DISCUSSION THREAD -- MAY 2023 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

[The Judge]

With the new month, a new Writing Challenge, courtesy of April's winner, emrosenagel!

Theme: Obsession​

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Genre: Science Fiction or Fantasy​

MAY 2023 -- 75 Word Writing challenge -- READ FIRST POST!!

RULES Write a story inspired by the chosen theme and genre in no more than 75 words, not including the title ONE entry per person NO links, commentary or extraneous material in the posts, please -- the stories must stand on their own WHEN WRITING YOUR STORY, PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS A...

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Good luck, everyone!

 

[Abernovo]

Ooh, interesting theme!

In the interest of me never winning (a far-flung hope at any time), I think I'll state that my choice would be to set it as science fiction in the style of Chaucer. Was it Chrispy who managed to terrify everyone with his win once?

 

[nixie]

You mean his in the style of Kipling?
I rather enjoyed it, although rumour has it some people are still having therapy.

If you really want to terrify people, how about murder mystery in the style of Babara Cartland.

 

[Parson]

I had to look up Barbara Cartland. A romance writer so not that surprising that I hadn't heard of her. But what my eyes go wide was that she wrote 723 books and sold 750,000,000 books and some sources say the sales were in the 2 billion book range world wide.

 

[Abernovo]

You mean his in the style of Kipling?
I rather enjoyed it, although rumour has it some people are still having therapy.

If you really want to terrify people, how about murder mystery in the style of Babara Cartland.

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It was the debutante in the pink chiffon what did it! Or, was it the rake?

 

[Ursa major]

Or, was it the rake?

In a Barabara Cartland novel, you know the murder weapon wasn't the rake.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

THX1138 is obsessed by the creation of artificial beauty.

 

[The Judge]

I had to look up Barbara Cartland. A romance writer so not that surprising that I hadn't heard of her. But what my eyes go wide was that she wrote 723 books and sold 750,000,000 books and some sources say the sales were in the 2 billion book range world wide.

The cynics amongst us would say she actually wrote only one book but she had it republished with changes of name and location 722 times...

 

[Elckerlyc]

The cynics amongst us would say she actually wrote only one book but she had it republished with changes of name and location 722 times...

... and that her doting readership never noticed...

 

[therapist]

If you really want to terrify people, how about murder mystery in the style of Babara Cartland.

Or in the style of Dr Suess

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Astro Pen is obsessed by the remembrance of things lost.

 

[Parson]

@Victoria Silverwolf .... The Cure ,,,, Some times a cure is not obvious, some times it is.

@THX1138 .... The Final Piece .... What happens when the final piece is in place?

@Astro Pen .... The Riverbank .... What happens when you go back to "the place?"

@Guttersnipe .... A Clowder of Conspirators .... Mischief can get a person into lots of trouble.

 

[Bowler1]

Bowler1 strolls on to the thread with his favorite pitchfork.

I'm not the obsessive type, so I've no idea what to do with this theme.

Now if it were pitchforks, well... that would be different. I'll go practice my pitchfork moves and see if anything comes to mind.

 

[Parson]

@JS Wiig .... Beta Polari .... A story which makes us consider the question of the difference between a long obedience in the same direction and an obsession.

 

[THX1138]

As I look at my story now if I changed just two words and used a different title, that would have changed the story all together.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Guttersnipe is obsessed with turnabout being fair play.

JS Wiig is obsessed with exploration.

 

[scarpelius]

@Victoria Silverwolf the universe is going to be full of quack healers in the future, nothing new here.
@THX1138 i hope if I close my eyes not to see Chucky.
@Astro Pen youthness is overrated, remember all the stupid things you did at that age?
@Guttersnipe Was the name of the neighbour Bobbit? Lorena maybe?
@JS Wiig quoting a poet “It was when it was not seen, today we see it and it is not”

I hope my acid comments doesn’t upset anyone, I had fun reading your stories.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

rejndzer87 is obsessed with tasks of extreme difficulty.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Well, sometimes you scrape the bottom of the barrel.

 

[rejndzer87]

Well, sometimes you scrape the bottom of the barrel.

probably the most to-the-point topic response we'll see this whole month

others are quite good too. i like it that there's no two stories with the same obsession so far