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Set your story in an unfiltered world, where people are always honest about how they feel.

Posted in Dystopian on Nov 11, 2022

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Honestly

Shortlisted for Contest #172 ⭐️

“O Woman That I Used To Love, what should we get for dinner tonight?’’“Honestly, my Greatest Disappointment? I don’t care.”“You do care. You want me to suggest a place to eat so you can shoot it down. Whatever I say, you will wrinkle your little nose like I decided that we should eat out of the cat’s litter box.”“You could not be more wrong, but you usually are.” “Perhaps you could stop on the way home and pick up some takeout.”“I could, but I won’t. Our nightly conversation about dinner is the only authentic communication we will have ...

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Kama Sutra Rock & Roll

Submitted to Contest #172

In our tiny, throuple unfiltered world it’s important to be always honest about how we feel and our sexual activities. As one may well imagine, when there’re three bodies involved, the variations of sexual positions and activity are increased by a multiple. Then factor in and couple that with having two members of our throuple who possessed a treasure trove of sex toys – well then – the possibilities are nearly bottomless. Even without some hot Hindu handbook celebrating copulation, and originally written in Sanskrit, one could sincerely s...

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Truth And Consequence

Shortlisted for Contest #172 ⭐️

“Government directive TAC-0.3.5 states that Truth is emancipating. Withheld opinions are toxic. To suppress forthright expression is a crime punishable by seventy-two hours of sensory re-education at a holding facility for candour criminals and seditious apostates.” “…What’s your point?” “Well, Freda, my love. I’m invoking The Sanctuary of Marriage Directive, that states, Truth must always be told for the cleansing of relationships.” “Husband, you wouldn’t know the truth, if it slapped a seventh sense of embedded direction into your immoral ...

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Blind Date

Submitted to Contest #172

The waitress was very fat and I did not like her hair, but she had a good attitude as she guided me to my seat. The restaurant was not full on a Friday, so I guessed that the concert next door was still on and that it would fill up with people who had terrible taste in music later (the group playing truly sucked). I knew that my name was on the reservation list, but I still had a twenty ready in case she gave me a hassle. “I am ready to pay so that you will let me sit early…and not do anything to my food.” “I understand. I was going to give ...

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Rural Route 12: Madvent Hits Middle Age

Submitted to Contest #172

SENSITIVE CONTENT: Mental health issues, homelessness, substance abuse, cursing, sexual debauchery, hints at murder, sacrilege, crime ... this story has no redeeming value, as one might expect in a world full of unfiltered sociopathic Dans, and you probably should not read it at all.~~~It was the end of the season, and Dan was quickly painting himself into a corner. That was the thing with Madvent: you had to start small. He had been celebrating it long enough to know that, but come December 1st every year, his enthusiasm for celebration mad...

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Dr Doidge's Address

Submitted to Contest #172

Are you tired of people telling you the way they actually feel about you? Are you sick of their inconsiderate behaviour? Their lack of politeness? Then you’re one of the 28% percent of the population with their social filter still intact. You’ve chosen not to tamper with your brain. Congratulations, smartypants. It wasn’t that hard, was it? So why can’t the other 72% get it right? These filterless fools are doing more than just romping around rubbing everyone up the wrong way. They’re Careless. Callous. Cold-hearted. Their selfish behaviour ...

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Feelings for Sale

Submitted to Contest #172

Do you feel tired? Lonely? Overworked? Then I have the solution for you! Riley Hayes here for Empath-51. The IDA approved tablets to suppress your logic and make you feel all your emotions all the time! Do you ever get up in the morning feeling worn out but you drag yourself to work anyway? Not with Empath-51! Don’t let your logical brain force you to work. If you're tired Empath-51 will help you stay in bed guilt free! Who doesn’t go to work and feel obligated to put in a few extra hours at the end of the day? Is that your logical bra...

