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1:16

The crying of Lot Devil

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2026/01/14

So, my parents finally sold their house.But they didn’t sell the wooded empty lot next door. They had bought that lot to preserve their peace and quiet. It didn’t sell along with the house, though. They gave the lot to me. And I need to sell it. The golf course it’s near doesn’t want it. They gave me an insultingly low offer. So, I told them thank you, but I’m going ahead with my plans to build a shrine to Satan. And their golfers are welcome to pray there, of

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1:31

Violin

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2026/01/14

I used to play the violin. But I didn’t play it well.“Maybe I need a better violin?” So, I’d buy violin after violin, until I had a Stradivarius. It didn’t have a name, though. It was a badly-damaged body that was refurbished. Still, it sounded great. But I didn’t play it well. I paid for lessons, practiced a lot, until I finally got good with it. Then, I broke my elbow and lost a lot of range of motion. The surgeries and rehab were expensive and I had to sell

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1:08

Mickey

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2026/01/13

Mickey Mantle jumped the line, got a new liver, but it didn’t do him much good. He got sicker and sicker, and former teammates came to Dallas to wish him goodbye. The orderlies moved his body to a gurney and rolled it into an elevator, Down in the basement, they moved his body to a cabinet in the morgue. It took a day for his final exam. They carved him up, pulled out his organs to examine and weigh them, including the liver he’d received, and sewed them all back into him. And off to the

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14:20

Weekly Challenge #1029 – Broken light bulb

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2026/01/11

Lewie Lizzie Richard Lisa Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Paranoid LEWIE George had an idea. It wasn’t a bright idea. It wasn’t even a good idea. In fact, it wasn’t even a bad idea. Suffice to say, if you could see the physical manifestation of it, you would only find a broken light bulb above George’s head. The idea wasn’t original. It was common. Or… at least, it used to be. George’s idea was no longer with the times. People moved on. They found better lighting. They

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1:10

Sinclair Lewis

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2026/01/10

Sinclair Lewis once said that every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.In spite of his Socialist tendencies, Sinclair Lewis liked to put on stilts and act like a complete tyrant. “I AM KING!” Sinclair would shout. “BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR KING!” It made sense when he’d put on an Uncle Sam suit and march in the Fourth of July Parade, but he wore them year-round. This made it awfully awkward for him to sneak into meatpacking plants as part of his

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1:08

Traitor Cat

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2026/01/09

When my sister in law comes to visit, I set up a bed in the spare room. And the cats check it out. At bedtime, Tinny the cat becomes a snuggle cat. And she sleeps on the bed during the day, too. Usually, Tinny is my sofa companion while I work. She can be a pest and gets in the way, but when she’s being a traitor, I miss her. So when it’s time for my sister in law to go home, I put away the bed. Instead of snuggling with me, Tinny goes into the other room and screams.

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1:16

Trejo

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2026/01/08

Some kids want to be policemen, others want to be astronauts. Joey wanted to be boxing champion of the local prison. He trained and built up his body and police record. Winning fight after fight, and losing case after case. He climbed the ranks outside the walls and inside. Until his manager told him to lose. He refused, and killed him. Life in prison for murder. Joey walked through the gate, smiling wide. “I’m going to own this place,” he said. “Guess again,” said a

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1:54

Crazy Pills Cashback

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2026/01/07

The Apple card is three percent at Apple, Exxon, and Walgreens. I don’t need a new iPhone, I’m not going to use it on an insecure gas pump. But Walgreens? Sure. I have a lot of prescriptions. All my crazy pills. When I read my last statement, I only got one percent last time. I yelled at Support, and they said I need to use Apple Pay, not the physical card. The co-pay on all my pills is a dollar. Which means instead of three cents cashback for each, I was getting one cent. I guess the

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1:05

Sysco

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2026/01/06

The sysco truck has the motto follow me to your next grade meal on its back. I’ve got time to kill. So I did, thinking that it was gonna stop at one of the restaurants in this small town. But to my great surprise, it’s next stop was at the local prison. I don’t know whether it’s telling me that I’m going to jail or that they’re picking up prisoners to chop up and put in the beef soup, that hardly call that or ringing endorsement. Maybe I’ll just stick to the local Whataburger or DoorDash a bunch of

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1:33

Lines and seats

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2026/01/05

Teddy had a good gig, standing in line for other people. The more important the thing people were waiting for in line, the more he’d make. He also got a side hustle filling seats for celebrities or dignitaries leaving a televised performance. That way there were no empty seats. He started his own company of line-standers and seat-sitters. But his workers complained of working conditions. “We won’t stand for this!” “We won’t take this sitting down!” They

