The 100 Word Stories Podcast
Twisted fairy tales for broken people.
Episodes
April 21, 2024 • 12 mins
Lisa
Lizzie
Richard
Serendipidy
Norval Joe
Tom
Planet Z
The next topic is PICK TWO Still, Officer down, Random Action, One two three…, Pure, You never know
RICHARD
Railway lines
I'm writing this on the train.
It's a good way to kill the time between departure and arrival, and it's surprising how even the longest journey can seem to fly by.
Some might prefer to gaze out of the window, snooze or rea...
Mark as Played
April 20, 2024 • 1 min
You never know which home run is the last home run you hit.
Or give up as a pitcher.
The last touchdown you catch. Or throw. Or run.
Or get called back because of your holding penalty.
Maybe it's your call from the booth. Television. Radio.
The last dunk. The last free through.
The last foul, when you foul out of the game.
All your days on the field, the court are long gone.
Trade in your cleats for a suit.
The last time you get re...
Mark as Played
April 19, 2024 • 1 min
Teddy Baskets leads the league in scoring.
Triple Double Teddy.
But he also leads the league in shots. And shots missed.
And fouls and turnovers and minutes.
If you average things out, you'll see why Teddy's team is in last.
Nobody else gets any shots because Teddy's a ball hog.
He fights his own team for every rebound.
And hates coming out of the game, even if he's on a cold streak or exhausted.
Laying in the jacuzzi after the gam...
Mark as Played
April 18, 2024 • 1 min
It was fourth grade recess league softball, and I managed to avoid my name sticking to any roster.
The teachers didn't know what to do, so they asked if I'd be an umpire.
"No," I said.
But they made me do it anyway.
"Strike!" I shouted after every pitch, even ones that hit the plate.
The principal, who was pitching, had me move next to him.
"Strike!" I continued to shout.
A gang of other kids joined the chorus.
"Strike! Strike! Str...
Mark as Played
April 17, 2024 • 1 min
Johnny started a TikTok account and posted all kinds of things, but he wasn't getting any views.
So, he started posting videos of fires.
Burning cars. Burning buildings. Burning parks.
This got him a lot of views.
But the other people posting videos of those fires also got lots of views.
And some of them got more views than Johnny.
So, he burned down their houses.
Eventually, Johnny got caught.
As he sat in his cell, he smelled smo...
Mark as Played
April 16, 2024 • 1 min
So, you want to stop school shootings?
Metal detectors haven't worked.
Guards haven't worked.
Safe zones haven't worked.
Lots of people are talking about taking away guns again.
As if you could take away the guns.
And even if you stop selling the big guns, there's still the guns out there.
Background checks? Doesn't work for stolen COVID funds, won't work for guns.
Stop smuggling? Every border has a price.
So, I came up with anothe...
Mark as Played
April 15, 2024 • 1 min
It's almost jasmine season again.
The jasmine vines took a beating last year because of the freeze.
I thought about chopping them down, but let's see how they do this year.
If there's no bloom at all on the ground, yeah, I'll cut them off and plant anew.
Thing is, if we head out in a year or two, I won't see any of it.
They'll grow for the next tenant.
But life is about planting for the next generation to enjoy, right?
As long as t...
Mark as Played
April 14, 2024 • 11 mins
Lisa
Lizzie
Richard
Serendipidy
Norval Joe
Tom
Planet Z
I think I mixed the ending a bit oddly... oh well. You can see the topic here:
The next topic is Train
RICHARD
Sold!
I bought it on Amazon: No, it wasn't cheap, but maybe I was swayed by the product description.
'Absolute peace of mind, and total security', it said, and then to ram the point firmly home, it went on to detail exactly why I had ...
Mark as Played
April 13, 2024 • 1 min
He stood there, a dark and shabby man, rotten teeth and wild hair.
Clothed in dirty rags, surrounded by dozens of shabby commoners.
Roman soldiers watched them all.
"That's Jesus?" I said. "For real?"
"Kinda puts things in perspective, eh?" said Dr. Marks, holding his camera steady.
We were posing as merchants, and tracked the group for a few days.
And when it was over, we went back to our boat, threw the time circuits, and appeare...
Mark as Played
April 12, 2024 • 1 min
Baby woke up cold, bound up and tied to a tree.
She looked around as best she could.
There were trees all around her, and all she heard were crickets.
She tried to scream, but there was a gag over her mouth.
The last thing she remembered was leaving Archie's place and going home.
And her husband... he came back a day early.
"What do you think it will be?" a voice whispered in her ear. "Starve, dehydrate, or freeze?"
It wasn't any o...
Mark as Played
September 19, 2020 • 1 min
George wasn’t a pirate. He was a barkeep. He bought this bar and named it George the Pirate. And pirates from all around would come here to drink. Sometimes, they’d pay with a ship’s wheel, or a figurehead, or an anchor. All the junk you see hanging on the walls. They’d tell stories, but it … Continue reading "George the Barkeep"
Mark as Played
September 18, 2020 • 1 min
George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate. Still, he did his best to find ways of being useful. Every year, he ran The Great Pirate Chili Cookoff. Pirates from all around the world sailed in to challenge each other’s cooking prowess. Sometimes, all-out wars would break out, especially between factions of … Continue reading "George the Chili Cookoff"
Mark as Played
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