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Entries for the Micro Fiction Challenge 2022 and Drabble Activity 2024. |
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Short stories of 100 words exactly, written for the Micro Fiction Challenge, 2022, the Drabble Activity 2024, plus a few for my own benefit. |
| A Lone Balloon Arnold gave the gas burner another blast. It was in a hopeless cause, he knew, and only frustration kept him urging the balloon onward. To have started two hours late left him with no more than a forlorn hope. There was not a single competitor in sight. Empty skies mocked him from all around. Storm clouds darkened the horizon but that was the least of his concerns. The target field beckoned. An hour later, Arnold touched down alone. His wife, Jasmine, came running across the field. “Great timing, Arnie. The others were blown off course by a storm. You’ve won!” Word count: 100 For Micro-Fiction Challenge, Week 10 Prompt: A single balloon. |
| How Football Lost a Great Player I was a rugby player in my youth. On only one occasion was I invited to take part in a game of soccer. I figured it would be a tryout for me and a chance for mere footballers to find out what a poor game they played. Things did not go exactly to plan. I did not make the mistake of chasing the ball all over the field and, eventually, the ball came to me. I scored a goal. This would have been a fine start to a dazzling football career had the goal not been against my own side. Word count: 100 For Micro-Fiction Challenge, Week 9 Prompt: The tryouts. |
  Babysitter He is so beautiful. He is perfect. I have washed him, every part of him. And he is beautiful. They told me to watch him and for three months I have done so. I have cared for his every moment. No one has been more attentive to his needs than me. I am devoted to him. “Nurse…” What? He speaks! He is waking. See, the wavering line grows strong. He is surfacing! “Nurse…” He is definitely coming out of it. No, they will take him away from me. I must keep him under. Increase his medicine. He is so beautiful. Word count: 100 For Micro-Fiction Challenge, Week 8 Prompt: Babysitting. |
| Prometheus Unbound Prometheus lost count of the the number of times his liver was eaten by the eagle, only to regrow during the following night. That is, until one bright dawn when the eagle failed to arrive. With intact liver, Prometheus regained his strength and was able to break the chains, rusted as they were from the ages. He began his descent from the mountain. On the way, he came across an encampment of hunters. They had found a dead eagle and were roasting it over a fire. Prometheus begged a share and died with the hunters from massive vitamin A toxicity. Word count: 100 For The Micro-Fiction Challenge, Week 7 Prompt: Fire Notes: In Ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and brought it to humanity. For this crime, the gods chained him to a mountain where an eagle ate his liver every morning. The liver regrew each night only to be consumed again the next day. Liver causes vitamin A toxicity if eaten in too great a quantity. The eagle’s flesh must have been riddled with it after all that liver it had eaten. |
| Smoke Rings When I was in my twenties, there was an African urban legend that some American billionaire had offered a million dollars for the first person to succeed in blowing a smoke ring through another smoke ring and a third. It is an apparent impossibility since, when tried, one finds that the second smoke ring, in passing through the first, destroys it. Undeterred, I practised hard and eventually succeeded in getting a third smoke ring to pass through the second as it passed through the first. It was all a matter of precise timing. I am still awaiting my million dollars. Word count: 100 For the Micro Fiction Challenge, Week 6 Prompt: An urban legend. |
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