Fifteen Minutes
Over at we've started yet another challenge. The point is to take the prompt word, which changes every Sunday, and base a story on it. The time limit is, as you've already guessed, fifteen minutes.
Since these stories are short, I've decided to lump them together, each story being a separate chapter.
I wrote this chapter in less than fifteen minutes, because I was trying to keep to the one hundred word limit. Later chapters will be longer.
Bed Check
100 words
8 Minutes
Don took a deep breath and entered his brother's Craftsman home.
He wanted to talk to his family. Some conversation that didn't involve violence.
However, it was 2 AM and he expected everybody to be in bed. So he satisfied himself with walking upstairs as silently as a ghost.
Don turned off the television that his father had fallen asleep watching.
He paused outside Charlie's room when he recognized Amita's perfume.
He decided to not go in there. He headed for his own room, only to find his bed occupied by Charlie.
He laughed silently. "Buddy, you are so busted."
