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ryan chong not fight club No, this is not fight club, and I am not broke. I am not a bum, I do not wander the streets. Don’t ask me why but I just like it here. I find that I can fall asleep just fine. I hate my house, I hate my bed. Here I feel warm, and I feel secure. Here I can be close to my love, the one I care for. No this is not in a public mall. This is actually an abandoned subway station. I love how quite it is here, not a lot of talking. Sometimes we have a hornist play some jazz and a violinist play some chamber music. It’s all very soothing. We found this place not long ago, allured by the beauty of the people here. Everyone is friendly here, they have nothing to lose, and so do we. Everyone here shares, and we followed their example. Everyone has their stories. One of us used to be a ruler of a country. Then we have a former CEO of a now gone corporation that used to provide power for the city. Then there was the film maker that won many oscars in his time. My love was once a painter and had her paintings exhibited all around the world, from Zimbabwe to Russia. Me, I’m a simple man, I write stories, some that were great, some that I would flush down the drain. There is no one better than the other. This must be how it feels, to live under a true communist government.

bummer It was only two days ago that I had my birthday party, and then two days after that I was crown a princess. That is today. I am a princess. I used to live in a castle, where there were lots of people. Servants mostly. There were some children, but I was not allowed to play with them. They were mostly the children of the servants. Sometimes I would have cousins visit, but I didn’t really like them. I tried to avoid them whene’er they came. All they would talk about when they were here was how they had the best grades in school, and how they would have scholarships to the greatest universities in the world. Frankly I don’t care. What I care about though, is where the forest leads me. I love to live out in the wild. Castles bore me. Jesters ignore me. But in the forest, There are things in store for me.

welcome to my You see all that water? Those are my thoughts, and this room is my brain. That is me swimming in the middle of my thoughts. I love how my brain works, but theres a catch. I have no internal heating system for my brain. So you know what happens? My brain freezes in the winter, that’s what! Or at least the top freezes. I hate it when that happens. When it’s warm, I swim around in my ideas, and when I have a god idea, I get out and actually go for it! But when it’s cold, my lord, all I can do is swim around in my head. I can’t do anything. I would be swimming day in and day out, but I can never get anything done. I get very hyperactive about it because I swim around in all those good ideas. People started thinking I had ADHD or something.


 * KARSON MO**

Who, what, where, when, why, how? (Panda picture) It’s been over four years since THE INCIDENT occurred. It was a horrible, horrible event that undoubtedly will never be forgotten. It was the giant earthquake of SiChuan in 2014 that caused THE INCIDENT to occur. The earthquake had turned all the walls in the Panda Park to rubble, and released some kind of unknown natural purple chemical from the ground that for some random reason gave them pandas super intelligence, enhanced muscle growth, and skin that was tougher than Kevlar. The pandas, after discovering their new powers and potential escaped from the pens in which they were kept for so many years and set out to seek revenge from the human race by destroying it. They all gathered sought refuge in an empty building nearby that was not destroyed by the earthquake and started to formulate a plan on how to destroy the human race. They decided that their numbers were too small to destroy the human race, and hatched another plan to increase their numbers, which involved kidnapping women of the human race and breeding with them to create more panda minions to help destroy the human race. Now the pandas have a big enough force to destroy the human race, and they start pouring into the streets, subways, buildings, fields, and whatever and begin killing all humans one by one. Humanity is now in big trouble, with pandas and panda/human mixes beginning to take over the world. Will there be someone who rises to stop them? NO.
 * __THE INCIDENT__**

__**We should talk.**__ Benjamin has just finished his 4-year deployment in Iraq and came back to America. As a single man with no friends or family, he already knew that there’d be no one waiting for him at the airport, so he slowly walked towards his car in the car park across the airport. As he approaches his Ford Fusion, he notices a crappy car parked next to his, with the words “We should talk” sprawled out on the windshield. Knowing all too well that those words are almost never a good sign, he decides to wait in his car to see what would happen when the owner of the car goes back to his car. Soon enough, the owner of the car, a man around 20 years old, came back to his car. Benjamin observes the man as he read the message on his car, and notices strange behavior from the man. The man soon gets into his car and drives away, and Benjamin decides to follow him just to make sure everything is all right. After 10 minutes of following the man, he realizes that the man is leaving the city and heading for the forests. The man reaches the woods and get out, just as a black figure steps out from the forest. Benjamin stopped his car a few meters away from the car and instantly knows that something is wrong; the man has become eerily still, and the black figure was holding up a gun against the man’s head. The black figure fires the gun, kills the man, and disappears back into the trees. Immediately pulling out his own gun, Benjamin chases after the black figure and is led into some serious shit.

so cool! (Underwater room) A young girl sets off on her first cruise alone aboard the cruise liner “Redrum,” and is having a jolly good time when it happened. The Redrum was travelling across the Pacific Ocean and had just reached the halfway point when an unknown projectile struck the hull of the Redrum and causes it to slowly but surely sink into the watery depths of the Pacific. The young girl, frightened and confused, with no idea what had just happened dives under her covers and stays there as the rest of the ship evacuates on the lifeboats. The girl crawls out from under her covers just as the last of the lifeboats, with everyone else on the cruise ship, leaves the cruise ship. The ship suddenly starts to tip and she realized what had happened and scrambled for the decks in an attempt to escape but it was too late, the ship was already completely underwater, with only certain corridors still airtight and water free. The girl opens a door and falls into a water filled suite, where she finds herself trapped. When the door falls shut, she is left in a water filled room with little air left, and no way of opening the door back to the corridor she was just in. With little to no experience with survival in these situations, this is the story of how she escapes.
 * __Sheit.__**

__ LUKE KAO __ Dante did not believe in relationships and love. Some say it was because of the lingering memory of a girl who broke his heart in high school. Some say it was the aftermath of a particularly nasty divorce. Some say it was Dante’s problem with commitment. Some say it’s his sexual orientation. Hell, some even claim Dante was impotent. All we know for sure is Dante’s obsession with perfection and beauty. For three years straight, Dante would wake at precisely 5:15 every morning, grab a gas station bagel at the Chevron across the street, and walk forty minutes down the street to //Jay and Bob’s Sculpture Co.//. There he would sit at a workbench constructing faces out of wax and marble, everyday, from 6am to 10pm. Dante loved working on his busts and sculptures, particularly busts and sculptures of woman. Despite Dante’s avoidance of relationships, deep down, in his heart, he seemed to yearn one. He would slave away for hours upon hours at busts and figures, and stand back to admire them. He treated his sculptures like real women, women he never loved. Out of all his sculptures, his favorite was an exquisite marble statue, which he named Elise. To him, Elise was the girlfriend he never had, the wife he never met. So you could imagine Dante’s anger when he steps into the store one day to find Elise missing. Enlisting the help of the shy clerk of the store, Ellen, Dante sets out to look for the Elise. Their search for Elise will lead them up and down, there and back, and all over. They will find themselves tracking down a UPS driver with Alzheimer's disease, involved with a two-bit con man, struggling against a necrophiliac with a fetish for statues, embroiled in a dark drug smuggling operation (that uses statues from the store as drug smuggling vessels), and meeting a mysterious old man. However, when they finally locate Elise, they find her broken and smashed to bits in a Best Buy parking lot, the aftermath of accidentally stolen by a group of hooligans whilst under the influence of cocaine. Dante then realize what he's really been looking for this whole time wasn't Elise (its love and acceptance, if it wasn't obvious enough already, guys, and its also obvious that Ellen will become his eventual "savior", or else she wouldn't exist).
 * __Elise (based on the photo of Madam Tussaud’s busts)__**


