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Ambiguous. Maybe she (goddess in black/the ashen one) is the one on the list since the last line "Simply, Me" (is left). The agent that does the disap...
December 26, 2022 at 19:42
Onomatopoeia is often fun(ny) and so makes the story more enjoyable. But from what time and place did the piano player come from? Is this some quantum...
December 26, 2022 at 19:23
Postpostmodern metafiction. It can only induce vertigo by extra associations and autohypnosis.
December 24, 2022 at 01:12
Good entry! _____ Later that night, Ovry's dad had a dream. Little Ovry was in the basement, beneath a white paint-flaking ceiling with something in h...
December 23, 2022 at 23:00
Are you implying what I said is just nonsense. Why not just say so explicitly.
December 23, 2022 at 19:16
Sounds like all humans are naturally bigots by this definition. There are any number of non-harmful(?) ways of being which will elicit intolerance of ...
December 23, 2022 at 19:04
A too brief beginning for a Lovecraftian horror in the deep jungle. As with all these stories they end before they even begin. The title takes away fr...
December 22, 2022 at 18:30
The Mormons have sex loop holes. I'm sure you've heard of soaking/marinating/floating. I don't see why Christians can't use them.
December 21, 2022 at 18:39
It has traded intelligibility for musicality. Sounds more like poetry.
December 21, 2022 at 18:26
The repetition of pronouns in those very short sentences (she, she, her) gets in the way a bit. I think I counted 15 pronouns in the third paragraph. ...
December 21, 2022 at 18:11
You need to be able to ignore what must be ignored when using your "know-how". Applied knowledge is therefore an employment of skillful ignorance.
December 14, 2022 at 19:00
Images were generated from Wonder.
December 14, 2022 at 18:54
Now we just need the version of the story from the bus driver. "The nurses said it was a diabetic coma. What do expect when insulin $200 a vial? I saw...
December 12, 2022 at 03:08
Hmmmm. What is knowledge but a kind of skillful ignorance? And from the pinnacle of omniscient retrospection, what about all that unwholesome ignoranc...
December 12, 2022 at 02:54
I've had enough of the horror of life but examination of human anatomy would be fascinating. I think we should all be exposed to the bodies of the dea...
December 12, 2022 at 02:24
Tracy sounds like she's entered the world of Muckbang at the end of a conventional prosperous career. She's been embraced in this era of weird interne...
December 09, 2022 at 22:58
These mircoficitons still just feel like the start of a story. I want something more to happen but I just have to imagine it myself. This was supposed...
December 09, 2022 at 17:59
Intrigued by the bull jumping the harbor wall escaping tormentors. I assume it to be a bit out of the ordinary, aside everything else that is going on...
December 09, 2022 at 17:35
Not sure where this is going. You've yet to elaborate. Are you drawing a connection between what perceived social status confers on the value of a com...
December 08, 2022 at 06:34
I'll pretend I'm sitting next to Ebon on the couch, self drugging to smother feeling, while trying to be interested as if a review could get me free b...
December 07, 2022 at 18:13
So they'd remain silent, because they know their compliment would be wrongly construed as an insult by their peers. But why? Because so and so said so...
December 06, 2022 at 18:38
I suppose because faces are always front and center of a general portrait and hands/appendages are often hidden and more complex for 3D rotation, coul...
November 27, 2022 at 17:37
https://i.imgur.com/rk82X4z.jpg Gothic Kabuki Theater https://i.imgur.com/Auxc0lK.jpg Japanese Print Autumn
November 26, 2022 at 18:55
There is much thanks to give for the luck of not suffering what we could've suffered by pure cosmic incident. There is much thanks to give that life i...
November 24, 2022 at 19:37
Why is time frozen from light's perspective? I still don't understand how something that is moving relative to something else can't experience change....
November 20, 2022 at 18:48
The practice/occurrence of retributive justice is where empathy often may not align with one's purported morality. Does the punishment fit the crime/i...
November 19, 2022 at 19:24
Circular Time: It's all going to just happen again for the very first time (like a virgin).
November 18, 2022 at 19:52
That might depend on what you project your future circumstances to be in relation to others. Do you foresee consequences to your actions of actually h...
November 18, 2022 at 19:36
In your case you'd probably prefer that the game ends quicker, so a slow and helpless king can't elude death by running all over the board. But what w...
November 10, 2022 at 17:43
Are you sure about this? Jazz is strong supporting evidence against living for some antinatalists. When the songs of creation are just Jazz, how can o...
November 04, 2022 at 18:45
More importantly, who is wrong about what and have they been sufficiently disabused by peer review/pressure. Can they get the cane? Or is humiliation ...
October 29, 2022 at 18:45
Is that pro re nata? Or are you trying to tell us you look at porn first thing in the morning. SCANDALOUS!
October 29, 2022 at 05:31
Taking the/a piss?
October 29, 2022 at 05:24
It's just a humble prescription. Sing to yourself, hypnotize yourself, to try and be at ease. One of many possibilities to start the morning with.
October 29, 2022 at 05:18
You have to start you day with either A) Music or B) Meditation or C) Musical Mediation, unless you're too hyped on coffee and cigs or have to do real...
October 29, 2022 at 04:58
Brew some tea or coffee. Take out the guitar and exercise chord family progressions, learn some scales and practice a song or two. Get on the philosop...
October 20, 2022 at 17:22
I'm just regurgitating what I've think I've heard from McGilchrist. Also I'm not sure that this study is comprehensive enough to establish the behavio...
October 15, 2022 at 23:14
That is why you better start prepping NOS. Get a lot of guns and know how to use them. It's gonna be a major investment now but it will be worth it wh...
October 15, 2022 at 17:25
In: Luck  — view comment
Unless you've seen this opera before, we can't assume that there is only one fat lady singing. If I was librettist, my opera might be composed of only...
October 14, 2022 at 18:26
They say statistically is far better to have an aneurysm in your left hemisphere than your right because of the right hemisphere's powers of global co...
October 13, 2022 at 18:40
In: Luck  — view comment
Mr. Leland was a bit addicted to oxycodone, by the happenstance of a past injury, and with his new found wealth he would easily enter into a downward ...
October 10, 2022 at 19:00
The Earth is sometimes locally flat, yes. But it is never perfectly flat! Is it? How do we measure flatness empirically? Oh gawd! Maybe no thing is fl...
October 08, 2022 at 19:48
:ok: Why would you glue a glass back together instead of shaking it back together? It might be a koan if you ponder a bit over technical constraints b...
October 07, 2022 at 23:43
As punishment for breaking that expensive glass, you have a few options: 1) shake the glass pieces in a box until they reassemble into the wine glass ...
October 06, 2022 at 19:18
When Trump sells James Madison's crystal flute after the next American civil war, Lizzo's playing of the flute will have added to its selling value.
October 02, 2022 at 18:02
Maybe the heaven dome's populace is composed entirely of Sentinelese tribe members, except for one Christian missionary...
September 30, 2022 at 19:38
The scenario would be interesting if penetrating the domes meant death for everyone, like if they were under the sea. Would those in the hell dome be ...
September 30, 2022 at 19:17
This sounds like the politically correct take perhaps but how do you justify/support it outside of that. If hormones change facial characteristics and...
September 22, 2022 at 00:24
:up: I saw some good replies to your main thread about Agrippa's trilemma. It's self-evident for Descartes. No proof needed. I still just don't see ho...
September 21, 2022 at 19:34
What does DNA have to do with a pro-life stance? Was the priest trying to explain which scenarios make abortion permissible (if DNA abnormality shows ...
September 18, 2022 at 23:01