World Builders Unlimited
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA GreatHites Production
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Moving
February 28, 2012 21:38As some times happens when you are building worlds, you have to move around a bit. That being the case, we have moved. http://worldbuildersunlimited.wordpress.com
Tribal Knowledge
February 23, 2012 11:58Tribal Knowledge a 100 word story Jeff Hite “I don’t understand what you mean. What is tribal knowledge?” “It is a simple concept. One tribe of people, say in the jungle, learns something, but does not share it with the other tribes.” “Why would they not share the information.” “It does not matter, the point is they don’t. So say a flood happens and that tribe is wiped out. That information is gone forever. That is why we log everything, so that if something happens we have a recor...
Separate Volume
February 21, 2012 16:02Separate Volume a 100 word story by Jeff Hite “It is with a heavy heart and and pitiful spirit that I bring you the news today. They have decided to split our work into two volumes.” The crowd gathered in front of him began to murmur, he knew he had to get it under control or there would be chaos. “Please, everyone settle down. We already have dividers within the group, we will just need to further subdivide. We have to keep the separate volumes untied as one. Though they will be div...
Count Dracula
February 21, 2012 15:00Count Dracula a 100 word story by Jeffrey Hite “That is not fair.” “What?” “Look at this, we all got the same thing again.” “What’s wrong with that? Do you think you should get more just because you are wearing a suit or something?” “Well no, but all you guys do is yell trick or treat, they always ask me to do something. I don’t think that is fair, if they are going to ask me to do something I should at least get something extra.” “What are you talking about I have not heard them as...
LIkeness
February 21, 2012 14:00Likeness A 100 word story by Jeff Hite “Well sure it looks like her, that is the point of a portrait isn’t it?” “I don’t know Jim, I just don’t know that this is a good idea.” “To be honest Tom I don’t care if you think it is a good Idea or not. What I want to know is if it is a good likeness of her.” “It is a good likeness alright, too good if you ask me. I mean really did you have to draw all the fangs?” “Of course I did... Wait did her eyes just twitch? I think she is looking at ...
The Turkey
February 20, 2012 20:08The Turkey A 100 word story By Jeff Hite “The Turkey is dead.” “Yes it is.” “That is the way we like it best.” “Yes, it is.” “We don’t like it alive.” “No we don’t” “The Turkey is dead because it’s head is cut off.” “That is right.” “The skin does not have any feathers.” “No they were taken off.” “We don’t like it with feathers.” “No they are hard to chew.” “I don’t like chewing feathers.” “I hope not.” “The turkey is dead, with no feathers and it’s head is cut off.” “Yes. L...
A Hole in the Ground
February 20, 2012 19:52A Hole in the Ground A 100 word story By Jeff Hite “Tim you said this place was a hole in the wall, I didn’t really think you were serious. This place is a real hole.” “Yeah, it is a bit, but man they serve the best fires here.” “Excuse me miss.” A man in a apron said standing next to their table. “Yes?” “Well you said that this place was a hole in the wall. I am the owner and I take exception to that.” “I didn’t mean insult you, I...” “Since it is actually below ground, it is a hol...
Five Rivers to Publish A Method To the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil
January 31, 2012 15:42Five Rivers to Publish A Method To the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil Villains rejoice! Co-editors, Michell Plested and Jeffrey Hite have reached an agreement with Five Rivers (www.5rivers.org) to publish the anthology, A Method To the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil. A Method To the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil will be a tongue-in-cheek anthology of short essays aimed to guide the up-and-coming mad scientist to success in a career of supervillainry. A Method To the Madness...
Update
January 23, 2012 20:12I just wanted to give you an update and let you know that I have not dropped off the face of the earth. I have been a bit busy, but I am getting back into the swing of things and the stories will come back pretty soon here. Like I hope to have a few 100 word stories again this week. In the mean time, I do have an announcement. Late last week, I released a short story on SmashwWords. The story is called Cargo and it is in my Mars Colony universe. You can get a copy of it here for only ...
Read Meat
January 16, 2012 14:00Read Meat By Jeff Hite “Gary,” his doctor began, “you have to cut out some things from your diet. Not more kindles not more ipads or iphones, in general no more read meat.” “You mean, red meat right doc?” “No Gary, if I had meant red meat, I would have said red meat, I mean no more read meat. You’ve been consuming entirely too much technology of late.” “But I can’t get over the stuff I love it.” “Well you have got to stop.” “But what harm is it doing? I mean isn’t tech good?” “Yes,...
No Squid Left behind
January 15, 2012 14:00No Squid Left Behind By Jeff Hite Water world was a terrible movie. I don’t think anyone will argue that. But I think I have thought of a way that it could be a lot better. What if you introduced giant sea creatures to it. I mean if the entire planet was covered with water, there would be more oceans for them to grow in. Little things could get bigger and big things could be gianormous. Can you imagine a ten foot Maryland blue crab? And what about the epic battles between the Super b...
Hansel and Regrettel
January 14, 2012 14:00Hansel and Regrettel By Jeff Hite “I really think we should go back now.” Grettel said to her brother. “But if we go back now, you know mother is just going to throw us out again.” “I really wish we had not broken the milk jar.” “Well if you hadn’t started swinging the broom around.” “I know I know.” “Do you think we should have let the geese out when we left? I mean that did seem like a little bit over over kill, and besides they caused us to be lost.” “Look quit complaining Regre...
Exoplanet
January 13, 2012 14:00Exoplanet By Jeff Hite “The Idea of exoplanets is so cool don’t you think?” “I don’t know Betty, I mean it is neat that there are other planets out there, but what good are they going to do us?” “Come on Jed use your imagination. What kind of life could be out there?” “I’m using my imagination, and I can see some pretty strange life right here. I mean have you ever been to L.A. or what about West Mineral Kansas, those folks are weird with that giant digging machine.” “It is called Big B...
