BigJ
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- Joined
- Oct 2, 2012
- Messages
- 278
Congratulations @Phyrebrat on a resounding victory!
Thanks to @therapist, @johnnyjet, @Yozh, and @Daysman for the mentions/listings/whatnot, and a very special thanks to @Lawrence Twiddy and @The Judge for the votes. I think the story I had in my head was a bit much for 75 words; I'm glad enough of it survived the cutting to get the response that it did.
I'd been ruminating on an idea about humanity destroying the Earth in a nuclear war and then a teenager hitting reset on the simulation, when I stumbled on the recently released music video for Lost by Linkin Park, which is a previously unreleased song they'd recorded for their album Meteora from 2003. It was an emotional track and a real nostalgia hit, especially knowing how the frontman Chester Bennington took his own life six years ago, and that whole thing got stuck in my head, particularly after I found a stat saying that something like 70% of people who survive a suicide attempt never attempt again.
Couldn't get the thought out of my head, so I put it on the page. Stole the concept of Harry Potter waking up in a spiritual King's Cross after Voldemort "kills" him (but instead of Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, we have . . . Bob), added a dash of tragedy resulting from one's perceptions not matching reality and tried to end it on a hopeful note.
It's funny how a 75 worder can be anything from a setup to a deliciously awful one-liner pun, to a microcosm of a part of the human experience, and how depending on the month I might vote for either one!
Thanks to @therapist, @johnnyjet, @Yozh, and @Daysman for the mentions/listings/whatnot, and a very special thanks to @Lawrence Twiddy and @The Judge for the votes. I think the story I had in my head was a bit much for 75 words; I'm glad enough of it survived the cutting to get the response that it did.
I'd been ruminating on an idea about humanity destroying the Earth in a nuclear war and then a teenager hitting reset on the simulation, when I stumbled on the recently released music video for Lost by Linkin Park, which is a previously unreleased song they'd recorded for their album Meteora from 2003. It was an emotional track and a real nostalgia hit, especially knowing how the frontman Chester Bennington took his own life six years ago, and that whole thing got stuck in my head, particularly after I found a stat saying that something like 70% of people who survive a suicide attempt never attempt again.
Couldn't get the thought out of my head, so I put it on the page. Stole the concept of Harry Potter waking up in a spiritual King's Cross after Voldemort "kills" him (but instead of Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, we have . . . Bob), added a dash of tragedy resulting from one's perceptions not matching reality and tried to end it on a hopeful note.
It's funny how a 75 worder can be anything from a setup to a deliciously awful one-liner pun, to a microcosm of a part of the human experience, and how depending on the month I might vote for either one!