Posts Tagged ‘Sign’
Jan
Star Wars Fan
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
I bought my movie ticket a week ago, to see Rogue One. Now the day of, a heavy rain storm caused flooding and traffic. I had to make it there. I sat in the car stuck behind honking car horns thinking of last year’s Star Wars film and Princess Leia’s recent death. A tragedy. Okay, the traffic started moving. I had fifteen minutes to get there, park, and buy popcorn.
The parking lot was unusually empty. I found a spot close to the theater. After I ran through puddles, the sign on the door read closed due to inclement weather.
From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher
Dec
Roswell Café
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Occupants of the flying saucer are being chased by their archenemy. Desperately looking for a safe place to hide.
Radar shows a habitable planet nearby. After scanning the surface they decide to land in a town called Roswell. They wait until late at night, create a thick fog, and then land the spacecraft. They scan the Internet and soon have the information they need. As the fog clears one of the aliens puts a sign on the front hatch that reads “Opening Soon.”
Billy and Betty Simms drive past the saucer. “Looks like another new restaurant,” Betty says to Billy.
From Guest Contributor Denny E. Marshall
May
Tool
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
“This is my weekend,” Hugh told the windscreen, almost colliding with the car in front. “Hold on.” He tuned out until he could give the Bluetooth his full attention. The car skidded to a stop on the gravelly lay-by.
“You can’t spare the time to drop him off? No problem, I’ll collect him.”
Glaring at traffic, he struggled to keep his response relatively civil.
“Your lover-boy gardener is intimidated by me?
He’s wattnow?
Right … gardener just long enough to plough you, eh?
Too bad, Cathal’s my son–
Bronagh?”
Hugh stared into space, eventually noticing an ironic sign.
WRONG WAY.
From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid
Apr
Wrong Turn
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Gareth and Melissa knew they were lost when they reached the gas station. It seemed abandoned, with the rusted pump and the crooked sign and the station house that had collapsed years previously.
They argued bitterly, with each blaming the other. Melissa had missed the turnoff, Gareth had refused to look at the map. But their anger towards each other was really just a mask for their own fears.
The station pump was well over 3 meters tall. They couldn’t be sure when it had happened, but sometime during the night they had crossed over into the land of giants.