Benkei

Per your request. So with the title, this is obviously about DNA. They're dancing but arguing: I read that as the interchange of information coded in ...

I love how I'm ignoring the entire forum in favour of the short stories. Goes to show how useless philosophy really is when fiction grabs me by the sh...

So what you're saying is it wasn't woke enough for your taste? It's a very intelligent piece with symbolism that isn't much further away than a google...

What AI generator manages that?

I suspect an AI would rely very heavily on "plot" to write a story and here we don't have much in way of that. The lack of dialogue raises the likelih...

:rofl:

Ooh, please comment on the short fiction contest then. Your experience can be invaluable criticism there.

When you're sober that would be true but you've been hitting the Bigwigs and Pygmyworths a lot lately.

What's that about sweat?

You may. I think @"Olivier5" probably states it better: too factual for my taste.

I'm guessing The Last Transport is @"Tobias" his drug addled surrealist musings again.

Interesting concept but too much "telling" rather than "showing". Btw, I asked ChatGPT to write a story (well several actually) and it was boring as h...

It's better it doesn't. If all the hair has flown, you'd be bald.

There's rhythm in blood dripping on the floor. There's movement in the flow of blood. I probably would've used that as a transition to the choreomania...

I use my imagination all the time, which is where I imagine this story to be better. If there isn't even a suggestion of a connection it's basically a...

Online personas are single and hot. All of them. I've seen documentaires on pornhub, so I know it's true.

I was playing around with it too. Some things I worry about is that it's not capable of telling truths from falsehoods and to understand what is appro...

I wouldn't say I'd encounter friends unless as a surprise somewhere unexpected. And this doesn't seem unexpected so I would expect "meeting" friends t...

Death in most cultures knows when you die and why. It's usually a predetermined thing, which is why it "us someone's time to go", for instance. So for...

Death wouldn't speculate though. He knows when he's going to die. I think this is just a rude customer listening in on someone else's private conversa...

I don't think the storyteller is death. He'd know about the cancer.

Repetitive word choices distract me to no end because I notice them. Of the top of my head, here's some synonyms: expected, regular, customary, normal...

Much better Ukraine thread than the other one.

The overuse of the word "usual" in the beginning was distracting me. It's a meaningful story and something that will probably resonate with people who...

Yes you do. Meanwhile, every story of mine has layers, so you better search for the symbolism if you want to really understand it.

@"Amity" to answer your question and to add to the guessing game, yes, I have plugged a ChatGPT story as well.

I'm left with too many questions and no suggestion or direction to answer them to give this a top rating. I can accept the mutilation but the abrupt s...

It's about suspended disbelief, which requires anchoring and consistency. At least, that's what I tell myself when I write fiction.

Also everybody is wrong on the stories they tried to pin on me.

I have a style? :snicker:

Haha, I do love my scifi.

Kudos to @"Amity" @"Vera Mont" and @"javi2541997" for sating a writer's need to be heard. We're all attention grabbing whores. Especially @"Baden".

My superpower is making boring stuff exciting.

Thanks! Didn't realise that. Learned something new. :-)

I've now voted on everything except my own, which is a bitch because I'd like to know how I'm doing.

I shared the initial confusion but like how the author sets up a conflict with which we can relate and then resolves it (happily).

Reads like a breeze even if I'm not certain I get the point the author is making. Guy runs from his enemies only to die a stupid death, thereby perman...

Brainfart:Another contest could be to pair contestants and see what collaborative writing will create.

This is so weird to me. What do you need a writing prompt for? Look out of a window. I'm in the train right now. I can write about several of the pass...

Lower overall rating than I expected. I really liked it. Well done!

Keep it coming. I've submitted two entries and don't find your comments misplaced.

Added you to the list. My God, what's going on on this forum? Do we have an alien parasitic invasion or something? :scream:

Lies! Fake news.

Totally unrealistic, cats love a mice's eyes and brains. A pretender cat lover! Crucify him/her!

I'm always a sucker for surrealism so this is a win for me although I had to forgive the writer for misspelling ménage à trois before being able to vo...

As I said: snark.

It's been explained regularly on this thread and I have no appetite rehashing the same discussion. Point is that it's ridiculous to expect a nuclear e...

You have a strange way of expressing yourself if you didn't just say " moves towards NATO membership could possibly trigger a nuclear response." Why w...

I don't agree with that assessment. Russian doctrine is clear, attacks on the motherland will illicit a nuclear response. This wouldn't qualify. The r...

So BlockFi also crashed which is a competitor of Nexo offering a similar service as I'm using. Turns out Nexo moved all its crypto out of FTX beginnin...