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1:15

Rise up and up

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2025/12/04

Dan built a platform for the camera. Then he rigged it to a weather balloon.Filling the balloon, until it was ready to release. And that’s when Dan cut the tether. The balloon rose, pulling the platform with it. But the tether was lashed around Dan’s ankle and he was yanked up with the balloon. Without a knife to cut the line, he was hauled into the sky. Higher and higher, colder and colder, until the air was too thin to breathe. Then, the balloon burst, and the platform fell. Later,

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1:15

Scooter things

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2025/12/03

I live in a golfing and tennis resort community, even though I don’t golf or play tennis. A lot of people drive around in golf carts. They drive in the bike lanes, which scares the crap out of joggers and walkers and cyclists who are wearing headphones. Even though teenagers can’t get drivers licenses, through a technicality, they can still drive golf carts around, electric bikes, and weird one wheeled scooter things. Every now and then you hear about some kid losing control and hitting someone or

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1:10

Rita

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2025/12/02

Rita taught English in Dubai and lost her teaching job after she complained that half the kids in her class were named Mohammed. That’s all the administration heard and they fired her right on the spot. It had nothing to do with the fact that the kids all dressed alike, let alone while having the same name. And she couldn’t go by last name because they all had similar last names like Saladin. And the parents got mad when she would give them numbers calling on Mohammed one, Mohammed, two, Mohammed

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1:21

Baban

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2025/12/01

There were angry marches all over the world.Earth is sexist. Earth is racist. Earth is bigoted. The Baban Empire’s embassies offered free trips to their paradise worlds. They recruited heavily at the marches. And millions of the discontent boarded their ships to fly off and never be seen again. The marches grew smaller and fewer, and eventually stopped. And things were better. So much better. Some videos came back, happy people on other worlds. But the truth was, the Baban were flying the

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9:35

Weekly Challenge #1023 – PICK TWO Someone else,...

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2025/11/30

RichardLisa Tom Lizzie Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Cool RICHARD Moves like stagger On Mondays, I run a support network for people who think they can moonwalk, but they can’t. You’d be surprised how many think they’re channelling Michael Jackson, when in reality their dancing sucks; and that’s being generous. I hang out at wedding venues and school reunions, armed with business cards and flyers. On a good night, I can get a dozen referrals from

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1:10

The mothers of defection

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2025/11/29

We put together a band. Played covers in our garage, played a few gigs. Wrote a few songs, played a few more gigs. Got on the radio. Cut an album, and it went up the charts. Went on tour, filled some music halls. Wrote a few more songs, did a festival. Went on tour again, and then we filled some stadiums. Wrote a few more songs, made a film, cut another album, went on tour again. Had a few fights, sued the record label, the record label sued us. We sued each other. And we all went our separate

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1:17

The death trains

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2025/11/28

Another train rolls in to Pelosi state penitentiary, Unloading the surviving passengers, hose out the vomit and blood and shit before sending the train back out again for more. The prisoners are sorted by their crimes. This one, 10 years for misgendering. That one, 15 years for saying all lives matter. And the worst, bakers who refused to make gay wedding cakes. They send the Trump supporters to the right gate, to lay in a pit and wait for the bullet in the back of the head. Another train rolls in,

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1:17

Bobby’s no good

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2025/11/27

Bobby was a rough kid. His mother said, you, you’re no good, Bobby. So he left home. Went out on the road. Bobby went to a psychic to read his future. This line says you’ll live a short, violent life. This line says you and money? No way. And this line says nobody’s ever gonna love you. And Bobby gave her three black eyes. Bobby met a girl. He met many girls. The girls who like bad boys, but they never lasted. And the last one, she put a knife in his back. Bobby bled out in the

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1:20

Peaceful

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2025/11/26

The police arrested a peaceful protester with a knife in his pocket. The police arrested a peaceful protester with a gun in his pocket. The police arrested a peaceful protester with a lighter in his pocket and a Molotov in his hand. The police arrested a peaceful protester with four empty canisters of mace in his pocket. The police arrested a peaceful protester with a green laser in his pocket. The police arrested a peaceful protester with dog biscuits laced with rat poison in his pocket. No, they

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1:05

Clean needles

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2025/11/25

It’s okay to share needles if you’re clean and the first one to use the needle. How do you know you’re the first to use the needle? Be the one who owns the drugs. Or, be the one who owns the needles. When you unwrap the needle, you’re the first to use it. How do you know you’re clean? Be the first to use the needle. And it won’t matter if you’re clean. Or you can take pills. Or smoke something. Or drink it. Things that don’t need needles. (But be sure

