A new story from Bob From Bottles

Bob From Bottles had a crisis of faith in himself, I think, deleted all his stories, and left the site about 9 weeks ago. But he won the last write-off with a cute 750-word Pinkie story, "A Simple Prank". It's a great little story, and also interesting how all the "action" takes place off-stage. This is entirely a "tell-don't-show" story. The first action happens before the story, and you can easily figure out what happened from what the ponies say to each other about it. The "main action" happens off-stage, and you can guess what it was from what Pinkie asks Twilight at the end.

I still don't know what "From Bottles" means.

Comments

[xjuggernaughtx]

If I remember correctly, where he worked (or maybe still works), "Bottles" was a department. Over the intercom they'd say "Bob from Bottles" when he was needed.

[Themaskedferret]

I still wish someone had managed to save his works so I could read them again.

[Emptybee]

I remember that story. It's pretty cute. I'm sorry to hear about Bob's crisis of faith.

From his RCL interview:

How did you come up with your handle/penname?

I used to work at a grocery store as a service clerk. I usually bagged groceries, but I would also often be assigned to clean the bottle room (basically a mini recycling center for glass, plastic, and aluminum bottles/cans). One day, a manager summoned me up front over the loudspeaker, and rather than just use my name, they called me Bob from bottles. My friends thought it was funny since the way the manager spoke made the bottle room sound like a prestigious position instead of the grunt work it really was. Later on, I jokingly wrote a series of short stories about a group of service clerks dealing with unlikely scenarios while trying to do their daily jobs. I used Bob from Bottles as my penname for those stories and kept using it ever since.

[nothingtoseehere]

Good god but that was hilarious. Now I'm sorry to have missed the Bob From Bottles bandwagon.

[Titanium Dragon]

I think the funniest thing from the latest episode of the show itself was when Spike said that the only thing he could think of to restore his confidence was going back in time before he lit the torch, and Twilight sat there wordlessly for a while, pondering, before Cadance cut in smoothly and said that you can't go back in time.

Which was definitely not her telling Twilight to stop thinking about breaking the laws of physics (again) in order to spare Spike a little embarrassment. Because we all know Twilight would never do a thing like that.

[TheJediMasterEd]

Aw, and I liked his stuff!

[Axis of Rotation]

I wholeheartedly second this; his entry was great. That might not sound like much, given it was only 750 words, but trust me, writing a story (and a good one too) that short was a challenge. He did an awesome job (and everyone else had great entries too).

[Silent Strider]

It's one of the best usages of the Noodle Incident I've ever seen.

[city street]

Has anyone tried using the wayback machine to find his old stories?

[Hupman]

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I didn't have any luck with the wayback machine but I found An Imaginative Performance here:
http://jlryan.deviantart.com/art/An-Imaginative-Performance-eReader-299685525

[Titanium Dragon]

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I actually ended up writing a story because of this, though it is pretty much the opposite of Bob's story.

[TheGreatEater]

Do you know why he deleted all of his works and made his user profile unfindable?

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FimFetch has all of his works.