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August 15, 2014 By Linda Weber

Guess Who Wrote This – The Word Factory

The Word FactoryTHE WORD FACTORY (MACHINE)

I went out into my garage. When I opened the door, a wave of heat hit my face as a dry Las Vegas afternoon baked my work space to a toasty 130 degrees. My wife had the dryer going, its shoom-shoom, thump-thump talked to me from the left corner. I also detected the aroma of wet towels and a softener sheet.

In the middle of the floor, my large word machine stood silent, waiting. Since I manufacture my own words, I had to spring for my own equipment, at great expense, I might add. However, I’ve been busy with my real job, so I hadn’t had time to make any words for a while. As a result, my machine, painted a light-blue, became covered with sawdust (since I’m also a woodworker). The sawdust mingled with regular dust and oil leaking from several bad gaskets. Underneath, a small puddle of hydraulic fluid had spread on the floor, congealed with a mix of more sawdust and to my chagrin, metal shavings.

I wiped the sweat off my brow, weaved around my band saw and our treadmill, and reached for the circuit breaker on the wall. The status light on the control panel glowed red, showing that power reached the relay panel. So far, so good.

I approached the machine, flipped the power button and pulled down on the engagement lever. The machine hummed to life. Gears ground, pistons activated, cylinders compressed. The floor shook, sawdust fell from the rafters, the lights dimmed. With a faint rumble, the machine spit out a word.

Wkndui93je9&$%(*

Hmmm…

Guess I need to tweak the controls a bit.

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Comments

  1. Paul Atreides says

    August 18, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    Donald Riggio

  2. Lauren says

    August 25, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    Fred Rayworth??

  3. Lauren Tallman says

    August 31, 2014 at 12:27 am

    Toni???

    • Gigi Honour says

      September 3, 2014 at 7:44 am

      That would also be my first instinctive guess after only reading a paragraph. But, that would be far to easy.

  4. Nancy Sansone says

    August 31, 2014 at 8:26 pm

    I think Rick NEWBERRY wrote the Word Factory Machine. Very well written. The detail was great. Can picture the whole scene.

  5. donald riggio says

    September 4, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    Darrah Whitaker

  6. Gregory says

    September 4, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    Fred?

  7. Christina Willis says

    September 6, 2014 at 3:10 am

    I think it’s Fred Rayworth.

  8. toni says

    September 27, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    Doug Davy?

  9. Barb Wolfe says

    November 15, 2014 at 4:04 am

    I have no idea, but I loved it.

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