100 words (something annoying)

It’s the best fodder… – Chomp. AGH…Chomp. Wet chomp. Loud wet chomp with slurping noises. Sex. Every time I hear someone chew with their mouth open I think of sex and sloppy wet noises, and now it’s my mother slurping her soup, and I’m going to have to fucking kill her. My mother and sex [...]

Exercise: Past & Present

From Tony: 100 Word Exercise Think of a historical character and put him/her in a contemporary setting. What would s/he think? How would s/he react?

100 Words Fiction Exercise: Story of a Word

This is Tony’s Prompt: Look up the etymology of any word you like.  Write the story of that word.  100 words.

100 word exercise (clothing)

Sorry this took so long to put up…i had some technical difficulties. But I can now edit the motherblog and all is well. Ok, so here goes. Pick one article of clothing–your favorite shirt, shoe, earring, sock, tie…whatever. Write a 100 word short about your relationship with this piece of clothing.  A pair of green-and-red-striped [...]

100 Words or more: Smoke

During my last months in Helena, the smoke from the distantly burning forest fires covered the streets and the mountains in a gray veil, obscuring the valley and the hills. On some days, it blurred even the trees across the street, and you could feel it grating on your throat each time you breathed in; [...]

100 Words: Pitcher

“We want a pitcher not a belly-itcher!” Grubby fingers interlocked in the chain fence of the dugout. Half-empty yellow Gatorades on the concrete floor, Emily, on deck, balancing a bat on two fingers. “7’s up, it’s a up thing, 7’s up, she hits it every time…” Parents with newspapers and magazines in the stands, sweat [...]

100 word exercise

Hello everyone, here is an idea for a 100-word story: Write about a violent thought or action that seems different now than it did at the time. Try to reimagine the passion that led to the violence in the first place. I will post mine soon – Matt

Exercise: On Storms

Here are the rules: 1. Use a second-person narrator 2. Use 150 words 3. Use the following words: bones, glint, forge, salt 4. Title it “On Storms” 5. Make it creative nonfiction 6. Go…

100 words exercise: public bus

*Sorry this is a little late, I was at a water polo tournament all weekend. We were alone on the bus so late it was early. There were other people who got on and then off again a few stops later, the crackhead with the ripped garbage bag wrapped around his head in a turban, [...]

100 words: marmalade