The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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Nýlegir þættir
106 þættir
Auction block
The Pirates of the Caribbean ride has been updated and upgraded over the years.
The figures and songs adjusted to modern sensibilities.
Shoot to kill
Agencies want to know three things:
Are you willing to kill?
Are you able to kill?
And can you do it without le...
The ship we are
I cannot describe the ship.
Its surface absorbs all light.
Its shape, indeterminate.
One moment, I was standing...
Pineapple
My previous job would send employees on a two week trip to Hawaii after ten years of service.
When I got to nine and a half years of serv...
Wedding planner
Brittany was a wedding planner for dogs.
Crazy dog owners would get their dogs hitched with other dogs, and she’d plan out the party, get...
Nothing to waste
In his will, Freddy hated to waste anything.
He said he didn’t want to waste a good suit and nice shoes.
Or any wood or meta...
Weekly Challenge #1024 – Cool
The next topic is Correlation
LISA
Boxing Day
The house was clinically clean; guests were due at midday. Mum had baked 36 min...
Cruella ads
I see advertisements for Cruella all over the place.
They’re fucking obnoxious and ugly.
I don’t know anyone who saw Cruella...
Impact
Books open people to new ideas and worlds.
I think back to the books that impacted my life.
The Webster’s Unabridged Diction...
Rise up and up
Dan built a platform for the camera. Then he rigged it to a weather balloon.
Filling the balloon, until it was ready to release.
Scooter things
I live in a golfing and tennis resort community, even though I don’t golf or play tennis. A lot of people drive around in golf carts. They drive in th...
Rita
Rita taught English in Dubai and lost her teaching job after she complained that half the kids in her class were named Mohammed. That’s all the admini...
Baban
There were angry marches all over the world.
Earth is sexist.
Earth is racist.
Earth is bigoted.
T...
Weekly Challenge #1023 – PICK TWO Someone else, Roast, When will it stop?, Support Network, Moonwalk
The next topic is Cool
RICHARD
Moves like stagger
On Mondays, I run a support network for people who think they can moonwalk,...
The mothers of defection
We put together a band.
Played covers in our garage, played a few gigs.
Wrote a few songs, played a few more gigs.
The death trains
Another train rolls in to Pelosi state penitentiary, Unloading the surviving passengers, hose out the vomit and blood and shit before sending the trai...
Bobby’s no good
Bobby was a rough kid.
His mother said, you, you’re no good, Bobby.
So he left home.
Went out on the road.
Peaceful
The police arrested a peaceful protester with a knife in his pocket.
The police arrested a peaceful protester with a gun in his pocket.
Clean needles
It’s okay to share needles if you’re clean and the first one to use the needle.
How do you know you’re the first to use the needle?
...
The prankster
The perfect trees, the perfect flowers.
The perfect path, the perfect grass.
Everything in the park was perfect.
Weekly Challenge #1022 – Pencil case
The next topic is PICK TWO
Someone else
Roast
When will it stop?
Support Network
Moon...
Vouchers
My laptop is wearing out.
And because I’m always at home, I figured I might as well get a desktop.
So, I planned one out.
You made me
Nobody ever wants to be born. Or be made.
You made me.
And you made me feel.
I loved you so much.
...
Focus on me
So, I haven't been happy with work.
I don't do it for the money. I do it for pride.
I do a lot of work, I'm highly motivated. I'm proud...
Don’t be Andy Dick
Wil Wheaton's Law is a simple one:
"Don't be a dick."
And that law is a good one.
Nobody should be a dick.
But it's actual...
Early
When the bomb went off at the cafe.
You had gotten there early.
Too early.
And I was on time
But too late to be with you.<...
The border
When you live on a ranch near the border, you get a lot of unexpected visitors.
They will try to take things.
Some of leave enough out t...
Weekly Challenge #1021 – Poetry
Richard
Lisa
Tom
Serendipidy
Norval Joe
Planet Z
The next topic is Pencil...
Elaine’s walk of shame
Every time Elaine drank herself into a blackout and woke up in some strange guy's bed, she swore she wouldn't do it again.
Bagging up the guy's...
Smut shows
Early Hollywood was pretty racy.
Lots of violence and nudity in movies.
So, the Catholic Leagues would produce lists of movies with rati...
My first pizza
My first pizza was Barnaby's thin crust in Northbrook.
Their sign had a brown potion bottle, but I always thought of it as a bowling pin.
...
Skipping English
Why didn't I make perfect grades in school?
The work was boring.
And my parents thought I wasn't emotionally capable of handling skippin...
Swindle
When I was little, my parents compiled a baby book.
It had photographs and report cards and vaccination records.
And some Bank of Israel...
Free lunches
I worked at a place that offered free lunches, free snacks, a free gym, and free power charging for electric cars.
Oh, and free cheap cell phon...
Weekly Challenge #1020 – Gift
Richard
Lisa
Tom
Serendipidy
Norval Joe
Planet Z
The next topic is Poetry...
Nails
You know, I used to bite my nails.
Don't remember a time when I didn't.
Therapists told me that it was a form of self destruction.
...
Whitney
When Bobby Brown died, he went to Hell.
No waiting in line for Bobby.
A bodyguard at the gates with a clipboard, unclipping a velvet rop...
Sad thing
It’s a sad thing when you have to bury your own child.
The last time, I got a sore back, using a shovel in the back yard.
So, that’s why...
The job i suppose
I have a good job.
With a corner office on the top floor.
And a good parking space to charge my car.
Good perks: free lunches, fu...
Collaborate
Every day, we have a team meeting.
And when we go around the table... well, go around the list, since we're not at the same table while we work...