Fourth Fiction Dare 1: Write a caption for this cartoon
Each Fourth Fiction pre-contest dare was posted at midnight on the Fourth Fiction Twitter page between July 14th and July 24th. The contestants had 24 hours to respond to each dare. The outside responses by non-contestants are also included (after the contestants’ responses) in many of the posts. For more details about these pre-contest literary dares, see this video.
The 10 Dares
DARE 1 – Come up with a caption for this cartoon.
DARE 2 – Tweet a story that involves an act of cannibalism.
DARE 3 – Write something from the perspective of a sperm.
DARE 4 – Write an alternate ending to the fairy tale “Three Little Pigs.”
DARE 5 – Write a sex scene that incorporates a Michael Jackson song title.
DARE 6 – Make a rhyme that includes the words “Obama” and “Osama” without using any vowels besides “o” and “a” (no “y”s allowed)
DARE 7 – Write a Twister, a short story of 140 characters, in the style of @arjunbasu (140 char includes #4thfiction tag)
DARE 8: Write a caption that relates to current news
DARE 8 – Write a caption for this cartoon that relates to current news.
DARE 9 – Write an elegy to the Taco Bell Chihuahua, who died today.
DARE 10 – Begin with the words “It was a dark and stormy night”
- Fourth Fiction Dare 1: Write a caption for this cartoon
DARE 1 – Come up with a caption for this cartoon (taken from this week’s New Yorker Caption Contest) http://twitpic.com/aei8o 12:00 AM Jul 15th from TwitPic
COCO: Who is DARE 1? a new contestant? The picture is very funny. look at the poor Devil. God can be a very cruel man.3:10 AM Jul 15th from web
COCO: oh no. Ok, I understand. Should I delete or not. Host? Help please.3:23 AM Jul 15th from web
TUCK: “He wants to talk to you about some of your Retweets.”7:19 AM Jul 15th from web
HOST: (to Coco) Don’t worry about it. It’s understandable, given the time zone. I didn’t exactly give much forewarning.10:06 AM Jul 15th from web
HOST: Enjoying the outside responses by the readers to the cartoon. Maybe start tagging those with #4thfiction for easy searching?10:07 AM Jul 15th from web
IGOR: “Sorry about the dismissal. Between us, He still hasn’t shed His anti-Semitic streak. Your circumcised tail gave you away.”1:23 PM Jul 15th from web
RHAE: “At least consider it. It’s not as if it would be the first ever same-sex marriage.”2:02 PM Jul 15th from web
FIDO: Fyor, right? You’re late.2:57 PM Jul 15th from UberTwitter
NORA: You must have misread the ad, sir. We were actually looking for SANTA look-alikes.5:22 PM Jul 15th from TwitterBerry
ISIS: “Let me get this straight. You’re saying you had a change of heart because of a juice fast?”6:23 PM Jul 15th from web
OMAR: He claims you’ve been spreading employee disgruntlement through Twitter. You may want to start blocking your updates.7:04 PM Jul 15th from TwitterFon
COCO: “So is this some kind of a dare?”8:05 PM Jul 15th from web
OLAF: “He was wondering who your barber is.”8:35 PM Jul 15th from web
UTAH: “You know how he is about keeping the toilet bowls spotless. The devil is in the details.”9:37 PM Jul 15th from web
TESS: “He’s looking for something kinky and discreet. Are you good with whips?”11:09 PM Jul 15th from Twitterrific
RESPONSES BY OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS:
iFernando: Do you have an appointment?
jodicleghorn: I’m sorry you feel the wait is like being stuck in pergatory sir. I assure you, the boss will be right with you.
Annasbones: I see you didn’t get the memo about ‘casual Fridays’…
danpowfiction: God is unable to accept your application for retrial at this time. Church records show, as a distinct spiritual entity, you no longer exist.
panderson1979: I’m sorry sir, you were told at the time. YOU get the best tunes, HE gets the corner office.
benjaminsolah: “I’ll be down in a sec, boss. I just need to wait until the cameras leave.” K. Rudd #4thfiction
writefromkaren: Devil: “What do you think he wants to see me for?” Rep: “I don’t know, it’s not like you did anything bad …”
mburggra: God’s taking ME to Court to settle our differences?!? Where’s he going to find a lawyer? I’VE got all the lawyers!
Annasbones: Unfortunately, it seems your references didn’t check out.
mburggra: God’s taking ME to Court to settle our differences?!? Where’s he going to find a lawyer? I’VE got all the lawyers!
