Posts Tagged ‘City’
Sep
Tony
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Tony sat on his Camaro at the corner of 14th and Lexington every weekend night, hollering at girls across the street. Some would ignore him but others flirted back. Occasionally, they’d drink Miller Lites in the backseat and heckle people coming out of the Vietnamese store.
After a few weeks, the girls started asking why he always picked the same corner. “Let’s visit the City,” suggested Jessica Rizzo. When Tony refused, she left for the bar with her girlfriends.
In reality, the Camaro had crapped out the day after he bought it and Tony didn’t have the cash for repairs.
Sep
Never Forgotten
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
The eerie sound of rumbling and cries coming from the street as the day turns clouded with dust and debris.
Sirens blaring, chaos ensuing. A day of sadness and a city coming together in the face of tragedy.
The memory of falling angels and blackness in lower Manhattan as firefighters run to help the innocent.
Seventeen years later, the depth of emotion still consumes our souls.
Names read every year on the day, by a weeping family member.
Sleepless nights and sorrow for family still waiting to hear if their loved one’s remains are found, never forgetting September 11th, 2001.
From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher
Jul
Garage Sale Books And Modern Lovers
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Barbara poked around the stack of discarded books, hoping this would be their last sale for the day. What joy Joseph derived from driving across the city scouring garages for bargain antiques eluded her. She’d tolerated the pastime for three months now, but a quaint second date now had the hallmarks of a compulsive hobby.
Maybe she would end it with Joseph tonight after dinner.
Barbara picked up a battered copy of The Farewell Waltz, one of the only Kundera novels she had not yet read.
“How much?”
Two dollars seemed like a price well paid for such appropriate symbolism.
Feb
Hell’s Kitchen
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
We were the grounds crew at a minor league ballpark in the city. “I was about a hundred feet away. He lifted the gun and just…” Gerry looked away.
“That’s never happened to me,” Harry thought. “What do I say?”
“I ducked for cover.” He wiped his face and squatted to give his knees a break.
“Most of those people in that crowd…They don’t know. They live in the suburbs and they just come in for the game.”
“POP!” The shot came from the houses beyond center field.
“I gotta get outta this city,” Gerry said. “Any way possible.”
From Guest Contributor Steve Colori
Oct
She Liked Avocados
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
It wasn’t the flying that alerted her. That seemed natural.
It was the complete lack of context that confirmed to Shirlene none of this was real.
There was very little this version of herself knew with any certainty. She remembered her name. She liked avocados. And she was positive that every memory she possessed was a figment of her imagination.
As Shirlene soared above the city of clouds and unfamiliar landscapes, she reflected on her other dreams and other lives. None seemed as real as this moment right now.
The only reality that mattered was her hunger for more avocados.
Sep
Match Light
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
The flame exploded into being as the match head dragged across the sandpaper. It might have seemed magical, but really it was just that the glass-on-glass friction generated enough heat to kindle the match’s phosphorus.
The match provided the only light in the entire house, perhaps the entire city. Between the impenetrable clouds and the power outage, darkness had descended as quickly as the sun.
The illumination lasted long enough for Theresa to count the remaining matches. Seventeen. Each one guaranteed to ignite but she knew such guarantees were hollow.
Seventeen matches to survive until the end of the world.
Jan
Regret
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
I freeze at the crossing, not because of the cold, but at how a stranger walks.
Even the musculature of her legs reminds me of Sandy. For a moment her profile ensnares my heart. Then she looks in my direction, questioning without expecting an answer. She doesn’t break stride.
We’d made a pact to run away together: escape doldrums and parental tyranny…to find adventure in The City. We’d agreed to rendezvous here. I’d been waiting more than an hour.
I set off alone, annoyed when her name escaped my lips; and admonished myself that I never really knew her.
From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid
Jul
Road To The Suburbs
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Her house was situated next to a busy route. A road which connected the city to the southern parts of the suburbs.
The whole year, living in that house without wired broadband, with the incessant dust of the road, and the smell of pollution as the trucks roared by; she could barely sleep.
In her dreams she murdered and killed drivers of four-wheeled vehicles, and imagined a day when she could make their lives miserable.
The next year the media went gaga over the unaccounted increase in car crashes on that road. She was not on the list of suspects.
From Guest Contributor Debarun Sarkar
Debarun sleeps, eats, reads, smokes, drinks, labors and occasionally writes stories and submits them. Recent works have appeared or are forthcoming in Off the Coast, The Opiate, Aainanagar, Rat’s Ass Review, Cerebration and here at A Story in 100 Words. He can be reached at debarunsarkar.wordpress.com
Mar
Staking A Claim
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
It started with his touch and before that the way he looked at me; clear blue eyes that knew how to take me in, how to see through my quiet, my fear. We explored city streets that summer, always attached, love-linked. A goodnight kiss turned couch tumble—hungry hands searching, lips and teeth crashing, his weight pinning me down. And then that surprise on the back of my neck: sweat, tears so sweet. Surrender, yes, maybe even love; but later, and better, trust and understanding, an intimacy that allowed regrets to be shared, my darkness to escape, a homestead staked.
From Guest Contributor Holiday Goldfarb
Holiday is currently enrolled in the MFA Program in Writing at Lindenwood University, Saint Louis, MO. If all goes as planned, she will graduate in December 2016.
Mar
Our Understanding
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Will you wait for me? I was distracted in the company of voices. Remembered you when I realized the time.
I race, feet positioning haphazardly over cobblestone. Last narrow lane weaves through a city’s historic gate, connects me to the main square where I met you yesterday. Where pigeons scrambled for tossed seeds. Tourists watched.
I see you in the same location with the sun setting behind you. Your body pivots, face gestures into countless expressions. Your hands deliver a new story, in silence.
When you see me, your eyes smile. For you know I understand your art of pantomime.
From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs
Krystyna writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her fiction and poetry have recently been published online and in journals at: Nailpolish Stories, 50-Word Stories, 100 word story, A Story in 100 Words, 101 Words, From the Depths (Haunted Waters Press), ShortbreadStories, and espresso stories. Her nonfiction has appeared in flash fiction chronicles and in Wild Lands Advocate. Krystyna resides in Alberta, Canada.