Published August 11, 2011
There once was a man who was awesome.
Everywhere he went people would bow down before his awesomeness.
"He's so awesome!" they'd decree.
"Hail the awesome one!" they’d declare.
"His awesomeness rivals the awesomeness of even the most awesome!" they’d state, quite exuberantly.
One day, as a young lad, while staring at his awesome reflection in a pond, a realization dawned upon The Awesome One.
"My God," he whispered, "I'm totally awesome."
He then set out on a quest to perform awesome feats of awesomeness for all the world to witness. Every now and then a non-believer would challenge his awesomeness.
"I believe myself to be more awesome in standing!" he'd say.
The awesome warrior would simply laugh and strike a pose.
The challenger would immediately be blown away by the force of sheer awesomeness.
"I wish I'd never doubted his awesomeness—!" the non believer would shriek, before being obliterated by the previously aforementioned ray of awesomeness.
The Awesome One grew so awesome that he soon ascended to the height of political power. Using his awesomeness as a tool, The Awesome One’s country soon developed into the most awesome country in the history of awesomeness.
But despite his awesomeness, the Awesome One grew sad; for he had no one to share his awesomeness with.
Any woman who dared kiss the face of the Awesome One tended to spontaneously combust later due to overexposure of pure awesomeness.
The Awesome One was facing a seriously unawesome problem.
He declared a competition to seek out all the most awesome women in the land.
Alas, none rivaled his own level of awesomeness.
Finally, a lone woman approached wearing non-awesome clothes, and a non-awesome hairdo.
"Allow me to try, your Awesomeness," she implored him.
The Awesome One was intrigued.
"What makes you so awesome that you believe you can stand alongside my awesomeness?"
The Unawesomely-Dressed Woman replied: "Because I do not dress awesome, act awesome, or shop at awesomely expensive convenience stores. I am myself, and therefore am the most awesome of all."
The Awesome One was speechless. He fell upon his awesome hands, the impact of which created the Great Reef, and wept his awesome tears, which formed the Indian Ocean. The Unawesomely-Dressed Woman comforted him.
They were soon wed.
The wedding was awesome.
They went on to continue a legacy of awesomeness, which still stands as the most awesome display of awesomeness ever known in the world of awesomeness.
And they lived awesomely ever after.
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I digged it man. It was pretty good, but I think like everyone, the work isn't very serious. It's a good piece, but I just don't know how serious we can all take it. It's good for a few laughs, but after that where does it take us? I like how you use some archetype tropes in the piece, but none of them are yours solely. It's good to see such an entertaining short story, but in the end I can't help but feel there isn't much to be gained from this piece. Maybe this is a fable of sorts, but I really wouldn't consider it literary short fiction. It is more in the mix of a fable.
Chuckles. This story had me smiling and laughing the whole way through. When I read the title and saw you name underneath it, I'll be honest, I rolled my eyes and thought 'yep thats mike alright. I'd reconize the lack of modesty any where.'
Then, of course, I clicked on it. I'm not sure what I expected, but it sure wasn't this story. I was pleasently surprised.
One of my favorite part is when he is challenged about his awesomeness and you have him 'strike a pose'. Funniest showdown ever.
Anyway, I enjoyed this lighthearted piece. You never fail to amaze me with your ability to go from writing a serious,gut wrenching novel like Animal, to a crazy, funny short story like this. Way to go!
Write on. ~ DG
This story is the bomb! I didn't expect much from it when I first started reading, but, when I read on, it was humorous and interesting. I like the moral of the story as well. Two thumbs up from me!
This would make the cutest children's book, I think. I loved this, it was cute and funny at the same time, even though at first glance I thought it would be annoying. Wonderful job.
Now then. I am utterly disgusted that even after all these comments, no-one has picked up on the GINORMIC flaw in this piece. It truly sets my veins afire with rage when I read it, and all the comments afterwards. I simply cannot believe that no-one picked up on your horrendous repetition of the word awesome! I honestly thought I was going to- LOL JOKES! This was hilarious, it really brightened up the prospect of reviewing another however many people today. Thank you so much!
