micro-fiction - home
Trying out a little micro-fiction. This baby has been sitting in my computer for a couple of years. Time to dust it out. Doesn't look too micro, isn't it?
home
It was Christmas again, how he wished he was at home with his family, and his dog, by the fireplace. Just his luck, the ballot for the limited seats on the flight home was unkind. A video conference with his family later will do. Still, it was not so bad. His fellow miners had even managed to whip up a rare Christmas meal, with a roast turkey thrown in. He smiled and looked out of the dormitory window. It was dark outside, as usual. And hanging in the black sky, like a piece of cut blue jewel, his home. Earth.
25.12.2010
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100 words exactly
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2013
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It was Christmas again, how he wished he was at home with his family, and his dog, by the fireplace. Just his luck, the ballot for the limited seats on the flight home was unkind. A video conference with his family later will do. Still, it was not so bad. His fellow miners had even managed to whip up a rare Christmas meal, with a roast turkey thrown in. He smiled and looked out of the dormitory window. It was dark outside, as usual. And hanging in the black sky, like a piece of cut blue jewel, his home. Earth.
25.12.2010
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100 words exactly
Shared on Poetry Pantry #181 at Poets United.
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2013
Labels: christmas, family, microfiction, sci-fi
posted by dsnake1 at 11:22 PM
10 Comments:
Love your futuristic micro-fiction. Glad you took it out to share. Your last sentence was a surprise....which made the writing especially good!!
This is spectacular...love that blue jewel bit....
I enjoyed this prose poem very much.
oh wow...that would be a far cry from home to be a space miner...still hard to be apart...at such a distance...
merry christmas snake
Wonderful!
ZQ
Mary,
thank you! glad you liked the "twist" at the end. :)
i wrote this on a christmas day a couple of years back, and what better way to share it than on this coming holiday.
Sumana,
thanks! you didn't know how many photos i looked through before i arrived at "jewel". :D
Susan,
thanks for visiting! :)
Brian,
i thought a sci-fi tale would be cool. :)
a merry christmas to you and your family!
ZQ,
thank you, my friend!
Cool Idea! A whole story in a hundred words. I may try that sometime too . . . This was good I look forward to some more . . .
thank you, Stormcat. i am glad you're still writing. :)
and yes, i am thinking of writing more of this micro stories.
happy new year man...will be back around on monday!
a happy new year to you too, Brian. :)
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