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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
10th Dec, 2017 03:07:25 PM
Well the first is probably a misrememberd "The Veldt"
(The holographic lions eat the parents)
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PhantomDusclops92
Since: Oct, 2010
11th Dec, 2017 08:12:55 AM
Yeah, it's that. I forgot who the lions ate.
Number one fan of characters that appear only once and ultimately were a recurring character either in disguise or trying a new image.
I remember in one of my books from middle school some short stories that I presume came from collection of sci-fi/horror stories, but I can't remember the titles.
First story features a family getting some kind of hi-tech house with holographic walls that can change each room's appearance when asked. It's all fine and dandy until the father asks to make the story of Aladdin appear in his bedroom and it doesn't happen. He then hears some weird noises from the kids room and discovers that they asked for a savannah setting before the house's hologram system broke down, with a hologram lion becoming real and eating the kids.
Second story is about a kid writing letters from camp to his parents. He tells that apparently there is a T-Rex roaming in the woods, but it's obviously a tale told to scare people. Then, some days later, he writes them another letter stating that the T-Rex is real and is chasing him, who is now closed in a hut writing the letter so that they can hurry and get him back home, and then the letter stops in midwriting, implying the kid was eaten by the T-Rex. It's followed by a letter from the camp organizators, informing the parents that their special program to get rid of disobeying kids was indeed successful.