Weekly Prompt: Altered Clichés

Change one word in a cliché and write a story based on your changed cliché

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You’re going to have fun with this week’s microfiction prompt:

Take a well-known cliché, substitute one word, and write a story based on your altered cliché.

For example:

Don’t cry over spilled milk → Don’t die over spilled milk

All’s fair in love and war → All’s fair in love and Lego

Who let the cat out of the bag? → Who let the fart out of the bag?

They lived happily ever after → They live drunkenly ever after

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen → If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the submarine

See what I mean? These stories are going to be a blast. Feel free to write something funny, sad, happy, scary, a thriller, a romance, a science fiction story, or whatever moves you.

Note the original cliché in your story’s afterword.

Stories can be up to 250 words.

Please include one of the following tags with your story:

6wordstory for stories that are exactly six words long
Pentina for stories that are exactly 50 words long
Centina for stories that are exactly 100 words long
OneSentenceStory for stories that are told entirely in one sentence
PostcardFiction for all the rest, stories that are 250 words or fewer