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.
