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Microscopic Stories

by Beholden

Rated: 18+ · Book · Ghost · #2275621

Entries for the Micro Fiction Challenge 2022 and Drabble Activity 2024.

Short stories of 100 words exactly, written for the Micro Fiction Challenge, 2022, the Drabble Activity 2024, plus a few for my own benefit.

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Osirantinous

Feb 9, 2026 at 12:23am
In response to "Thermopylae Again"

Found this linked in a newsletter, and because I know about Thermopylae I came along to look. I love it. Completely modern until the last line and then you're like 'huh?' And it's so out of place but so in place as well. One can almost see Leonidas as a kid playing this game, his buddies in created armor behind him whacking their swords and spears against things as he triumphed in the game to be leader.

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Gaby

Mar 31, 2024 at 11:09am
In response to "Game of Thrones Challenge - Last Will and Testament"

This is just what the doctor ordered!

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Beholden

Mar 31, 2024 at 11:06am
In response to "Game of Thrones Challenge - Last Will and Testament"

I would be honoured indeed, Gaby

. As long as it's not viewed as jumping the start gun.

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Gaby

Mar 31, 2024 at 10:43am
In response to "Game of Thrones Challenge - Last Will and Testament"

This is awesome!

Would you mind if I add this to "The G.o.T. Memoirs"

? It would fit there perfectly.

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Beholden

Feb 5, 2024 at 5:01pm
In response to "Patience"

I wondered about that but decided that, for the sake of the story, this parlor stays open!

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TJ says, "keep on keeping on!"

Feb 5, 2024 at 4:50pm
In response to "Patience"

An enjoyable read. Around here, all the ice cream parlors close for the winter, so I guess I'll just sit in the parking lot and if anyone asks if I need something I'll answer, “Nope. Guess I’ll just wait for Spring.”

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Beholden

May 21, 2023 at 2:34pm
In response to "Power Man"

I doubt it. The point of these microscopic stories is that they last for 100 words and that's it. So the most I can hope from them is a quick grin or thought and the reader moves on. This one depends a lot on irony, I suppose.

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Lazy Writer est 4/24/2008

May 21, 2023 at 1:58pm
In response to "Power Man"

Good start on a longer story??

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Beholden

May 10, 2023 at 12:15pm
In response to "AirPod"

The truth is out!

RICH

May 10, 2023 at 12:07pm
In response to "AirPod"

So that's where the noise in my head is from .....

February 3, 2026 at 11:15am

#1107432

Thermopylae Again

Thermopylae Again

A boy was throwing stones at a tin can he’d set up in the empty lot. It was no more than a rusty and misshapen target balanced on the few bricks remaining of a wall that had long ago been demolished. Heat radiated from the stony ground as the sun beat unrelenting on the scene.

The game was ended as the stone connected with the can, knocking it off its perch. It disappeared behind the wall. In exultation, the boy leapt to his feet, his arms raised in triumph. Behind him, hoplites in a Spartan phalanx joined in his celebration.

Word count: 100
For Microscopic Stories and The Bradbury.

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