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11:17

Weekly Challenge #937: Values

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2024/04/07

LisaLizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Total Security NORVAL JOE A shocked expression flashed onto Officer Sheepdip's face. Before she could close the door, Billbert shouted, "Mom, Dad. I'm in here." The door slammed shut. Having been led through the office to the interrogation room, Billbert knew his parents must have heard him. His parents burst into the room and seeing him handcuffed to the table, his mother turned on Vattash

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Sugar, Sugar

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2024/04/06

A government survey found a dozen indigenous tribes living in the rainforest we'd marked for farming development. It doesn't take much of a bribe to get the numbers and GPS coordinates. The army doesn't patrol out here, so it's easy to fly in one of our own survey teams. Handing out blankets and tools and other goods. They're most interested in the sugar cubes. The poison in them acts quickly. It's painless, and they die with smiles on their faces. The next survey will show this area as uninhabited,

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1:11

Virtual visit

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2024/04/05

Fifteen minutes with an epsom salt warm compress, the bump on my cheek comes to a head. "Wash your hands again and squeeze it gently," says the virtual nurse. Yellow and white flow down my cheek, and I wash it out with deionized water and squeeze again until only blood comes out. Swab it out with a cotton swab, then hydrogen peroxide. The buzz of the pharmacy drone, it drops off the antibiotics. "Take two tonight, one tomorrow morning, and use a clean bandage," the nurse says. "I'll check in

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1:00

One tire

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2024/04/04

Working from home and walking to stores, I don't drive my car much. After three and a half years, less than ten thousand miles. As little as I drive, I still ran over a nail and had to get a new tire. I figured I might as well buy 4 new tires, but the store owner insisted I just needed the one. Okay, fine. Thanks. A week later, I hit a pothole too quickly and tore up another tire. And I needed a tow to the tire shop. He's still only selling me one tire. At a time, I worry.

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1:02

National lemon day

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2024/04/03

It's National Lemon Day. I go through a bag of lemons a week. They help prevent kidney stones. Well, the standard ones. The uric acid ones, you also need to do potassium, keep your pH in check, and avoid foods with purine, and so on. Every morning, I put 2 lemons on the cutting board. Ream a half lemon out with every glass of iced tea. Oh, I drink a lot of iced tea and water. Because I don't want to wait 10 hours in the emergency room for a dose of Demerol and a cat-scan. You know... the stones.

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1:18

Flugelheimer

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2024/04/02

The Flugelheimer Circus Train took the curve too fast and went off the rails outside of Morgantown. Right out by the ravine, half the cars rolling down the hill into the rocks. The others like scattered crushed boxes, spilling out broken animals and people. The few survivors, limping and crawling and carrying each other to the lights of Morgantown. Ambulances and nurses rushing out, the Boy Scout Troop giving first aid, no comfort to the mangled. And where was Flugelheimer? Not in his private

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1:15

The best schools

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2024/04/01

I work with a charity that builds schools in poor neighborhoods. Neighborhoods with run-down schools, not enough skilled teachers, old textbooks, and few after-school activities to keep kids out of gangs. We get a lot of grant money and celebrity support. And we use it to build the schools. The best schools. Beautifully and perfectly designed schools. Problem is, when we're done building the schools, there's no money left. Maybe enough for a ribbon for a politician to cut. And run, leaving behind an

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12:06

Weekly Challenge #936: PICK TWO Urge, Infinitesimal,...

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2024/03/31

Lisa Lizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Values LISA Broken Dreams The sound of a siren wakes us. It’s close and feels as if it’s above us. We scrabble together, unsure what to do, should we signal to them? Start shouting perhaps? It raises the same unspoken question- we’re not really prisoners, are we? The basement door’s unlocked so we’ve no great urge to escape. Why shout for help when we could probably just walk out anyway. “I

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1:14

Lucy was a Seven

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2024/03/30

Lucy was an old Series Seven. She did good work at the droid shop, and a vintage bot demonstrated to customers a bit of class, as opposed to the new Series Tens in the warehouse. But she had a hard time holding a charge, and those Series Sevens had an integrated hardwired battery. A swappable battery was a risky retrofit. Which Lucy declined. She spent all of her time tethered to a power cord, never going more than five meters from the reception desk. Smiling, welcoming people, waving people past,

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1:11

Empty nest

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2024/03/29

There were ten of us Smith kids, and when the youngest Bobby went off to the Army, Mother had herself a bad case of Empty Nest. At first, she'd bake cookies for all the neighborhood kids, but between me and my surviving brothers and sisters, Momma had a bad habit of dropping things in mixing bowls without looking first, and thank God Daddy said he'd do all the cooking. So, she put out a bunch of birdfeeders and birdhouses, and the homestead was covered with birds. And bird shit. Even more reason not

