Hi there. This is Laurence Simon of the 100 Word Stories Podcast at oneadayuntilthedayidie.com.

Every week, I post a topic for the Weekly Challenge, where you come up with the stories and I collect them up and share them.

Want to give it a try? The topic of the next 100 Word Stories Weekly Challenge is Too Much:

Write a 100 word story on that topic. Then, send it in an email to isfullofcrap (at) gmail.com with the subject line of WEEKLY CHALLENGE.

Do you have a website where people can learn more about you and your writing? Include the URL to that website.

Also, suggest a topic or topics for future Weekly Challenges.

Most importantly, include a recording of your story. Be sure to introduce yourself to the audience.

I put the episode together on Sunday morning. However, if you need more time, I can put your story up on the feed in a separate post.

Good luck, and as always… keep it brief.

NOV 25 Don’t I feel stupid…

DEC 2 Too much

DEC 8 Polar

DEC 16 Belt

DEC 23 Irritation

DEC 30 PICK TWO

Reflect

Pounce

Gymnastics

Obsolete

Engage

Girls

Easier

And for 2019…

JAN 6 corner

JAN 13 adult

JAN 20 jam

JAN 27 PICK TWO

judge

delivery

your

lion

unicorn

cherry

Incense

FEB 3 transmission

FEB 10 mug

FEB 17 sharp

FEB 24 PICK TWO

bob

stitch

eaten

pittance

delete

trumpet

Ticket

MAR 3 wordy

MAR 10 kill

MAR 17 why can’t you be more like your sister?

MAR 24 confluence

MAR 31 PICK TWO

standard

blinding

blithering

pony

sparkle

amuse

Fire

APR 7 emotive

APR 14 charge

APR 21 potato chips

APR 28 PICK TWO

hire

heart attack

strip

weaponize

fink

nancy

Bumbling

MAY 5 jack

MAY 12 slurp

MAY 19 zone

MAY 26 PICK TWO

stunted growth

bath

passive

pelt

atmosphere

nameless

Tendency

JUN 2 surrounded

JUN 9 losing

JUN 16 logic

JUN 23 plot

JUN 30 PICK TWO

reason

discretion

zone

stunt

simple

deadwood

Tuba

JUL 7 current

JUN 14 devotion

JUL 21 peer

JUL 28 PICK TWO

alligator

bath

vindictive

caterwaul

mildred

bruises

That’s Life

AUG 4 speed

AUG 11 lady

AUG 18 partners

AUG 25 PICK TWO

German

in the darkness…

vehicle

halfway

cute

color-coded

Pan

SEP 1 furrow

SEP 8 dresser

SEP 15 void

SEP 22 net

SEP 29 PICK TWO

void

intertwine

den

get

fudged

meltdown

Tan

OCT 6 smutty

OCT 13 sturdy

OCT 20 tool

OCT 27 PICK TWO

saucy

holidays

turtle

boom

cluster

chainsaw

Breast

NOV 3 boom

NOV 10 who cares?

NOV 17 option

NOV 24 PICK TWO

panel

acid

blaine

Sally was born on Christmas, so she felt like she was cheated out of two days of presents.

She never had a big birthday party because all of her friends were out celebrating Christmas.

“We’re Jewish, Sally,” said her mother. “We don’t celebrate Christmas.”

“But my friends do,” said Sally. “So they can’t come to a party. I’m stuck here with you and dad, and it sucks.”

Sally’s parents sent her to her room without dinner.

They’d forgotten to get a cake, Sally’s mom was a lousy baker, and, anyway, all of the stores were closed for Christmas, so there.

The bigger the ads for Black Friday, the lamer the deals, and the bigger the fights over them.

It used to be a shopping rush for the first sales of the holidays.

Now, places mark up their prices or delay their discounts until the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Then came pre-Black Friday discounts, previews, early access, and so on.

A constant state of war erupted in the mall.

Meanwhile, employees snatched up the three laptops that were on sale, hidden under the counter while they kept telling customers: “Sorry, but we’re all out. Would you like to buy something else instead?”

Doctor Odd always makes the right decision.

He also makes the wrong decisions.

He makes every decision imaginable, then he observes the consequences of each decision from his quantum state time displacement chair.

Once he determines the decision with best result, he stays in that timeline.

What happens to the other suboptimal timelines?

The Doctor Odd in those timelines try to shift quantum states into the “good” decision universe.

Because of a near-infinite number of quantum state universes, the “good” universe is overwhelmed quickly.

This is why Doctor Odd destroys the other universes, and his unlucky dopplegangers stranded in them.

Home is where the heart is, but what if you’re Barney Clark, the first long-term human recipient of a mechanical heart pump?

Is it where your excised dead organ has been stored, awaiting your demise so you can be buried with it?

Or is it where your mechanical heart resides, in your chest.

Because if you look at the schematics of the Jarvik-7 model of mechanical heart, you’ll see a set of short cables and tubes connected to a base station.

Barney wasn’t going anywhere far any time soon.

Until, of course, he died, and then went to the cemetery.

