I wait for Mom and Dad to return from the hospital.
Please wake up.
The rock skips one, two, three times across the calm lake surface before sinking into the deep. It’s all in the wrist action. I tried to teach you, like I tried to teach you to swim.
Jayne Martin is a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions nominee, and a recipient of Vestal Review’s VERA award. Her debut collection of microfiction, “Tender Cuts,” from Vine Leaves Press, is available now. Visit jaynemartin-writer.com or find her on Twitter at @Jayne_Martin or Facebook at Jayne Martin-Author.
Not quite a fifty word story, but it does qualify for the shortest story ever published.
Where’s the story? Not showing.
I was wondering the same thing. Where is the story?
Sorry folks! Fixing it now.
Thanks, Tim. Will you post a new link to FB and Twitter, too?
Good one, Jayne.
Great micro!!
Excellent.
Chillingly good, Jayne.
This! This, Jayne, is 50-word micro fiction. I aspire to this quality.