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Dethroning The King: Taking Down Charles Roast

Oh, now you’ve done it.

You’re going to get it, Chuckie Boy!

You’re toast! Or is it roast?

I am going to dethrone you from your self-appointed place at the top of Illumination’s Writing Kingdom.

You think you are the most popular one, huh? As much as I hate to admit it, you might have a point there; I don’t know what it would be, but you just might have one.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t dethrone you, funny guy. You just woke up a Sleeping Giant. All five feet, three and a half inches of him.

You are just jealous that I am mentioned in two and three quarters more interviews than you are, and you want to draw everyone’s attention so they would mention you in the future interviews.

Well, it’s not going to work, buddy boy, because I am buckled down to spoil your plans.

First, I will tag every new writer whom Dr Mehmet Yildiz mentions in his daily posts and tattle on you, and warn them not to laugh at any of your stories; it will be a disaster for their career on Illumination if they did.

Next, I will mosey on over to Timothy Key’s story about new and upcoming writers who have impressed him, and I will campaign to them for myself and any other stale and dull writer I can think of as the funniest writers on Illumination.

And don’t even think that it is beneath me to stoop as low as getting Kevin Buddaeus to join in on my campaign. Because I just did. So, take that, Mr. King of Humor and Satire.

I thought about getting Holly Jahangiri in on this one, but she is the queen of eloquence, and might be in with you, so I thought better of it.

Oh, I almost forgot. From now on, I am going to tag every story and response I write with humor just to mess with the algorithms to make sure I get on the Top Writers list for humor. What do you think of that, huh?

I wrote this in response to the challenge by the unmistakable Charles Roast to write a humorous story. Thank you, Your Majesty, for your magnanimity and encouragement. It is good to have a diversity in your writing style and content.

Now, I pass the gauntlet over to conny manero, Abha Choudhary, Douglas Ervin, Hank Edson, and Zach J. Watson. Honorable mention: Desiree Driesenaar who wants to be entertaining, not boring.

As always, thank you for reading and responding.

More about me:

Rasheed Hooda is a published author and a regular contributor to ILLUMINATION, a writers’ community on Medium where writers support each other.

He is a self-proclaimed weirdo who lives a Freedom Lifestyle and writes about related topics — Travel (a top writer), Personal Growth, Freedom, and entrepreneurship. (Get the Newsletter)

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