I entered a short story competition that required me to write a 100 word short story in 24 hours. The story needed to meet three things, a genre (Sci-Fi), an event (Seeing a rainbow) and to use a certain word (Micro). It took me a while to find the right idea and to get it to work in a way I was happy with. But like the last time I entered something similar, I enjoyed the desire to find the story that sparked the right way for me. So, for the sake of creativity, here is 1 of the 24 rejected stories in a 100 word format..

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It’s A Deal

“How dare you expect my favour to be bent without resistance, are you forgetting who I am? Are you forgetting what I STAND for? WHO I STAND FOR?”
The little man giggles gleefully and twists his hands into each other as if he were folding them into one. “I know who ye are, and I know all ye stand for because I made it so, me and my pot at the end of me rainbow. So don’t try and micro size me like ye do the rest of them. Now, are ye gonna do what I ask, or not boyo?”