2021-04-23 01:06
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A daily very short story to keep you entertained and make you think a little.
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2021-01-26 23:01
We buried my brother with his dreams. On colored scraps of paper my young son, Teddy, and I scrawled all…
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2021-01-21 00:53
Confusion and chaos lifted. All was still and clear in his mind. Only hours earlier he was filled with misery,…
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2021-01-19 22:02
In eighth grade, I wore tons of make-up to Catholic school. I was a rebel. Trying to hide my outbreaks,…
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2021-01-12 01:38
When I was a small child my grandparents would take me blackberry picking. It was usually late August when the…
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2020-12-24 22:11
No amount of education and training can prepare you for death or a pandemic. I knew a doctor who went…
The post A Very Covid Carol (Story by Risa Peris) first appeared on The 200 Word… Read More
2020-11-06 05:11
According to a book I read, the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Hindus, and Japanese believed the Earth hatched from a mundane egg.…
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2020-10-21 00:16
I had only one job – decipher a human being from a computer. I was a professor of philosophy with…
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2020-10-09 04:30
It was deemed the “The Answer”. Algae. It has been present on Earth for about a billion years. It was…
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2020-10-04 00:54
End of Term Class Project: 14th May 2403 A Letter to the People of the 21st Century Hey guys! I…
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2020-10-03 02:23
I knew I should have stayed snug in my cave gorging on benthic fish or simply resting. That day, however,…
The post I Should Have Listened to My Mother (Story by Risa Peris) first app… Read More
2020-09-14 23:11
‘Are you happy?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘I knew you wanted it to be a boy.’ ‘All that matters is that it’s…
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2020-09-12 22:47
My name is Commander Jane Lance and I was not on Mars. The night before my three-year flight to Mars,…
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2020-09-08 05:46
I am a world-renowned diagnostician. I’m the person doctors call when patients are sick, remain sick, and fall on the…
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2020-09-04 04:19
He was acting differently. He had a different smell. Moldy bread on some days and cinnamon on others. He quit…
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2020-08-17 01:03
It was only 2:00 in the morning. Finding that she could not go back to sleep, she slowly got out… Read More
2020-08-05 21:55
You see the thing about Yuri was that he was not a high-ranking or particularly effective KGB officer. Back in… Read More
2020-07-28 18:18
It was more shadows than complete darkness. I could see outlines of things if they were very near me. I… Read More
2020-07-21 23:27
Around midday, the sky darkened with flies. They filled the sky with annoyance and doom. Maybe this was the end.… Read More
2020-07-18 00:05
Do you remember that toy? Elmo Needs A Hug? It was big a long time ago. Maybe it still is.… Read More
2020-07-10 21:15
“Sergei…I was able to make some thin soup out of the two potatoes and one carrot I scavenged for.… Read More
2020-07-04 23:49
I always admired her when I was growing up. No, that’s not quite true. I envied her. I wanted to… Read More
2020-07-01 18:00
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.’ That was my mother’s mantra. It’s what… Read More
2020-06-28 20:35
“No, you dimwit. Shirts go to the left and pants to the right.” The aging, overweight woman in a regulation… Read More
2020-06-20 00:08
‘You shouldn’t waste your time on me,’ he told me in a whisper. ‘I’ve got too much damage. Too much… Read More
2020-06-16 02:04
“Have you found Braxton?” I was tearful and shivering. The interrogation room I was in had a constant flow of… Read More
2020-06-12 00:39
2 a.m. I drive Cassie home and park outside her house. “Leave the engine on,” she says. “It’s cold.” Cassie… Read More
2020-06-05 16:17
Dad was a big guy, mean looking. Dad was a mean guy. I didn’t know him well. It’s hard to… Read More
2020-06-02 20:47
The rain began on Monday. A light drizzle that became an insistent downpour. My husband tended to the farm as… Read More
2020-06-01 23:48
