Weekly Prompt Story: Making Other Plans

As those of you who follow me on twitter (@munsimunsi) already know, Laurence Simon did a charity episode of the 100 Word Stories Weekly Challenge this week to raise money for the Relay For Life. Money was donated based on the number of stories sent in, and due to the efforts of his loyal listeners, roughly $800 was raised all told, if I understand correctly. So good for him, good for everyone involved, and a hearty round of congratulations all around. Also, due to the charity nature of this weeks challenge, a whole HELL of a lot of stories! So if you want to listen to drabbles until you can no longer think straight (which you likely should want) this week's a unique opportunity to do so!

Here's some links to the episode, which had to be broken down into multiple parts due to the sheer volume of response the call for stories got:

http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/2012/07/15/weekly-challenge-325-life-rfl-challenge/
http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/2012/07/15/weekly-challenge-325-life-rfl-challenge-part-2/
http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/2012/07/15/weekly-challenge-325-life-rfl-challenge-part-3/
http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/2012/07/15/weekly-challenge-325-life-rfl-challenge-part-4/
http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/2012/07/15/weekly-challenge-325-life-rfl-challenge-part-5/

...again, congratulations to everyone involved. And, for those of you who like, here's the story I submitted.

Making Other Plans

By Chris Munroe

It’s been said that life’s what happens when you’re making other plans.

And that’s why I make a lot of plans.

Some general plans, moving in with the woman I love, reworking my schedule to include more time to write, those sorts of thing.

Others are grander plans, building superweapons, using them to subjugate mankind, world domination.

I’ll tell you, the second thing’s better.

With that in mind I’d like to offer an addendum to the expression.

Life’s what happens when you’re making other plans.

Living is what happens when you’re blackmailing the United Nations using an orbital weapons platform.