Stories tagged with "absurd"
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The Peoples Choice HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

Having a flashback to all of those monster movies you’ve seen? You know, the ones that tightrope the fine line between scary …
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Two Old Friends [MP Challenge]

One day, Ricky the Magic Pixie went down to Dingly Dell. This took far too long due to his unique and rather absurd gait, for…
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Underpinnings
Somebody finally reported the missing cadence. Sector 5-12 was thumping out of sync with the Mandelbrot Septuplets and the au…
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The Cat in the Pack

Howard took the teen’s stunned silence and kicked as hard as he could, launching the teen assassin and her feline master into…
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A Ridiculously Unplausible Love Story, or Why Does His Shirt Keep Coming Off? Part Ten

“Anyway, Hannah,” said Girl, as Guy struggled violently with his shirt, “We arn’t PAs. We crashed in a plane over there and t…
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Roll Call
From behind the tinted window of the vestibule I could make
out the figure of a middle-aged man dressed for business, sans ti… -
No, it wasn't a story. It was all true. Every word of it.

“Now, I think Roosevelt has done an excellent job,” Miss Smithers said as they entered the gate and approached the schoolhous…
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Telegram to Florence from Tripoli, Summer 1952
DEEPEST LOVE,
DISREGARD EARLIER TELEGRAM STOP
LATIF IS A MALE NAME STOP REGRET MISLEADING YOU AND REGRET 10 OF MY 18 YEARS …
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The Accordion Mines
Working in the accordion mines sucks.
A mile underground is where most of’em live, weaving through the tunnels in the rock. ...