Prompts = Wrapped, Rapt, Rapped Story
New — Christmas Every Day
‘Santa?’
‘Clyde?’
‘What are you doing here?’
‘Can’t I sit poolside in Mexico getting drunk on tequila sunrises without the third-degree?’
‘Uhhh…’
‘It’s over. I’m done!’
‘Was it Rudolph?’
‘He and Bezos. They’ve wrapped the operation into Amazon Prime. “Christmas Every Day!” Makes me sick. Or maybe it’s the booze.’
‘Can’t you fight back?’
‘Hired some kids on Fiverr. Make a music video about injustice, I said. They rapped about forced unpaid labour.’
‘Technically, that’s…’
‘I refused payment so they posted it online. Over 90 million views. The world, rapt, watching my downfall.’
‘I have an idea. See ya.’
(For other Clyde, The Forgotten Reindeer stories, check them out here).
Story Old — I Hate English
Photo by Ivan Shilov on Unsplash
“Tommy, can you help me? I don’t understand this.”
“Sure Taibo.”
“Ok — ‘Little Jenny sat rapt in the living room.’ She sat in the living room and she was rapping?”
“No — rapt means her attention was focused on something.”
“Ok — ‘Her attention was drawn when someone rapped on the front door.’ So… her attention was on the front door?”
“No — someone knocked.”
“Uh huh… ‘Mother answered the door, allowing Father to walk in with a large package wrapped in bright paper.’ So Father knocked on the package?”
“No — the package had bright wrapping paper on it.”
“I hate English.”
Links to other sites where I publish:
Blogger = https://onehundredwordsbyparz.blogspot.com
Medium = https://medium.com/100-word-or-less-stories
YouTube = https://www.youtube.com/user/parzivalsattva
And a link to where my Lovely Lady Love (who also operates the camera) posts her art: https://www.youtube.com/user/recyclinggoddess
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