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100 words: curtain
Courtesy of jydog1 , our word of the week is curtain. Write a 100 word story using the word curtain, and post it in the comments. (New authors are welcome! See previous weeks if you're looking for examples.)
Imaginary bonus points if you have someone laugh during the story.
Go!
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100 words: "taser"
The inventor of the taser died this week. While reading his obituary I was surprised to find that the name of the device wasn't actually a play on the word 'laser.' Excited that he had found a way to zap people from a distance, he named his company after one of his favorite children's books growing up: Tom Swift's Electric Rifle. When they got ( Read more... ) -
100 words: leash
Kit thinks this one will be difficult; I'm not so sure. Our topic of the week is "leash." Go bang out a 100 word short story and post it in the comments.
Last week it took me seven tries to get a story I liked. this week I have three or four ideas immediately. We'll see how they come together.
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100 words: ritual
Ritual is a crucial part of life that not enough modern people consider. Rituals can be as simple as the annual pilgrimage home for Thanksgiving, or as complex as an obsessive-compulsive counting of floorboards before leaving a room. Or, you know, that traditional thing with the knife and the cultists and the creepy chanting ( Read more... ) -
Being There
In my dream this morning, I was at a dinner just preceding a small wedding. The room was full of folks from the game industry; I recognized some people who worked at Looking Glass way back in the day. Because most people didn't know each other, we went around the room introducing ourselves.
When we got to Peggy, she said "/AFK"
"What?" I remember ( Read more... ) -
100 words: candle
"Put.. the candle.. back!"
Courtesy of jydog1 , the word for the week is candle. Write a 100 word short short story using the word and post it in the comments. Your reward will be everlasting fame, your own agent and a dedicated fan club who keeps sending you Facebook requests.
Honest.
Yes, you. The person I haven't met but who happens to be reading this ( Read more... ) -
100 Words: shovel
The word for the week is "shovel." Clearly, I'm hoping that if you write about it I can actually stop doing it.
A 100 word short story, posted in the comments. Write, my monkeys, write!
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Wherein I finally earn a free Hugh Grant
Over the past few years I've been honored to officiate three weddings and a funeral. The weddings were all for friends I love, each of whom trusted me not to embarrass them in public (including my best friend from high school, foldedfish and hokulea , and iron_chef_bbq and her husband.) The funeral was for a dear friend's mom who passed away unexpectedly.
Performing weddings ( Read more... ) -
100 words: special delivery
This is an absurdly busy time for me. I'm interviewing, I'm writing, I'm dealing with annoying computer problems, I'm doing game prep, and I'm cursing at stat blocks. What I'm not doing, however, is allowing 100 words to slip from weekly to biweekly -- so let's do some fast typing ( Read more... )