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The cosmos shifted in it’s own beauty ,the colors of the distant galaxies a beacon of light in the hypnotic abyss of deep space. With the flow of the universe like a vast unending sea, was a ship, large, strong, and beautiful. All of the windows of the ship gleamed with the distant dance of stars older than any life. The hull of the ship was as hypnotic as the void, reflective, and hidden within the grasp of the it. It was the year… uh, 2 million, and uh, six! Yeah, six. In this ship a man named Henry was playing chess with his son,the archaic wooden pieces danced across the board, their stance seemingly bias to his so-. “ WOW, WHO EVEN PLAYS CHESS ANYMORE IT'S NOT MY FAULT I'M BAD AT IT!” said Henry, ANNOYINGLY!” …show more content…
Then, suddenly he thought of a genius idea, he ran to the kitchen and retrieved the monkey's paw. “ I wish for an normal name… and for the author stop being so annoying” Icy said hastily. He then ran to the copy of his birth certificate hoping for the best. However, he lost all hope when he saw the fedora. Fedora guy left his fedora on his birth certificate. Something was going to be seriously wrong. Also what were they going to call fedora guy now, Completely not suspicious obviously normal guy because he's not wearing a fedora!? Icy lifted the suspicious hat and found something horrible! Bob had written in crayon “A normal name!”and , as evident the author was no longer annoying, but really annoying! What was Icy now “a normal guy” going to do? I don't think that you need to ask by you wished for a “normal name”.” yeah, yeah i got that.” a Normal name said. Now a normal name did not know what to do, he did know that the monkeys paw was bad juju and decided to no use his last wish as a last resort.he thought about it for days. He finally came to one conclusion, he was royally screwed because the AUTHOR made it that way. A normal guy, in defeat decided to just wish for he story to progress the way it was supposed to, without him breaking the fourth wall, and without his name being changed. Now he had a normal name, Henry and all was ok, but...his son is now, kinda.. Dead. so yeah… ha
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