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Benjamin Chandler
@benjaminchandler
Lifetime
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'20
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Benjamin's Stories
Pretzel Quest PSA
The man risked his life for a bag of pretzels.
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A song at the end of the tunnel
I was on my way to the shop when I first heard a high, eerie, beautiful sound. At first I thought it was a bird, then an instrument. As the sound developed into a tune, I realized it was a voice. I was frozen in my tracks on the sidewalk. I couldn’t do anything but listen.
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The Killer App
It had taken years of work, over a decade of evenings and weekends and spare hours. His attic studio was littered with failures, attempts, and spare parts. He had finally built it: the hologram zipper! Now he just needed
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The end of the beginning of the end of the beginning
I was a man who had written many stories, but had not a single finished story. A fault that brought me down more than I’d like to admit.
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Hubris among the stars
Vash and Cassidy, vash died while bounty hunting and Cassidy thought he just left and they knew each other for 1 and a half years before vash died
A tear for Luigi
Barry Gibb paced in BGHQ. “It’s not fair! We, as The Bee Gees, have been saving lives with our music for 50 years now. But those Beach Boys do it once and get all the glory!” Maurice put a hand on his shoulder, saying “take it easy, brother. It’s not about the press.”
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Fly to Die for a Fond MEPhone: Part IVoid
Until, well, the studio audience fell down. So did the host. And the floor, and then it was over. Where was I? A sign was in front of me, that was for sure. “Welcome to the Void. Terrible name, I know, considering you are in a room right now. I’m just the copy editor!”
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A Stranded To-Be Ghost Ship
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Buzzards, bread, and cardinals.
The whole family gathered around the fire for our seasonal burning of dried cornstalk. While my brothers and sisters were captivated by the swirling glow, my eyes were captured by the sky. Beyond the field of golden rye, a buzzard circled the pasture.
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Bleed love
Once upon a time, there lived a wizard called Brian. Brian liked to practice magic and invent new spells to test on his passionless wife, Kathleen. One spring day, he had his greatest idea yet, a love spell.
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One Pizza at a Time
They say that hell is other people, which turns out to be literal given the number of people I see below. You can’t see the ground in this valley of Hell because of all the people in it. I sigh and begin hiking down the slope.
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Driftwood Delight
All the Maynards were home for the holidays. Four generations and not a spare room in the house. While everyone settled in, Abraham, the patriarch, was in the kitchen making his famous dish: Driftwood Delight.
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Flip Your Phones in the Air: Part II
They can do anything that they want. They didn’t want to pry into it but they owned the phone. They wanted to set it back to manual setting.
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Moral: dilemma
The endlessly flowing wine and tasty crudités were exceptional, but the finest thing about that evening was that none of the guests knew I was the killer.
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Ties of warning, blood, and hardship.
I am James Javelin of the Javelin family. We're a family of Javelin throwers. But we don't throw Javelins for free. You gotta pay us a bunch of dollars.
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Pitch Black
The VOID Dimension was to be in 1991, and the boss named VOID Secret was in 1993 I suppose, but don't worry, they were hidden good at the moment when the Other Dimension were trying to kill them honestly, but, the VOID was very strong, so nothing can stand a chance for this.
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Love on the Rocs
Antarctica. That’s where I’ll find love?
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Amy Porter & the Potty Poltergeist
An F? How could have have gotten an F on her assignment. Amy went to Professor Barnes after class to get an explanation. The professor sighed & said, "Miss Porter, you were to write an essay about the fall of the Olmec Empire. You gave me erotica featuring characters from Monk."
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A Fish’s Dream
The fish had one dream: to make erotic audio.
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Bread Feud
i exited the dilapidated cabin with a swift yawn, the prickling of the grass on my feet encouraging a small wince. Noah hopped off of a rock ledge, his face painted with a buoyant smile. he waved, and i responded with no words, but rather an offset smile. Noah chirped, “
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Bitter Wishes
My deepest wish is to destroy the entire universe. I wanna destroy the entire universe and recreate it into one where everyone can achieve their wildest dreams. That is the reason why I decided to learn how to create wormholes, to connect other areas of spacetime to change lives.
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The Streets Will Run Red with Marinara
A long time ago…there lived a chimney sweeper and his family, who ran a not very well-known chimney sweeping business in a very distant and isolated town you probably have not heard of. Now the chimney sweeper and his family have often tried to do their best, as they were poor
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Death and Tartar: Part II
"How do I return to life?" I asked the angel. "There is no way," the angel told me, "you should just live your life in happy bliss as you are expected to." Suddenly, I saw Geovani, prince of the Ta-Ta Tartar Sauce empire, walk towards me. "They have endless tartar sauce here!"
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The Jazz Pianist's Dream
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out!
This little place at the edge of everything.
The Diner At The End Of The World sits on the edge of a great cliff that leads to the gnarling waters of the Atlantic below. Although nauseating for some, for others it was something short of a strange sight to be seen, especially in the fog of an early morning when it’s red glow
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Don't Play With Your Food
Once upon a time there was a tomato with googly eyes and a mustache that was sold on the shelves next to the Mr and Mrs Potatoe head dolls and came alive when people weren't watching. These dolls weren't very popular because they were squishy and therefore hard to play with.
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Master of Your Domain
Elaine and George had planned to meet at the diner. They were surprised to find that it was now a chain drugstore. They went to Starbucks instead. Elaine asked “have you heard anything from Kramer since he left the city?” George sighed. “Yeah, he’s gone off the deep end.”
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Ostrich Hole
“Vroom vroom” said the ostrich sadly. “I need three more characters to post this.”
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Cheesy Weezy
Reid walked through the doors of the official Coachella Tragedy Memorial. As she snuck into the restaurant, getting past the workers, she felt no remorse. Instead, she programmed the speakers to play the music that, 7 years ago, hijacked some people’s heads. This piece? It made
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A Voice from the Void
Da war eine Geschichte voller Sachen und so
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