All 151 Word Stories

From family and work to musings and rants, every one of these very short stories and posts are as true as my memory allows them to be.

The Trial:
     Indisputable Facts
     His Peers, and Mine
     Witnesses of Various Worth
     Joe We'll Never Know
     Poke the Defendant
     Star Witness #1
     The Fall of the First Star
     Star Witness #2  
     The Second Star Falls
     A Letter from Prison
     We the Jury
     Echoes of a Scream

Somewhere in Corporate America (12/7/15)
A rebellious hair cannot stop our hero from performing his duties.

Searching for the Future on a Vermont Highway (11/12/15)
A young man ponders what's next on the open road.

My Life of Crime: Break-in in Brooklyn (8/21/15)
Get back here and steal my stuff!

My Life of Crime: Assault in the Capital (8/6/15)
That time a friend paid 35 cents to have me killed.

Things I've Learned from My Parents During Their First 50 Years of Marriage (7/13/15)
Exactly what it sounds like.

Terlingua Woman Pt. 4: Survival Skills (6/17/15)
She knows the river and she knows the desert.

Terlingua Woman Pt. 3: Border Crossing (6/15/15)
It's too hot to judge.

Terlingua Woman Pt. 2: Grandmother's Wisdom (6/11/15)
Be careful who you drink with at the chili festival.

Terlingua Woman Pt. 1: Her Home (6/7/15)
Her house is where her patio was supposed to be and she doesn't seem to mind.

The Old Lady vs The Snow Bank (3/20/15)
I hope I never hear her complain about the heat.

A Broken Leg at Big Birch (3/3/15)
My Dad isn't the kind of guy who waits for ski patrol.

My Celebrity Encounters (2/4/15)
A little bit of link bait, all real.

To the Girl on the F Train in 1996 (1/21/15)
An apology to a stranger.

Live in the moment, like labradoodles do.

Setting clear expectations for the year.

Cabbie wisdom.

One Thanksgiving (11/27/14)
Things got weird when the cocktails kept coming.

The most awkward toast I've ever seen.

Everyone else was robbed at gunpoint.

A lesson in how to be great at any job.

Musings on the sounds of the streets.

An embarrassing story for everyone involved.

The lady at the conference wasn't as innocent as she looked.

Open mouth, insert foot, then dance.

Note: the goat is not a goat.

Never judge a book by its cover, even if it wants to be.

Estivation (8/17/14)
Where do you summer?

What's happening here, and why.

The 151 word prototype, though nobody knew it at the time.

Berlin

Monika walked through the wall. All these years, then just like that. No more climbing, no more digging. No more dying. Neither the first ...