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Weekly Challenge #1033 – Vanishing Point
The next topic is Experiment
RICHARD
Perspective
“Do you understand it now?”
The blank look on my face said it a...
Reward stars
The teacher put reward stars on homework. Gold for great, silver for good. If you didn’t have a star, you had a problem. My brother was two years olde...
A thief to catch a thief
It takes a thief to catch a thief, they say. So the FBI made the old swindler an offer. Pose as a rich Arab and bribe a bunch of crooked politicians,...
Summer evenings
On warm summer evenings, I like to walk to the abandoned golf course and stand by one of the ponds. The water is usually pretty clear, with a few lily...
Cat regrets
Myst is the cat who goes outside to roam and stays out so long, she makes us worry if she’s ever coming home.
You know, like Bruwyn.
Peppers
The explorers search for the peppers.
The botanist identifies the peppers.
The agricultural conglomerate seeds the peppers.<...
Pandemic classes
When the pandemic hit and schools were closed, the classes got on Zoom or specialized distance learning apps.
Teachers who were tired of...
Weekly Challenge #1032 – Fancy
The next topic is Vanishing point
LEWIE
I saw an advertisement. It was a feast fit for a ruler of house cats. There was meat, treats, and...
Wanting kids
My mother has a younger sister.
And she’s a thieving, conniving bitch.
Robbed my grandmother blind and sent her broke ass to...
Chemical memory
If you keep a device constantly charging, or top it off every night, the battery has a chemical memory to it and will hold less of a charge.
For the glory
Once upon a time, our people built great space ships.
The space ships, they flew so fast. Faster that light.
And we flew bet...
Ten bucks
My friend just got a 10 dollar an hour raise as a contractor.
I remember when I was making less than 10 dollars an hour working in a fast...
Every chick
Every chick I ever fucked became a lesbian.
My first girlfriend, my second girlfriend.
The chick I cheated on her with (the...
Fury
They say that hell half no fury like a woman scorned but now that I’m in hell, I beg to differ. I did a lot lot of scorning, believe you and me. I’ve...
Weekly Challenge #1031 PICK TWO Hush Beauty Chisel One-eyed owl Interceptor
The next topic is Fancy
LEWIE
The one-eyed owl had a chiseled jaw line. His hushed beak made him the perfect interceptor. Glaring silently...
Giraffe delivery
I used to think that the test for being rich would be to be able to go to a website and with only a few clicks have a real live giraffe delivered to y...
Close to the water
Sometimes I think I should’ve gotten a house closer to the water. And then I see the Pest Control and animal trapper trucks on the street. I asked the...
Night nurse
You can bet on anything now.
Celebrity surgeries are all the rage on the betting desks.
Live, die, or complications.
<...
Morning duty
Usually after his morning walk, John would do his morning business in the toilet and jump in the shower.
However, today he was a bit back...
Doublebooked
The meeting went long, so when the meeting was over, I hopped in my time machine to go back and catch the beginning of the other meeting that had alre...
Last man standing
When the smoke cleared, Billy was the last man standing.
Clint was sitting in the middle of the street.
Bart was laying on h...
Weekly Challenge #1030 – Paranoia
The next topic is PICK TWO
Hush
Beauty
Chisel
One-eyed owl
Interceptor
LEWIE
A bitter pill to swallow
So, I found an accounting error.
Reported it to the CEO.
Who did nothing about it.
Then, I reported it to the S...
Bob Thomas Morton
Mom and Dad took me to the cemetery every weekend.
We visited Grandma and Grampa and me there.
Me, Bob Thomas Morton.
...
I can’t breathe
So, a cop took a fentanyl addict with hypertension and a heart condition to the ground and knee-pressed the guy’s neck.
City coroner said...
The crying of Lot Devil
So, my parents finally sold their house.
But they didn’t sell the wooded empty lot next door.
They had bought that lot to pr...
Violin
I used to play the violin. But I didn’t play it well.
“Maybe I need a better violin?”
So, I’d buy violin after violin, until...
Mickey
Mickey Mantle jumped the line, got a new liver, but it didn’t do him much good.
He got sicker and sicker, and former teammates came to Da...
Weekly Challenge #1029 – Broken light bulb
The next topic is Paranoid
LEWIE
George had an idea.
It wasn’t a bright idea.
It wasn’t even a good idea.
In fact, it wa...
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis once said that every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
In spite of his Socialist tendencies, Sincla...
Traitor Cat
When my sister in law comes to visit, I set up a bed in the spare room.
And the cats check it out.
At bedtime, Tinny the cat...
Trejo
Some kids want to be policemen, others want to be astronauts.
Joey wanted to be boxing champion of the local prison.
He trai...
Crazy Pills Cashback
The Apple card is three percent at Apple, Exxon, and Walgreens.
I don’t need a new iPhone, I’m not going to use it on an insecure gas pum...
Sysco
The sysco truck has the motto follow me to your next grade meal on its back. I’ve got time to kill. So I did, thinking that it was gonna stop at one o...
Lines and seats
Teddy had a good gig, standing in line for other people.
The more important the thing people were waiting for in line, the more he’d make...
Weekly Challenge #1028 – Sharp Scissors
The next topic is Broken light bulb
LEWIE
The hobo clown, Doc, swiped the oversized, sharp scissors from a white-faced clown, Tippy.
Living wages
A group of coffee warehouse workers looked around the warehouse and grumbled.
The tasters kept approving cheaper and cheaper crap.
...
Isn’t always right
We walk past their framed photos on the way into the office.
Three years ago, killed by an angry customer with a bag full of guns.
...
Find me under the sea
We didn’t know a U boat was on our tail until the torpedoes hit our ship.
Some of us made it to the lifeboard.
The captain h...
Bad medicine
When it comes to your health, it is important to keep a sense of perspective.
A case is more interesting than a bout.
A mala...