/lit/ - Literature

>>5135552
>Well since my babe left me I found a new place to dwell. It's at the end of lonely street, Heartbreak Hotel....

typed this out on lunch break

i have work for the next eight hours but if the thread's still around i'll keep going when i get back, thanks for reading

>>5138210
cheers

>>5135526
>I have only a title: Indulgence Lost


>>5135549
>Police finds a rotting body in an abandoned mansion.

Put these two together, by accident actually at the start, hope you don't mind.

>>5135419
>a heroic and selfless anti-natalist massacres the birthing wing of a hospital

i really like the voice i tapped into here, could have kept writing for a while with this one

>>5135384
>man that has been abducted by aliens in youth runs for president only to gain access to the top secret classified alien info being held by govt

as i finished i realize revealing the aliens at the very end was the wrong place to do it, but eh there you go

>>5135288
>Every brain is linked entirely into a network; a human hive mind.

this one really needed to be longer, but i think this has got something anyways

Good morning, all

>>5135275
>Daryush Valizadeh, former neckbeard and renown pick-up artist, finds out about his gay feeling for his best wingman.

>>5135269
>Magnus Carlsen has a stroke and he decides to wager his life with Death on a chess game to escape his fate.

didn't like where this started, found my footing in the middle, and then had the right idea for the ending but failed to execute it. i'll probably come back to this one and try to fix it later, on my own

thanks for everything so far guys, I've gotta sleep but I'll continue in the morning if this thread's still alive. really looking forward to some of the later prompts

>>5135268
>Two gay dudes in Nigeria are trying to emigrate to England to escape persecution

missed that you specified "dudes," but w/e. feeling pretty good about this one actually.

>>5135218
>MC1, a young man, reveals to MC2, his best friend, that he has been dating MC2's younger sister - something that is a serious violation of the bro code.

dialogue's not my strong suit but i guess that means I gotta practice, right?

>>5135386
forgot pic, sorry

>>5135212
>The name is Jose, become rich buy a orange field.

reallllly got to stop relying on the present first person, i swear i don't know what happened.

>>5135195
>Story that shines a light on the good of an internet troll.

ending of this just wasn't coming, so you get a half-aborted thing with maybe something in there, I don't know

>>5135174
>The story of a man writing a short self-referential story after receiving the prompt on 4chan's literature board.

>>5135168
>Set in the yearly 2000's, instead of the usual fear of germs, The United States of America suffers from a crippling fear of Germans

this is my way of apologizing for all the earlier sarcasm

>>5135233
forgot to mention, by the way, that for the record i proudly stand by the simile in this one and fuck the haters. that bitch is one of my finest.

>>5135079
>A radical atheist tries to tell God face-to-face why he isn't real.

>>5135073
>An urban fantasy YA tale in which the stronk wimmin heroine dies and the male, who is much stronger and better at everything (just like in real life), has to take over the fight.

I don't know what urban fantasy YA is but I assumed it was a license to write about super powers right?

>>5135064
>Write about committing suicide then do it

>>5135056
a murder occurs at a celebrity lookalike contest

>>5135056
>a murder occurs at a celebrity lookalike contest

feeling rusty but alright about this. a little onion-like maybe.

Hey. Been a while (over a year, actually.)

I'll probably skip the obviously shit ones this time but I'll try to do all the rest.

>>3648664
>Bob Dylan is at the airport and makes a joke about having a bomb to the TSA agent checking his bag. The agent panics and takes Dylan into a backroom where he is interrogated and subjected to a cavity search.

we meet again old friend. I'm coming to enjoy these

>>3648636
>A man comes home from work one day to find his wife has been turned into an alligator. However, his neighbors and all his friends insist that she's always been an alligator. He has no recollection of this.

i wanted to write some kind of philip k dick acid trip version of this but then i remembered i've never read any philip k dick :(

>>3648611
>Marty Mcfly discovering that doc brown is using the delorean to molest himself as a child.