The 100 Word Stories Podcast

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Out on the deep ocean, the winds calm, the waves are still, there’s little to do and all day long not to do it in.
George would practice with hi…

“George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.”
That’s written in the center of The George The Pirate game board.
Players roll dice and move their ship tokens around it.
You can land on Trea…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He’d been taking to long periods of melancholy and self-doubt.
Or he’d obsess on the most esoteric things.
“A container is a container because i…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Consultants put together a focus group to figure out what was wrong with George.
“Why doesn’t he have an eyepatch?” said a housewife from Burban…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He hadn’t planned on becoming a pirate.
He hadn’t planned on eighty thousand dollars in student loans, either.
All for a Bachelor’s degree in So…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
His annual reviews reflected this, and George got “Needs Improvement” while other pirates got “Meets Expectations” or “Exceeds Expectations.”
Ge…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
So he quit his job, started a supply company, and he sold high-quality equipment to ship captains.
Pirates would then attack the ships and steal…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He was always stopping and asking for directions.
This was awkward at best, and dangerous at worst.
Stopping in the middle of a battle for direc…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Which made him the perfect patsy for Long John Silver.
What? You don’t remember George from the book Treasure Island?
Well, that’s because I’m n…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He liked to plan raids.
Maybe overplan them.
He’d draw up detailed maps from scouting missions, lay out a model on the table with intricate hill…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He wanted to fly a Jolly Roger over the ship, but he wasn’t very good at sewing.
The first flag came out all crooked.
“Looks like the Jolly Rick…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
While sailing around the Hawaiian Islands, he called “hard to port” when he meant “hard to starboard”, and ended up running into some very hard …

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Some people like coffee. Others prefer tea.
So, when his shipmates raided and plundered, George would grab the tea and coffee.
The tea was usefu…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He also wasn’t a very good public speaker.
At the annual pirate conference, the keynote speaker dropped out at the last minute and the organizer…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
“We’re running low on provisions, George,” said the captain, handing George a large burlap sack. “Go get some snipe.”
George ran up and down the…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Most pirates could hold their liquor.
George couldn’t. He was a lightweight and an awful drunk.
One flagon of grog, and he was stumbling.
Two, a…

George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
His navigation skills were awful, and the ship ran aground on Antarctica.
Members of the crew who left to hunt giant penguins for food mysteriou…