Roommates Wanted by darkliquid
Theme: Tenant
A brutal, surreal anticapitalist incursion of white-collar professionals, cut-throat provision of basic necessities, and lots and lots of rats.
Three things I liked:
- "I have no time for anyone whose backgrounds includes ever having been: Goths (occult),"
- "The landlord napping in the conservatory, rats crawling all over him."
- "A rat splitting open, miniature humans spilling out of its guts."
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Trophy Keno by shwac
Theme: Forecast
A GMful variant on Trophy using lyrical fragments and abstract prompts—simultaneously bizarre fantasy and introspective journey.
Three things I liked:
- "a FIELD—an ancient, keyless LUMEN-TILLER—we call this our TEMPTATION"
- "RAIN—a flying mistake made 100 years ago—we call this TERROR"
- "NOTHING ELSE—nothing else—we call this TERROR / nothing else—a need to make certain this is so—we call this our TEMPTATION"
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Brutal Grove by seanfsmith
Theme: Architecture
A journey through an increasingly artificially twisted and unnatural forest that likewise twists the hunters in artificial, homoncular ways.
Three things I liked:
- "here there's no soil, only roots."
- "a vast copy of a desired item"
- "a little owl with long fingerthin legs"
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A Sacrifice in Vein by TinyVolcanoClub
Theme: Volcano
A collapsing empire—faded, sulfurous gem of a capitol city—gold and jade and more besides—all in the shadow of a mighty volcano that sleeps. For now.
Three things I liked:
- "Disgraced Apothecary: poisons"
- "Bursts of multicolored smoke that jet from multiple obsidian dog statues outside the temple entrance."
- "The purpose of this adornment becomes clear when they are cast down into the lava."
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NO FEAR by yours truly, Speak the Sky
Theme: Ladder
A body-hunting expedition up the tallest mountain on earth, in search of a wealthy mountaineer who vanished there in the past. If the mountain doesn't take you... what lives atop will.
Three things I liked (writing):
- "Drive: Punish myself / Drive: Spit in the face of god"
- "What suggests that the bodies didn't haphazardly fall, but were insightfully arranged?"
- "It's been a long, long time since you've been able to truly rest in your life. Why?"