What’s more inspiring than inspirational posters… created by an AI??
Let’s use inspirobt’s hilarious “motivational” posters as inspiration for some super-short stories!
During the last stream, a subscriber requested that we write stories based on the auto-generated inspirational posters made by inspirobot.
(You can check out inspirobot here.)
Watch the full stream here.
Prompt #1 (Tie)
Here’s what we wrote:
Famine from climate change. War from bloodthirsty leaders. Insane inequality between the rich and poor. Endless pandemics from endlessly mutating diseases.
The world seemed like it was finally going to fall off the event horizon into an inescapable vortex of chaos and anarchy… until an idea came from an unlikely place.
“Friends,” started the legendary announcement of multi-trillionaire Mason Tyrone to ninety-six percent of Earth’s population. “We’re all struggling, together. Now is not the time to seek glory. Now is the time to act selfless. For each other… by consuming each other.”
He went on to explain his Cannibalism Prime offer: ten thousand dollars to the families of each person who offered themself up to be voluntarily devoured by their local community. Plus a max-size three-by-three inch photo thumbtacked on the Commemorative Corkboard at their town hall.
“They say jobs are a real meat grinder,” Mason continued. “Well, I say, why work in the meat grinder when you can be the meat?”
It was an instant success. Towns were fed. Cities were declogged. Warring nations shook peaceful hands over feasts of each others’ citizens.
The only regrets people had was not offering themselves sooner. The ten-thousand dollars quickly halved due to incredible demand, then halved again and again, all the way until countless people were throwing themselves at the Fulfillment Centers for a few hundred bucks.
Mason Tyrone’s company posted record profits that year, as he declared in yet another announcement.
“Don’t seek glory,” he said with a smile to the remaining fifty-two percent of Earth’s population. “Be consumed. Be a hero.”
Prompt #2
Here’s what we wrote:
The first time I realized that I processed emotions a little differently than others was during third grade story time. Our teacher, Mrs. Applebell, was reading us Old Yeller. Why she picked a story where the dog died to read to a bunch of third-graders sitting criss-cross applesauce on the carpet around her is beyond me.
But my reaction to when it happened is still crystal clear. And it makes perfect sense.
When the kid had to shoot his own dog, all the other boys and girls were blubbering like the broken water fountain down the hall. Me though, I was the only one who laughed.
It was just so funny. Here was this dog, that this kid had wanted for so long and gotten so attached to, and then bam! He had to be the one to put down its rabies ass.
We laugh at jokes with worse punchlines all the time. Not to mention when people legitimately get hurt by falling down on their butts or something. Cue laughtrack, am I right? Finding humor in tragedy is good. It’s healthy.
Which is why I didn’t understand when, now a few decades later, Mark didn’t laugh when I showed him how I’d taxidermied his dead dog Spiffy.
It was hilarious! I’d found Spiffy all mangled in my backyard, probably a bear attack or something, so instead of carrying the corpse in a bag to Mark’s place, I’d rearranged the fur and limbs into a Franken-canine Statue of Liberty.
I’ll admit the stitching was a little loose in places and there were some liquids dribbling out around the spiked crown, but hey, it’s the thought that’s supposed to count, right?
Mark just yelled at me. Screamed he was calling the cops as he took out his phone. Said something about how he knew I was a creep ever since third grade, blah blah blah.
Anyway, long story short, now I have a taxidermied Liberty Bell of Mark. It took a lot of stretched flesh to make it life sized, not to mention shaving off all that hair so it’d be nice and smooth too. But it’s worth it; the bell’s crack is even made with Mark’s real crack!
No leaks this time either. I’m getting better and better at this.
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Featured image: Pakutaso