Absurdism Stories

ᴛᴏᴏ ʙᴏʀᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴏʀᴅɪɴᴀʀʏ ʟɪᴠᴇꜱ ʟᴇʜʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴊᴏɴɪɴ ꜱᴇᴛ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴀ ʙᴏᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴏꜰ ʙᴇᴇʀ, ᴍᴇᴀɴɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴀʟᴠᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʀᴇᴄᴋᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ'ᴠᴇ ᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇᴅ.

What if Icarus did not fall because he forgot his father's warning? What if he remembered it perfectly? The Myth of Icarus reexamines the ancient story of Daedalus and Icarus through the lens of the absurd: the strange condition of knowing exactly what something will cost you and choosing it anyway. Daedalus gives his son a simple instruction before they leave Crete: fly neither too low nor too high. Between the sea and the sun is a narrow margin in which the wings will hold. But a warning is never only a measurement. It is also the fear of the person giving it, shaped by love, experience, and the knowledge of what might be lost. This essay asks what happens when those two things become impossible to separate. Imagine that Icarus feels the wax beginning to soften. Imagine that he understands precisely what awaits him above, and climbs anyway. Not from ignorance. Not from youthful forgetfulness. Not because he fails to understand the danger, but because he understands it completely. Is that recklessness-or freedom? Is Daedalus's caution wisdom, or merely fear given the authority of a father? And if the boundary between them can never be known until it is crossed, what does it mean to live honestly within a limit someone else has given you? The Myth of Icarus is an essay about limits, obedience, love, risk, and the uncomfortable possibility that wisdom and courage may sometimes lead in opposite directions. It begins with an ancient boy falling from the sky, but its real subject is the question beneath the fall: When you know the cost of reaching for something, are you still wrong to reach for it?

Gary only wanted to run a race. He didn't mean to dismantle an entire ideology. When a confused checkbox lands him in the women's division of the world's most "inclusive" sporting event, chaos becomes the main event. Committees multiply. Rulebooks reproduce. Forklifts deliver paperwork instead of medals. By the end, Gary has won everything, and nobody can explain how. A razor‑sharp parody of bureaucracy, fairness, and the eternal quest to make everyone happy at once.

A philosophical short description of a mystical sighting that represents true absurdity. Inspired by the art piece "faun by moonlight".

A play regarding the unfathomable yet pleasing truths of life. Feel free to sing along to the rhythm and rhymes, the sways and the flows- and the comedy in chaos, with which brings order. Nothing does make sense!

Another one.

Roger Alsberry is in hell. It isn't brimstone and fire, though. It's far, far more mundane than that.

Turmoil has engulfed the European Union. The sovereignty of United Kingdom is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the Brexit with a simple threat, the greedy United Kingdom has dispatched several agents to Brussels in hope of swaying the vote in their favour. While the European Parliament debates over this issue, the secret American president has secretly dispatched two FBI agents to Brussels, the guardians of law and order in US, to settle the Exit Issue *Another version of intro crawl is after the schizo-posting prologue

Guests arrive for a lavish meal. Some savor every bite, while others are more cautious. But two of the guests suspect something more sinister is at play.

Conversation and Realization takes place in a mid-west bar in this short about the shared existential problems of a father and son.

I tired fish gets fired from his job at the coral dance club.

Shosei, stuck watching his sister's cat alone on his birthday, receives a couple of mysterious phone calls that lead him to questions of an existential nature. Meanwhile, Franco plans to confess to his longtime crush: Shosei. Teenager AU crossover Franco Colapinto x Ohira Shosei Rated PG-13 for language

A poignant and darkly comedic exploration of the human experience, 'Chaotic Probiotic' delves into the contradictions and absurdities of life. With witty wordplay and unflinching honesty, the poem lays bare the struggles of navigating a seemingly meaningless world, where laughter and despair coexist in a delicate balance.

My thoughts and feelings for you to dissect. I find great comfort knowing this can, but likely won't, be found. This will be the place I let go.

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A sweet and innocent little story about a guy who bakes a pie for his two friends.

Exploring an isolated instance of a peculiar encounter, i take you on a journey through one of my dreams, they have always been really weird. I absolutely love finding metaphorical meanings in them, possibly as a way to understand them, but more likely as a means to cope with them. In the first installment of a short story series called "Dreams: A journey into the absurd", I hope to take you on an adventure through one of them. I greatly appreciate you taking time out of the current dream-like state of the world to read my story. I hope it resonates with you as it did with me. And more importantly if it does, feel free to share, and see you on the next one. PS im open to any and all criticism, and tbh i kinda enjoy it, so gimme your best thoughts. PS PS This is my first time posting anything like this so ples be nice or dont, eh honestly do what you must besties.

Doctor Salvador counsels a patient, but not in the way that he wanted.