12 Words Microfiction
Write a story in exactly 12 words, add our hashtag #121words and we will retweet it. Selected stories are published here monthly:
January
twitter.com/@CottageNotebook
Melting snow, bursts of green, and dawn. Life, like the world, endures.
twitter.com/@ajameswriter
Teetering on the precipice of my indecision. I take a breath. Now.
twitter.com/@AkshaTshuklA00
Living the same life every day. Am I caught in time loop?
twitter.com/@AlphaWings
All the lights around this night bring happy thoughts; something highly sought.
twitter.com/@ArielliCady
One morning Bob said "tag your it" to Gata. They ran around.
twitter.com/@JamieCulpAuthor
You made me believe that hurt.
I made believe all the same.
twitter.com/@jevbeckford
Watch them hang from subway car railings; fruit ripe for the picking.
twitter.com/@Joe_GeranIII
The bitter wind forced cold air into his lungs. He kept trotting.
twitter.com/@Karenlourhodes
Elice could almost hear the pieces of King’s shattered heart breaking away.
twitter.com/@MrKamaqazi
She returned home crying because no one noticed her new fur boots
twitter.com/@NelsonBrooks111
Hidden in the grass,
A silver locket,
her ghost hoped
they noticed.
twitter.com/@OnceTwice_Again
I wasn't born tonight.
My bloody hands cry.
My mother is dead.
twitter.com/@operasauvage
Cassandra says “Everything is the boring replay of my last night’s dream.”
twitter.com/@parpalpkj
I am coming down in cold. Smooth. Some call me snow flakes.
twitter.com/@Tirtha01Tirtha
You're the artistic creation, dear, said the mother to the new-born baby.
twitter.com/@woodac2
...and separate stories
freshly heard
sorrow-felt they
moved toward
one heart
twitter.com/@zladyjoker
...and just like history, these old books lay tattered, torn and unforgiving.
twitter.com/@AkshaTshuklA00
Those eyes have travelled a lot; those legs stayed at home always.
twitter.com/@AkshaTshuklA00
"Fast-forward time till I am old enough to control it."
"Roger that."
twitter.com/@brie_kali
Soul slaloms in space.
Starlit diamond aura streaks.
Skiing, my heartrate peaks.
twitter.com/@CottageNotebook
Melting snow, bursts of green, and dawn. Life, like the world, endures.
twitter.com/@dcnixonfiction
I see you, you don’t see me.
I die a little inside.
twitter.com/@dibbi18
Karma watched the injustice. Then struck. What goes arround, must come around.
twitter.com/@DoctorDeSoul
Sweat dripped down workers face... Sweet fruit of labours their only reckoning.
twitter.com/@AkshaTshuklA00
Wake up,
The dream is over.
Sleep tight,
The nightmare is over.
twitter.com/@Bare_Devil
I fall asleep every night just to meet you in my dreams…
twitter.com/@masud_shujon
Remember
me
fallible
imperfect
he
insatiable
to
be better
to
love
perfectly
twitter.com/@Mordhyrgm
His 'nads ached. She'd planted a steel toe, now held a knife.
twitter.com/@Rick02141
I am a believer of antidisestablishmentarianism! Put in 12 words, simply superfragilisticexpialidocious!
twitter.com/@Saulsn
We will slowly
come closer
but only to swiftly
drift apart further.
twitter.com/@sendchampagne
Once she held the baby, the horizon smoke seemed somehow less ominous.
twitter.com/@SWKiers
"Alas, you're still true."
But the door latch clicked. He'd fled, too.
twitter.com/@Tirtha01Tirtha
She is craving for those moments when the tree-tops touched the sky.
twitter.com/@woodac2
small trinkets
about my desk
tell me stories
and whisper me
hopes
twitter.com/@paulproofreader
To the last human alive, everything looks like faces, sounds like voices.
twitter.com/@PetrasFreeMuse
"Calgon, please truly take me away", she thought, submerging herself under water…
twitter.com/@Karenlourhodes
Agnes’s new wig looked even more ridiculous than the pink spotted dress.
twitter.com/@EreaderLair
His time machine showed him how climate change did ruin the world.
twitter.com/@EwanL
The wind in the dark sang murder songs until I slew someone.
