100

A short, short story every day. No more than 100 words. No less.

The Rules

Only one story per day.
Only 100 words per story.
No post-publication editing, save for spelling errors.
Sudden illness, lack of internet access and emergencies only temporarily excuse the author.

100 was created by Melissah Burt but is probably not an original idea. All work is protected under a BY-NC-SA 2.5 Creative Commons License.

The author accepts challenges, which can be submitted via this form.

Interested in the process? Check out melissah.net | Writing every Sunday for author commentary and your opportunity to offer opinions and feedback.

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Wed Sep 12

Making Amends

Paul was everything she had ever wanted. He was the embodiment of every cliché quality she had desired, like personality, a great body, success, a killer smile. Perfect.

Now he was there, naked pressed against her, his arm cradling her against his chest.

Now she knew why Lucy kept him around.

Guilt formed into a fist and ground into her insides until she had to disentangle herself and stand, had to grab her damn phone, just to make it go away.

And she called the stupid number.

‘Hey Lu, it’s Mara. We gotta talk.’

The things she did for friendship.