101 Word Short Stories
Below you will find all stories that were submitted for this contest.
By Richard Edenfield
There’s an old family album with photos of my grandparents. I remember my grandmother looking through it with me. Her eyes lit on a memory, momentarily, then went out. My grandfather young and good-looking. My grandmother beautiful with long raven black hair. The photos held moments like wild animals that were caged in a book…
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By S.T. Broeckx
I’m trapped, lying on the concrete floor. Its coolness is drawing the heat of the morning out of my body. I can feel waves of sleep chemicals surging through my brain. The sound of hammers and nail guns and saws and voices. “Where the hell is Stan?” Shit! I lift my head off the 2-by-4 pillow. The…
By Jeanne Althouse
After we made love in the meadow by the Russian River, riding home across the Bridge, I gazed up into the red South Tower and the August moon, suspended. When I got home and undressed, alone in my small studio, I smelled your lemony scent on my skin: the same scent he wore years ago.…
By Christina Butcher
I am no one if I’m not King of the Birds. But ever since the colors seeped from my feathers long ago, I’ve known that I am no true king after all. The night it happened, I watched my crown blanch and my maize-colored wings fade into chalky greys. Pigment dripped onto the branches beneath…
By Prospero Dae
Man, did they give him a good working over. Though he was the brawny type, even by stevedoring standards, he was no match for four men in olive coats intending on beating him to an inch of his life. It was an ugly ballet of blood and teeth and steel-toed boots to the spleen. The…
I miss sitting in the restaurant, watching him and playing with the idea he had about me. I hid my real face behind glasses and watched him fall for me. He came to my room a couple of times and tried to have his way with me. He was frustrated. But I knew he liked…
