F3: Cycle 60: Tom Waits for No Man

Posted by Thomas Pluck on December 16, 2011 Leave a comment (12) Go to comments

It was Tom Waits’ birthday last week. Love him, hate him, offer him a throat lozenge, he’s one of our great songwriters. And he said this about songs:

My theory is that songs have to be anatomically correct. They need to have weather in them and the name of a town and usually something to eat — in case you get hungry.

You have 1000 words. That’s a lot of songs. Make your story anatomically correct- take that as you will! Weather, the name of a town, and something to eat. And a song, while you’re at it. If you’re a fan of Tom Waits, pick a song title for your story if you like. Insert Mr. Waits as the wise and smelly hobo character, if you are so inclined. But have fun with it, and have it in by Wednesday the 21st.

And this is the last cycle before the end of the holiday season, so feel free to add that in as well. After all, he did write “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis!”

Length: 1000 words MAX

Genre: Any

Cue: Write a story using the weather, a town, something to eat, and a song.

Deadline: Wednesday December 21st 9pm EST

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Nancy Hansen

I was inspired you might say, after two days of shopping and running errands, to write something. Saw the link up on Facebook and the prompt began whispering to me. You can view the result here: http://3creativepeople.blogspot.com/2011/12/flash-fiction-friday-piece.html

~Nancy
K. V. Hardy

Dang, I did it again… posted in the wrong thread. Sorry. This is what I meant to say: I wrote my story, I just can’t get WordPress to let me add any new pages
or posts, for some silly reason. It’s never done that before. I’ll try
again later – maybe it will work…

http://www.rabidhorse.com/artblog I Hardy

It sort of succeeded, strange formatting is going on now, maybe tomorrow it will work properly. WordPress wouldn’t even let me sign out… Anyhoo, I tried my hand at a bit of horror, do let me know if it is palatable or unreadable…

“The Waitress” http://rabidhorse.com/artblog/

grassteeth

This looks like an awesome challenge.
Jamie Wyman

Here’s my shot at it. “A Man of Discerning Character” http://jamiewyman.blogspot.com/2011/12/twofer-tuesday.html
Michael

http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2011/12/its-raining-in-baltimore-flash-fiction.html
Evan Henry

I wrote mine, but it’s about 200 words over the limit. If you don’t want to post it to the stories list, I totally understand! http://cheeseflavoredwind.blogspot.com/2011/12/people-are-strange.html
http://cmstewartwrite.wordpress.com/ CMStewart

A piece in the epistolary genre, well under the word limit: http://cmstewartwrite.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/christmas-card-from-a-hooker-in-minneapolis-a-flash-fiction-tale/
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http://iuchiatesoro.wordpress.com/ Tony Lane

I’m note entirely happy with this, but it is under the limit and mentions Tom Wait and two of his songs. I blame the upcoming holiday season. That’s enough wittering, here’s mine
http://iuchiatesoro.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/eggs-and-sausage/
MRMacrum

Well I finally decided to get off my lazy butt and try some fiction again.

My effort – “Compatible” – http://lostinthebozone.blogspot.com/2011/12/compatible.html

First draft was over 1300 words. I trimmed it back to 1000 words on the nose.

Not sure I hit the prompts as clean as I would have liked , but then just getting rolling again was all I cared about.
grassteeth

Ok, here goes. My first ever post here. It contains all of the elements if you consider ashes to be something to eat. http://grassteeth.blogspot.com/2011/12/rabbit-soot.html

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