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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Tue Oct 2

Babies for Breakfast

Katie pushed her breakfast with her spoon, driving the smooth skinned fruit around her plate in wobbly circles, leaving a trail of red, like watery blood, on the shiny white surface.

‘Eat your breakfast, Katie,’ said mummy through a mouthful of toast.

‘It looks like a baby.’

Mummy looked up from her newspaper. She moved her eyes from her daughter’s round face to the blood orange half on the plate. The flesh had been driven out by Katie’s spoon and almost did look like a baby.

‘Don’t be silly, please.’

Katie named it ‘Princess Constance’ and ate it all up.