Bullet Points

Submitted into Contest #97 in response to: Start your story with an unexpected knock on a window.... view prompt

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Suspense Speculative

Knock, knock.

  • experienced
  • spontaneous
  • regulation
  • intelligence
  • nationalist
  • competition
  • criticism
  • correspondence
  • registration
  • facility
  • exhibition
  • violation
  • ordinary
  • hilarious
  • category
  • exploration
  • contribution
  • agriculture
  • obligation
  • exaggerate
  • hierarchy
  • hypothesize
  • experience
  • difficulty
  • disappointment
  • conspiracy
  • mathematics
  • fastidious
  • consolidate
  • memorandum
  • discovery
  • acquisition
  • directory
  • aluminium
  • technology
  • apology
  • available
  • scenario
  • variety
  • observation
  • situation
  • economist
  • architecture
  • nonremittal
  • participate
  • pedestrian
  • inhabitant
  • consultation
  • emergency
  • deprivation

"Who's there?"


  • incongruous
  • regulation
  • legislature
  • disposition
  • celebration
  • available
  • relaxation
  • aluminium
  • helicopter
  • violation
  • participate
  • activity
  • compensation
  • initiative
  • epicalyx
  • conglomerate
  • vegetation
  • advertising
  • demonstration
  • integrity
  • diplomatic
  • majority
  • conventional
  • uncertainty
  • technology
  • distributor
  • material
  • registration
  • disagreement
  • autonomy
  • development
  • priority
  • dictionary
  • stereotype
  • occupation
  • preparation
  • memorial
  • apparatus
  • evolution
  • hierarchy
  • systematic
  • repetition
  • security
  • indication
  • fashionable
  • separation
  • continental
  • intensify
  • prosecution
  • spontaneous

"It's just me. Open up."


  • inhabitant
  • consultation
  • memorial
  • application
  • ordinary
  • expectation
  • unanimous
  • disposition
  • reliable
  • contribution
  • nonremittal
  • continuous
  • integrity
  • mechanical
  • information
  • systematic
  • excavation
  • domination
  • development
  • respectable
  • distributor
  • occupation
  • evaluate
  • operation
  • fluctuation
  • spontaneous
  • revolution
  • fastidious
  • gregarious
  • accompany
  • remunerate
  • ceremony
  • laboratory
  • scenario
  • infrastructure
  • coincidence
  • confrontation
  • empirical
  • comprehensive
  • restoration
  • motorcycle
  • variation
  • observation
  • constellation
  • eliminate
  • anxiety
  • authority
  • satisfaction
  • difficulty
  • directory

"Which one?"


  • education
  • material
  • biography
  • repetition
  • reality
  • miserable
  • stimulation
  • favorable
  • democratic
  • unanimous
  • diameter
  • memorial
  • competition
  • distributor
  • infrastructure
  • fluctuation
  • conventional
  • minority
  • experiment
  • hilarious
  • incongruous
  • interference
  • professional
  • laboratory
  • activity
  • empirical
  • preparation
  • secretary
  • presidency
  • sanctuary
  • disposition
  • interactive
  • imperial
  • innovation
  • literacy
  • execution
  • jurisdiction
  • demonstrator
  • redundancy
  • conglomerate
  • admiration
  • restoration
  • hierarchy
  • economist
  • litigation
  • ambiguous
  • confrontation
  • institution
  • coalition
  • exaggerate

"The third. Come on, we have to go."


  • deviation
  • deprivation
  • complication
  • litigation
  • registration
  • conservative
  • hilarious
  • resignation
  • ceremony
  • delivery
  • uncertainty
  • observation
  • compensation
  • domination
  • unanimous
  • facility
  • pedestrian
  • decoration
  • experience
  • revolution
  • hypothesis
  • charismatic
  • incredible
  • diplomatic
  • sympathetic
  • combination
  • embarrassment
  • intensify
  • conservation
  • reproduction
  • material
  • television
  • jurisdiction
  • agriculture
  • celebration
  • biology
  • constellation
  • apparatus
  • nonremittal
  • machinery
  • application
  • comfortable
  • epicalyx
  • memorandum
  • presidential
  • inhabitant
  • superior
  • vegetation
  • electronics
  • consultation


"I don't want to."


