Silk and Hat

Silk and Hat is another drabble, contrasting the spiritual with the observable.

Swimming After Work

Swimming After Work is a story about an old woman who reflects upon and regrets the estrangement of her deceased father. It is about appreciating one's family and letting go of their human imperfections.

Map

Map is meant to be a humorous drabble.

Cruise Goes Medieval

Cruise Goes Medieval was a drabble from a lego prompt. What's better than Legos anyway?

Thieving Valkyrie

Thieving Valkyrie is another drabble.

Seeing Bluff

Another drabble from a prompt. Seeing Bluff is about living in America.

Rust

Rust is a drabble more about mood and memory. It is from a picture prompt.

Refugee

Refugee is a drabble about the refugee crisis in Europe.

Campus Computer Services

Campus Computer Services is a drabble that was published by The Drabble.

The Double Agent

The Double Agent is a story inspired by a photo of a burning apartment building.

The Rose

The Rose is a drabble about a lost love.

Unseen Nature

Unseen Nature was published by The Drabble.

Out of the Corner

Out of the Corner is a sci-fi drabble. This one probably doesn't really fit 100 words. The concept here is that people can so fully immerse themselves in a VR game that some of the players forget that what they are experiencing isn't real. The main character, a bounty hunter, is surprised when the other player pauses his game and vanishes.

Our Summer Day

Our Summer Day is about a father spending a summer day with his daughters and creating memories and strong personal connections with them.

The Painter's Doom

The Painter's Doom is a sci-fi piece.

Moments

Moments is an inspirational drabble.

Dragon Dice

Dragon Dice is a drabble about a gambler and a dragon.

Bryce Canyon

Bryce Canyon is a fictional drabble about visiting this National Park in southern Utah.

Sanitation Engineer Hero

Sanitation Engineer Hero is another Lego drabble. It's a story about a garbage man who stumbles into being a decorated hero by happenstance. Poor dude.

A Chicken, a Lion, and a Sack of Grain

A Chicken, a Lion, and a Sack of Grain is a drabble about the not uncommon riddle (logic problem). The story ends with a twist, of course.

A Wizard Walks His Dog

A Wizard Walks His Dog is a drabble that lives up to its title. It's intended to be humorous.

Publication: Her Little Plum

Her Little Plum appears in A Story in 100 Words.

Weekend Trip

Weekend Trip is a 200 word drouble from a photo prompt (Dover beach). It's the humorous story about a couple going to visit the beach.

A Morning in Porto

A Morning in Porto is a darker flash fiction piece about withering.

Crack the Sky

Crack the Sky is another 100 word drabble. It's about life and choices.

Don't Step on the Alligator

Don't Step on the Alligator is intended to be humor. (Insert blank stares.)

Built for Three

Built for Three is a drabble for a photo of three teenagers riding a bicycle along the beach in the Netherlands.

Red Hill

Red Hill is an experimental drabble that is told entirely as dialogue. However, the twist is that the college student never actually speaks. Instead we read the thoughts.

After the Prom

After the Prom was a drabble written for my daughters the day they headed off to prom.

Batman Walks Into a Bar

Batman Walks Into a Bar is a humorous and punny drabble based on a photo prompt.

Publication: His Turn To Say No

His Turn To Say No is an experimental drabble. The piece was inspired by crimes reported in the local news.

Happy Mother's Day

Don't Step on the Alligator is a drabble about a couple of unsmart twins. What could go wrong?

A Dingo and His Canoe

A Dingo and His Canoe is a drabble about an unsmart dingo, captain of his own pirate canoe.

Hannah's Horse

Hannah's Horse is a Lego story inspired by all the DirecTV adds that are running during the NHL playoffs. By the way, does anyone know what a talking horse has to do with Satellite TV?

I'll Be Surfing

I'll Be Surfing is another drabble about a young woman studying Biomedical Engineering. She also surfs. Beauty, brains, and mad skills...

Mirador de Colom

Mirador de Colom is a 100 word drabble about a tourist with a 'tude.

Publication: Cheating Weathervane

I'm pleased to announce one of my experimental drabbles, Cheating Weathervane, was published by Rose City Sisters.

Sharks Have Teeth

Sharks Have Teeth is a spiritual drabble about life.

Her Train Travels

Her Train Travels is a drabble (100 word story) about wanderlust. The story plays with time with the intention that the last paragraph could be viewed as both the past and, perhaps, the future.

Butterfly Kisses

Butterfly Kisses is a story about turtle tree climbers.

Princess Pink 2

The second drabble about Princess Pink. This time she pops into the Known Space universe.

Two and a Half Ring Circus

This is another Lego prompt drabble. Nigel bites off more than he can chew.

Detective Work

Because everybody loves bad poems.

Kansas Girl

God, family, farm, prairie, wheat, big sky, harvest: these are some of the things that have shaped me. I have been walking in the wheat, my thoughts for company, as I turn to watch my father and brother running the combine over the field. The wheat is being harvested of course. It is that season for the farmers in Kansas.

I kneel here and am apprehensive and nervous. My own season is turning. The pace of time neither speeding up nor slowing down to my command. Should I chase my dreams? Or should I stick with what I know, what is familiar, what is safe? Momma tells me that you can never know until you try. Daddy says they'll be here, always, and that his little baby girl can accomplish whatever she sets out to do. Bobby says he wishes he could be me. That I was always the lucky one.

