100-word story prompt - saloon
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Amongst the increasing dross on Substack, there’s someone putting up a word each day as the prompt for a 100-word ‘story’. Plot’s pretty limited at that length, but there’s room for brief character sketches. Here’s a first bash.
“Saloon to the left. Snug to the right. No handsome dangerous cowboys here, just a grubby arse pub in the Midlands. Hers for the last thirty years. She opens the door every day with her soul dribbling out of her like the clogged-prostate drip of piss she’ll find miama’d over the floor of the gents later. She knows the culprit. His daily pint is one of the three she can guarantee to sell every day so she says nothing, but as she pulls it into his named tankard, she visualises the beer as piss. No handsome dangerous cowboys here.”
This is the account: open.substack.com/pub/erica…