Tag: 100 words

Smiley always thought of himself as an orphan. He had parents, and many brothers and sisters, but he never felt…

Standing in a cemetery, staring at the white angel headstone. The grave she watches over sitting at a jaunty angle,…

Anthony stepped into the path of the 37 Express. The driver, distracted, saw Anthony too late. It hurt less than…

She yawned her sing-songy yawn. At this hour, just past midnight, that yawn could mean any one of seven things….

Standing on the peak looking down at the fogged-over city. Headphones blasting. Patti Smith Pissing in the River. The holiest…

The dog is staring at me. He knows I want to run screaming into the night. A block or so…

Rolling down hills like little kids. Falling off bridges like jilted lovers. Gravity’s angels fulfilling their destinies. Imperfect lives connecting…

Where were they? I needed them and they weren’t there. Or I needed them but I wasn’t there. Why do…

Bob lives a palindormatic life. Every day finished the way it started. Evening spent retracing morning’s steps. No conclusions, no…

Beaufort the Grand banished thunderstorms from his land. They were driving his dogs crazy so he sent them away and…