STORY STARTER

Write a story about a character who places second in an important competition.

It is often said that history is told by the winners – but what about the runners up? You can focus on any element of this situation.

Always A Bride’s Maid

Me…


Daily Prompt competitions.


But like a pepperoni pizza eaten by a man over forty too late into the evening, I will rise again!


Like a Karen who will cancel a zoom conference with her son’s soccer coach to find out ‘why Cedar doesn’t get more play time’ to wait for a store manager to return from a run to the bank to get more quarters so she can complain that the coupon doesn’t say ‘limit: one per customer on it anywhere,’ I will not be denied!


Like a potato left too long on a window sill, new life will continue to sprout from my eyes!


Like the young wife of a Juggalo4Lyfe, who reluctantly agreed to getting doused with Faygo instead of rice on her wedding day and saying ‘whoop-whoop’ instead of I do, I remain hopeful that my failure to place first is ‘just a phase.’


Like that one guy in your office who doesn’t think everyone totally knows he’s using discount Rogaine and that those ‘sprouts of new growth’ are likely septic follicles, I continue to hope for the best.


Like a millipede telling a dad joke, it is nearly impossible to ‘defeat’ me.


For, like Nicholas Cage, I know that if I just keep making things, eventually, one of them will be decent.



…I mean, Pig is worth watching.

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So much sprouting in giggles! Potato eyes and hair follicles! And hey, I like Nicholas Cage! 😁


Are you on Discord?

Hah. Thanks. Excuse to work on terrible similes.


Yep, I am (sort of) on discord.

Me too, somewhat. Same name as here?

No, I use the DP WhatsApp for that. But I can always add a discord. You use the same?

Yup, same name. I really enjoy your take on things in your writing and be glad to have another means of communication. It’s been fun with some of the others!

I apparently don’t know how to use discord very well. But feel free to find me under this name: pathosbill#5020