Final Writing Challenge, Ergo, What's the point?

The story takes place ten years into the future.

You won't remember reading this.

6-2-11

The story ends on a lake. The story takes place a thousand years into the future. During the story, a well-established leader steps down. The story must involve a bowl in it. A character gets a new hairstyle, but it is done for different reasons than people would expect.


Diligently placing each piece of hair into the bowl, Hank continued to explain the concept of time travel, "...and hair club for men eventually became so powerful, and accumulated so many clients, that it began to think for itself. As world banks crumbled, a new economy based on hair emerged. People began to pay for things with the weight of their hair. As technologies advanced and people became more desperate for hair, scientists discovered the only way to get hair back was to go back in time and transplant what hair you had. Thus, time travel. But, as Hair Club for Men became more powerful, it began sending stylists back in time to steal people's hair and make wigs for their highest paying clients, The Glam Rockers."

"So you made this lake to make it safe for people to time travel into the future and donate their hair to the resistance?"

"Yup."

6-1-11

The story takes place ten years in the past. During the story, there is a visit by an unexpected visitor. A character writes a book, but the action goes terribly wrong. A character is pessimistic throughout most of the story. During the story, a character moves to a different dwelling.

Geez, am I glad to see you. I've been working on writing this book, and all I can come up with is that Bruce Springsteen line about, "...lying in bed with the sheets soaking wet with a freight train running through the middle of my head..." and the other one about "...sitting around here trying to write this book..."
I'd tell you to stop trying, but if you like Bruce Springsteen, maybe you should just buy a set of headphones and sell the typewriter...there's a growing consensus of people who spend time worrying and praying for you. Between them and what you just told me, maybe a new place to live would encourage your writing skills.

5-31-11

The story must have a possum in it. The story must involve a medallion in it. A character becomes generous during the story.

We were all eating pork medallions on the porch, and then this little possum just scurried past, and after having three or four beers, I felt so generous I thought I'd give the little fella a bite to eat.
He was waddling a long really slow like, so I squatted down in front of him and shoved some pork medallions in his face. I had no idea possums had teeth. Turns out, that old saying, "Playing Possum" means something is dangerous, but hasn't started showing its true nature.
I always though it had something to do with using a possum as a football. Like a redneck thing or something.

5-30-11

During the story, an organization begins recruiting.

The World Health Organization just called. They want their fresh air back.

5-28-11