twitter.com/@BeardedShadow1
Seabird unwittingly eats unusual fish: the plastic bag’s reign of destruction continues.
twitter.com/@AkshaTshuklA00
A bullet gently passes through his head, flushing out her memories permanently.
twitter.com/@BobFairfield1
Sunset came and went and with the darkness the fear grew stronger.
twitter.com/@DoctorDeSoul
Enough is enough! Said the grieving husband. Wasted away in his guilt…
twitter.com/@dre_65
I sat in my chair and listened to Dido's lament. I cried.
twitter.com/@OnceTwice_Again
I"ll grasp his essence
Hear his voice
I'll surrender to silence, tonight.
twitter.com/@OluwatomisinP
Together, we'll set the world on fire and dance in its ashes.
twitter.com/@pbsharkey
Tethered to her oxygen machine, she made Thanksgiving dinner for her family.
twitter.com/@poetryinme14
New week is a new ship. Begin a fresh voyage with hope.
twitter.com/@woodac2
The Thank You Bird
Sings on my balcony.
I play my flute.
twitter.com/@takenbycoffee
She couldn't hear herself screaming. Coal black! It must have been afterlife.
twitter.com/@StavrosThanos
Peace...This is just a desert...10th day alone... Rest in peace…
twitter.com/@QuietManDave
They screamed 'blow harder' but you knew the balloon was gonna pop.
twitter.com/@neonpajamas
I call my wrist a graveyard because none of my watches work.
twitter.com/@navanitavp
"Average, you are," screamed the teacher. This shattered his soul into smithereens!
twitter.com/@MrKamaqazi
After losing his memory, he rediscovered it in a novels’s tattered pages.
twitter.com/@Lavmuses
The bully tweeted a challenge. The bullied rose to build better world.
twitter.com/@LizSchriftstell
"I remember brighter days. They will come again. Listen more, fight less."
twitter.com/@kilowattpoet
She traded her pay stubs for the smile on her children’s faces.
twitter.com/@AkshaTshuklA00
Last kiss,
And water
At the sunset
Carrying their bodies
Far away.
twitter.com/@fredrock715
A match, a splash of gasoline, and so long to my ex.
twitter.com/@HannahWhiteoak
Ten fingers, ten toes, no heartbeat. The teenage father hides his relief.
twitter.com/@ldhalliday
Whilst running she tripped and fell - he grabbed her, producing a rose…
twitter.com/@lucifuge88
He shot his lover before killing himself. Finally, they can be together.
twitter.com/@Karenlourhodes
Mercla sighed contentedly, licking her fingers in turn. The chocolate tasted divine.
twitter.com/@lal_shiban
Butterfly alighted on a flower. Whispered! We are transient. Unlock your treasures!
twitter.com/@stellakateT
For years he’d watched her now he watched her coffin being lowered.
twitter.com/@The_C_H_A_D
“Cursed to forever want what you can’t have, eh? Join the club.”
twitter.com/@joycea17
December’s tree dangles toys from piney branches. Furtive, cat eyes flicker. Pounce!
twitter.com/@Tirtha01Tirtha
After his failure he turned more religious,more aggressive and more escapist.
twitter.com/@AkshaTshuklA00
The sun turned orange at noon. We are inching closer to Apocalypse.
twitter.com/@avhanna19
I woke my daughter up for school, but she didn't recognize me.
twitter.com/@GHMonroe
The bullet drove him back and to the left. It changed ... everything.
twitter.com/@Karenlourhodes
There were no graves. That was the worst thing about losing them.
twitter.com/@KCerioAuthor
Hello my friends, my name is Karen and I am a chocoholic.
twitter.com/@NelsonBrooks111
I sliced off his arm. The snake bite? Not poisonous; I lied.
twitter.com/@thehauntedpen
It’s so dark and lonely here. I wish I had been cremated.
twitter.com/@TJBlake93
Crunch, crunch... snap! They’ve found me. Which direction should I run? Move!
twitter.com/@usares
Boy meets cute girl, and her other personality is a serial killer.
twitter.com/@whykatwrites
She has dreams hidden beneath those lashes; soon they’ll carry her away.
twitter.com/@NelsonBrooks111
I buried the head,
the legs kept popping out.
Deeper grave required!
twitter.com/@avhanna19
He danced about his office, spinning around in circles like a madman.