride. See that twinkle of light on the left? Head towards that. Let it surround you, permeate you. Meld with it. No, it's not sexual, it's metaphysical. Honestly, can you not? You always turn everything pervy. I'm trying to expand your consciousness here.

Created by @braydensaucier

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monitorlizard wearing a red collar. The collar had a bone shaped tag. The tag read “SPOT” on one side, “reality is a consensus hallucination” on the other side. There was an envelope next to Spot.

Created by @elkelley

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Ever since I could remember, I longed to be a witch. As I saw the great people of society rise above, they left behind the ancient art, and I longed to reach back and grasp it. My grandmother would tell tales of how we could unlockthispower, but I never knew how. Until now.

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What is Byline?

A multiplayer creative writing experience where a group of authors creates a story, one line at a time.

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Loosely based on exquisite corpse, each author writes a line having only seen the line directly before theirs. Once complete, the creator titles the story and shares it with the group.

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If you create a story (by clicking the new story button ) and don’t invite other authors, then it posts publicly to Byline and can be contributed to by any author on the platform.

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If you invite individual people (by username, email, or phone number) and deselect Plus others on Byline then your story becomes private and only those invited can contribute.

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