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9:17

Weekly Challenge #1020 – Gift

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2025/11/09

RichardLisa Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Poetry LISA Christmas Christmas was always the same at Mums. Everyone stayed over except Auntie Lizzie because she had to get back for her dog. She gave the best gifts but apologised saying she hadn’t got out to buy anything this year so, it was a shock when she handed me a present. It was a pricey looking necklace. “They’re real. Not paste.” Excited by this my brother unwrapped his even larger parcel. It was

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1:12

Nails

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2025/11/08

You know, I used to bite my nails. Don't remember a time when I didn't. Therapists told me that it was a form of self destruction. I said the suicide attempts were more important signs of that. I stopped biting my nails after Piper died. For some reason, promising a cat that I'd stop biting my nails worked. Aside from a rare pruning when I don't have a kit nearby, every few months or so, I've stopped. Of course, the cat's death provoked the last suicide attempt, but the gun jammed. Probably on a

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1:15

Whitney

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2025/11/07

When Bobby Brown died, he went to Hell. No waiting in line for Bobby. A bodyguard at the gates with a clipboard, unclipping a velvet rope gate and saying "This way, sir." A line of gorgeous women waited for him. With baseball bats. Bobby staggered along the line, suffering blow after blow, feeling bones crack, skin split, muscles tear, and blood flow and spurt and ooze. And at the end of the line, Whitney watched. And waited. At first, she enjoyed the spectacle. She knew Bobby was suffering. But she

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1:11

Sad thing

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2025/11/06

It’s a sad thing when you have to bury your own child. The last time, I got a sore back, using a shovel in the back yard. So, that’s why I called around and the neighborhood showed up with shovels. One guy got a backhoe from a nearby road construction crew. That was nice of him. We made a block party out of it. With lemonade and cookies and music and a volleyball net. Everyone had a blast. “Same time next week?” I asked. The crowd cheered, and I patted the dirt down. And called the foster agency for

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1:09

The job i suppose

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2025/11/05

I have a good job. With a corner office on the top floor. And a good parking space to charge my car. Good perks: free lunches, fully-stocked breakroom with tea and snacks. I can work from home when I need to. But why would I want to? Well, with the pandemic, I need to. I still have my job. But I work from my living room, not my nice corner office. I don't drive my car to that spot with the charger. And any lunch or tea or snacks are bought on my own. That's okay for now, I suppose.

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1:10

Collaborate

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2025/11/04

Every day, we have a team meeting. And when we go around the table... well, go around the list, since we're not at the same table while we work remotely... we say what we did yesterday, what we'll do today, and what blockers we have that need resolving. Then we leave our microphones on all day while working on whatever we're working on, saying something if we need assistance or want to demonstrate something. Repeat until it's time to go home... well... we're already home, so shut off the laptops and

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1:15

Fire your doctor

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2025/11/03

I fired my doctor and made an appointment with a nearby clinic with testing and other departments that will be a lot more convenient for referrals. A year since my last checkup is way too long, especially with the cholesterol meds running out of refills. And weight gain. And other things. I should walk more. And eat less. I don't drink, in spite of what my former doctor thought. People lie about that kind of thing. But when beer and liquor cause kidney stones, you stop. Trust me on this. Or don't

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12:07

Weekly Challenge #1019 – Assistive technology

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2025/11/02

Richard Lisa Tura Lizzie Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Gift LISA Cynthia's had a Fall It’s a tale as old as time: we were discussing the idea of assistive technology. Well, we mentioned things, they were refused. Luckily, Cynthia's house already had rails and ramps but the idea of wearing a medical assistance necklace was dead in the water. She really didn’t want a daily phone-call either, once a week on Friday was all she’d agree to. Cynthia fell

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1:19

Stacy the Liar

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2025/11/01

Politicians lie. It's what they do. It's the job. Stacy said one thing before she ran for for office. Then she campaigned on the opposite. Claimed she never said what she said in the first place. After she won, she denied having said either. Then admitted it, but said she'd learned more since taking office. Evolving her position to suit the needs of the people. Journalists printed her lies about her lies. And fact checkers claimed it was all true. When she ran again, she touted her experience. But

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1:09

Standup

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2025/10/31

Rufus Washington was the greatest standup comedian without actually standing up. He did his routines from a wheelchair, spinning tales from the ghetto on the other side of the tracks. Drug dealers, hookers, pimps, corner stores instead of grocery stores. Now, he traveled in a limo or a tour bus, with gorgeous assistants to help him into the chair... or bed... or the shower. When the limo got in a wreck, Rufus woke up in the hospital, screaming that he couldn't feel his legs. Turned out, he'd been

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11:36

Weekly challenge #1018 – PICK TWO It burns!, Fare,...

