Archive: Hostage Court, Weightless Billionaire, Others
29 Mat 2024
(A collection of premises I never got around to publishing from May of last year.)
a terrorist takes 7 Supreme Court judges captive and orders them to declare abortion legal in all cases.
the lower courts refuse to recognize the opinions as they are clearly being coerced, so they Begin executing them. the President appoints new judges but they keep getting abducted too, Even from inside government fortresses. judges them start getting abducted before their names have been announced, the attorney general's body turns up floating in the Washington reflecting pool, a military court-martial who defended war criminals is crucified in the basement of a military college over memorial Day weekend. a governor on his way to oversee an execution is struck by lightning. her lieutenant governor has a stroke at her eulogy. a drill Sargent for the secret service is found to have swallowed a trillion dollar coin and replaced it with an obvious fake. when taken to the hospital to have the coin removed, they discover that it was actually the fake coin he swallowed, and that it was painted with Poison. the real coin, meanwhile, was dissolving under the baffled watch of a material science lab.
a general whose son is marrying the son of an admiral aboard the Presidential Yacht falls over the railing. his body has been weighed down with stones and they trigger a mine, exposing an incursion on allied waters, but by whom?
a committee chairman is drugged during an important appropriations hearing. a ranking member begins to foam at the mouth at hearing on drug use at the white house.
a mayor is crushed by the liberty bell
telepathy? meditation?
a senator from a mining trust is crushed in a tunnel between offices, mysteriously surrounded in coal pouring out of the vents.
a tabloid owner is eaten alive by crows
an editor of the Wall Street Journal prints an article confessing to a mixture of white collar and blue collar crimes
a billionaire's increasing wealth causes gravity to lose effect on him, he floats and atrophies
the owner of a football team is dressed up as a player and put on the field and then dog piled
Judge not lest ye be judged
an ambassador arrives only to learn their country no longer exists and hasn't for 20 years.
a CEO has his life swapped with a different employee every day.
A bishop's plane goes down over an island and he survives but the people who live there show him God and he panics and sets about designing a new cathedral of impossible architecture.