The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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Weekly Challenge #1042 – Chip
The next topic is An empty deodorant can
RICHARD
Like his dad?
She turned and smiled at me with pride, “Won’t you just look a...
Mapping
As Henry walked through the woods, he listened to the birds and the wind blowing through the trees. Sometimes he would stop and close his eyes and jus...
Prepped
Alfred kept a cheat sheet tattooed on his left arm. Werewolves were silver bullets. Mummies were fire. Vampires were garlic and crosses and mirrors. A...
Air conditioning plus frog
I put a cover over my air-conditioning heat pump to keep leaves and rocks out of it. However, somehow something got in there. There was a loud banging...
Basic chemistry
Early chemists discovered elements by looking around, maybe digging a little.
Maybe they had to heat something up a little.
...
Adam West is the Buddha
They say that if you meet Buddha by the side of the road, you must kill him.
But that is not Buddha.
It is Adam West.
...
Add to the alphabet
The alphabet started small. Two or three marginalized groups, bringing their causes together, fighting for their rights. Then other groups added thems...
Weekly Challenge #1041 – Classic
The next topic is Chip
RICHARD
Might as well jump
So, my mate John from the tribute band, Fan Halen, was feeling the show nee...
The race to the bottom
Art critics are racists.
Take two neo-expressionist artists: Cy Tombly and Jean Basquiat.
Both made rudimentary art, scribbl...
Disappear
My parents are dead.
My father’s brother, my gay uncle, had no children.
And before that, the name was what some clerk wrote...
Small town walk
It’s a small town, and the grocery store, pharmacy, and a few restaurants are about seven minutes walk. So, unless I’ve got a lot of groceries to pick...
Robot hot dog vendors
A lot of people have opinions on the robot umpires, but I’m looking forward to robot hot dog vendors.
Because I don’t want to wait for th...
Render unto Ralph
Jesus may have said to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, but when it came to his next-door neighbor Ralph, he said screw that creep.
It’s a von trapp
I was sitting by a stream when an old man carrying a worn out map, walked up to the stream, crossed it, and made a mark on his map.
I’ve...
Weekly Challenge #1040 – PICK TWO Cover band, Slow down, Empty streets, Sculpture gallery, Shred
The next topic is Classic
LEWIE
As the tour guide brought the group through a museum, a cheesy cover band was in one room playing ambient...
It spreads
I guess it isn’t working out so well.
Protestors without masks.
People coming across the border for health care.
The package never boils
Two months ago, they launched a new series of video cards.
But they didn’t make enough of them, so they were impossible to get.
The cold dead heart
I got a letter from Greenpeace the other day.
Your classic Save The Whales plea.
When I think whales, I think the killer wha...
Run its course
I used to be pretty good at frisbee golf.
I had a strong throw and pretty good accuracy.
I practiced throwing at trees and t...
Job posting
Freddy saw a job posting, and he sent his resume and cover letter.
Two days later, they wrote him back saying that they went with another...
Light it up
Henderson liked to go for walks and smoke cigars after dinner.
But that was kinda hard, being an astronaut on the space station.
Weekly Challenge #1039 – Bubble Wrap
The next topic is PICK TWO
Cover band
Slow down
Empty streets
Sculpture gallery
Shred...
Cart
The shabby overcoat, boots, and dirty hat pushing the shopping cart full of junk around is Gertrude.
But don’t bother calling her that. S...
We come in REDACTED
It’s been a year since the aliens arrived, and everything is so much better. They brought all sorts of technology and medicine and other things, and a...
The signal
The satellite just kind of drifted around Earth doing its job, picking up weather signals.
One night, it caught something weird, like a l...
Soma
Years ago, our town voted to Fluoridate the water.
Now, we’re being asked to vote on Somadate the water.
Scientists say Soma...
The overpasses
There are fences and cameras watching the overpasses.
Because people throw things over the side on to the traffic below.
The...
Talk to Mars
The signal from the Mars colony stopped.
We tried to connect to the emergency relay satellites, but they didn’t respond.
It...
Weekly Challenge #1038 – The noisiest place in the universe
The next topic is Bubble wrap.
LEWIE
Title: Silence Has Teeth
Alone.
In the dark.
It is a cruel punishment. No on...
Dumb fat monkey
When I go for my walks, I don’t wear a headset or listen to music or podcasts anymore. I’d rather listen to the birds, singing or the squirrels chitte...
Waiting for Lord Foster
From the void came a wind.
It blew in all directions.
Lord Foster licked his finger and held it to the wind.
He...
Danny will dance again
It’s been three years since Danny last danced.
He’s sitting there, on the edge of the dance floor, watching all the dancers dancing.
Snowball fight
Looking at all the sports at the winter Olympics and all the different competitions with teams and individual achievements, I wonder if they just wann...
Three car washes
I like to get a car wash after I go to the beach.
It’s really to vacuum the sand up from my floormats, even though I wrap my shoes in a t...
Box it up
At the end of every contract, they mail out a FedEx label to put on a box to send their laptop back, and sometimes I like to put a little something ex...
Weekly Challenge #1037 – Dear everyone
The next topic is The noisiest place in the universe.
LEWIE
Dear Everyone,
Except for the guy in the back, in the yellow shirt.
Keep turning left until you’re right
They say hateful things, The Hateful.
They hate anything that they don’t agree with.
“You disagree with us?” they say. “Then...
The dictator
When the occupying Army caught the dictator, we announced it to the press.
And the press cheered.
People took to the streets...
Dee
It’s been a long time since Dee died.
Her kidneys failed, and she’d been on dialysis, but needed a transplant.
Her family di...
The days
So, it’s May.
Mother’s Day came and went…
My father’s birthday coming soon…
Then father’s day… and my mother’s...