LO frickin L
I hate to be the downer, but I didn't like it too much =[. Your grammar and punctuation didn't have any noticeable errors. And your sentence structure in general was nice. But the story line... I realize its supposed to be funny, but I just didn't. Laugh. Sorry =[ I like a lot of your other works, but this isn't among my favorites.
Great job on your sentence structures, really well done on that =]
This was awesome. I love the story of awesome, it would make a really good short film...
Omg...This is totally flipping AWESOME!! You Used Awesome in almost every sentence and still made it sound cool!! At first I thought this was going to be a I-Feel-Like-Writing-Something-But-I-Really-Dont-Care-What type of story but it turned really cool!

Something funny and light. Not the best piece of work as it isn't as well structured as a normal story. It is also a bit short, but I guess that's expected in a work like this. It would be interesting to read about the life of Mr. and Mrs. Awesome. Also, a continuation of the usage of I before am in Ms. Awesome's description of herself would of been good.
I like the light hearted feel of this story but am slightly disappointed by the basic structure and lack of depth in the story as I have read better works from you.
Something funny and light. Not the best piece of work as it isn't as well structured as a normal story. It is also a bit short, but I guess that's expected in a work like this. It would be interesting to read about the life of Mr. and Mrs. Awesome. Also, a continuation of the usage of I before am in Ms. Awesome's description of herself would of been good.
I like the light hearted feel of this story but am slightly disappointed by the basic structure and lack of depth in the story as I have read better works from you.
Okay Mike, I concede. 'liked' - It would be rude not to!
Well, that be awesome.

What a sweet little ending. It's just a cute, funny little drabble. No concrit, just saying that it's awesome
This is just, oh my God, so beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes.
You are an incredible writer.
Hahahaha dude, all I have to say is how awesome this is. I'm like number 38, by the way! This was hilarious and made my day.
--Lollipopper, reporting after doing a useless review that just agrees with all the awesome reviews before it.
This awesome story was so awesome that I can't stop thinking about how awesome it was! Literally, awesomeness just exploded out of the computer screen the whole time I was reading. AWESOME!
THis IS GREAT i love thiis
I find it quite upsetting that people flock to something like this putting it on the featured section while many other original pieces that people poured their heart and soul into are left languishing in the shadows.
It's not a slight on the poster, you're doing your thing, it wasn't something I particularly enjoyed but putting that aside I'm more disappointed in the members here for their short sighted reviewing. We're supposed to be writers, visionaries, the idea that this is the best the site has to offer is laughable and something I know not to be true.
In review of the piece I would suggest trying to push the boundaries a little more, words are a powerful things and there is no reason why something can't be light and comical whilst also being well crafted and intelligent. This seems like something that was thrown together in 20 minutes. I wouldn't recomment wasting anymore time on this piece, others might be fobbed off with it's tiresome repetition but as someone who takes pride in what I do I'd say try harder next time. You can have as many likes as people here can throw at you but are you really proud of this?
Good luck with your writing and keep at it.
This made me laugh. I liked the humor and the nice message in the end. So, I think I might read some of your other works because you said they were funnier.
I swear, my favorite line was "The wedding was awesome." xD
I loved this story, it was funny and different.
Using the word "awesome" so much made the word itself tedious, but it's all good.
sheer force of awesomeness.....not " force of sheer awesomeness"
I found your story quite similiar and not very original to other stories i have read in the past.
Your story made me realize how many times a person can put the word awesome,awesomeness, and so on into a story
I also found your story to be very irritating and annoying in the sense of the word being repeated sooooooo many times.
Try harder next time to think outside the box......because i definetly found this piece to be very immature.
Main Point: TRY A NEW IDEA.
and please be more creative with your plots......
I wanted to tell you that this was AWESOME!
But I didn't want to be a copy-cat. :3
This was totally UNIQUE!
