Jackie of the Opera
By the time, Jackie was six, he was playing the pipe organ at the downtown Cathedral. A miracle a musical prodigy. They called him everythin...
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The 100 Word Stories Podcast
Twisted fairy tales for broken people.
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20 of 124 episodesAfter every storm
After every storm, the crews come out with their chainsaws and their big trucks and they chop up and move any trees and branches that fall o...
Raul
Raul was the life of the party. He led the room with music, singing, dancing, drinking, and merriment. He kept the party going. And then, wh...
Richard – The Grandfather Clock
The Grandfather Clock The old grandfather clock in the hall stands silent, as it has for many years. Hands paused permanently at two minutes...
Weekly Challenge #1069 – Midnight
Lizzie Lisa Norval Joe Serendipidy Tom Planet Z The next topic is PICK TWO Pulling Frost Mod Bitter An empty glass LIZZIE Midnight. Everyone...
Pops
Back in the day, Pops played for state. The thing is, he can’t tell you which state. And it turns out there’s more than just state universit...
Lots of tennis courts
The school had lots of tennis courts, but Edgar didn’t like tennis. There were two full-size gyms, but Edgar wasn’t in a basketball either....
The Doris races
It’s kinda hard to compete in soap box racing when you live in a flat village. No hills, not even a high road or overpass. The kids of Doris...
The best in town
Darwin runs the outpost in the pipeline sector. He jokingly calls the tavern, the best beer in town. He brews his own out back, and it’s pre...
The town lottery
Back in my day, when we held the town lottery, we didn’t use foam rubber rocks to throw at the sacrifice for the harvest symbolically. We us...
They say the death
They say the death comes for us all, but there are far too many of us. So death outsources the job to contractors and subcontractors. And to...
Weekly Challenge #1067 – Zombie
Richard Lizzie Lisa Norval Joe Serendipidy Tom Planet Z The next topic is Inside Out RICHARD Braiiinnnssss! My other half has an enthusiasti...
Gertrude geek
Gertrude Block was your typical nerdy little kid. Frizzled hair, freckles, cheap clothes. At the top of her class, but at the bottom of the...
TFS
Old Frank is watching the morning news and sipping his coffee, a cat sneaks on his lap. He pets the cat and tells her I need to get up and g...
Boomerang
Zachary Fudge loved to play with boomerangs. The problem was he lived in a huge Citi that didn’t have many parks. And a few times he got to...
Woodshop
Most kids, when they get thrown out of school, it’s with paperwork. Other times it can be somewhat literal, with the cops coming and draggin...
Sneakers
Billy kept his sneakers by the door. Every morning and every evening he’d put them on and go for a leisurely walk through the old neighborho...
New World
Francisco wasn’t a particularly bright boy, but his mother and father had high hopes for him, so they put him on the boat to America. he had...
Weekly Challenge #1066 – PICK TWO Poetry, Pancreas, Freakshow, Frankenfood, Postage stamp
Richard Lizzie Lisa Norval Joe Serendipidy Tom Planet Z The next topic is Zombie LISA A Tale as Old as Time Tonight was Deborah’s creative w...
Done dirty dancing
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner” was the last thing Johnny said before everything went black. When he woke up, he was on the floor...