Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4849011-20141028031734

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while, and recent events convinced me that the sooner I posted this, the better. I’ve noticed that a lot of people here have trouble coming to terms with the deletion of their stories, so I decided to create this story graveyard. Here you can memorialize your deleted stories and come to terms with their passing. I just have a few rules.

1. I know that we loved our deleted stories, but please don’t use this as an opportunity to trash admins and mods for your story deletion and/or go into this whole “Oh, poor pitiful me, my pasta got deleted!” bit. It won’t do one bit of good. However, cries of “It was such a good pasta!” and “WHY!?” are allowed.

2. Please don’t use this as an opportunity to trash deleted stories. For instance, if someone says, “My pasta called such-and-such got deleted,” don’t say, “I remember that pasta! That pasta sucked!”   Every pasta is somebody’s baby, so I don’t care if it was the most terribly-written story you ever read and you hated it with a passion, don’t trash it on this thread. Be respectful. I’m sure there are other places, on and off this site, where you can go to criticize a pasta.

3. This is only for permanently deleted stories, so don’t post an In Memoriam if the pasta is under deletion appeal. If you do and the story is undeleted then that will be awkward.

I’ll go first. Here’s an extended Hail and Farewell segment for my deleted pastas.



Serious Pastas

"Post-Attack" and "Arms"- These two stories were based on true accounts. "Post-Attack" had a drug addict request his drug pipe right after suffering a cocaine-induced heart attack. Its sequel, "Arms", had the addict deciding to get clean after he suffered a fit of cocaine-induced psychosis and scratched up his own arms. I was honestly surprised that these were deleted, but it may have been partly due to me admitting in their introductions that there were real-life incidents scarier than the actual pastas. Coincidentally, Umbrello has written a completely different pasta named “Arms”. Check it out

"The Geisha" and "Broken Contract"- These were based on one of my comic books (one of my hobbies is making my own comic books). "The Geisha" featured a man being murdered by a hired killer disguised as a geisha. Its sequel, "Broken Contract", had the hired killer turning on her employer and putting him in a deathtrap. They weren’t as effective split into separate stories so I combined the two to form "The Dagger and the Cords". I’m now thinking of requesting “The Dagger and the Cords” to be deleted as well. We’ll see how it goes.

"Trouble on the Mound"- This story featured someone suffering a nightmare about a favorite baseball pitcher collapsing during a game. The narrator is shaken by the nightmare, but realizes that she (there was nothing in the story to indicate gender, but the narrator was female because I based her on myself) should be grateful that her favorite player is relatively healthy in real life and not coughing up blood and collapsing like in the dream.   I assume that the story was found to be clichéd and that’s why it was deleted. 

Humorous/Light-hearted/Weird Pastas

"Most Horrifying Halloween Figure"- This humorous story featured a young woman encountering the most horrifying of Halloween figures, the high school age Trick-or-Treater with a "costume" consisting of a sports jersey and pillowcase. A couple minutes later I uploaded a picture to accompany it, and when I went to add it I found that the story had already been deleted. The picture was later deleted too.

"The Banshee of Connacht"- This humorous story had a banshee who screamed not because of a death, but because she peed herself in a cold, windy peat bog. This was inspired by a joke my Dad told me one time.

"Tanks for the Exhilaration"- WHY!? Oh, wait, the deletion of this one I understand completely. Never mind! This story featured an arrogant football player who became intoxicated after someone replaced the medic's oxygen tank with a nitrous oxide (laughing gas) tank. It was just a state of mind I was in at the time. I knew it probably wasn’t a good fit for the site, but I went for it anyway. I noted that it was more weird than scary and eventually someone informed me that the word I was looking for was “stupid”. I replied that I was surprised that it hadn’t been deleted yet. Within a day or two it was deleted. For the record, it was original and well-written; it was just bizarre and a bad fit for the site.

~takes off hat~ It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday. I didn’t create this thread for my own stories, though; I created it for anyone who wants to commemorate a deleted story. Let the healing process begin!  