The 100 Word Stories Podcast

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He preferred the feel of sand between his toes to the wet wooden deck of the ship.
So, when the ship docked at port, he hauled sand from the bea…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Long before Elon Musk released “Smart Summon” in his Tesla line of cars, George worked on a similar feature for his pirate ship.
George fired a …

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
When he was a kid, his family would paint eggs for Easter and hide them around the yard.
Then, the kids would hunt for the eggs.
Even though he …

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Nobody endorsed him on LinkedIn for piracy, kidnapping, sailing, looting, pillaging…
Anything related to being a pirate.
Every time he requested…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He’d rather buy lottery tickets than loot and pillage.
And when he did loot and pillage, he’d use his shares of the booty to buy more lottery ti…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He always tried to be good.
He went to school and he went to church.
George would go to Confession every day.
“Forgive me, Father, for I have si…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He’d heard the legends of Atlantis, the island paradise that had sank beneath the waves.
“It’s still out there, son,” said a grizzled fisherman,…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Other pirates looted and plundered, while George spent a lot of time writing to his grandmother.
She’d send care packages, which contained cooki…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
All the other pirates looked for buried treasure with their treasure maps.
George got an idea and made really cool-looking treasure maps.
Then h…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He was a fierce competitive eater though.
Won a few championships at county fairs and restaurant openings.
Hot dogs, pizzas, chicken wings… if y…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
But even a not-very-good pirate can see the evil in marketing consultants.
“You need to rebrand!” said the consultant. “You’re not pirates, you’…

George was a pirate but he wasn’t a very good pirate. The problem was that the captain kept changing the ship’s operation manuals. He made procedures more and more complex, making it harder for any p…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He was always leaving the ship’s portholes open, and one day a raven flew in and landed on George’s head.
“Nevermore,” said the raven.
“What the…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He was a loyal baseball fan, though.
No, he didn’t follow the Pittsburgh Pirates.
No self-respecting pirate would be caught dead in Pittsburgh.
…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
At least, that was what the captain said.
Truth was, George was a pretty good pirate.
The captain, on the other hand, was an awful pirate.
But y…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Still, he did his best for his ship, joining raiding parties and fending off rival pirates.
Until the captain sold to a German pirate consortium…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He got lousy grades in pirate school, his teachers held him up for ridicule, and his classmates bullied him.
So, George swore he’d get his reven…