Tag: micro fiction
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Don’t Pen Me In – 100 Word Tale
“Gather round youngins. Hear the story when we saved farmer Brown’s a….” “‘Apples’, right Lester?” “That would be what I was to say. This here trashed building is a testament to your great, great, who knows how great, grandmama. One Henrietta Leghorn who had the b…” “‘Brains’, Lester?” “Yes, right, the brains to know the…
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Love, Not Love, Who Knows? 100 Word
“No sane girl should dream about marriage. It’s oppressive to women.”“In the 1950s maybe.” Elle paused at the Thrift store window. “Marriage is a public declaration of love.”“Really? Half the high school is married then. Would be right for divorce to be a public declaration of not love.”“Divorce doesn’t always mean people don’t love each…
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Let Me Go – StormWeaver Episode #24
Mine is an empty threat.I won’t rattle these stones.There’s no telling what they’ll do.“I’m going home.”Rose jumps up with amazing speed and grabs my arm.“No! Don’t go.”Chloe cries, face in hands, scrunched into the couch.Just a day ago I was fine,No one in my life, only Maggie cat.“Talk to her,” I say to Rose. “You…