<description>&lt;div class="libsyn-modal__body modal-body"&gt; &lt;div class="px-2"&gt; &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 special holiday episode, the 100 Word Cycle has been used to write a longer-form piece, told from the point of view of an advert designed to sell milk products to British children in the 1960s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'I am the Milky Bar Kid,'&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/tom-mcnally.bsky.social"&gt;Tom McNally.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style= "font-weight: 400;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Music is 'My Sugar' by Frank Banta, published 1924 and in the public domain. &lt;a href= "https://archive.org/details/1920sPOP-CompleteNewTransfers/10.MySugar.mp3"&gt; It is available on archive.org.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&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; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description>

100 Words of Astounding Beauty

Red Button Audio

s04eX1 - Christmas Special 2025 - I am the Milky Bar Kid

DEC 23, 202531 MIN
100 Words of Astounding Beauty

s04eX1 - Christmas Special 2025 - I am the Milky Bar Kid

DEC 23, 202531 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 special holiday episode, the 100 Word Cycle has been used to write a longer-form piece, told from the point of view of an advert designed to sell milk products to British children in the 1960s. 'I am the Milky Bar Kid,' by Tom McNally. Visit us on our website, on Instagram, and send us a story on [email protected]. Created by Tom McNally. Music is 'My Sugar' by Frank Banta, published 1924 and in the public domain. It is available on archive.org. Track art by Tom McNally. Support 100 Words of Astounding Beauty through our Ko-Fi.