Showing posts with label Random Title Game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random Title Game. Show all posts

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Stones In The Ships (Short Story)

One day, for a lark, I decided to play with a random title generator online. I clicked the button a number of times, flipping lists of randomly generated titles faster than I could read them. Then, I picked the three best titles on the list, picked one of those three, and started writing to see what would come of it.




This story is the result.





Stones in the Ships
By L. V. Gaudet
© January 28, 2010




The wet sound of waves lapping against waves danced with the wind in a unique chorus.

The world bobbed and rocked drunkenly. It was dark and dank, reeking of an old dampness that never dried out. It was the utterly unique odor that only trillions of gallons of water sitting forever in a cesspool of life and rotting detritus being eaten and defecated out by billions of creatures for a couple billions of years could have.

The cry of a solitary gull that had winged its way much too far from land pierced the air.

A distant buoy clanged.