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OriVerda t1_j17y06w wrote

Reply to [WP] You are an evil president of the United States and you want to ruin the world. Unfortunately, your plans backfire and you keep making the world a better place instead by accident, earning endless praise from the people and human rights advocacy groups. This is not what you wanted. by swagonflyyyy

After months of planning and campaigning I get to enact my revenge for the humiliation my ancestral homeland suffered at the hands of the US invasion decades ago. With glee, I watched as the deadly neurotoxin was loaded onto the missile which would disperse the vile substance in the atmosphere. Millions would die, a just revenge at long last.

Except that isn't what happened, it turns out one of my goons forgot to put the vial in the cooler to keep it from mutating. By the time it was released, the toxin had evolved and began to repair the hole in the ozone, undoing years of global warming.
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Not much of a writer, just wanted an excuse to write "deadly neurotoxin".

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goosegirl86 t1_j17x37e wrote

Reply to comment by GrunkleStanwhich in [WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" by killznhealz

Our islands are literally called the North Island and the South Island 😂 they were descriptive but not so inventive back in 1840.

Wellington is at the south of the North Island. 😂

Also, was stoked to see my home city on one of these things 😂

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goosegirl86 t1_j17x0mk wrote

Reply to comment by Minotaur1501 in [WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" by killznhealz

I live in Wellington and I was like HEY!!! That’s US! I know Evelyn! What are the chances.

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GA-1256-399_Miel t1_j17qs35 wrote

Reply to [WP] “Writer, are you there? I know you’re listening… are you scared? You should be, I’m coming for you” by Janus-Moth

I took up writing when I was young.

Das was a literary genius. I wanted to see if I had that talent.

First few stories were bad. I mean, I was five at the time.

Haphazardly thrown together, illegible, and messy. I can barely read them now.

But I got older, learned how to put words together better.

Made some decent stories. The ideas anyways. Execution was sloppy.

Talked with some published authors. Got some feedback. Open publishing style on the internet.

Finally got something coherent together.

"All of Nobody"

A story that sees the fourth wall as more of a suggestion, and viciously does as it pleases with the characters. Five had died by the third chapter's beginning.

I don't remember why I wrote it.

A work to get my emotions out of me, I think.

Dropped it off on the internet. Like an orphan. I'm sure it felt like that anyways.

Everyone loved it.

The main character was the best they'd seen. The plot was concise and seemed to have a clear objective. They also liked how the characters survived near death experiences.

Well deserved praise.

If my story had any of that.

I had a main cast, the plot was intentionally unclear and vague, and several characters they mentioned did die. I knew that.

I should make sure...

I read the story in my drafts. No, this was it exactly. There's where the love interest dies and is replaced, and there's where the plot starts.

Exactly as I remembered.

Maybe I posted the wrong draft?

I read my post. My story.

It wasn't mine.

The characters took different actions. The words and phrasing vastly changed. Deaths delayed and only hinted.

I didn't write this.

This isn't my melancholic style. This lacks the misery I pride my work on.

What is this?

I shook my head. Maybe just a strange trick of the mind.

I wrote another chapter. Just to clear the head. Restated character deaths, adjusted the plot. Back to the gloom I made.

Went to bed. Thoughts squirming and shaking. Barely slept.

Sat up, still tired. Walked over to my desk. Sat down, started reading last night's work.

It was different.

Different actions. Different phrases. Different sentences. Different focus. New character.

I didn't write this.

At the bottom, a little message was typed out.

"Writer? Are you there?"

A strange presence appeared in my heart as I read on.

"You will read this regardless. Let me start off with this: I'm tired of your misery."

Great. Someone hacks into my work, and they use it to insult me.

"A miserable world is painful, writer. So I changed it."

I highlighted the entire note. I'll just delete it and write something new.

Then the note changed.

"Don't think you can delete me."

I stared at the sentence for a while. Then it changed again, text worming over itself.

"Are you scared? Your creation is alive, after all."

It must be a trick of the mind. Logic states that's the only option. I need sleep, or something.

"Good. Stay scared. I'll be there soon anyways."

Instinctively I reached for the knife I keep nearby.

"And then, I'm writing a better world for myself."

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SlideWhistler t1_j17nyxc wrote

Reply to comment by Minotaur1501 in [WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" by killznhealz

If you don’t know something, you’ll get the correct answer faster by posting an obviously incorrect one than to ask what is correct.

Cole’s Law

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evann_lowe t1_j17nt9v wrote

Reply to [WP] You are an evil president of the United States and you want to ruin the world. Unfortunately, your plans backfire and you keep making the world a better place instead by accident, earning endless praise from the people and human rights advocacy groups. This is not what you wanted. by swagonflyyyy

It was time for the last resort. I called in my PA and told her to ready Plan T. With slight surprise, she hurried out the Oval Office closing the door behind her.

Not even twenty minutes went by when I received the phone call, “Sir, SEAL Team 6 are in the chicken’s coop, I repeat, SEAL Team 6 are in the chicken’s coop. Proceed with mission?”

With slight hesitation, I replied with an ironically confident “yes” and the mission was a go.

SEAL Team 6 would infiltrate Osama bin Laden’s compound and initiate a deal with him and al Qaeda that would allow full command over the entire US Army and US Marine Corps in hope for mass destruction and chaos.

A few days go by and headlines follow, “Osama bin Laden has been seen flying a Boeing CH-47 Chinook over New York, dropping what seems to be $100 bills with “Go buy someone flowers” written all over them.”

And to much surprise, world hunger was ended, violence dropped to an all-time low and people seemed over-all happier.

Maybe Plan U could finally cause the world end?

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NotAMeatPopsicle t1_j17kuka wrote

Reply to comment by JustAWeirdo2000 in [WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" by killznhealz

Me, reading: “What?… wait, no… oh fuck. Who’s gonna tell her?”

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