Mark only saw it by itself at night, when she would remove it and lean it against the wall before… Read More
2020-05-22 21:24
Some would say that I was born in the saddest of times. Our planet was nearing its end. The skies… Read More
2020-05-21 21:51
I was painted blue. War time blue. I was like all my Pictish clan. We were to storm Hadrian’s Wall.… Read More
2020-05-19 23:04
I was quite alone on the train. A nurse in pale gray heading for South England. I was called on… Read More
2020-05-12 14:10
Mac boarded a flight in Boston. Bailey caught one out of New York. They changed planes in Chicago and sat… Read More
2020-05-10 00:50
Nancy sipped her tea and exhaled. “Maybe I have depression. Wouldn’t that be awfully romantic?” She dragged the “aw” and… Read More
2020-05-07 15:11
Its size was large yet reasonable, its edges filed away to form a perfect circle of crystal. It possessed a… Read More
2020-05-03 20:22
What a quiet and dark man. He was like something in the night sky that could barely be seen and… Read More
2020-04-23 22:05
One night Lucy, the Tooth Fairy, and Mary, the Tinkle Fairy, got into a fight as fairies tend to do.… Read More
2020-04-19 01:28
Tell me a story please. I asked. I could really do with someone telling me a story. Okay then. She… Read More
2020-04-15 00:55
Mark was eight; playing with boys he met while visiting his aunt. They took off down the slumbering summer streets… Read More
2020-04-12 00:59
My name’s Reggie, and I’m a rat. No, I mean, I’m literally a rodent. Rattus Norvegicus, they call us. We’ve… Read More
2020-04-10 01:08
A is for aspirin, they won’t help this time. B is for Brian, and I’m feeling fine. ***** C is… Read More
2020-04-07 21:22
“What’s going on?” It was a uniformed Bridge Patrol officer dismounting his bicycle in the center of the span. “It’s… Read More
2020-04-03 22:14
At first, it was the rats that died. They cluttered the streets and alleys like putrid feces with fur. Their… Read More
2020-04-03 01:13
I think it’s fair to say that this isn’t a Spring that any of us will remember fondly. Goddamn coronavirus!… Read More
2020-03-24 23:41
Remember when the shops had everything you wanted every time, rather than you just being happy to find anything at… Read More
2020-03-22 21:14
She was a nervous, fastidious girl who generally looked miserable if one could not see her eyes, because in her… Read More
2020-03-17 21:20
I had never seen a body hacked to pieces. I approached stealthily. Like a cat about to pounce on prey.… Read More
2020-03-16 23:49
In the beginning God created man in his own image, or so a a very old story goes. By and… Read More
2020-03-10 04:21
New York City, 1901 From the Lab Book of Dr. Cranston Hastings, General Surgeon at Merriam Hospital. February 2 A… Read More
2020-03-08 19:16
The war changed Daddy, changed us all I guess. But Daddy more than anyone. Daddy had always loved the stars.… Read More
2020-03-06 04:16
If he had to provide a reason (and in these cases nearly everyone demands a reason) he would say it… Read More
2020-03-03 17:23
Have you ever had one of those life flashing before your eyes moments? No? Well, I have and I can… Read More
2020-03-01 20:40
I had plans. Dreams. I was going to go places. Literally and metaphorically. But I got a job when school… Read More
2020-02-26 00:21
It was the morning and night our people lived by. The blazing sun. The setting sun. We set a prayer… Read More
2020-02-21 15:43
‘Lift with your legs, not your back,’ my Dad told me. I was helping him carry in some garden furniture,… Read More
2020-02-20 21:51
What do you do when you are hungry? You seek. The overeater goes to the grocery store or restaurant. The… Read More
2020-02-18 22:11
It’s a horrible experiment. The one I am conducting with my heart. You see, I’ve decided not to attach myself… Read More
2020-02-16 19:10
I tried talking. That’s what they said to do. Talk, talk as if you were here beside me. Really here,… Read More
2020-02-15 20:31
He was a scornful man and I sat in his seat. I was in a den of thieves and drug… Read More
2020-02-08 00:16
It was a thin soup with some kind of strange looking dumplings in it. Angelino was expecting something unctuous and… Read More
2020-02-06 18:09
I don’t get it, I don’t understand at all. All of these people, talking when they have nothing to say.… Read More
2020-02-03 22:05
I cut my arm with a butcher’s knife. The knife was a cast off of mother’s when she cleaned the… Read More
2020-02-02 22:00
I remember when Saturdays were for hangovers and reading. Now it’s off to the park, to the playground, at the… Read More
2020-02-01 02:44
There was a black and white messy dog in the street licking his dick. Occasionally, his tail would thump on… Read More
