Sunday Shorts

Lesson Plans by Rob Vogt, USA (50-word Dribble)

After the second plane hit, we were instructed not to discuss political motives with our students. Instead, we analyzed the chemical make-up of airplane fuel, calculated mass

times acceleration for concrete chucks cascading toward the street, and brainstormed adjectives to describe New Yorkers running from Ground Zero, panicked and screaming

Destiny Made Manifest by Kevin Grauke, USA (100-word Drabble)

Beset by fever, the man heard from his sweated bed a trumpet: Go, it said, though it took three days for it to do so. Now.

On his drive west, the man posed hypotheticals while the afternoon cursed from the radio. Within its static, minor gods rumbled. His car, no fuel; his body, no food. Roadkill served as the stations of his personal cross, so, of course everything stopped in Utah.

He died in the soft dirt of a rodeo pit, with no clown in sight. And the sun, having failed yet again, surrendered to the demands of the horizon.