8/17/14

Introducing 151 Word Stories

From now on, every post here will be 151 word story. Why? Because you can light the rum on fire. Because it's a prime number and a palindrome. R.E.M. sang about it and I still don't know what it meant. It's a psalm, a sonnet, a song in a hymnal and the total number of Pokemon in the first set. It's about 5 months, which feels right. It's been 151 years since Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg, which hints at triumph.


There have been a few disasters that took the lives of 151 people, which makes it newsworthy but also limited in the grand scheme of disasters. It's slightly longer than a rule-of-thumb length for good marketing emails, and these are better than spam. It's a lucky number. The first story had 151 words and I needed a rule. It worked for Twitter. I'm more creative with restrictions. Why not?

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Berlin

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