Tag: drabble
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Extinction with a Side of Coffee | One-Hundred-Word Story
This is the second installment in The Inconvenient Apocalypse. If you missed the cliffhanger in part one, you can catch up on Off Script first! Centara is such a beautiful planet, but Sarah doesn’t know how she got there. Her alien concierge, Bernie, explains. “You’ve been brought to the future, to a world once known…
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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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Local Pickup Only | One-Hundred-Word Story
Note: This is the fourth and final installment of Tom’s time-travel saga. Read the complete series here:Part One: As IsPart Two: User ErrorPart Three: Warm Reception The clock is ticking for Tom, who arrived by mistake in 2026 BC at an Armenian sheep pasture. He can see torches in the distance, coming from a village.…
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User Error | One-Hundred-Word Story
Note: This is the 100-word sequel to yesterday’s 50-word dribble, As Is. Day seven. Tom simply cannot spend another twenty-four hours in the maddening time loop. Scrounging, he discovers a book under the passenger seat of the DeLorean: Time Travel For Dummies. As the castaway scans the table of contents, his eyes widen: “What to…
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The 1000th Dollar | One-Hundred-Word Story
Every morning, a woman arrives at her bank. “I want to withdraw one dollar from my account, please.” The employees assume she’s just lonely. But why a dollar? This goes on for years. Until one day, the gray-haired matron doesn’t appear. Concerned, the bank manager calls the police. Inside the lady’s tidy home, they find…
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Cedar Surprise | One-Hundred-Word Story
From inside the house I heard it, a high-pitched whistle, “Tssee.” It was soft, almost electrical, and coming from the western redcedar out front. I looked out the window and saw the tall tree filled with birds. But what kind? Walking out slowly under the needle-covered canopy, I looked up. It was dozens of Cedar…
