CHAPTER 19: The Story Has Become An AI, And We Are Very Afraid
Light streamed into a room with a laptop in it.
"Who put angst in my cornflakes?"
"...Me."
"Author-san you know that this is supposed to be crack one-shots. Why is there angst and plot?"
"Because I'm sad, and I want others to suffer with me."
"I get the angst, but why PLOT?!"
"I don't know. It just randomly showed up one day, and never left..."
"... Well, I have lore so it's not as bad."
"The stuff you made on four hours of sleep?"
"It needs to be cleaned, yes…"
"Are you going to pull in someone else to 'interview'?"
"No, I wouldn't be able to get what I wanted anyway. Maybe…"
"What, another cursed chapter?"
"One of those is enough actually. I was thinking since you wrote an angst, I will write some domestic fluff about the employees' families."
"Hold on. Multiple things here and the first one is 'an angst'? 'One crack cocaine please.'"
"'Debit or credit?'"
"'Actually, I have a gift card.'"
Laughter.
"To answer, spell check."
"Ah, second, if you write fluff, does that mean that we can write hurt/comfort or whumph?"
"... Maybe. As always it needs to be about Dollar General."
"Of course. Hey, aren't we on chapter 20?"
"20 labeled 19 yeah."
"How about…"
"Transcribe this and use it for the chapter?"
"Yep."
"Fine with me. Need more DG though."
"You mentioned your lore, talk about that for a few sentences?"
"Hmm… Let me read the part about elementals then. 'Li'sta formed on the edge of a universe ridiculously close to a star, Void!Scott formed on a piece of rebar. Things that void creatures form on is what they will be elementals of when fired. Not all void creatures form like this, but that doesn't matter in this story, maybe.'... Crap."
"What?"
"We now have multiple cases of the unmentioned forming. I need to write it down."
"I'll deal with writing this then, you write the lore."
"Chapter 19!"
"Chapter 19."