Annasbones: You just took ‘daring’ to a whole other level.
Annasbones: Thank you for applying, but Mr Kringle fears that your look may frighten the reindeers.
mburggra: Look, buddy… you’re not real… He’s not real. I just answer the phones and collect a paycheck.
mburggra: MAN: Actually, I created you both in my image.
djemal: The innocent dude in fancy costume: `How many times I told you to lock the door ? This poor schizophrene will escape again, create a mess and will lie everyone and by saying that I did it!`
1stephzen: You can’t win. I know the song, “They’ll take your soul if you let them. don’t you let them.” I got backup. See that Big Guy behind me. Well, he ain’t no Santa Claus
djemal: Little red fancy horn: `Why this guy`s head is so big?`Man with no eyes but glasses: `In order to fit you in it!`
djemal: `you see my shadow behind? thats the gate through the real world, where you ll see the results of your boss` acts! stop being the puppet of pretencious corporation `god`s you human being! There is no god anyway… Human being: `Frederick?!`
Falcorius: Yeah… it seems like ‘fall from grace’ isn’t covered in our healthplan. Have you brought your PCP reference form?
Falcorius: Apparently, you haven’t take a Sunday off in a few thousand years. He’s concerned.
Falcorius: I know you took my phone… AND my pencil holder.
You can also read the outside participants’ responses to this dare HERE
DARE 2 – Tweet a story that involves an act of cannibalism.12:00 AM Jul 16th from web
NORA: The black widow stared bleakly at the mangled remains of her husband. It was not the trial separation she had envisioned.9:50 AM Jul 16th from TweetDeck
FIDO: the louse ate the cat, the mouse ate the louse, the cat ate the mouse, so the cat ate the cat11:03 AM Jul 16th from UberTwitter
COCO: Vadim had a job. He sent pretty girls to Europe. Thats how he got so fat.12:00 PM Jul 16th from web
RHAE: The white senators surrounding Sotomayor tucked in their napkins and smacked their lips. Dark meat was a rare treat for them.2:04 PM Jul 16th from web
ISIS: “Devour me, Vishnu!” cried Arjuna. “You are within me. Now take me within You!” #4thfiction #gita #life #death4:13 PM Jul 16th from web
IGOR: Bernd answered Armin’s ad. Armin cut off Bernd’s penis. Bernd found it “chewy”. They sauteed it. Armin is now vegetarian.5:36 PM Jul 16th from web
OLAF: As she embraced him before he set out, she nibbled on his ear. Goodbyes were always so painful.6:23 PM Jul 16th from web
OMAR: The zombie sank its rotting teeth in and tore off a hunk. The victim spun around: “Idiot! I’m a zombie too!”7:01 PM Jul 16th from TwitterFon
UTAH: Stranded in the Arctic, he killed himself so she wouldn’t starve. “I ate you,” she sobbed over his gleaming bones. “I ate your guts.”8:46 PM Jul 16th from web
TESS: After sex, she bit into his head. “Relax, I’m Praying for you, Mantis,” she said. That calmed him. He had faith.9:40 PM Jul 16th from web
TUCK: After sex, she married him.10:41 PM Jul 16th from web
RESPONSES BY OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS:
danpowfiction: Green Jelly Baby nibbled on his neighbours. They screamed. He chomped. But trapped in the packet there was nowhere to run. #4thfiction
2maraA: BBQs haven’t been the same since we finished off Mick. He was portly, wonderfully marbled. Bob is stringy and tough; dog food. #4thfiction
AnnasBones: The others watched obligingly as he placed raw human flesh into the mouths of children. Its taste was boring; but so was Mass #4thfiction
speakez_stl: Dinner tonight? But the cupboard was bare. Only fava beans, and big amarone. Then the doctor’s doorbell rang – a census taker. #4thfiction
Djemal: He started 2 bite the skin around his nails when told his leg was not going 2 grow back `what a pathetic worm I am` he thought #4thfiction
AnnasBones: @Fourthfiction IGOR your cannibalistic penis story is technically non-fiction! [true story at http://bit.ly/UkdO ] #4thfiction #cannibalism
benjaminsolah: DARE 2: Jobless and broke; his child died starving in their tent under the overpass. “Thin, but there’s a little bit of meat.” #4thfiction
*Each Fourth Fiction pre-contest dare is posted at midnight on the Fourth Fiction Twitter page and the contestants have 24 hours to respond. For more details about these pre-contest literary dares, see this video.
