The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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The 100 Word Stories Podcast
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The overpasses
There are fences and cameras watching the overpasses.
Because people throw things over the side on to the traffic below.
The...
Talk to Mars
The signal from the Mars colony stopped.
We tried to connect to the emergency relay satellites, but they didn’t respond.
It...
Weekly Challenge #1038 – The noisiest place in the universe
The next topic is Bubble wrap.
LEWIE
Title: Silence Has Teeth
Alone.
In the dark.
It is a cruel punishment. No on...
Dumb fat monkey
When I go for my walks, I don’t wear a headset or listen to music or podcasts anymore. I’d rather listen to the birds, singing or the squirrels chitte...
Waiting for Lord Foster
From the void came a wind.
It blew in all directions.
Lord Foster licked his finger and held it to the wind.
He...
Danny will dance again
It’s been three years since Danny last danced.
He’s sitting there, on the edge of the dance floor, watching all the dancers dancing.
Snowball fight
Looking at all the sports at the winter Olympics and all the different competitions with teams and individual achievements, I wonder if they just wann...
Three car washes
I like to get a car wash after I go to the beach.
It’s really to vacuum the sand up from my floormats, even though I wrap my shoes in a t...
Box it up
At the end of every contract, they mail out a FedEx label to put on a box to send their laptop back, and sometimes I like to put a little something ex...
Weekly Challenge #1037 – Dear everyone
The next topic is The noisiest place in the universe.
LEWIE
Dear Everyone,
Except for the guy in the back, in the yellow shirt.
Keep turning left until you’re right
They say hateful things, The Hateful.
They hate anything that they don’t agree with.
“You disagree with us?” they say. “Then...
The dictator
When the occupying Army caught the dictator, we announced it to the press.
And the press cheered.
People took to the streets...
Dee
It’s been a long time since Dee died.
Her kidneys failed, and she’d been on dialysis, but needed a transplant.
Her family di...
The days
So, it’s May.
Mother’s Day came and went…
My father’s birthday coming soon…
Then father’s day… and my mother’s...
Clouds with character
I like to go down to the beach at the bay every now and then just stand there, listening to the water on the shore. When it’s a nice sunny day with a...
Wash
There’s a few car washes in town and two of them are with the same chain that uses a subscription model, and sometimes the wash is broken at one, and...
Weekly Challenge #1036 – Twist
The next topic is Dear everyone
RICHARD
Twist
I hate how the world has become so dumbed-down. When did the human race descend...
Funeral for a funeral
A member of Hamas died in a Lebanese village.
His stash of weapons and explosives exploded.
So, they held a funeral for him....
Family not friends
Why did I forsake my father? Why did I forsake my mother?
When it’s friends that you love like family, they matter.
And I wi...
Fire and brimstone
Hell isn’t all fire and brimstone, you know.
That’s just a little light show the welcoming committee uses to scare the new residents.
Doctor Odd Gender Reveal
Doctor Odd was keenly aware that he wouldn’t live forever, and despite growing an army of clones to carry on his legacy of mad science, he had a stran...
Fred the assassin
Fred was an assassin.
That’s what he put on his taxes: Assassin.
He killed for money.
But not just anyone.
The Rotten Apple
So, the virus is spreading.
And it’s spreading through New York like wildfire.
What is it about New York that makes it dange...
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...