I won't go on and on about how much I liked this. (But I did!) The other reviewers have taken care of that for me.
My one complaint was that the word awesome wasn't used enough! (I'm kidding, of course. But it does make me want to try to make a complete sentence conjugating awesome.)
The unawesome awesome girl was my favorite character.
Keep writing awesomely!
Awesome awesomedly awesomed awesomers.
I don't even know what that means.
Awesome!
I had the same misgivings as a lot of people when I started reading this, before I discovered the awesome awesomeness of this awesome tale. This is one of those pieces that is made entirely for laughs, which can be harder to do than they look sometimes, and I can't really find anything to nitpick (GASP!). And I always find things to nitpick! Plus the fact that you also crammed a moral into all that awesomeness? Dang, you have GOT to keep this up!
Consider me a fan!
Before clicking on it, I thought 'Most Awesome Story Ever? that is a title that someone would use to make people read it. That is stupid, not even imaginative. WHY is this featured?' (no offence intended) Then I started reading. First paragraph, I start liking it. But still, why is a story like that featured? I KEEP READING. Non-believers shrink in the glory? mmm.... This guy is awesome, but he is so awesome that he has no personality at all. Then he is lonely. HAH! Moralism! Waaaay cooler than that Aesop guy. Way cooler. So, you finally understand. You are alone in your power. And the woman comes in with her notsoawesome hairdo and notsoawesome clothes. She is awesome, in a different way. She, in my opinion, MORE awesome than the man. Because, she has a personality. She is a real person. And they live awesomely ever after. I love it.
You know what?
YOU'RE AWESOME.
Hahaha. This story, actually, is a perfect example of Mary Sue/Gary Stu syndrome. I am going to have to quote this for future critiques of mine! After all, sometimes this story is only a slight exaggeration.
Also, I did not give you permission to write about my life! How dare you!
You'll be talking to my lawyer, I assure you...
Kung Fu Panda?
I'm not gonna lie. This is pretty awesome. At first, the word awesome seemed overused and bugged me, but this was pretty funny and had a good message about being unique and all that crap. The unique thing is sort of cliche (reread that sentence, kind of ironic) but this was really funny, so who cares? I didn't find any grammar issues, other than the fact that I don't think awesomeness is a word, although it might be. Anyway, keep it up, because this is funny.
This sory is awesome!
Oh pancakes! You're making me lack vocabulary! I'm sure you did this on purpose because after reading this, all you can do is say "Awesome, awesome, awesome!"
Thanks an awesome lot for the awesome story that has so awesomely brainwashed me into constantly and awesomely repeating 'awesome'.
This story must be about Chuck Norris.
This was so AWESOME! I loved it, it was so cute. Mr. Awesome needs to find Mrs. Awesome. Keep Writing!

Nike
Wow. That was awesome.
What a great story! No... great doesn't really seem to cover it. What's the word I'm looking for?? Ah, there it it - awesome! Although a ludicrous tale and strangely written you've actually managed to get a messaged hidden in here! I'm jealous! Keep on writing, and keep on making us laugh
MrsM
I assume this was written primarily for fun for you, so I'm not going to approach it as if it were written with other intentions in store. Other than perhaps highlighting a cultural obsession with a word with such a broad scope of meaning that it's hard to define without itself. But even that is something I pulled from outside knowledge, not the story, so if you were going for even the slightest shred of social commentary or anything beyond entertainment, it's buried entirely beneath the humor.
I didn't enjoy this as much as the others did. It was entertaining at first and it did make me chuckle a little, but after a while, it became wearing. And, to be honest, it came off as arrogant to me. No, not because of the title. The piece itself. I've read some of your other work, and from that work, I know you have writing skills. Yet, you wrote this.
There's nothing wrong with writing fun, light pieces, so that's not the beef I have. I love silly poems about that one bleeping squeaky chair in the lecture hall, or spoofs or parodies where the girl ends up being the vampire or the dragon's the poor underestimated one.
