Weekly Challenge #276 – Falling

Welcome to the 100 Word Stories podcast at podcasting.isfullofcrap.com. I’m your host, Laurence Simon.

This is Weekly Challenge Number Two Hundred and Seventy-Six, where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic.

The topic this week was Falling

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Thomas
Gideon
Zackmann
Laina Ash
Tom
Daniel
Danny
Norval Joe
Justin
TJ
Planet Z

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Thomas

The temperature kept falling. I brought the dogs in, fed the iron stove, and sat in the big chair, pulling two woolen blankets over me. I thought of the pony and llamas in the barn. They must be freezing. I cleared furniture out of the way, and brought them indoors. Pretty soon, I had the chickens inside, along with the turkeys, two cats, and the boar. It was crowded and smelly, so I stepped outside for moment and the door clicked fast behind me. I could see them through the window, snorting and huffing and helping themselves to the pantry.

Gideon

Without thinking I replied “I adore you, I love you, I cherish you and I am slowly falling in love with you”.

She laughed, “I don’t think you are the type to ‘fall in love'”.

I thought a second.

“I think you are right – I don’t fall in love but I have been in love and I am slowly becoming in love”.

She asked “What’s the difference between falling and becoming?”

“Falling happens quickly – becoming happens slowly”.

A lightbulb appeared.

“Maybe it should be ‘I am slowly realizing that I am in love with you'”.

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We have a new activity here at the nursing home, my new employer.
Joe has been retained to help reduce the recent increase in resident injuries.
His firm, Safety First, is considered the premier injury reduction firm in the area.
The class is called ‘Falling, Gracefully’, which teaches how to fall without injury, using many techniques taught to those studying judo.
The residents seem to enjoy the class but there does not seem to be a reduction in injuries.
One day they will find the correlation between my hire date, the rise in injuries and my joy in tripping people.

Zackmann

Jim was visiting a garden at the top of a skyscraper when a coconut feel out of a tree hitting Jim
on the head knocking him off the edge of the roof.
Jim took out his cell phone calling 911 saying “Help me! Im falling”
“Yes Mr Ling could you tell me how we can help you?”
“Im Not Pho Ling. Im falling as in plummeting off Simon Tower.”
Jim wishes the on hold song was not Lemon Demons Ive got Some falling to Do.
Landing in the back of a manure truck, Jim decides it unwise to speak further.

Laina Ash

No one ever wants to talks about falling into strange things. Like my co-worker Bill, one day he had the pure look of bewilderment so being nice (even though he steals my awesome creamer,) I asked what was wrong. Stuttering he answered, “I went to take a dip in my pool yesterday but I notice it didn’t look right. So in the process of a closer look I tripped and landed in my pool, but instead of water it was filled with tapioca pudding. It seems Bill Cosby finally snapped and went

Tom

Moriarty thought THIS IS the best the Master of Deduction can do! Pitched
off Reichenbach Falls to a certain rather indecorous death and he states
the absurdly overobvious. To Moriarty’s scrawl Holmes wryly smiles, grabs
the professor’s lapels, drives both hands against his chest, sends the
professor flying outward from the falls. In an equal opposite reaction
Holmes is driven deep within the waters. “Up impossible, down improbable,
out less then beneficial deduction states when all possibilities are
eliminated the only possibility was indeed: IN,” mused Holmes perched on
his rock ledge counting the seconds to Moriaty’s demise

Daniel

I’ve been falling for hours. Why haven’t I reached the bottom yet?

I remember climbing the mountain. A rumbling interrupted our attempt to make camp for the night. It was an avalanche. I ran, but found myself at the edge of a cliff. Desperately, I jumped.

I must’ve died. That’s the only explanation. Why else would I still be falling? This is hell…

The sun rises, and I can see land to my side. It takes me a moment to realize that what I’m seeing isn’t a cliff face, but the ground.

I haven’t been falling at all; I’m flying!

Danny

I woke up, should be a good thing, but I live on the 110 floor of the Empire State Building (truth be told, I squat there, need another 100 words to explain). Anyway, I step out of bed, now I’m falling rapidly towards 34th street. Moments from impact, I’m caught by none other than Mila Kunis! I look at her and scream “Oh my god, I love you as Meg on Family Guy!” Mila screams back at me, “How come nobody in Hollywood takes me seriously as a comedian!” I calmly reply, “Maybe it would help if you put some pants on.”

Norval Joe

“No way he’s falling for this,” Fly Paper Boy thought. He slouched down in his seat and faked asleep. It was 2am, he was out on bail, and parked in front of Vinyl Man’s late mother-in-law’s house.
“Jimmy Thompson,” the officer said, “Haven’t seen you in years. What are you doing so far from home?”
“Oh. Mr., I mean, Officer Dinkman,” the boy said. “I stayed too late at a friends, and got sleepy driving. I’m better now.”
“Tell your parents hello,” Dinkman said as Fly Paper Boy drove away from the house where $1,000,000 lay buried under the porch.

Justin

The Carnival of Esoteric Wonders came into town, and Harold walked to the spectacle, fully reliant on his cane. He knew the time of his long, contented life was nearly up, but he’d never been to a magic show before, so he went to see Chroniac the Amazer. When Chroniac asked for a volunteer, Harold raised his hand, and was chosen. Harold got into the black box, and felt the sensation of falling. When it opened, he was a teenager. He tossed the cane away and cried out ‘Dadgummit! I don’t want to have to go through this again!’

TJ

Had you asked Martin why he was so interested in being a spy, he’d be
hard pressed to say. He was feeling a bit hidebound, perhaps. The
relationship dramas of his fellow classmates bored him and after he got
his real driver’s license he realized he was still too young to go
anywhere. He enjoyed his permit training with his dad, and thought maybe
a more mature perspective would bring them closer together. But his
father never approved of his freelance spy training. And when a secret
panel fell open on his dad’s workbench, he suddenly knew why that was.

Planet Z

I wake up.
I open my eyes.
It’s cold. It’s dark.
I’m laying on a bench
Looking up.
Branches. Dark skies.
Snow is falling.
It is beautiful.
I feel it on my face.
Cold. Melting. Wet.
Blinking it out of my eyes.
I open my mouth
It’s covered. Taped shut.
I reach and
I can’t move my arms
Or legs
Tied to the bench?
I can’t move.
I shake, I yell
Nothing.
I can’t move. I can’t make a noise.
I can’t roll off.
I open my eyes.
It is cold. It is dark.
Snow is falling.
It is terrifying.