  • conspiracy
  • disappointment
  • commemorate
  • literature
  • excavation
  • implication
  • agriculture
  • vegetation
  • operation
  • sanctuary
  • facility
  • minority
  • incapable
  • humanity
  • nomination
  • nationalist
  • anxiety
  • pedestrian
  • available
  • entertainment
  • literacy
  • articulate
  • combination
  • mechanical
  • demonstration
  • integrity
  • eliminate
  • generation
  • jurisdiction
  • scenario
  • economics
  • information
  • curriculum
  • resignation
  • secretary
  • legislation
  • circulation
  • integration
  • inhabitant
  • opposition
  • inspiration
  • contradiction
  • criticism
  • biography
  • electronics
  • embarrassment
  • unfortunate
  • superior
  • remunerate
  • priority


"You don't want to? Wait- wait, why?"


  • respectable
  • biography
  • definition
  • accompany
  • execution
  • economist
  • expectation
  • democratic
  • institution
  • integrated
  • operation
  • hilarious
  • cemetery
  • dictionary
  • interference
  • apology
  • conservation
  • memorial
  • emergency
  • casualty
  • secretary
  • unanimous
  • reproduction
  • ambiguous
  • situation
  • continuous
  • registration
  • contradiction
  • entertainment
  • epicalyx
  • humanity
  • separation
  • admiration
  • initiative
  • embarrassment
  • restoration
  • economics
  • aquarium
  • correspondence
  • accessible
  • television
  • community
  • calculation
  • econobox
  • presentation
  • entitlement
  • relaxation
  • expenditure
  • concentration
  • minority


"This has been going on for too long."


  • charismatic
  • difficulty
  • available
  • admiration
  • gregarious
  • deviation
  • uncertainty
  • opposition
  • television
  • variety
  • calculation
  • domination
  • continental
  • category
  • innovation
  • presidency
  • laboratory
  • definition
  • repetition
  • nationalist
  • introduction
  • appreciate
  • architecture
  • indication
  • accessible
  • literacy
  • conservative
  • relationship
  • radiation
  • incapable
  • presidential
  • spontaneous
  • executive
  • notorious
  • complication
  • machinery
  • coalition
  • observation
  • executrix
  • temporary
  • casualty
  • manufacture
  • revolution
  • demonstrator
  • directory
  • memorandum
  • community
  • satisfaction
  • affinity
  • reputation


"And I like this family."


  • reputation
  • curriculum
  • fashionable
  • legislature
  • diameter
  • domination
  • confrontation
  • sympathetic
  • redundancy
  • combination
  • society
  • litigation
  • development
  • motivation
  • academy
  • authority
  • intensify
  • relationship
  • incapable
  • laboratory
  • acceptable
  • publicity
  • parameter
  • demonstration
  • evaluate
  • empirical
  • hypothesis
  • hostility
  • unfortunate
  • economist
  • superior
  • interactive
  • discovery
  • mechanism
  • execution
  • allocation
  • application
  • presidency
  • literacy
  • initiative
  • analysis
  • memorial
  • epicalyx
  • cooperate
  • democratic
  • autonomy
  • inspiration
  • institution
  • responsible
  • competition


"And they like me."


  • secretary
  • hypothesis
  • executive
  • relationship
  • embarrassment
  • machinery
  • biology
  • calculation
  • spontaneous
  • education
  • introduction
  • consolidate
  • cooperate
  • inhabitant
  • redundancy
  • temporary
  • allocation
  • mechanism
  • pedestrian
  • laboratory
  • understanding
  • radiation
  • scenario
  • fashionable
  • directory
  • autonomy
  • entertainment
  • difficulty
  • reproduction
  • variety
  • original
  • incredible
  • entitlement
  • presidential
  • gregarious
  • federation
  • correspondence
  • inhibition
  • nomination
  • constitution
  • combination
  • compensation
  • minority
  • conspiracy
  • hilarious
  • advertising
  • conversation
  • concentration
  • exhibition
  • sympathetic

"And I'm not going with you."


  • fashionable
  • publicity
  • comprehensive
  • economics
  • information
  • restoration
  • economic
  • ceremony
  • introduction
  • appreciate
  • compensation
  • gregarious
  • obligation
  • implication
  • original
  • acquisition
  • particular
  • competition
  • curriculum
  • eliminate
  • discovery
  • material
  • execution
  • miserable
  • casualty
  • majority
  • remunerate
  • secretary
  • conservation
  • imperial
  • expenditure
  • constellation
  • coalition
  • interference
  • radiation
  • prosecution
  • favorable
  • memorial
  • automatic
  • scenario
  • anxiety
  • parameter
  • constitution
  • separation
  • available
  • directory
  • unanimous
  • delivery
  • stimulation
  • nationalist

"So put that up your freakishly long nose and smoke it."


