Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

Who follows those curves
all too soon finds himself faced
with a fine full moon.

Al, I would be honoured to be featured on P&E! Yay!

Thank you Ryan. And 'P&E' is Al's blog, more properly called Pens and Erasers. I've got it in my blog's blog list and it is always a bright day when Al post's something new.

M, I'm struggling to rise from the floor! That is so funny!

The lines of the sun
softly outline the smooth moon
touching my fingers.

Hello Al!
I feel for you, struggling to kindle-write. Ipad writing was horrible!

Hey! I view your blog! And you never know what will happen in time. On the 17th I had a blog milestone — I clicked over 30,000 page views. So, if my stupid blog can in 4 years get to 30k, your blog can too.

But sisters don't count anyway, do they? They just take you for granted, then miss you when you go off to college.

I'm still working on you last dream, between all my other stuff. I hope the dream world has been a bit better, lately, and that you are getting more sleep.

Alex (Al) wrote: "Guy, I can't say when ..."

I edited it out. Sorry about that.

All alone, I view
an eclipse. My heart shudders;
wheel of time pauses.

Hello Ryan! Nice Haiku!

What time is it where you are?

The lunar eclipse
presaged my being alone
chewing someone's bone.

Hi, Guy. Thank you. It is 4.53 pm 20/12. And you?

9:53pm, 2012.12.19. Wow! You're 19hours ahead of us on the west coast of N.America.

I'll let you know if the world ends here so you have time to plan something ;o)


I screamed my challenge
to the midnight sky. Hoping
the Mayans were wrong.

Thanks for the heads up! LoL!


I laughed my head off
and promptly forgot my fear
of being not heard.

Kat wrote: "These are great XD"

Oops! I forgot to thank you, too, Kat. Not to put pressure on you, but I would love to see you jump in. The water is warm, and you'll feel fine.

Al, why aren't you in bed sleeping?

:-(
Still the nightmares? So sorry to hear that. Write them out, if you feel up to it, and send them off to me. I do get to them eventually.

But I'm off to bed. I'm almost finished my story. I'll see if I can squeeze the time in tomorrow to finish it.

Oh! Tim recommended a curious musical group called 'Caravan Palace'. I have no idea if they are your thing or not, but they are so much fun. I've been listening to them for most of the night. Here's Clash by Caravan Palace.

Good night.

This is the way the
world ends, not with a Bang, but
with an Olufsen.

Haha, touché, M...you've done it again.

"At least," the speaker
stated, "the chicken and egg
may get their answer."

Excellent, Ryan! I’ll have to leave it Guy to make the philosophical response, however.


A blown-out tweeter,
a dead woofer, an aging
off-Broadway hoofer--

against fate man stood
defiant as the sun grew
to a red giant!

Folk talked of days when
life was sweeter, passed around
a bootlegged liter.

Nothing else tastes quite
so fine. As the last night falls
we drown in Moonshine.

I'd join in, but it'd sound stupid and cheesy. I'm no good at continuing haiku chains. I'm more of a single-double haiku writer XP

Silver liquid streams
down mankind's last river; it
is all that is left.

The absence of sound,
Louder than a nuclear
bomb, invades the world

Dark, starless skies are
all that remain in the red,
once turbulent plains.

Arnold the roach looks
at Darrell the roach. They watch
an old roach approach.

Darrel smiles. “Pardon
my mirth. Is it our time to
inherit the earth?”

The earth shakes and breaks
as the footsteps near Darrell.
"Bless me! What tremors!"

The chicken approached
and asked for a roach, egged on
by the roach fried cock.

When the day ended
the roaches and fried chicken
crossed to the wrong side.

Sorry, best I could do while panicking about the sky falling. Ryan, are you still there?

But the road was black
there too. And they all searched for
some more yummy food.

"Where are the brownies
to ease the end of the world
Mary Jane munchies?"

They asked each other.
"Why bother to end it all
without chocolate?"

A Brownie troup came
round the bend, not having heard
the earth would soon end.

And the Scouts were there,
with their new badges to show
that they had been there.

One, who had the rank
of Eagle, exclaimed, “I think
I just saw Smeagol!”

Yes, Guy, I'm still here-no fire and brimstone yet.

Which is fortunate because I have been reading all the Haiku that you clever, funny and oh-so-talented people have been writing while I've been asleep. Wow! I am blown away.

M-I'm rolling on the floor now...Smeagol :D

I haven’t read The Hobbit in years. It’s about time I reread that and Watership Down.

DO IT.

Don't turn your backs, don't
sheath your red, rusted swords when
Smeagol is out doors.

Turning around, set
for a fight-Jedi Luke draws
his sabre of light.

Scouts and brownies watch
in awe. Hobbits and rabbits
all run for the door.

One hobbit muttered
something cryptic, grim, and post-
apocalyptic.

"Is he scrumpcious? Is
he soft?" murmured a deadly
creature of the night.

“Low in calories--
have a bite,” one cackled. “You’re
eating hobbit-light!”

"Easy on the salt!
Easy on the flames. Boil
the water on high."

"There's no telling what
might linger in the moonlight.
Orcs and goblins see?"

"I'll take my hobbit
raw and wriggling," said one who
was chewing red meat.

Gandalf smiled, drawing
his knife in haste. "I've always
wondered how they taste..."

RotfL! OMG! These are so funny! And I wouldn't be surprised if PETA doesn't come after us! @ 3062. Kat, this is so funny! Actually, they are all SO funny!

Gandalf, dressed in white
stewed his rabbit in red wine
and sipped Chateau plonk.

Gandalf changed his robes
to grey. "Upon a Baggins
I will dine today."

On grass Baggins lay,
naked as on his birthday,
now a sushi tray.

Hello Al and Ryan! It would seem at least three of us survived the end of days: for now.

Lol. I will connect with Guy's.

One dwarf found, his fave
sushi on Baggins' place, stared,
"I ain't goin' there!"

(Even Bombur wasn't hungry that day!) :P

Guy wrote: Hello Al and Ryan! It would seem at least three of us survived the end of days: for now."

Hello, Guy. Yes we did - so now I have to work after all!

Hi to you too, Al. Welcome back, I hope you managed to get a new laptop...


Hi, CJ! Nice to see you here, its been awhile ;o)

It's 2 am. The Xmas party is done, and I was watching Warehouse13 repeats. I like this show! It is a quirky fun show, that reminds me of the WSS in its quirky creativity. It doesn't take itself seriously, and lots of the dialog is tongue in cheek.

Oh! CJ, that was very funny!

But, now, my eyelids are falling into my socks! It's time to kip.

Night.