http://www.spasmsproject.com Extremely Short Stories by Amy Frushour Kelly Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:06:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Wow! You guys sure are creative. And insane. Your suggestions are all so good, it's hard to pick.Then again, I feel badly if anybody gets left out (Hi, Mishey! You're not too late!), so I'm extending this two-word thing until I get up tomorrow morning. I'll pick the title and write ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/your-two-word-suggestions-18/ I'll be writing today's SPASM tonight, and I'd like your help! Please leave a comment of just two words (no more than two, please!) at the end of this post. When I get home, I'll pick a comment, use that as my title, and write a story to go with it. The ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/suggestions-please/ Hey, folks! Things have been happening at Castle SPASMS. Obviously, I'm writing them again, but there's more:1) I'm planning to self-publish a collection of about 200 stories. The stories are already written, of course, but there's an actual designer designing the book, and I'm not sure how long it's going to ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/hey-folks/  It snowed, but only in the front yard.The back was a lush paradise of verdant grass and foliage. Cool, tropical-scented breezes tickled the leaves. Exotic orchids bloomed around the patio. A puddle near the back of the yard that had never dried from the previous year deepened, clearing and becoming ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/olgas-garden/ Thanks to all who commented and e-mailed me reagrding this post. I was really tired when I posted it, and I neglected to mention that it was a standalone piece. We did two separate stories with the same title, which is why I captioned it "Take 2." Here is the first. ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/the-perdiferous-guest-explanation/  This is a jam, written about two years ago, by tim_xand myself. Enjoy!From the journals of Dr. Henry Wilkes Tonnage III My dear friend Howard, I am delighted to hear that my latest missive finds you well, too many of our friends have dropped out of contact, the reasons for which run the ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/the-perdiferous-guest-take-2/ Rob has an infection and is on massive anti-biotics. The upshot? He'll be okay, but I got no sleep whatsoever last night, and now I gotta get ready for work.Hopefully tonight, after work, drum lessons and whatnot, I'll write a SPASM.  Fingers crossed that I don't fall asleep first!xo, Amy http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/gahhhh/ Thanks to Sue for the first sentence. “The son of a gun is a bullet,” he says, cradling the revolver.I don’t know what to say, so I don’t say anything.He squints up at me, looking for a response.“Okay,” I say. Lamely.“In films, how many times have you seen the villain talk ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/son-of-a-gun/  He had murdered two women already. It was difficult now to weigh his compulsion to kill against the widening police investigation. The urge to kill was mitigated by his instinct to stay alive and free.Fortunately, the murderer was an intelligent man, a reader. He enjoyed books on history and science. ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/very-well/ Of the two sisters, Karen was the nice one. Marilyn was the one most likely to do something stupid. Which was exactly what she did, one too many times. When Marilyn was caught driving drunk, she already had a suspended license for exactly that reason. Easy enough to solve, she ... http://www.spasmsproject.com/archives/license/