Short and Sweet
by various authors
Written as a series of challenges and hopefully competition entries, these are very short pieces which illustrate just how hard it is to stick to just 100 words - and how good they can be. Who needs loads of words? Not these guys...
Untitled by Blindzon Elyzon
Kathleen, enveloped by the murky darkness, moved ever so cautiously. Determination urged her forward, yet fear of painful consequences made progress slow.
Slippery softness brushed her bare leg, sending chills along her spine. Breath held, she continued.
Need grew within her, urgency demanded expediency, and terror mounted as control was nearly lost. Her restraint gone, she moved with abandonment.
It caught her, sharp pain stabbed into her foot, dragging her helplessly to the ground. Kathleen's scream pierced the night.
"So much for the toilet! Now I'm sure gonna have to turn the lights on!" She moaned, clutching her big toe
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Bank by Kam
Leonel waited for the lock timer to finish before opening the vault. Without looking to his customer, he asked: "What denominations?"
The response was velvet. "All denominations. And all the other currency too."
He knew without looking there was a gun, and he began to sweat in places he never knew sweat could gather. He thought of his dear Mary. Alone at home with no one to look after her if he died. "Please…"
"Quiet. Put the money in the sack."
"Please. Don't do anything. I have a wife…"
Mary smiled under the make-up and mask. "She'll be fine."
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The Visitor by JLynn
"Been waiting for you," she said warmly as her guest sat down.
"You always are, aren't you? How is that?"
"Get to be my age and you develop a sixth sense for these things. Tea?"
"Thanks." He slurped politely. "You've been putting this off for years…"
"I know. I'm just not interested yet. Scone?"
"Thanks. Mmm. Look, it's not really up to you to decide."
"Oh?"
"No. If you decide, then someone else does, and then it all falls apa… ap…
When he collapsed on her table Matilde gave a grand-motherly smile, congratulating herself on having evaded Death once again…
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Birthday Surprise by Emily Mills
"It's nothing personal, really."
"Then put the chains away! I'm not into that."
I don't get paid unless you get chained up."
"Look, I'll pay you, just leave me alone!"
"Fine, fine. You know, you're really not much fun."
"Oh no, just wait until I find my dear friend who set this whole thing up. Then the really wacky fun begins."
"Should I be worried?"
"Not unless you're opposed to flagellation?"
"Are you kidding? Can I help?"
"Whatever floats your boat. So, how does a person get a job as a rent-a-dominatrix anyway?"
"Three words: ex-Xena impersonator."
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A Question of Love by Chantal
"Do you love me?"
"Of course we do, Hunny," was their obvious parental answer.
"Do you love me?"
"Oh god yesss!!!" was some guys lust filled reply.
"Do you love me?"
"I do," was my husband's promise on our wedding day.
"Do you love me?"
"Ga ga goo goo," sweetly gurgled back to me by my child.
"Do YOU love me?"
"I always have and I always will," was the biblical answer.
I kept asking "Do you love me?" until I finally realised that was never the question I wanted answered.
Instead I should have asked "Do I love me?"
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