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85 Stories

  • The Last Philosopher: Part Two by NickfEast
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    The story continues as the mysterious warden of Zig-Zig is eventually informed about Herschel's escape. Against every principle of his precious Dalmicir school, Lyeasrakardsul submits and asks the Knomes for help before finally receiving the dreaded p-wyrd. Herschel is arrested as a chicken thief and brought to the town Stagna where he has been prejudged as a p-e-r-v-e-r-t by popular opinion, and where he will have some of the most significant encounters in his life.
  • House of Dimbi: A Manual for Mediocrity by BjLaesefil
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    Some marriages are built on love. Others on mutual respect. And then there's the union of Mr. Dumbo and Mrs. Dimbi-held together by sheer force of inconvenience. In this razor-sharp debut chapter, we enter a household where teaspoons vanish mysteriously, arguments loop like reruns, and contempt is brewed stronger than the morning coffee. As Mr. Dumbo wails for help over bland oatmeal and Mrs. Dimbi perfects her withering glare, readers are introduced to the daily absurdities of a marriage gone spectacularly stale. Welcome to a world where mediocrity is sacred, pettiness is performance art, and someone quietly plots escape. © BJorn Laesefil 2025. All rights reserved. This is original work-do not copy, distribute, or reproduce without permission. Report unauthorized use.
  • Iron Toliet Paper Man vs Bully Maguire: Dawn of Justice by UserOnTheInternet
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    In a world threatened by chaos, two legendary forces rise to confront the ultimate question: Can brains, technology, and innovation triumph over raw swagger, dance moves, and finger guns? Iron Toilet Paper Man, an eccentric billionaire genius with a suit made of technologically enhanced toilet paper, believes that cleanliness and precision will save the world. His invention, though seemingly fragile, is capable of withstanding anything-except, perhaps, the unpredictable force of pure arrogance. Enter Bully Maguire. With a cocky grin, slick hair, and unstoppable finger-gun action, he doesn't need technology or strategy. He just needs to dance. Armed with pelvic thrusts so powerful they can crumble mountains and the confidence of a thousand heroes, Maguire is here to show the world one thing: swagger always wins. In this absurd, high-stakes showdown, where disco balls meet high-tech gadgets, there's only one rule: the winner takes it all. And Bully Maguire? He's not planning to lose.
  • USE OF LANGUAGE BY EUGENE IONESCO IN HIS WORKS: THE CHAIRS AND THE BALD SOPRANO by danishdandanish
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    ABSTRACT This paper deals with the language used by one of the most famous modern writer EUGENE IONESCO (1909-1994), in his plays,The Chairs and The Bald Soprano. Ionesco is the writer whose sense of literature incorporated with the experiences he gained from his life and the observations that he made in society and people around him.The usage of language in his works we can say, to some extent, is quite similar to other modern writers who motivated their thoughts and writing skills to write in an absurd manner and portray the extreme level of absurdity of human and worlds in their works. But as every writer is having their own way of flourishing the works, like through plot, character, dialogues and scenes and so on. Ionesco too had his way of presenting the levels of absurdity in the society and his technique was 'Language'. He is often called as Man of Anti-Theatre, because of his presentation of language as an impossible means of communication. The paper will present these points briefly and will focus on the two above mentioned texts in detail.
  • Hell is the Absence of a Washroom by sbrass26
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    A devoted priest loses his faith while trapped in an outhouse. Filled with existential despair and acerbic wit these short stories or, 'lamentations,' grapple with themes ranging from contemporary politics, to God and religion, to the absurdity of everyday existence. From the opening moments exploring the unraveling mind of a character on a journey through the vacuity of consumer society, to the finale in which we await the arrival of an absent Messiah, these stories cut to the heart of the human condition. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20856796.Simon_Brass
  • "My Boyfriend Is A T-Rex" by awesomethegreat
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    Her crush is a Tyrannosaurus rex. Crazy, right? Not nearly as crazy as the drama, death and fighting and romance that enters Clare Whittlebottom's life after discovering that her office crush... is a dinosaur. Does the simmering romance between Clare and her crush survive the onslaught of hostility? Or will it faulter, wither and die? READ ON!
  • Only Writing. by EgoTriHandoko
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    Obscurity of Love, and death.
  • Dark Legion Rise of The Abyss : The Orbis Glacialis by WorldofDarkLegion
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    A time before the continents tore apart, 200 million years ago-a single, colossal landmass called Aurithia, embraced by the boundless ocean Thalassa. This was more than mere geography-it was an ancient manuscript, written in blood, steel, and sorcery. Pangea. Here, no celestial hand molds destiny. No prayers ascend to be heard from thrones of light. Only motion exists-wild, ungoverned-of dozens of races, hundreds of creatures, and kingdoms rooted deep as primeval forests. Beneath the same starlight that falls on spells older than time, machines pulse and breathe. Scattered across the world lie hundreds of artifacts, like shards from a once-whole cosmic mirror. Dimensions stack like layers of dream, each bleeding into the next until the borders between reality and myth dissolve, like mist over a volcanic lake. From this chaos, four names rise-torches flaring against the storm. Each cuts its own path into the bedrock of Pangea's history, yet all are destined to converge, like mighty rivers racing toward the same sea. Freiya, the Doombringer-leader of The Bloody Cruce, a rogue host that leaves kingdoms in ashes. Her past is bound to the great dimensional rift, and every step she takes carries the shadow of the abyss she once stared into. Her tale, told in Dark Legion: Rise of the Abyss, is both a map to Pangea's splendor and a record of its decay, woven through the intrigues of countless races.
