Our little local happenings and events paper, The Acorn, is running a writer's contest called In a Nutshell, for fiction 100 words or less.
For someone as wordy as me, 100 is really hard. Here is what I came up with as an entry:
Abby awakens to darkness, a deafening roar and a jolt that
throws her from the bed to the floor which rises, falls and shimmies beneath
her. As dry wall crumbles, girders
groan and glass explodes, she thinks:
Shit, this is it, California
tumbles into the sea. Crawling
blindly, she finds a pillow, pulls it over her neck and head, curls tight, and
rolls with the seismic waves while the crunch of collapse thunders in her
ears.
Then, all is quiet.
Abby opens her eyes. In her
bed, Chris beside her, the apneic silence is punctuated by his monstrous
snore.
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