I was laying in bed, eating some Jolly Ranchers, watching The Empire Strikes Back where Luke goes to the swamps of Degobah, with two broken arms, when my mom walks in to convey some disturbing news.

“You’re a character in a story that’s trying to be funny by referencing memes, but luckily, it’s only a two-sentence one so it’ll be over soon, unless the sentences are run-ons…”

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u/Outside_Normal — 14 days ago

My estranged father called me telling me he wanted to reconnect.

Normally, I would have been ecstatic, but I had just gotten off the phone with my recently deceased grandmother”s lawyer informing me she left everything to me.

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u/Outside_Normal — 14 days ago

The wailing of the air raid siren woke me from my slumber where I apparently vomited up the pills I took the previous night.

"So much for a quick and painless death," I thought bitterly to myself just as I was blinded by the flash of the bomb.

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u/Outside_Normal — 17 days ago

The black hole destroyed the very last of the Galactic Federation.

With the death of this ancient civilization, the humans on Earth, a trillion light years away, unknowingly became truly alone in the universe.

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u/Outside_Normal — 1 month ago

When we got married, our vows included the typical "until death do we part" bit.

Signing the divorce papers, we never would have guessed our love for each other would die long before either of us did.

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u/Outside_Normal — 1 month ago