Tag: 100 word story
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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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Half-Moon Surprise: One-Hundred-Word Story
They first met one morning at a local bakery. Each came for their favorite half-moon cookies, but left as friends. Bill moved away, but he and Jill kept in touch. One morning, when she came for cookies, a photo of him, looking surprised, was taped to a toothpick in the middle of the half-moons. She…
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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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Doug and Charlie: Charlie’s Trade | One-Hundred-Word Story
It’s an interesting dynamic between zoologist and squirrel monkey. Doug’s tree house in the mid-level canopy of the Amazon is a research station to study the local primate population, but Charlie doesn’t know that. To him, this is a fascinating stranger with plenty of tempting objects to investigate. Charlie also deploys his daring nature to…
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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…
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In the Time We Have | One-Hundred-Word Story
“I don’t wanna wait til tomorrow,” he texted back with a shaky index finger. The middle-aged dad’s face scrunched up as deep furrows formed on his sweaty brow. Tim put the phone down on his hospital bed. He’d asked his adult son to call, but the young man messaged back, “I’ll talk with you tomorrow,…