DARE 3 – Write something from the perspective of a sperm.12:00 AM Jul 17th from web
IGOR: Hear the distant groans. I weep in this dark as louts whoop and whip about me. Beastly man, your swelling pleasure is my death charge.10:07 AM Jul 17th from web
COCO: His moment had at last arrived. My love, here I come! he cried with joy as he shot off into the… toilet bowl.11:47 AM Jul 17th from web
RHAE: They all opposed birth control but only he favored abstinence. The mere sight of the urethra scared him. He just wasn’t ready yet.12:41 PM Jul 17th from web
NORA: He squiggled shyly outside her chambers, unsure if he should knock or barge in. He never really thought this part through.2:00 PM Jul 17th from TwitterBerry
TESS: The sperm gazed in despair upon his unresponsive flaccid tail. He turned to the ovum. “This must be what you call irony.”3:10 PM Jul 17th from web
ISIS: Like Shiva I can bring disease and misery. Like Brahma, new life and creation. I contain all. I am sperm.4:56 PM Jul 17th from web
FIDO: It’s all in the flagella, bro! That’s where u generate ur drive. Remember: float like a butterfly, squirm like a sperm!5:54 PM Jul 17th from UberTwitter
OLAF: Ova was the most beautiful egg Wiggles had ever seen. He knew at once she was the only one for him.6:44 PM Jul 17th from web
TUCK: In mid-flight, they realized in horror they were the money shot.6:54 PM Jul 17th from web
OMAR: They stared at him wide-eyed around the campfire. “Ay, me lads. Some died from the collision, spermicide fried the rest.”7:47 PM Jul 17th from TwitterFon
RESPONSES BY OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS:
2maraA “I’m a thief… here to steal your heart,” Jim was determined to beat his millions of brothers to the prize… that, and 5 bucks #4thfiction
Djemal some call me offspring, some half apple, sin, early comer?!, slow, best, mistake, love, life, burden, sticky,simple, possibility #4thfiction
Djemal future sucks #4thfiction
writefromkaren “You think you’re stronger, faster and more clever than I am? Pfft. Get back, punk. This baby’s mine.”#4thfiction
danpowfiction Hanging about in the sack tired me out to be honest. Think I’ll save my strength and take a chemotaxi to the egg #4thfiction
AnnasBones WEEeeee..! Swish swoosh kick bump kick whoosh… ShhhhhzzzZZZ… POP!!!: “Yay! FREEEEEEDOOO…. latex!??! uh oh..” SMACK. THUMP. #4thfiction
DARE 4 – Write an alternate ending to the fairy tale “Three Little Pigs.”12:01 AM Jul 18th from web
ISIS: Pig opened the door, arms outstretched. “Peace, brother.” Wolf was moved to tears. No one had ever before opened their heart to him.12:19 PM Jul 18th from web
TUCK: Pig opened the door, arms outstretched. “Peace brother.” Wolf paused then tore him to pieces. There was just no challenge with hippies12:59 PM Jul 18th from web
IGOR: He shrugged and slipped off. Let the swine have his walled comfort. I shall feast on raw pine air and luxuriate in my shadowy abandon.2:03 PM Jul 18th from web
FIDO: “bro open up!” “Hold up! I’m shaving goatee off!” “Yo its howlin out!” “Try the fire escape!” He did but he slipped & died. Life blows2:56 PM Jul 18th from UberTwitter
RHAE: In his dying moments, the wolf only felt sorrow no one would know the truth. The moneyed class always wrote the fairy tales.6:06 PM Jul 18th from web
NORA: Lucky for the pigs, the wolf had been misinformed. He thought you could get swine flu from eating pork.6:29 PM Jul 18th from TweetDeck
OLAF: The wolf slid down the chimney. Too bad for him, the pig had blocked the fireplace off back when he installed the propane heaters.7:03 PM Jul 18th from web
OMAR: Though ravenous, the wolf decided to instead visit Little Red Riding Hood. You see, children, he’d converted to Islam…8:04 PM Jul 18th from TwitterFon
UTAH: The pig stared glumly at the prison walls. What should he have done? Let the wolf’s boiled flesh go wasted? Damn the SPCA8:46 PM Jul 18th from web
TESS: “…I’ll blow your house in!” So the pig came out and squeezed his pink crotch. “Blow this.” He was a New Yorker.9:49 PM Jul 18th from Twitterrific
RESPONSES BY OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS:
AnnasBones .. “I’ll huff & I’ll puff & blow your house in!”.. & the dirty lil’ piglette called her 2 sisters up for the kinkiest night ever #4thfiction4 days ago from web
writefromkaren@FourthFiction Dare 4: “Mr Pig? On behalf of Fairy Land & my client Mr. Wolf, I am hereby serving you legal papers. Have a nice day, sir.”1:02 PM Jul 18th from web in reply to FourthFiction
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DARE 5 – Write a sex scene that incorporates a Michael Jackson song title.12:14 AM Jul 19th from mobile web
