Category: Random Word Generator

Random Word Generator 02.13.24

Today's exercise features a riff on the history, present, and possible future of Bar Harbor, Maine. HARBOR RIDGE STOP DEMONSTRATOR The harbor is depressed. It lies all day under blankets. Blankets of fog that run aground and push through the streets until they tangle themselves up in the mountains. Blankets of people, some dragging lobster … Continue reading Random Word Generator 02.13.24 →

Random Word Generator 02.06.24

Today's exercise features a state representative on the verge of a mental breakdown CONSTITUENCY BRAINSTORM SICK DETERMINE “Your constituency depends on you, sir.” “What do you think this is over here?” “There have been articles, sir. Posts.” “It sort of looks like a little scorpion.” “A scorpion, sir?” Rhonda Meeples, Rep. Brendt Rooski’s flinty Chief … Continue reading Random Word Generator 02.06.24 →

Random Word Generator 01.16.24

Today's exercise features the beginning of a mysterious journey. DEPART CORRESPONDENCE STILL GRADIENT We’re ready to depart. Are we? The stones are stacked on the table and everything else has been cleared from the room. We have no bags. We have no maps.  No water canteens or food rations. It feels like I’m forgetting something. … Continue reading Random Word Generator 01.16.24 →

Random Word Generator 01.03.24

Today's exercise features a ninety-seven-year-old government employee. GRANDMOTHER INSPECTOR CULTURE PROTECT My grandmother hates her job. She’s ninety-seven years old and wracked with arthritis. She’s able to walk, but not well, and her joints creak like tree trunks in a heavy wind. When she gets home, she heads right to the liquor cabinet and takes … Continue reading Random Word Generator 01.03.24 →

Random Word Generator 12.30.23

Today's exercise features a cursed building project. AMPUTATE CONCRETE DILLEMA EYEBROW They amputate the church’s head, the steeple that long stretched supplicant toward heaven. They amputate the flying buttresses, replacing their steady support with that of scaffolding and tarp. They amputate the knobbed gargoyle, who goes on to haunt the construction workers, leering at them … Continue reading Random Word Generator 12.30.23 →

Random Word Generator 12.20.23

Today's exercise involves a conversation between two different military ranks. Shameless Catch-22 ripoff. SECULAR POSITIVE FOSTER DRAFT “You a secular man? “Secular, sir?” “Nonreligious?” “I’m a Lutheran, sir.” “So you’re a religious man?” “No, sir, I’m a Lutheran man.” Sgt. Sargent set his flagon upon the long wooden table a little too hard and squinted … Continue reading Random Word Generator 12.20.23 →

Random Word Generator 12.15.23

Today's exercise is a tribute to the legend Shane MacGowan. GLIMPSE LADDER HORIZON WEED The accordions and pennywhistles buoy Shane upward toward that glimpse of electric blue. The music’s swell is a physical one, a lightness in the chest, a shot of adrenaline through veins withered from years of whiskey and smoke. It’s a faraway … Continue reading Random Word Generator 12.15.23 →

Random Word Generator 12.12.23

Today's exercise features a conspiracy theorist with a knack for tinkering. SLEEVE EYEBROW INSTRUMENT EXCTINCT Ragbob blew his nose into his sleeve with a great honk. He had a handkerchief, but it was his nice handkerchief, and this was not nice mucus. Yellow green, flecked with fried blood and little black specks that surely portended … Continue reading Random Word Generator 12.12.23 →