Blog Chain: 6 Words into 100

Michelle gives us a fun assignment this round:

In 100 words or less, write a story using the words ride, post, soulless, local, dehydrator, girdle. Your story may take on any form you wish. The only two rules are 1. you can't simply list the 6 words; you must actually craft them into something creative, and 2. you must use ALL six of them.

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In retrospect, we should've brought something that works faster. Like a gun.

But there were no guns in the lab when the portal’s green light finally blinked on. There was the RonCo we use to dry agar.

Parker, his idea of medieval garb now obviously ridiculous, gestures like a game-show host before whipping the cloth from the shape on the post.

“Dehydrator!”

Plugged into its solar source, the thing whirs. The local specimens shuffle in the mud. Even the monk, dirty thumbs hooked into the girdle that rides his waist, stares with dim, soulless eyes.

Grumbling, they advance.

We run.

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You should really start with Michelle's entry and go link by link, but be sure to visit Cole, who posted yesterday, and then Kate, who lays down some prose tomorrow.