This is awesome. Although I didn't mean we should specifically try to use less than ten words. Just as short as you can make it. A sentence or two. But be free!

We could do with a signifier that the story has begun. I read Tommy's last post as a story at first.

Tommydski wrote:I checked everywhere in my office already. There's definitely no oil in here.

There is however, a couple of swigs of Jim Beam left from Hogmanay.

This day is just going to roll on by, I tell you.

Or maybe it was?

How about one of these ~ things above and below it?

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I thought it was my first period. Apparently a homemade sex change always results in a little blood loss.
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It wasn't a story but going by what Papa Hemingway said, maybe it was!

Ernest Hemingway wrote:Write the truest sentence that you can.

Rotten Tanx wrote:~
I thought it was my first period. Apparently a homemade sex change always results in a little blood loss.
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Is that from Hedwig and the Angry Inch?

johnnyemphysema wrote:

Rotten Tanx wrote:~
I thought it was my first period. Apparently a homemade sex change always results in a little blood loss.
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Is that from Hedwig and the Angry Inch?

Nope. Is that a film?




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The Karate Kid was on TV last night. I held him as he wept. It's all in the past, I said. Roofing is a noble profession, Ralph.
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Bad news about the kitten; turns out, he was deaf.
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(An unfortunately true story - R.I.P. "General Ambrose Burnside" )

Arson Smith wrote:~
Bad news about the kitten; turns out, he was deaf.
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(An unfortunately true story - R.I.P. "General Ambrose Burnside" )

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OH. These were meant to be works of fiction? Oops.
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Rotten Tanx wrote:~
The Karate Kid was on TV last night. I held him as he wept. It's all in the past, I said. Roofing is a noble profession, Ralph.
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This is beautiful, Tanx!

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I never really liked The Smiths, but they were her favourites. Now I have all these records lying around.
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I won.
Then drowned in rum.

They buried me sideways.

They buried his typewriter too.

EDIT: What odd timing.