Monday, February 19, 2007

RESCUE: A 100-WORD STORY

“It’s been years now, but I’ll never forget when we tried to rescue Ann from that giant ape.

“A bunch of us came along with Driscoll. He had seen Kong grab Ann and knew we had no time to lose.

“Skull Island? Horrible. Dinosaurs, swamps, and a ravine fulla giant bugs! I still get the sweats thinking about it.

“Anyhow, it was pretty easy to track that monkey. Every couple hundred yards, there’d be a steaming heap of Ape-Shit.

“But when we saw the blond hair in that last heap - why, that’s when we turned around and went home.”

[Be sure to visit the 100 Word Stories Podcast, where you can listen to this story as well as all the others that were submitted for Weekly Challenge #45. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite! (Especially if it’s mine.)]

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