DISCUSSION THREAD -- JUNE 2021 75-WORD WRITING CHALLENGE

[Parson]

@nixie .... WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST CATS .... Nixie writes a completely sensible story about what cats really think about humans. Oh, and there's a nice trick involved.

 

[AlekseiVashchenko]

WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST CATS.

Damn those felines!

 

[Marvin]

I'm in.
No offence intended to any of our lovely members on here, that are employed in any of the positions I mentioned.

(Estate Agent may be a UK term, known in the States and Oz as a Realtor I think?)

(Apologies mods if this constitutes explaining parts of a story? Please remove if needs be.)

Happy story creating to all those yet to enter.

 

[Parson]

@reddishbird .... World? .... Every living world has us ask this question "What is living about this world?"

@CupofJoe .... Turning the tables .... Every trickster needs to learn that paybacks are coming.

@Marvin .... The Guild .... Be sure that the appropriate Guild will make the appropriate offer.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

reddishbird: If it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't.

CupofJoe: Revenge is a dish best served in small, subtle amounts.

Marvin: Experience is the key to career advancement.

BT Jones: They say you should expect the unexpected, but that's unexpectedly difficult.

 

[bedyak]

@Guttersnipe .... The Leucrocotta .... the reverse monster scene is my absolute favorite device in movies or books, there is something deeply and innately satisfying about the reversal and this story is concentrated reversal! It also has this underlying sense of darkness, which might be entirely in my imagination, which is the point!

@Cat's Cradle ....Poof... Comedy comes in threes and I laughed out loud the first, second and 10th time I read this story!
@Iwroteathing ...dead ringer... Not going to lie this story is spine tingling, lol actually more scary than I generally read at all, ugh feel cold just thinking about it!
@nixie WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST CATS... this is exactly why you can't trust cats! Although if they hadn't been in cages, it might have been a nice lifestyle change for the humans, after all cats do seem so relaxed most of the time.

 

[Parson]

@BT Jones .... Mystery Incarnate .... BT writes us a story in which the wizard behind the curtain is terrifyingly real.

 

[Parson]

@paranoid marvin .... The Bloody Banquet .... P. Marvin reminds us that humor can turn deadly if it's in bad taste.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

paranoid marvin: Humor is in the funny bone of the beholder.

Peter V: Technological advances often come with unexpected consequences.

 

[Parson]

@Peter V .... The Devil is in the Detail (or Did You Ever Wonder Where Those Good Ideas Come from?) .... Now it all makes sense. How "Bedazzled" (1967) came out just when Star Trek tanked.

 

[Parson]

@Bren G .... Telephone game .... Bren tells gives us a new Genesis story where the Trickster is tricked and the creation is reborn.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Bren G: Honesty is not always the best policy.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Astro Pen: The most successful crimes are those that go undetected.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

reiver33: Appearances can be deceiving, or revealing.

 

[Parson]

@Astro Pen .... Outbound .... Meeting the a trickster is an exercise in knowing without having proof.

@reiver33 .... An Uncertain Sympathy .... It doesn't take a devil to know one.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Daysman: It is possible to cheat an honest person.

 

[Parson]

@Daysman .... Distant Relatives .... With a trickster what you see is most definitely not what you get.

@JS Wiig .... One in a Million...or not .... Positive Thinking has little to do with competence. (Norman Vincent Peale notwithstanding).

@johnnyjet .... Wheel Me to the Window, Sonny .... Trickster humor is in the eye of the beholder, not in the eye of the tricked.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

JS Wiig: Wishing will not make it so.

johnnyjet: There's no fool like an old fool.

Starbeast: Those who live by the sword may die by another means.

 

[Parson]

@Starbeast ... Midnight in Whitechapel .... Beasty reminds us that it's hard to tell who is what in a fantasy.

@bedyak .... Translation .... Nasty tricks may be easier to spot when they are tricks of commission rather than tricks of omission.

@Mr Orange .... Trojan .... Is it a nasty trick when a person receives an upgrade?

@chrispenycate .... Tame Wild West .... The best tricks do not arrive by mail, but in person. Beep! Beep!

 

[Hugh]

Ahh! It's always a relief to find I've come up with a story.

Every month it's a similar process: "maybe this month I won't come up with one..."