Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: Yeah, I really like the style of the reporting--very to the fact and sort of letting the guy be damned by his own words. The guy seems to have little understanding that a) the plant is in the middle of nowhere, so there aren't a lot of people who live arou ....


Comment preview: My friend and I spent a while backpacking around Iceland a few years ago. We would wander down empty roads for no particular reason, mostly just to see the scenery and what we would find. One evening we'd been driving for about ten hours that day, and it ....


Comment preview: > To be clear: No one has reported that Memories has actually denied service to anyone. The owners even told ABC 57 they wouldn t refuse service to a gay man or woman they would only refuse to cater a gay wedding. But TMZ reported that Memories tempor ....


Comment preview: When I was at College I was offered a free trip to Paris (WOO!): all expenses paid, flights and accommodation - I just had to attend some rally. But my friend suggested we could just show up for an hour, and then go to into the city and drink wine. SCORE! ....


Comment preview: My dad went through a one year program to be a wind turbine tech. It was very expensive and he had to go 5 days a week. He had worked labor jobs since he was 18 (he was 35 when he did the program) and he graduated top of his class. It's been 5 years and he ....


Comment preview: Some people hunt feral hogs with spears here in South Texas. I experienced this one time. I was on a wealthy friend's ranch in Premont, TX. They have specially trained dogs for this type of hunting. We went out in the middle of the night and stopped out in ....


Comment preview: When I was 16 my friend moved from her mom's house to her dad's house because he couldn't pay child support anymore so her sister stayed with her mom and she stayed with her dad then it was an even split. He lived in a trailer on a large piece of land in ....


Comment preview: Ok, so here's the deal; when I was 11 or twelve, or maybe it was when I turned twenty, or, you know what it could be tomorrow, but either way I was doing something somewhere with someone, and that someone, whose name was actually Sum Won, he and I were out ....


Comment preview: Hate on metal detectors all you want, but it saved my marriage (sort of). My fiance had went out sledding with some of her friends, out in the middle of nowhere. Well, being awesome like she is, she took her gloves off to let one of her friends use for a l ....


Comment preview: Ive grown up here out in the west (Utah, Wyoming, Idaho). I've noticed (myself included), that when you grow up in the emptiness you want to leave as fast as possible because "There is nothing to do". But when you actually go somewhere that is all hustle a ....


Comment preview: When I was about 15 I went water-skiing with my family. We drove the boat about 15 minutes out of the small (pop 3000) town we were staying at and came across a stretch of sand, completely similar to any other stretch of sand in the area, that we decided w ....


Comment preview: Freshman year of college, my roommate invited me to a party. It ended up being for sorority and fraternity members only. I was the only person at that party not in a "house." I was constantly asked what house I belonged to and subsequently given a look of ....


Comment preview: here's what I'd love to see happen with these WBC assholes...I'd love to see a group of folks with close ties to the police force convince the cops to conveniently be looking the other way or otherwise engaged for about 20-30 minutes. Then you get a whole ....


Comment preview: One of my first Uber rides ever was a girl around my age, and I asked her a lot of questions about what her job was like. She told me that just the other day, after only doing it for a few weeks, she met up with a guy somewhere in LA and his trip was getti ....


Comment preview: Where to encounter: Most are in airports, but those that are not are usually in the middle of nowhere (not for safety but because they need open space to operate in) or on the edges of a city near a weather center or research center. Don't worry about the ....


Comment preview: I was driving with a group of friends home from a meeting for god-knows-what, I don't remember. I had recently discovered the Slender Man meme back when it was still pretty fresh and engaging, so I spent most of the trip explaining Slender Man to my friend ....


Comment preview: Can you ask him where he bought that shirt? I need at least half a dozen for some family members and I. My uncle's pretty shitty. He worked as an in home senior care provider, stole from the old people. He pulled a gun on one of my aunts. When my gran ....


Comment preview: I've got a relative who was an engineer. This would have been in the late 80s early 90s. He ran a freight line that went though the middle of nowhere. On this really pretty stretch they had to slow down to a crawl for 30 miles or so. They had a guy who ....


Comment preview: This just reminded me of the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to me. My Senior year of High School me and three of my friends went up to this tiny cabin in the middle of Fucking Nowhere, Michigan that my friends grandpa owns. Now by middle of n ....


Comment preview: When I was probably 15, I was spending a fall weekend at my best friend's house. She lived on a dirt road off of a rural county road in the middle of nowhere. It was probably about 3 AM, and we were bored, so we took a walk. This being the middle of nowher ....


Comment preview: I used to live in the middle of nowhere, Texas, and the number of unwanted Christmas pets dumped on the dirt road to my house was depressing. We tried to give them a good home, but we ended up taking most of them to the humane society that was 20 minutes a ....


Comment preview: A few years ago I was elk hunting in what I thought was the middle of nowhere. I had hiked in the day before, and slept in the woods because I had hiked in so far. The next moring around 9am I saw some smoke coming from behind a hill. I went to check it ou ....


Comment preview: Folks, folks, folks. This is not a test to *admit* people to Harvard; it's a test to *reject* them. Most of the people at Harvard were (and maybe still are) there because of their families' economic/political standing. This is the test you give to the slou ....


Comment preview: I am not a photographer but I am a wedding DJ. My favorite wedding ever had roughly 600 guests. This is all fine and dandy until you realize they were planning for 400. This wedding was located in bum fuck no where Missouri (I drove 6 hours to get there) a ....


Comment preview: I think I might have said this in a previous thread but I believe there is a good possibility that my grandpa was a serial killer who was never caught. He was a great guy, don't get me wrong but in his lifetime he "found" several dead bodies out in the woo ....