50wordstories.ca » entertainment https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Death(s) https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=205 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=205#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:54:12 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=205 The last man on Earth died for the fifteenth time.

The machine jolted him back to life, repairing any damage within minutes.

It did everything to keep him happy, producing entertainment, stimulating conversations, and everything else it thought he needed.

But it could not give him a purpose.

Meaningless immortality.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=205 0 !ooohctA https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=103 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=103#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:00:15 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=103 Every time he sneezed, he would travel back in time by thirty seconds. It eventually became a major annoyance. He compensated for it by using it for his own entertainment: warping around, startling people. Then he got cocky, and provoked the wrong person. Thirty seconds later, he still hadn’t sneezed.

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