Tag: micro fiction
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Doug and Charlie: The Satellite Swap | Two-Hundred-Word Story
The stakes of the take and trade game grew much higher when Charlie snatched Doug’s satellite phone from his deckside hammock. This was the zoologist’s critical link to the outside world. He’d only stepped away for a moment, but came back to see Charlie scampering up a liana holding the Garmin Mini by its lanyard.…
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Fully Charged | Fifty-Word Story
Doug awoke one morning expecting to top off all his digital devices. Much to his surprise, he discovered they were each charged to one-hundred percent. “What’s going on?” he said out loud. “They weren’t like this last night.” Charlie, the inquisitive squirrel monkey, brought Doug a charging brick and purred.
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The White Horse Daydream | One-Hundred-Word Story
Wishful fiction meets stark reality.
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Facing the Light | Fifty-Word Story
She sits there most days, in a festive summer dress, wearing a wide-brimmed hat. Some find it odd to see a solitary lady staring at a field. But she doesn’t mind. She watches the sunflowers, as they turn to follow the sun. There’s no hurry, for a long-time cancer survivor. For my brave friend Karla,…
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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…
