/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15755718]

Write your short story ideas.
It's not like they're going anywhere.

[Anonymous No.15755732]

I only have medium and long stories. Im sorry.

[Anonymous No.15755792]

What happened to the Tapir

[Anonymous No.15755823]

>>15755718
weird pige

[Anonymous No.15756301]

>>15755718
all my story ideas are short story ideas because i can't into character depth

[Anonymous No.15756327]

>>15755718
technology but TOO MUCH!

[Anonymous No.15756339]

>>15755718
People start worshipping a bottle of water when it starts talking

[Anonymous No.15756341]

A tale of a man with a tomato garden. He narrates their existences and origin stories to cope with his life falling apart. His estranged family and friends still visit him sometimes, but he does nothing but cheerfully and autistically talk to them about his tomato's societal customs, and the story arcs of different sections. They cry and scream at him every time they're at his place but he doesn't even register it because he's too infatuated with the west wing's crown stock that.

No it's not my diary because I don't have a garden. I'd call it
>Tomato Tohmahtoh

[Anonymous No.15756453]

>>15755718
A brother and sister have to sprinkle their mother's ashes off the side of a cliff on an island in Maine but it gets spoooky.

[Anonymous No.15756464]

>>15756301
But Anon, short stories are fucking great, what's the problem? Why would you feel the need to needlessly drag out a story when you can make it short and sweet?

[Anonymous No.15756474]

>>15755718
What on Earth am I looking at

[Anonymous No.15756482]

>>15756341
tomatoes are overrated

>>15756474
some sort of pige

[Anonymous No.15756483]

>>15756474
It reminds me of that photo that's been photoshopped to simulate what it's like to have a stroke

[Anonymous No.15756496]

test

[Anonymous No.15756570]

Detective story set in the style of a young adult novel.

Young University aged girl has a chance encounter with a homicide detective and they strike up a unlikely friendship. The detective is hunting a serial killer that has been terrorizing the city, dismembering young women and doing all sorts of fucked up shit to their bodies, posting their bodies to social media via throw away accounts. Girl spends her free time searching for the killer and eventually finds a lead and shares it with the detective.

They set a trap using the girl as bait and they catch the killer.

A month later they are having a party at the detectives house to celebrate some achievement the girl made in her studies or some shit. Anyways the girl never arrives to the detectives house and the detective searches the city the whole night for the missing girl. In the dawn he searches the local park as the sun rises to see a headless, legless and armless torso dripping with blood tied to a statue in the middle of the park. A copy cat killer killed the girl.

He is numb and his suffering is added too as over the next days the arm and leg meat of the girl is found stuffed into soda cans and left across the city.

I don't know whether to have the detective catch the killer soon after or for the detective to obsess over the case for the next decade long after the police have declared it a cold case. I'm not exactly sure what I want the 'message' of the book to be yet. Something about human obsession. I want the killers to be characterized to the reader by how I describe the murders. I want the reader to be able to know about the killer without the killers even talking in the story itself.

And yes it is definitely a ripoff of Kara no Shojo.

[Anonymous No.15756594]

>>15756474
It's a kind of goat. I can't remember the name. Look up like cutest goat or some shit and it'll come up. They're adorable when they're young but they get old and become monsters.

[Anonymous No.15756602]

>>15756483
you're just gonna say that and not post the picture?

[Anonymous No.15756637]

>>15756602
>he hasn't seen the simulated stroke picture

come on dude

but that pic also reminds me of being on a lot of lsd and you forget what things are. like you see a fire hydrant and think "what the FUCK is that?!"

[Anonymous No.15756653]

>>15756637
>that pic also reminds me of being on a lot of lsd

It's cuz it was generated by an artificial neural network

[Anonymous No.15756674]

>>15756602
ok i found it, pretty weird, looks like those fucked up neural networks pics that put like dog faces everywhere.

[Anonymous No.15756695]

>>15755718
help what is that im scared

[Anonymous No.15756699]

>>15756464
shut up fag

[Anonymous No.15756707]

>>15756474
>>15756594
>>15756695
It's a tapir, they are the /lit/est animals (beside penguins of course)

[Anonymous No.15756772]

>>15755718

Ephialtes, Goat Edition

[Anonymous No.15756810]

>>15756594
Damascus Goat. Turks bred the kids to be cute and fuckable. The adults...

