Short type inspiration

[robinbloke]

After managing to nuke one of my directories several months ago and lose most of what I had already written I'm going to make another go at my 100x100 word stories project. What I'd like to help inspire me and get me going again is some suggestions and ideas.

A single word or a small sentence, anything :)

Inspire me!

Comments

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

- Moon ducks.
- Mistaken identity.
- Mystery shopper.
- "At the third stroke..."

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Moon ducks.... ideas already forming :)

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

- "Nobody says "Yo' Momma" to Chuck Norris...
- The year is 1899. The place, Babylon 5.
- Sentient footwear.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Oooo Sentient footwear, I like it!

Shoes

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

"Pick me! Pick me!" came the cry as the door to the cupboard opened.
"No no! Pick me, I match your dress perfectly!"
"Don't pick her, she has a scuff on her sole, I can see it a mile off."
"You can talk - Your buckle has been hanging by a thread for months!"
The voices and arguments rose louder and louder.
"Wellyboot!"
"Scuffmark!"
In 2035 AI was perfected, humanity was at the nexus of it's creativity.
Three months later some bright spark decided to create the intelligent shoe.
"Sandal!"
"Reject!"
'Peak of civilisation' didn't quite somehow cover it anymore.

"The champion"

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Nightfall.
Across the sky dark grey clouds roll slowly over the moon and stars, hiding them from view.
In the city park a fox turns, pads out towards the pond. No warning as it creeps, creeps, creeps.
A flurry of movement, frantic quacking, feathers fly. Then it is gone.
In the middle of the pond, they huddle - but they cannot sleep there.
The ducks eye the shadows warily, will it return for another victim?
Then, on the nearby fence, silhouetted by a moon beam he stands. Cape fluttering in the nights breeze, beak lifted high.
The champion has returned.

[oml404.livejournal.com]

Hundred Monkeys (http://www.shepmedia.com/Paul'sCorner/Monkey.html)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Thanks :)

[silja.livejournal.com]

A penguin in the jungle.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Ack! :)

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Bobby "Steroid" Gontarski does Moscow. Bonus points for creative use of the words "Tyranny", "Grandma" and "SVD Dragunov".

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. And "Grooving"?

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Nah, that'd be too easy :)

[crookedmonkey.livejournal.com]

underground beetle war spills topside

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Beetle bug bash!

[surje.livejournal.com]

architectural sub-dermal implants went mainstream in about 2074, the most popular of which quickly became the "flying buttress"...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I think my eyes just crossed. F'tang! Thanks.

[jinxcw.livejournal.com]

"Obviously tomorrow would not be a good day to die - yesterday will be far better."

(Playing around with would/could/should/will/might changes this one nicely...)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, context juggling... nice idea :)

Tomorrow

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Cracked red veined eyes blearily open and stare accusingly at the clock. 10am.
The alarm sounds again. I smash at the clock. 8am.
The shaking, again the shaking. Blackness clawing at the edge of my mind.
the sound of a siren outside wakes me. 2:24am.
It's all slipping from my grasp, today is becoming just a memory.
I crawl the mile to the edge of the bed before I pass out again.
When I wake up it's 11:45pm, my head feels like it's been cracked open.
I manage to fall off the bed and the feeling dies away.
Goodbye tomorrow.

Re: Tomorrow

[jinxcw.livejournal.com]

Nice! :-)

[devalmont.livejournal.com]

Two days passed, and then it happened again...

[devalmont.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm going to explain that one further. It's from a book called 'The Mysteries of Harris Burdick' of which each page contains a title, one line, and a drawing from a short story, the rest of which is assumed lost.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, a nice idea; one of the things I can seem to do is set a scene or start a story but several paragraphs end I lose the thread that drove me there, so 100 word stories work nicely for me :)

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[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

Move
IT
Move It
MoVe It
Llama
Grendel
Frumious
Lamprey
Fimble
Loose
arabesque
Vomitous
Bumblebee
Dendritic
Capricious


various factors combined to....

When last we met, it took fourteen hours for the....

jam, when applied ot the earlobe, has a tendancy to.....

polar bears are not at their best in the morning, it turned out.

rubbing furiously Rachel thought to herself...

cd-rom? NO! Seedy-Rom!....

Re: ...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Delightfully disjointed, thanks :)

[gerald_duck]

• It was a dark and stormy night.
  
• Anatidæphobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. (pp Gary Larson)
  
• The cleaners who have to sort out the mess after the Vatican's Christmas party.
  
• A car that runs on turnips but smells terrible.
  
• We've found another integer hiding between five and six.
  
• Now that laughing has been made a crime, the wanted terrorist Alexei Sayle is on the run.
  
• Henry Kissinger: Hollywood heroine!
  
• We've confirmed the mountain is taller than Everest. Our current theory is that it's been in Norwich all along, and we're trying to work out why nobody noticed it sooner.
  
• The reanimated corpse of Mussolini makes British trains run on time.
  
• A computer that passes the Turing Test by making nearby humans stupid.
  
• The pipe organ turned out to be an RPG launcher.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

We've found another integer hiding between five and six.

Heh, this one I particularly like :) Thank you.

[texassky.livejournal.com]

Tsunami hits Miami.......

With the polar ice caps gone.....

The pumps were missing, and the project was due.

Frost-Crossed lover, Piper Penguin and Walter Walrus....

The revolution began at one of the mindless corporate meetings.....

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Interesting thoughts, thank you!

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Two famous philosophers settle their differences with a katana duel to the death on the sinking Titanic while the huge-brained and huge-kidneyed master race from the future watches them from a million TV screens.

Assassination as a part of a healthy office culture, starring anthropomorphic cute fuzzy animals.

A bottle of Finlandia gains sentience and establishes a religion around itself.