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#100WCGU – Wk67 – Prompt: …I really tried not to laugh… – 106 words – “Mandy and the Problem”

21 Nov

Mandy, five, was a lively child but, as I looked out into the yard, I saw her suddenly jump up, prancing about the yard squealing. I was about to check what had happened when she suddenly stopped, looked at her brother and said something I couldn’t quite hear.

Tim, three, came running in, “Daddy, Mandy said I had a big pooh bum!”

Mandy, came in, “I did not! He put a cockroach down my back. I said he had a big problem.”

I really tried not to laugh, “Tim, it was wrong to put a cockroach down your sister’s back. Mandy didn’t call you a name.”

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Posted by on November 21, 2012 in 1. 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups #100WCGU

 

Saturday Centus – Wk#134 – Prompt: highlighted in blue – 114 words – “Toast”

21 Nov

“So this is a cook off for the inheritance?  Is that what you’re saying?” asked one amongst gathered relatives.

An eccentric, rich uncle had passed.

The lawyer continued, “Sam wanted his estate to go to the one who knew him best. You all have one hour to buy or make a meal. Closest to what is written in this envelope will win.”

There was a scramble to the door. I walked out calmly.

Within the hour, all had returned with assorted foods, each assessed privately. When I was announced the winner, others asked what I had brought.

“A rotten egg and burnt toast. He always did like the Three Stooges’s joke about a tapeworm.”

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For those unfamiliar with the Three Stooges gag, Moe asked Curly, “Burnt toast and a rotten egg? Whatta ya want that for?”

Curly replied, “I got a tapeworm and that’s good enough for him!”

The gag appeared in their 1934 short, “Punch Drunks”

Info Source: The Three Stooges Online Filmography

 
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Posted by on November 21, 2012 in 2. Saturday Centus

 

#100WCGU – Wk66 – Prompt: …the silence was deafening… – 104 words – “Samuel”

13 Nov

Have you ever experienced a moment when all the children were enraptured by the story they had requested? The silence was deafening, not from fear of consequence but by a desire not to miss a spoken word.

“I found we had a lot in common and could have good fun if we only tried. Girls can be pretty cool best friends too. It seems as long as you’re with your best friends you can do almost anything.”

The story ended. The silence was broken. Some wiped a tear from their eyes. Others joked about having a girl for a best friend. All had listened.

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Posted by on November 13, 2012 in 1. 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups #100WCGU

 

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Saturday Centus – Wk#133 – Prompt: The pain was excruciating… – 104 words – “A Painless Future”

12 Nov

Another shot through me like daggers. The pain was excruciating yet I managed to keep smiling. How could I do otherwise when my daughter was watching intently?

This had been a long process but the results had been worth the effort. The pain was now much less, apart from the occasional. For that matter, spending time with my young daughter had made the experience tolerable, even in the initial painful stages.

“How was that, daddy?” my daughter looked on expectantly.

“Beautiful, sweetheart, hardly a note in error.”

Learning had been an adventure. At her young age, I could see a violinist future for her.

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Posted by on November 12, 2012 in 2. Saturday Centus

 

#100WCGU – Wk65 – Photo Prompt – 100 words – “Inequity”

07 Nov

“Poppa, why’d they put an orange spot on our hands?”

Poppa understood the meaning of the marks but explained, “It’s to show everyone we’re special.”

Poppa and grandson were shuffled into a compound teeming with thousands of others bearing the same mark. They were soon lost in the crowd of those barely surviving in their deprived world.

Having watched this, a small girl asked her mother, “Why were they put inside?”

Her mother warned, “We don’t speak of the Oranges. They aren’t people. People have, they don’t.”

In this world, the gap between those with and those without was vast.

This is the photo prompt from the #100WCGU site.

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Posted by on November 7, 2012 in 1. 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups #100WCGU

 

Saturday Centus – Wk#132 – Prompt: Thirty days hath September… April, June and November – 108 words – “Minesh”

04 Nov

Ten year-olds repeated the calendar rhyme, “Thirty days hath September… April, June, and November.”

“Minesh, why not join us?” the teacher asked.

The class, listening intently, stopped their rhyme.

“I was considering an alternative calendar, something regular to fit our year. If we were to have 13 months with 28 days we’d have no need for rhyme,” Minesh explained.

“…the extra day, two in a leap year?”

“They’d be International Unity Days where children have opportunities to link globally online, the leap day a Children’s World Congress Day.”

“…for adults?”

“…a chance to listen to our voice.”

Minesh’s teacher had no doubt he’d be a leader one day.

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Posted by on November 4, 2012 in 2. Saturday Centus