 * __Burning Bright (based on He Waits Silently by Matthew J Parsons)__**

By day, Sheriff Blake Williamson is an exemplary man. Williamson, a former marine captain, a two-time Purple Heart and Silver Star recipient, and a family man, was loved by all in the quaint town of Margrave, Georgia. Children waved at his cruiser when he drove down the street every morning, and shop-owners and diner-owners would open up their doors to him and offer him discounts and free goods (which he never accepted). In the town of Margrave, Williamson’s name was synonymous with Saints and angels. By Nighttime, however, Williamson was a whole different animal. Long after his wife and kids are deep asleep, Williamson would walk into the basement, where he dons a mask, orange and streaked with black, the mask of a tiger. Then the tiger would free himself into the night, preying on park loiterers, drifters, and any unsuspecting wanderers out on the street. The infamous tiger has long made a name for himself, and the citizens of Margrave know better then to leave their house after 10pm. However, the mysterious deaths soon trigger the attention of federal agent Stephen Barr, setting the stage for an ultimate battle of wits. Follow Barr as he struggles to uncover the truth about the town’s well-loved Sheriff, and revel in horror as he uncovers more than just the truth about Williamson, more than he bargained for. Turns out the federal bureau of Georgia has been exploiting Williamson's lust for blood and murder by luring homeless veterans into the town for Williamson to kill, as some of these veterans used to be part of a secret government scam that is too secret for the public to know. In return for the kills, the bureau gives Williamson and the town a great deal of cash and support, so the citizens of Margrave are actually in on the murders of the Tiger too. With the help of a few remaining honest citizens, and fighting against the bureau and the entire town, Barr bars the Tiger from killing (ha ha) and eliminates the masterminds behind this evil plan. After the epic finale, Barr, now a wanted fugitive, leaves Margrave and his past identity behind, becoming a wandering vigilante/drifter. Where there is trouble, there is Barr. I do realize I just ripped off Jack Reacher, Hot Fuzz, and Dexter. Cool. Cool cool cool.

The world is on the brink of nuclear apocalypse. The seconds on the doomsday clock tick closer towards midnight, the Soviet Union fires the last of their nuclear warheads at a ravaged United States, chaos breaks out amongst the citizens as they realized the futility of struggling against imminent doom. Amidst this chaos, four broken strangers walk down broken escalators into the abandoned subway station. There on the steps they sit and talk, discussing their lives and each other’s lives. They spill their secrets, voice their regrets, argue their beliefs, and try their best to say all that they can say before it all ends. In the short period of a couple minutes, they laugh, they learn, they fall in love, but most importantly, they live. As the Soviet missiles A heartwarming story that explores human nature and celebrates life.
 * __The Last of Us (based on the photo by Leonard Freed)__**

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A modern, tragic love story, this film follows the intriguing love of Patrick, the eldest son of a famous Oil mogul, and Sarah, an orphan sold into work for Patrick’s father. Patrick is about to graduate from high school, and is expected to attend a famous college with his girlfriend, the daughter of another similarly rich family, whom he is expected to marry after college, and eventually merge the two rich families’ estates. However, one day he sees Sarah when he drops by his father’s office to talk about his future. He immediately falls in love, and attempts to talk to her. Eventually, she agrees to go to dinner with him. The two continue to see each other until Patrick comes to the office to see his father with his girlfriend. Patrick must choose between the love of his life, and a prosperous, rich life.

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In the middle of the woods, there is a cabin. In that cabin, lives Steven. Steven, is not from our world. Having landed many years ago, he has a large collection of trophies. His species survive by eating another species of humanoid found on his home planet. He only needs to eat on every three months, but he has to eat. And as is the tradition from his home planet, he keeps his victims from their shoulders up and displays them as his trophies. Everything is going well for Steven, until a little boy one day discovers his secret.

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Lucy was walking home one day when she found her car, which she never drives, with ‘we should talk’ written on the dusty windshield. Freaking out, she decides to call the police, however, the police answer strangely when she explains to them her situation. Realizing that she is alone in this, she decides to stay over at a friend’s house. The two must find out what is really going on, and find a way to save themselves.

Lucy Guo


 * Who, what, when, where, why, how?**

For as long as anyone's known in this village, the moon has always been in the sky. There are tales and prophecies told by the old grandmas sitting on porches telling us about how there used to be equality between the sun and the moon. Other tales speak of the hero that will catch the moon someday, and rescue the sun from its evil grasp.

An ordinary teenage boy's sitting at his desk, playing shooter games on his computer. His mom's yelling at him to go do homework or 'something productive'. As usual, he's procrastinating.

At school the next day, they get a visit from the local fortune teller, who tells them that one special student in this room will be the one to stop the "disaster around the world". The students have no idea what she's talking about - they've lived in darkness for their whole lives!


 * Madame Tussaud's Heads**

Madame Tussaud, in this village, was known as the quirky old lady whose family has own the morgue for years. She would go to the same diner every single day, sitting at the exact same spot, and drink the same type of Earl Gray tea. She would be that old woman who avoided eye contact, and spat/littered everywhere. The younger kids would play pranks on her, leave random things on her doorstep after ringing her doorbell. She did catch them one day, and you could hear her yelling down the street, yelling about how she'll take her revenge someday, she'll get everyone in the morgue and get her revenge on this 'wasteful little town'.

No one really cares much about her threat - she's just an old little woman, right?

After a few months of her whining in the streets, one day, she suddenly stops and changes. She becomes the sweet grandmother who bakes you cookies and tucks you into bed. As with before, no one cares much for her actions anymore. Until strange disappearance start happening. </range id="445864952_2">At first, it started off with townspeople with low status, but as time went on, more and more people with higher status started becoming victims.


 * Field of Light**

In this world, all of nature had lights and energy stored within them, instead of leaves and such. After a few failed technological inventions, humans realise that they can use the plants as a source of energy/electricity.

