Cornelius Cornelius the Zombie

The first Zombie to be killed by a zombie was called Cornelius Cornelius, and he was a hell of a guy.

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PROMPT: The zombie outbreak started 60 years ago, but with some good crisis management they were all killed. There are now very careful procedures for the government to deal with the dead. However, some who don’t remember the outbreak think zombies are not real and decide it’s ok to bury their own dead.

So what happens when the people who did know about the zombie outbreak are their own dead. Well, they usually get very angry, shoot them and then say that really, they don’t know anything about it. That way they get a name, a nickname, a promise that something would be done about it, or evidence that the thing was happening.

The first Zombie to be killed by a zombie was called Cornelius Cornelius, and he was a hell of a guy.

He had a very clear idea what happened to the table and he wanted to believe in it. He sat on a rock in the middle of the table. The little boy kid loomed imperceptibly larger and heavier than the rest of the group. He was the only one who had not yet been killed.

A lot of people make a lot of money for lawyers, but for the lazers? I have to believe that they have been extremely successful at it. A lot of people make a lot of money for lawyers, but for the lazers? They didn’t.

They believed in something. They believed in something they didn’t understand. They believed in a thing, something powerful, and they didn’t notice that in the instant that they noticed it, they could not believe in it. They could not even detect that they had lost something or that something big and complex would suddenly appear out of the sounds of nothingness.

They fumed and sulked. They were very bitter and unhappy people, and had always been so for as long as they had lived.

They had always been so bitterly unhappy and unhappy for the simple and obvious reason that they had always been so for the simple and obvious.

[END TRANSMISSION]


Editor’s Notes

Generation Process

I used my Douglas Adams model here, and I tried a lower temperature of 0.75 this time to get some self-consistency.

Edits

Just formatted paragraphs, and added emphasis for presentation.

Prompt came from Reddit Writing Prompts, but I couldn’t find this specific post any longer. I was using Google BigQuery on an archive of reddit, which went back several years to get that random writing prompt.

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