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Weekly Challenge #1057 – PICK TWO Speeches Discard Mine An empty cup Kitchen
The next topic is Roger
RICHARD
Noir
An empty cup sits on the table in front of me, drained of coffee.
Like my s...
Agent 12
Agent 12 accidentally tripped an alarm. The office he was in was surrounded and there was no exit. He didn’t have anything useful in the office that c...
Highway 10
Insurance auditor checked the statistics of Highway 10 and noticed a dramatic increase in the number of accident claims. He drove down to Highway 10 a...
Thunderball
50 years ago, Hamilton Gotha appeared as Blitzkrieg on the German version of the American gladiators television series. Just like his American counter...
Odysseus
There’s this movie that’s out from a famous director that’s supposed to be really epic and powerful and amazing on giant screens. And there is a big s...
Swag
When I work for a company, sometimes they send out marketing swag. Little worthless trinkets that have the company logo on them. When I leave a compan...
11 Downing Street
You know who lives at 10 Downing Street, but do you know who lives at 11 Downing Street?
It’s Nigel Smith. He’s lived across the way from...
Weekly Challenge #1056 – Beginning
The next topic is PICK TWO
Speeches
Discard
Mine
An empty cup
Kitchen
RICHARD
Maynard
My cousin Maynard was a creepy kid. In kindergarten, other kids drew hopscotch on the playground. He do scary chalk outlines and would smuggle ketchup...
Duncan brothers
Don and John Duncan loved to make donuts. Their mom had a doughnut making machine in the kitchen, and they spent all day mixing up batter, frosting, a...
Browns
The Brown Twins were great at every sport. Basketball football baseball track. You name it, they were the best at it. Willie became known as Touchdown...
Leftover Fights
You know what you’ve cooked is good when everybody is fighting over the leftovers. It’s a lot better than when they’re fighting over how little you’ve...
51 states
You would think that one or other political party would be pushing to add more states to the country to boost their representation in Congress and put...
Dodged a bullet
In the past four months, I’ve applied to a lot of jobs. I get ghosted by some and rejected outright by more. Sometimes I get screened by a recruiter,...
Weekly Challenge #1055 – Dirty
The next topic is Beginning
LIZZIE
A guitar case and no guitar, plus a sleeping bag. A trip to the mountain gone wrong. The police searche...
Wine review
Get your activated charcoal and insurance cards out! It’s time for another release from Totenkopf wineries. we recommend standing by at least 1 foot t...
Bullfighter
Pablo wanted to be a bullfighter all of his life. On his deathbed, when asked if he had any regrets, he said I never fought the bulls. So the doctors...
Founding fathers
Some dude over 250 years ago said we will all hang separately or we can all hang together. If I were there, I would’ve shouted I don’t wanna be hanged...
Her number
She was beautiful and smart and I thought maybe I could ask her number. She told me it was the last 10 digits of pi. At first, I felt crushed, no way...
Faster than us
The first faster than light ships carried inorganic cargo. The time dilation field was hazardous for regular organic material. But eventually, we inve...
Triage
We bandaged Herman‘s left leg and had him stand up. He was a little wobbly at first, but eventually he was able to take a few steps, nod and head back...
Weekly Challenge #1054 – Pathetic
Sorry it was a day late.
The next topic is Dirty
RICHARD
Written off
I’m in a writers’ group.
There must b...
Elevaterror
There were three elevators in the Montgomery building. You could get into the elevator on the left and when you got to your floor, you were coming out...
Eldest
Bonnie came from a big family out on the farm four brothers and four sisters. She was the oldest, and when her mother died of tuberculosis, she became...
Bookworm queen
Nancy Whitcombe was the prom queen by default. Everyone else had dropped out or was too sick to go, or worse. There’d been a horrible bus accident aft...
Sea of grass
The neighborhood was a nice wooded place with houses and driveways and all that. You got lots of shade in the summer from the tall trees. Every now an...
Lich mayor
Gartham the Witch King has been a really good mayor these past 300 years. Our little town is quite self-sustaining. And when we need occasional inject...
Lert
In my family, whenever we saw a sign that said be alert, we’d ask what is a lert. So, that Halloween, I wanted to dress up as one. We fashioned a rubb...
Weekly Challenge #1053 – PICK TWO The next topic is PICK TWO Twaddle An owl Stable A tin of beans Crossing
Sorry it was a week late.
The next topic is Pathetic
LISA
Sometimes the End is the Beginning.
They made us wear masks,...
Helen
Helen of Troy‘s sister Bertha also had a face that launch 1000 ships. However, it wasn’t her beauty that urged 1000 ships of warriors to come fight to...
The crown
I can’t remember the word for it, but sometimes a word represents a greater concept. Like saying, the crown rules, a kingdom. In the kingdom of the We...
Parade
Zippidee Doodah was dressed in diamond encrusted golden robes. He waved his glittering staff at the crowd. Dancing and singing along, the wave of bodi...
Furnished
The brochure called it a retirement community, but it was really a rundown hotel, where people waited to die. Sure there was a cafeteria in the lobby,...
Typist
They say that those who can’t do teach. So when I got a copy of Mavis Beacon teaches typing, I wrote her a letter saying that I was her number one big...
Weekly Challenge #1052 – Gemstone
The next topic is PICK TWO
Twaddle
An owl
Stable
A tin of beans
Crossing
RICHAR...
Croutons
The first time Joey saw a salad bar, he was overwhelmed by all of the things laid out and arranged at the table. He loaded up his plate with croutons...
Stacking
The Guinness Book of World Records does not recognize the tallest column of Kraft Parmesan cheese canisters stacked, but if it did, it still wouldn’t...
Troll hunter
Sigrid was a pretty good troll hunter. He wasn’t the best, but when John the Bold wasn’t available, or the patron was on a limited budget, Sigrid was...
Demon Summoning
Unlike other demons who required fancy rituals, sacrifices, and strange geometric patterns drawn on the floor, Agarro Darkshade had an ad in the yello...
Heist
Hampton Maddox drew the short straw and earned the role of getaway driver for the heist. The thing is, he didn’t know whether he should wear a mask or...