Realm of the InterNutter

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

I woke up at 1:30 AM

It’s already going to be an interesting day.

I’m firkin tired.
My wrist hurts.
I’m still behind by 1500 words on my novel.
I have a doctor’s appointment at 1 PM to see about an in-home sleep study.

…but at least I’m not freezing my niblets off at my main compy.

In anticipation of this BS, I put my lappy in the bedroom and I am now writing in bed. Convenient

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Challenge #00567 - A192: Unsuitable Food

“The secret formula, it must be kept out of the wrong hands or it will doom us all!”

“This is a recipe for clootie dumplings.”

In the wake of sanctioned, regulated, guaranteed foodstuffs, there was revolution.

Astrid slipped her fingers into the knuckleduster she kept in her pocket as the shadowy figure approached. Just in case. Her life had been saved by precautionary measures like this, and the dust mask she wore to obscure her face.

“The

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Challenge #00566 - A191: Vampirism Sucks

A group of casual vampires, perhaps playing poker or lounging by the pool, with cheesy-looking coconuts with straws in, when in bursts a newbie vampire hunter who apparently got all his info from a book written before both the discovery of the coconut milk thing and safe volunteer blood donor procedures.

The sun had risen. Those in the pool had fled for the cabana at the first hint of light in the east. There, they applied zinc oxide very liberally to their

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Questioin: What was sara's "I am the lizard queen" and costume referencing? Google is supremely unhelpful. (it's...

I can tell this has been bothering you for some time [Like, since early last year…] and I have to confess, I made it up.

It’s a conglomeration of Bad Pulp Covers, Horrendous Old Science Fiction and strong elements of Flash Gordon and Big Trouble in Little China. And a quote from Lisa Simpson.

The whole point of the Lizard Queen costume was to evoke the Feel of the rest of the movie. You know that the whole thing

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Challenge #00565 - A190: One Fine Evening in a Festival of Masques

A duet between Francouer and The Spine.

On the plus side, the makeup was working. On the minus side, everyone was giving him the stink-eye because he’d decided to test it during an extended costume party all over Paris.

The Spine considered it a point of merit that he had to buy a cheap mask on a stick just to ward off hostility.

One of the Peters would yell at him later for getting paint in his seams, but… it felt

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Challenge #00564 - A189: Perplexing

Turnabout is fair play: Something the aliens consider utterly mundane and/or harmless, that is dangerous or terrifying to humans.

It was a disaster. The freshly-introduced Ambassador Harry still hunkered in her improvised bunker of relatively solid furniture, butter knife held tight to her chest in a white-knuckled grip. The ability to speak had left her and she would slash or stab at anyone who came close.

Until Sui'dut came to sort out the mess. Sui'dut, the only alien Harry trusted on

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Concealed weapons fail. 1) If you have to fiddle this much getting it in there, you’re going to be in trouble if you need it in a...

Concealed weapons fail.

1) If you have to fiddle this much getting it in there, you’re going to be in trouble if you need it in a pinch.

2) Fucking SCABBARDS… deesh! The way that knife is, that lady is going to slice both her leg/butt open and her knickers off.

3) Everyone’s going to know it’s there with a dress that tight

She’d be better off with a smaller dagger up

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Challenge #00563 - A188: We Didn't Start the Flame War

You know Billy Joel’s song “We didn’t start the Fire”?

Well, there’s a really juvenile (which is admittedly appropriate for the subject, mostly) CollegeHumor take on it called “We didn’t start the Flame War”, that is surprisingly catchy. I was just wondering what a story using the title of the CollegeHumor song, but without the more egregious moments of the song, would look like.

Indulge my curiosity? — RecklessPrudence

A blur of black, white, and gold. A rushed, “Hide

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