<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we slip off our marks with filth on our plimsolls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;The stories are:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;'The Tryouts,'&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;a href= "https://www.instagram.com/theydyamelia/"&gt;Amelia Armande,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'100 Metre Backbreak,'&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@the.joshua.crisp"&gt;Joshua Crisp&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'The Scatological League,'&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;a href= "https://www.instagram.com/fleurshorthousestoryteller"&gt;Fleur Shorthouse-Hemmings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href= "https://www.instagram.com/fleurshorthouse/"&gt;,&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href= "https://www.saunastoryteller.com/"&gt;Sauna Storyteller,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'The Fall of Populism,'&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;a href= "https://www.instagram.com/ella.louise.22/"&gt;Ella Brasington,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'My Laurence's devilled eggs,'&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/tom-mcnally.bsky.social"&gt;Tom McNally.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Featuring listener submission:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;'The Stamp Acts'&lt;/strong&gt; by Brooklyn Monet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Amelia Armande is performing 'Dionysus' at &lt;a href="https://www.b-l-a-s-t.co.uk/events"&gt;Blast Storytelling&lt;/a&gt; in Shropshire, &lt;a href= "https://shaggydogstorytellers.com/coming-up"&gt;Shaggy Dog Storytelling&lt;/a&gt; in Hebden Bridge and &lt;a href= "https://www.sfs.org.uk/listings/"&gt;Beeston Tales&lt;/a&gt; in Cheshire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Also, come and see work by Amelia and by Tom McNally at &lt;a href= "https://colonnadehouse.co.uk/event/creativity-continues/"&gt;Creativity Continues&lt;/a&gt; at Colonnade House, Worthing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Visit us on &lt;a href= "https://www.100wordsofastoundingbeauty.com"&gt;our website,&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href= "https://www.instagram.com/100WordsOfAstoundingBeauty/"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;, and send us a story &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="mailto:100words@redbuttonaudio.org"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;story@100wordsofastoundingbeauty.com.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Created by Tom McNally, featuring Amelia Armande, Joshua Crisp, Fleur Shorthouse-Hemmings and Ella Brasington.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Theme tune is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href= "https://bell-lungs.bandcamp.com/track/music-for-jellyfish"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Music For Jellyfish&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href= "https://bell-lungs.com/author/sonicallydepicting/"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;Bell Lungs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Story music is by &lt;a href= "https://www.patreon.com/johnbartmann/"&gt;John Bartmann&lt;/a&gt;, released under a &lt;a href= "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en"&gt;CC-BY license,&lt;/a&gt; featuring:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href= "https://johnbartmann.bandcamp.com/album/making-soundtracks-is-easy-album-three"&gt; Coffee Time Rock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href= "https://johnbartmann.bandcamp.com/album/hide-and-sneak-9-sneaky-funny-music-packs-cc-by"&gt; Jailbreak Whispers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href= "https://johnbartmann.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-like-a-dad-band"&gt;Let's Hit the Bar Fridge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href= "https://johnbartmann.bandcamp.com/album/public-domain-royalty-free-no-copyright-soundtrack-music-album-one"&gt; Gameshow Brazz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href= "https://johnbartmann.bandcamp.com/album/80s-action-montage-cc-by-creative-commons-music"&gt; Born a Tiger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Track art by Tom McNally.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://ko-fi.com/redbuttonaudio"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;Support 100 Words of Astounding Beauty through our Ko-Fi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

100 Words of Astounding Beauty

Red Button Audio

s04e06 - Lad Race

MAR 20, 202644 MIN
100 Words of Astounding Beauty

s04e06 - Lad Race

MAR 20, 202644 MIN

Description

A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we slip off our marks with filth on our plimsolls. The stories are: 'The Tryouts,' by Amelia Armande, '100 Metre Backbreak,' by Joshua Crisp, 'The Scatological League,' by Fleur Shorthouse-Hemmings, of Sauna Storyteller, 'The Fall of Populism,' by Ella Brasington, 'My Laurence's devilled eggs,' by Tom McNally. Featuring listener submission: 'The Stamp Acts' by Brooklyn Monet Amelia Armande is performing 'Dionysus' at Blast Storytelling in Shropshire, Shaggy Dog Storytelling in Hebden Bridge and Beeston Tales in Cheshire. Also, come and see work by Amelia and by Tom McNally at Creativity Continues at Colonnade House, Worthing. Visit us on our website, on Instagram, and send us a story on [email protected]. Created by Tom McNally, featuring Amelia Armande, Joshua Crisp, Fleur Shorthouse-Hemmings and Ella Brasington. Theme tune is Music For Jellyfish by Bell Lungs. Story music is by John Bartmann, released under a CC-BY license, featuring: Coffee Time Rock Jailbreak Whispers Let's Hit the Bar Fridge Gameshow Brazz Born a Tiger Track art by Tom McNally. Support 100 Words of Astounding Beauty through our Ko-Fi.