“Nerd!” said Mitchell.
“Am not!” retorted Greg.
“You’re sitting in your parents’ basement playing with a computer. Face it, you’re hoopy.”
“Shut up!” Greg screamed. He grabbed a floppy disk and winged it at Mitchell’s head.
Mitchell ducked. The disk shattered on the wall.
Greg sighed. “Today’s fail count: four.”
Editor’s Note: This story was based on a call on Twitter for a noun, an adjective, and a verb. @MasterGunner314 responded with floppy disk, hoopy, and fail.
Winter. Thick snowflakes were making an exodus from the wombs of the clouds.
“Existence is suffering, but I believe our essence lives on and ascends to the Cloud Mother to be reborn,” said Seth Snowflake. “Life is a cycle.”
“That’s stupid,” said Sam Snowflake. “Life sucks, and then you melt.”
Kim groaned and awoke.
It was early morning, but unusually bright and hot.
Kim slipped into her bathrobe, flung open the blinds, and screamed.
A dying red sun filled the sky. Earth’s orbit was rapidly, dangerously contracting.
Kim shrieked and hammered on her speed-dial. “Tan-Hut!? I need a pre-tan NOW!”
Thunder shook the sky as rain pounded the glass ceiling. A chaos of wires descended from a rod at the ceiling’s peak to a bed upon which an unliving giant laid.
Lightning struck; the body spasmed and arose.
It opened its mouth, then collapsed.
“Should’ve installed Ubuntu,” muttered the scientist.
“We agree, then, that the tables we’ve pushed together are, in fact, congruent rectangles?”
“Agreed,” said Phil, Sandra, and Kyle.
“I’d like to table a further motion: let it be resolved that this brick is not congruent with these tables.”
“See?” whispered Joe to Mary. “Told you geometry was exciting!”
Editor’s Note: This story was based on a call on Twitter for a noun, an adjective, and a verb. @evan_williams responded with brick, congruent, and to table.
He awoke under a blanket of stars.
Confused, he stumbled to his feet, wondering how he got there.
“I didn’t really drink that much, did I?”
As if appearing from nowhere at all, a little green man stood next to him.
“Nah, but thanks for the good time. Call me!”
This Guest Story comes from James Turner. James is a member of LoadingReadyRun.com, an internet sketch comedy group that updates with a new video every Monday. LoadingReadyRun (LRR) recently launched www.commodoreHUSTLE.com to hosts LRR’s web TV show commodoreHUSTLE, which updates with a new episode on the first Monday of each month.
Honk! Honk!
“I really hate traffic,” complained Gary. “Why do things always get so congested and chaotic?”
“What we need is a new system,” said Gordon. “New leadership.”
“Well,” said Gary, “it might as well be me.”
Gary pressed forward and took the lead of the flock’s migratory Vee formation.
“Wow, that thing’s huge!”
“It’s my latest invention!”
“Very cool.”
“I’m really proud of it. It can burn almost anything as a fuel source. Gas, wood, flour, cigarette butts, human flesh…”
“How about this mud?”
“It’ll run on mud, yep.”
“That’s so awesome. What does it do?”
“…It burns things.”
Editor’s Note: This story is based on a call on Twitter for a noun, an adjective, and a verb. @mochrie_rocks responded with mud, huge, and run.
When Madelyn was a newborn she would wake up. I’d get up with her to let Mom sleep and we’d hang out. Late one night the CBC showed a documentary which I believe will be her future. Synchronized Swimming. I always wondered how someone got their kids into bizarre sports.
Today’s second Guest Writer story is from Jeremy Baker, a music enthusiast and radio host. He writes about life and music on his blog, The Morning After, where he also hosts a podcast called Capital Rock City.
This story was originally posted here.
Swirls. They looked like galaxies. Far away galaxies, of which he was the creator, forming them with his almighty touch. With the same amount of ease, they dissolved, their form vanishing into the next creation. What power, to control worlds with such grace.
He realized his coffee was now cold.
BCTurk is an aspiring short film director/producer and video editor. You can find his work at http://www.youtube.com/BCTurk.