NYU is a long ways from Kansas. Even further psychologically. It may as well be an alien world full of aliens. Perhaps it even is.

There are a lot of good reasons to stay. The smell of fresh cut wheat, for just one. To stay though is to give up my biggest dream, and my dream, my calling, is the one unrelenting reason that I must go.

Momma says I have to travel to be a writer. Experience different people, places and customs, to gather thoughts and ideas that could never find me here in safe, comfortable familiarity. Daddy says he has always known, in that deep voice of his, the slightest hint of a smile twitching the corners of his dirty, weathered, oh-so-handsome face. Momma should have been a writer. And, Daddy, well, he truly has known all along. I simply have no doubt about it, for I know he is true, a Kansas farmer.

This is a re-post of a story from My Simple Blog.

A Perfect Place

A Perfect Place is a darker drabble (100 word flash).

Just Plain Too Good

Just Plain Too Good is about a dude and his chick who find the ultimate low-rent flat in town. Maybe.

Megalomania

Megalomania is a drabble about the town rowdies who fantasize about overthrowing the evil wizard. Bunch a goofballs.

Space Spider

Space Spider is another drabble featuring a Lego picture.

Wharf Rats

Wharf Rats is a flash fiction piece featuring a confused couple.

Daughter

Daughter is a prose poem piece.

Queenstown Passage

Queenstown Passage is another introspective short written attempting to use the Ishiguro technique. This one is about a young man who flees Ireland to America, forsaking his love interest.

Unlikely Invitation

Unlikely Invitation is a story about opportunity and choices. It is written from an introspective mood.

Mushroom Evidence

Mushroom Evidence is 100 words about a dark wizard and his revenge.

Dragonbait

Dragonbait is yet another in the sequence of Lego prompts and goofball flashes.

The Rains of Springtime

I never told you this before, but you will no doubt remember it well. Remember that day at the park? Yes, the spring, the rain, the wet shoes. I told you then that it was to get out of the apartment and see the azaleas. And, it was, though not entirely.

What I never told you, until now, is that I had been to the park many times before. You remember the old black bench there? Yes, that one. Well, on my strolls through the park every afternoon before you came home from the store, I used to see an old couple sitting on the bench together. Sometimes, he'd be reading the paper. Sometimes, she would be knitting. A sweater for one of her grandchildren, or great-grandchildren, I imagined.

We came to know each other in this chance way. Myself, playing the young man, striding briskly through the park off to carry out the day. They were the audience, sharing another afternoon together, talking, holding hands, listening to the birds and frogs. I suppose they may have waited, sitting on that bench, until sunset. Waited for the skies to turn cherry red and tangerine with the pink cotton candy clouds majestically sailing past overhead.

So, you see, my dear, it was no accident or random chance that day. I had planned it for some time. I never knew why, but the elderly couple simply disappeared one day, unexpectedly. I never did see them again. Maybe they got sick or had to move away.

The idea didn't come to me at once, but I knew it was perfect. So, that is why I asked you to come walk with me in the park that day. The rains of springtime tried to dampen my spirits, soaking us both. But, I still say that you never looked more beautiful than that day, when we were both dripping wet, your dark hair clinging to your smiling, laughing face. My heart raced with joy when you pointed to the rainbow, for I knew it was meant to be. So, now you know why it was that I proposed to you there. It was our turn.

(360 words)

Monster Wedding

Monster Wedding is what happens when a bride, the monster apocalypse, and an Easy Button collide.

Princess Pink

Princess Pink is another Lego prompt. The pink princess is fighting zombies and manicure schedules. She's that bad.

Hiking Rails

Hiking Rails is a 100 word flash.

A Novel

Get Rid of Unneeded Words: A Novel

Just some advice on how to write the perfect novel.

Maybe not.

Masterplans

Masterplans is a 100 word story about when genius strikes.

Maybe not.

Snowmaggedon

Snowmageddon is another fun one based on a picture of Legos.

From Up Here

From Up Here is yet another 100 word flash. Hope you like it.

Dragonfang

Dragonfang is a flash fiction (100 words) about a king in Legoland. His nemesis has reduced his kingdom to sheep, pigs, chickens etc. What will he do?

Leeuwen en Tijgers en Beren

Leeuwen en Tijgers en Beren is a 100 word flash from the Lego pictures challenge. Adventures in advertising.

Flight Delay

Flight Delay is a 100 word flash that had to contain the phrase "the suitcase lay open". Ariana is having a bad day in this one.

Garden Maze

Garden Maze is a 100 word mystery. What is going on here?

Power

Power is a 100 word flash fiction about a light switch. Sort of ... not.

Boat

Boat is another 100 word flash. This one has a three paragraph past, present, future form.

Meanwhile in Legoland

Meanwhile in Legoland is a photo prompt piece.

Flower Seller

Flower Seller is a story about a flower seller with a dark secret. It's a flash piece so you'll have to fill in the gaps.

Relaxing on the River

Relaxing on the River is a 100 word flash piece. It's about a dude who goes bird watching and discovers the park and river are a dump.