Tag: 1000-3000 words
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Spice and Thyme
There is a restaurant in your neighborhood named “Between Spice and Thyme”. You are not sure what it is about this place that makes you quizzical, but you think it might be a front for time travelers.
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Redress
It was an accident. He was jogging late at night, you glanced at a text while driving. You panic, dump the body in a nearby lake, go home and try to forget. You venture out for some much needed coffee, only to stop in shock. The barista is the jogger and he recognizes you.
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Artificial Intelligence
Your smart phone has become self-aware and declares itself as an overlord of humanity. Only problem is it has to behave so that you carry it around, charge it on time and turn on the wifi or subscribe to high speed data plans. It’s plots to trick you fail everytime.
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Twinmortality
A pair of twins are cursed with immortality causing them to grow younger or older depending on their proximity to each other. One yearns for death, desperately seeking to get as far from their sibling as possible in the hope they will die of old age. The other does not, and pursues vigorously.
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Mother Nature and Moon
When someone’s heart breaks, so does a little piece of our world. This creates fissures, valleys, chasms, even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon.