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MIKE VARDY: Support Creative Commons

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Editor: With some recent discussion on how submissions are handled at FiftyWordStories.com, in terms of copyright and ownership, I felt this fifty-word story/essay submitted by Mike Vardy was relevant. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject!

Existing work inspires my best creative work. The inspiring work seems to come in pairs: I watched an episode of Behind The Music followed by The Rutles, and an idea was born; I was thinking about productivity and watched The Colbert Report, and an idea was born.

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Mike Vardy lives in Victoria, BC, with his wife, Anne, and daughter, Grace.  He has contributed to CBC Radio, both as a writer and performer, and is the creator of the personal productivity parody site, Effing The Dog. He also co-hosts DyscultureD, a weekly podcast that “dyscusses and dysects” pop culture of the past and present with a very Canadian flavo(u)r.

A Buzzing in My Ear

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His face was covered in bumblebees.

“Lookit me!” he shouted. One of the bees crawled into his nasal passage. “I’m gonna be the first human honeycomb!”

I shook my head. He was really stupid sometimes. “It won’t work,” I told him. “You aren’t hollow.”

We solved that problem easily enough.

Why I Keep My Closet Empty

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There was a cowboy in my closet.

I told him I had to store my clothes there and he was going to have to stay somewhere else, but he laughed.

“Why do you need more than one set of clothes?” he asked me.

And that’s why I never go shopping.

Write By Numbers

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JEREMY PETTER: The End

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The enders huddled together confused, searching for a way to begin.

“Is it possible?” asked Denouement.

“I doubt it,” sighed Foregone.

“Ha!” exclaimed Period, “I bet you it’s already happened!”

“Let’s ask Paradox,” suggested Unresolved, though he knew as well as anyone that Paradox was absent.

Paradox just smiled knowingly.

Today’s Guest Story comes from Jeremy Petter. Jer 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.