There are certain people who protest against this world action, saying that it's "against the laws of nature" and "wrong", but no one listens to them.

One day, the plants suddenly all fade out, and the humans attempt to fix it by lighting it back up - for some reason, it doesn't work. The humans are rushing and panicking everywhere, news stations are going insane. "Why aren't our sources of electricity working? They obviously still have power!"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;">Madame Tussaud's spare heads
 * Rosa Park**

There was a girl who was not confident about how she looked. She just abhorred her face, so every time she looked into a mirror, she cursed her parents for <span style="font-family: 바탕;">being ugly. She wanted to do plastic surgery in order to become prettier, but poverty that she was facing did not allow her to undergo such expensive operation. One day, when she was on the way going back home from school, she found one strange store newly open. It was a very bizarre store. The whole window was covered by the curtain, so she had no idea what that store was. But something unknown force attracted her to the store. When she entered there, she found the whole wall was full with sculptures of human faces. They were so real that the girl thought that they were of real humans. An old woman suddenly appeared from the wall and asked her if she wants to change her face. The girl was skeptical about the woman at first, but then her desire for a new face led her to say yes. The old woman warned her that the girl has to endure any consequences ensued from her choice. Not considering the woman’s words so much, the girl chose the most beautiful face among the sculptures. She suddenly cannot see anything and passed out. When she woke up, she found herself in a strange room. She checked herself in the mirror and found out that she became beautiful. Her life was changed overnight. She had new parents and new friends. She was so happy that she forgot about her original parents. One day, she saw her parents desperately looking for her in the street providing papers filled with information about her. She wanted to go and say she was the one whom they were looking for, but she could not. She gained a beautiful mask, <range type="comment" id="446041446_1">but she lost her parents.</range id="446041446_1">

<span style="font-family: 'Apple SD 산돌고딕 Neo 일반체';">Stop the moon <span style="font-family: 'Apple SD 산돌고딕 Neo 일반체';">Since little he always wanted to own the moon. The moon was not just the moon, but it was something special to him. To invent a machine that can reach the moon, he devoted himself to it. However, it was not as easy as he expected. The process of making the machine continued for so long time that he gradually felt hopeless day by day. The family was firm when he just started to focus on the machine, but as the time went on, his family began to collapse. He could not see his young and beautiful mother becoming a wrinkled and weak woman and his fit and lively brothers pale. One day, when he was looking at the bright and circular moon, he was suddenly awaken from his obsessed world. He finally realized that he could not own the moon with his limited ability. He determined to live the reality with his beloved family. However, when he turned attention to the family, his family was already irrecoverable. He regretted the days he squandered on a hollow dream, but it was too late.<range type="comment" id="446093374_1"> </range id="446093374_1">

<span style="font-family: 'Apple SD 산돌고딕 Neo 일반체';"> We Should Talk <span style="font-family: 'Apple SD 산돌고딕 Neo 일반체';">There was afamous tunnel in a small town. Numerous accidents occurred and no body knew why those accidents happened. For instance, a car would suddenly stop or turn randomly. Thus, many people avoid going through that tunnel. One night, one man had to go through the tunnel because his baby was so sick that the baby had to be carried to a hospital as soon as possible, and the tunnel provided a shortcut to the hospital. When the man went half through the tunnel, the car suddenly stopped and only the sound of someone writing on the car window was heard in the dark. The man was afraid, but for his sick daughter he had to go through that tunnel. After several trials, the car was activated and he was able to get out of the tunnel. When he successfully carried his daughter to the hospital, he realized something was written on the car- “<span style="font-family: 'Apple SD 산돌고딕 Neo 일반체';">We should talk ”<span style="font-family: 'Apple SD 산돌고딕 Neo 일반체';">. He tried to erase it from outside, but he could not. It was because the words were written from inside the car.

Dinah Lee

1. <range type="comment" id="446379796_1">In the middle of a snowstorm, a man is staring angrily at the car, trying to ignore the people staring back at him. The only pieces of clothes he is wearing is a Hawaiian T-shirt that has ‘Aloha’ written over the chest and shorts that would have seemed better suited for beach balls and palm trees rather than a blizzard with temperature reaching far below thirty degrees Celsius. His lips are unusually purple and his bare legs are remarkably pale. Nevertheless, he keeps on glaring at the gray car, already half covered in snow.</range id="446379796_1">

An hour ago, he had actually been bathing under the toasty Hawaiian sun and leisurely sipping his coconut cocktail when he got a phone call from the police. The police had called to tell him they had finally found her. As soon as the police hung up, he booked the quickest flight back to Alaska, and now he was standing next to what seems to be her car.

He frowns as he catches a reflection of himself in one of the side mirrors: he looks exactly like a corpse that had crashed a luau. A sudden burst of wind slashes his entire body, making him huddle closer to the snow-covered car, rubbing his hands together. He shivers in the cold a while longer, and slowly starts scribbling something onto the snow-coated windshield.

After a few minutes passes, he steps away from the windshield that now reads, ‘we should talk’, brushes off the snow on his hair, and hastily starts walking away.

2. <range type="comment" id="446379796_2">An old man slowly enters the greenhouse and the door screeches as it close behind him. His mouth is half open in disbelief as he walks by the dozens of plants, all lined neatly next to one another. “Freesia…Gerbera…Heather…Violet…” he reads the labels one by one as he passes each one.</range id="446379796_2">

He seems absorbed in the action of reading the labels when he stops abruptly. An awkward silence takes the place of the old man’s soft, husky voice and fills the greenhouse. The old man clutches his antiquated pipe even closer to his chest and slowly breaths in. He looks at the pot of iris in front of him and cautiously strokes the petals. He didn’t expect her to still have kept the pot of iris. The old man’s brow creases, as he seems pained. He slowly blinks back the tears that had formed in the corners of his eyes; his shiny white head bobs up and down in his effort.

While he tries to stifle his tears, the old man notices an old, tattered piece of folded paper that had been nudged into the narrow crack on the side of the pot. He hesitantly unfolds the paper and slowly reads the words…

The old man rubs away his tears on his worn, checkered overcoat, stands up a little straighter, and clears his throat several times. Although he was too late, he was there and he knew that <range type="comment" id="446049278_1">she had finally forgiven him.</range id="446049278_1">

<span style="font-family: 바탕; line-height: 1.5;"><range type="comment" id="446040020_1">3.</range id="446040020_1"> She looks at the crystal chandelier that had been grandly hung upon the ceiling of the room. She inspects it carefully as if it would her give any clue as to where she was. She shuffles across the room with her white chiffon dress flowing behind her.

