Two Sentence Stories

The assignment for their science project was to demonstrate the law of gravity and document the effects. One boy filmed the other dropping bricks off the expressway overpass.

Her gaze rested on me for a moment, then went back to the kids, and on to her own reflection in the mirror.

“I know it’s hard to believe,” she said finally, “but they don’t even look like ours, you know.”

She was desperate to figure out the answer to his question without giving herself away.
Out of everything they covered, “What’s your sign?” had not been included.

Thirty-seven years of research, twenty billion dollars, six thousand hours of debate, seven tons of metal, one-half ton of silicon, one hundred miles of wire, and three-hundred-fifty million moving parts. What a strange price we pay for Armageddon.

I spent two years of my childhood pretending I was a squirrel and collecting acorns. I still stop to pick them up sometimes.

I chortled a little when she spoke into my ear, so stunningly-soft and desperately silent, as she collapsed into sobs. The warm breeze tickled little, but I wish that I’d hugged her when she told me her mother had cancer.

The old gypsy woman gazed into the crystal ball and saw herself engulfed in flames. “Impossible,” she laughed, unaware of the small boy playing with matches under her booth.

A lily rose out of the pond, its scent sweet and bitter, its colors yellow and blue, its posture bent and straight at the same time.

I wanted to be like the lily, strong and smooth and sweet, but life weakened, roughed, bittered me without remorse.