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After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
Choose: After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
A woman trapped in a sick experiment is continually forced to make decisions about who will die.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 discussions 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")★★★
25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 4, 2020
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September 6, 2022
Fantastic!
This book is awesome! A woman is awakened and is asked a question. She must answer the question which involves her making a choice.
Her choice has consequences.
Five stars. 💫
This book is awesome! A woman is awakened and is asked a question. She must answer the question which involves her making a choice.
Her choice has consequences.
Five stars. 💫
April 6, 2022
3.5⭐'s
September 10, 2022
Very much in line with "The ones who walk away from omelas", but with the added twist of having a set (a bad one at that) consequence to a hard choice.
November 19, 2022
"Choose" is an unusual short story which is aimed an encouraging conversation of the issues raised among readers.
A woman wakes up shackled to a table. She is given a series of questions which she must answer - answer 'Yes' and the outcome is bad, answer 'No' and the outcome is not good either.
Ultimately it is a one-trick pony and I got bored pretty rapidly (which is unusual for a story that was only 15 pages long!)
There is a twist towards the end but it, too, is pretty much the same all over again.
To my mind it is a pointless exercise.
2 Stars.
A woman wakes up shackled to a table. She is given a series of questions which she must answer - answer 'Yes' and the outcome is bad, answer 'No' and the outcome is not good either.
Ultimately it is a one-trick pony and I got bored pretty rapidly (which is unusual for a story that was only 15 pages long!)
There is a twist towards the end but it, too, is pretty much the same all over again.
To my mind it is a pointless exercise.
2 Stars.
July 10, 2023
“Subject conscious, elevate and note commencement.”
Myrah awakens in a strange place. She finds herself restrained.
A very mysterious and very plain man asks her questions. Myrah has choices. Trapped, she must make life-or-death decisions that will drastically affect others.
Ponderings on morality, ethics, and utilitarianism.
Smacks of a unique take on White Bear from Black Mirror.
Scary and painful; raises as many questions as it answers. What is ethical punishment? And who decides it?
“The fall of her tears echoed the tumble of the bodies beneath the waves.”
Myrah awakens in a strange place. She finds herself restrained.
A very mysterious and very plain man asks her questions. Myrah has choices. Trapped, she must make life-or-death decisions that will drastically affect others.
Ponderings on morality, ethics, and utilitarianism.
Smacks of a unique take on White Bear from Black Mirror.
Scary and painful; raises as many questions as it answers. What is ethical punishment? And who decides it?
“The fall of her tears echoed the tumble of the bodies beneath the waves.”
September 5, 2024
Myrah awakens shackled to a table. She is then forced to make a series of life or death scenarios which are then enacted in front of her. The scenarios become ever more horrible until she's pushed to the breaking point.
September 21, 2024
Interesting idea and story, but ...
I wasn't really in the mood for this type of reading, but since it wasn't long, I finished it. Not really my kind of story, but it is well written.
I wasn't really in the mood for this type of reading, but since it wasn't long, I finished it. Not really my kind of story, but it is well written.
May 21, 2021
Punishment should be swift and sure.
Author freebie. Suitable for teens and adults. Parable or morality play about whether you should administer punishment beyond a certain point.
Author freebie. Suitable for teens and adults. Parable or morality play about whether you should administer punishment beyond a certain point.
July 20, 2023
relatively well-written + kept my attention
June 16, 2020
Terrible! Horrible story! You must read it.
April 2, 2023
We are given no explanation as to why the gal in this story is shackled to a reclining bed in a concrete room nor why she is repeatedly forced to respond to no win scenarios.
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David Whitaker
This short illustrates a scenario faced frequently in the last few years by our Prime Minister in which there are no good solutions, only lose-lose. The only thing worse would be to make no decisions; a path followed by too many politicians in the past. And yet opposition parties disingenuously choose to make political hay criticizing his bad decisions.
Choose: After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
David Whitaker
This short illustrates a scenario faced frequently in the last few years by our Prime Minister in which there are no good solutions, only lose-lose. The only thing worse would be to make no decisions; a path followed by too many politicians in the past. And yet opposition parties disingenuously choose to make political hay criticizing his bad decisions.
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