A scene I wrote for my psychological thriller novel
Chapter 3 “After all” 4th August, 2024 (Zohra Akhtar) I think I should sleep now. I say this but my eyes, they don’t obey me. Still watching the fan rotate. Its three blades, illuminated by the faint moonlight that penetrates even though I closed the windows, spin, round and round without fail. This is what…
My Daughter
Her buttery soft cheeks are so chubby that they hang slightly off her face. Her toothless smile lights up a room (if you look closely, you will see two bottom teeth barely starting to pop through the gums). I run my fingers through the fine, wispy hairs on top of her head. There’s not yet…
And in the spring, we’ll meet again
I’m sitting at my kitchen table looking out at the lake in front of me. Drinking coffee with too much sugar and cream. I helped get the girls dressed, teeth brushed. They cuddled against me for a while, a constant chatter coming from them both. Penelope is potty training and had an accident on her…
technology
Technology helps us become closer but farther apart. Leading us into emotions of inferiority as well as hopelessness when we are constantly glued to our phones, scrolling through other people’s lives and comparing ourselves to them. We no longer know how to socially and generally act without our phones. You may put your phone down…
Hardly Camus
16 lb of lentils swayed from my bike handle. I picked them up from the usual spot like I was used to, maybe too used to, because my pedalling had ripped a small hole in my provisions. When I heard the lentils sprinkling out, I stopped to re-situate the bag. After double knotting it, I…
Looking to start a procurement as a service (PaaS) business in Sports or Fashion
I currently work in procurement (as a service) in London, quoting hardware, dealing with suppliers, ordering hardware, and getting it sent off to the client (we are an IT MSP). I have nearly 5 years of experience and am 24 Years old. I was thinking about starting my own PaaS business (acting as the middleman),…
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” has been repeated often enough that it has become the truth.
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First time running payroll for my own small business and I feel like I’m overthinking everything.
I started a small service business about a year ago, just me at first, then I brought in one helper. It was simple in the beginning, I just paid per job and didn’t think too much about structure. Now we’re getting more consistent work and I’m planning to hire a few more people, and suddenly…
Marriage should be limited to max 10 years. If both parties agree they can renew after it expires.
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Cavemen either bit their toenails themselves or had a mate/clansmen bite them to keep them trimmed.
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Tagliare il cuore
The halls of tagliare il cuore In tagliare il cuore, Corridors are ignorant. In tagliare il cuore, Walls are assertive. In tagliare il cuore, Expressive paint lacerates all. In tagliare il cuore, The path desires your despair. Tagliare il cuore, It makes you think all is unfair. Tagliare il cuore, Wants to convince you that…
I’m just intelligent enough to know that I’m not really that intelligent.
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Every major tech platform creates a short opportunity window. I think AR/VR is entering it now
I read patents and translate them into business intelligence for a living. One pattern keeps showing up that I think is worth talking about. Every major computing platform in the last 30 years has followed the same cycle. New hardware launches. Critics mock it. A handful of people build on it anyway. A small percentage…
Fiction Workshop Submission
tw: government controlling people’s dreams, mutilation, murder? (This is just chapter 1 btw) The man stared at me expectantly, but I was pretty sure I had never seen this dude before in my life. Was he a new student? A new professor? He had long blond hair and piercing golden eyes? Golden? Is that even…
Occam razor test for you idea posters
I see so many of these ideas being posted here, where all you have to do is this: – Ask yourself, before you post an idea, if an AI (e.g. Claude) can do this within less than a week (and less than $250 or so) – if the answer is yes (and way too often,…
Fiction Workshop Submission
Okay, so I have this submission due for my fiction workshop class tomorrow, and I’m struggling to figure out how to conclude my story and tie all the plot points together. I was intending for it to be a short story originally, but tbh, I think there’s too many plot points for it to be…
The Microsoft Teams hand raise emojis should all have the same skin tone since the palm faces the viewer.
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A phone at 2% battery feels way less trustworthy than a phone at 1%.
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Fix high blood pressure by simple releasing a bit of blood.
Think about it, if the pressure was too high in a sealed plumbing system you would bleed a radiator, just bleed the patient a bit. No pills, no Big Pharma, just a bit of bleedin’ submitted by /u/DeadYen [link] [comments]
Forward Shipping Advertised to Niche Market
I began to offer forward shipping for a niche market, starting with people I know, and someone promoted it on TikTok. Started doing this on Friday, April 10th. Total revenue since Friday is about $18,000CAD. This is because I offer to buy the item (from $100 to $500CAD+) for them and ship it to them,…
Where are the people sitting who need product development help? Not SAAS or AI etc. physical products.
I wish there was a way to distinguish between intangible products and tangible products. It makes it hard to keyword search, I know there’s plenty out there in terms of companies who need product development help but I don’t know where to find them. Taking an idea for a product through production is a skillset…
New houses are huge, yet families aren’t bigger, and technology has reduced our space needs.
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How do you know if your business idea is actually worth pursuing?
I used to sit on ideas for too long because I kept questioning whether they were “good enough”. Lately I’ve been noticing that some people don’t even start with a brand new idea, they enter systems that are already proven (like what I’ve seen in setups such as QNET), and focus more on execution. So…
OnlyFans is the crowdsourced version of having a sugar daddy.
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Dreams
Context: My brother whose whole life has revolved around wrestling recently wrestled his last collegiate match at the NCAA tournament and lost. Losing his last chance to place at the national tournament and achieve what has been his lifelong dream. He’s been really down lately and I wrote this short piece for him. Dreams I…
Startup Idea: Assignment Marketplace for Students – Need Honest Feedback
Hey everyone 👋 I’ve been thinking about a startup idea and wanted some real feedback. — 💡 The Idea A platform where: – Students can post assignments they don’t have time to complete – Other students (or writers) can take up those assignments and earn money Simple concept: Post → Accept → Complete → Submit…
Humans are easy to navigate in a crowd because you can instantly tell where they’re going, faces point forward, backs mean they’re moving away. This cue makes huge difference. If we moving sideways like crabs with no clear “front” at a glance, crowded places would probably turn into total gridlock.
