Turn Off The World (2848 hits)
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Submitted by Steve's House of UberPancake! Madness (View user info) at 2005-05-18 03:19:44 EDT
"Can you turn off the world at night?"
I looked up at Orion. He had himself perched on the edge of the building. I stood on the balcony and frowned at him. He was going to fall one day. His perch on the lip of the building would one day fail him. But for now, I'll indulge him and his midnight musings.
"Can anyone?" I replied, griping the rail. There was no wind tonight, just the darkness of the sky and the lights of the ground. The horizon glowed although the sun wouldn't be rising for hours. It was beautiful at the same time it was ugly.
Orion cocked his head and stared down at the streets below. A fire engine's siren screamed off into the night. Orion followed it with his head, although he didn't quite know where it was. His ears seemed to perk at any sound that broke the silence of the city at night. Was the city ever silent?
"Samuel..." he started to make a motion with his hands, but he quickly folded them in his lap. "Samuel, I wish I could turn the world off at night."
I pursed my lips. "Why?"
Orion sighed. "That's a hard question."
I smirked. "No. It's an easy question with a hard answer. And besides, you're the one that brought it up."
Closing his eyes and resting his head on the siding of the building, Orion smiled to himself. "That's true."
A distant siren again broke the silence that surrounded us.
For a moment, there was nothing.
Nothing but my thoughts.
"I see it now," I spoke up, suddenly. "Why you'd turn the world off at night."
Orion opened his eyes to stare at me. "Do you?"
I could only nod. "Yes."
Quiet again - but only a personal quiet. It was a comfortable quiet between friends, not the eerie quiet of a night when the world is off.
The world is never off. It's never quiet.
My eyes answered his question. He gave me a small, wry grin and turned to face the sky again.
I rapped my hands on the rail, a sign of my impatience at the silly musings of my friend. "Come inside, Orion. Before you fall."
"In a minute, Samuel. In a minute."
Turn the world off indeed.
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Submitted by bugblender (user info) at 2008-09-15 03:58:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2007-02-08 23:41:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This is your best post, eh?
I turned off the world today. Fucking world. Always fucking my shit up.
Fuck.
Fuckity fucksticks.
poop.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2006-06-24 03:27:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
turn on the fun
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-10-21 05:26:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have a powerful urge to eat chicken and fish in the same meal.
I also didn't think this was very good, are we all reading the same stuff?
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-10-21 04:52:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
root
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-10-21 04:52:44 EDT (#)
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the
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-10-21 04:52:37 EDT (#)
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suck
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-10-21 04:52:29 EDT (#)
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Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-10-19 04:35:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
There are a solid four pages of +2 streaks with 30 or more reviews. That is stupid. I am weeding it all out by giving every one of them a +1; that way posts that have 1.99 with 200+ reviews gets best ever.
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-22 22:27:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
You're both my boys. My special, special boys....my pretty, pretty....
I think I should stop this train of thought right now....
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-05-22 22:21:20 EDT (#)
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WAIT A MINUTE, I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR BOY!!!!!
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-22 22:10:23 EDT (#)
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You're my boy, Danny.
Submitted by DanielH (user info) at 2005-05-22 21:58:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I fucking love this.
Submitted by canadia (user info) at 2005-05-19 15:05:42 EDT (#)
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Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:24:45 (#)
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Waffles have syrup traps.
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mmm... waffles...
oh, good post too!
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-19 14:31:32 EDT (#)
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I've found I've had to hold back from reading it because it makes me want to write more...
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-05-19 07:26:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You probably didn't read it after you wrote it.
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-19 05:58:57 EDT (#)
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I wrote it and even I didn't know it was a cat.
I guess I'm just that damn good.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-05-19 05:57:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I just read this.
I could tell it was a cat right off.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2005-05-19 05:38:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-05-18 18:04:16 (#)
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*looks around, conforms*
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-19 05:29:21 EDT (#)
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Fucking cats. Again with the cats.
...whoa....
Yup. I'm fucked.
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-19 05:21:47 EDT (#)
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Holy fuck. You just blew my fucking mind.
...my post-Episode III pliable mind....
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-05-19 03:47:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I knew it was a cat, even after you said hands I thought- "that's how a cat would talk if they had voice boxes"
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-05-19 03:28:15 EDT (#)
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Yes it would to turn off at times.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-05-18 18:04:16 EDT (#)
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*looks around, conforms*
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-05-18 16:37:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by the_lone_stranger (user info) at 2005-05-18 12:27:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ME RIKEY RIKEY!
Submitted by manicvelocity (user info) at 2005-05-18 11:58:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Simple. Elegant. Beautiful.
Submitted by mysterious.adventure (user info) at 2005-05-18 11:34:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-05-18 09:53:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like the style of this. It reminds me of some of the first posts I tried here.
They didn't work out so well.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-05-18 09:15:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You are fucking brilliant.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-05-18 06:39:02 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2005-05-18 06:13:05 EDT (#)
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who else likes pizza?
Submitted by Calios (user info) at 2005-05-18 05:15:42 EDT (#)
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apples.
Submitted by Or_ (user info) at 2005-05-18 04:01:24 EDT (#)
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+3!
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:55:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I turned off the world one time.
The world never called me back after that.
Something about "falling out of love", whatever that means.
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:54:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This made me cry it was so beautiful. And i was jerking off when i started reading it.
So there i was, jerking off, crying and yelling "WANDA, I ORDERED THE SETTEE" when the world went off.
Weird...
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:42:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I can't eat pancakes since I snorted a piece of one into my sinus cavity. I learned a valuable lesson that day - don't breathe while you're eating.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:39:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I get sick of pancakes about halfway through eating them.
I can get down on a waffle though.
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:35:34 EDT (#)
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I know. Needed more alien cats.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:33:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked this, but I would have liked to dislike it... if you know what I mean.
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:25:55 EDT (#)
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Holy fuck. They do!
Shit. Now I want waffles....
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-05-18 03:24:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Waffles have syrup traps.