The furniture shakes as a sudden tremble sweeps over the room. Then suddenly small gushes of water start trickling into the room. Frantically, she starts to look all over to find where the gushes of water are coming from. She looks under the white, leathered couch, the closet, the chair, and basically every corner of the room, but she can’t exactly pinpoint where the water is coming from.

The water is already up to her shin and she becomes even more hysterical as she starts slashing the water with her legs. The water ripples and becomes a huge ring around her.

The water is dangerously below her chin and she can start swimming her way around the room. She starts banging on the windows in hopes that it would somehow unbolt itself, but to no avail the windows stay fixed. She takes huge gulps, and shiver realizing how cold the water is.

1. She has aspired to <range type="comment" id="446166220_1">fly</range id="446166220_1"> in the blue sky. Feeling the sense of floating up on the sky has been her life long dream. She devised a plan of hanging bunch of balloons on her backpack and jumping out of the window wearing that backpack to feel the fleeting but exciting moment of flying. However, her first plan is stymied by her mother slapping her and taking her backpack off her shoulder. She does not give up and takes another challenge; she decides to swim.<range type="comment" id="446379796_3"> She assumes that swimming in the water will make her feel fly calmly in the sky. She jumps into the swimming pool near her house and flounders in there. While she flounders, she slowly opens her eyes and moves her arms and legs to feel the water and buoyancy. Then, she conceives the imaginary world beneath her body and the water, as if she is actually flying in the air. The pale blue tiles on the bottom turn to busy cities and endlessly unfurled green forests. Through this vicarious experience of flying, she eventually achieves her dream of feeling the sense of flying.</range id="446379796_3">
 * Helen Shim**

2. An old man moved to an urbanized city from countryside after death of his spouse. To him, the city he newly moved to was very desolate. To make things worse, people living there were somehow very hostile towards each other. They always looked at each other in very dismissive looks and argued over every single thing. The old man first was very embarrassed and frustrated by the people’s hostile manners, but he soon attributed the reason to hard and tiresome life in the city and found a solution. Starting a new week, he went to the flower shop in the corner of the avenue every Monday and bought bunch of flowers. Then he planted them in the backyard of his house that had been abandoned for long period of time. People fighting beyond the fence of the backyard stopped arguing and stared at the colorful and lively flowers the old man planted. They couldn’t continue fighting near the beautiful flowers. Instead, they came back to their own houses and planted flowers too. The dreary city was turned into a lively and joyful place where the people no longer were dissatisfied and fought with each other.

3. One day, a new government official came to the countryside. At first glace, the official seemed very inane to his secretary. At night, the official wondered if the place he newly came and assumed the duty did not have any moon on the sky. The secretary guiled him saying that the previous official bought the moon and took it. The official gave the secretary enormous amount of money and told him to buy the moon back. The secretary extravagantly drank and jewels with the money. On the day the secretary promised the official to bring the moon, the moon indeed rose in the sky. The secretary proudly looked at the official, but the official furiously scolded him for buying only half. Time passed and it was time half moon rose up instead of full moon that the official wanted. The secretary had to tell him the truth and was fired.

1. A new family moved in to the neighborhood, they ask around for recommendations and advice on living in China. Their son has no apparent interest in their conversations and is struggling to fit in into his new school.
 * Kyle Pang **

He goes by the motions and one day decides to explore the neighborhood. He happily bikes around and is jealous of other kids playing around. The next day, he does the same thing, but upon passing through one narrow road, he hears noises coming out from a house. He does not think much about it, just to return home, sharing this experience with his parents. They do not give it much thought, thinking that it his imagination getting the best of him.

The next day, as he returns to the same spot, the noises are still heard and this time it grabs his attention to see what it is all about. He goes into the yard, only to see all curtains closed, total darkness. He calls out, “Anyone here?”, just to be greeted with silence. He decides to take off but is quickly alerted by a sound of the door being unlocked. He puts his eye to the peephole, only to see a shade of red. He leaves, puzzled.

A day later he is back home, eager to see if anything new took place. As he walks closer to the doorstep, a hand grabs hold of him from behind. He is caught by surprise and it turns out to be another boy, who asks him, “What are you doing here, didn’t you hear about what happened?” His classmate tells him about the story of the haunted house and mysterious man with the red eyes. The other boy starts questioning him on what he did and whether he saw anything. He then pops the question, “Did you see anything red?” He answer<range type="comment" id="445864952_3">s “why?” And the classmate replies, it has red eyes.”</range id="445864952_3">

2. It’s the time of transition, seniors start get bogged down by the workload. Juniors are in for the toughest and busiest year. This film focuses on two seniors who are getting ready to apply to college. John is a person who is full of himself, smart, and a scholar athlete. Tom is a humble, quiet person, but not as smart as John. Both of them are in different cliques and are vastly different. They do not get along well and it is a typical bully situation. John is cocky and mean while Tom and his group of friends are targets.

Both are at different levels in their academic rigor. X College is a reach/dream school for Tom and happens to be an easy safety school for John. One day, at the counselor’s office, the two bump into each other. John finds out that they were both applying for the same college and immediately starts dissing Tom. This severely impacts Tom but he uses this as a motivation to work on his grades. A split screen is used to juxtapose John hanging out, skyping people all day while Tom hits the books upon getting home. As the day comes to hand in their apps, Tom is all ready while John works on it to the very last minute.

A month later, the replies come back. Both open their letters and Tom is rejected while John opens his replies and gets in to his dream school and X College. He throws X College’s letter in the trashcan. The split screen wipes out the other and Tom comes into the frame, seeing that John threw out his acceptance letter. He is distraught.

4 years later. <range type="comment" id="445844016_2">Tom walks into an office for an interview. </range id="445844016_2">The interviewer is John.

3.<range type="comment" id="446071244_1"> There is this one new, socially awkward kid at school who felt out of place. One day, as he walked through an empty hallway afterschool, he finds a mysterious mask and picks it up. He tries it on and then leaves in on the floor. After going home, the mysterious mask appears in his bag. He is puzzled as he thought he put it in his bag. Then again, he couldn’t care less and he leaves it on his study desk.

The next day of school approaches; another lonely and depressing one passes by in a blur. Upon arriving home, he goes through the motions and the mask remains on the desk. He decides to throw it away, thinking that it was of no use. As he walks around the house, however, his family members ask him why his hands are held up to his chest. Finding that weird at first, he then realized that the mask is only visible to him. He quickly goes back to his room, and tries it on in front of the mirror. The mirror does not reflect a mask on his face.

Curious to see its effects, he wears the mask to school the next morning. Without fail, no one sees the mask, making him feel special. He starts to become more confident and his personality changes drastically.