OLAF: The 4 am alarm. It was bad. Four decades and yet she still trawled his dreams. He fed the cat and set off for Cape Cod Bay.5:23 AM Jul 19th from web
OMAR: “We’re almost there…” she moaned. She should have kept quiet. Once again, he got there before her.12:48 PM Jul 19th from TwitterFon
IGOR: One morning, after listening to “Beat It”, young Edmund decided it was time to overcome his fear of onanism.2:12 PM Jul 19th from web
TESS: They were into creative role play. Today he was The Man in the Mirror. He wore one white glove and it wasn’t on his hand.3:30 PM Jul 19th from Twitterrific
ISIS: Sublimated through the Tantric rituals, their bodies fused into one. The Earth Song hummed through them.#4thfiction #sexual #tantra4:13 PM Jul 19th from web
TUCK: “One part is afraid, but Another Part Of Me wants to try it.” “Don’t worry, Pretty Young Thing, I’ll be sure to Ease On Down the Road”6:06 PM Jul 19th from web
COCO: That evening he was just stranger in Moscow. But few hours later, as he rolled off her, he would be father of her son. Life is strange7:46 PM Jul 19th from web
UTAH: To thrill her, he decided to try talking dirty. Diana wasn’t used to it. So when he said “Beat it,” she got up and left.8:56 PM Jul 19th from web
FIDO: The following tweet is available in black or white and is appropriate only for children 10 years or younger.10:40 PM Jul 19th from TweetDeck
RESPONSES BY OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS:
AnnasBones He stared at her w a mix of reverence, pain & utter shame. “It ain’t dirty Diana for nothin'” she said as she pocketed his money #4thfiction4 days ago from web
JodiCleghorn ‘I’m not-“She shuddered “-sure it is Black Or White like u say.’ He kissed her naked shoulder. ‘Didn’t I tell u I love u?C’mon.” #4thfiction3 days ago from TweetDeck
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DARE 6 – Make a rhyme that includes the words “Obama” and “Osama” without using any vowels besides “o” and “a” (no “y”s allowed)12:01 AM Jul 20th from web
RHAE: Obama drops bombs on Pafka to stop Osama from bomb-drops on Amca. Bravo, lads! What bravado! Onward to constant bloodbath! #4thfiction9:56 AM Jul 20th from web
COCO: From Obama Mama: No to Osama, Dah to Obama! haha11:55 AM Jul 20th from web
IGOR: Dan wants no-pomp words? What a man… Ok, for Dan: Osama told Obama to go naff off. So Obama told Osama to go shag pork. #4thfiction1:24 PM Jul 20th from web
TESS: OSAMA “No mas than a consonant marks ‘Obama’ apart from ‘Osama.’ OBAMA “That’s B.S. Two consonants LOL” OSAMA “omg! Lmao” 4thfiction2:33 PM Jul 20th from Twitterrific
ISIS: A land wants concord not war. A bomb for a bomb and whole world shall go boom. So Salaam to Obama and Shalom to Osama. #4thfiction6:12 PM Jul 20th from web
NORA: Nora to Obama: “What plans for Osama?” Obama to Nora: “Rapport at Tora Bora.” #4thfiction7:00 PM Jul 20th from web
FIDO: Osama’s thong looks wrong. Obama’s dong’s so long. Host gotta post. Coco so loco. Nora at Tora Bora. Dan’s da man. Damn! #4thfiction7:47 PM Jul 20th from UberTwitter
UTAH: Knock, knock. Who’s that? Obama and Osama. Obama and Osama who? O Sam a’ took to AfPak to attack a pack of Afghans. #4thfiction8:52 PM Jul 20th from web
TUCK: [OBAMA to AFGHAN WARLORD] “Hand Osama to NATO troops.” [WARLORD] “As soon as Host hands back Omar.”#4thfiction10:36 PM Jul 20th from web
RESPONSES BY OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS
JenniBielicki@FourthFiction Obama took a long road oath, “No harm from coast to coast!” And soon that trash, Osama, won’t hold land to roam or host.1:56 AM Jul 20th from web in reply to FourthFiction
AnnasBones An-na Banana, O-bama Rama, Manana Fana, O-sama, Ba-rack O-banna…. Anna! #4thfiction [what? It rhymes]3 days ago from web
danpowfiction@FourthFiction here’s my crit. of the Dare lit so far – http://is.gd/1FanN #4thfiction7:21 AM Jul 20th from web
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DARE 7 – WRITE A TWISTER, a short story of 140 characters, in the style of @arjunbasu (140 char includes #4thfiction tag)12:01 AM Jul 21st from web
Clarification on DARE 7: The #4thfiction hashtag is optional, but whether it’s included or not, all 140 characters should be used.9:10 AM Jul 21st from web
COCO: The villager rubbed his fat hand along the Romanian girl’s naked thigh. He was in paradise. Until his grandson walked into the cabaret11:00 AM Jul 21st from webTUCK: “going to need to unfollow you now. pedi-stuff aint my thing.” She had to vocalize it. Publicly. To convince herself that it was true.
