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Weekly Contest #59
(Set your story in a place with extreme weather, but don’t use any weather-related words to describe it.)Did you ever feel like you were sweating hot lava? It was running down your back between your shoulder blades and then down between your hairy butt cheeks! Damn, this is torture.Big Blue lay tangled up in a soggy set of sheets. He kept trying to find a dry spot to sop up the salty river running off his face. Yep! It is damn uncomfortable.Finally he passes out from the struggle or just in desperation and he dreams ...
(Write about a character arriving in a place unlike anywhere they’ve ever been.)Marcie truly loves her home area for reasons too numerous to mention, She was so very surprised, no, actually amazed, to discover a place that also reached her heart.Marcie had been born and raised in the Midwest. Her whole adult life was lived in a state bordered by two of the Great Lakes so the memories were plentiful and the best times involved days in the sun and on the water. Here where we enjoy changing seasons, lush green farm fiel...
(Write a story that feels lonely, despite being set in a packed city.) The morning sounds that wake me are never the birds I read about in wonderful stories about nature but rather the traffic on the boulevard in front of the house. Those unlucky people who have earlier jobs or school than I and are already on the job or on their way there, they create the humming sounds of tires on pavement and an occasional horn sounding some alert or annoyance. It is not an unpleasant sound really, but just a noise that becomes...
Weekly Contest #58
(Write a story where the power goes out on a spaceship or submarine.) Getting close to their destination, goofy Dan is weightless in the cockpit, bopping about. He is asking Bailey, his co-pilot, which bottle to open to celebrate their arrival. He doesn’t care as he bought the booze based on the color of the glass bottles. He shops bizarre markets for unique colored bottles. When the contents are gone, sometimes good and sometimes horrible, he will smash the bottle or crosscut it into rings and put the glass pieces ...
(Write about a family who decides to camp out in the back yard during a power outage.)Bob and Margie looked at one another with a look of knowing panic! More than panic, horror actually! What could they possibly do? How could they corral these four kids in a dark house with no electronic tentacles to the outside world?The family had gathered around the kitchen table where one candle provided all of the ambient light. The family was Bob, the head of the clan and father to two sets of twins, and Margie, head cook ...
(Write about a character who’s stuck in an elevator when the power goes out.) Almost running from the parking garage to the lobby of her office building, Laura is mentally scolding herself for staying out so late with friends on a Sunday night. She knows from past experiences that she has little self control when fun is involved. She will choose fun every time. Hurrying across the lobby, her backpack slung over her shoulder, she feels the weight of her laptop and other junk she thinks she can’t live without. Too b...
(Write about someone who purposefully causes a power outage.) You might wonder who I am! I would have to tell you at this point it doesn’t matter who I am. Let’s just say, I’m the guy telling the story. Not really a narrator but for now I can take that role! And now for the story! ~~~~~ Elise was a natural beauty. She learned as early as toddlerhood that cute gets attention, pouting works, bad manners were always forgiven for the little princess. In other words she was spoiled rotten. And, don...
(Write a story about someone feeling powerless.) Elizabeth caught a glimpse of herself in the drugstore window. I guess there was no denying the years, she had changed so much over time. The image was slightly cloudy and the display inside distracting but it was clear enough for her to feel the edges of hopelessness. She felt old and powerless, she felt very tired, one shade short of helpless! Returning home she was happy to find no bills in the mailbox but no letters or cards either. She expected cards, her birth...
Weekly Contest #57
(Write a story about someone who’s famous for something they never actually did.)He didn’t know this before, or at least he never consciously thought about it, but there are things better left alone. In other words don’t dig too deep or you may not like what you discover. He now thinks “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” is a good phrase to remember.As long as Harvey could remember, someone in his family was always dragging up the fact that his great grandfather or maybe it was his great great grandfather was the founding father of this town.&...
(Write a story that starts with someone writing their will — one they know people won’t like.)My birthday was a couple days ago! It was not a good thing! Well what I mean is even though I received more than a dozen cards in the mail, flowers from two different sons and families, a gift from across the world and all the normal stuff, it was still the pits! With a capital P.There is something about the actual number that flips a switch in your brain. These levels that people imagine signify something. Just turned thirt...
Weekly Contest #56
(Write a day-in-the-life-story about a first-time parent and their newborn child.) Picture this, if you will! I’m a seventeen year old boy, chuck full of energy and hormones! Until recently, I lived for sports and played my heart out for whatever team I was on. Then the dreaded hormones kicked in, not only did my face break out with all kinds of ugly but also I became very distracted from my games by cheerleaders, blondes hanging around playing with their hair and giggling girls in general. My game became mediocr...
(Write a story about an established group of people welcoming (or not welcoming) a new face into their midst.)Sarah is so tired, so very tired, of these annoying medical appointments. Simple answers, that’s all she really wants. Just give it to me straight but they talk in medical terms, the printed reports she receives are just full of words and descriptions she has no idea about. When she goes on the computer to look up the words, it gets even more confusing the more she reads. A simple term could be a condition th...
(Write a story in which two people who know each other are introduced — but neither person admits to knowing the other.)The only way I can describe it is to say that it was the worst moment of my life. ~~~~~I had finally gotten up my confidence, and with it enough nerve to actually put my money and my skills on the line for a ten day Photo Adventure Excursion to Iceland. I was excited beyond description and totally preoccupied with checking my photography equipment. I was trying to decide how much stuff I wanted to...
Waiting is never easy whether it is for Christmas morning or the dentist’s nurse to call your name. Waiting is just full of some emotion....excitement, worry, boredom, dread, anticipation...all are emotions precipitated by waiting. This story is about waiting.....waiting as letters pass in the mail....waiting as the train moves along....waiting for arrivals.....waiting for a blind date, but really so much more!~~~~~As Russell rocked back and forth jerking along with the rhythm of the train he thought about how long he ha...
It was late afternoon and the weight of the day had begun to pull down on her shoulders, like an actual weight. The house was cold and the chill seemed to seep into her very core being. She looked out the window at the lengthening shadows of the day, the dusk descending , both fit her mood! Laura had known for some time that things were changing, there was less and less reason to be excited or happy as she understood one sided love was hopeless. But was it love? Tonight her mood was just righ...
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