One day it strikes him how he changed so much and he makes the decision to take the mask off. However, the mask fails to come off and is forever attached to him.</range id="446071244_1">


 * Kristine Romano**

[] - //(Semi Breakfast Club inspired……)// It's New Years Eve and Jasper and Sarah run frantically to make the last train. Both characters are strangers to one another. They each have big plans for the evening, and were looking forward to celebrating the New Year with their friends. However, both of them miss the train. The train station gets locked up before they can leave, leaving the two of them stuck in there till the morning. Jasper is a carefree, yet obnoxious character. Sarah is far more uptight, and wants nothing to do with Jasper (especially after he presents himself to be an unpleasant person to her by making a joke that she took too seriously). Annoyed that she is stuck in there with him, Sarah searches for every possible method of getting out of the station with no luck. The two then realize they’re going to have to get comfy for the night. They distance themselves from one another, and try to get through the night. Bored, Jasper makes a second effort at getting to know Sarah. Reluctant at first, Sarah finally gives in and both her and Jasper reflect on the past year that they each have had. <range type="comment" id="446079010_1">They eventually tire out, and are awoken the next morning by a security guard. <range type="comment" id="446049278_2">Their night together sparks the start of a relationship.</range id="446079010_1"> </range id="446049278_2">

[] - When Alex walks out to drive his car to school one winter morning, he is confused by the words that have been written on his car window spelling out "We need to talk". Choosing to not think much more of it, Alex carries on with his day and goes to school. Continuously throughout the day, Alex sees messages around him that relate to needing to talk. However, he disregards their possible importance and ignores these mysterious messages. The problem persists until he gets home, where Alex begins to wonder what they all could mean…… //to be continued, heh.//

[] - A mysterious black bird flies into David's room every evening when he is asleep. Unaware of it's existence, David begins to have strange dreams that have started to affect his behavior in his daily life. Worried that something is wrong with him, David's parents take David to see doctors and therapists, all of whom can't figure out what's wrong with him. Professor Lynch comes across David's case, and discovers what is going on with him. After doing extensive research, the Professor discovers that the bird is a human mind controlling animal that has the ability to control a persons mind and their dreams. The bird dates back to long ago in history, where this problem persisted once before. The Professor figures out that the only way to help David, is for David to find the bird within his dreams. The Professor works with David by trying to train him to take control of his own thoughts. He feels as if they are making little progress, and fears things will only get worse. When it almost seems as if there is no more hope for David, he pulls through and finds the bird in his dream.

Eric Li

Dinosaur Picture It is 2056. <range type="comment" id="445891336_4">A rupture opens in the Mariana trench</range id="445891336_4">, and scientists discover a massive underground chamber where several dinosaur species managed to survive. In order to avoid panic and chaos, the scientists decide to keep it a secret. The dinosaurs escape and swim up from the Mariana trench. Most of them drown, but several manage to make it to the surface. After military relocation of the dinosaurs to the island of Isla Sorna, the people are banned from flying there and the whole event is forgotten. However, 20 years later, in the year 2076, intercontinental thermo-nuclear breaks out. A mad scientist by the name of Eric the Great sees this opportunity to travel to Isla Sorna, where he discovers that as a result of procreating, the island is swarming with dinosaur life. He tells his crew to keep their mouths shut, but they disagree with him and shoots him in the leg, then abandons him. Eric survives because he is a badass. He builds a castle out of gold and lives among the dinosaurs. However, he soon finds the US military at his door due to the blabbering of the ex-members of his team. People then start to fly in to Isla Sorna and build houses. Due to the selfish nature of human beings, they soon begin to capture small dinosaurs as pets. The military, seeing as there were too many people settling on the island, decide to stop caring and leave. One small family, lacking the weapons and equipment required to capture and hold a dinosaur, decide to post a sign up beside their house as a sign of resignation.

Levitation Elevator Picture One day, on a sunny summer afternoon, a group of teenagers are hanging out in Starbucks. They all order drinks, and slump down on the couches. Suddenly, a bird hits the window next to them and startles them. A girl by the name of William facetiously sings “I believe I can fly, I believe I can hit the window.” Just as she finishes singing, her body begins to float up into the air. “OMG I’m actually flying! Take a picture of me!” *She poses and proceeds to make duck faces while hovering impossibly in the air*. Everyone in the coffee shop stare in utter disbelief (including her friends) at the sight of her hovering in the air. Only after she notices everyone staring at her does she start to freak out. “OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! (Did I mention that she’s a blonde?) She attempts to jump down, but fails. Her friends, after recovering from shock, try to pull her feet down, but are unable to do so. She tells them that she can’t move, so after some brainstorming, they decide to just push her around (literally). Inertia takes a strange turn when they discover that once pushed, she doesn’t stop floating forwards until stopped by some external force. Her friends continue to have fun with her throughout the day by scaring unsuspecting strangers. When night falls, her friends decide to take her home. Her apartment is on the 8th floor of her apartment complex, so they have to take the elevator.

Underwater dancing Picture In the alien village of Kilton, on the planet Koloss, humanoid aliens have just undergone a revolution. They have mastered the ability to breath underwater, after thousands of years of research. The reason behind this? They gain many superpowers when submerged in water, such as telekinesis, teleportation, invisibility, the ability to turn into the hulk without gamma radiation, and so on. Dhgksieyurgh, a female of their species, finds out that being submerged in water has strange effects on her. Instead of getting superpowers, she finds she is able to dance effortlessly and gracefully. She soon gains fame as a result of her dancing, and becomes a professional underwater dancer. Her friend, Asdglkjhadafgjhl, also gains this ability to dance while submerged. However, her ability never gains fame, and she becomes jealous of her friend. They soon begin to argue and even fight. <range type="comment" id="445851864_1">Suddenly, in the midst of a verbal confrontation, a singing purple dinosaur teleports into the room. He immediately begins dancing in choreographed synchronicity along with several other dinosaurs. However, he finds himself unable to breathe underwater and drowns shortly after. Dhgksieyurgh takes this opportunity to skin the dancing singing purple dinosaur and attach a zipper. She then puts the dino-suit on and begins terrorizing the village</range id="445851864_1">. Bored after a few hours of mindless fun, she discards the purple dino-suit and returns to her career as a professional underwater dancer. Her friend finds out where she threw away the purple dino-suit and slips it on, and then murders Dhgksieyurgh out of jealousy. As a result, the village of Kilton convinces the Koloss military to deploy an asteroid to the planet Earth, committing the genocide of the dinosaur species.

