The Velveeta Enigma

Creativity, brevity and impact were the key elements in choosing the winner.

Brad Raybury now has an asteroid in the Pinwheel Galaxy named after him!

Everyone else now has half an asteroid named after them from the Howdy Doody Galaxy!

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Short Story Challenge for Writers

I need a short short story, prose or poem using this illustration as the subject. Yes, that is me behind the helmet and Corky Velveeta in the landscape (...or is it?). The story chosen will be written in the white space within the illustration. The black space will hold the title and author's name. I can increase the white space for the copy but don't make it too long. Creativity, brevity and impact are the key ingredients. The winning story will be published separately on May 30, 2012. Thanks everyone, and have fun!

The winner will have an asteroid in the Pinwheel Galaxy named after them!

The runners up will have half an asteroid named after them from the Howdy Doody Galaxy!

The absolute worst story (which we will never mention) will have a cubic inch of space given to them from the Garbage Dump Galaxy in sector 873!

Fan Photo from Blotch Haven

Many thanks to Blotch Haven for sending this photo of an old western magazine. We have notified Corky Velveeta and he should be knocking on your door, sometime next week, with a bag of money for your trouble. We Google-globed your address and found out that you live next door to Ed Young's pilot chauffeur.  

What Sickness is This?

Fiction Magazine Story

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Write Your Own Story #1

Experimental post. If you like we keep.

If you no like we don't keep.

I will kick things off with a little story I call,

"Diotrephes"

Kinko Marcel, the vice-president of my deacon board, came in with a sermon he had prepared for me to preach this Sunday. 

"Put it on the table and get out. Can't you see I am in prayer?" I pointed to the envelope on my antique oak desk, "Your payment is all there. Next time, I want a sermon that will increase the giving. I want a sermon that will convict that penny-pinching congregation of mine to double-tithe! Now leave before I give Herman Mince your position."

I never like Kinko. His name alone left a bitter taste in my mouth. He was getting too ambitious for my liking. He would have to be fired and soon. I just needed to find someone else who would write my sermons.

I alone should have the preeminence at the Church on the Pathway. After all, I started it myself back in 1984. The day my big brother died in a skiing accident.

Theological Crimewave

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This is a very teeny tiny town

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create a story based on the photo or art.