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Monday Microfiction: "Killing Time"
- Jennifer Peaslee
- Nov 10
- 1 min read
This week's microfiction is a 100-word story about time.
Many of my micro stories are inspired by prompts provided by THE FICTION DEALER Substack. I highly recommend checking it out if you’re interested in reading more microfics — or writing your own!
Killing Time
The wastrels said it didn’t matter how you spent your time, for you could always borrow more. Back then, time was easy to catch: it crawled.
Then time grew older and changed, learning to fly, slipping through fingers like a dream upon waking.
Suddenly, there wasn’t enough for everyone. The rich could buy more and live their days in long luxury. The poor stole what they could, snatching moments from the air.
But it was the careless ones who killed time—stripping it of its seconds, minutes, and hours until there was nothing left—and there is no turning back.
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