1.Two kids, the older sister and the younger brother, play together everyday on a field next to their house, and the girl loves to pick flowers from the field. One day, the two of them were just sitting and talking about wishes that they have. The sister, Carrie, plucks a flower as she wishes for a new dress. The brother wishes for a toy car. The next day, Carrie receives a dress in a gift box by her door. Her brother, Dan, was really happy for her, but was disappointed that he did not get a toy car. Eventually they figure out that the flowers in the garden are magical and grant wishes if they were plucked. They turn greedy and competitive and fought for the last flower. They ruined the last flower and neither Carrie nor Dan gets the wish. Even though they thought it was the last one, there is actually one more. A fair amount of years later, both of them return to their home (from college to visit parents or something), and they went out on the field again. They recall how they used to believe that the flowers are magical, and laughed about it. Carrie picks up the actual last flower and wishes that they are kids again (not that she believes in the flowers, but actually reflecting). Then as she puts the flower down, the two of them become kids again. And the field flourishes with magic flowers.
 * Jocelyn H.**

2. <range type="comment" id="446072484_1">An artist sits in the middle of an empty room. Only the back is shown of this artist. Models with masks walk in and sit in front of him and he sketches a face and gives them to each model and they leave. The models leave room with the copy of the sketch in their hands and make their way to a “theater.” On the screen there are pictures of a guy and a girl that rotates. The models sit with a button in front of them, and constantly looking at their sketches. One model presses the button and leaves. Another one presses and lea</range id="446072484_1">ves. New models come in to fill in the seats. As a model presses the button, it cuts to the scene where the guy and the girl on the screen meet. After the model leaves to a room where a person deals cards to the model. They look at the cards and leave. The waiting models sit and organize their card and attempt to trade with one and other. One by one they are called off. Then they leave the door that says “exit.” And they are born into this world (: (artist = creating humans. And cards etc = a person's fate. So everything is predetermined in an almost mechanical way before a person is born).

3. <range type="comment" id="446074088_2">There was a random kid who was practicing his soccer down the road, juggling. He accidentally kicks it to a front step of a big house that looked not old and spooky but abandoned and mysterious. From inside the house he heard laughter and music. As he picks up the soccer ball, a jolly young man walks out of the house and pulls the boy inside the house: totally not scary btw. Then he leaves him by the door and says, next time don’t run out. The young man locks the door from the inside, and went away before the boy could do anything about it. So the boy begins to walk around the house observing. Down the hall he went. The first room he went by was a group of old senior citizens playing poker; next room is a group of kids doing arts and craft. The third was dinning room where maids served food and stuff. Anyway all is well and happy. Then a bell rang, and everyone went to bed. Including the boy. He climbed in like he belonged and took out a picture book by the drawer and opened it to the bookmark. A nurse comes by and gives him his pile of laundry. Last shot is the outside of the house: a mental institution.</range id="446074088_2">

William's Stories

As Erica heads toward her dusty car, she sees “WE SHOULD TALK.” written onto her dusty windshield. She shrugs it off as a stranger getting the wrong car and starts heading home. On her way home, a large, rusted truck begins honking and flashing its lights at her. Despite weaving through traffic, the truck keeps on following her. Erica takes several sharp turns before finally shaking him off. Strangely enough, her car begins to run low on gas. She pulls into a gas station. After punching in her card, another car pulls up and a large man exits the car, and begins heading right toward her. There is a large knife on his belt. Erica starts to get uneasy and yanks the gas nozzle out of her car. The large man is getting closer to the car and begins walking faster towards her, his eyes wide and his stare darting between Erica and her car, he says in a low voice “We need to talk, lock your door, now.” However Erica gets into the car right before he reaches through the side window, yelling “Stop! Don’t leave!”, However Erica turns the ignition just as the large man’s hand lunges toward her. She hits the gas pedal and speeds away into the dark roads, looking back as the gas station becomes smaller and smaller in her rear view mirror.
 * We Should Talk**

Back at the gas station, another car pulls into the station and a young woman leaves her car. She goes up to the large man and asks “Does she know? Did you warn her?” The large man replies, “No, I was too late. She doesn’t know there’s a man in the backseat of her car.”

Eric is a retired teacher. He spends his days tending to his beloved garden and nothing but it. After a long nap, the sun begins to set and shines directly through the window and onto him. He gets out of bed and almost trips on misplaced shoes. Slightly confused, Eric places the shoe back on his feet and heads toward his garden. He passes through the kitchen. However, he is slightly worried as there are dirty footsteps leading into the green house and the door is ajar. He heads in but discovers his prize plant is gone, in its place is a lukewarm meal. He picks it up, closes the door as he leaves and brings it back into the kitchen. The kitchen seems different than before but he ignores it. Suddenly he hears a very loud crack. Eric stops eating. There is someone on his property. He looks for a weapon and settles for a small pan. Eric begins tip toeing through the house towards his only phone. Unfortunately when he gets there the cord is missing. Eric decides the front door is too risky to leave through, heads back into the garden to leave that way. This time there is a second set of footprints, the door is ajar again. While trembling, Eric readies his pan and walks in. There is a man standing there with a black scarf around his neck, his hands by his side. There is a ring on his finger.
 * The Intruder**

“I know what you’re thinking, I am not a intruder, I help you.” However, Eric remains silent, he isn’t having any of it. “Didn’t you feel like some rooms looked strange? Some things were misplaced?” Eric lowers his pan. “What?” he says. A long silence ensues. “I am not a burglar or any other bad guy, this is something we go through every night.” “What?” “Alzheimer’s.” “Alzheimer’s?” “Alzheimer’s.” Eric stares the man in the eye as he contemplates the situation. “Years ago, your memory started failing you, that’s why you aren’t working anymore. How could you do any work if you couldn’t remember? Your employer couldn’t take someone who couldn’t take care of their self, let alone, manage a company. He asked you to leave, but you quit before he could. You decided to retire and lead a quiet life, you know, a horse put back into his stable.” <range type="comment" id="445891336_3">Eric</range id="445891336_3"> stands there, examining the man for a good minute before finally, he drops the pan by his side. He bids the man good night and walks back into his house through the backdoor. The man waits until he hears the door shut and sees the kitchen light go out before moving. He reaches underneath one of the tables in the green house and picks up a very full duffel bag, and a magnificent Eucalyptus. He produces a telephone cord and ties the duffel bag handles securely. “Just like offing ole Boxer,” he chuckles to himself as he rolls up his “scarf”, and heads toward the nearby alleyway.

