2 month ago
deusx : found_objects: literally the greatest book i have ever read - "PLEASE KEEP IN MIND WHILE READING THIS WAS WRITTEN BY A FOURTH GRADER. THAT SIMPLE FACT WILL MAKE THE STORY ONLY A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER."
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3 month ago
gleuschk : David Foster Wallace: The depressed person - short story - The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
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5 month ago
philgyford : Goings On: Online Only: The New Yorker - Syndey Pollack looked for "the ache" in stories. "It is the ache of having one chance at deep love in a lifetime of shallow loves, and losing it too early." Yes, that's it exactly. (via Daring Fireball)
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6 month ago
gleuschk : osmium: in which the hero is just josh - ye olden dayes
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10 month ago
deusx : Elizabeth Bear - Fiction - Tideline - "Chalcedony wasn't built for crying. She didn't have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her."
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12 month ago
deusx : Creepypasta - Encyclopedia Dramatica - "Creepypasta are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers of a Creepy Thread on /b/."
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12 month ago
adamrg : Things They Don't Teach You In Library School
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14 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : $5 Chocolate Bar - “Give me a brass gorilla and I feel all right.” ∞
deusx : $5 Chocolate Bar (Ftrain.com) - "Weeping is like a five-dollar chocolate bar. Someone else could enjoy it but I feel guilty opening the wrapper. I have a girlfriend and Halo."
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15 month ago
deusx : Having Fun - Twitfic! Part 4 - "Twitfics are extremely short stories that I've been writing on Twitter. The maximum length of a Twitter message is 140 characters; however, the maximum length of a twitfic is 131 characters, because each one begins with the word TWITFIC! and a space
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gleuschk : Why Mathematics is Boring - research papers should tell a story
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20 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows » Failsafe - "Do: Leave at least one hatch interlock open while on EVA."
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21 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows » 124 - "So, Paul, you’re profiting off of the crimes and careers of 123 of the world’s greatest criminals."
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21 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows - Frame of Reference - "Therefore, I must be the center of the universe. Everything does revolve around me."
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22 month ago
gleuschk : Heading East: Creation Myths. - On parenthood. via kfan? I think?
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23 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows » One in a Trillion - "Did it ever occur to you that simply no one’s interested in what you have to say?"
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24 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows ? Space Walk - "I wonder if survival is different for some people, like we evolved from different apes. Some people panic, scream and run while some people just turn off and sublimate."
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25 month ago
deusx : They're Made Out of Meat - "Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
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25 month ago
philgyford : The Hemingway Challenge « Gauravonomics - 25 six word stories from famous authors, plenty better than this week's much-linked-to few in Wired, but still non as good as Hemingway's.
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26 month ago
gleuschk : I read until my eyes exploded | MetaFilter - very short stories: just six words
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26 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows � If You Love Someone - "She had no choice but to let him die tonight. She knew neither of them could survive him ever being killed again."
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27 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows - Water of Life - Whoo... like a very good, grim O Henry story.
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gleuschk : Tina S. Chang's Blog - "Perelman's Song" - smooth out my singularities, heh heh nudge nudge
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28 month ago
philgyford : 55 word stories - Some lovely stories here, conveniently short and ideally suited to the short-haul commuter or the busy housewife. (via Said the Gramophone)
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Hi, Mom! - "People emerge from addiction like newborns."
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deusx : 365 tomorrows - In Hindsight… - "Although we cannot see Saturn, I’m sure the view of your new mini-star is quite spectacular from Earth, especially at night."
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