Oh, drabbles.

Came across an interesting site this week: 100words.com. Members who want to be featured on the site promise to write a 100 word entry everyday for a month. The content doesn't matter, nor do they have to be connected, but each entry has to be exactly 100 words long. I don't think I could write that regularly for a month, (I participated in National Novel Writing Month a few years in a row with Xander and never managed to finish my one story,) but I wanted to try a writing a few things with the 100 word limit. Here are my first couple of tries:

Fortunately Matt had put his hands out at the last minute to break his fall. As he lifted himself up off the sidewalk, he turned to see what exactly he had tripped over. He picked up the slightly oversized black chess pawn that was sitting upright on the concrete a few inches behind him. It was oddly cool to the touch for such a warm day. He turned it over, looking for some sort of marking, and found that the bottom of it appeared hollow. Peering into it, a wave of dizziness quickly washed over him. He began to fall…

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Stepping out of the front door pulling her suitcase, Alex looked behind her to make sure she hadn’t left a bag in the hallway. As she locked the door, she had a good feeling about her decision: she knew that she had made the right choice to leave. With the weeks of indecision and questioning behind her now, she knew there was no going back.
Climbing into the taxi at the bottom of the driveway, Alex told the driver that she was headed to the airport. “Going on vacation?” he asked.
“You could say that,” replied Alex, smiling to herself.

Do you have any 100 word stories in you?