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The Truth Hurts

Submitted to Contest #172

“You’re sure about this?” asked a squat figure enrobed so completely all that was to see of him was his voluminous robe. “Do we have an alternative, brother?” said a tall figure. This figure also sported a robe, but the way it hung off him was reminiscent of the caricature of Death, a caricature that deeply annoyed Death herself, because for starters, people seemed to think Death was a he. She, Death that was, wouldn’t be seen dead in a drab robe. Why opt for something so boring and shapeless when there was an abundance of vibrant and...

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Honestly?

Submitted to Contest #172

“You’re wearing that? Come on.”“What’s the matter with it?”“It makes you look like a tangerine rolled in crushed walnuts.”“So, you can go out looking like a drunk public defender in a bad episode of 70’s television but I’m a jerk for trying to be a little flashier?”“Hey, I paid four hundred bucks for this suit! Stole fifty of it right out of our son’s top drawer to help pay for it.”“He already dislikes you so that little tidbit ought to freeze you out for good.”The two of them laughed before positioning themselves in front of the mirror, str...

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Unfiltered Utopia

Submitted to Contest #172

Unfiltered Utopia. That was the life that cursed us. With a government harvesting a cabinet of lies, a lover stoking the fire of tainted infidelities, and parents telling shivering infants it would be okay - the world decided to be folded. Cruelty inward, it burned, and loudly outward it hissed. The trees began to droop a little lower, and the sky turned a murky, dirty blue. The smell of a fresh loaf of bread oozed a metallic odor, and the taste of all things now bitter. Thought’s once silenced and bit on the end of tongues - rung truer than...

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Blinders

Submitted to Contest #172

“Good afternoon sir, how may we help you today?” the clerk asks.  “Pick up for Ash Deliveries,” I say quietly. “Certainly. Before we get your order, would you be interested in our-” the clerk's words are reduced to muffles as my ad blocker detects the intentions behind them. I keep my eyes down at the jewel case in front of me, my blinders filtering their gleam and shine to a gray lameness, their temptations reduced to a price tag. I can see the clerk’s reflection in the glass, her blinders and ad blockers working overtime.  “No.”...

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If Only I Could Speak

Submitted to Contest #172

Sonare sat characteristically silent as people wandered. Most residents vowed to spoken silence. Residing within Sonare, while a citied paradise, proved nothing short of cursed. Should words venture past inhabitants’ lips, they would only speak truths. Be it harsh, relationship-ending, or wanted, the city of Sonare existed not for the faint of heart. Rarely, when conversation arose, it was short and simple—devoid of needed opinion. The city held not a date of birth or history of construction. The place had just been. Surely, if a soul brav...

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Words of truth

Submitted to Contest #172

The world was a weird one. Everyone said what was on their mind. Their true feelings being shown through their words as they tell their honest opinion. It didn’t matter if it was rude or inconsiderate, no one was able to lie and everyone must say what was on their mind. No matter what it was. Yet Alejandro absolutely loved it, no matter how much trouble he got in. He wasn’t the, nicest person in the world, in fact some called him the rudest ever. Yet that didn’t faze him in the slightest, in fact it made him puff his chest out in pride. Watc...

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Nineteen-Something

Submitted to Contest #172

They started the program when I was fourteen years old. It was an effort by the ECCS[1] –founded by PEUGO[2] only a year earlier – in response to the rising tensions between governing factions, particularly those of the U.S. and the Middle East. The program emphasized the collectivization of future generations and had three central dictums: honesty is peace, the larger the hive, the broader the mind, and sedition is sacrilegious. It took okay, but I think we were too old for it to have the effect they wanted. Most people my age still lie, my...

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Filtered

Submitted to Contest #172

“A majority of the will was written out to you. He obviously liked you more.” I said. Kaitlin, my cousin, twisted her hair in her hands and bit her lip, “And you’re not jealous?” “Of course not,” I tried to keep my smile bright despite the searing pain that shot out from the chip in my neck, “I’d never be jealous.” “Certain?” she asked. I gritted my teeth; the shock had worn out by now, but I knew it’d happen again when I spoke, “Nope. Not jealous at all.” I flinched at the chip’s jolt. She laughed, “Well, if something ever happened to ...

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