When you want an apology from someone, you can ask, but it’s easier to extract an apology with a professional-grade extraction tool.

Then, you can test how genuine that apology is with rigorous scientific tests.

If the apology is genuine, you can bottle it and store it on your shelf, or put it in your trophy case.

If the apology is disingenuine, then you need to use your apology extraction tool with more force, skill, or finesse.

Brandish your tool menacingly. Shake it in their face. Cackle a bit. Maybe lunge at them once or twice.

You’ll get your apology.

I have post-its on my monitors like Leonard Shelby in Memento has tattoos.

Keep it brief.

Nobody wants your ideas.

I’ll get back to you on that.

Do not trust.

Make a list and stick to it.

Don’t take the bait.

It’s only a job.

Not my problem.

Go ask the boss.

They’re not your friends.

Years of fighting, years of abuse.

Years of being put down.

These are the scars across my career.

These are the echoes in my head.

These are the warning signs on the barrier that keep me from jumping over the edge and into oblivion.

Hi there. This is Laurence Simon of the 100 Word Stories Podcast at oneadayuntilthedayidie.com.

Every week, I post a topic for the Weekly Challenge, where you come up with the stories and I collect them up and share them.

Want to give it a try? The topic of the next 100 Word Stories Weekly Challenge is Don’t I feel stupid…:

Write a 100 word story on that topic. Then, send it in an email to isfullofcrap (at) gmail.com with the subject line of WEEKLY CHALLENGE.

Do you have a website where people can learn more about you and your writing? Include the URL to that website.

Also, suggest a topic or topics for future Weekly Challenges.

Most importantly, include a recording of your story. Be sure to introduce yourself to the audience.

I put the episode together on Sunday morning. However, if you need more time, I can put your story up on the feed in a separate post.

Good luck, and as always… keep it brief.

NOV 25 Don’t I feel stupid…

DEC 2 Too much

DEC 8 Polar

DEC 16 Belt

DEC 23 Irritation

DEC 30 PICK TWO

Reflect

Pounce

Gymnastics

Obsolete

Engage

Girls

Easier

And for 2019…

JAN 6 corner

JAN 13 adult

JAN 20 jam

JAN 27 PICK TWO

judge

delivery

your

lion

unicorn

cherry

Incense

FEB 3 transmission

FEB 10 mug

FEB 17 sharp

FEB 24 PICK TWO

bob

stitch

eaten

pittance

delete

trumpet

Ticket

MAR 3 wordy

MAR 10 kill

MAR 17 why can’t you be more like your sister?

MAR 24 confluence

MAR 31 PICK TWO

standard

blinding

blithering

pony

sparkle

amuse

Fire

APR 7 emotive

APR 14 charge

APR 21 potato chips

APR 28 PICK TWO

hire

heart attack

strip

weaponize

fink

nancy

Bumbling

MAY 5 jack

MAY 12 slurp

MAY 19 zone

MAY 26 PICK TWO

stunted growth

bath

passive

pelt

atmosphere

nameless

Tendency

JUN 2 surrounded

JUN 9 losing

JUN 16 logic

JUN 23 plot

JUN 30 PICK TWO

reason

discretion

zone

stunt

simple

deadwood

Tuba

JUL 7 current

JUN 14 devotion

JUL 21 peer

JUL 28 PICK TWO

alligator

bath

vindictive

caterwaul

mildred

bruises

That’s Life

AUG 4 speed

AUG 11 lady

AUG 18 partners

AUG 25 PICK TWO

German

in the darkness…

vehicle

halfway

cute

color-coded

Pan

SEP 1 furrow

SEP 8 dresser

SEP 15 void

SEP 22 net

SEP 29 PICK TWO

void

intertwine

den

get

fudged

meltdown

Tan

OCT 6 smutty

OCT 13 sturdy

OCT 20 tool

OCT 27 PICK TWO

saucy

holidays

turtle

boom

cluster

chainsaw

Breast

NOV 3 boom

NOV 10 who cares?

NOV 17 option

NOV 24 PICK TWO

panel

Fendy Sound is dangerous waters, piloted by brave ferryboat captains, who charged a fortune for a crossing.

So, Fendy Island built a bridge to the mainland

The town celebrated their new permanent connection to the rest of the country.

Except Mungo Dirge, Captain of the Ferryboat Guild.

“The bridge toll is less than ours!” complained the ferryboat pilots. “We’re ruined!”

“Fill the Elissa with dynamite, sail her over to the main pile, and set her ablaze,” he ordered. “We’ll have our business back.”

So, they loaded up the Elissa with dynamite.

Which exploded at the docks, annihilating the other ferryboats.

Ted isn’t a good administrator, but it’s so hard to fire people from this state-run research hospital.

Also, he’s the nephew of one of the boardmembers. He’s not going anywhere.

Especially after we lured him into the new South wing of the hospital that’s under construction.

We tied him up and immersed him in fresh concrete.

Smoothing out the slab to make sure there’s no sign of Ted was a challenge, but not as much as making it look like he took a trip out of town and simply vanished.

His phone started ringing, but thankfully, the battery died quickly.