The rules of 130Story are simple: given a random seed word, write a story in 130 characters.

Export

Selling to the Prussian Democratic Federation is painful. Masses of paperwork. Why do they make it so hard to export to the PDF? #130story

— Ed Broom (@edbroom) August 10, 2017

Crop

First day of term, Merv takes a deliberately bad group snap of the photography freshers, then asks:
"How d'you like the new crop?" #130story

— Ed Broom (@edbroom) August 9, 2017

Larger

Dad was really keen to visit the model village. Took us 15 minutes to see everything.
"I thought," said Dad, "it might be larger." #130story

— Ed Broom (@edbroom) August 9, 2017

Intend

"Balloon modelling? Don't make me laugh!"
"That's what I intend to do," I said.
You, my idol, sneered.
I'm hopelessly deflated. #130story

— Ed Broom (@edbroom) August 7, 2017

More to follow.