2026 Microfictions with Friends

The challenge: to write 100-word (maximum) fictions determined by specific genres, actions, and words. This should be a hoot!

Thursday, May 7, 2026

#11 Whiteboard on the Fridge

Monday: Pick up Pooka @ 4:30 (Vet Tech NORM?)

Dinner? Ramen (chicken?)


Ray in Phoenix: 602-748-5000 (leave message with Tina tcb)


List:    Tide

           Milk

           Tampons

           Four Roses


Tune for Ray: Falling Behind - Laufey 


LAUNDRY! (The sheets - they be walkin’!) 🧟


Tuesday: Flight 389, 7:15 Southwest

Ray new cell: 570-812-3434


Wednesday: Pick up Pooka @ 8:30


Pick up Pooka @ 4:40 NORM x7320


Thursday: Dr. Wilson and NORM at 8:30

Ray: Flight 7280 2:40 (UBER?)

Pooka Furtastic Spring Special - how expensive? 9:00


Cornell Oncology: 6072533060

$4600???


No. Just No.


Friday:💔

WhereTheFuck is Ray?




NOTE: Do messages to oneself count as epistolary fiction? Does talking to oneself count as dialogue? Or must it be monologue? (And does the "ue" seem as silly to you as it does to me?)



3 comments:

  1. Yes. Yes. No. (Now that you mention it, perhaps.)

    I am a big fan of lists and self-dialogue after reading Ducks, Newburyport, so I loved this.

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  2. I really loved this. The tale a simple set of to-do items can tell. And WTF is Ray indeed?!

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    1. Your post inspired this real life version: https://aseparatelife.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/to-do-list/

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