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Prompt: Covid-19 Dark Fic Humor
Mar. 23rd, 2020 08:53 pmTwitter - Howard Tayler
"Every time you break isolation, someone will die," said the djinn. "But it will be a person you do not know."
"Harsh, but I have work to do," said the man.
"Done," said the djinn. "And good luck. I am granting this wish to ten thousand people who do not know YOU."
****
The man laughed after the djinn left, for he wasn't really a man. He scanned his list of his next 500 calculating that it would take 20 similar length lists to get to 10,000. With a sigh he carefully folded the list and put it in his pocket and gave a chuckle. There was a classic movie he'd been saving just for this type of occasion and he'd have to check his contract as to the possibility of djinn ever appearing on his list or if it was a typo.
And then there's:
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
The Nameless City By H. P. Lovecraft
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/nc.aspx
"Every time you break isolation, someone will die," said the djinn. "But it will be a person you do not know."
"Harsh, but I have work to do," said the man.
"Done," said the djinn. "And good luck. I am granting this wish to ten thousand people who do not know YOU."
****
The man laughed after the djinn left, for he wasn't really a man. He scanned his list of his next 500 calculating that it would take 20 similar length lists to get to 10,000. With a sigh he carefully folded the list and put it in his pocket and gave a chuckle. There was a classic movie he'd been saving just for this type of occasion and he'd have to check his contract as to the possibility of djinn ever appearing on his list or if it was a typo.
And then there's:
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
The Nameless City By H. P. Lovecraft
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/nc.aspx