>>15756707
You stupid fucker, a Tapir is the pig with the prehensile nose and penis.

[Anonymous No.15757716]

>>15756301
I have the opposite problem, I get too deep into characters and can't actually think of an interesting plot to put them in.

[Anonymous No.15757729]

>>15756474
A pige of course

[Anonymous No.15758224]

>>15755732
okie dokie anon gud nite

[Anonymous No.15758248]

>>15756474
>>15755718
A striking resemblance.

[Anonymous No.15758257]

>>15758248

[Anonymous No.15758268]

>>15756707
I just looked up what a tapir looks like and that shit that is definitely not it bro

[Anonymous No.15758311]

>>15758268
it's a damascus goat

[Anonymous No.15759904]

>>15756327
based

[Anonymous No.15761068]

>>15755718
people come back to life and everyone's happy, the end

[Anonymous No.15761357]

>>15758257
>>15758248
Look at that little chunker smile. melts my heart

[Anonymous No.15761418]

>>15755718
That thing looks like a fucking pokemon.

[Anonymous No.15761549]

>>15758311
the fact we enable their existence is cruel
reminds me of dogs with pushed in faces

[Anonymous No.15761665]

>>15755718

YA novel. Boy just out of HS finds a cute 19th century vampire girl in an abandoned distillery. Boy can't return to adolescence and innocence. Girl can't return to her old life and innocence. They find semblance. There is no romance. But they are extremely close.

Conspiracy nutter 'gets in' to the hidden world of all his conspiracy theories. Magic is real, angels, demons, chemtrails etc - he gets shown all of it - but then gets dumped back into his old life, and stops caring about any of it because he is so far removed, and lives more richly in the end.

[Anonymous No.15761672]

basically this guy kills himself because he cant get the attention of a trans girl he likes. I only write to make myself laugh

[Anonymous No.15761724]

A madhouse where patients are treated with various philosophies and religions and the doctors are indifferent to the truth of any of them

[Anonymous No.15761767]

>>15756474
It's a damascus goat, it's just a breed of goat that looks terrifying

[Anonymous No.15762149]

>>15755718
A man suffers psychotic break and believes the culmination of all human sentience is the severely retarded and crippled child of a single mother he knows. He believes his purpose in life is to take the retarded kid on a trip in order to for him to experience as much as possible and becomes a fugitive for kidnapping after taking him across state lines.

[Anonymous No.15762200]

>>15755718
Die Hard but fantasy. The main dude is a guardsman who got send to escort a VIP from another city back to the capital. Him and the VIP got hunted by a bunch of dragon cultist along the way. It doesn't have any deeper meaning, i just want to write a fun action story.

[Anonymous No.15762480]

>>15756341
Yeah I like this one
>>15755718
A hermaphroditic youth is sent off into a wasteland due to a war destroying her village. She ventures into a dense forest, rests under a tree, and wakes up with a giant dog-bug biting her forehead. Long story short, she is captured by enemy forces, held as a sex slave, and eventually her penis and the rest of her body starts turning into sentient giant bugs and she is killed during an invasion of her captive's fortress. She is reincarnated through several lives and suffers several different horrific and grotesque fates each time.

[Anonymous No.15762593]

>>15755718
A short story examining the validity of causality by comparing the identity and actions of a man at two periods in his life, first as he was originally, and then as he is after an accident renders him an amnesiac.

[Anonymous No.15762616]

I had an idea recently for a story about a small, secluded island, that starts getting famous for tourism and as a result starts turning to shit. Made a kind of outline for some of my ideas but haven't thought of an ending, and probably need to flesh it out more in general. I've written short stories before (though I imagine they were trash) but I want to try and write something more substantial and have wanted to for a while but I have trouble adding detail without it feeling forced and just for the sake of it. On top of just not having a fleshed out idea for the story in general.

[Anonymous No.15763870]

New York standup comic buys a tablet.

[Anonymous No.15763939]

>>15762480
I'm glad you like it. But what the fuck is your story m8. It's like a gnostic bataille on lsd

[Anonymous No.15764061]

>>15755718
A fictionalized account of the Clutter family murders from November 15th, 1959, told from the point-of-view of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. The story would open shortly after Smith's parole began and include flashbacks to his army days and hospitalization. I've been heavily inspired by Kerouac lately so I'm expecting an allusion to that scene from Vanity of Duluoz, "in the purity of my hospital bed," etc.