100 Word Stories

Hello. This is Laurence Simon of the 100 word stories podcast.

The 100 word stories weekly challenge is where I post a topic to http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com and then you write and record a story based on that topic...

Welcome to the Weekly Challenge Number Two Hundred and Forty, where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic.

The topic this week was Holiday!

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Mom and Dad didn’t want no silly child. Oh no that just wasn’t an option. So they signed little Timmy up for Baby Outward Bound. B.O.B. takes an airplane full of six year olds fly over Northern North Dakota drops them from 1500 feet with a full army field pack. Six weeks later while Mom and Dad...

I haven't seen Mother in years, but one day I'll remember the combination to the lock on the vault I put her in.

I thought about calling a locksmith, but that would just put him in danger of mother.

And me as well, I suppose, since it has been a while since I last drank...

When the time machine exploded, the research team told you I was dead, my atoms scattered throughout history.

I was badly hurt, sure, but there's great medical care in the future. All kinds of advanced Star Trek stuff here...

Every year, we set up a tent in the middle of the city.

The smell of freshly-roasted turkey, baked stuffing, and delicious sweet potatoes fills the air.

This brings out the homeless, lonely, and poor in droves.

We invite them in and they sit down.

We make them wait for a while...

I pour the white dust out on to the mirror and quickly chop it into lines.

One by one, they vanish up my nose.

I let the rush carry me for a minute and then sniff whatever I can off of the mirror before putting it away.

That's when I catch sight of my reflection in the mirror...

Uncle Artie was a man of the carnival. He traveled the country from coast to coast so many times, and there wasn't a sucker's dollar he couldn't take.

When he died, his body was cremated and the ashes put into one of three urns.

His lawyer shuffled the urns around, and made us choose...

I read a bedtime story to Lisa every night.

It's always a new story. She never wants to hear the same story twice.

She cries when I box up the story books to take to the used bookstore. She wants to keep them all.

Her bookshelf filled up quickly.

And three more I bought her...

Welcome to the Weekly Challenge Number Two Hundred and Thirty-Nine, where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic.

The topic this week was Day Job!

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