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After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
An Infinite Game: After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
" Game theory goes out the window when a sociopath executioner lines up four men to see how far his blade will go.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussion of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.
★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to ""After Dinner Conversation Magazine"" and get this, and other, similar ethical and philosophical short stories delivered straight to your inbox every month. (Just search ""After Dinner Conversation Magazine"")★★★
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After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussion of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.
★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to ""After Dinner Conversation Magazine"" and get this, and other, similar ethical and philosophical short stories delivered straight to your inbox every month. (Just search ""After Dinner Conversation Magazine"")★★★
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Published March 6, 2024
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September 23, 2022
Mucha Nothing
The narrator and three other men are doomed to be executed by a bayonet. The men must line up single file, front to back.
The bayonet, as told by the executioner, will pierce several men at one thrust. Only one man will survive. Who will it be?
Lots of talking in circles with a lack of clarity. Not sure of the ending.
The narrator and three other men are doomed to be executed by a bayonet. The men must line up single file, front to back.
The bayonet, as told by the executioner, will pierce several men at one thrust. Only one man will survive. Who will it be?
Lots of talking in circles with a lack of clarity. Not sure of the ending.
June 30, 2023
Four prisoners sentenced to death; one “sociopathic” executioner.
Three slender men and one larger man. They draw straws.
Our narrator is trying to lessen the chance of his time coming immediately. He makes Omar really consider what’s happening.
It’s interesting that the narrative MC finds the executioner to be “sociopathic.” There’s this idiom about pots and kettles that’s coming to mind right about now…
Thought-provoking: game theory, value theory, and making believers out of atheists in the face of death…to name a few of the topics touched upon…
“Nobody dies playing chess.”
“It’s all a game. Now, get out.”
Three slender men and one larger man. They draw straws.
Our narrator is trying to lessen the chance of his time coming immediately. He makes Omar really consider what’s happening.
It’s interesting that the narrative MC finds the executioner to be “sociopathic.” There’s this idiom about pots and kettles that’s coming to mind right about now…
Thought-provoking: game theory, value theory, and making believers out of atheists in the face of death…to name a few of the topics touched upon…
“Nobody dies playing chess.”
“It’s all a game. Now, get out.”
May 19, 2021
The mathematics of war.
Author freebie. Suitable for teens and adults. Parable or morality play about military losses. This is a story of military losses being played out as a game. Discussion questions follow the story.
Author freebie. Suitable for teens and adults. Parable or morality play about military losses. This is a story of military losses being played out as a game. Discussion questions follow the story.
February 15, 2021
Probably too short to say something proper, but anyway, it was like ... borring.
July 3, 2021
🤔 what did I just read 😆. I get it was meant to spark conversation hence the questions at the end but yeah I really don't know what to write 🤷♀️.
July 28, 2022
To generals and the like military maneuvers are a game of chess, to the grunts in the field it's life and death.
June 4, 2024
An executioner lines up four men to be stabbed with a bayonet. They draw straws to determine how they line up. There's a surprising twist ending.
June 16, 2020
This story certainly could spark conversations, but it loses a point for being just totally off the wall unbelievable. The whole premise makes no sense.
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