Friday, September 9, 2011

Two, one-hundred word stories:

The BLOG, Post Rapture Looting offers this instruction, after the end of the world as we know it. “Next week when everyone is gone and Jesus is not looking, we need to pick up some awesome electronic equipment, some bone-in, rib steaks, and maybe a new flat screen for the big house down the street that we plan to occupy. By next Thursday, at noon, we plan to meet at the coffee house, and march together to the old Wingnut Mansion on Cedar, so we can pick out our rooms and get ready for the big rave on Friday night.”
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The lamp over her computer was a little jury-rigged light fixture she cobbled together from USB plugs, a few LEDs, and an amplifier out of her dad’s used dental equipment. It was a pin-point beam of a million and a half candle power, and if adjusted too close to her keyboard, it would singe her fingertips. The cuticles on her fingertips browned, shriveled and fell off into the gaps between the keys causing them to jam and stop working properly. Her beautiful, manicured nails began to brown and crack, but Elsie Tardbean kept typing to make her Saturday, midnight, deadline.

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