Escape from the Beak

The goose grabbed Craig by the back of the head and pushed him onto the ground. Then its mouth opened wide.

Photo by Rūta Celma on Unsplash

PROMPT: Craig woke up early one morning with only one thought in his mind. "I want to go the park." He hurriedly dressed, making sure to grab the bag full of breadcrumbs off the counter. Shortly after Craig reached the park, he came across a large goose. The goose looked at him menacingly, and Craig feared for his life. Suddenly, the goose charged.

Craig instantly recognized that this was no ordinary goose. Craig moved back away, trying to shield himself. However, the goose continued to approach. Craig thought he was going to be beheaded. The goose grabbed Craig by the back of the head and pushed him onto the ground. Then its mouth opened wide.

Craig screamed in pain, but his body held it back. Craig looked up and saw a female goose. She was twice his size. Craig had the presence of mind to grab the crook of her neck, trying to wriggle himself free. However, the goose’s jaws made it impossible to open its jaws.

Craig eventually became trapped between the female’s massive mouth. Craig’s legs were trapped in the throat. He tried to reach for the crook of her neck, but it was useless. His life was slipping away, and he was completely unable to escape. The goose’s jaws were locked around his throat.

Craig’s brain was reeling. The goose’s beak was twice his size, and it had a strong throat stretch. Its jaws were powerful enough to break his legs and jaws.

Craig’s vision was turning dark. The sounds of the sun setting in the horizon. The slow pull of the tides. The pitter-patter of rain. The sounds of earth being displaced by the hand of the wind. The sound of its own indignant croak. Craig found himself trapped inside the goose’s beak.

He finally managed to reach the crook of the goose’s neck. However, his broken and dislocated legs, hips, and feet were making it impossible for him to pull the crook of the goose’s neck out of the gullet. Craig shook his head, trying to clear his vision. The world around him went black. The goose struggled to break free of its newly acquired dungeon. It let out a loud, ‘thump,’ as it lost its grip.

Craig felt the goose’s beak, inching gradually up his throat. Craig moaned in agony. He was completely unable to struggle free from the goose’s beak. He tried to hold the crook of the goose’s neck, but the sound of the beak was just too loud.

Craig felt his lower jaw start to crush, and then his head felt like it was being crushed. Craig’s vision was turning black. His legs were shaking uncontrollably, and he couldn’t feel his feet. His body was starting to shake so much that he had trouble breathing.

Craig reached out with one hand to find his glasses. He pulled them off, and he laid down on the ground. He managed to put on the glasses. Craig lay there in an agony. He felt like his life was ebbing away. As he sat down on the ground, Craig couldn’t help but feel the goose’s beak ever-so slowly coming closer. Craig tried to reach for his glasses, but his arms were trapped inside the goose’s beak.

He grabbed the crook of the goose’s neck, trying to wriggle himself free. His arms had no way to break free. Craig began to feel the goose’s beak touch his nose. His nose started to bleed, and he began to cough. Craig felt the goose’s beak touch his lips. His mouth became numb.

Craig felt the goose’s beak over his lips and down his nose. It then entered his mouth, and he swallowed the goose’s beak whole. Craig felt the goose’s beak get stuck on his tongue. His tongue turned blue, and then blood started to drip from his tongue.

Craig’s vision was fading. The goose’s beak was now hanging from his chin. Craig sat up slowly, and tried to find a grip. However, the goose’s beak was now hanging from his face. Craig’s body was squirming all around.

His skin was oozing blood from the nose, mouth, and throat. Craig’s legs were paralyzed. He could not move. He could only squirm and tremble. His leg was only inches from being torn off.

Craig realized he couldn’t move at all. He sat there in a paralyzed state.

[END TRANSMISSION]


Editor’s Notes

Prompt

The entire story came from a sample output during training of a fiction model I was doing that took all of the previous eclectic beams stories, and all the unused fiction outputs the system generated. It was almost verbatim an earlier story generated from the “The Unexpected Goose” story, just re-appeared slightly altered during the more recent fiction model training.

Edits

I took out a few words that made the goose weirdly sexual.

Title

The title was written by Liz Anderson

GPT-2 Settings
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  "length": 1024,
  "temperature": 0.95,
  "top_k": 40,
  "top_p": 0.9,
  "nsamples": 12,
  "batch_size": 3,
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