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The End

Anthony Wang — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:33:48 -0500

No, this post isn’t the end of my blog. But it is the end of a long saga that began 123 days ago…

A while back, my friend Alek posted a story on his blog. A week later, I wanted to write a parody of it in the exact same style. And so I came up with the idea of using only words from Alek’s original story, where each word in my story appears no more times than it appears in Alek’s story. And thus, the short story series was born! Some of my friends helped continue the chain, where story $i$ only uses words from story $i-1$, counting multiplicity. We also considered making a chain where story $i$ only uses words, counting multiplicity, that were in story $i-2$ but not story $i-1$, so basically the words left over from story $i-1$. It’s kind of like the Euclidean algorithm but more cursed. I guess this would converge on a small set of words that can’t form a sentence, like a bunch of copies of “the”.

Guest Post: Short Story 5

Anthony Wang — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:52:44 -0500

This story was written by my friend Peter. It’s the fifth installment in the Short Story series and only uses words from my Short Story 4, counting multiplicity.

Zhou was falling back from a year of flashcards and tired of frequently eating instant noodles. He decided to idly do crazy math problems for a month. “11!-7!, …” Zhou screamed and threw a flashcard mountain on his head. “So Zhou-over,” Zhou muffled.

Zhou called Lin in flashcard review gear, freaking out from his grueling work. “Great, I can show up in around 7,” whispered Lin. “I ran a large 11-SAT videogame for some time.”

Maseeh

Anthony Wang — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:03:11 -0500

Once upon a time, there were three naive MIT freshman named Kanthony, Eter, and Pevin. One ordinary Tuesday, they walked into the Maseeh dining hall for lunch. There inside, they saw three lines: one line for detergent rice, which tastes like detergent and everyone who gets it immediately vomits and throws the rest of their rice away so Maseeh collects all the thrown away rice and washes it and serves it next week, one line for pizzas with grease painted on top with a paintbrush, and one line for pure helonium acid, which consists of hydrogen bonded to helium so that this molecule instantly donates a proton giving it a pH of around -50. After a taste of the vile food, the three freshmen were instantly thrown into shock and rushed to the emergency room. Scarred by their horrifying experience, they vowed to never vist Maseeh again.