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1:22

Stations by Lisa

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2024/03/25

NumbersBack at the Station Polly’s empty seat dominates the room. Her colleagues are all thinking the worst and it spurs them on daily. There are daffodils in a milk bottle on the filing cabinet They had to bring in another cork board for the photos of the ten missing boys. The fifteen girls in the basement were on the original board along with photos of the two dead girls. Excitingly the murderer has just slipped up and is only hours away from getting caught. Unfortunately it’s going to take

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8:06

Weekly Challenge #935: Stations

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2024/03/24

Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is PICK TWO Urge, Infinitesimal, Scratch, Signal, Broken dreams, Arcade RICHARD Written by a human "And this is where the magic happens." Terry opened the door with a flourish revealing a vast open plan office, a sea of work stations, printers and telephones. All very impressive, but I was somewhat bemused by the lack of people. "Where is everyone?" I asked. "Oh, we fired them. Replaced the entire workforce, apart

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1:13

At the zoo

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2024/03/23

It's really hard keeping animals alive, said the zookeeper. Especially when there's so many different kinds of animals. Some eat plants. Some eat meat. Some eat bugs. It's a real bitch keeping it all straight. And shoveling up all the poop? It's disgusting! So, I replaced all the animals with stuffed animals. With a few Raspberry Pis and articulators, their tongues can flick out, or they can blink, but seriously, most animals you see at the zoo are asleep in the corner of their cage. But it's really

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1:17

Festival time

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2024/03/22

The raven god flies over our village every spring to bless the planting season. And he comes back every fall to bless the harvest. All the tribes come for the festivals. We all lay down our weapons and are one. We sacrifice seed and corn to the raven god. The dancing. The bonfires. It's a powerful time for all. We drink the sacred drink, and we dance. The fires become ash. The night becomes dawn. We all say our goodbyes. Our brothers pick up their weapons, mount their horses, and return to their

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1:15

Naming conventions

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2024/03/21

The naming conventions of college conferences are insane. Some were some based on regions of the country. But others were based on the number of members they had. The Big Ten had ten teams, and the Big Twelve had twelve teams. It made sense... until those big conferences got bigger. The Big Ten expanded to twelve teams, but stayed Big Ten. And the Big Twelve got bigger, but kept Big Twelve. Despite the Big Ten having more claim to their name. In the end. they will get bigger. Until Big Ten

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1:18

Mangoes

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2024/03/20

I've never been to India. I hear that they have hundreds of varieties of mangoes there. Here, in American stores, there's only two or three varieties of mangoes. And each has its own subtle sweetness and tartness and texture. On the other hand, there are hundreds of varieties of apples. The store has dozens of them, and they change what they stock based on the season. Over there in India, do they have so many kinds of apples? People sip "flights" of tequilas and whiskeys, shot glasses on a board to

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1:30

Tendy

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2024/03/19

Tendy works in The Word Factory. She's in the development division that makes new raw words. They also work with rejects that come in for refurbishment and recycling. The functional prototypes go to the testing division. Tendy's friend Bartch works in Testing. He runs words through durability testing to ensure they can stand up to frequent use. Some words come back to Tendy for necessary improvements. While others go out for field testing. Once a week, the whole factory listens to the CEO as he

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1:15

Munchausen by driver

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2024/03/18

Casey's brought his car into the shop again. It's a disaster on wheels, but he can't get rid of it. "It's the car I'd drive my kid to the hospital in," he said. She died of something slow and horrible, it was in the papers. And so was he. "You're too good to me," he said. "Fix her up good as new again?" I think they'd what he was telling the doctors. The other guys at the shop say he's wrecking it for attention. "Munchausen" is what they call it. I looked it up. And wondered what killed his kid.

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Weekly Challenge #934 – Register

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2024/03/17

LisaLizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Stations RICHARD It’s me I was the one who never paid attention in school. I was the one who spent time doodling, rather than studying. I was the one who never got good grades. I was the one who never cared about grades anyway. I was the one who didn't turn up for the last two years of school. I was the one who only got a minimum wage job. I'm the one who works on the checkout. But you never see

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1:17

When the man loses his shit

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2024/03/16

The report says that halfway through the flight, a guy in first class loses his shit. He's a science teacher, and the pull tab on his soda can uses a second class lever. "I thought this was first class!" he shouts. "I want a first class lever! Effort, Fulcrum, Weight! " He starts hitting the flight attendant with a pillow. "Stop!" she shouts. "That's also a second-class lever!" And he stops long enough for the marshal to knock him out. How a science teacher affords first class, I dunno. And how a

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