just for fun
Dylan Deluge
A Musical Story Challenge
It was hard times on desolation row
these boots of Spanish leather had taken me 900 miles from home feelin’ like Jesse James I was lookin’ for Hazel but I ended up at Heaven's door. “Come all ye fair and tender ladies”, I cried as the door opened. Sarah Jane said, ”Well if it isn’t the man in the long black coat. Where are ya comin’ from?” “Oh, out on Hiway 61. Fightin’ for the Hurricane and fixin’ to die.” “Well,” she says, “Your sad-eyed lady has gone to Santa Fe. And it looks like a hard rain’s gonna fall and the levee’s gonna break. I’m headed up to the watchtower.” “Ahh, Guess I’ll grab a big yellow taxi and find my friend Mr. Tamborine Man. Then we’ll go find my girl from the North Country.” “Goodbye, Black Rider,” she said. “Via con Dios.”
We got out of town before the changing of the guards and headed down the highway like rolling stones.
Hope you enjoyed my story. If not, don’t think twice, it’s alright.
The idea of this challenge/prompt is to cram as many title references as possible into the fewest words and create a story. For those of you who are competitive, divide the total number of words in your story by the number of song titles to get your rating.
According to Michael Whalen, who received a score of 13.5 per reference, if you suck at math, or despise it, or both you automatically get a score of 100 and a blue ribbon.
My score = 176 words/26 song references = 6.76… which gets me a blue ribbon too.
If you want to play too ~ Publish your story anywhere, tagged with “Musical Story Challenge” so everyone can find it. Embed this story (so people know what to do) and include a few links to highlight fellow writers who have also taken a crack at it.
