The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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Weekly Challenge #1045 – Family Portrait
The next topic is Complete idiot
LISA
A Family Portrait
We were playing at grannies. A raucous game of ball: when it hit a fr...
Fraud on the moon
The first permanent lunar base wasn’t named after Neil Armstrong as we hoped. Instead, it was named after some Chinese God. Despite years of planning...
We have signal
Cell phone service is really gotten bad around here. The company sent me out to the tower, and I went up the ladder, clipping to the safety wire, and...
Super Rose
Some people get really cool superpowers like flying or invisibility or invulnerability, but Rose always knew which direction north was. And not just m...
The Rebellion
I loaded up my cart with olives for the run to Caeseria.
The Roman roads made the trip so much easier.
“Let’s go, boy,” I sa...
Work from home
Mindy kept a switchblade in her purse.
The walk from her office to her car in the parking garage wasn’t the best.
On some ni...
Seven
Alarms went off almost daily in processing plant seven. It was an orbital asteroid rendering facility that had seen better days. Demoted to a training...
Weekly Challenge #1044 – PICK TWO Fever, Shoulder, Torpid, Hairbrush, A dead plant
The next topic is Family portrait
RICHARD
The House Sitter
“It’s just a dead plant. Look, when you asked me to house sit, I t...
Play time
After we had grass rolled out on our front yard, I would let our cats out to roll around and play and stock out there. I got an Apple AirTag on a coll...
Seagulls
I live near the bay, and when I go to the beach, I see pelicans and eagles and other birds hunting for fish on the water. I like to watch them stridin...
Receding water
It hasn’t rained here in Pleasant Valley for a while. The stream that goes under the old library bridge is dry. The pond in the park, you can tell fro...
Cross
When I walk through the park that used to be a golf course, there are a lot of houses with their backyards facing the former cart paths and fairways a...
Shared Fear
Jake and Molly carved their initials in the grand oak in Somerville Park. The sheriff talked to their parents. They agreed on a punishment. The magist...
Crossing Turtles
During my daily walks, I see various creatures. Squirrels and birds and rabbits and turtles. This morning, I saw a turtle by the side of the road. And...
Weekly Challenge #1043 – An empty deodorant can
The next topic is PICK TWO
Fever
Shoulder
Torpid
Hairbrush
A dead plant
LIZZIE<...
George walks
George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate. During his downtime, he liked to walk around the neighborhood. Which wasn’t very difficult when...
Twin masks
Molly and Mindy were identical.
Except that Molly wore a tragedy mask everywhere while Mindy wore a comedy mask.
Anyone who...
Jumping
I remember the last time I met Death.
We were on the ledge of a very tall building.
People on the street below.
...
Danny stops
Danny rode his bike to the library every day.
He’d lock it to the lamp post, walk through the doors, and work his way down the stacks, on...
Lending library
I live in a golf and tennis resort town, lots of families and retirees. People drive golf carts around and the kids ride their motorized bicycles like...
Parade worthy
The town had never had a parade. They had things worth celebrating, but nothing parade worthy. So the mayor decided they would have a parade. They got...
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...