Author’s Note: My first book is all 100 Word Stories and it’s available by clicking HERE . I wasn’t sure I could even write a 100 worder again after over two years of writing longer form for Substack. I certainly hope you like it, even if you’re not a fan of the flash fiction genre.
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Adolescence was like a hot turpentine buffet sitting in a laceration that wouldn’t stop screaming instructions to games he didn’t own.
A man by the transit station happily explained eternal life, but he couldn’t afford a minibike in this one.
Freighters on the river blew horns at shit he couldn’t see and the only girl he wrote a poem for blew truckers for pills he couldn’t pronounce.
Dinner was at Grandma’s every night at six, always cereal, every night, but grandma picked the red fake berries out, because the TV news said they contained chemicals that might make you sick.
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It’s been everything I can do to write 250 word stories… You nailed this one Jimmy!
Flash fiction is like poetry – concentrated meaning - where every word. Maybe even every syllable. Has to be right…
You haven’t lost it. You could almost read this as four stories of about 25 words each. Writing short is hard!