#the heat death of the universe

[perpetual-dread-machine]

The time period between 3 am and ,4 am is longer than any other hour

[miss-katsune]

I survived the heat death of the universe and all I got was this lousy achievment

[almondsarecool]

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"The Heat Death of the Universe" is available to read here

[flopp-idk]

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

EXHALATION by Ted Chiang (2008) (link) - tw: apocalypse, death

Every day we consume two lungs heavy with air; every day we remove the empty ones from our chest and replace them with full ones.

THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE by Pamela Zoline (1988) (link) - tw: apocalypse, animal death

All the objects (819) and surfaces in the living room are dusty, gray common dust as though this were the den of a giant molting mouse. Suddenly quantities of waves or particles of very strong sunlight speed in through the window, and everything incandesces, multiple rainbows. Poised in what has become a solid cube of light, like an ancient insect trapped in amber, Sarah Boyle realizes that the dust is indeed the most beautiful stuff in the room, a manna for the eyes.

[espyrat]

JANUARY 19TH 2024. THE PLASTIC DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE.JANUARY 19TH 2024. THE PLASTIC DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE.JANUARY 19TH 2024. THE PLASTIC DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE.

[dontaskchaosandco]

see you in 13 years folks lol

[rodentbehaviour-on-main]

[argarock]

they need to make suction cups out of whatever the last piece of ravioli in a can is made of- those things are fucking magnetic i swear to god

[ryanryanryanryanryanryanryanryan]

Milked off luaghing

[perpetual-dread-machine]

DOCTOR. 50CCS OF TGIRL TUMMY TUESDAY STAT!!!!

[ajeckaea]

Discord, a ninetieth montage. Guest starring Aloftcord.

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy birthday to Edwin Hubble, the (well meaning) chicken little who cried "The universe is expanding! The universe is exanding!" Yes, yes it is, Edwin . . . for now

(The link below explains what really happens. You can trust what I say is true because I'm from the future.)

[yassqueenkaliuchisstan1971]

[warblingandwriting]

There are things to be hoped for, accomplishments to be desired beyond the mere reproductions, mirror reproduction of one's kind

-"The Heat Death of the Universe", Pamela Zoline, 1967. (Full Story)

‘Immortality. That’s whit weans are, y’ken? An endless line of weans through history, y’ken?’

-Under the Skin, Michel Faber, 2000.

It is interesting to me to see the way children as legacy are treated differently by different authors. Zoline, writing about a house wife, sees it as a sort of fruitless striving to do something that doesn't really mean or do anything for the self, whereas Faber, writing from the perspective of an expectant father, views it as a sort of immortality.