Micro Fiction Challenge: Callipygian
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I love learning new words. Especially new words that make me giggle and are totally unnecessary, like this month’s micro fiction challenge word, callipygian.
Callipygian comes from Ancient Greek: “kalli,” meaning beautiful, and “pugḗ,” meaning buttocks.
That’s right, gang. We have a word in the English language to define beautiful buttocks. Because why say “He/she/it has beautiful buttocks” when you can say “He/she/it is callipygian.”
(Seems an appropriate choice, coming just a few short weeks after we took a (too-) deep look at break of poop.)
Accepted alternative: callipygous, which you’re free to use instead for this challenge.
The challenge being: Write a short story, in twenty-five words or fewer, that includes callipygian/callipygous.
Be funny, be creative, be bold. Make us laugh, make us cry. Make us do both, if you can.
Leave your micro fiction in the comments section below. Use a pseudonym if you’re shy. Click “Notify” to follow the competition. Enter as many times as you’d like.
And there’s a prize! We still have a whole heap of books to give away, so the winner of this game gets to choose two titles from our list.
So settle into that callipygous indent in your chair and get writing!
I don’t have a story yet, but two things:
1) First!
2) I note that you use a statue of David, David, to represent callipygianess. Well-done.
Do you love women with beautiful buttocks? Call
Ipygous today to speak with beautiful buttocked
ladies in your area. Dial 479-4687. Call IPY-GOUS
now!
Diplomacy
They sent a callipygian emissary to diffuse the situation. It was not a success. Discussions were characterized by distraction, thus little was accomplished.
Admiring his callipygian derrière in the mirror,
he tripped over Calli (his micro pig).
Result: PRATFALL!
Painfully
Red
And
Totally
Formless
Ass
Lacking
Loveliness
Bananas are usually eaten without cooking them. Callipygian. However, some people like eating them cooked.
When the girl was leaning over a wall to throw up, a drunk guy called her callipygous and left. She was confused.
Roses are red.
Skies are blue.
Callipygians for you.
The cake broke in two halves when a woman jumped out of it. The man had just one though: She is really callipygian.
I’m staring at the female. Her big, red buttocks. She’s really callipygian. I’m staring without shame.
Next to me a sign reads: The Wildzoo – Baboons
DICTIONARY
callipers, callisthenics, call letters, callous, calloused, callow, call-up, callus, calm
No callipygian.
I was furious.
I turned on my computer.
“You are *really* callipygian,” he said.
“What?’ she said. “Call a pigeon?”
“Coo,” he said.
“Coo coo,” she said.
“One o’clock,” he said.
The callipygous shape in the painting isthe obvious focal point of this reclining nude!!
Well gosh, folks, I’m really slacking on my duties here. I should have posted a winner last week. I wish I could scream “You’re all winners!” like that Seinfeld character from what feels like thirty years ago but in actuality is only from … almost thirty years ago. Gulp! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9b3_O7hEl4 This was a tough one; more than a few of you made me laugh, and you all really got into the spirit of callipygiatude. The winner is: AJAX! Who got me with the creativity of breaking the word into two but still making it work, and for writing “beautiful buttocked.”… Read more »