17th Anni OTHER Literary Works Category

[Fyrd Argentus]

Please post here any literary works that do not fit in any other category.  This includes poetry of any style, and works that missed the deadline for their theme.

Edited April 13, 2022 by Fyrd Argentus

[Fyrd Argentus]

Lashtal's story (got 4 votes on chat)

[21/04/22 21:25] lashtal:Ok, I have a story too.
[21/04/22 21:26] lashtal:Not sure it fits to "shaggy dog" genre though.
[21/04/22 21:26] Fyrd Argentus:Okay, but it will be in the "other theme" a this point.
[21/04/22 21:26] Fyrd Argentus:Unless it's horror, that's still coming.
[21/04/22 21:27] Fyrd Argentus:Or humor, inspiration, conspiracy theories, or an origin story.
[21/04/22 21:27] lashtal:Partly horror, or weird, partly comic. I don't know.
[21/04/22 21:27] lashtal:With absurd morale.
[21/04/22 21:27] lashtal:A mess really
[21/04/22 21:27] Fyrd Argentus:OTHER sounds right.
[21/04/22 21:28] Fyrd Argentus:Please proceed.
[21/04/22 21:29] lashtal:This story comes from a dream I had. Like most of my stories.
[21/04/22 21:29] :Chewett worries about the dream
[21/04/22 21:29] lashtal:There were this large company of folks having dinner all together.
[21/04/22 21:29] lashtal:Or should I say freaks?
[21/04/22 21:29] lashtal:Anyway, I was among them.
[21/04/22 21:30] lashtal:The one sitting next to me had one ear where his mouth should have been, and viceversa.
[21/04/22 21:30] lashtal:The dinner had many courses, at least a dozen.
[21/04/22 21:30] lashtal:As long as we got closer to the dessert, the courses got progressively weirder.
[21/04/22 21:30] lashtal:Similar to the ones eating them. Or at least, their faces.
[21/04/22 21:30] lashtal:At one point I had enough and decided to run home.
[21/04/22 21:31] lashtal:There I met my father. There was a pimple on his neck.
[21/04/22 21:31] lashtal:It progressively swelled, until a spider came out of it.
[21/04/22 21:31] lashtal:Then the spider grew wings.
[21/04/22 21:31] lashtal:As my father and I were trying to squash it, it increased in size at each failed attempt.
[21/04/22 21:31] lashtal:But in the end we managed it!
[21/04/22 21:32] lashtal:We squashed the strange insect when it was almost as big as a hand.
[21/04/22 21:32] lashtal:The sound was... priceless.
[21/04/22 21:32] lashtal:Then a voice reached my head. It was the morale of the story.
[21/04/22 21:32] lashtal:It said, literally:
[21/04/22 21:32] lashtal:“You had infinite ways to wash your arse...
[21/04/22 21:33] lashtal:... But you lost them all in gambling”
[21/04/22 21:33] lashtal:I don’t think it makes any sense, but I woke up laughing.
[21/04/22 21:33] Fyrd Argentus:We'll let the voters (and forum votes) decide....