Clarkson is ridiculously bored while waiting for an elevator to go down. The big game is on tonight and he is in a hurry to go home. He passes the time by playing around with his watch and then his pen before finally noticing that he has not pressed the button for the elevator to go down. However his head bumps into the top of the elevator. Clarkson is confused as he is a rather short person. He looks down to see he is actually floating! Terrific. He fools with his newfound powers before finally deciding to head home… by floating. This way he can catch the game in time. Clarkson zooms onto a road and speeds away. Suddenly he hears police sirens and he is pulled over. The police officer walks over and asks Clarkson for his license and registration. Clarkson politely declines, as he has neither, while doing so, his finger brushes against the officer’s jacket. The officer retaliates by screaming “Assaulting an officer! Assaulting an officer! You’re going down punk!” and takes out his nightstick to beat Clarkson. Clarkson is struck several times before he manages to float away. Considering he lives in L.A, the LAPD responds by sending 45 police cars after him in addition to a tank, in addition to a chopper, in addition to a SWAT team to his house. He narrowly escapes the tank, chopper and the 45 police cars but in the end is captured by the SWAT team. He soon learns from his prison cell the big game happened yesterday night
 * The Respectable LAPD**

Vipulaaaaa (: **Man on boat** An old man goes fishing everyday in order to get sea flowers. It takes almost all day to get the sea flowers. Everyday afterwards he goes to a grave and lays the flowers down on the same headstone (but he doesn't know why he does it) One day, a flock of birds come and eat up all the sea flowers when he isn't looking. The man goes on a wild goose chase until he gets led to a cave. When he enters the cave its just like an ordinary cave. But all of the sudden he starts getting random flashbacks. Its a memory cave. He remembers why he goes to the grave every day. For his wife. He remembers that his wife loves sea flowers and he brings them to her everyday. He also remembers how she died. She died during the war.. many years ago. He remembers getting hit on the head when trying to fight off the killer, which is how he ended up with amnesia and no memory of his wife. <range type="comment" id="446050104_1">The story ends with the old man going back to the cemetery. He lays the flowers onto his wife's grave and he says "I miss you".</range id="446050104_1">

**The magic elevator** A person is walking in a subway station. He needs to go into an elevator. Instead of simply walking in, he somehow gets sucked in. He goes into a new world. Everything is just the same, and he assumes that he just got into a wrong elevator. But when he tries to get directions from someone, the person is speaking backwards. He can't understand them. On the other side, everyone is talking normally, but he is the one that is talking backwards. He figures out that everyone is speaking backwards and tries to communicate with them, but he sounds really stupid (shows that he talks realllyreallly slowly on the other side)… // (couldn't think of an ending) //

**Kid playing traffic police** A kid dreams to be a James Bond when he grows up. He has all the cool spy-gear and always likes to pretend that he's on a mission to save the world When he's sleeping one night, he sees a robber. His instincts tell him to go after the robber. Using his crappy spy gear, he hears the robber talking about planting a bomb into the house. The kid is a super genius, and he creates a booby-trap-type thing around the house, so that the robber doesn't escape. The robber gets trapped in the basement, where he was planning on planting the bomb. The clock is ticking, and the kid decides to call for help. 911 doesn't believe him, so he decides to go after the robber himself. He manages to disable the bomb seconds before it explodes. BUT <range type="comment" id="446180738_2">Robber turns out to be a figment of his imagination. </range id="446180738_2">THEEND.

Renée A door within a door: The main character has lived in a red box forever. His life is repeated everyday and there is never anything new to his life. One day he finds a mysterious door that seems to lead to another world. He opens the door and finds a blue box. He was so excited about his new life that he closed the door immediately and embraced his new life. He enjoyed the new life a while, but then he got bored of it as well. Later he finds another door and he gets excited again, but then he realizes it’s the door to his old life. After the repetition and wondering between two different life he start to realize that he is even bored of the excitement. In the end he learned that the problem is not what life he gets is what heart he holds in life. Then he repeated his life again and again but with a positive attitude. <range type="comment" id="446040020_2">There</range id="446040020_2"> is a mask gallery in town. The owner of the shop hires models and “steal” their faces. Every night when the shop owner leaves the shop, the heads start talking to each other. Each head has a different personality, sometimes they will fight, and sometimes they will fall in love with each one another. However, whenever it’s morning, all the heads would lose the life (soul) they had during the night. <range type="comment" id="446072484_2">There was once a girl that feels left out by the society. She couldn't fit in because she had different thoughts and ideas than others. She’s been suffering because she couldn’t blend into the society. One day when she woke up she found herself in the woods dressed like a princess. At first she felt lost but later she found herself blending into the environment. This is the first tie she’s found herself comfortable around the environment. She was enjoying, dancing, wondering around, singing and so on. However, the alarm ticked and she realized she has just been dreaming about everything. Later on whenever she feels stressed out she would dream and go to her “dreamland” again and again. Then at last, she found herself trapped in her dream.</range id="446072484_2">

Cecilia

Old Man and Flowers The greenhouse was where they met each other. Back then, it was abandoned. But whenever he visited the place, there was always this one pot plant that’s alive. After a few visits, the person who took care of the plant still didn’t show up. So he ended up staying there for the whole day to figure out who is the person. And then, the girl came with a bottle of water for the plant. Flash back to the present, now the greenhouse is full of plants and flowers. The old man looks after the plants very carefully and waters them every morning. Then, he sits down and holds up a pot plant. He looks at it and says: “ I buy a new plant whenever I think about you but it is running out of space now, come back and tell me what to do.”

Tattoos <range type="comment" id="446166220_3">People think he’s weird because he can read their minds. It’s not like he can hear what they say but he knows how to identify lies. When he was young, he always pointed out the one who’s lying but no one believed him. And he always ended up to beat up by others. So he started to shut his mouth, but the lies were getting bigger. He felt guilty knowing all the lies without telling. He didn’t want to forget about what he’s heard and what he’s seen. So he got tattoos, all over him. People stay away from him and they call him a weirdo. Nobody knows the tattoos he got are actually the evidence for the murde<range type="comment" id="446100438_2">r incident.</range id="446100438_2"> </range id="446166220_3">

We Should Talk <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It’s been 5 days since they talked. The guy thought the girl just wanted to play a game so they left messages on the car everyday. For the first day, it was fun and the guy loved it. But as she did it again on the car the next day, he got irritated. He wanted to stop this game because it’s just no fun and annoying as it went on and on. He tried to talk to the girl but she just refused to talk. So on day 3, he started to leave one single message on the car - we should talk. He wrote the same thing again the day after and again and again till day 5. The girl stopped replying him back, he started to find it unusual. So he went to her house and then her mom told him that she’s now at the hospital because she got cancer and there’s no way for her to talk to him and see him anymore. And she actually asked her friend to write down all the messages on the car for her.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">NAOMI

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">1. Old man and Flowers

<range type="comment" id="446074088_1">An old man owns a greenhouse full of flowers on top of his house. He lives alone and spends all of his time tending to his flowers. One day during his typical routine, he notices something strange about one of his flowers. One of his flowers is gone, and in its place is a note. He has no idea who placed the note there, and decides to find out who they are and why they wanted his flowers. He tries to read the note, but it’s written in some sort of a code. His flowers continue to disappear with more and more notes replacing the flowers. Instead of getting angry, he becomes more curious and eager to find out who’s behind all the notes and disappearing flowers. In the end, he finally pieces together the code and meets the person who has been taking his flowers.</range id="446074088_1">

2. "We do not have a dinosaur" A very curious little boy enjoys running around his neighborhood and trying to figure out what’s happening in everyone’s houses. On one of these excursions, he sees one of his neighbors hurriedly and suspiciously hiding something. He comes to the conclusion that this man must have the last remaining dinosaur on the planet. He wants to talk to this dinosaur, so he tries to get the man to allow him to come in. The man refuses, and the little boy decides to tell the whole world so that the man will have to share his dinosaur with the world. However, the story blows up and the man is continuously being bothered by the press. He then promises the little boy that he’ll allow him to see the dinosaur if he tells the press that he was lying.