12:34 PM Jul 21st from web
IGOR: Only at the office did she realise she’d put her trousers on before the thong. That’s when she decided to start drinking coffee again.1:26 PM Jul 21st from web
TESS: I’m ending this because of me, not you, he explained. She smiled, then punched him. Good, she said, then you know I meant that for me.2:22 PM Jul 21st from web
FIDO: Nothing phased Cool Hand Mac. Not even “all in” bets freaked him. His composure paid off big. He had more pennies than he could count.4:15 PM Jul 21st from UberTwitter
NORA: I love you, he told her. Thanks, she said. You’re welcome, he replied. After the awkward pause, they knew that it was over #4thfiction5:56 PM Jul 21st from TweetDeck
OMAR: He was a proud working American who began having violent dreams of bearded Arab men. They never scared him. But the sticky sheets did.7:26 PM Jul 21st from TwitterFon
UTAH: They fell upon the haystack. One thing led to another. She giggled. Then moaned. Then cried out. She had found the needle. #4thfiction8:32 PM Jul 21st from web
RHAE: They ogled the window menu. That’s no government-run restaurant! he said. He laughed about it the whole way to Burger King. She didn’t9:30 PM Jul 21st from web
ISIS: She traversed the hot coals without burning herself. But not all of them celebrated. It’s cheating to levitate across, a man grumbled.11:07 PM Jul 21st from web
RESPONSES BY OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS
nika7k@FourthFiction ok, am going to need to unfollow you now. pedi-stuff aint my thing11:08 AM Jul 21st from TweetDeck in reply to FourthFictionmarkpsadler@FourthFiction It is happening again. Raised voices, his alone. Feet stomp, door slam, the car in the distance disappearing, alone again.
danpowfiction Five days into quitting he was still finding un-emptied ashtrays in nooks around the house. Someone was sabotaging his new life. #4thfiction
AnnasBones “I love you” he said, amorously. As she stared blankly into his green eyes, she uttered the only words she could… “Thanks”. #4thfiction
mjvalente The sea was approaching fast, but her last thoughts weren’t of her loved ones: “I cannot believe I spent 4 hours embarking!” #4thfiction
mjvalente Watching the ants surviving in the water she realized that those damn nuclear winter previsions and cockroaches were all wrong. #4thfiction
Write a caption for this cartoon that relates to current news
DARE 8 – WRITE A CAPTION for this cartoon (from New Yorker contest) that relates to current news http://twitpic.com/b6ovl12:02 AM Jul 22nd from TwitPic
IGOR: “What do you mean I can only see the solar eclipse in Asia?” http://twitpic.com/b6ovl #4thfiction4:25 AM Jul 22nd from web
NORA: “Tell the board I’m commemorating the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. And send the intern up with an American flag.”9:23 AM Jul 22nd from TweetDeck
COCO: “I changed my mind. I’m coming back down. I may be safe from swine flu here but I forgot about bird flu.”http://twitpic.com/b6ovl
11:12 AM Jul 22nd from web
OMAR: “Yes, sir, I agree the view is impressive. I’m very grateful for that. But to get back to my health care package…”1:01 PM Jul 22nd from TwitterFon
RHAE: “Apparently, if you’re not employed within the actual building, the company doesn’t have to cover your health care.”2:09 PM Jul 22nd from web
FIDO: I’m telling you, all I said was, “That will be all.” Dammit! Do work-related accidental suicides fall under pre-existing conditions?about 23 hours ago from UberTwitter
OLAF: “Watching the bios on Walter Cronkite inspired me. I just didn’t want to be another journalist holed up in a newsroom his whole life.”about 22 hours ago from web
TUCK: “I’ve been upsized.” http://twitpic.com/b6ovlabout 21 hours ago from web
UTAH: “Let’s hope this sends the message that employer health-care costs have gone through the roof.”http://twitpic.com/b6ovlabout 20 hours ago from web
