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This month’s Bananagram is underway. The game involves creating a story of a single sentence which includes these six words: Rules, Foot, Zone, Tie, Radio, and Tiger.
https://storiesonline.net/n/44028/february-bananagram
Give it a try. Write your story, send it to me, and I’ll attempt to illustrate it and post it to SoL.
So far there are two single sentence stories, one of them created and illustrated by Microsoft’s CoPilot AI.
A reader rightly points out that the story I posted today, “Christmas Pie,” is a little on the dark side. While probably fewer than 5% of my stories are somewhat dark, perhaps I should have a way of warning readers about the degree of darkness they might encounter. Would tagging a story “Caution” be sufficient? Any thoughts or ideas?
Can there be a series of just one? The other day I noticed I had such a series. Kira. It didn’t seem right to me, so now there is a second Kira story. One of these days I hope there will be a third. In the meantime, I did a cover picture for the first Kira story. “New Scent.” (That was fun, but I don’t expect to go back and do pictures for all my uncovered stories. Can’t have too much fun, right?)
We’re now more than halfway through July, and today I posted the fifth July Bananagram story. Bananagrams are a crosswords concoction of twenty-one letter tiles fashioned into a story of a single sentence. I’ve attempted to illustrate each of the entries.
https://storiesonline.net/n/34459/july-bananagrams
Still more than a week left in July to submit your entry. I expect there will be a new Bananagram for August.
They’re back. The cicadas. We used to call them the 17 year locusts. Now, here in the Midwest, we’re in the thick of it. I wrote my only cicada story about 17 years ago and illustrated it some years later. Now to celebrate the arrival of the cicadas, I’ve added a cover picture of the Cicada I trapped yesterday. I think his name is Al. Oh, our ornamental pear tree, Sylvia, is doing fine, way too big for any netting.
( The story is called The Cicadas Are Coming )
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