New challenge

Okay kids, sorry I didn't participate in the last challenge, but I just don't have the time to hunt up old stuff at the moment...so here's a new challenge instead (which I will be doing with my Creative Writing class tomorrow, and I shall post results).

Challenge: the ubiquitous 100-word story. That's right, a complete story in 100 words exactly. Like this one:

The Wedding

Short, short story by Becky Ruth Powell

She looked at the name on the wedding cake.  She couldn’t remember whether she was Lisa, or Beth, or Mary.  She was Lenora this time.  She looked at her new in-laws, who adored her.  Mother, aunt, sister, like three scoops of sherbet in pastel dresses, strands of pearls buried in folds of neck-fat. 

Lenora considered whether she’d rushed things by spiking his cup of wedding punch, but when his head plopped onto her shoulder she dismissed doubt.

Amid the chaos of death, she inherited his sizeable estate.  Her in-laws fussed so over her well-being, she grew fond of being Lenora.

Love it. Makes me think of Amber for some reason.

Ready? Go.