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Nimhathuna
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Topic: BAD 100-Word Stories!Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 7:39am |
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Hi everyone! Someone started this a while back. Here to carry the torch. If you feel the need to contribute, add your monstrosity of a bad micro based on your submission here. Have fun creating a purposely BAD 100-word story!
The same rules apply to this effort. Must be 100 words or under, must be in the correct genre, and must include the action and the word! (That said, I went over my word count )Here's mine: Prompts: Drama/Cashing a Cheque/Opposite The Day The Cheque Got Cashed in My Story Sun Shone. Opposite
where he was standing was the sun high in the sky. Tom had a dramatic feeling in
his gut. He had to get a cheque cashed. To do that [pause for dramatic pause/effect],
he had to go to town. Tom, that’s the hero of this story. I was going to call
him protaggonnnistt at first, but I messed up the spelling. Tom passed
people. “Cash the cheque,
or I’m doomed,” Tom said to the person in the bank whose responsibility was to
cash cheques. “Is it open
or crossed?” Tom was confused.
You could tell that by the confused expression on his visage. “Cash the
cheque!” Tom was a
man of few words. He was rare. *** Note to
Readers This is
the unedited version coming in at 119 words. Before submitting, I cut all words
with the letter “s.” For me, it’s more experimental. Note to self: I should have thought about that a bit more. My word has an "s." Edited by Nimhathuna - 30 Apr 2023 at 12:23pm |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 8:16am |
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Intrigued! But I don’t get it, we rewrite anything just use the prompts?
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 11:08am |
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Yay!! Thank you for carrying this torch!
Bad 100 word stories are always my favourite event!!! I had to nap and run to derby practice, but I’m in for this round!! Frey_a - just rewrite your story badly, or steal someone else’s prompts and write badly (on purpose) for fun. If you look at the past “bad 100 word stories” threads, you’ll see that it’s a great way to burn off the frustration of spending 24 hours wrangling with a set of prompts that just aren’t speaking to you. I’ve included my bad 100-word stories in my archive link too, as they might just be the favourite pieces I’ve ever written!
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 11:39am |
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Here’s my submission to this year’s Bad 100-Word Stories thread.
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Looking through someone else’s garbage / Chip Title: Sparking Joy Or: A Pair for the Pool Room Would’ya look at these? Pop held up a pair of large peach coffee mugs. Shame, throwing these out. No chips, no cracks, who doesn’t want a nice solid pair like this - the kind a man can grab onto with both hands. He’d be quite chuffed having a hot drink out of these cups. Kids these days, they wouldn’t know quality if they fell face-first into mounds of it. “But Pop,” his daughter-in-law was exasperated. “They’re hideous! Who wants to drink coffee out of ceramic boobs?” Whaddya talkin’ about, Claire, who said anything about boobs? What boobs?! Edited by Sparker - 30 Apr 2023 at 12:17pm |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 11:53am |
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At least it's coherent.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 1:17pm |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 5:03pm |
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“But Pop,” his daughter-in-law was exasperated. “They’re hideous! Who wants to drink coffee out of ceramic boobs?” Whaddya talkin’ about, Claire, who said anything about boobs? What boobs?! |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 6:29pm |
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Thanks Nim for starting this thread! Definitely a highlight for the 100 word comp!
Here's mine: Romance / swimming in a river / parent Jenny Goes For a Swim It was hot. Plus there was a hot guy on the riverbank. Jenny thought she’d go swimming. “I think I’ll go swimming,” she said. Jenny wanted to impress hot guy so she swam freestyle. Hot guy said nothing. Jenny swam breaststroke. Jenny swam backstroke. Jenny swam doggy paddle. Jenny started to drown. Hot guy did nothing. Because he was just a statue. A geeky boy rescued Jenny instead. Geeky boy wasn’t hot on the outside, but he was hot on the inside. So Jenny kissed him. They got married and became parents. Jenny still visited statue hot guy sometimes. |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 6:41pm |
This is so amazingly bad that I think I love it.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 6:49pm |
I was going to post a bad story for the same prompt, but yours is much better (worse). You win! |
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