3. <range type="comment" id="446075314_1">Catching the moon</range id="446075314_1"> A little girl has a pet that dies. However, she is at school when her pet dies, so when she returns home, her mother has already taken the fish out and thrown it away. The little girl is distressed as to why her pet has disappeared and asks her mother what happened to her fish. The mother can’t bring herself to tell her daughter that her pet is dead. Instead, she tells her that the moon took her pet because the moon was jealous and wanted its own. The mother is trying to convert this into a lesson about sharing, but the little girl is furious and wants the moon to give her pet back. She attempts to catch the moon to get it to return her pet. In the end, her mom buys another pet that looks identical to the previous one and tells the daughter that the moon returned her pet<range type="comment" id="446093374_2">.</range id="446093374_2">

Elizabeth PANDAS Man wakes up one morning. When he leaves the house he finds out that everyone is wearing a panda suit. No one will explain to him why they are wearing a panda suit; if anything, they seem unaware of their strange attire/appearance. People start giving him weird looks. This is probably because he is the only one not in a panda suit, though no one will confirm this. He wanders around frantically, wanting to get to the bottom of this strange situation. He notices a man following him. He goes into a mall, where they are selling panda suits. He is tired of getting looks from other people, so he buys a panda suit. He wears the panda suit. The panda suit constricts him and he suffocates to death. Before he dies, the man who sold him the panda suit is seen standing above him and taking off the head of the panda suit. It turns out ot be a woman. <range type="comment" id="446082850_1">The man utters his final word upon seeing the face of the panda suited shopkeeper: “Mom?”</range id="446082850_1"> ELEVATOR It is New Year’s Eve. A recovering heroin addict and a depressed housewife get into the elevator of their apartment building. There are four floors left to ride. Suddenly, the elevator stops. It is a power failure. The backup generator kicks in, illuminating the elevator in a dim red light. The housewife has a panic attack. The heroin addict calms her down by singing a song that he learned at rehab. The housewife calms down. She reveals that she has been struggling with anxiety issues since a traumatizing event that occurred in her youth, which she refuses to reveal, despite the heroin addict’s assertion that it might “make her feel better” if she talks about it. The two sit in silence for a while. The housewife tries to say comforting things like, “Don’t worry, I’m sure the power will be back on in no time.” The heroin addict seems fairly reserved. He says things like, “Whatever, I don’t really have anywhere to be.” In their final moments, the heroin addict has a hallucination about shooting up, and the housewife has a dream about stabbing her husband with a fruit knife. The elevator runs out of oxygen and they both die. FISHERMAN A failing fisherman is on a boat. He has been on a boat for four days straight with no success. He sees storm clouds coming. He starts to panic. He uses all his best bait in an effort to catch something. He brings out the big worms. Not the regular worms. The big worms. Maybe now he’ll catch something. It starts to rain. Still no fish bite. Then it starts to pour. The boat almost flips over. He freaks out. Suddenly he feels a tug. It’s a fish!!!! <range type="comment" id="446656582_1">After six hours of reeling in the fish, fighting the fish, he finally catches the fish.</range id="446656582_1"> Oh my god, it’s huge!!! The man finds that there is no space on the boat. He rides the fish back to shore after inflating the fish with air that he blows into the fish’s mouth. He arrives on shore, exhausted, close to the point of delirium. The town celebrates the huge catch. My god, this will make them all famous. They all eat the fish. The fisherman, depressed, starves to death. His last meal is a can of worms that he forgot to use as bait.

Julie WE SHOULD TALK A girl broke up with her boyfriend because she thinks he is cheating on her. The boyfriend tries numerous ways to get back together with her. First, he sends her texts and emails saying "we should talk", but the girl ignores it. Then the boy asks her friends to pass her a note written "we should talk", she hesitates, but ignores again. The boy then uses flowers to spell out "we should talk", the girl smiles but still decides to pretend that she is still mad. However from that day on the guy's never showed up anymore. The girl gets very very upset and decides to go to the exact place she broke up with him. There she sees a car that hasn't been moved for days with "we should talk" written. Excited, the girl runs towards the car. <range type="comment" id="446507134_1">When she opens the door she find the guy inside... dead.</range id="446507134_1"> (I want to work this into a creep feeling in the end, so I'm still trying to figure out the reason behind the creepy <range type="comment" id="446166220_2">death</range id="446166220_2"> of the guy. One of the possibilities may be the guy was actually cheating and the other girl wanted revenge on him because every time he said "we should talk" to the girl, the other girl would stalk him from behind.)

The girl has just moved into a new house with her mom after her parents' divorce. To her, their divorce seemed mysterious, because their parents never fought, never argued and seemed to be as close as ever. However a week ago she was announced that she would move away with her mom. One night when she couldn't fall asleep because she missed her old room, she wondered to the basement of the house. She saw a light coming from the bottom of a door and decided to take a peek inside. Inside the small gap, she saw the truth behind her parents' divorce and realised that she has lived in a beautiful lie constructed and planned throughout the past years of her life. <range type="comment" id="446180738_1">It only took one night for this girl to grow up.</range id="446180738_1">

Throughout her life, the little girl always thought she had a special connection to water. She would be attracted to pools, seas and ponds but whenever she got close, she would start to tremble. Through the reflection of the water, she always saw something more that others couldn't see. One day she was playing in her rich friend's house as she was attracted to their pool and accidentally fell inside. Although she was rescued by the lifeguard, her family and friends found her acting weirdly. She stopped talking to people and her parents found that every morning she would have marks on her wrists and ankles as if she was tied up by someone. They first suspected that she was playing with herself but later found out that it was impossible since they took away all the ropes in her room. It is revealed in the end that in the little girl's dream, she is tied up by her best friend underwater. In her previous dreams she would wake up before she suffered. However during her last dream, she was tied up again underwater and drowned. In real life, she little girl was found dead on her bed.