Best Friends

Best friends always have your back

Best friends stand up for you even when you’re wrong

Best friends will pick up the phone and chat like they saw you yesterday when it’s been months

Best friends keep secrets

Best friends know when you need a hug

Best friends protect you

Best friends will always listen

Best friends are a shoulder to cry on

Best friends will laugh with you

Best friends will squeal, laugh, and cry with you about your crush on a boy they’ve never met

Best friends never have IOUs

Best friends will loan you their favorite shirt when you’ve spilled ketchup on yours

Best friends make waffles in the morning without knowing how to work to waffle maker

Best friends can be trusted with your embarrassing photos, videos, and stories

Best friends will never tell your secrets

Best friends stay best friends no matter what

A best friend is something everyone needs to have

A fish

Here is a very strange story I found archived in my 750words.com account. I used a random word from the WordWeb (free* downloadable dictionary with random word feature. Best dictionary program I've ever found) and started writing.

The pacific halibut lay on the plate. It had been roasted over a small fire, rolled in toasted crumbs and butter, and expertly scaled. Columbia couldn't stand it. Its eyes stared up at her. It seemed to reproach her for eating it. "I had a life," the eyes seemed to say, "It may have been in a fish farm, a crappy life, but I had a life. And you took it from me. I think that's pretty rotten of you. I can't believe that you would do that." Columbia wondered if the fish had had a family. Maybe he had had a wife, children, and a whole swarm of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Including crazy Aunty May who sticks her fork in the sweet potatoes and starts talking to it. "Madame," said a voice. It was Columbia's waiter. The waiter dumped a mound of wild rice over the fish. "I'm sorry this was late, Madame," said the waiter, "I sincerely apologize. The rice cooker caught fire. I got your rice as soon as I could." Columbia looked where the kitchen was. The frosted glass looked slightly orange and there were some shrieks coming from inside. "Is the fire out?" she asked hesitantly. "Not yet, Madame," said the waiter, "They are still working on that. Please, I beg you, dig in." Columbia turned back to her fish. Now the eyes were covered. The feeling of eating something that had had a crazy Aunty May disappeared. Columbia took her fork and knife and dug in.




Reading this over, I can see how I never showed it to anyone. It's pretty weird. Expect more like it.


Potato


*Free for 30 days. Then you have to tell it how many flights you take a year. More than 1-2, and it makes you pay $19 to keep using it. If you click 1-2, you get to keep using it for free forevah.

Yet another author :)

Hi! I'm yet another new author. Elisabeth actually invited me several months ago, and I've been lurking ever since. Now that I saw that Myla is on here, I think I have no excuse to be lurking any more. I participate in NaNoWriMo every year, and in between Novembers I write really short stories. Just for fun.
My fake name is Potato, because it's been a nickname for ages.

Here's a bio (E, put this on the Authors page):
Potato: I've been writing since I was about five. For years, it was just a small hobby. I'd write a few hundred words every now and then and that would be it. Starting in 2010, I started enjoying it more (thanks to NaNo). I've known Elisabeth ever since we were both six, and we're besties forever. I also know Myla (if she is who I think she is). Jocee, I've read your blog once or twice. I like taking tiny prompts and turning them into a whole story. I like Doctor Who, Mythbusters, Warehouse 13, Merlin, Star Wars, and Harry Potter. Books? I like Harry Potter, Eragon, The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, Pendragon, and a whole lot more. If I put the whole list, it would take all day. Music. Um. I like (and this is in no particular order): Taylor Swift, Hey Monday, Coldplay, Paramore, Hunter Hayes, Avril Lavigne, Maroon 5, Priscilla Ahn, Hellogoodbye... again with the taking all day thing. I like turquoise, jeans, spinning in circles, and dying my hair. Hi, I'm Potato, nice to meet you.

(and p.s. i actually know someone named myla)