this is the same man in the blue suit from these:

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/724023

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/766604

He stopped under the street light, and thought of all the different ways to make it look like an accident.

Some of you have been writing new stories for the 'things that make me happy #1' record, so I thought I should upload a new version without the text.

I can always get rid of the textured background if need be.

The original text read:

things that make me happy #1:

Listening to sad music while having happy thoughts...

His name is Hernandez... And he is a Mexican vampire!

Colour me in!

Or you know... Something else.

I couldn't resist.

All credit to MadisenMusic... and I do mean all credit.

took this photo at Sundance...

So I thought I'd just tweak the original version of this so you can actually see it a bit more clearly.

Feel free to add a story to this image.

A still from a music video I never finished... These two need a story.

"The bear sat on his favorite spot, and pondered the universe... Unaware of the role he was about to play".

I can imagine David Attenborough narrating this tiny story.

as requested by wirrow.

Somewhere, in this vast universe,

there grows a boy.

And somewhere in that boy,

grows a vast universe.

(I tweaked Joe's remix ever so slightly)

I couldn't resist!

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SIDE NOTE:  I'm going to include this in the LRRH CUTOUT collab, even though I probably shouldn't. But I'm curious to see if anyone is interested in this sort of style, and also the change in the setting of the story.

After reading some of the texts, this is the image that popped into my mind... She holds all the power, and she knows it.

I just felt like doing something simple and sweet... it's up to you to decide whose point of view this tiny story is from.

an old and very rough sketch I just rediscovered in my scary garage... might be a story in there.

PNG file with alpha channel (hopefully)...

I was going to write my own Once Scene Photo for this, but left it blank for others to play with.

again, I've left it blank for others to write a one scene photo.

EXT. STREET. DUSK.

They keep their heads down low and walk at a brisk pace. The man anxiously rechecks his watch - 5:59pm. Curfew is only seconds away. He begins to jog.

MAN

C’mon, quick!

WOMAN

Yeah yeah.

MAN

I’m not being picked up by those fuckers again.

WOMAN

Alright!

Suddenly a strange sound stops them both dead in their tracks. She looks at him with a baffled expression.

WOMAN

What is that?

The man slowly looks up, as a flock of small BIRDS quickly flutter past. They look at each other, confused. No one has seen a single living animal since The Incident.

WOMAN

I don’t understand... What does it mean?

MAN

I don’t know... But we can’t be here. Let’s go.

They run.

DIARY OF YOSHITOMO YUMI, YEAR 2018, TOKYO CITY.

18 months and counting. Yeah I still count, don’t know why, but I think it helps. I’ve also started using a diary, this diary obviously. It’s stupid, but again, it helps. Feels good to share my thoughts, even if it’s only with myself.

Anyway... I thought I saw something moving in the East Sector yesterday. Near that apartment block, the one where I heard those noises last week. I couldn’t make out for sure, but it was no animal, and it was gone before I could grab the scope. I tried to follow but my legs still in bad shape.

So I’ve been spying on that block all day, and just like that, a light turned on! I couldn't believe it. Still can't. But I managed to take a photo, so I know it's real.

I don’t know how to feel about it yet. But if I’m no longer the last man on earth, then... well I need to know.

Will investigate tomorrow. It’s getting dark. I can’t go out in the dark... Never again.

Y.

(For both the 10 Minute Writing Challenge and the One Scene Photo collabs)