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2025/10/26

RichardLisa Tura Lizzie Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Assistive technology RICHARD Unstuck My son developed an interest in model-making and, like so many of his hobbies, I ended up funding the majority of it, but I reckoned it was educational and keeping him off the streets, so I never complained. I'd be tasked with finding model kits, tools and supplies, paint - the standard fare for such activities. Then, one day, he asked for horse glue. It took

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1:24

Making tigers disappear

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2025/10/25

Siegfried and Roy were stage musicians who used lasers, glitter, and white suits to amaze millions of fans who came to watch them on their Las Vegas stage. They paraded their white tigers and exotic animals around, making them leap and disappear. Roy was attacked by one of their white tigers and took years to recover before returning to the stage. He died during the Coronavirus pandemic. The next year, Siegfried died of cancer. Magic? The truth is, anybody can make tigers disappear. Well, more like

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1:20

Not worth a dime

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2025/10/24

President Roosevelt's face is on the dime because of The March of Dimes. Roosevelt had Polio, and The March of Dimes raised money for research to cure Polio. George Washington owned quarter horses, so his head went on the quarter. Abraham Lincoln said "A penny for your thoughts" to his wife before he was shot and killed, so his head is on the penny. Thomas Jefferson's life wasn't worth a plugged nickel, said his angry neighbor who argued over a border fence between their farms, so his head is on the

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1:09

Bob the butcher

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2025/10/23

Bob the Butcher was the best butcher around. He had the best meats, the best knives, the cleanest store, the most generous scales, and the biggest smile. Whatever you wanted, you could get. And you could get it any way you wanted. He could slice meat so thin, it only had one side. The sausages were blended to perfection. So fast with his knives, there never was a line, and the Take A Number dispenser still had the original 1 on it. He even had a bone for every dog. As he lured them into the back

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1:30

The man with the wild hair

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2025/10/22

The manager took the waitress aside. See the guy at table seven? The one with the wild hair. He's rich. He's famous. He's a good tipper. So, treat him nice. Okay, said the waitress. Famous last words, I suppose. The next day, she was found dead at the guy's mansion. The guy claimed she'd shot herself. Suicide? Accident? Just as long as it wasn't him. Because he was a success, and she was a failure. Guilty, they said. See the guy in cell seven? The one with the wild hair. He's rich. He's famous. And

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1:17

Birth person

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2025/10/21

Angry leftists want people to stop using the term "Mother" and instead use the term "Birth Person." They think the term "Mother" is sexist and denigrates transgender people or something. By trying to change the term, they're denigrating Foster Mothers and Adoptive Mothers. People who step in and try to help a child who's been abandoned or given up by the person who gave birth to them. People trying to ruin the language can be some seriously stupid motherfuckers sometimes. And I mean motherfuckers

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1:20

Grandpoisoner

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2025/10/20

My grandfather ran a chain of drycleaning stores. Buttons would fall off of the clothes, and we'd get boxes of shiny buttons of so many colors and shapes and sizes. We'd also get maids who'd "retired" from the drycleaning stores. All were old and sick, and none lasted longer than a month or two. My grandfather eventually lost all the drycleaners. He'd been sued into ruin because his workers were all dying from carbon tetrachloride poisoning. And he was too, leaving my grandmother destitute and

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12:11

Weekly Challenge #1017 -A melted chocolate bar

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2025/10/19

Richard Lisa Lizzie Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is PICK TWO It burns! Fare Value-added Horse glue Evolution NORVAL JOE The Five Star Sister’s coven sat around a campfire in the sand. Waves crashed on the shore a dozen yards away as they toasted marshmallows and assembled smores. After an hour of enjoying the tasty trifecta of graham cracker, marshmallow, and melted chocolate bar, one of the women said, “Do you hear that sound?” “I can’t hear a thing,

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1:16

Pixies

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2025/10/18

A few decades ago, some dude took out an insurance policy on his two kids. Then he spiked some Pixie Stix with cyanide. He gave it to his kids and some neighbors. In the end, only one kid actually ate the candy... his youngest. Ever since then, paranoia about poisoned candy, razor blades in apples, and other evil fills the news. Even though incidents of such tampering are few and far between. The candy is quite safe these days. As kids go around in black witches cloaks and grim reaper robes on unlit

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1:20

The 100 Word Stories Podcast ·

2025/10/17

My grandmother lived to ninety-nine. Her husband, a drycleaner sued into bankruptcy by workers poisoned by carbon tetrachloride, left her broke. She remarried. The stepfather of a real estate mogul. But he died, leaving her broke again. Her younger daughter took her in, stole all the heirlooms. Then her eldest daughter, my mother, took her in. I was told my grandmother died of old age. But I was lied to. She drained my parents' assets dry, and my mother harassed and tormented her for it. So she

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