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George’s dreams

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/03/04

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. He had bad dreams, of towns on fire... women and children screaming and running from the flames. George woke up in a cold sweat, shaking and trembling. When they were about to raid a town, George would feel queasy and he'd throw up. His hands would sweat, he'd lose his grip on his cutlass. He studied medicine, hoping to become the ship's surgeon, but the sight of blood made him sick. "Avast, quiet ye scurvy dogs!" the captain hissed. "Ready the

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George sleeps

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/03/03

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. He had a hard time sleeping. His doctor checked him for sleep apnea, but George kept himself fit and lean. He was fine during the sleep study, too. So, the doctor recommended a relaxing herbal tea, and that George get an ambient noise generator. The herbal tea was soothing, and the noise generator produced the sound of the ocean waves. Which is silly, when you think of it. George, laying there in his bunk, right under a porthole, and using a

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Weekly Challenge #984 – Caught in time

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/03/02

ThomasRichard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Ashlar THOMAS Caught In Time Every Tuesday, Miriam brought my Walmart groceries, her bonnet crisp, her voice soft. This week, she sneezed twice as she handed me my bags. I nodded, uneasy. By Thursday, my throat burned. By Friday, fever. I lay in bed, certain I’d caught something from her—something plain, Mennonite, unvaccinated. The irony struck me: I, a man of modern medicine, felled by a woman

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George and the flying elephant

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/03/01

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. Things got so bad, he ran away and joined the circus. For his first three months, George did nothing but shovel animal poop. Then, when a baby elephant was born with huge ears, George got an idea. "I will teach it to fly!" he said. "Then, I can stop shoveling animal poop and be famous!" "For the last time, no," said the ringmaster. "This is as dumb as your flying baby giraffe, flying baby bear, and flying baby lion ideas!" George ran away and

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Phantom George

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/28

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. So, while attacking a merchant ship off the coast of Bangalla, he fell overboard. Pygmies dragged him ashore and nursed him back to health. "Do you swear an oath to vanquish piracy and slavery?" asked the pygmies. "Sure," said George. "Yeah, okay." They showed him a cave and gave him some purple pajamas and a black mask. They didn't fit so well, and when George tried to put on the mask, he clumsily fell out of the cave. And that's how George

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George learns discipline

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/27

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. The captain thought that George's problem was a matter of procedure and discipline. He made George clock in and clock out for his shift and write detailed reports about what he did while on the clock. George wasn't good at reading and writing, so the reports were incomprehensible. George ended up having to explain what he tried to write, which took even longer. Giving George no time to do his actual pirate job. "It's all in the metrics," said

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George keeps his job

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/26

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. In spite of George's lack of expertise in piracy, piracy is a rare skill in the labor market. So, even a pirate that's not very good can command a decent living doing it. In an era of full employment, George's prospects became even brighter. When the captain complained about George's mistakes or incompetence, he had to consider how hard it would be to replace George. So, he shrugs and fishes George back out of the water. "Try not to fall

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George and the poodles

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/25

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. He spent too much time lying on the deck while poodles romped all around him. The captain of the ship thought that this was a waste of time, but the captain's mother was the ship's chef, and she liked to adopt and raise poodles. Any time he'd get mad about it with George, his mother would show up and say how much the poodles loved the attention. When provisions got down to hardtack and water, the poodles vanished. While the captain's mother

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George gets rain delayed

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/24

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. When it started to rain during a sea battle, he threw up his hands and shouted "TIME OUT!" Men on both sides of the conflict lowered their swords, and George ordered the decks to be covered with a tarp. For three hours, the men sat around, sipped their tea, and a few did belly-slides on the wet tarp. "Do you think we'll need to postpone?" said George to the other captain. Five minutes later, the sun came out, and they rolled back the tarp to

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Weekly Challenge 983 – PICK TWO Aviator Circuit Twice...