  • intervention
  • stimulation
  • indication
  • variable
  • miserable
  • emergency
  • initiative
  • motivation
  • admiration
  • ceremony
  • domination
  • environment
  • development
  • autonomy
  • conventional
  • experiment
  • demonstrator
  • temporary
  • artificial
  • satisfaction
  • allocation
  • evaluate
  • occupation
  • hypothesize
  • information
  • superior
  • authority
  • compensation
  • fluctuation
  • apparatus
  • celebration
  • violation
  • nationalist
  • conservation
  • federation
  • particular
  • sympathetic
  • interference
  • astonishing
  • executive
  • reasonable
  • photocopy
  • activity
  • academy
  • calculation
  • presentation
  • nonremittal
  • coincidence
  • hostility
  • combination

"... You can't be serious."


  • memorial
  • resolution
  • redundancy
  • jurisdiction
  • allocation
  • inhibition
  • conservative
  • artificial
  • material
  • preparation
  • celebration
  • accessible
  • reproduction
  • introduction
  • deficiency
  • operation
  • litigation
  • responsible
  • satisfaction
  • majority
  • vegetation
  • distributor
  • pedestrian
  • difficulty
  • intervention
  • technology
  • deviation
  • fastidious
  • comprehensive
  • economics
  • institution
  • comfortable
  • economy
  • expectation
  • architecture
  • presentation
  • information
  • revolution
  • presidential
  • category
  • delivery
  • entitlement
  • excavation
  • execution
  • professional
  • separation
  • combination
  • constitution
  • astonishing
  • accompany

"Oh, I am."


  • directory
  • experienced
  • information
  • casualty
  • consolidate
  • consultation
  • literacy
  • demonstration
  • accompany
  • application
  • conservation
  • participate
  • implication
  • machinery
  • invisible
  • variation
  • obligation
  • complication
  • embarrassment
  • indication
  • acquisition
  • respectable
  • hierarchy
  • humanity
  • parameter
  • professional
  • jurisdiction
  • nationalist
  • retirement
  • incapable
  • helicopter
  • secretary
  • experiment
  • available
  • econobox
  • ordinary
  • dictionary
  • notorious
  • redundancy
  • uncertainty
  • anxiety
  • prosecution
  • category
  • conservative
  • television
  • opposition
  • innovation
  • motorcycle
  • demonstrator
  • aquarium

"Don't you remember what they did to us?"


  • literacy
  • variation
  • confrontation
  • variety
  • presidential
  • invisible
  • gregarious
  • inhibition
  • correspondence
  • comfortable
  • constitution
  • charismatic
  • retirement
  • apology
  • temporary
  • demonstration
  • regulation
  • demonstrator
  • disappointment
  • material
  • coalition
  • redundancy
  • deviation
  • allocation
  • interference
  • eliminate
  • analysis
  • empirical
  • presidency
  • diameter
  • observation
  • affinity
  • responsible
  • institution
  • executive
  • jurisdiction
  • directory
  • advertising
  • activity
  • simplicity
  • disagreement
  • complication
  • acquisition
  • introduction
  • interactive
  • domination
  • incredible
  • pedestrian
  • ordinary

"... It's in the past."


  • observation
  • society
  • situation
  • continental
  • conspiracy
  • nationalist
  • agriculture
  • acceptable
  • executive
  • superior
  • spontaneous
  • population
  • comprehensive
  • photography
  • fluctuation
  • philosophy
  • domination
  • relaxation
  • reputation
  • diameter
  • variation
  • emergency
  • retirement
  • available
  • curriculum
  • entertainment
  • relationship
  • advertising
  • development
  • activity
  • identity
  • stimulation
  • declaration
  • dictionary
  • repetition
  • contribution
  • hypothesize
  • aquarium
  • isolation
  • unanimous
  • complication
  • pedestrian
  • legislature
  • machinery
  • inhabitant
  • miserable
  • consolidate
  • category
  • literature
  • conservative

"It will never be in the past. Now, come on, we're leaving."


  • autonomy
  • conglomerate
  • eliminate
  • environment
  • ceremony
  • appreciate
  • intensify
  • aluminium
  • correspondence
  • repetition
  • curriculum
  • embarrassment
  • particular
  • intelligence
  • redundancy
  • disagreement
  • automatic
  • opposition
  • circulation
  • diplomatic
  • development
  • indication
  • intervention
  • presidential
  • nonremittal
  • nationalist
  • institution
  • ambiguous
  • directory
  • infrastructure
  • hilarious
  • economy
  • temporary
  • mechanism
  • deficiency
  • exaggerate
  • monopoly
  • pedestrian
  • imperial
  • satisfaction
  • contradiction
  • legislature
  • declaration
  • television
  • incongruous
  • variable
  • society
  • compensation
  • radiation
  • sanctuary

"No!"


