100 Word Stories

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100-Word Stories
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7 days ago
1 min

Holding You, Upon the Sea

Regan almost couldn’t bring herself to return to the beach where she’d lost Josh. The rescue team had never recovered his body, and she’d...

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Jan 27
1 min

Thank You, Daddy

Kayla smiled as she sat in the passenger seat and stared at the Route 66 Christmas ornament that hung from the rearview mirror. This woul...

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Dec 18, 2020
1 min

Christmas Surprise

Gentle snow fell as Emma and Travis bundled into their red VW bus and set out for home. Emma shook the snow from her hat and grinned at h...

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Nov 20, 2020
1 min

The Ghost Cousin of Christine

In her dream, Madison fled up the forest game trail to escape her vindictive zombie boyfriend. When the chrome bumper and rusted hood of...

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Oct 22, 2020
1 min

Mothers

Jessica sat at the window and watched the snow fall in soft flakes onto the distant mountain. January in Vermont was a test; who could ou...

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Sep 24, 2020
1 min

Sweating Out the Truth

When Elizabeth discovered the yellowing, brittle diary in the dusty trunk stashed in her recently departed grandmother’s attic, she consi...

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Aug 22, 2020
1 min

The Soundtrack of Love

Erika sighed and purged yet another box. She and Tyler were moving for only the second time in twenty-five years of marriage, and they ha...

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Jul 23, 2020
1 min

Unavoidable Loss, Lyon County, MN 1887

When the destructors descended – the fire, the robbers, – Annabelle had wept. She hated that house with the hill so close behind; the opp...

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Jun 25, 2020
1 min

The Last Song

Ethan sat on the edge of the deck, strumming his guitar in the mist that blanketed the hayfield. He’d debated during Emily’s service whet...

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May 22, 2020
1 min

Getting Out

Marvin Hemstead was getting out. Joe Cochran was a greedy idiot who’d almost ridden the gang into an ambush of deputies after the last r...

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Apr 24, 2020
1 min

Playing the Odds

Who knew John Keats could inspire deception? Susan couldn’t remember when she and Tom had purchased the poetry book, but Tom, a romantic,...

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Feb 21, 2020
1 min

True Love

Carlie had noticed the mannequin in the department store window as she’d walked to work. Body-conscious after a recent painful breakup, C...

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Jan 30, 2020
1 min

Joining Papa

Charlotte crept silently from her bed to the open window and gazed at the ocean glowing in the pale moonlight. When she’d said a ghost pi...

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Nov 25, 2019
1 min

Knowing

Three months after I turned forty, I awoke from a terrible dream gasping for air at the thought of my own corpse buried six feet under, r...

Oct 28, 2019
1 min

Dark Magic

The crows circle above your open grave, their disturbance a harsh unnatural sound emanating from the black blot that blocks out the sun a...

Sep 30, 2019
1 min

Borrowed Time

I pack the last of my belongings into the red duffle and fling it into the back of Scott’s ancient Jeep. “We’re doing it.” I grin, my eye...

Aug 20, 2019
1 min

Snow Globe

“Tomorrow I’ll be five,” Emma whispered to her American Girl doll as they snuggled under Emma’s pink comforter with the lace border. Emma...

Jun 6, 2019
1 min

Old Time Mining

As the sun blistered the pavement outside, Raymond and I sat beneath the whirling ceiling fan and plotted our escape; retrieve the loot, ...

May 13, 2019
1 min

Prey

At 2 am, we emerged from the woods. Exhausted from trudging through snow and tripping over fallen timber, we sat down and admired the snow...

Apr 12, 2019
1 min

The Cards Never Lie

In the dimly lit room with red velvet walls you ask the same question as before because last time, the Universe misunderstood. It’s all i...

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