Confic, the online twitter-based short-story website (@confic) have “re-tweeted”, or published to their online feed, a short story submitted by my Twitter alias, @spokk.
The story itself gives you a protagonist who is held in an emotional bind about the action he has just carried out, implied in the denouement as something quite chilling.
The adjective-filled style may please the word-lovers of the world, but I’m starting to wonder if it didn’t contravene the point of the exercise: producing a short story in a limited number of characters. Did I just produce a scene? Is it better to pad out one single conflict in as descriptive a manner as possible or rather suggest a more complex scenario in the available space?
Here is the -132 character story in its entirety:
His eyelids slowly parted. Waves of joyous grief pulsed under his claret-speckled labcoat. In the distance, a blade met concrete.