To be frank, this here just seemed engineered to get Likes and praise and compliments. But it left me empty. Partly because I know you're capable of much better things to either side of the serious spectrum, and partly because the piece is just full of itself. It's safe. No risk involved. The rock star singing an old crowd favorite that he doesn't even really like, not because he cares about what the crowd wants but because he's afraid of taking that artistic risk and having it not work out.
That's really the only line you need. That's the entire story. That's the line that made me laugh the most, that brought me the most joy. It said everything. Everything beyond came off as mere indulgence to me, especially the middle section, which deprived me of my right as a reader to challenge the main character's supposed awesome.
You could go the other way too, of course. There's a rampant obsession with the word awesome and the concept of awesome in American culture. You could so something with that.
Rach
Ah love this! XD
This is simply awesome, dude. :p Yes, like what some had said, I also thought this was going to be one annoying short. I was wrong.
This made my day. Thanks a lot, mike.
Oh! And congratulations, btw.
Awesome. <3
Wow this was fricken awesome! (pun intended) It was insanely clever and at first I thought it would just have a stupid ending about how awesome he was but you actually found a way to make the story have a moral or meaning even though the word awesome was in every sentence at least once. Ha ha I'm so happy you posted this I loved it! Thanks for making my night!
Peace,
Snickerdooly
I gotta admit...even the silly, not serious whatsoever stories that you create are amazing. I found nothing wrong with it, since I'm pretty sure everything else has already been pointed out (I'm not sure, I wasn't reading the other reviews). This lighthearted story made me laugh, and you know you are an amazing author when you can create really serious stories AND not so serious stories and make them well....awesome! Thanks for sharing your story, it just made my day ^.^
Wow. This was truly the awesomest story ever. It was so awesome that I fell upon my knees and burst into tears (of laughter), but unfortunately oceans don't form from my unawesome tears.
c: Overall, this was absolutely amazing! I was a little bit... scared, when I saw the title, but I loved it. You had me laughing the whole way through, and the ending was perfect. I particularly liked the message you had behind all of the awesomeness. Great job!
Lol, I was going to say, "The Most Awesome Story Ever? Getting a little big-headed, aren't you?" but then I started reading it...and actually now I kind of have to say that yes, this was the most awesome story ever. ^_^ It made me giggle.
I wish politicians actually were awesome...sadly, they seem to not be awesome at all. At least most of them. (If they were our countries would all be awesome and our problems would all be solved, right?)
I loved the message here - you know, the person who seems "unawesome" is the "awesomest" of all because she is herself (which IS pretty awesome). The only nitpicks I have to make are these:
"Previously aforementioned" is redundant, just pick one.
And:
I would really love an "I" before the "am" in that last sentence. I guess you don't HAVE to have one, but it just bugs me that there's not one.
Other than that...
Awesome!
~Blue
I think you've posted this before, quite some time ago. Reposting it?
Being that this felt like a joke story, I won't be so harsh on it. But in reality, there isn't much to criticise. I loved it. I was laughing by the end and at everything you used the word awesome. I knew this would be good after reading your spoiler. The part where he looks at his reflection, I though it would become a homage to Narcissist, but nope. He's too awesome to be drawn into that trap. Though I would have liked it if you expanded the love part at the end though. That felt really short.
Note: Wouldn't awesome + non-awesome = normal? Just asking.
This made me laugh. ^^ I'm not sure if you really want me to give you a proper and structured review. But as I can see, I don't think I need to nitpick every sentences or tell you about grammar this and that. However, it could have been better (and more awesome, in my opinion lol) if you have more descriptions about your character's "awesomeness" or something like that. Anyways, I just love the way you kept writing the word "awesome" in every sentences. And I agree that this is the most awesome story ever! lol
^ Way to go for writing "awesome" four times in a row!
I thought after a couple paragraphs this would just get annoying, but after I finished it I couldn't help but laugh. I don't really have a review for you since I know this wasn't meant to be anything serious and I can't find any grammar errors, but great job and I got my smile from something that should have been stupid in for the day