Tag: bittersweet
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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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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…