  • application
  • nonremittal
  • remunerate
  • exhibition
  • incapable
  • introduction
  • television
  • allocation
  • aluminium
  • deficiency
  • presidential
  • execution
  • diplomatic
  • evolution
  • responsible
  • reality
  • empirical
  • executive
  • revolution
  • redundancy
  • philosophy
  • information
  • consultation
  • acquisition
  • articulate
  • variation
  • consolidate
  • aquarium
  • appreciate
  • priority
  • memorial
  • artificial
  • relationship
  • commemorate
  • participate
  • retirement
  • discovery
  • continuous
  • apparatus
  • demonstration
  • delivery
  • variable
  • population
  • conspiracy
  • interference
  • declaration
  • mechanical
  • legislation
  • contradiction
  • casualty


"Yes!"


  • unfortunate
  • manufacture
  • cemetery
  • unanimous
  • original
  • constellation
  • technology
  • demonstration
  • confrontation
  • invisible
  • distributor
  • publicity
  • nomination
  • integrity
  • innovation
  • generation
  • conversation
  • registration
  • analysis
  • deprivation
  • motivation
  • casualty
  • intelligence
  • anxiety
  • revolution
  • hypothesize
  • cooperate
  • fluctuation
  • remunerate
  • resolution
  • spontaneous
  • ordinary
  • interference
  • simplicity
  • redundancy
  • intervention
  • evaluate
  • declaration
  • integration
  • stimulation
  • infrastructure
  • introduction
  • fashionable
  • hostility
  • development
  • priority
  • automatic
  • scenario
  • astonishing
  • presidency

"No!"


  • infrastructure
  • satisfaction
  • notorious
  • obligation
  • embarrassment
  • photocopy
  • integrated
  • situation
  • incapable
  • resignation
  • available
  • jurisdiction
  • invisible
  • apology
  • disposition
  • motivation
  • implication
  • deprivation
  • automatic
  • articulate
  • environment
  • conservative
  • combination
  • revolution
  • regulation
  • ceremony
  • category
  • conspiracy
  • hostility
  • reproduction
  • innovation
  • emergency
  • inhibition
  • superior
  • development
  • presentation
  • introduction
  • manufacture
  • imperial
  • psychology
  • complication
  • conservation
  • legislation
  • continental
  • intensify
  • radiation
  • community
  • contradiction
  • sympathetic
  • machinery


"Stop behaving like a child!"


  • celebration
  • conservation
  • intervention
  • definition
  • nationalist
  • presidential
  • evolution
  • education
  • psychology
  • domination
  • consolidate
  • democratic
  • conservative
  • emergency
  • available
  • photography
  • spontaneous
  • information
  • executive
  • entitlement
  • favorable
  • hypothesis
  • category
  • resignation
  • entertainment
  • economist
  • professional
  • literacy
  • biography
  • indication
  • imperial
  • manufacture
  • stereotype
  • charismatic
  • contradiction
  • preparation
  • criticism
  • innovation
  • prosecution
  • conglomerate
  • expenditure
  • population
  • situation
  • variation
  • architecture
  • acceptable
  • legislature
  • minority
  • reproduction
  • deficiency


"You can't stop me!"


  • cemetery
  • registration
  • econobox
  • continental
  • analysis
  • exhibition
  • competition
  • retirement
  • biology
  • entertainment
  • appreciate
  • correspondence
  • automatic
  • hypothesis
  • constitution
  • complication
  • accompany
  • presidential
  • activity
  • empirical
  • aquarium
  • emergency
  • application
  • nomination
  • commemorate
  • inhibition
  • coalition
  • circulation
  • reproduction
  • authority
  • society
  • implication
  • literacy
  • concentration
  • institution
  • infrastructure
  • professional
  • deficiency
  • contradiction
  • evaluate
  • preparation
  • facility
  • repetition
  • legislation
  • photography
  • incapable
  • invisible
  • identity
  • memorial
  • continuous


"I can, and I will, and unless you want this precious 'family' of

yours to die mysteriously in the night, you will come with me!"


