Tag: drabble
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Up In Smoke: One-Hundred-Word Story
An inner city high school was a frequent target of neighborhood vandals and thieves. But they disabled the alarm system and spray-painted over the video cameras, making it hard to catch them in the act. The district said there was no money to make the school secure again, so the principal hatched a plan. He…
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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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The White Horse Daydream | One-Hundred-Word Story
Wishful fiction meets stark reality.
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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…
