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Weekly Contest #367
The first time Patrick found himself on the show, he was a senior in high school. A hundred young adult faces grinned up at him from the dozens of brochures spread across the kitchen table. “Join us!” they seemed to say. “Sign the loan application, and four years of happiness can be yours!” Patrick wasn’t sure about college. Despite the supposed advantages and promises of joy, it seemed like a bad idea when he considered the cost. Maybe if he knew what he wanted in a career, jumping straight to undergrad next year would make sense. But Patri...
Weekly Contest #350
The boy hid behind the hedges, watching the witch feed her chickens. She wasn’t as ugly as the townsfolk claimed. Her skin was neither green nor gray, but a pleasing combination of the two. She sported a thick beard that would have been considered attractive on any man. In fact, if you looked past the mountain range of warts on her cheeks, her knobby, horse-sized knees, and the second nose growing where her left ear should have been, she was quite lovely. A black and gold chicken flapped its wings and clucked at the witch. “If you don’t like...
Winner of Weekly Contest #338 🏆
Have you ever slept through your alarm and had to skip breakfast? Have you ever wished for more protein in the morning than what bland oatmeal could provide? Have you ever been stranded in the woods, starving, with nothing but a raw egg? If you answered “yes” to at least one of these questions, Lenny Livingston could have helped. You see, Lenny had a superpower. …Well, it was less a superpower, and more a “specific issue resolver.” Lenny Livingston could [insert drumroll here] fry an egg under any circumstances, provided he had a frying pan ...
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