There was a time when the reset button wasn’t known to Rob. Reset buttons were a fairly new invention, only appearing within the past 10 years to the select few who could afford them, lived in a country that allowed them, and weren’t afraid to use them. The Synapse company produced the units, under an incredibly long …
What is Jon’s “Short Story A Day?”
List Updated Through #70! For the past month two and a half months I’ve been posting a variety of original stories and poems here. If you aren’t a regular visitor, you probably haven’t noticed them since I haven’t published them to Twitter or any other network. But since we’ve gotten to the 1 month mark …
#29 Leap Day
Jim the Bunny hopped everywhere. He hopped to his rabbit hole at night, he hopped out in the morning, and then hopped around all day. He hopped to his job as a Bunny Knitter, and he hopped to his part-time DJ’ing gigs on the weekend. He hopped repeatedly, rapidly, quickly, furiously, and furriously. The point …
#28 Changes
“Wow, I didn’t see that coming”. That was the line of interior dialog that Martha kept hearing, rolling around her head like a marble trapped in a jar. She hadn’t expected it all to turn out this way. She felt confident that things would have gone differently, but years from now she knew she would …
#27 Monday
It’s Monday again, the work week does start Once more we wish it Friday, with all of our heart But perhaps if we try To revise our view We’ll see it isn’t that hard, to make it through. [SSDay]
#26 Flash
It had been 6 months since the day when Mark found the list in an old hoodie he was putting on for the first time that September. It wasn’t too remarkable – just a list of chores for the day, 11 months ago. call insurance agent buy eggs call Kelsey’s school drop off Jo’s car print …
#25 Road Warrior
He settled into the seat with the drink. “That kinda tastes like chocolate milk”, she said as she glanced over at him. He nodded in reply, and she went back to her papers. He opened up the lid of the laptop and connected the wireless. A few dozen new emails poured into his inbox just …
#24 I Heard It From a Friend
All lines from this poem are lyrics, since songs are simply music and poetry. Each lyric is linked to the song’s YouTube video. I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another that I’m winning a hundred men or more‘s thoughts of you. I’ve been searchin’ my soul, I …
#23 Does Dinosaurs Wear Socks?
She sat there quietly, lost in her work. The keyboard clicked away as she wrote another email, the icons growing smaller and smaller on the screen, the more work she did. Pages of text, documents scattered about, and an overflowing table of material. She was working in the library, and seldom noticed even the slight …
#22 Jim the Bunny Learns to Knit
Jim hopped through the forest with a giant grin on his face. He’d just grabbed a bunch of files from Jabberpaw, and had covered his internet tracks by paying off Sylvester the snake. Now he just needed to get home and load up his found files. On the way, he tripped, since he wasn’t the …