A (Precisely) 100 Word Story It’s time to meet my online sweetheart. She wants to give me directions - like a treasure hunt. I get a text. “Turn left at the end of your street. Destination 500m on right.” She’s half a kilometre away, on the next street! I send a text from the car. … Continue reading Good Directions
Since last week the sky has taken on a red tinge that is alarming. Nobody here knows the reason for such a change. It turned from a magnificent velvety blue to this. Although the temperature is the same, it rains every day and the crops grow without problem. The whole population seems to be happy. … Continue reading The Outpost
"All right. Calm down. Tell me again what happened." "Don Pedro, one of my officers is stealing from me. Every day I find out that some of the tools are missing from the workshop, and I do not know which one of them is the thief. Nobody wants to talk and the only utterance that … Continue reading The Magical Duck
A writer sits at her desk, looking through her window over the city of Buenos Aires - the city of “good air.” She tries to write, but she can’t. It’ll be the fortieth screenplay she’s written this month, but she can only squeeze out so many chauvinistic, trivial, petty one liners. They’re designed to appeal … Continue reading The Roaring Forties
A (Precisely) 100 Word, Alliterative Story This is a message to the masses. An appeal to all the aperture openers. Photographers: feel for the forgotten and forsaken background blur. Consider the sacrifice of seldom starring in the snapshot. Its inherent invaluableness is indisputable. It makes portraits pop; macros magnificent; and beauty shots... beautiful. The background … Continue reading Background Blur
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