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Weekly Challenge #946 – Shark

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2024/06/09

Lisa Lizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Plain RICHARD Role Models The school called my parents. They wanted to speak to them with concerns they had about my home environment. All because of a stupid writing assignment: 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' I'd written I wanted to become a loan shark, just like my dad. And why not? People treated him with a great deal of respect, he brought home a good wage and it was a steady

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Signed

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2024/06/08

Nobody ever asked me to sign their yearbook. And nobody signed mine. Because I don't have any yearbooks. Either I threw them out or didn't pick them up in the first place. I don't really care about anyone from high school. It was a horrible place. And I'd rather not remember anything about it. As for college, it wasn't so bad. It wasn't bad at all. And I had a lot of photos from college saved up. Which I lost in a fire. The college yearbooks are all scanned online. I have them bookmarked. But none

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The real disease

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2024/06/07

When you were a kid, if other kids were shitty to you, you probably grew up into someone who didn't want to have kids. Ned grew up bullied and beaten, and didn't he have many friends growing up. He tried dating, but so many women wanted to get married and have kids. So, sure, he fucked around, but he always wore a condom. And the women who'd poke holes in it to trap him, well, they still didn't get pregnant. You wear a condom to keep from getting an STD, but get a vasectomy to prevent the real

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Weekly Challenge #945 – Blood is thicker than water

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2024/06/02

LisaLizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Shark LISA a Secret Meet It felt right from the start. There was never any question of me leaving but he gave me all the reasons I should stay. He’d laughed as he said ‘Blood is Thicker than Water’ but stressed that my parents had forgotten me; we were leaving behind the traditional and sharing this special experience. We were family now. He brushed my hand as he talked, held my gaze as we

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The Serpents of Cape Cod

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2024/06/01

When I was little, my parents dragged us to Cape Cod to suffer a hot summer in a cabin without air conditioning. I cheatcoded the diner's Galaga game out of infinite lives. But couldn't keep from them forever. Out at the beach, the cheap suntan lotion washed off, and I sunburned my calves horribly. Instead of taking me to a clinic, they forced me to crawl everywhere like an animal. Made worse by a performance of Annie Oakley by the local amateur theatre group. When I cried from the pain, they'd

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The arms dealer

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2024/05/31

Victor was born in the Soviet Union, and his country collapsed around him. Serving in Russia's army for a time, making connections for his later role as an arms dealer. Many regimes who bought weapons from Victor. Massacre after massacre, yet Victor claimed not to have their blood on his hands. When Victor died and went to Hell, he pled his case before Satan. "If not me, someone else would have sold them the guns, tanks, and planes," claimed Victor. Satan nodded, and assigned demons to torture

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The casting trapeze

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2024/05/30

There are so many stories about the so-called Hollywood casting couch, where producers and directors force young starlets to do things to get a role or keep a role. Wally never had a couch. He had a trapeze. And the things he made those young women do, well, they were actually kind of awesome. Strictly acrobatically speaking, of course. There was nothing sexual about it. The backflips, the catching Wally in mid-air, the spinning and the lit torches... It was like his own private circus in

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In transit

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2024/05/29

Gramma died last week. She was an only child, Mom and Dad have been dead for years, and I'm her only grandson. I moved away for work a few years ago, and went back and visited, but really couldn't take time off. So I had the crematorium pick up her body from the rest home. They were supposed to mail her ashes to me, but the tracking number is wrong, and the post office doesn't have any other records of it. Out there, somewhere, is Gramma. Probably sitting on a shelf with others lost in

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Travis

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2024/05/28

Travis Scott has a history of yelling for the audience to rush the stage. "There are more of you than guards," he's said. What utter dumbasses take a job to guard his shows? The guy you're supposed to protect, screaming for the audience to attack you. What an ungrateful son of a bitch. I tried to listen to his... "music" is what he calls it? Three "songs" in, and I had to hit stop. I want to go to the hospital rooms of the injured... the funerals of the dead. And say "You were willing to die for

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The cool kids

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2024/05/27

I don't hang with the cool kids. I'm rather behind on the times, so I don't know where the cool kids hang. Do they still hang at the roller rink? Do they still hang at the drive in? Do they still hang at the malt shop? That's kinda dated, I admit. That's Fifties thinking. Do they still hang at the arcade? Do they still hang at the mall. Maybe. Not sure. This isn't the Eighties, man. Where do the cool kids hang now? If they don't wash their hands, get vaccinated, and mask up, they'll all hang at the

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Weekly Challenge #944 – PICK TWO Express, In my hand,...

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2024/05/26

Lizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Blood is thicker than water NORVAL JOE The tree, struck by lightning, burned and sizzled as rain and wind slashed against the window of Sabrina's room. The nurse's frown faded to an apologetic smile. "If it was in my hands, I'd let you stay. But these are the rules, cut and dried." "I expected as much." Billbert made to leave. "No!" Sabrina snapped, squeezing his fingers. "Keep your hand in mine!" The

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The night sky

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2024/05/25

My grandfather loaded up the boat with our fishing gear, and we went out on the lake. "The lights in the sky are real," he said. "They're stars," I said. "They're planes. They're helicopters." "No," he said. "The other ones." And he'd offer his flask, and I'd just drink my coffee. And we never caught any fish. Years later, I took the boat out on the lake. I had his flask with me, and drank a toast to him. Up in the sky, I saw the lights. They weren't stars. Or planes. Or helicopters. And they got

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A liberation of sorts

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2024/05/24

The bloody body of the dictator was shown on television. "Liberation!" said the headlines. "Everyone rejoice!" People wanting to see the body went to the palace and joined a queue, and then were ushered into waiting rooms. After a few minutes, they walked into a viewing room, where they saw a bloody corpse. Some spat in his face. Others dropped their pants and pissed on him. But there were a few than bowed. They were taken off to another room. Where they met the very-much-alive dictator. He thanked

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