A Little Bird Told Me
Published on Nov 21, 2015
"A little bird told me": 14 pieces of Twitter Fiction -- bite-sized stories of 140 characters or less.
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Twitter Fiction encompasses stories that, like a "tweet", contain 140 characters or less.
Here are some examples:
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Ship-wrecked, starving, desperate. He steals the last water-bottle and runs. Six miles later, he chokes on salt-water.
Beaten to the punch.
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His stalker works at the café. “I’m not really interested,” he repeats. “I’m not really a waitress,” she smiles as the poison takes hold.
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Her son, though young, is quite an artist. His latest work is truly a masterpiece. With some regret, she scrubs the crayon off her walls.
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“The floor is lava!” the boys cheer, leaping on couches. A single smirk; a spell softly spoken. Child-bearing chairs ooze into the eruption.
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She bought the princess costume, unable to resist her baby’s innocent, hopeful smile. Of course, her husband may dislike their son’s choice.
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He thought they were soul mates, until the day she lifted her head from the toilet to answer his hesitant, longing question:
“I hope not.”
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“Trust this only,” she growled in my ear.
“I’ll come back for you.”
I shuddered as I pulled the knife from her spine and let her drop.
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She puckered up and kissed the frog, searching for her prince and yearning for 'happily ever after'. She wound up with warts instead.
"Croak."
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Sometimes I feel like I need to escape my own skin. I rip wickedly at my flesh to try and get out, but I only wind up with more scars.
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Carefully folded paper; delightfully curled ribbon—a perfectly wrapped present, sat with pride beneath the tree. Destroyed in five seconds flat by eager little fingers.
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“Check for monsters,” she used to say.
“In the cupboard. Under the bed.”
It never occurred to her that the monster was the person checking.
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On the brim of the envelope, she hesitates. Her life was at a crossroads; this letter would be her guide.
She inhales, and opens it.
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The shore-line was a mess of pits and piles. “Third time’s the charm!” he parroted manically, digging his eighty-seventh hole.
‘X’ marks the spot, indeed...
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You only have 140 characters.What story can YOU tell?
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