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in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

When I was in elementary school, our teacher had us read this short story which traumatized me as a kid, and which pops into my mind every second week at least. Since I couldn't remember who wrote it, let alone the title, I eventually began thinking that I might have dreamt the whole thing.

30 years later, I encountered it again, it was The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster.

in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Oh wow, I read that last year. People were saying it had an uncanny resemblance to pandemic-era internet life
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

have just read the plot of it. I kinda think I had read it too! But it didn't impact me that much, I think.
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

oh boy that one! The one that scared me the most was that one where the kid didn’t get to see the sun when it came out because he was being bullied.
in reply to arkywarky

@arcade that's ray bradbury that one! When the students locks a child in a locker during the sunrise that comes every some hundred years.
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Ooh this sounds like an interesting story—need to add it to my "to read" list :3

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