The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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Weekly Challenge #1047 – Railing
The next topic is Give Up
LISA
The Railing of Lost Things
There’s a railing where the Portobello Road meets Westway: The Railing of...
Late scribbles
Toby came up with really good ideas late at night. He’d be brushing his teeth or putting on a night shirt for climbing the bed and an idea we just hit...
Bad reception
After the wildfire destroyed part of the city, the mayor and city council promised they do everything to help rebuild. But despite millions of dollars...
Early retirement
After months of job hunting, I’ve picked up a lot of good tips for questions to ask during interviews. Not that I get a lot of interviews. A lot of pl...
Our princess
I’m sure you’ve heard of the phrase thank you, Mario, but our princess is in another castle. Well it turns out that our princess likes to hang out at...
Tanking the season
I’ve been a Houston Astros fan for a pretty long time, back when they were good then they got to the World Series somehow, then they really sucked, an...
Keep the farm
Papa Joe made Papa Wally, my daddy, promise not to sell the farm.
Daddy kept his promise, but when he gave me the farm, he also gave me o...
Weekly Challenge #1046 – Complete idiot
The next topic is Railing
LEWIE
The newspaper described John as an idiot. Frustrated, he threw the paper down in his lap.
“That edi...
The fear of sundials
Doctors called Jeremy‘s fear of sundials irrational, but he had a perfectly valid reason to fear the diabolical contraptions. His father was found spe...
Ham King
Dan Hammond was the ham king of the Pacific Northwest. For years, trucks would bring pigs to his factory, and out came refrigerated trucks and rail ca...
The first man
Kaseem counted out the barley for the harvest and prepared a clay tablet in the frame. Poking marks into it with a reed, he noted that there were 17,0...
Baldwin
Under a cloak and bandages soiled by his leprosy-torn body, silver mask on his face, King Baldwin lay dying on his bed.
Somehow, he had k...
Blake
Blake was a knife-thrower.
He could throw any knife with deadly accuracy.
Not just balanced throwing knives, like other assa...
The full moon
When I was little, I wondered why the moon would fill up and then empty.
And when it was full, what stuff was it full of.
“I...
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.
...