30 Stories in 30 Days #24 – “Rambling with Purpose”

Rambling with Purpose

Out of desperation – after staring at his computer for an hour – Malcolm picked up his dictionary and opened it at random. With his eyes closed he pointed at a word. He opened his eyes to see he had picked “merciful.”

“All right,” he said. Turning back to his computer he wrote “Merciful” on the top of the page and began writing whatever came to mind without bothering to correct any mistakes:

mercy Ming the Merciless some alien overlord someone asking for mercy from some ale...