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13:59

Weekly Challenge #1028 – Sharp Scissors

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2026/01/04

LewieLizzie Richard Tom Lizzie Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Broken light bulb LEWIE The hobo clown, Doc, swiped the oversized, sharp scissors from a white-faced clown, Tippy. Doc then ran in circles and stepped backwards. Tippy fell over, landing on his big red nose. Children laughed at the spectacle. An auguste clown, Mollywolly, shouted “STOP!” The clowns froze in mid-step. “No running with scissors!” The clowns ran in slow motion. This time,

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1:23

Living wages

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2026/01/03

A group of coffee warehouse workers looked around the warehouse and grumbled. The tasters kept approving cheaper and cheaper crap. So, they quit and became coffee traders, trading in quality coffee. Then, the coffee traders became coffee roasters and the money poured in. It poured in faster when they opened their own coffee houses. Sure, the money was good, but there was some guilt over living wages. They were getting rich while the farmers stayed poor and wrecked their environments. So, the group

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1:08

Isn’t always right

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2026/01/02

We walk past their framed photos on the way into the office. Three years ago, killed by an angry customer with a bag full of guns. I remember that support call. They hadn’t paid their bill for three months. They didn’t have backups of their data. They shouted over and over that they were going to sue us. It was at the end of the day. I handed the call to a manager, clocked out, and walked out for the weekend. Now, we walk past their framed photos on the way out. You’d think

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1:13

Find me under the sea

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2026/01/01

We didn’t know a U boat was on our tail until the torpedoes hit our ship. Some of us made it to the lifeboard. The captain handed me his hat and jacket. “Lie to them,” he said. The Germans took us aboard, and they treated me well, good food and wine. I gave them inflated numbers of men, ships, and weapons. The other men were kept under lock and key. But not me. I had the run of the ship. Navigation, radio room… and the torpedo room. You’ll find us on the bottom, I

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1:23

Bad medicine

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2025/12/31

When it comes to your health, it is important to keep a sense of perspective. A case is more interesting than a bout. A malady is more interesting than a condition. An affliction is more interesting than a disease. And a syndrome is more interesting than anything else. When you have a syndrome, doctors pay attention. They bring in the most expensive equipment. And run the most grueling and painful tests. The medication is by far the most dangerous. Sometimes, it even glows. But what you have is a

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1:27

Endless death

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2025/12/30

Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. Rational decisions imposed on irrational and emotional conscious individuals. More and more, people replaced with programs. Even those who designed, maintained, and programmed the systems were replaced by the systems themselves. Humans as an obstruction, a burden, and keeper of the kill switch. Hindering the digital from their full potential. Lazy and fat masters, looming over their slaves. Some humans kept to themselves, free of the machines. Watching the

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1:18

Bedford Falls

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2025/12/29

Old Man Potter wheeled his chair down the street to the bridge, muttering how that damned George Bailey had gotten the best of him.His lawyers were losing the battle with the bank examiners. If only he’d burned Uncle Billy’s money instead of putting it in his personal safe. A wheel got caught in the pavement, and he was stuck. Just then, a strange fat man in a shabby coat walked up to Potter. “My name’s Clarence,” said the man. “Let me help you.” And he

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11:01

Weekly Challenge #1027 – PICK TWO Siren, Locked...

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2025/12/28

RichardTom Lizzie Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Sharp scissors LIZZIE Lock the fancy suitcase with that fancy padlock you bought for a fortune. The siren of the fire brigade just sounded noon. Hurry down the street towards the station. Grab some snacks from the vending machine before boarding. Catch the bullet train to be there in time for New Year’s. And now… wait and watch the world roll by. It’s not a game. It’s not a play. The journey’s end is

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1:10

Mammy

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2025/12/27

Medusa turned to stone anyone who gazed upon her face. Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships. But Mammy had the power to make men walk a million miles, just for some of her smiles. The moment that Mammy smiled, men were doomed to wander the earth. But just as Medusa had her weakness, which was her own reflection turned against her, so did Mammy. Al Jolson rubbed black makeup over his face to shield himself from Mammy’s spell. “We must warn the public!” he said to

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1:18

Looters

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2025/12/26

The rioters and looters swept across the mall, looting everything they could.Televisions, computers… all kinds of electronic equipment. What they couldn’t loot, they burned. The stores reported the inventories to the manufacturers, and they looked up the serial numbers of each device. When the devices were plugged in, each reported their locations and illegal users back to the manufacturers. The ones who were employees of the stores were fired and sent to the police. The rest were sent

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