Discussion Thread -- May 2022 75 Word Writing Challenge

M. Robert Gibson said:
Brownie points for anyone who gets the Infinity connection.
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We care, but I bet people would really care if you offered actual brownies instead of brownie points. There's a biscuit barrel of dubious manufacture around here somewhere that seems capable of producing any food stuff on demand, I'd start there if I were you. You could really get stuck in a use a pitchfork to sling brownies around if you fancy it, as Bowler1 waves a pitchfork temptingly (which is surprisingly hard to do and I have a few recent scars to prove the point).
 
If anyone else is struggling to write a story about infinity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word 'infinite'.

INFINITE: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real “wow, that’s big,” time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks real titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we’re trying to get across here.”
 
Didn’t want to fake you guys out this time. ;)

Christine Wheelwright / Who is really in control of our world? Probably not Sting.

BT Jones / Rushing towards infinity without understanding our limits could be our extinction.

chrispenycate / There is insurmountable distance between our souls and bodies, or even the words that embody us- which we will never see or hear.

Bowler1 / Young people are so afraid of dying, never realizing that memories are so fleeting.

Daysman / We can find the infinite from the horizon of our eyelids.

JS Wiig / Our questions of Control and Power have the simplest conclusion- we are our own malefactor.

Guttersnipe / The platitudes we tell ourselves are more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

paranoid marvin / An introspective analysis of who plays God.

Aknot / Sisyphus was intrigued to discover that his beetle buddy died in a state of vacuity.

Wayne Mack / We were among infinity all along!

Bramandin / What our choices reveal to us never reveal their opposition.

OuttaInc / A chilling story about the inevitability of being lost in reflection.

Starbeast / Recklessly discovering infinity in the salty taste of a bubbly drink.

Hugh / Understanding too much is not proportional to what we control.

mosaix / Time revolves the same as always and we don’t have the courage to change it.

Parson / As our memory fades we create new memories that also fade.

M. Robert Gibson / As if the human equation were not more complex than that.

DF17 / If we look at the fleeting with infinite joy, the memories might never leave us.

Lex E. Darion / Whatever we understand about ourselves is only a choice of æsthetic.

Elckerlyc / Do we really need to solemnly think about the unanswered, or can we share a laugh about it?
 
therapist said:
If anyone else is struggling to write a story about infinity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word 'infinite'.

INFINITE: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real “wow, that’s big,” time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks real titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we’re trying to get across here.”
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That's 60 words. Leaves you 15 to turn that into a story. Something like:
Last Tuesday I met something infinite. Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real “wow, that’s big,” time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks real titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we’re trying to get across here.
It got in the way of where I was going.
 
Elckerlyc said:
Last Tuesday I met something infinite. Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real “wow, that’s big,” time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks real titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we’re trying to get across here.
It got in the way of where I was going.
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This is so much better than the story i've been working on.
 
Plagiarism? Accept that the quote was sited, I would never have known that it wasn't some wise guy's attempt to to make humor. Wait a minute. That's just what it is. Another very good reason I've never read Hitchiker's Guide. And I have zero interest in it.
 
@Lex E. Darion .... He’s Been Here Before! .... Sometimes infinity finds its unexpected expression in a series of regular lives.

@Elckerlyc .... Consult, 5 mins. .... Sometimes a consultation takes the sting out of infinity.

@therapist .... The Infinite Room Hotel .... Sometimes infinity gives an impossible problem an unlikely solution.

@reiver33 .... Beginnings .... Sometimes a choice of infinity is really no choice at all.

@Ursa major .... Live Long and Fester? .... Sometimes the infinite revenge is led off by a pun that makes us all groan.
 
Well, I've seen other people do the whole "I liked these stories fairly well, and then this one is the one I'm voting for," thing before, and so I figured I'd join in this month. However, I'll try to be slightly innovative and rank all the stories that stood out to me from most liked to least liked but still liked. I'll also list the one I voted for separately and at the end of this comment in order to build suspense.

Stand Outs:
  1. With a Little Help No Task is Futile by Aknot
  2. Just Press Repeat by SRDFrench
  3. Disappointing revelations by StilLearning
  4. Eternal Afterlife of Pi by Peter V
  5. The Infinite Room Hotel by Therapist
  6. The Grass Is Always the Same Colour... by mosaix
Voted For:
  1. Starburst Wishes by Bren G: Really liked how you took stellar bodies and made them feel human. Great job!
 
Great topic and great stories as always, thanks to everyone who submitted and thanks to our intrepid reviewers!

As for my vote:
@Luiglin for a haunting look at losing one’s self to the siren song of the infinite void
 
therapist / How much money does “The Infinite Room Hotel” really make?

reiver33 / A miasma of psychedelic imagery permeates this story of eternal peace… but at what cost?

Ursa major / The sabotaged professor strikes back at his saboteur.

Voted for @chrispenycate.
 
Bowler1 said:
We care, but I bet people would really care if you offered actual brownies instead of brownie points. There's a biscuit barrel of dubious manufacture around here somewhere that seems capable of producing any food stuff on demand, I'd start there if I were you. You could really get stuck in a use a pitchfork to sling brownies around if you fancy it, as Bowler1 waves a pitchfork temptingly (which is surprisingly hard to do and I have a few recent scars to prove the point).
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Leave the biscuit barrel out of this, dispenses the best biscuits ever, not other food stuff and it's not of dubious manufacture, @Perpetual Man gifted it to tearoom.
 
nixie said:
Leave the biscuit barrel out of this, dispenses the best biscuits ever, not other food stuff and it's not of dubious manufacture, @Perpetual Man gifted it to tearoom.
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Bowler1 gives the Biscuit Barrel a kick, like you would kick the tyres of a clapped out motor on an East London second hand car lot.

From Perp you say???
And just biscuits you say???

I nip in and grab a custard cream and have a nibble.

I grab a few custard creams just to be sure and saunter off humming the theme tune of Minder.
 
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