The Story Machine

[lrig_rorrim]

Beep! Boop! Welcome to The Story Machine. The current theme of The Story Machine is “Game Night Gone Wrong.”

The Story Machine is pleased to offer a wide variety of tasty bite-sized stories. Please choose from the following selections:

A story involving:

1. American Football
   
2. Roleplaying
   
3. Board games
   
4. Card games
   
5. A silly internet writing contest

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Author notes (I never do this, but well, ok...)

[lrig_rorrim]

For a while now, I've had this idea in my head: Bubblegum Fiction. You go to a bubblegum machine, one of the really cool retro looking metal ones, maybe shaped like a spaceship. You put in your fifty cents, and out pops one of those plastic capsules. Inside it is a story - a tiny little story, folded up, just for you

[kathrynrose]

I'm just going to write one comment here for all the pieces.

You put an insane (really) amount of work into this piece, and it is so much fun.

Even with the puns.

I like your story vending idea. I also think this would make a great electronic children's book. If those don't exist, they should.

[lrig_rorrim]

I really enjoyed working on this. Thank you for reading along as I came up with various disasters (and puns)!

I reallllly would like to do vending machine fiction some day. If I find one of those vending machines for cheap, I will go for it.

[ragnarok_08]

Those ideas sound great :D

[lrig_rorrim]

Thanks! One of these days... :D

[prog_schlock]

This is delightful, particularly all the dinosaur flavors. What an enormous amount of work and time was involved here!

I am so overwhelmed that, for once, I don't have a whole lot to say other than I had a delightful time reading all of these. Again, especially the dinosaur ones. Indeed, velociraptor travel in packs (and Gary really should beware). :)

I heard Bach's Goldberg variations in my head while reading the opening here (though each story sort of suggested its own song):

[lrig_rorrim]

:D I'm really glad you enjoyed it. I had a fantastic time doing these little bite-sized stories, and hooking them all up to the Story Machine (boop! beep!). I'm just glad the velociraptors got to Gary this week, and there'll be no eliminations. ;)