Week 9: Microfiction

A Shady Tree

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Weary from sun, shade was underappreciated.

Two weary travelers stopped under a tree. They complained that the tree didn't provide anything, when in reality its shade is what they were using.




Authors Note: This microfiction is an adaptation of the story "The Plane Tree" from Aesops Fables. The moral of the story is that sometimes the most obvious blessings are the most underappreciated.

Week 8 Microfiction

Greedy he was.
Nothing he got.



There once was a man who was not satisfied with what he had.
In an attempt to get more, he lost what he had.

The Man and his Goose

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Author's Note: For this week's microfiction I am going to stick to the theme of rewriting one of Aesop's Fables but in short. This week I went with The Goose & The Golden Egg. In this popular story there is basically a guy who has a goose that lays a golden egg everyday. He takes this egg and goes to the market and sells it everyday to get rich. He gets greedy and instead of waiting he kills the goose to get all of them at once, only to find that there are no eggs inside.

Week 7: Microfiction

Wolf!, he said.

They didn't come

The boy cried wolf when their wasn't one, over and over.

When the wolf actually came, the others didn't.

Authors Note: This microfiction is an adaptation of the boy who cried wolf. In this common fable a boy says wolf multiple times when there actually isn't a wolf but when it actually does come and he says wolf, nobody comes to his aid as they think he is lying. This is a good life lesson as when you become known as a liar, even when you are telling the truth, people will still think you are lying.

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Micro-fiction: The Tortoise and the Hare

As the hare lays there comfortable with his lead,
the tortoise makes progress like a fast mare and finishes ahead of the hares heed.

Hare was lazy, Turtle was steady.

Authors note: The story that I chose to condense and make my own microfiction out of is the classic story of the tortoise and the hare. What was interesting to me is that the story is listed as the hare and the tortoise but I have only ever heard it flipped as the tortoise and the hare. I don't think I ever really struggled with making the story as the original is pretty short to begin with but I did have to stop and think for the 25 word one to use words that would rhyme, but still convey meaning instead of just not making any sense.

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Microfiction Week 5

Left an exile. Came back King.

This story is the closest synopsis I could make of The Lion King. I have been writing a lot about lions so I figured the Lion King would be a good story that everybody knows.

Girl sacrifices herself for her dad. Proves she can do what any man can.

Keeping with the theme of Disney movies I wanted to summarize Mulan in two sentences.

Source: Pixabay

Microfiction Week 2

The alligator tries to trick a monkey across a river in order to eat his heart. The monkey realizes this and tricks the alligator into taking him back to land.

Late nights don't stop the train.

Picture from Twitter

Authors Note: The first short story is a two sentence microfiction where I tried to basically retell the story I read in this week's reading, but in two sentences. The 6 word story is about a picture I found on twitter under the #6wordstory hashtag. I think it is hard to tell a story in 6 words as it leaves basically everything up to interpretation. I also counted the conjunction "don't" as one word so maybe it is actually a 7 word story.

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Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie L. Shedlock, The Crocodile and the Monkey's Heart