Weekly Challenge #168 - Shrouded In Mist |
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The 100 word stories weekly challenge is where I post a topic and then you write and record a story based on that topic. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Topics are selected by the winner of the previous weekly challenge. This week, the winner was Mick. And the topic is Shrouded In Mist... |
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100 Word Stories
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Laurence Simon
 
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Short, amusing tales you can threaten to read to your kids at bedtime if they misbehave.
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Calling names |
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Every boy in my kindergarten class is named John and every girl is named Joan. The other five classes are the same. We check with the other schools in the district and they are reporting the same thing. You'd think someone would have noticed this with the birth certificates, but nobody noticed a pattern or raised an alarm. Normal name distribution in the district, normal migration patterns for a developed country. One boy's eyes flash blue for a moment. Then the others. They all smile. Where did these kids come from? And where did all of the normal kids go? |
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Weekly Challenge #167 - Step into a Slim Jim |
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Welcome to the Weekly Challenge Number One Hundred And Sixty-Seven, where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic. The topic this week was... was.... um... It's Step Into A Slim Jim. The excellent theme music is by Guy David VOTING... |
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The shock |
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Today, we fill our bodies with drugs to make up for reckless lives. In the world of tomorrow, futurists say there will be nanobots making adjustments, repairs, and corrections. At what point do we stop being ourselves and end up at the mercy of machines? Does it matter who controls the machines?... |
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Caulk |
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I stood over the sheriff with my caulking gun, a ribbon of white goo still swinging from the nozzle. The sheriff was confused. “Do you know how hard it's going to be to get this crap out of my shirt?” Not hard at all if you know what you're doing. You see, I run the drycleaning shop... |
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Skydiving |
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The instructor said that I should read the manual carefully. So, I did. But I read it backwards. Instead of getting in the airplane and jumping out of it, I was standing in the middle of a field. The parachute was draped over me, and I was tangled up in its lines... |
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I should probably enable ads on this thing and then offer them up as prize money in the weekly challenges.