Saturday, March 19, 2011

Stories 97, 98, and 99:

Story 97:

April 30, 2011 A.D.
The starship crashed on Earth. The Martian repaired it. Then he left. Nobody ever knew.

Story 98:

Once again, the cowboys defeated the Indians in the famed American West.

Story 99:

Her soul was wounded deeply, yet still she carried on.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Stories 94, 95, and 96:

Story 94:
My head was chopped off, but I survived.

Story 95:
Some of the chocolate cake was missing. "You ate it," said Cal.

"Who, me?" Jesse protested. "I'm innocent!"

Then they both turned to the cat, which was innocently licking its chocolate-stained paws nearby.

Story 96 (and I DO know that the only thing romantic about this is the bookstore):
They met at a bookstore, and it was love at first sight for both of them. Two years later they were married. They lived happily ever after.

Stories 91, 92, and 93:

Story 91:
Ransom approached the machine he was sent to destroy. Or it approached him. The middle of a jungle sure is a strategic location, he thought. If animals don’t get you, IT will.

Soon they were engaged in fierce combat. Then Ransom found the deactivation switch. He pulled it. Mission successful.

Story 92:
Mama had always told him that it was wrong to take something that wasn't his. Now, as he pointed the pistol at the banker, he felt his hand quaver. He knew Mama was right. "Hand over the money."

"How much?"

"All. Or else." Mama wasn't here. He wouldn't back down.

Story 93:
I didn't know that I had survived the invasion of the goblins until I woke up on the back of a unicorn from Atlantis.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Stories 88, 89, and 90:

Story 88:

She hastily dug her fingers through the grass. No rain, please. Not now. She ignored the first drops that hit her. The next were her own tears. The ring was lost.

Then her fingers closed around something metal. She pulled it out. She had found it. Now, it could rain.

Story 89: Twelve-year illness. Faith healed her.

Story 90: Two plus two equaled five that day, and as inexplicable as that was, nobody could deny it.

Stories 85, 86, and 87:

Story 85: Yet another misunderstanding. Soul mates, but forever separated by their own minds.

Story 86:

It was Monday. Jen's alarm clock beeped obnoxiously, waking her up. She checked the time: 6:30. Time to get up. Time to return to that dreaded cycle everyone calls life. But, she decided, not today. Jen turned off the alarm and lay back down. The cycle wasn't life. This was.

Story 87:

Smoke. Dust. Sand and cacti in every direction, as far as the eye could see. Someone stuffed his pistol back in his belt. Someone else lay helplessly on the ground, twenty paces away, unmoving.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Stories 82, 83, and 84:

Story 82: The two became one. Or the one became two. The three of them were so strange that it was hard for us to tell.

Story 83: When challenged, the lion renounced his post as king of the forest. Now he was emperor!

Story 84: The Harrison's hired a magic gardener. Regardless their plight, he always found an incredible way out.

Stories 79, 80, and 81:

Story 79: He told her to wear green shoes to the hoedown. She did.

Story 80:

Characters: Elsie, Rex, and the Greeks.
Setting: A laboratory. Later: Troy, ancient Greece.
Conflict: Trapped in a time machine shaped like a giant horse.
Resolution: Legend remade.

Story 81 (The Caldwell Saga):

1. Pierce had become another man: Caldwell.
2. Caldwell fell in love…. Pierce didn’t.
3. Caldwell got engaged. She found out.
4. Heartbroken, Caldwell decided to kill himself.
5. The noose killed Caldwell. Pierce survived.
6. She returned, forgave Caldwell. Too late.
7. Pierce fell in love with her.
8. They lived happily ever after.