6/4/2016

20 minutes. A day. Promts from https://www.reddit.com/r/writingprompts

[WP] A New App called Butterfly can tell you the short term and long term outcomes of any current choice the user faces with a 99.99 percent accuracy rating has lead to a new daily life.

My morning routine is bland now. The beeping from my phone jolts me awake, and as soon as I hit snooze it never leaves my hand. I scroll through Facebook. I scroll through Twitter. I check my dating apps and swipe on a couple hot girls. I check my email and my bank account and my news apps, and, and, and.

Then I repeat that. 4 or 5 times before — finally — opening Butterfly, sweating.

Everyone else in my life has waltz into fabulous new opportunities with this thing. They’ve avoided dating jackasses and they’ve escaped icey roads on Janurary nights.

But mine says the same thing: “Stay in bed.”

I’ve deleted the damn thing 20 or so times, hoping for a glitch. I got a new phone. I got new batteries. Still the same: “Stay in bed.”

I ask it, “Hey Butterfly. Think it’s okay to head out and pee?”

“Stay in bed.” It responds.

“Hey Butterfly. Can I head down to get some food?”

“Stay in Bed.” It responds.

“Hey Butterfly. Can I got to work so I can pay my phone bills so I can keep asking for you fucking INCREDIBLE advice?”

“No. Stay in Bed.”

And, you know? It was always right. I peed and I slipped on a newspaper and broke my arm. I grabbed food and was stuck in an elevator for 4 hours. I went to work I was handed a small piece of pink paper, never to return.

So, now, I stay in bed.

And this morning, clicking on my broken screen, a big flash of light erupted out my window. My bed shook. Scream after scream boomed through my room until, suddenly, silence.

“Hey Butterfly. Should I… leave this bed?”

“Yes. There was an explosion, but you are fine. You may leave the bed.”

Butterfly saved my life. The world was now mine again and it was all thanks to this fucking app! I’m alive because of this fucking phone!

I gulped in a big breath of air — alive! and, well, still, I stayed in bed.

It’s a nice bed.