The Fix
January 12, 2012 14:00The Fix By Jeff Hite John looked at his watch. “20 minutes.” He could not believe that it had only been 20 minutes. “What is this stuff, that it only lasts 20 minutes.” He looked at the packaging. “Quick fix, for when you just can’t wait for the real stuff. Warning this product is not meant for long term use and may only resolve your problems for a short amount of time.” He could hear the announcer's voice in his head as he read it. He sighed, “Well I guess you get what you pay fo...
Detention
January 11, 2012 14:00Detention By Jeff Hite “The big house, jail, the slammer, detention, whatever you want to call it, yeah I spend some time there, why?” “Well I don’t know if Joe is read for a girl that has spent time behind bars.” “Why what’s he got against us jail birds?” “Well nothing, but you see he just lost his wife and well he is kind of on the rebound, I don’t know if he is really ready for anyone.” “What are you his mother?” “No, but I am his friend, and I don’t want to see Joe get hurt ok?” “...
Mine
January 10, 2012 14:00Mine By Jeff Hite “Mine!” The demon in the parking garage screamed. “But this is my spot.” Steve whined. “Mine.” The demon screamed again this time advancing on his car. “But, really I have the parking tag and everything.” “Mine, mine, mine!” “Look I understand you are upset but I paid for this spot.” “Mine.” “I don’t know what I want you to do?” The demon looked at him for a moment, tilting its head to one side. “You have to go down to the parking office and tell them they gave yo...
Skipping stones
January 09, 2012 14:00Skipping Stones By Jeff Hite Skipping Stones Audio “Well Sam there are a couple of things that you could do. The first, you could cut out most of the fatty foods, including the red meat and then you need to cut out things like milk and citrus at the same meal. They tend to calcify and that what causes these stones in the first place. However, you are going to have to pass these. We can try to break these up using ultra sound but it will not be much fun I’m afraid. Any questions?” The ...
The Speed of Pie and Ice Cream
January 08, 2012 21:29The Speed of Pie and Ice Cream By Jeff Hite I once had someone one ask me what the speed of light was, the answer is one. It is always one. One foot per nanosecond. It is not exact, but at that kind of measurement who is really counting. Besides, if you were going to do any real calculations with it you would need to convert everything else from meters to feet and nanoseconds. And since there are 3.28 feet per meter, it makes the other numbers kind of messy. But if you want to bet you...
The Mars Colony Thought Experiment
December 30, 2011 21:10The idea of a Martian Colony is nothing new. Buzz Aldrin, you know the second man on the moon, himself has said that we need to skip the moon all together and head to Mars not as an expedition of scientists and researchers, but as a group of people who would start a colony. Great thinking and physicist Steven Hawking has said, and I am para phrasing here, The longer we keep all of our population on Earth with out expansion the more likely it is that some terrible thing will happen to wipe u...
I Vacuum
December 30, 2011 12:19I Vacuum By Jeffrey Hite Every night I vacuum the rug. Every morning I wake up and there are foot prints on my rug. I vacuum. Foot prints. I vacuum. Foot prints. Little tiny foot prints! Finally a bought a night vision, inferred camera. I caught the little beasts making foot prints all over my rug. They were little elves or gnomes or something. I also caught them fixing the broken wires on my stereo, and the loose screws in the furniture. They did everything, everything that i...
The Princess
December 29, 2011 15:30The Princess By Jeff Hite The Princess lay in her tower asleep for nearly 100 years. The Prince, selected to be the one to wake her after generations, stood over her watching the seconds tick by. Hhe had made his way through the thorn forest and and the castle grounds he had seen the people whose lives would or had already ended with this one kiss. It didn’t seem fair, the other men who had died thinking they could fight past the trees to inherit the kingdom, the servants who slept and...
The Llama
December 29, 2011 14:00“I just wish she would use my real name when she checks us into our hotels, but she thinks it is funny.” “Well there is really no harm is there?” “The really problem is not that those people out there think they’re here for someone else, it is that she thinks that they are here for her. When she goes down there to sign autographs they won’t even know who she is. And she gets pissed, and that never ends well for anyone.” “I don’t get it. What name does Ms. Parton use” “She sign’s me in as D...
The Boy Who Never Laughed
December 28, 2011 16:32The Boy Who Never Laughed By J. Hite “There was a boy who lived in this house at one time, why do you ask?” The realtor asked. “Oh no reason.” The little boy replied twisting his finger. “Well it was a very sad story about him." ” “Did he die here?” “Oh no nothing like that. He didn’t have any friends.” “Why didn’t he have any friends, was he ugly? Did he smell bad? I know I bet it was that he was mean, and shove people’s heads into their lockers.” “No nothing like that. He alway...
The Ship
December 28, 2011 12:26The Ship By J. Hite “It was there and then it wasn’t I tell ya.” “Alright Gramps but was it there when you pulled the collision alarm?” “It was there, I might be old but I am not stupid.” “Well... So tell us about this ship you think you saw.” “It was pretty foggy.” “So maybe it wasn’t there?” “It was there! It was there, It has three masts.” “So a sailing rig?” “Exactly. It was moving slowly, only the main sail was up. But it was right in front of us. Then it wasn’t.” “Hmm sound...
The Christmas Clause
December 25, 2011 18:00Claus stepped out of the advent towers feeling like he had missed something. He had gone in there to, to. To what, he couldn’t remember. “What did you do?” The complex owner asked. “He said the towers were going to have to come down, because he kept disappearing.” “So what did you do?” “Well I brought him in here to talk about turning the reality dampers down a bit...” “And...” “Well I turned them all the way up. I think he lost part of his memory of the event. The part where ...