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: My dad died ten years ago. He was an Arson Investigator/Fire Marshall in the 80's. Going through some files after he passed, I found a set of pictures, court transcripts, notes and mug shots. The pictures depicted my father, around 30 years old, in the tr ....


Comment preview: I worked with an arsonist, at a care facility for the mentally ill. She looked like Little Orphan Annie, and was an actual orphan. She was so wild that her adoptive parents wanted her gone the day she turned 18. I used to sit and watch her when she would f ....


Comment preview: As a resident of St. Louis County for several years, who happens to live near Ferguson now, I'm not a fan of the county police and never have been. However, they are not targeting people protesting peacefully. The St. Louis media outlets paint a much diffe ....


Comment preview: We had a similar incident at my high school. One of the Spanish teachers was out that day and the class had a substitute. The class wasn't behaving properly (imagine that!) and the substitute was angry at them. While she was chastising them, the fire alarm ....


Comment preview: With the looter, I only have to take down one target, less variables to control for. I'm a good shot and my rifle is chambered big enough for anything on the North American continent. However my Mosin is a 1944 Tula, so it's not the most accurate or qualit ....


Comment preview: Just goes to show how shallow Jonathan McIntosh is. He has no concept of the depth of these characters and overlooks them to instead push his own ideals. If he took half the time to actually play the series instead of bitching on twitter like the man child ....


Comment preview: "Okay, here we go, I'm a spy. I'm a sneaky spy. I'm an invisible, sneaky... I'm on fire. Fuck! How'd he know??? Okay I'll be a pyro. A dangerous, psychopath, arsonist who... fuck I can't hit that scout... FUCK! I CAN'T HIT THAT FUCKING....dead. I' ....


Comment preview: I don't think people actually "like him" they just make fun of him. I'm sure some crazy neo-nazi metal heads see him as the Lord and Savior. But for me (and I think the majority of the metal community) he is an absolute jack ass and worthless, murdering, s ....


Comment preview: We had a resident arsonist. He liked to set fires in garbage cans. Clearly, he particularly hated whatever he had in second period, because that's usually what I got to leave. Worked for me. After having a fire every week or two for a couple months, they ....


Comment preview: I'm sorry for your loss. Your mother was alone acting on her own initiative she had no business operating machinery she was unfamiliar with, most likely she was in violation of safety rules and regulations not to mention lacking in judgement. Her intent to ....


Comment preview: My cousin is a convicted arsonist. This is a felony. Upon his release, he made strides to make himself a better person. He has since earned two bachelor's degrees and is now actually a parole officer. He was pardoned by the Governor for his crime, maki ....


Comment preview: 1- The origins and the second best opponent for Dexter. I remember thinking to myself after every episode, "who the fuck is the ice truck killer?' 4- Arguably the best season due to the greatest adversary 2- Amazing season but the psycho vampire bitch boug ....


Comment preview: As an eSports advocate and professional Platinum Leauge of Legends player, I can say we are the toughest of individuals. Just last game I was ganked and only cryed about it in all chat for 20 minutes, while demanding that my team commit suicide. Honoustly, ....


Comment preview: Also a fellow arsonist. My brother some friends of ours and I were up on the mountain above the fancy houses playing firecracker war (tossing lit firecrackers at each other). I decided to light a full pack and as I ran backwards after igniting the fuse I f ....


Comment preview: A guy I contracted to pressure wash and paint my house took off with the half I paid him to buy the paint and supplies. He never showed up and I filed charges against him. Two weeks later the cops showed up at my house asking a bunch of questions that had ....


Comment preview: I was a junior in high school and I lit a piece of paper on fire and threw it in the garbage can at school and then walked away. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. Later, some kids told me that the flaming garbage can was found by our vice principl ....


Comment preview: As a German I am honestly horrified by the culture clash I am seeing here on Reddit where so many redditors appear to be on the side of the neonazis. /r/worldnews has basically become unreadable at this point unless you want to wade to hundreds of people ....


Comment preview: The scariest thing to me about Australia isn't the deadly fauna... It's the flora. Not many places on earth have forests that are not only adapted to handle but actually *encourage* wildfires. [Eucalyptus trees have cores that can grow back after devastati ....


Comment preview: With good reason - the data on euthanisation is the key point that the infographic makes. That data was originally presented by the Center for Consumer Freedom which is essentially a fast food industry lobby group. PETA is not an a pet adoption centre, PET ....


Comment preview: I've never been admitted to a psych ward, but I've visited people in them from time to time. On one visit to a friend of mine she was telling me about all the people that were in there, like the arsonist, the suicidal ones, and the guy that thinks he's Jes ....


Comment preview: You probably aren't familiar with the way these things work. On most schools, as it happened to me, certain kids are labeled as "the bad kids". When I was in middle school we had a trip to Washington DC. I found in the lobby of the hotel and book of matche ....


Comment preview: Not really - pro-ana communities are already fucked up beyond belief to begin with, so no sane girl is going to acknowledge to her parents or teachers that she's involved in one to begin with. That means the paedophile and their grooming are already covere ....


Comment preview: In elementary school there was a weird string of arsons going on. The police got involved and they were trying to determine who the kid was setting these fires. I had to stay in the classroom during lunch one day to make up an assignment. So I'm in there b ....


Comment preview: An arsonist was going around setting small fires in local busnisess. In our store, the small fire ended up doing huge amounts of water damage because the fire department let the sprinklers run for over twenty minutes. No one knew who was doing this. I cont ....


Comment preview: I remember them like it was yesterday. As the child of Korean immigrants who had a shop in downtown LA fashion district, I helped my father protect his store. On the first night, I drove there with my parents and took as much merch as we could into our car ....