Your task this week is woefully simple. Go to the comments, and deposit into these comments a title for a short story — not the story itself, and nothing in fact beyond the title.
Then, next week, I’ll pick a handful of the best, and we’ll use those as springboards for the next round of stories. Dig it? Good.
You.
Comments section.
A title.
GO.
Due by next Friday, April 29th, noon EST.
[EDIT: Only ONE title per person, please.]
Auberon says:
The Thirteen Factories
April 22, 2016 — 11:47 PM
Fanchon says:
The Torso In The Trunk Was Drunk
April 22, 2016 — 11:50 PM
Charles Junior says:
Aportis and the Grand Feast
April 23, 2016 — 12:55 AM
Hair-Spuhler says:
Squeezing the mirror, a true story
April 23, 2016 — 12:59 AM
gabriellabrillante says:
Bettie Page Ghosts
April 23, 2016 — 1:33 AM
thisdamkid says:
A Pretentious Title For a Pretentious Story
April 23, 2016 — 2:02 AM
glenavailable says:
Too pretentious.
April 23, 2016 — 2:14 AM
moteridgerider says:
Christie Hynde’s failed first incarnation.
April 23, 2016 — 3:49 PM
kirizar says:
Too title-y.
April 24, 2016 — 10:00 AM
Simon Billinton says:
From Russia With Gloves
April 23, 2016 — 2:12 AM
moteridgerider says:
Companion film to ‘Goldmember.’
April 23, 2016 — 3:08 PM
Peggy Glenn says:
After the Dust Settled
April 23, 2016 — 3:31 AM
glenavailable says:
Confessions of a vacuum cleaner salesman?
April 24, 2016 — 6:30 PM
karen j carlisle says:
A Quarter to Midnight.
April 23, 2016 — 3:33 AM
Bridget Whelan says:
And then it went Quiet
April 23, 2016 — 3:55 AM
glenavailable says:
Bridget,
Is this before or after AND THEN THERE WERE NONE?
Personally I liked the Family Guy’s 2010 spoof episode of this – AND THEN THERE WERE FEWER
http://www.agathachristie.com/stories/and-then-there-were-none
April 24, 2016 — 6:28 PM
seanbidd says:
A Spring Tide’s Ballast and Measure
April 23, 2016 — 4:28 AM
The Writer says:
Cleveland Stew
April 23, 2016 — 4:35 AM
Skye Overall says:
A Dearth of the Dying
April 23, 2016 — 4:54 AM
glenavailable says:
This one might give that one a run for its money .. how about –
SKYE OVERALL
April 23, 2016 — 4:57 AM
gregoryhutton says:
Upper Echelons of the Ice Cream Sundae
April 23, 2016 — 5:05 AM
glenavailable says:
Let me guess – this is but volume one in the planned CHERRY ON TOP CHRONICLES?
April 23, 2016 — 5:35 AM
StarNinja says:
Can’t wait to get to the creamy caramel center of this one!
April 24, 2016 — 10:08 AM
glenavailable says:
Are you suggesting a breakaway series JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE CREAMY CARAMEL ?
April 24, 2016 — 6:36 PM
Ethan Asplin says:
Lorenzo Von Matterhorn The Second
April 23, 2016 — 5:06 AM
Katherine Hetzel says:
Black Beetroot Pudding.
April 23, 2016 — 5:19 AM
glenavailable says:
Self-saucing no less?
April 23, 2016 — 5:33 AM
decayingorbits says:
Canon Fodder
April 23, 2016 — 5:31 AM
alisondeluca says:
I see what you did there. Bravo.
April 23, 2016 — 10:21 AM
Hilbert's Concierge says:
Oxytocin, Caffeine and Chainsaws
April 23, 2016 — 5:34 AM
Lilla Miro says:
I like your idea, really.
I’d write some story like “Clonidine,Oxytocin and Cheesecake”. The idea of such a presentation is suggestive and literary, bravo.
April 29, 2016 — 4:27 AM
tlgreylock says:
Dirge Under a Strawberry Sky
April 23, 2016 — 5:38 AM
billthescribe says:
Hangnails and Moonlight
April 23, 2016 — 6:21 AM
Vicente L Ruiz says:
Stuffed Aubergine
(Sorry about that. Just got into my head and I couldn’t shake it off.)
