Tag Archives: Trifextra weekend challenge

All About Time

Posted on June 8, 2013 by

They met on the dating website “Our Time.”  She caught him sleeping with her younger sister, one time.  She stabbed him through the heart, with his father’s Japanese WWII bayonet, in no time. ——— For fun and for Trifecta.  They … Continue reading →

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Roddy Doyle

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

For their weekend challenge this time, Trifecta wants 33 words by someone that we like to read (our favorite book quotes, as it were).  I was going to go with the quote from “To Kill a Mockingbird”, towards the end, where … Continue reading →

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Posted on August 5, 2012 by

Passing out on his hammock, the drunk wished:  A girlfriend, even a piece of stray ass to shake things up.  A plane exploded overhead; a donkey’s head crashed onto him, killing him instantly. ——————- (Trifectra wanted a 33-word fable for … Continue reading →

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Unwanted Visitor

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

“8 kisses?”  In the sweetest little-girl voice I’ve ever heard.  I don’t know how it morphed from 1, to 4, to 8 goodbye kisses each time I dropped her off at her mom and stepdad’s, but those are her rules.  Everything … Continue reading →

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1000 Thread Count Sheets

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

Goldilocks slipped silently into the house.  Dumb shits had left the door unlocked when they went for a walk.  She walked into the dining room.  Who the hell goes for a walk between setting food on the table and eating … Continue reading →

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Dear Little Ones

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

Dear Little Ones: We’re so sorry that you didn’t enjoy the special way we had of laying hands upon you in the good old days before people made a big deal about it.  We were high. The Catholic Church ————————————- This … Continue reading →

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Don’t Say a Word

Posted on April 8, 2012 by

He awoke slowly.  He was cold.  His head pounded and his body felt all crinkled-up in some terribly wrong way.  He shook his head and bumped it on a cement floor.  Why did he go to his basement to pass out?  … Continue reading →

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Lost

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

For the Trifextra weekend challenge:  33 word story with “Lost” as the prompt: —————————————– My sister didn’t answer her phone.  Her neighbor: “She’s in the hospital–she’s dying, you know.” “What’s all this?”, she asked as I walked in. The nurses … Continue reading →

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