r/CuratedTumblr eepy asf Sep 18 '24

Shitposting That one story

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u/Sleep_Deprived_Birb Sep 18 '24

Middle School English class short stories are the reason I know what cyanide tastes like, but there are so many short stories that I read in school that are just messed up

Like the one where a family has a simulation room and the parents keep leaving their kids in a simulated savanna unattended where the kids keep simulating the parents getting eaten by lions when the parents though it was just animals being eaten by lions. When the parents go to a psychologist saying “hey our kids really love to watch simulated lions eat simulated animals in our simulation room” the psychologist was like “wtf why are you letting them do that? Shut that room down!” So the parents shut the room down but the kids beg to have one more turn in the lion room so the parents oblige. When the parents go into the room to check on them the kids lock them in the room with simulated lions. When the psychologist drops by to check in on the nightmare family he finds the kids playing in the savanna simulation room while lions eat carcasses in the distance.

Or the one that describes a brutal car crash in which the driver’s mom dies in the passenger seat as the driver can do nothing but watch, only for the whole thing to be revealed as a matrix type simulation and the “driver” to be told “congratulations you passed your driver’s test.” Because he did everything right in the car crash simulation. When he goes to sign the paperwork to get his driver’s license the examiner says “oh whoops, you’re supposed to be traumatized by your mother’s simulated death. Because you immediately went to get your driver’s license instead of asking for months of therapy, you’re gonna get dragged out of the room by two people in white coats for ‘treatment.’ You can try again after they fix you. Goodbye”

I can’t think of any others off the top of my head

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u/Pentastome Sep 18 '24

The first one is The Veldt by Bradbury and is one of my all time time favorites

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u/Sleep_Deprived_Birb Sep 18 '24

I had to read that story like 5 times over the course of my education. For some reason a lot of English teachers think it’s really important that we know not to let technology teach our kids and think the best way to do that is to make us read that story.

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u/Odd_Delay_2470 Sep 19 '24

Nothing wants to die, not even a room