Nasal Spray – A 100 Word Story

storytime.pngYup, it’s flash fiction time again!

As always, this is based around Laurence Simon’s weekly challenge for the 100 word-stories podcast. It’s a great exercise for writers – writing a good drabble is a lot harder than it appears, but is still a "small" task so you can get around that idea of it being too much work. And then you get a random (and often bizarre) writing prompt to shoehorn you out of writer’s block! Go read the rules for the Weekly Challenge and participate! Heck, Chris the Nuclear Kid does when he remembers to (and I can drag him away from video games)!

The player below should have the audio for this week; if it doesn’t, you can find the audio here to download. You can also read and hear the rest of the entries (and vote for your favorites) at the 100 Word Stories podcast site!

About to sneezeThe alien sneezed onto my faceplate and Karen gagged. I shrugged in my spacesuit. "They think it’s weird we move air to communicate." My suit was already translating the booger’s message for us. "With this planet’s wind, you couldn’t hear someone talking. The mucous transmission of pheromones – "

"I have a doctorate in xenobiology; don’t mansplain it to me."

I realized I’d blown any chance of a date – and then I saw the nude human. "Garner’s gone all nature hippie." Garner approached one of the aliens.

Karen gasped. "Oh crap. He’s got allergies."

Garner sneezed on the alien.