Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:18 AM
I'm thinking about a short story I read like literal decades ago and have long lost to the winds of time
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:18 AM
it was a comedic meta-story
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:19 AM
written as the result of a student writing exercise
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:19 AM
where two people were asked to alternate writing like page by page to compose a story together
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:19 AM
and they had. kind of different ideas about where it was going
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:20 AM
chapter 1
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:20 AM
A young woman sits at home, pondering whether or not chamomile is the appropriate tea for her current mood
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:20 AM
after being abandoned by the boy she thought was her true love
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:20 AM
chapter 2
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:21 AM
MEANWHILE, THOUSANDS OF LIGHTYEARS AWAY, Captain Brad Hardneck had better things to worry about than one sweaty night on Earth long ago.
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:21 AM
We're a space opera now
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:21 AM
Communication with the unknown alien force breaks down as they open fire on the ship, launching the captain across the bridge
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:21 AM
Chapter 3
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:21 AM
He hit his head and died instantly.
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:21 AM
But not before feeling one last moment of regret for leaving the only woman who had ever truly cared for him
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:22 AM
"Humanity bans war and space travel", she reads in the paper, as she looks out the window and ponders why one lose one's innocence in order to become a woman
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:22 AM
Chapter 4
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:22 AM
IT WAS THE LAST THING SHE THOUGHT BEFORE THE ALIEN LITHIUM-FUSION BOMBS PENETRATED THE ATMOSPHERE
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:23 AM
and it keeps escalating like this until they both give up writing more story and just start using the writing space to exchange personal insults
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:23 AM
and honestly, thinking back to it
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:23 AM
I kind of love both students
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:23 AM
for both just completely hating the story the other one wanted to write and never stopping for a second to be sensitive about it
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@lastbastion
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:25 AM
holy shit
Magical☆Gurll
@nidorina
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:25 AM
great news i'm more powerful than the winds of time and can never die
Magical☆Gurll
@nidorina
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:25 AM
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:26 AM
i found it
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:26 AM
link did not work
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:26 AM
just goes to the frontpage
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:26 AM
found it too
Magical☆Gurll
@nidorina
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:26 AM
hhhhuh. it works fine for me
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:27 AM
The English assignment
Magical☆Gurll
@nidorina
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:27 AM
okay see THAT'S going to the front page
Magical☆Gurll
@nidorina
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:27 AM
but if you right click -> copy link and paste it in the url bar it works????
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:27 AM
whatever the mystery
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:28 AM
this is the exact story
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@quinn2win
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:28 AM
thank you
Magical☆Gurll
@nidorina
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:28 AM
happy to help
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 2:32 AM
this was amazing, thank you for sharing
Lightning Bolt
@graygriffin
Fri, Jan 21, 2022 4:18 AM
i love that ending
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