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/23

Tom Tura Richard Lizzie Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Caught in time LIZZIE What is that? A map. Of what? No idea. North Pole? No. South Pole? No. Then what? No idea. Speak louder, my hearing aid is not charged. NO IDEA. No need to shout. You told me... Ok, never mind. So, it's not the North Pole or the South Pole. Nope. What is it then? I don't know, I forgot to bring my glasses. Aviator's map? No. Well, when I look at it this way, it kind of

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George and gunpowder

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/22

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. He heard that the great pirate Blackbeard put gunpowder in his rum, so he thought that if he put gunpowder in his rum, that would make him great, too. George snuck into the ship's powder hold and grabbed a bag of powder. The problem was, he'd grabbed a bag of saltpeter that hadn't yet been mixed with sulfur and charcoal. When George poured it into his rum, well, let's just say that George wasn't very good at something else. "No wonder why

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George has mandatory fun

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/21

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. Which is why he would get excited when the captain would take the whole crew to an off-site team-building fun day. "No plundering and pillaging!" cheered George. "Yay!" The last time, they went to a bowling center, which also had pool tables, darts, and other activities. The problem was, the pirates with peglegs couldn't bowl because of the shoes, the pirates with hook hands couldn't shoot pool, and the pirates with eyepatches couldn't throw

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Weekly Challenge #982 – Taradiddle

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/16

TomRichard Lizzie Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is PICK TWO Aviator, Circuit, Twice, Chamber, Squirrel TOM Really Old Stuff Of the epoch of earth history, no age in more disputed then the Moretaish. Few fossils recorder have been found, say for the long legged Taradiddle. And even the Taradiddle comes with it share of mystery. We are not sure if she was a mammal or a proto reptile. It appears they travel in moderate herds, but often broke off into

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George is net neutral

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/15

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. When the captain asked him about Net Neutrality, George looked at the netting in the cargo hold and wondered what was so neutered about it. "It just holds things in place when the seas are rough, right?" said George. "I'm not sure why so many people are so up in arms about this stuff." He tugged on the netting a bit to make sure that the cargo was secure, and he smiled proudly. The captain made a note not to ask George about complicated social

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George and his boomerang

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/14

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. His grip wasn't very strong, so he was always dropping his cutlass during swordfights. And when he fired his pistols, the recoil would kick them up and out of his hands. He tried to tape his sword and pistols to his hands, but that messed up his aim and made it hard to reload the pistols. The captain gave George a boomerang. George threw it, and it circled around and hit George in the back of the head, knocking him out. "Good," said the captain

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George the baker

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/13

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. He was such a poor pirate, people mistook him for many things other than a pirate. One gay couple mistook him for a baker, and they demanded that he bake them a wedding cake. George refused, because he wasn't a baker. The couple sued him, and it went all the way up to the Supreme Court. George lost, so he bought a cake from a professional bakery. When he delivered it, the couple mistook him for a stripper. George more than made up for his legal

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George’s temporary tattoos

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/12

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. Other pirates would get tattoos, but George was afraid of needles. George bought boxes of temporary tattoos, reapplying them every morning. One morning, he got a little mixed up, and he'd applied the tattoos in the wrong places. "Didn't you have the anchor on your arm and the mermaid on your chest yesterday?" said the captain. George shrugged it off, but when he went to sleep that night, his shipmates found the boxes and completely covered

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George the jammer

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/11

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. One day, he played his guitar along with his daily routine. He was pretty good at it, and his shipmates liked it, and it boosted their morale. George recruited a few shipmates to back him up, a few guitars, bass, keyboards, and drums. Backup singers and a horn section, too. Lights, smoke machines, props, and the sound system required more manpower. Pretty soon, the ship was a floating psychedelic rock jam experience. They soon gave up and

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George holds a candle

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/10

George was a pirate, but he wasn't a very good pirate. The captain paired up George with a more experienced pirate to learn from. The mentor tried to help George learn from his mistakes and get better. But after years of frustration, he ended up covering for George's mistakes. The mentor recommended that George try meditation. "Light a candle and focus on the flame," he said. So, George did. And he nearly set the ship on fire. The captain picked up a bucket of sand and put out the fire. "I'll get

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Weekly Challenge #981 – Comment

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/02/09

TomRichard Lizzie Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Taradiddle RICHARD --- Like, subscribe, comment --- Like, subscribe, comment… the mantra of the internet. But, what if I don't like, don't wish to subscribe and have nothing at all to say? Should I leave a comment anyway, explaining that I've no comment to add? Therein lies the paradox -if I really don't like it, then I really should say so. If I don't, then my protests will remain unheard, but if I

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