Discussion thread -- January 2016 75-word Writing Challenge

[Ashleyne]

I've struggled to think of something for this challenge, but inspiration finally struck.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Sometimes ya get tired of hearin' the same old thang, and Ashleyne. B. Watts is shure to come up with somethin' brand spankin' new.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Hah! Really nice story, Ashleyne! Wonderfully weird! CC

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

chrispenycate was spoutin' so many highfalutin' words that we figured somebody had swallered a Webster's. Still, we were able to make out it was a real ribtickler.

 

[Starbeast]

Things are getting hairy around these parts, so to speak. I am delighted to be a flake in the dandruff of fun here.


@Culhwch Fantastic female hero, served up, Lovecraftian style.

@juelz4sure I like how the dead can set a person straight.

@TitaniumTi Moral: Never mess with a lady's hair. Wonderful.

@Jo Zebedee I love a shaggy dog tail, I mean tale.

@Drof Excellent Native American drama.

@Mr Orange Heh heh. A well delivered punchline.

@Glen Moral: Beware a mother's wrath. Frightening encounter.

@Tywin There's plenty of silver in this story.

@Venusian Broon YES!!! A tale in Tombstone.

@pambaddeley Firstly, nice to meet you. And second, I LOVE Deputy Dawg!!! (cartoon character)

@ratsy Infectiously wild.

@Ihe Seriously spooky.

@mosaix Heh heh. Marvelous conversation.

@Ashleyne. B. Watts Freakishly awesome.

@chrispenycate YES!!! A Wild Bill story.

 

[Droflet]

Thanks Beasty. You're a star.

 

[Mad Alice]

Darn! Been trying to post my attempt for the past 2 days on a tablet, but paste just won't work :-( Will just have to wait till I can get to a regular computer.
Can't even put carriage returns in either in a post like this. Does anyone else experience these problems?

I did. Go to the middle of a word and press until the select button does up. Hit select all then copy. You should have a keyboard pop up on your tablet. The thing after the L is the carriage return usually.
You might need a note app with edit features.
For bolding the text, hit edit and retype the text after hitting the bold in the forum edit box.

 

[Mr Orange]

Thanks for the review, Sheriff Starbeast

 

[Starbeast]

Howdy Mr Orange. You're very welcome sir.


@Cathbad Hair is a fine. And when times are tough, you gotta take what you can get. Well done.

@LittleStar Sweet romance, tangled like hair in the gears of time. Touching.

@J5V Firstly, nice to meet you. And second, hair today, gone orange tomorrow. Quite a cursed tale you've woven.

 

[chrispenycate]

Thank you for the reviews, Victoria and SB. I decided prosaic, for once, thinking 'everybody can at least understand this one', even if it had only sixty-nine words. Then 'everybody old enough to remember, at least…' - oh dear, how few is that?

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Well done, with the reviews, SB!!

 

[Starbeast]

Howdy Cat's. And thanks. I thought I'd give it whirl because I entered my story early.

@chrispenycate Thanks for toning your "genius" down, because some of us primates haven't touched the alien monument yet. Pardon me. "Thon-gar. Make stone soup for tribe I make fire."

 

[Dan Jones]

Howdy folks, I'm back, ridin' a wave of crimson bluebottles and rustlin' up a whole campfire of new year's absolutions.

Like Samson, I've been growing my hair out in search of strength and inspiration for this month's wacky western, and so far I've drawn a big fat blank. But I don't care. I shall keep plugging away.

And lastly, I am thrilled beyond measure to find that, having returned from my regular Christmas / New Year break that the standards haven't slipped even a little bit. Well, maybe a little bit. But not a lot. Just enough.

 

[Dan Jones]

Well, I'm in. Might not be Shakespeare but a nice piece of fluff to usher in the New Year.

And great stories so far! @Cat's Cradle - wasn't Adam Bomb a wrestler?!

And welcome to the new members!

 

[pambaddeley]

Thanks Starbeast!

 

[pambaddeley]

I did. Go to the middle of a word and press until the select button does up. Hit select all then copy. You should have a keyboard pop up on your tablet. The thing after the L is the carriage return usually.
You might need a note app with edit features.
For bolding the text, hit edit and retype the text after hitting the bold in the forum edit box.

Thanks Mad Alice. It is a quirk of Firefox on Android, it seems. The text was copied OK from the notepad app, it just wouldn't paste. And if typing in a post, when I press carriage return it doesn't do anything.

I got round both problems by using Chrome instead.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Machines can shure act cantankerous sometimes, and Cathbad showed us how maybe they got other feelin's, too.

I might not admit it to most folks, but LittleStar had me reachin' for a hankie to wipe away a tear or two.

J5V kept us all a-shakin' in our boots with a might scary story about curses 'n such.

Some of them perfesser-type folks peek through those tellyscopes to take a gander at other planets, and Serge Alexandr tells us they might be critters there, too.

A fella can get mighty attached to his hoss, but maybe the one DG Jones told us about took it a mite too far.

The kinds of goin's-on that Ken Zulu told us about could shure keep somebody awake all night.

Figgers what with folks jawing so much about legends, johnnyjet decided to spin a yarn about legends themselves.

 

[Dan Jones]

Lovely stuff, Victoria

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

A smart yarnspinner knows when to keep the audience hangin', like that gal did in the 'Rabian Nights, and Shyrka made sure we'd all holler for more of the story.

 

[Starbeast]

@Serge Alexandr Firstly, nice to meet you. And second, bizarre and far-out tale.

@DG Jones Firstly, nice to see you again. And second, you proved you can't beat a good horse at death. Creepy cool.

@Ken Zulu Firstly, nice to meet you. And second, thanks for the wild fire ride.

@johnnyjet You came out of the west, and you done your best. Excellent legend.

@Shyrka Firstly, nice to meet you. And second, you do, that voodoo, so well. Magically delicious.