(I've decided to challenge myself this afternoon. Different genres. 100 words or less. Feel free to give suggestions and feel free to be as specific as you want.)
Spot Speaks (horror)
It wasn’t the discovery that, after all these years, Spot could talk the disturb Jack the most. It was that Spot was saying grace over Jack’s half eaten leg.
Answers (sci-fi)
As Alice was led into the starship, she was in awe of the beauty of the moment. All those years wishing to have proof of life beyond the bounds of Earth and here it was. The alien, grey-green skinned, eyeless smooth face, asymmetrical limbs where there should have been limbs.
Alice geared herself. “Please,” she whispered, “I wish to know the answers to the Universe.”
“Crap,” squished the alien. “I was hoping you’d know.”
Subway Choice (romance)
They stood in the rain at the subway entrance. He shifted uncomfortably in the silence that had settled on them. She stared at their feet on the wet sidewalk. What was in her head, he thought. What is she thinking? All he wanted to do was kiss her. That was all that was in his mind. No thoughts of today or tomorrow, just the moment.
Without looking up, she gently touch a button on his coat. “I should go home.”
Damn. “Yeah. So should I.”
She tilted her head up, grinning. “Yeah. You should come home with me.”
Russia's The Dead Hand
14 years ago
