Category: 100 Words
Stories and essays containing 100 words
100 Words – Apology
The police officer sympathized when I explained that I was deipnophobic, the fear of eating in public, and had to…
100 Words – Bible Season
Back at college in Iowa I always looked forward to bible season. Every fall the doom patrol would take to…
100 Words – Whose Books?
Smiley has a large bookcase of borrowed books. They were placed in chronological order of when he obtained them. He…
100 Words – Cottonwood
I walked twice to the left around the cottonwood tree. I felt like a fool, but what did I have…
100 Words – Industrial Archaeology
Some call it junk-picking. I call it an Industrial Archaeology. Someone needs to document for future generations the bizarre habits…
100 Words – Rusty Dinosaurs
Her shop was guarded by rusty dinosaurs. They told me it would be. But no words could not prepare me…
100 Words – Empath
Linda’s childhood was horrific. Everyone, everywhere, screamed their emotions at her. She didn’t know what was happening to her and…
100 Words – Artists Revolt
On the day that the artists revolted I sat on the front porch to witness the craziness. Decades of being…
100 Words – Sword
She sat silently in the dark, admitting defeat and plotting her revenge. She vowed that his cult of charisma would…
100 Words – The Family Orphan
Smiley always thought of himself as an orphan. He had parents, and many brothers and sisters, but he never felt…