100 Word Stories: Episodes
<p>None of the other Poseidon The Sea Gods at water parks had problems, but then, they were just actors.</p>
<p>The One True Poseidon lay on the couch, shaking.</p>
<p>"The pills aren't working," he tells his analyst. "Neptune came out during my act at Sea World again."</p>
<p>"What happened?" asked ...
<p>I sit at my desk, ignoring the noise, focused on that clock on the wall.</p>
<p>Both hands reach for the sky - Noon!</p>
<p>You see, I have found the key to happiness.</p>
<p>Every day, I have a taco and a shot of tequila for lunch. Oh, that sweet simple burn.</p>
<p>Sure, it can be rough on my ...
<p>Congress, in its infinite wisdom, offered to grant royal powers to Lincoln.</p>
<p>The exhausted president refused them.</p>
<p>"If all earthly power were given to me," he muttered, "I should not know what to do."</p>
<p>Later that evening, he watched as a meteorite streaked across the sky and ...
<p>The 100 word stories weekly challenge is where I post a topic and then you write and record a story based on that topic.</p>
<p>Sounds simple, doesn't it?</p>
<p>Topics are selected by the winner of the previous weekly challenge. This week reveals the triumphant <b>Justin the Space Turtle</b>...</p>
<p>How ...
<p>Welcome to the Weekly Challenge Number One Hundred And Thirty-Four where I post a topic and then challenge <i>you</i> to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic.</p>
<p>The topic this week was <b>That One</b>.</p>
<p>The excellent theme music is by <a href="http://www.guydavid.com/">Guy ...
<p>You don't need a license to carry a lasso.</p>
<p>That's why I carry one of those instead of a gun.</p>
<p>Guns are aloud and messy. Lassos are a lot friendlier.</p>
<p>But have you ever tried robbing a bank with a lasso?</p>
<p>The teller laughs like you're crazy.</p>
<p>If you're robbing a ...
<p>When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.</p>
<p>So, I did.</p>
<p>Death handed me lemons, too.</p>
<p>I made lemonade with them.</p>
<p>Karma gave me lemons. More lemonade.</p>
<p>Then, Fate handed me a bag.</p>
<p>"More lemons?" I asked. “Please, not more lemons.”</p>
<p>Fate nodded ...
<p>They may be hideous in appearance, but no goblin would be caught being rude.</p>
<p>"Sears," says the creature. "And your name is?"</p>
<p>The topiary, a shrub groomed to look like a green poodle, said nothing.</p>
<p>"I need to be in Waco by sunrise," said Sears, and he hopped on the back of the<br ...
<p>I saw him in a bar. He was the bartender.</p>
<p>Turned out he owned the place.</p>
<p>Thirty years ago, he had a gun to my head, laughing as he pulled the trigger.</p>
<p>The gun was empty, the bullets fired at my family.</p>
<p>All dead, there in the middle of the camp.</p>
<p>Here. Now.</p>
<p>I ...
<p>Just a black angle in the ground, etched marble with so many names.</p>
<p>You could jog past it in less than a minute, nothing but a blur.</p>
<p>The flags at the base of each piece, the flowers.</p>
<p>Boots and candles. Cigarettes and flasks.</p>
<p>It's the people that make you slow down and ...
<p>Mary Todd was going crazy, but the analyst was curious as to the source of her husband's misery.</p>
<p>Abe shrugged off all offers to get him on the couch and work out his issues.</p>
<p>"Perhaps it is something in your childhood?" said the doctor.</p>
<p>Abe laughed. "It is a great piece of folly ...
<p>The 100 word stories weekly challenge is where I post a topic and then you write and record a story based on that topic.</p>
<p>Sounds simple, doesn't it?</p>
<p>Topics are selected by the winner of the previous weekly challenge. This week reveals the triumphant <b>Steven</b>...</p>
<p>How about.... ...
<p>Welcome to the Weekly Challenge Number One Hundred And Thirty-Three where I post a topic and then challenge <i>you</i> to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic.</p>
<p>The topic this week was <b>Omission</b>.</p>
<p>The excellent theme music is by <a href="http://www.guydavid.com/">Guy ...
<p>I mourned your death, O Furry Little Creature - so small and cute you were.</p>
<p>Day after day.<br />
Year after year.<br />
Century after century.</p>
<p>This ritual never changes.</p>
<p>I hold out the peanut, you see it and stand up, sniffing the air.</p>
<p>I shake it. You creep closer, ...
<p>Sixty-five million years from now, an amber block containing a mosquito will be<br />
drained of Michael Chricton's blood.</p>
<p>Through the miracle of junk science, his DNA will be patched to a chimpanzee's and<br />
grown into a theme park attraction.</p>
<p>From all over, they will pay to see ...
<p>As I hug this cinder block, I ponder our long relationship together.</p>
<p>We've been through a lot.</p>
<p>I made a bookshelf out of cinder blocks and slats in college. When I had a job and enough money, I could afford a real bookshelf, but I kept this cinder block because it was the best of all.</p>
<p>During ...
<p>Here lies America, and all of America's lies.</p>
<p>All the lies we told the world and all the lies we told ourselves.</p>
<p>In the home of the brave, we move the fences in and jog the bases to thunderous applause.</p>
<p>In the land of the free, we doubled the price so we could buy one and get ...
<p>In the old days, you ran out of film.</p>
<p>Now, with these digital cameras, your battery is always dying.</p>
<p>Miss November passes out, her nose bleeding from snorting enough lines of cocaine to line Ebbets Field.</p>
<p>They got enough pictures to last her shelf life, every angle, every expression.</p>
<p>Everything ...
<p>Cows, everywhere cows!</p>
<p>Lincoln couldn't believe the sheer number of cows roaming through the streets of Washington.</p>
<p>Going forth like swarms of Egyptian locusts, devouring every blade of grass and other green thing.</p>
<p>"Where did all these cows come from?" he asked, but nobody ...
<p>The 100 word stories weekly challenge is where I post a topic and then you write and record a story based on that topic.</p>
<p>Sounds simple, doesn't it?</p>
<p>Topics are selected by the winner of the previous weekly challenge. This week reveals the triumphant <b>Almo</b>...</p>
<p>How about.... ...