“Whose turn is to load the toaster?”
“Mine,” chirped Emma.
Mom handed Emma the slices of bread, which she carefully loaded into the slots. “I hope it’s Eggs ‘Bunny-Duck’ today,” wished Emma, not quite wrapping her tongue around ‘Benedict’.
“No,” interjected Alex, “it’s gonna be chocolate cake!” He always hoped the toaster would return chocolate cake.
“We’ll see in 2 minutes,” Mom sang cheerfully.
The bell dinged, and the children squealed. Mom opened the toaster door, and pulled out … 4 slices of unevenly toasted bread.
“I think the toaster’s … like, magic, or something. It somehow cooked our bread.”
This was written on the twin prompts of "Who knows?" & "Magic Toaster", for Weekly Challenge #179, for the week of 9/26/2009.
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24 April 2014
23 April 2014
100-Word Story - Fiddling Around (Repost from Facebook, 6 March, 2010)
“What have I got in my pockets?” The stranger casually fingered through his clothes, pretending to look for money he knew wasn’t there. Zara waited patiently, her fiddle dangling casually from her fingers.
Her offer seemed implausibly generous to him: a song for the largest bill in his pockets, sight-unseen. He wondered how she made a living; like most people, he didn’t carry cash anymore. During this distraction, Zara waggled her fingers surreptitiously. A now-familiar shock came over his face as he pulled a twenty from otherwise-empty pockets. She hid a smirk, pocketed her fee and played him his song.
This was in response to the of "What Have I Got In My Pockets?" from the 100 Word Stories Podcast Weekly Challenge #201 (Week of 2/28/2010).
Her offer seemed implausibly generous to him: a song for the largest bill in his pockets, sight-unseen. He wondered how she made a living; like most people, he didn’t carry cash anymore. During this distraction, Zara waggled her fingers surreptitiously. A now-familiar shock came over his face as he pulled a twenty from otherwise-empty pockets. She hid a smirk, pocketed her fee and played him his song.
This was in response to the of "What Have I Got In My Pockets?" from the 100 Word Stories Podcast Weekly Challenge #201 (Week of 2/28/2010).
28 February 2009
Geeky creativity, Part Deux
My obsessive-compulsive mind wouldn't let the Geek Speak Magic card-thing go. Here are four more that I created:
Again, I am not going to go to the effort of explaining the inside jokes. No one actually reads this page but me, anyway, so I already get them. If, by some bizarre twist of fate, someone else reads this, and, equally bizarrely, wants to know what the jokes mean, they can contact me, or they can get hold of old episodes at http://www.geekspeakradio.us.
I use this refusal to pander to an audience (and the non-existence of the same) as evidence that this is not a blog.
Again, I am not going to go to the effort of explaining the inside jokes. No one actually reads this page but me, anyway, so I already get them. If, by some bizarre twist of fate, someone else reads this, and, equally bizarrely, wants to know what the jokes mean, they can contact me, or they can get hold of old episodes at http://www.geekspeakradio.us.
I use this refusal to pander to an audience (and the non-existence of the same) as evidence that this is not a blog.
21 February 2009
My Geeky Creativity
I listen to a podcast called "Geek Speak Radio". Recently they had a special episode about launching a new Magic: The Gathering(TM) card set. They asked the listeners to design cards based on aspects of the show. These are the ones that I came up with. I will not attempt to explain the inside jokes. Feel free to find old episodes in their archive at "http://www.geekspeakradio.us".
And just because I have used this space to post some form of personal artwork, it does not make this a blog.
And just because I have used this space to post some form of personal artwork, it does not make this a blog.
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