/lit/ - Literature

>>21639435
I'm gonna basically repeat myself because I think it's worth emphasizing: It's really beside the point, it feels even a bit like you're trying to discuss something that exists outside what's materially real. Like arguing about whether it's a good thing that the universe exists or not, just made subjective.

>>21639165
I'm not an anti-natalist, but it seems like you're less interested in the truth, and more interested in agreeing with people.

I'm sure pronatalism is only a thing because antinatalism is, and I'm pretty sure the right attitude towards this kind of stuff is accepting it as a biological and social reality, rather than trying to judge it as either "good" or "bad".

>be me
>don't want to cook
>Use ubereats
>Or Menulog
>Or the local taxi service
>Or the specific businesses in-house delivery
>Order something to be delivered.
>"Due to a large amount of orders your food may take 45 minutes to be delivered"
>Ted Kaczynski was right

>be me
>Reading a manifesto by Ted Kaczynski I found by googling "Unabomber manifesto pdf"
>Think about just how fucking unfree I am thanks to Google.

>be me
>Driving through a major city in my car
>See a sign that says "toll road 1km"
>Look around the car.
>I don't have any change
>Consider this modern dystopia we live in.
>Think about how German peasants who had a fifty fifty chance of dying in childbirth had more freedom than me.

>be me
>waiting inline in McDonalds so I can spend a trivial amount of my income on two days worth of calories.
>"Yeah I'd like a burger that would've been impossible to make in the middle ages, a side of fries, and a chocolate thick shake"
>"Sorry" the cashier says "we can't make thick shakes right now, the machine is broken"
>Think about how technology is tyrannical.
>Think about how Ted Kaczyinsky was right.

>>20584860
Based reverse-projection cope artist

>>20584847
Smashed bumpers and broken windows is equivalent to a torn cover or ripped pages
Spine creaseage is LITERALLY the odometer of a paperback
Horrible analogy I thought this was supposed to be /lit/

>>20584822
>>20584837
LET THE COPING BEGIN!

The ad for Volume 3

Archived thread with 2 new stories
>>19449534

>>19453928
>Unused prompts
A closet full of skin suits
A dating app with extraordinary risks and rewards
The academy of Paranormal Life Coaching
A man attempts a world record
This will be India in 5 minutes
>The last sheet of paper in the world < Just been eliminated in the dead thread
What? I can’t hear you!
A first responder who summons tornadoes
A grizzled detective goes undercover on 4chan
You reap what you sow
"Please don't forget what I told you"
The location the GPS took them to seems to be a little off
A tapestry constantly being added to
Murder in the Cathedral's sanctuary
The cellar houses wine and... bodies?
Finding a one-of-a-kind book in the library stacks
A co-worker has a hidden talent
A shut-in decides to go trick-or-treating
The best way to die on a dessert island
Horrible timing for a pregnancy announcement
>Swimming through memories< Just been eliminated in the dead thread
A game of twister at a nursing home
There is a ship museum in Utah
A librarian goes blind every Thursday
Someone crashes a child’s birthday party
POV of an alley cat in Istanbul
An unusual item at the bottom of the sea
Pina coladas and long walks in the rain
A gateway opens between hell and earth
a slasher villain's first date
An elevator that doesn't work
A flooded castle, sinking into the mud < Someone has just claimed this one and is now working on it

The scheme is -
When you write a story, you then replace it with a new prompt of your own

>>19453873


The /lit/ Flash Fiction Anthology returns with 50 new stories! Thanks to cover-anon and all the writers for making this happen. Style and theme range greatly from story to story, yet at the heart of each is an artist's sincerity. So take a break with this short anthology; laugh at murder, cry with a condor, then groan about Notre Dame; join the Nevinyrral Production Company's latest escapade, slip into the mind of a painting, an evening in Verona, the beginning of an unlikely friendship.

Which stories surprised you? Do you have a favourite or top three?

>Simian Deluxe
https://archive.org/details/simian-deluxe (epub and pdf)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/simian-deluxe/paperback/product-y6z687.html (paperback at the lowest possible price)

>More /lit/ anthologies
Rags and Bones
https://archive.org/details/rags-and-bones
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/anonymous-/rags-and-bones/paperback/product-9d7gp2.html

Gifts Evil and Good
https://archive.org/details/gifts-good-and-evil
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/gifts-evil-and-good/paperback/product-mgwkgv.html

Previous threads: >>16942015 , >>16954531 , >>16978826

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>>16981015
nope

>>16978905

>>16978826
Thank you for doing this

>>16956012
Fair.

>>16955041
You really spent that much time looking for a tripcode that started with HRZ? Wow, go fuck yourself

Disregard this. This was a mistake. I'll be deleting the thread now.

Just bumping this for you all

I wanted to make a ranked chart with our favorites. Here's a survey:

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>>16946336
based

Bump. Reminder: You can nominate up to 12 books now, and if you already voted when there were only 5 to 8 options, you can go back and add some more if you like