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Welcome to the Ridiculously Short Story section- tales tailor-made for today's ADD-riddled minds! Fun-size, bite-size, whatever you wanna call 'em!
Got a Ridiculously Short Story? Send it to me, and if I like it, I'll post it here for all to see! Just remember to keep it ridiculously short! Newest stories are at the bottom. I'm a dumb, lazy web designer. |
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| "Sir! We've decoded the message from deep space!" The captain jumped to his feet and rushed to the side of his subordinate, who sat before a panel that had come alive with blinking lights.
"Well, what are you waiting for?! Patch it through!" The air in the control room was thick with anticipation. After what seemed like an eternity, the message crawled across the main viewscreen. "I...AM...A...FART." by Matty Boy Anderson - 01.14.04 |
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| The job interviewer shifted in his seat slightly, cleared his throat, and addressed the well-dressed woman sitting across from him.
"Ms. Hoskins, what exactly do you think you have to offer this company?" "I kill and take money!" by Matty Boy Anderson - 01.14.04 |
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| "If you ever want to see your wife alive again, you'd better give us the password, Dr. Hysterico."
The doctor lowered his gaze in contemplation and sighed. The terrorists had him by the short hairs, that much was certain. "Fine. What choice do I have? It's 'ballboob'." by Matty Boy Anderson - 01.14.04 |
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| "Did you ever see that movie Boogie Nights?" said Rick to Fred.
"No," Fred replied. The sun was slowly setting; the air grew crisp and cool. "Oh." said Rick. "Well anyway, I fucked your mom." by Matty Boy Anderson - 01.14.04 |
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| Amanda was so happy to be dating Jacob. Especially on warm summer nights like this, walking around the city holding hands. Sometimes she would catch her breath, wishing these times would never end.
"Hold the knife real close to her throat, Mandy," Jacob whispered. Amanda smiled. It was her very first carjacking. by Matty Boy Anderson - 01.14.04 |
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| Don Llewellyn reclined patiently as the slender, attractive woman interviewing him for People magazine sharpened her pencil. Though he was the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, he still made time for such things. Finally she looked up and asked him, "Mr. Llewellyn, to what do you primarily attribute your phenomenal success?"
Don leaned back, sipped pensively on his expensive latte, and paused in thought before replying; "Every night, just before I go to sleep, I tell God to suck my fucking hairy balls in hell." by Matty Boy Anderson - 01.14.04 |
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| The sun set on a glorious New England pasture of rolling hills overcome with the gleeful cries of the Thomas children. Young Anne was playfully chasing Dan and Other Dan while Scooters, the family dog, followed joyously.
Their mother, fresh from her kitchen duties, called to the children from the back porch. "Get your icepicks, kids", she cried. "I'm having the visions! Dan Rather dies tonight!" by Ashley Holt - 01.15.04 |
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| "How did a nice girl like you get stuck in a well?" asked Fred, helping Frieda regain consciousness.
"Oh, cut the clowning and help me find my thumbs", she barked. It was obvious they'd found true love at last. by Ashley Holt - 01.15.04 |
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| "These can't be my pants!", cried Timmy, covered in syrup.
But they were. by Ashley Holt - 01.16.04 |
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| The name's Nighthawk. Earl Nightwawk. I'm not like those other private eyes you hear about, the ones who get all screwy over some dame and wind up sleeping with the fishes. In fact, I'm not a private eye at all. My uncle was, though. Well, he was really just a beat cop. Not a beat cop, but he did work for the city. In sanitation. Until they fired him for being addicted to rubber cement.
Me? I'm a dishwasher at Denny's. At least until my writing career takes off. Which...judging from this...might take awhile..... by Ashley Holt - 01.16.04 |
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| Maxwell, who begat Homer, who begat Philbo, who begat Anwar, who begat Dipstick the Great, who loaned five bucks to Francine, who spent it on peep show tokens, sat in his underwear watching old broadcasts of What's Happening.
"Reruns of Rerun", he cackled. The concept never lost its appeal, even after three wives had asked him to choose between the marriage and his precious sitcoms. "Fuck 'em all", he said and turned up the volume of his favorite episode, the one where Shirley gets amnesia and thinks she's Karl Marx. Alice was coming on next. It was going to be a great day. by Ashley Holt - 01.16.04 |
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| Alan could hear the slamming of police car doors and cocking of pistols as the authorities closed in. The airport vestibule in which he'd found solace was now to become his tomb. He slid the barrel of the weapon that had ended forty-seven innocent lives that day into his mouth, and as his tongue learned the bitter tang of gunmetal, he thought back to the one solitary person responsible for his fate.
"Rot in hell, Joey Fatone," Alan whimpered, and pulled the trigger. by Matty Boy Anderson - 02.05.04 |
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| Todd's head spun gently that night on the beach, as he stared deep into Amber's brown eyes. The smell of the pounding surf was intoxication incarnate. As the full, pale moon glinted in Amber's eyes, Todd's mind reeled. Could this really be true love, the kind they write about in romance novels?
"You smell like candy. Touch my butthole," Amber said. Maybe the guys in the locker room were right, Todd wondered. Maybe Amber is retarded. by Matty Boy Anderson - 02.05.04 |
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| Sizing up the the surprisingly manly panties in the terrace, Gifford made a crucial error: he had left his ACME respirator unlatched about the nose and soon was whiffing something not unlike the white jelly in a canned ham.
"Great, just great", Gifford lamented. "This stench will haunt me till the day I die". The panties rose to the dias above and began to pronounce doom upon the race of Man. "You're pretty doomed, you cretins." Gifford wept like a woman. by Troy Evitt - 02.18.04 |
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| Dinner time in the Rockies.