  • Fragments by Donovan_Volk
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    'Often I am paralysed by the fear that I won't be able to remember it all. Four years of life on the bloodied edge, screaming elated into the wild sky. Person after person; glittering jewels and deep, dark pools. Stories and stories, tiny details. How can I capture all of the emotions and perceptions and thoughts? Because it is all so precious to me. I want to record it all, just as it was, in sequence, and how it felt at the time and to pore over every little scenario endlessly. Its a vast ocean of knowledge and my hands can only work so fast, and little bits and pieces get lost as the mind makes room for more memories. Names get forgotten, of people who should never be forgotten. Day's events get confused with one another, they deserve preservation in full fidelity. Memory. Time. Awe. Impermanence.' Excerpts from the long stream of consciousness writing I was doing a lot of in the Summer of 2014. Honest stuff on with no real order, and no theme except what usually preoccupies me.
  • Worthless by VonSchomberg
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    A delusional narcissist.
  • The Locker Of No Return by Artsywriter729
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    Katherine Lawrence stumbles upon a random locker with a sign. It says, do not enter. Curiosity gets the best of her, despite being told not to enter the locker. One day, she goes against her conscience, and steps into the locker, only to be transported to a whole new world, full of darkness, unpredictability, and weird people. The world is Arkmania, where escape is impossible, cause once you step foot into the locker, there's no turning back. Arkmania is your new home.
  • Idemitsu by MikeIng
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    "Idemitsu" is inspired by Catch-22. It is a word that is uttered by a soldier in a hospital ward. A number of absurd observations abount in this tale of total and utter absurdity.
  • I Didn't Agree To Be The One Who Remembers by marawren
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    Some people remember things so nothing falls apart. Some people notice what needs doing before anyone asks. Some people carry responsibility so quietly it starts to feel like air. And some people do all of it - without ever agreeing to. I Didn't Agree to Be the One Who Remembers is a quiet, companionable book for anyone who has become the keeper of details, timing, emotional smoothing, and unspoken follow-ups - and isn't entirely sure how that happened. This is not a book about fixing, optimising, or improving your life. It doesn't offer advice, strategies, or conversations to have. Instead, it moves through the ordinary, slightly absurd moments of over-carrying - the things that don't get written down, the effort it takes to explain, the relief of staying silent, the strange tiredness that lingers even after rest. There are no villains here. No dramatic awakenings. No pressure to do anything differently. Just a steady noticing of how responsibility becomes automatic - and what it costs when it does. Written as a series of brief scenes and reflections, this book keeps you company rather than pulling you forward. It doesn't ask you to change. It simply names what's been there all along. For readers who sense that "doing everything" stopped being a choice somewhere along the way - and want recognition without obligation - this book offers a place to sit for a while. Nothing needs to happen next.
  • The Unkillable Jake by Upphafni_Sigrari
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    Writing Prompt #208 by writing.prompts.re on threads: You often end up in extremely dangerous situations where anyone else would've died, yet you always come out alive. It's been happening so often that the Grim Reaper has started to show up with a lawn chair and some popcorn.
  • The New Order by king_evince
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    A compliation of seemingly random thoughts. Evolutionary perspective of free thinkers.
  • An Unresolved Conflict  by RabiaIshaq12
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    This is a poem written in blank verse where a person faces conflict between emotions and reason due to parental negligence. Eventhough he is a man who likes to live alone but still inside him,he craves for affection and love.
  • The Novelist by Johan-Aleksandr
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    There are two different realities in this world: behind every window, and its reflection. They tell a different story. Sometimes, I don't know how can I be sure about them.
  • The Ridiculous Adventures of Herman and Melvin. 1. A New Beginning. by Kmaxx125
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    Two idiots. One bottle of wine. Let the struggle begin.
  • The Wanderers (A Painted Kingdom) by IonaHuntley
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    They were a curious pair. With the look of two people who had gone their entire lives avoiding responsibility of any kind, and thus a look of mild poverty. This is a story, rarely told. It is of the lives of an unlikely pair. Both insane in their own way, in a world much the same. It is not the tale of heroes and villains, it is that of Wanderers, in a Painted World. Author's note: Hey guys, so this book, and me, is a work in progress, hence the occasion / options. Honestly writing is my dream and I want to know if I'm any good at it so please, comments, likes, ideas and constructive criticism would be fantastic- Thank you. - Also for those like me browsing here for dark romances, despite appearances you will find it here (wink wink).
  • "CTRL + ALT + DEL My Job" by thoughtsofdr
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    Welcome to ToonTech Unlimited™, where job scopes shift daily, HR is a chatbot named Pluto, and interns secretly train AI to survive the madness. Taffy just wanted a quiet internship. Instead, she got chaos, a possibly sentient coffee machine, and an AI that's rewriting her life - and her novel. Corporate life? More like Ctrl + Z your expectations.