Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

the unchained poppies
sang a melody of sight
seen by frogs and bees.

Windows 8.1

Your looping restarts
upon update will soon end
in a Microcide

The hopeful looper
laughed at her Windows closing
the last laugh reboot.

She skipped stones singing
Silent sorrowful songs so
Softly seashells sulked

Ssssssssspectacular!

LOL! Nice, Zack. I wish I wasn't working so I could manage some kind of weak wristed reply.

his humble heart heaved
heartwarmingly, having heard
her hummed harmonies

good one, Ryan.


lo Buffalo buffalo.

Buffalo buffa-
lo Buffalo buffalo
buffalo buffa-

Priceless, Zack!

virgin summer blooms
fall victim to Winter's hoar
faster each season

Through the seasonal
Loving and hating of kids
Duo makes trio

Nice one, Lilian. How've you been?

Zack, Ryan, Lilian, great writing

Ryan, we have been hearing news about fires in Sydney. I hope all is well with you, kith and kin.

Thanks, Guy. Yes, some very nasty fires and not even close to being controlled yet. Far too common for those of us on the east coast. These ones are a fair way from me for once. Thanks for the concern :)

How have you been, Guy? I've been checking egajd but you seem to have been rather busy ;)

wow, great writing, Zack, Ryan, Guy and Lilian :)

Hello, Leslie! Thank you so much :)

Thank you Leslie. And Ryan, yes, I continue with an excess of busy-ness. And I am in the process of making a job proposal that will be increasing that busy-ness. Sigh.

Thank you, Ryan, for noticing my absence! This adds to my incentive to make time. [Shakes head.] And I have promised myself to begin writing a book, by setting aside 5 hours a week. And that is even a challenge.

The seasonal dance
makes a triptych, a quartet
of unnamed children
who remain anonymous
with time punch cards as passports.

[Sorry - went dark tonight.]

That's excellent, Guy! I really like it.

Thank you Ryan. It seems too political to be a proper Senryu. Not sure how my mind/imagination went there from Lilian's fine effort.

Thanks Guy and guys! :P I'm good, Ryan. How are you?

Behind the border,
eyes filled with thrill await the
end of dance with death.

Thank you, O Captain! My captain! :D

Mine, too!

What about me then!? :P

Lol! She loves you too Ajay :)

Al, Maia asked me if you're from The Walking Dead :P

M, welcome back, this thread is missing you :)

Good Morning from here :)

Thank you, Leslie, and good morning!

Thank you, Leslie and Alex! Good morning from India too. It's 6 am here, I wanted to go for a run, but I decided to drop that idea and now I'm drinking a full flask of custom-made cardamom tea and reading poetry/listening to the radio. Life rocks ;)

Hello, M! Good evening!

Lol! She also saw your photo without make-up and she said that you're pretty.

Yep! Hot tea, prepared by Master Chef, Aj Nag.

I just sent some via teleportation. Let me know if you like it, Alex! Don't let me know if you don't ;)

Note: Tea leaves were specifically hand-picked from the Western Ghats of India. No animals were harmed in the process. Eating chicken wings on the way doesn't count :P

Lol! Can I also have some Ajay? :)

I'll let her know :) She wants to look like a zombie hehe

Hello, Ajay! Are you out in the country? Are there cobras?

:) Of course, Leslie! I'll send it across. Please send across these co-ordinates/details to me asap!

Latitude
Longitude
Wind speed, pressure and direction in the area
Cloud presence: Yes or No?

Lol! Ajay!!!

It's cloudy here with a chance of meatballs :P

here are the coordinates: 14.3647° N, 121.0556° E
Precipitation: 20%
Humidity: 67%
Wind: 11km/h

Can I have it in 30 minutes? :D

(Thank you Google!)

Al, I'll make sure to remember that, lol!

Hello, M! Yes, I'm in the country and I met a cobra today. He is an old, horizontally lanky fellow. He hisses 'hi' to all WSSers :)

I've sent it across, Leslie! You should receive it in 12 minutes and 7 seconds...counting...

I've sent across a pod too, please clear out some area in the backyard and keep the kids inside the house, at all times. Go on out only after you hear a thud. Inside the pod, tea molecules will be floating around in a certain orchestrated pressure environment. Press the red stop button and place a big receptacle below and there you go, you'll have your tea. Please heat it in the microwave. And remember, it is best served hot! ;)

Got it, thanks Ajay :)

Hmm, are you sure you've sent the right pod? A giant beanstalk has grown in our backyard :P

(Oops!) Welcome, Leslie!

Hey, yes! That's just our one-off special discount 'item' for an already-free product. Yeah, I've made a fortune out of such generosities ;)

Yey! Lucky me :)) Thank you :)

A dance with death has
finally ended. In its
place, a girl who wants
to look like a zombie has
received a giant beanstalk.

hehehe sorry :D

Very nice, Leslie! I like it. And welcome ;) You can always send me a baked cake using the same pod. And guess what, it has solar charging capabilities!

Thank you, Ajay :D

A chocolate cake is on your way. According to the user manual, I only need to add water if I want to make (not bake) a cake :P

LOL! Hello Ajay, Leslie, M and Al! I am about to write a job proposal/sales pitch, and would much rather write zombie Haiku.


Spotted: A Sweet-Toothed Zombie

The ladybug zombie
was spotted chewing her friends'
Candy and Henry
while moaning 'oh no, oh no,
I'm in a polka dot dream.'

Thanks, Leslie! The cake literally walked out of the pod (this was originally Jim's idea but I'm using it anyway. He wouldn't mind :P). Nice instructions regarding the cake! I think I might steal that too.

Lol: 'chewing her friends' Candy and Henry!! Nice word play, funny. Hello, Guy! The job proposal/sales pitch definitely sounds interesting! Is it available for us to read too, may be in your blog later!?

Lol! very nice, Guy! I like the polka dot dream :)

Hello Ajay, Leslie, and Al.

Put my sales pitch up on my blog?! Yikes, what a thought. A very funny one. I would like to, but my current employer is likely trolling for malcontents disguised as malfeasance. Hmmm. But if I changed the names? Interesting. Maybe I'll just send it to you, and any other poor sucker - er, I mean friend with a streak of masochism.

Al, did you sneeze your cute little cat-like sneezes? LOL! I hope so. So cute.

Lol!

The polka band plays
and along comes a spider,
the captain sneezes.

Sorry, captain, I stole the first line.

Hah! These are great. And the in-betweeners too. Funny pirates :)

The innocent spidey
ran for its life. Who could
survive a zombie-sneeze?

Hahaha

:-D

Halloween! Sheesh!