The Storystarter

You probably thought that Drew Barrymore’s character in The Firestarter was dangerous, but that was before you were introduced to The Storystarter.

After the troll ordered his pet tapeworm Tina to bite the ogre’s testicles off, things turned ugly.

The parasite bored through the former president’s skull. The thought of laying her eggs in his brain was a boring one. Someone had already done so. She wondered what kind of mother was willing to raise her children in such a barren landscape.

“It’s an optical illusion created by the microchip the government inserted into your cerebrum,” the flat Earther explained, after I asked him why we always saw the masts of the yachts first. It was the most plausible sounding nonsense I’d heard from him yet. Just last week he was telling me…

“Every intelligent person, who does their own research, knows that the reptilians would never let Earthlings land on the moon, not in 1969, not now and not in 2025 man,” said the man who does his own research.

“Shut up and kiss me darling” the George Costansa lookalike said to Tracy’s pet ostrich. That bold romantic gesture may not end well. The surgical team are still searching frantically for his tongue.

There’s no man in the moon tonight, not unless he’s wearing a mini-skirt and waving pom poms to cheer on the dawn.

The dragon sculpted a tap dancer from flames, and the xylophone its twinkling toes played.

“Is that mayonnaise, pimple pus, or something else splattered all over your ugly face, the man with a death wish asked the hypersensitive, homophobic bikie.

The gentle moonlight turned the giant’s teardrops into glistening billabongs.

The joy ridden hearse crashed into the crematorium.


Feel free to use my list of story starters to trigger your own ideas, that’s what I wrote them for. If you quote or paraphrase my work, make sure you acknowledge the source though.


© Rodney Hunter, 2023





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