Okay, you can choose to add on to any one of the following choices. They’ve been narrowed down to four stories. Next time they’ll be narrowed down to three. Don’t forget to include the preceding parts/chapters of the story when you post yours. This time you can write EXACTLY 100 words or EXACTLY 200 words…

A small-town SAFEWAY invites me in for Dutch-lunch picnic supplies — Blitz Weinhard beer, Tillamook cheddar, saltine crackers. I fall in love with the checkout gamin’s tan, competent-looking hands. Should I be jokey? How does she like my new beard? When she says what beard, I’ll say the one I just started. “Eighteen, nineteen, and…

Angry, I pulled away from her and looked down the bar for my safe bet laughing with another leftover. Turning to my palmist, I asked impolitely, “What do you mean ‘used up?’” She replied, “You married flowers.” I softened and said to her that I knew a place that would take us forever. “You can…

Part One: “So what da buggah said?” Rudy the barber asks me. “Some bullshit about Denise and Chris.” I’m waiting for a haircut. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Christopher Andaya enter. He’s dark, looks real Hawaiian. “Chris, whas’up?” Suddenly he pulls a knife, comes at me. I grab my gun inside…

Okay, we’re on our way. This month you can continue with any of the stories posted. You have the five story choices below. Pick one, write part three, 100 words. Post with the original title as your title. Please make sure to include Part One and Part Two when you post your Part Three. This…

“So what da buggah said?” ma madda asked afta ma fadda dropped me off. “About what?” “About what?” she said, mocking me. “How about what he promised fo pay me in child support? About what? How about what he owes me for trowing one brick tru my windshield?” She sat at the table looking out…

Part 1 So what da buggah said? Coach said, “Can try again if I like.” You see. Can. No use. No can. I no can. Remembah da book, you used to like? Da small choo-choo train pull da whole line of cars up da hill. All da big trains tell “No use.” Or “No can.”…

we bar chitchat then you are from belize i have never met anyone from belize it appears to you that i sincerely want to know your life story an expression seizes your soft face you light up fascinating enough suddenly i actually do want to know more abruptly you check your watch our conversation full…

This gunmetal Chevrolet was already old in 1963 when I willingly paid too much for its low miles, perfect paint and glass, and total lack of dents or dings — virtually a new car, though technologically out-of-date, a plus in my view. Across the Skokomish River and past the Skokomish Indian Reservation, I glide south…

When you wish hard enough for something, you might get it. It was getting late, and I moved over to a barstool to tell her that I was in the mood for her. She looked at her watch, took my hand, turned it over, then rested her chin with her other hand and looked at…