Short stories with unusual endings

Buffy · 08-29-2005

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Originally Posted by Dark Mind

Science Buffy... Science

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Ooops! I mean, er, Intelligent Retributioner Guy? If its got "intelligent" in front of it, its science right?

Intelligent-Spoon-Bending,
Buffy

infamous · 08-30-2005

Another story which comes to mind takes place on a college campus. This young lady picks up a book at the campus book store with the intention of reading it as her free time would permit. As the weeks went by, she had tryed several times to get interested in the book but could only stay focused long enough to progress through one or two chapters. She eventually put it on her book shelf and lost interest in it. Later that summer she was relating the story to a friend how she had learned that the professor she had just fallen in love with had, in fact, authored this same book. She told her friend that she had again taken up reading the book and now just couldn't put it down. Funny how love will change our minds about things.

Qfwfq · 09-06-2005

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Originally Posted by Dark Mind

Maybe she saw his reflection in a car window as he exited the building (Assuming the building had a glass door). Maybe he paused after exiting the building, thinking about what he had done.

She still couldn't have predicted his motion for the time it took her to fall. Try dropping a ripe peach on someone's head from 15 stories up.

rockytriton · 09-06-2005

hmm, I don't see how he would have it coming or that karma would be involved. I don't think that someone should be killed because they decided to change their life, she has her own life and if his change doesn't involve her, she just needs to get over it and let him be happy. death for a breakup is like an eye for a toe nail.

Dark Mind · 09-07-2005

That's very true... Plus I doubt that if she was willing to kill herself because he broke up with her that she would try to take him along with her, she obviously loved him too much

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rockytriton · 09-07-2005

It's kinda like "I can't live without you" and "If I can't have you, noone can" all in the same crazy chick.

Turtle · 09-07-2005

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Originally Posted by rockytriton

hmm, I don't see how he would have it coming or that karma would be involved. I don't think that someone should be killed because they decided to change their life, she has her own life and if his change doesn't involve her, she just needs to get over it and let him be happy. death for a breakup is like an eye for a toe nail.

___This is why I think Karma fits nicely with chaos theory. Initial conditions, plus recursion, plus Butterfly Effect means things add up in unexpected ways. Synergy; Synchronicity; Karma; Chaos; Gestures-from-the-World. It has to unfold to see the pattern. Sometimes, the pattern is an eye for a toe nail.

___One time, a friend & I went hunting for a crows nest in order to increase our power. After several hours, we found a fine nest on a too tall Fir, out on a too small branch in a secluded forest. While we contemplated our inability to climb this particular too tall tree, we walked in circles directly under the nest with our necks craned up & reckoning our situation. Suddenly, I stubbed my boot on something hard & parting the grasses I found a rusty but servicable claw hammer. We found our power that day. All crows build nests over hammers.