The 100 Word Stories Podcast

Pablo wanted to be a bullfighter all of his life. On his deathbed, when asked if he had any regrets, he said I never fought the bulls. So the doctors and the nurses called a nearby farm and that evening sure enough they brought a bull to Pablo‘s room. It was a small bull and rather docile. They may have drugged it. Even so, getting it up the elevator wasn’t easy, the stairs were impossible....

Some dude over 250 years ago said we will all hang separately or we can all hang together. If I were there, I would’ve shouted I don’t wanna be hanged at all. I mean if you’re hanging separately, you’re dead. If you’re hanged all together, it’s not just that you’re dead, but you feel kind of embarrassed everyone else being hanged seeing you being hanged. Unless you’re the last one to be hanged. Th...

She was beautiful and smart and I thought maybe I could ask her number. She told me it was the last 10 digits of pi. At first, I felt crushed, no way I was in a league and she knew it. But then. What if? So I finished my degree in mathematics, soldier through a masters degree and dedicated my doctoral thesis to her. Which calculated the last 10 digits of pi. And I called her number. But I was too...

The first faster than light ships carried inorganic cargo. The time dilation field was hazardous for regular organic material. But eventually, we invented a shielding system that worked. Colonizing the planets, and then the stars came soon after. Communication methods were performed by a fleet of Messenger drones. It was weird hearing about catastrophic experiments with fusion on a star. You could...

We bandaged Herman‘s left leg and had him stand up. He was a little wobbly at first, but eventually he was able to take a few steps, nod and head back out the door. The painkillers we infuse in bandages aren’t that strong, but they tend to do the trick. The door opened again, and a woman was holding her arm. I checked for a possible broken wrist. I did a few reflex tests before opening up another...

Sorry it was a day late. Lizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Dirty RICHARD Written off I’m in a writers’ group. There must be nearly thirty of us in all, and everyone, with the exception of me, has aspirations. Some are working on their first novel, and several of the group are already published authors; some are even making a living from writing full-time....

There were three elevators in the Montgomery building. You could get into the elevator on the left and when you got to your floor, you were coming out of the elevator doors on the right. Terry tried this a few times and sure enough the strange phenomenon transported her to a different elevator door. It was always the right floor. Just a different set of doors on that floor. She asked others and th...

Bonnie came from a big family out on the farm four brothers and four sisters. She was the oldest, and when her mother died of tuberculosis, she became the glue that held the family together. Getting all the kids out into the fields, and then out to school. She was the one who milked the cows. Her father never said thank you. She couldn’t do everything though so every kid had a household chore from...

Nancy Whitcombe was the prom queen by default. Everyone else had dropped out or was too sick to go, or worse. There’d been a horrible bus accident after the football game where most of the senior class ended up dying in a flaming wreck. The ones who had been too sick from food poisoning in the cafeteria to go to the game, consider themselves lucky. And Nancy had been a total bookworm. She never we...

The neighborhood was a nice wooded place with houses and driveways and all that. You got lots of shade in the summer from the tall trees. Every now and then you’d have to cut back a branch or take out and hold dead tree, but for the most part, it felt like living in forest. Then people moved away or died, and we were the only original family left, and people started coming in, knocking down all ho...