The 100 Word Stories Podcast

The 100 Word Stories Podcast


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Weekly Challenge #959 – Package
September 08, 2024

Lizzie RichardSerendipidy Norval JoeTom Planet ZThe next topic is Icing on the cakeSERENDIPIDYI offer a range of services, from the basic 'catch and despatch', right through to my 'Executive Gold' package.I know you mig

George in the life boat
September 07, 2024

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate.The other pirates were okay with this, and they picked up the slack."We don't succeed or fail as individuals," said the captain. "We do everything as a team."So, when George accidentally fired a can

George and jury duty
September 06, 2024

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate.Pirate ships don't get regular mail service, but somehow George got a letter."Jury duty," George growled.Three weeks later, George was taking off his boots and hat, and setting his swords into a pla

Fearsome George
September 05, 2024

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. Why? Because he had a lot of fear, and his therapist told him that he needed to face his fear. Joseph Campbell said that "In the deepest caves, we find our darkest fear." So, George looked for the dee

George and the painting
September 04, 2024

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. After looking at a Paul Gauguin painting of naked Tahiti women doing various things, George took the title to heart and asked himself... "Where do we come from?" The ship. George came from the ship. "

George and the X
September 03, 2024

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. He walked along the beach, listening to the waves roll in. Where did he bury that treasure chest? Of course he'd marked the spot with an X. Every good pirate knows that. But every good pirate marks th

Weekly Challenge #958 – Unsafe
September 01, 2024

Lizzie RichardSerendipidy Norval JoeTom Planet ZThe next topic is PackageLIZZIEIt was dark. The swamp was weird. It bubbled, for some mysterious reason. And she had to step into it to prove herself, they said, to be part

Someone may have run a background check on you
August 31, 2024

It amuses me when I get Spam that says someone may have run a background check on me.Go ahead. Run a background check.You'll find the usual stuff: a decent education, a car note, and a good credit rating.And a rap sheet as long as your arm.Every line

Helter Skelter
August 30, 2024

I knew a girl named Helter Skelter.I shit you not, it was her legal name.And not a joke name, picked out as an adult.And it certainly wasn't a stage name, like actors pick out when their legal name is already registered with the union.Or their birth n

The stones speak
August 29, 2024

Eighty years ago, the Germans exterminated my village.Today, we dig up the streets and pull out the underpavement.It is made from the gravestones of my ancestors.The Germans had ordered the cemeteries to be destroyed.But now, we are reclaiming the sto