The crowd at Wolfgang Puck's enjoyed the Denver skyline at sunset and the pacing lunatics that railed of Christ and Seamonkeys with equal zeal. "About time you learned to read a menu", accused Raoul, method actor from Boulder whose contempt for gainful employment was matched only by his vast collection of Zulu deathmasks. He produced an superflourous assortment of silverwear and pitched it at his customers as he chanted a Jimmy Durante war oath and a passable Jimmy Stuart "Odin" incantation. And was immediately fired. by Troy Evitt - 02.18.04 |
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| Dubbed into a Japanese film entitled "Fists and Legs and Pointy Head of Glory":
"Enough Toronakka, It will be ME who blows up YOUR throat" "You're no match for my meatfingers here, I will demonstrate" "Daaaaaaaaaaaaahnnkkkk! that DID hurt." "Told ya, and now you wiggle into your grave" WIGGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE by Troy Evitt - 02.18.04 |
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| Marge was working up to the point when she would tell Jeff it was over. The list of reasons was exhaustive, so she'd narrowed it down to the late hours and his bag of parrots.
Jeff was chasing off Jehovah's Witnesses in his boxers- they'd disrupted his vast toweling off after the clam dip (reason for breaking up #12)- and had left a telltale trail of oyster crackers in his wake. Why just then the flowers arrived would remain a mystery, but a bouquet of lilacs and 'mums made all of Jeff's eccentricities seem trivial. They honeymooned in the Catskills, far from the sectarian ring of Witnesses at the door. As he emerged from the bathroom, a lobster bit Jeff's big toe. by Troy Evitt - 03.05.04 |
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| Down by the lake, Pasquel felt closer to his Maker than anywhere else, pretty good considering that the lakehouse was occupied by the Dolly Parton-impersonating dwarf triplets, Monica, Jessica and Lulabelle.
He sat with his beans and his hamburgers and his guitar and his thoughts and his profound farting as the wind picked up and the triplets began a falsetto flatulence of their very own. Even the birds somehow sensed all was not right; many of them flew North and froze to death, while downwind of the monstrous hamburgers, a strange foursome found love. by Troy Evitt - 03.17.04 |
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| Now that I had talked Hassan i Sabbah into sharing his ice cream cone, I just had to convince him that the fudge was not sugared with the sweet sweet rim-sweat of the Great White Satan.
We held hands that day. It was nice. by Difficult P. Wriggler - 04.03.04 |
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| The knotted hotel towels chafed against my wrist as I struggled fruitlessly to liberate my nude, oiled body from the bed.
In the corner, artificial phalluses lined the walls like the bones of the slaughtered in the blood-soaked alleys of Namibia. Erection or no, Janet Reno was going to hump me to death. by Dread Piano Robards - 04.03.04 |
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| "I have no reason to lie," whispered sociopathic Dave McGannon as he plunged the sharpened stick into his abdomen, "I voted for Nader."
Stones and soiled undergarments rained upon the platform. Three gypsy children murdered a goat in a ritualistic fashion. Today we would vote on the Constitution. by Deep Pirate Rangoon - 04.03.04 |
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| Hunched in the darkest corner of the eight by nine foot room I heard in surreptitious tones the head of the NSA discussing the final plans for mankind. My conscience had only begun to grate against my native skepticism and innate fatigue when I felt something smash against my head. The pipe was eleven inches long.
I know these dimensions well, because as my spirit floated away from my dying body I saw everything quite clearly. I'd tell you, but I'm in Heaven now so why should I give a crap? (That one's for you, Lucy Gap-Panties!) by Democratic Personable Rabies - 04.03.04 |
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| The frantic pounding would be Ethal. Her fists conveyed her panic and fright and even though I knew the "corpse" was really a body bag of stale doughnuts, I felt sorry for her. She had pestered me for hours over a lovely steak dinner to tell her why I wasn't really all that bad a guy and I told her that I was evil, evil, evil, pure and simple. But she insisted that I had to have a good streak in me somewhere, having mistaken my choice of cologne and taste in dining establishments for character. So I finaly told her that "Uncle Jake", while a bastard of the highest order, had died painlessly thinking I was going to return some money.
Good thing I put that body bag of doughnuts aside for something special. Oh, could Ethal ever forgive me? I was evil, evil, evil. by Troy Evitt - 07.10.04 |
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| "If you're driving your blender down Main Street and you get four flat tires, how many peacocks does it take to get a beaver drunk?" I asked my buddy, Ernest as we were driving under a baking Arizona desert sun.
His reply was cut short. We had spotted our designated target. We were government assassins on a mission. I sighed as I shouldered my rifle, took aim and carefully squeezed off three head shots. Larry, Curly, and Moe would never again fill the Grand Canyon with Jell-O and go canoeing. by Jon Fields - 09.22.04 |
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| Kari and Brad, a Bible-loving girl and her irreverant Catholic sidekick, sat on the trunk of Brad's car watching the drive-in movies. Brad dragged on his cigarette. "So you born-agains," he began, "what's with that singing with only one hand raised up stuff?" Kari imitated it, asking "This?" Brad nodded. "I mean," he continued, "it's not like the open-arm hugging welcoming gesture even." Kari thought a moment. "No idea. I just started doing it because everyone else did." by Jeff Chaffee - 11.13.04 |
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| "Don't do it," cried Betty as he inched his way towards the edge. "You dont understand," he called back, "I have to do this, Betty." Her shrill voice faded into the wind as he stepped closer to the drop. He inched his feet up so that his toes were dangling over the side. This was it, there was no going back from here. He opened his eyes. It was indeed a dead peacock.
by Dark Laney White - 01.26.05 |
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