Aldi have been discounting their leftover Christmas stock, have you noticed? It’s almost impossible now to walk past all those unusual treats that you wanted to buy last December but didn’t because your trolley was already full of stock standard Yuletide fare. I’ve been caught by the Specially Selected Marzipan Rounds. It’s been hard work but I have now purchased and eaten all three varieties on offer; plum, orange and cherry.
On special at Aldi.
At night, while struggling to stay awake for season eight-episode seventy seven, I conjure up a second wind by asking Linda if she’d like a glass of milk and some chocolate. She invariably declines, and I trot out to the kitchen to treat myself with the impunity that comes from offering to share and the fact that these marzipan rounds are cheap as chips. Please note: I have already eaten chips before dinner with a beer.
You may be wondering if I am as big as the side of a bus?
Answer: not yet.
Anyway, the point of this small rant is that I used the box from my last pack of night time choccy treats to create a Random Short Story Generator.
How does it work?
I have a file in my computer called “Story Ideas.doc”. In the main, it’s a list of story titles that I have compiled over several years. [I must acknowledge Ray Bradbury, as he wrote about something like this in his book, “Zen in the Art of Writing”.] I trimmed the list down a bit, printed it out and cut out each title. These were then folded up and placed inside the box.
When I get up in the morning, I lucky dip a title, and off I go.
The Random Short Story Generator ready for action on my desk.
Just a few of the titles available for selection:
Op Shopping Across the Universe
I Think It’s Bush Week
Onions Frying at Sunset
Little Lunch at Oxymoron High
Junkies Love Dolphins and Red Indians
Meet Me at the Charcoal Chicken Shop
Two Goon Bay
Milton Rowe
Dog Martin
True Fiction – the Podcast
Do Not Reply to This Text
What a Good Year for the Nectarines
Grandma Rhetorical
Look at Those Idiots
Wonder what I’ll pick tomorrow?
wake up and smell the humans 