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Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:18 am
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Trident says...



I'm trying to start up more Randomness games that spur creativity and writing. So, the idea of this game is to write! That is why we are here after all.

The user before you will post a word or idea and then you get to write a flash fiction piece or poem that uses that idea or word. Problem is, you only get 50 words or less to write it in!

For example: the user ahead of me gives me "Gummy worms". Oh great, this might not be the easiest, but here we go!:

Doc's diagnosis was that the tummy ache was just a little bit too much sugar. It was Halloween after all. But when little Suzie said she ate some worms, he had to think twice.

"Gummy worms!" she shouted, and his worry turned to a short chuckle.


OR if you prefer poetry:

Sour Worms

When I rip open a bag
of soft gummy worms,
it's not the sweet-sour taste
I crave.

It is taking that first bite
and knowing that I've chomped apart
the red end and the blue.


Now realize that 50 words comes really fast! Brevity is key! The short story above is 46 words and the poem is 35 (minus the title). That's not a lot.

So without further ado, I will leave the first topic for someone. Remember after you are done with your piece to leave another topic. And if more than one person responds in between (say two people post a poem about gummy worms and leave two different prompts) no worries, just pick the one you are more comfortable with.

Here we go:

Pancakes
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Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:22 am
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Why don't pancakes come with nightcaps
or vice (mostly vice) versa.
Too many nights of steak and wine,
so many mornings of cereal and milk,
at three am I sit cold feet and warm middle
licking syrup from my fingers
and wiskey from my thumb.
Yum. Yum. Yum.

Lemons.
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Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:40 am
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the tired trots up the yellow
brick road up the ladder
we devoured
juice stands
in my tree home
of freshly squeezed
sunlight through the breeze,
crisp with foam.

Macaroons
  





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Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:43 am
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Cats hate lemons!

"Today, me and my friend, Jake, are going to test out if cats hate or love lemons," James said, trying to sound like a reporter. "First, we will hold lemons in front of our two participants, Tommy and Timmy owned by Jake, and let them have a sniff. We will observe their reaction and record our results."

Although these two boys are very young, they do like science and knows lots of scientific words.
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Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:47 am
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Macaroons;

Honesty Box
Julie rang the bell several times, watching the small cafe's back door. Then, she noticed them on the counter. The colours were bright and the casings slightly shiny. Reaching out she picked one up and popped it in her mouth. Cream popped from between the shells. Utter perfection.


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Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:52 am
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"You get them from touching toads," Angie's mother told her. "You've been spending too much time outside in the mud."

Angie thumbed the small bump on her hand. She didn't remember touching a toad; it must have gotten her in her sleep.

Steel wool
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Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:57 am
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In class, we'd laugh. It's just the way her far-set eyes would stare dead off ahead. The teacher would ask a question, and she'd hop up and croak through the wrong answers.

But when no one was looking, I caught her whispering to the flies beneath her desk, afraid.

Stalkers Steel wool I like that one :3
  





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The marks stayed even as she scrubbed. Hard and rough with little threads skimming the red, swollen space between finger and thumb.

"but mum I never-"

Her mother replied by scrubbing all the harder. As the silver wool slipped down the drain she thought, I have steel in my blood.

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he didn't see the world
unless he was looking through a lens.
something about
a concaved sheet of glass
permitted him to look again.

Juice box
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Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:55 am
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I enjoy the crackle -pop
of the very first poppa
in the morning.
Though all my friends
call them juice boxes,
I prefer onomatopoeia
and the gurgle cough
of an empty poppa.

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Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:23 pm
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It's funny how they
fall through the truth
Like clouds on a cold winters day.

Sunshine
  





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Martha ran by the street in her yellow summer dress. Her eyes turned blue and her feet turned red as she saw the sunlight burning the nearby school.

Deadly Nightshades
Need some feed? Then read some! Take a look at today's Squills at In the News.

The Tatterdemalion takes a tattle!

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Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:05 pm
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Belladona

a deadly shade of night,
she steps softly on the wind.
her black-seed eyes loom over all;
i have tasted her venin lips

she wears only Tyrian purple
and sleeps in a gentle bed;
at night she speaks of hunger
and never talks of breakfast.

Carpools
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Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:48 am
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Click clack, front and back,
my mum always said
even with friends.
Such an embarrassment!
Even now when I repeat,
with my friends,
I know my childhood rules:
click clack, front and back.

Gremlins
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Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:29 am
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Gremlins
is one of those movies
that I should have seen
by now,
but haven't.

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"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci

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