April 23, 2016 — 7:46 AM
Maaja Wentz (@MaajaWentz) says:
Alice in Blunderland
The Old Man and the Seesaw
Midnight’s Children’s Nannies
The Handmaid’s Tail
Hairy Pot Ear and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Hound of the Busker Girls (a mystery)
Lady Chatterbox’s Lover
I Sexbot
And of course, in (dis?) honour of his birthday: The Merchant of Venus (probably by Bacon or Marlowe so Don’t worry)
April 23, 2016 — 8:26 AM
Carolina Mac says:
Waiting
April 23, 2016 — 8:29 AM
Deb Cerrito says:
A Taste for Earth
April 23, 2016 — 9:17 AM
Debbie Cerrito says:
Been rolling a story around in my head for this one 😀
April 23, 2016 — 9:22 AM
Paul Weimer says:
The Hierophant’s Defenestration
April 23, 2016 — 9:43 AM
moteridgerider says:
A chief priest without windows – what’s not to like?
April 23, 2016 — 3:06 PM
folkool says:
Cult Defect
April 23, 2016 — 10:11 AM
Daina says:
Vicodin Wednesdays
April 23, 2016 — 10:50 AM
michala teelucksingh says:
The fourth daughter
April 23, 2016 — 11:18 AM
Russell says:
The Blind Tattooist
April 23, 2016 — 11:34 AM
moteridgerider says:
Written by Pierce Torgan.
April 23, 2016 — 3:51 PM
catkins says:
I screamed
April 25, 2016 — 2:10 PM
KingCarnival says:
Under the Onyx Moonlight
April 23, 2016 — 12:14 PM
E. Alden says:
The Great Emu War of 1932
April 23, 2016 — 12:29 PM
Jackie Keswick says:
Is it Murder to Kill a Blackmailer?
April 23, 2016 — 1:01 PM
Raven Blackburn says:
Daughter of Blood and Despair
April 23, 2016 — 1:22 PM
Cecilia Russo says:
The Birds Bar
April 23, 2016 — 1:56 PM
Rick Sherman says:
The Beast of Both Worlds
April 23, 2016 — 2:20 PM
moteridgerider says:
I like this title – in fact, I chose it last time it was posted and wrote a story round it. Thanks for the inspiration.
April 23, 2016 — 3:00 PM
Amanda E. says:
The Beauty of Smoke
April 23, 2016 — 2:58 PM
Charis says:
The feat
April 23, 2016 — 3:01 PM
moteridgerider says:
Second sleep
April 23, 2016 — 3:04 PM
Itarius says:
The Black Paladin Chronicles
April 23, 2016 — 3:40 PM
caszbrewster says:
On the Roller Coaster In Red
April 23, 2016 — 3:55 PM
Tim R. says:
Omnivore’s Delight
April 23, 2016 — 3:55 PM
Matthew X. Gomez says:
Funeral for a Harlequin
April 23, 2016 — 4:16 PM
moteridgerider says:
Hope this one gets chosen – I really like it.
April 23, 2016 — 6:10 PM
Kem Royale says:
The Next Jen Is On Me.
April 23, 2016 — 4:25 PM
Rick Cook Jr says:
Hell is a Subway at 3 AM
April 23, 2016 — 4:51 PM
Liz says:
I love this title!
April 24, 2016 — 3:02 AM
L.Rhoads says:
The Mercenaries Petticoat
April 23, 2016 — 4:51 PM
Miguel Bernardo Olmedo Morell says:
“We May not Be Married, but I Want a Divorce”
April 23, 2016 — 5:20 PM
Robert Sadler says:
The Battleship Bookshop
April 23, 2016 — 5:52 PM
Christine Frost says:
The Unsigned Writ
April 23, 2016 — 6:43 PM
Oh-no-leander (@OleanderPlume) says:
The Tale of the Ledge Dancer
April 23, 2016 — 8:15 PM
ajturnwall says:
It’s Mandibles are in my Cupholder
April 23, 2016 — 8:19 PM