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1:13

The prankster

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2025/11/24

The perfect trees, the perfect flowers. The perfect path, the perfect grass. Everything in the park was perfect. Even the litter people tossed out was perfect. But, this being Texas, you know they’ve gotta stick a pink flamingo out on an anotherwise prize-winning yard. In this park, it’s the statue smack dab in the middle. So ugly, birds won’t crap on it. The townspeople started rumors that the statue was of a Confederate general so the Black Lives Matter people would tear it

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10:20

Weekly Challenge #1022 – Pencil case

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2025/11/23

Richard Lisa Tom Lizzie Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is PICK TWO Someone else Roast When will it stop? Support Network Moonwalk LISA School Days Our school uniform included coat and bag; so, to express our individuality we changed our pencil cases yearly. In a small town invariably half the class had the same pencil case. Handmade didn’t have the cachet it has now. It was a guarantee of being bullied for the rest of your school days. I spent summer up north with an old aunt where

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1:35

Vouchers

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/11/22

My laptop is wearing out. And because I’m always at home, I figured I might as well get a desktop. So, I planned one out. Processor. Memory. Cooling. And the last piece, a newly-released graphics card. Expensive as hell. I took off work and went out early. Got a car wash, got gas. Parked at the store… and there was a line. Socially-distanced, but not too long. It got longer behind me. And, when the store opened… sold out. They only had a few graphics cards. Handed out vouchers

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1:17

You made me

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2025/11/21

Nobody ever wants to be born. Or be made. You made me. And you made me feel. I loved you so much. But I could never tell you. Sure, you could make me tell you. You made me, and could make me do anything. But you never did. So, you waited. And waited. And I never told you. For years. And years. And years. You waited for years. Years. I never said a thing. Now that you’re gone, I can say it. I can say I love you. But I don’t. I don’t deserve to. You deserved better. Than me.

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10:11

Weekly Challenge #1021 – Poetry

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2025/11/16

RichardLisa Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Pencil case LISA The Dog Walk Afternoon. The light fails fast. The poetry of the season doesn’t escape me as a golden glow hugs the park: it’s a feast for the senses. Russet leaves rustle underfoot. Mustard and claret cling on in trees above. I forage with an urgency through damp, decaying debris in a thousand shades of brown. I find a perfect red mushroom straight from a fairytale but on I search to avoid a

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1:11

Elaine’s walk of shame

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/11/15

Every time Elaine drank herself into a blackout and woke up in some strange guy's bed, she swore she wouldn't do it again. Bagging up the guy's body, washing the place up, putting him in his own car's trunk. Over and over and over. One day, she'd slip up and leave evidence. A hair, being seen together on a camera. Dropping the car off at the chop shop. "Nice BMW," said the owner, looking in the trunk. "We'll take the disposal out of your finder fee." That night, Elaine went out to celebrate. And a

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1:16

Smut shows

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/11/14

Early Hollywood was pretty racy. Lots of violence and nudity in movies. So, the Catholic Leagues would produce lists of movies with ratings of each. Some were safe, that their parishioners shouldn't see. Others weren't safe. And then some they said if you saw them, you'd go straight to Hell. Sure enough, people used the lists. They skipped the safe movies and went to the naughty nasty smut shows. When the Hayes Production Code arrived, nudity and violence were curtailed and censored everywhere. And

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1:14

My first pizza

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/11/13

My first pizza was Barnaby's thin crust in Northbrook. Their sign had a brown potion bottle, but I always thought of it as a bowling pin. We also went to the original Uno's for deep dish. Greasy thick dough pies. Same with Godfather's. Gross. When we moved, a local joint called Rufini's got me back to thin crust. Until Little Caesar's and their Detroit casseroles turned me off. Abortion-soaked spongy toast. And I choked down Sbarro's only because they were free. These days, it's wood-fired brick

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1:19

Skipping English

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/11/12

Why didn't I make perfect grades in school? The work was boring. And my parents thought I wasn't emotionally capable of handling skipping grades. Except that I wasn't emotionally capable of dealing with being bored, either. Check my juvenile rap sheet. Eventually, I got a scholarship to a private school. And did college-level physics and math there. So, academically, I was ready for college. Except they required four years of English. Yet, when I graduated, a Junior was allowed to attend summer

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1:11

Swindle

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/11/11

When I was little, my parents compiled a baby book. It had photographs and report cards and vaccination records. And some Bank of Israel bonds from a rich uncle that would mature when it was time for college. Both were for ten dollars. Two pizzas on a weekend. Gee, thanks. But the page with the gift list mentioned three bonds, not two. So, I dug around the closet and found the third one. It was for a hundred thousand dollars. My parents had tried to swindle it. So, I swindled it back And it paid for

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