Doomscrolling on
Ask not for whom the doom trends
World War III is trending
Again.
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Banality of horror.
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Nothing is incomprehensible
To the
Algorithm.
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World War III
Is trending.
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Again.
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It trends for thee.
About the Creator
Roderick Makim
Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.
I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.
For more: www.roderickmakim.com
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The Longest Minute
A minute. Sixty seconds to say goodbye. That’s all the time that I had left with him as the needle slid into his leg. I stared into his drooping eyes, looked at the blood-tainted saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth. They said that this was the best thing that we could do for him, a last kind act for a best friend…but if that were the case, then why did my heart feel so heavy?
By Stephanie Hoogstad5 days ago in Fiction
Comments (2)
We’re being primed for it. Funny how our brains glom on, as if we have no agency to stop it… That ending is so spooky, though. Eugh. 😵💫
Amazing 🤩🤩🤩 excellent story