Category: drabble
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Reflective Glass: One-Hundred-Word Story
Carol sits in a sunny restaurant booth. Looking out the window, she fixates on a pickup with a white camper shell. It’s her home now, since she became unemployed. The manager allows her to sit in the eatery, providing her with free water and day-old pastries. Thump! she’s startled as a bird flies into the…
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Doug and Charlie: A Sure Sign of Trust | One-Hundred-Word Story
After The Satellite Swap, zoologist Doug realizes he’s crossing an ethical line with the squirrel monkeys. Trading a banana slice to get his fountain pen back from a primate ambassador is one thing, but feeding troop members from his treehouse deck is another. He decides to keep interacting with Charlie, but stow his important research…
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Stenciled Dreams | One-Hundred-Word Story
A long-retired farmer found his first “gift from the heavens,” as he calls it, when it fell from orbit and landed in his field. Since then, he has recovered several more pieces of space junk on his back forty. He’s out in the barn most evenings, welding and hammering, building a spacecraft. Harold plans to…
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Return to Origin | One-Hundred-Word Story
This is the fourth and final installment in The Inconvenient Apocalypse. If you missed the previous parts of Sarah’s cosmic breakfast saga, catch up on Part 1: Off Script, Part 2: Extinction with a Side of Coffee, and Part 3: The Binary Breakfast. Bernie’s Log — Stardate 2312: The humanoid who identifies as Sarah is…
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The Binary Breakfast | One-Hundred-Word Story
This is the third installment in The Inconvenient Apocalypse. If you’re just joining Sarah’s cosmic morning routine, catch up on Part 1: Off Script and Part 2: Extinction with a Side of Coffee. When Sarah teleports to a local Starbucks with her alien sidekick Bernie, she’s surprised to find no line inside. Plus, there are…
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Untangled | One-Hundred-Word Story
Walking on the beach helped Ron build his strength, after the left side of his body was debilitated by a stroke. All sorts of things wash up on the seashore: driftwood, seaweed, and dead fish, to name a few. One morning, he found something peculiar: a ball of tangled steel wire. He took it home…
