"After I checked into the shabby room (but, I thought, shabby in a brave sort of way, as if the motel were proud of its shabbiness) and unpacked my computer and sketchpad, I skimmed the motel brochure."
300-word story:
"The Jingle Queen of the Midwest"
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Here is a "drabble" - a story that is exactly 100 words, based on a prompt!
"Same Ghost, Different Obsession"
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New super-short 300-word story! (Based on a fiction prompt)
"The Potato Whisperer and the Tater Tot Sorcerer"
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Super-short story (300 words!) which follows a writing prompt to include the words "ladybug" and "garden"
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"So, yeah, maybe the manufacturer of this car stereo made it so I can’t turn it up high enough to blow out the factory speakers. But they also made it possible for you to spin me into infinity, which makes you at least feel like you’re turning me up."
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New short story!
"Language, I have gradually learned over the years, is like light and shadow. But their peculiar Helix Ascend Partners language also reminds me of something else: the dull layer of greenish haze that floats on my surface."
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"I bet you’ve forgotten that I have features too. Do you remember what they are? Well, I’ll tell you.
I have three binder rings and Velcro.
And a clip."
From "A 1986 Trapper Keeper Reviews Your Productivity App: One Star"
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New short story!
"I, a Felt Squirrel, Am Doomed to Sit in a Window and Watch Real Squirrels Forever"
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"I, the comma that was never inserted between long and wide in the short story the Author wrote in 2012, am still not there."
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"Why, we marvel to think that all these years, we thought we knew how to write sentences. But it’s clear we were just floundering around in the dark."
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"I thought of computer speakers, of videos and presentations, and of the blank something-ness that rushes out between actual sound."
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"Have you ever thought about how I, your faithful Toaster, feel when you only come to me when you want toast?"
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"You’re going to love PassiveDoer™. We’re the only app with a patent-pending PassiveDial™ specifically designed to guilt you into getting stuff done!"
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"Cheer Up, You Glum Craft Brewer: We’re Going to Wash Everything In Beer!"
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"Just imagine that familiar grimy, surly face grinning drunkenly down at you from between bottles of Dove and Aveeno on supermarket shelves. Can you picture it?"
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"Yes, other Cars, now that the Snow has melted, you have forgotten all about it.
Therefore, you drive by and cast your headlights upon me pityingly, as you think I’m nothing more than a cautionary tale."
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"Guidelines on How To Be a Best Friend in a Sitcom Produced Between 1970 and 1999"
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"I, the Ghost of a Long-Ago Radio Shack, Am Haunting This Mattress Store"
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"It was the riddle that would unlock all the secrets of troll-dom and allow me to assume the form of one from that day forward — that is, if that’s what I chose. Which I did."
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"I like to think of myself as a metaphor first, and as a Soup Bowl second."
From "I, a Soup Bowl, Am Announcing a Strict No-Cereal Policy"
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"You think that I, the accent wall in your living room painted in Oxblood Dusk Red, was a mistake.
You’re right!"
From: "I Am Your Red Accent Wall"
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"I haven’t survived being eaten by three different car stereos and then stored in a box for thirty-seven years for nothing."
From: "I'm a 1987 Mixtape, and the Person Who Made Me Is Your LinkedIn Connection Now"
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"No way, no how; I’m not going to connect to your computer. You can push me around and around the desk as much as you’d like. But I’m gonna go all lump of inanimate plastic on your ass and not do a damn thing."
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New essay!
"I, a Soup Bowl, Am Announcing a Strict No-Cereal Policy"
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“You cannot imagine my surprise when, all of a sudden, the Man Who Winked at Two Alpacas in that Range Rover commercial I mentioned previously appeared on the television.”
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New essay!
"Here's How I, a Dishwasher Pod, Managed to Escape My Destiny"
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"But Samantha, standing mere feet away while Bobby Makowski was telling her earnestly about his ambition to move to Montana and live out his days as a combination goat farmer / Bryan Adams cover artist, heard everything John C. said.
And blamed you."
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"Good morning, I’m your tea bag. Yes, I know what my tag says. And I am so, so sorry."
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New essay!
"I’m a 1987 Mixtape, and the Person Who Made Me Is Your LinkedIn Connection Now"
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"Is a car really more appealing if I, a twenty-foot-high inflatable red tube man, beckon to you with my flailing arms, my wacky grinning head looking at you sideways, while my yellow 'hair' flutters in the breeze?"
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