2020-01-31 01:02
There once was a girl, quite a pretty girl, who fell totally in love with a very silly man. He… Read More
2020-01-28 23:03
I was born on the ice. I’m not lying. My mother, a former ice skater, went on the rink the… Read More
2020-01-26 20:29
‘How old am I?’ asked Granny. ‘You’re ninety four Granny,’ I told her as I stirred the water around the… Read More
2020-01-24 02:55
i have a flute. the “E” key is flat. sort of like my life. when the world was flat. nobody… Read More
2020-01-22 22:42
We both reached for our cigarettes as soon as we had passed through the hospital gates. I sat down on… Read More
2020-01-21 05:21
Geez, all I needed was one music interview to meet my weekly story goal and make my editor happy. A… Read More
2020-01-14 19:10
She had ran unopposed for two years as student president. Two whole years. She got soda machines back in the… Read More
2020-01-12 23:29
‘Have you finished it yet?’ she asks, all eager and excited. ‘Just finished it this second,’ I place the copy… Read More
2020-01-11 02:41
Little Red Riding Hood didn’t know the way to grandma’s house. Her mother told her to cross a field and… Read More
2020-01-09 16:26
I met a nice young chap in the pub today. Fresh off the boat he was, from the old country.… Read More
2020-01-06 21:43
It was at the end of the street for the entire time he lived on Whisk Avenue. The narrow, brick… Read More
2020-01-06 01:52
I just turned off the Christmas lights for the final time. I waited until everyone had gone to bed. I’ll… Read More
2020-01-05 17:28
Dear dairy… I’ve been crying again. Silly old me. Quietly, almost silently, I don’t want to risk waking him. He… Read More
2020-01-04 01:49
‘Hey man. It’s Sunday! Why don’t we go see an afternoon movie and grab a few beers. It’ll be like… Read More
2019-12-31 17:35
‘Hey’ ‘Hey mate. Please tell me you have found a new year’s eve party for us to go tonight.’ ‘Well..’… Read More
2019-12-30 22:02
They were a pit of snakes. Their iridescent skins shimmied and swayed. Their faces painted like a Renaissance portrait gone… Read More
2019-12-29 17:45
It’s funny, I don’t ever really notice how empty my place is until this time of year. I get on… Read More
2019-12-26 16:03
We sat in the car for a long time without a word. I put the key in the ignition but… Read More
2019-12-24 21:28
Christmas never arrived for Chelsea. On Christmas Eve she woke up with a sense of excitement. Christmas was only a… Read More
2019-12-21 23:54
Oh no! There’s no one at the cash desk, I’m going to have to use the self service thing. This… Read More
2019-12-20 00:31
Just one more sleep and it will be Friday. Just one more sleep and I will get to spend the… Read More
2019-12-18 22:50
In the morning, I ate a hunk of bread, some cheese (even if moldy), and perhaps some fried pork if… Read More
2019-12-14 17:59
“OK. So the way you need to read this is a woman in desperation. Carlos will read for Blake. Got… Read More
2019-12-13 17:26
‘Mom, I’m really worried about Harry. I think he might be going through some sort of mid-life crisis.’ ‘Men! They’re… Read More
2019-12-12 21:44
“Go gentle, my lamb, go gentle.” I patted his dry hand and was careful not to touch the IV. He… Read More
2019-12-11 16:40
I never like coming to this shop, it’s close but the owner is a jerk. He tosses my smokes on… Read More
2019-12-10 19:00
Dying is being born. My benefactor was worried about me. “Good Lord, Michael. You’re thirty but look forty. And you… Read More
2019-12-09 22:20
‘Sally, could you put down the phone. There’s something important I want to talk to you about.’ ‘Sure. Just let… Read More
2019-12-08 21:39
He signed – I want to take your picture. I was perched on a window seat with a book of… Read More
2019-12-08 02:19
‘Hey, how was your day? Mine sucked but nothing a large glass of wine won’t sort out.’ ‘Can you sit… Read More
2019-12-06 23:28
So, here we go again. Christmas is almost upon us! The shops are decorated, the trees have been lit up… Read More
2019-12-05 21:50
Hush little baby don’t you cry, Mama’s going to buy you a mockingbird. Hmmmmm. Laaaaaaaalaaaaaa. Tiny Elizabeth was cradled in… Read More
2019-12-04 15:37
Five hundred years ago, five hundred years to the day, someone walked down this very road, just as I’m doing… Read More
2019-11-30 23:25
‘Trimming the tree’ my Grandmother called it. Do people use that expression any more? Seems like a long time since… Read More
2019-11-29 18:54
The holidays! I love you. I get to unearth the boxes from the garage. It’s Friday. Thanksgiving is over. I… Read More
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