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Underwater
Waves lapped at the shore, the sea foam contrasting with the deep blue of the ocean. The sun warmed the sand beneath me, as if gifting the ground a fragment of its celestial fire. Steadily, I took a step forward; the cool of the ocean wrapped around my feet, offering relief. The submerged sand was…
’I Think I Love You’ – when a writer falls in love
‘I think I love you,’ I whispered, my top lip brushing against the shell of his ear. His arms were wrapped around my body, his fingers fidgeting with the edge of my pyjama top. I closed my eyes, focusing on the way his hand found its way underneath my top and the way his fingertips…
Started as a letter and turned into this. Title: Spiraling
The strong one. The fixer. The protector. The one that always has a back up plan. “Play the part.” I understand. I always do. The strong one. The fixer. The protector. Give him space. Let him breathe. Maybe… he didn’t mean it. Maybe something happened and he can’t tell me. Maybe I let him think…
What are these radio antennas for at the entrance/exit to Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel?
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Thoughts On Starting A Tool Rental Business?
Think tool rental is a good business? Mainly renting small machines and specialty tools to general contractors and homeowners. Ditch Witches, Sod cutters, compactors, demolition hammers, jack hammers, drain snakes, Pressure washers, carpet cleaners, generators, job site lights, concrete saws, extension ladders, rototillers, etc. Wondering what the margins are like on rental businesses, doesn’t seem…
A Failed Attempt to Preserve Spectral Thoughts
Cognition elevated- a transmission, mapping the transition. A failed attempt to preserve spectral thoughts. Foresight dissipates. The season of finality lives on, in this ethereal catacomb of conformity. Lucid dreams- replaced by competitive dogma. This stagnant reality: unwritten words, never read, become wasted in your head, then lost with the dead. To decay and rest…
When considering a disaster, you probably think you will be a courageous survivor when really you are far more likely to be among the helpless casualties.
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Crimson
Blood. So much blood. It’s pooled around your still body. Seeping into your once white dress. Filling the air with the unmistakable stench of metal and death. It’s everywhere. Everything has been stained crimson. What once used to be your favorite color is now a symbol of betrayal. Ruthless, ugly betrayal. Crimson was the color…
Planning to turn my kpop blog into a niche product aggregator
I run a kpop blog and recently got access to Bunjang’s API through a connection. For context, bunjang is South Korea’s biggest secondhand/resale platform, think a Korean eBay/Depop hybrid. Kpop merch happens to be one of the top categories on there so they were open to letting me integrate it into my blog. The idea…
Fishing float? Aqua blue, glass, heavy. Found in a thrift store labeled “fishing float” but Google seems to disagree.
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New measure to push kids to study better at school. – Every Kid and Teenager are now Allowed to Skip School on Friday if their overall grades are Higher than 85%
The idea is simple : why kids and teenagers don’t like studying ? Simply because they don’t see the incentive ! They don’t care how important it is to be educated, They never felt the harshness of the job market. All they care about is videogames, fitting in groups, and attracting the other sex. But…
Weekly Free For All Thread – Spam your business – Post your surveys – Tell us about your awesome MLM scheme – [UNMODERATED POST] (except for site rules of course)
Hey r/Business_Ideas! Welcome to Small Business Sundays! This is the ONLY place you can solicit on this subreddit, so feel free to plug your business and services here and get the word out about your offerings! You should try to include: your industry your experience (or portfolio) the type of customer you’re looking for any…
After twenty years of professional acting, actors should re-perform their first role to demonstrate how much they’ve grown as an actor.
Just saw a Paul Rudd SNES commercial from 1991, and thought, “Would he perform the same way now? Would his character make the same choices, the same tone, the same attitude?” Then I thought, why can’t an actor go back and perform it better, now that they have so much experience and better insight into…
Would a 500‑page dotted handwriting training set (for non‑dominant hand practice) be a viable $50+ product?
Hey everyone, I’m working on a slightly unusual idea and wanted to get some honest feedback. I’m thinking about creating a 500‑page dotted training set featuring shapes, lines, letters, and traceable texts designed to help you practice writing with your non‑dominant hand. The idea is to structure it like a daily practice course, where you…
Volcano
I once saw a volcano explode. Villagers fled as smoke rose. Three waves can kill: heat flash, lava, or ash. The ash isn’t deadly itself, but it hides the sky, blankets the ground, and spoils water—enough to suffocate. Darkness can last for days, shading sunlight. I imagine plants dying in the shade. That lingering effect…
Found in an old shed, metal box rusted, heavy, gots 4 round things inside. Has a dial on the side
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Mobile sleep study clinic
Concierge mobile sleep study service for kids and adults.. thoughts on if this would be viable? 24/7 remote mobile security surveilling the team, team can spend pm in van potentially. Biggest hurdle would be insurance, satisfying all medical red tape, equipment costs, etc submitted by /u/cinnamonsugarhoney [link] [comments]
Need some suggestions to get clients I’ve dmed alot of people like 30
I’m currently working on a way to help businesses grow using short-form content (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) instead of relying only on traditional ads The idea is to push content across multiple pages so brands can reach more people organically and bring in new customers, but I’m still figuring out the best way to consistently get…
Humans are wild, untamed animals to aliens; that’s why they don’t contact us. They just watch a safari (Earth). We are as dangerous as wild panthers (only not as smart).
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