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I need a story small enough to read on my

  • I need a story small enough to read on my phone.

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  • I tape word inched along measuring its sentence.

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  • The tape word inched along measuring its sentence. Some folks showed up and taped the word worm on him; they were itching to measure his sentience

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  • but he just kept measuring sentences until he came to the end of the book. Then he leaped off the table and inched his way into a hole in the wall filled with encyclopedias.

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  • Dr. Edgars was elated to have successfully engineered his first artificial life form: a literal bookworm. But now he needed to find it in that wall of encyclopedias, for he wanted

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  • to create an entire ecosystem of bookanimals, and he needed that worm's DNA. He ripped out a page and made an origami bird, hoping to scare the bookworm out of the encyclopedias.

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  • The bookworm revealed he was his late Uncle Johann. Johann was reborn to remember the meaning of books. His font was still in use when he died in 1815.

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  • I was in the next room,1817, at the hospital, in traction. I heard this Uncle Johann bloke scream an enochian curse and then he died. I moved the only muscle I could to alert the

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  • nurse, but unfortunately it was in an unmentionable location. The nurse snorted and left my hospital room. Meanwhile outside, dead Uncle Johann's curse was bending space, and I

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  • found myself existing in multiple locations at one time. I felt myself experiencing every possible emotion at once. I became an omnipotent observer. I became everything everywhere.

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2 Comments

  1. lucielucie Jan 30 2018 @ 17:11

    Turned out to be quite a big story.

  2. SlimWhitman Jan 30 2018 @ 17:26

    Tape words have a tendency to grow from fold to fold: http://foldingstory.com/5nbf9/

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