Vonnegut Stories

A story about a girl who wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there. Her parents fill her in on this "parallel dimensio...

A Post-Apocalyptic Tale in the style of Kurt Vonnegut. An Exploration of two unlike characters who begin as enemies, become friends and then enemies again. The conclusio...

Nate believed that when you had something someone else needed, you no longer had that thing. However, the world always seemed to need something and didn't leave a lot f...

Sunny doesn't know which way is up

'Tis my world,' professes the disheartened Dennis as he turns his back on his wife, his family, his work and all his vocations. When you leave all you knew behind... wha...

My name is William Pilgrim Dankewicz. I am inmate 437582, Mississippi State Penitentiary. I am scheduled to die by lethal injection a few hours from now at 12:01am, Jan...

Cornelius Swan is the richest man on Earth. Or rather what is left of it. He lives his days in his mansion alone, his only companion being the empty echoes of the univer...

Wade woke up from his sleep but noticed something was different. His body had more mass. His cheeks were dressed with a full beard. His hair sagged in front of his eyes...

A book bag, a bookstore, and the monotony of modern dating.

A short story I did for class using elements of Kurt Vonnegut's writing. It's a little crazy and druggy but that's okay.

40 years ago humans started blasting all their trash off-planet. A few weeks ago, trash started falling from the sky, but it doesn't look anything like what was sent awa...

a meta-speculative essay.

Harrison has escaped several times from jail. What has he done during some of those times? Does he have a secret no one knows about? An insight of what could've happened...

Archibald is a humdrum banker from Georgia who makes an incredibly bad, life altering mistake when wording his proposal to his girlfriend. Indulging in emotional frivoli...

Everything belongs to mr. Vonnegut

Okay, before I get started I just want you to know that I did this story as a project for my honorsEnglish class in 10th grade. I know its probably not that great but pl...

"Dear Vonnegut - I'm an idiot." When Aisling Beck is assigned to write at least 100 pages of letters to an influential person for her Honors English class, she...

Inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut, this is the story of one important day in one young man's life. Among other things.

A collection of poems written by me. ***I would like to clarify that not all of this is strictly me ranting, and a lot of it is just stuff I came up with and thought, &q...