ISIS: I understand you can’t give us cash bonuses anymore, but this isn’t exactly the ‘larger office’ I was hoping for…about 19 hours ago from web
TESS: “I read in the paper a man was killed yesterday in Johannesburg when a roof collapsed on him. Maybe I overreacted.”about 17 hours ago from Twitterrific
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Dare 9 – Write an elegy to the Taco Bell Chihuahua
DARE 9 – Write an elegy to the Taco Bell Chihuahua, who died today.12:01 AM Jul 23rd from web
TESS: Taco Bell Chihuahua… 🙁 … Yo Quiero Llorarabout 24 hours ago from Twitterrific
IGOR: Within those oystered tacos / the fearless demand yet swells / the famed words shall ever knell / “Yo quiero Taco Bell”about 14 hours ago from web
OLAF: Y.I.P. Taco Bell Chihuahuaabout 12 hours ago from web
ISIS: Anubis, God of Death, you who are the Opener of the Ways, the Dark Pupil of the Sun, deliver Taco Bell Chihuahua to the Eternal Gardenabout 10 hours ago from web
RHAE: History will remember you, Gidget, not for your spunky impertinence but for breaking ground as the first famous transvestite Chihuahuaabout 8 hours ago from web
TUCK: They’re cremating you, Chihuahua, but we know how you’d really want it: in the Taco Bell meat grinder, with the other dogs.about 6 hours ago from web
UTAH: Poor dog. It must have been all that fast food.#4thfictionabout 5 hours ago from web
NORA: Inscription on a Tomb for Gidget: “Por favor, drop the chalupa, shed not a tear. This taco in my tomb is my comfort, my cheer.”about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
OMAR: Once the last customer order’d; the sauces pack’d away; the counter wash’d; I wept and yet shall weep for thee, taco bell chihuahua.about 1 hour ago from TwitterFon
FIDO: peace out u bugeyed bigeared badass tacotalkin pimpdawg! Tell ol Big Beard not to skimp on ur chalupas or fido’ll come give him Hell!about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck
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DARE 10 – Begin with the words “It was a dark and stormy night”12:00 AM Jul 24th from web
IGOR: “It was a dark and stormy night.” He dips his quill, his candlelit shadow flitting before him. At last, he thinks, I am where I belong4:24 AM Jul 24th from web
COCO: It was dark and a stormy night outside. But inside it was hot and steamy. When he finished with her he left out window, how he came in5:21 AM Jul 24th from web
OLAF: It was a dark and stormy night? “Christ, that’s an easy one,” he thought, as he poured himself a Gosling’s and ginger beer.9:24 AM Jul 24th from web
NORA: “It was a dark and stormy night.” Outside birds tweeted and a lawnmower droned. She crumpled up the page. It just wasn’t quite right.12:11 PM Jul 24th from TwitterBerry
OMAR: It was a dark and stormy night. As usual, the morning after was awkward. #4thfiction1:25 PM Jul 24th from TwitterFon
RHAE: It was a dark and stormy night in the country’s history. More wars, more corporate rule. So much for that promised change of weather.3:27 PM Jul 24th from web
FIDO: “It was a dark and stormy night. A shot. A scream. A cork pops. Gasps of pleasure. Another shot.” Snoopy paused. He’d lost his touch.5:26 PM Jul 24th from UberTwitter
UTAH: It was a dark and stormy night, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for the house.#4thfiction8:48 PM Jul 24th from web
TUCK: It was a dark and stormy night. The table was bare save for a bottle. He was going to get drunk tonight and boy didn’t he dread it.10:17 PM Jul 24th from web
TESS: “It was a dark and stormy night. In bed.” She looked at the others, shrugged, and ate the fortune cookie. #4thfiction10:52 PM Jul 24th from Twitterrific
1 Comment To "Roundup of the 10 Literary Dares"
#1 Comment By annabones On July 29, 2009 @ 10:58 am
Had so much fun with the dares, the cartoons were my favorites! 🙂