50wordstories.ca » universe 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 Extroverted Suicide https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=210 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=210#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:48:10 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=210 He’d killed himself so many times that all his jokes about suicide rang hollow in his heart.

But he soldiered on, moving along the probability axis, from one alternate universe to another, killing any of his alternate selves that he found had not lived as worthy a life as his.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=210 0 Professor Threelemmings https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=171 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=171#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:29:08 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=171 Professor Threelemmings had finally completed his device.

“This device,” he announced to his assistants, “will rid the world, nay, the entire universe, of something completely unneeded. Activate the device.”

There was a sudden flash!

“What’s disappeared?” asked an assistant.

“Nothing, it seems,” said a disappointed Professor Twolemmings, after looking around.

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