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Hey there /lit/, I'm trying to get back into writing to fulfill my dream of writing a novel, but between work and school and not being a good writer in general, I've decided to write some short stories to warm up, and I'm not sure where to begin
I came up with a whole slew of ideas for short stories, and I wanted to know which one you guys would most like to read, I'll leave this up for several days to get many responses, and then I will try to start and finish this short story first draft in a single day, possibly two if I don't have the time
Numbers with a's and b's at the end (such as 1, 1a, 1b) are relying on the same foundation, but present different options for that foundation
http://www.strawpoll.me/10643068
Here's the outlines:
"Texting Purgatory" 1) a chat session online between someone who is in hell (like fire and brimstone) and someone who lives in the real world (a sci-fi futuristic setting) over a long period of time
"Inferno Road" 1b) a cyber detective enters a simulation/virtual world where people live their lives (due to overpopulation in some places and the higher quality of "life" and its much cheaper due to less room needed in the real world and less food consumption) to investigate some murder/mystery/theft and discovers a gateway in the simulation that takes him to some other place in the OuterNet and finds himself in "hell", except all of the people there are hundreds of years old from the original earth
"Replicated Nature" 2) A W074-N type (Brea's genome type human) tries to escape her home on a station during a viscious riot in which the rioters are murdering all W074-N types, she has NO training but her nature allows her to survive a great length of time and escape (or die) (this story demonstrates the strength of nature vs. nurture)
"Wind, want, and wendigo" 3) A woman infected heavily with "Wendigo" viruses (degenerated human minds in data banks, cyber-ghosts of humans) hallucinates and navigates her own mind to try and survive the infection, but discovers that she is already dead and:
3a) she sacrifices herself to save a "child" wendigo virus (the degenerated mind of a human who was a child at the time of their mind being being moved into a data bank)
3b) she assists another dead wendigo (herself) to save a "child" wendigo" from being consumed by others, and gives the "child" her prosthetic body and then disconnects it from the network, killing herself
"At the top of the White Tower" 4) A man of the VAULT (or FATE) organization investigates a series of breaches on SanC (an independent human planet-nation) and discovers a connection to 2 mega-corporations and a research facility, but is executed for what he finds

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>>5494927
Fuck off you boring forced meme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE

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