The 100 Word Stories Podcast
Kanaal Besonderhede
The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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Weekly Challenge #1035 – PICK TWO Stings Low flying Supply Clothes pegs Stick
The next topic is Twist
RICHARD
Plump
“What do you think?”
As pouts go, it’s fair to say this one resembled an i...
To the Victor came the spoils
Uncle Victor had been in an iron long for 20 years. Aunt Millie hired a nurse to take care of them. He did stocks from a computer that he controlled w...
Remote buttons
My television remote has a Netflix button.
So does my DVD player remote.
I don’t subscribe to Netflix, so I find the button...
The old tax fraud
My father was a corporate lawyer in the restaurant industry for years.
He retired to run a glass business.
But he failed to...
Analytics
It used to be that to find out what your users wanted, you asked them.
You brought them in to a focus group or you sent out a survey.
Every two weeks
The last job I had, it felt like I was drawing a line with one hand and erasing it with the other.
Every project I put any effort into go...
Touch grass
Even though my cat can go out in the enclosed patio and enjoy lying in the sun and watching birds, she still howls at the front door to be allowed to...
Weekly Challenge #1034 – Experiment
The next topic is PICK TWO
Stings
Low flying
Supply
Clothes pegs
Stick
LEWIE
Coaching
When I got drafted out of college, I was the new kid on the team.
Some of the returning players saw me as a threat to their jobs, and the...
Galazy
Some professor at some university discovered a new galaxy.
No other scientist had seen it before.
Until this guy did.
...
Play the dirty game
We like to disguise interrogators as Red Cross or lawyers or reporters, and they’d ask the prisoner if they wanted to send anything out to their famil...
The hall
Every four years, the theme park’s engineers build robots for the exhibit with the robotic presidents.
They build the two partys’ candida...
Dumb commercial
I don’t understand why that weight loss drug needed Serena Williams as a celebrity in their Super Bowl Commercial. If you have a working and safe weig...
Weekly Challenge #1033 – Vanishing Point
The next topic is Experiment
RICHARD
Perspective
“Do you understand it now?”
The blank look on my face said it a...
Reward stars
The teacher put reward stars on homework. Gold for great, silver for good. If you didn’t have a star, you had a problem. My brother was two years olde...
A thief to catch a thief
It takes a thief to catch a thief, they say. So the FBI made the old swindler an offer. Pose as a rich Arab and bribe a bunch of crooked politicians,...
Summer evenings
On warm summer evenings, I like to walk to the abandoned golf course and stand by one of the ponds. The water is usually pretty clear, with a few lily...
Cat regrets
Myst is the cat who goes outside to roam and stays out so long, she makes us worry if she’s ever coming home.
You know, like Bruwyn.
Peppers
The explorers search for the peppers.
The botanist identifies the peppers.
The agricultural conglomerate seeds the peppers.<...
Pandemic classes
When the pandemic hit and schools were closed, the classes got on Zoom or specialized distance learning apps.
Teachers who were tired of...
Weekly Challenge #1032 – Fancy
The next topic is Vanishing point
LEWIE
I saw an advertisement. It was a feast fit for a ruler of house cats. There was meat, treats, and...
Wanting kids
My mother has a younger sister.
And she’s a thieving, conniving bitch.
Robbed my grandmother blind and sent her broke ass to...
Chemical memory
If you keep a device constantly charging, or top it off every night, the battery has a chemical memory to it and will hold less of a charge.
For the glory
Once upon a time, our people built great space ships.
The space ships, they flew so fast. Faster that light.
And we flew bet...
Ten bucks
My friend just got a 10 dollar an hour raise as a contractor.
I remember when I was making less than 10 dollars an hour working in a fast...
Every chick
Every chick I ever fucked became a lesbian.
My first girlfriend, my second girlfriend.
The chick I cheated on her with (the...
Fury
They say that hell half no fury like a woman scorned but now that I’m in hell, I beg to differ. I did a lot lot of scorning, believe you and me. I’ve...
Weekly Challenge #1031 PICK TWO Hush Beauty Chisel One-eyed owl Interceptor
The next topic is Fancy
LEWIE
The one-eyed owl had a chiseled jaw line. His hushed beak made him the perfect interceptor. Glaring silently...
Giraffe delivery
I used to think that the test for being rich would be to be able to go to a website and with only a few clicks have a real live giraffe delivered to y...
Close to the water
Sometimes I think I should’ve gotten a house closer to the water. And then I see the Pest Control and animal trapper trucks on the street. I asked the...
Night nurse
You can bet on anything now.
Celebrity surgeries are all the rage on the betting desks.
Live, die, or complications.
<...
Morning duty
Usually after his morning walk, John would do his morning business in the toilet and jump in the shower.
However, today he was a bit back...
Doublebooked
The meeting went long, so when the meeting was over, I hopped in my time machine to go back and catch the beginning of the other meeting that had alre...
Last man standing
When the smoke cleared, Billy was the last man standing.
Clint was sitting in the middle of the street.
Bart was laying on h...
Weekly Challenge #1030 – Paranoia
The next topic is PICK TWO
Hush
Beauty
Chisel
One-eyed owl
Interceptor
LEWIE
A bitter pill to swallow
So, I found an accounting error.
Reported it to the CEO.
Who did nothing about it.
Then, I reported it to the S...
Bob Thomas Morton
Mom and Dad took me to the cemetery every weekend.
We visited Grandma and Grampa and me there.
Me, Bob Thomas Morton.
...
I can’t breathe
So, a cop took a fentanyl addict with hypertension and a heart condition to the ground and knee-pressed the guy’s neck.
City coroner said...
The crying of Lot Devil
So, my parents finally sold their house.
But they didn’t sell the wooded empty lot next door.
They had bought that lot to pr...
Violin
I used to play the violin. But I didn’t play it well.
“Maybe I need a better violin?”
So, I’d buy violin after violin, until...