Comments on: Bottomless Pit of Adorable Babies http://www.nameyourtale.com/bottomless-pit-of-adorable-babies/ 100-Word Stories: You Name Them, We Write Them Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:03:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nick http://www.nameyourtale.com/bottomless-pit-of-adorable-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Nick Fri, 08 May 2009 15:36:36 +0000 http://www.nameyourtale.com/?p=779#comment-179 Hey, thanks for posting that, "Glen." Very Kelly-Link-ish. Hope you liked Jeremy's version as much as I did! Hey, thanks for posting that, “Glen.” Very Kelly-Link-ish. Hope you liked Jeremy’s version as much as I did!

]]> By: Glen Canyon Dam http://www.nameyourtale.com/bottomless-pit-of-adorable-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Glen Canyon Dam Fri, 08 May 2009 14:56:59 +0000 http://www.nameyourtale.com/?p=779#comment-178 I submitted this title because I had written a piece of flash fiction (~150 words) and wanted to see how the idea would flow into something else. Here's my original story (which was actually titled "Glen Canyon Dam"): We'd traveled hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of miles into the deepest recesses of the desert land to see the Bottomless Pit of Babies for ourselves. We all peered down into the abyss, my father holding me up over the edge for a better look. "See, look over at those ones. They're trying to climb out. Isn't that the cutest?" We all peered down into the seething, teeming bowl of fresh babies--mewling, crawling, naked, red, and raw, faces scrunched and fists balled, crying out for the mothers from which they'd be ripped away, screaming at the fathers that let them go. Yeah, it was a bottomless pit of babies. That was for sure. And we all saw it. Paid for the pleasure, even. Oh, and they even set one up for display up there. So we could all see what they looked like, up close. But it was just a baby. I submitted this title because I had written a piece of flash fiction (~150 words) and wanted to see how the idea would flow into something else. Here’s my original story (which was actually titled “Glen Canyon Dam”):

We’d traveled hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of miles into the deepest recesses of the desert land to see the Bottomless Pit of Babies for ourselves. We all peered down into the abyss, my father holding me up
over the edge for a better look.

“See, look over at those ones. They’re trying to climb out. Isn’t that the cutest?”
We all peered down into the seething, teeming bowl of fresh babies–mewling, crawling, naked, red, and raw, faces scrunched and fists balled, crying out for the mothers from which they’d be ripped away, screaming at the fathers that let them go.

Yeah, it was a bottomless pit of babies. That was for sure. And we all saw it. Paid for the pleasure, even. Oh, and they even set one up for display up there. So we could all see what they looked like, up close.

But it was just a baby.

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