  • discriminate
  • apparatus
  • particular
  • uncertainty
  • helicopter
  • economics
  • consultation
  • delivery
  • discovery
  • retirement
  • comprehensive
  • revolution
  • publicity
  • community
  • allocation
  • original
  • radiation
  • evaluate
  • demonstrator
  • facility
  • mathematics
  • electronics
  • environment
  • unfortunate
  • hierarchy
  • resolution
  • understanding
  • unanimous
  • identity
  • emergency
  • material
  • consolidate
  • ceremony
  • gregarious
  • disposition
  • hypothesize
  • circulation
  • distributor
  • machinery
  • disappointment
  • humanity
  • federation
  • apology
  • constellation
  • jurisdiction
  • technology
  • situation
  • deviation
  • infrastructure
  • sympathetic


"... You would not dare."


  • authority
  • memorandum
  • variety
  • revolution
  • intensify
  • hilarious
  • stimulation
  • legislation
  • accompany
  • acceptable
  • hypothesize
  • stereotype
  • mathematics
  • disposition
  • motorcycle
  • affinity
  • publication
  • reproduction
  • excavation
  • inspiration
  • helicopter
  • repetition
  • expenditure
  • photography
  • correspondence
  • reasonable
  • economist
  • articulate
  • biology
  • declaration
  • domination
  • consultation
  • circulation
  • hypothesis
  • infrastructure
  • integrity
  • motivation
  • resignation
  • agriculture
  • admiration
  • interference
  • legislature
  • security
  • demonstrator
  • superior
  • anxiety
  • accessible
  • nationalist
  • decoration
  • conservative

"Fine, then. Take that chance."


  • institution
  • disposition
  • circulation
  • understanding
  • mechanism
  • systematic
  • simplicity
  • incongruous
  • reliable
  • observation
  • biology
  • inhabitant
  • sympathetic
  • information
  • competition
  • separation
  • education
  • presidency
  • publicity
  • executrix
  • contradiction
  • architecture
  • economist
  • demonstrator
  • charismatic
  • combination
  • diameter
  • infrastructure
  • participate
  • activity
  • generation
  • expenditure
  • curriculum
  • monopoly
  • television
  • reputation
  • delivery
  • community
  • allocation
  • legislation
  • memorial
  • criticism
  • directory
  • exploration
  • secretary
  • aviation
  • commemorate
  • discovery
  • anxiety
  • redundancy


"..."


  • inhabitant
  • innovation
  • discovery
  • legislation
  • demonstration
  • variable
  • entertainment
  • security
  • apparatus
  • identity
  • particular
  • environment
  • hierarchy
  • population
  • deprivation
  • integrity
  • observation
  • jurisdiction
  • electronics
  • disposition
  • publication
  • literature
  • astonishing
  • psychology
  • aluminium
  • motivation
  • conservative
  • radiation
  • initiative
  • coincidence
  • mechanism
  • manufacture
  • imperial
  • machinery
  • introduction
  • executrix
  • deviation
  • combination
  • parameter
  • implication
  • mechanical
  • gregarious
  • technology
  • revolution
  • interference
  • exhibition
  • infrastructure
  • mathematics
  • experienced
  • ceremony


"But don't say I didn't warn you."

June 10, 2021 14:31

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9 comments

Ruth Smith
22:12 Jul 19, 2021

Wow! This is super cool!

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19:06 Jul 20, 2021

nah, it's lazy, but your compliments brighten my day anyway, ruthie! 💕

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Rayhan Hidayat
17:32 Jun 15, 2021

Hmm, it’s almost as if there’s a hidden message 🤔 I love weird shit like this even though I might not understand it. It's like a little window into Kate Mengel's amazing oddball brain! ;)

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21:42 Jun 15, 2021

the window pun would've been so fitting last week, i- actually, in two days, i'm probably going to get a comment that's all "i found the hidden morse code in the bullet points" that has a paragraph of in-depth analysis of every word that the generator thought up for me, and i'm going to have my mind boggled by how much smarter they are than me. it's better for my ego to have you not understand than immediately pointing out all the flaws in my logic. ;)

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Rayhan Hidayat
13:33 Jun 16, 2021

agh yeah, I almost submitted one for the window prompt but ran out of gas halfway through. i'll admit I did try taking the first letter of each word and seeing if that formed a sentence, but nope. looks like you get to keep your secrets ;)

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13:48 Jun 16, 2021

ohohohoho, don't expose me-

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Cathryn V
01:14 Jun 12, 2021

i like experimental writing even if i can’t always understand it!

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21:06 Jun 12, 2021

:D.

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14:33 Jun 10, 2021

if ya can't find the actual storyline-words, then just do ctrl-f and put the double quotation marks in the tab. it'll take ya to those specific lines.

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