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Weekly challenge #1049 – PICK TWO Buffering, Update, An old postcard, offensive, Roll
The next topic is Tokyo
LIZZIE
Dear You,
Here’s an unrequested update that will cause a sudden flare-up of indigestion, I kno...
George and the cure
George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate. The rare times his captain gave him a mission, he’d fail it miserably. But when the entire crew...
One light town
The mayor never liked it when people called Centerville, a one traffic light town. So he had the traffic light removed and replaced with a four-way st...
Leg
When Lucy lost her first tooth, she kind of freaked out. She thought she was gonna completely fall apart. I told her now it’s just teeth, although eve...
Saint wally
Sometimes I like to look down the list of saints to see who is the patron saint of something that was invented centuries after the saint had died. I m...
Grenade oops
Private Joseph Mongo would’ve earned himself a Medal of Honor for falling on a grenade to keep it from killing his platoon mates, but the problem was...
Raids
I remember doing a report in eighth grade history on the Doolittle raids over Japan. I went to the local college library and pulled every source I cou...
Weekly challenge #1048 – Give Up
The next topic is PICK TWO
Buffering
Update
An old postcard
offensive
Roll
LIZZ...
Deaf safe words
What do deaf people use as safe words?
I’m asking for a friend. Who I have tied up in the basement.
So he can’t sign out HEL...
Old general
The old general had gone senile years ago. He kept calling his caretaker, his chief of staff, and he would ask about reports from the field. The nurse...
Dead professor
Last time I went back to the old school, it was for Professor Ellsworth’s funeral. A lot of his former students came, came out for the memorial servic...
Oboe
If I win the lottery, I will call a few major symphonies and buy the oboe chair. There’s no reason for it. It’s just so strange, nobody would understa...
Destroy the past
I saw so many things in the city that I’d never experienced before.
The people. The lights. The stores. The streets. The buildings.
...
Happily never after
And the prince and princess didn’t live happily ever after.
After a few miscarriages, the princess had four daughters in a row.
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...