Stan sat on the toilet and stared at the floor. The tiles were black and white. There were more black than white. Each square was about an inch long and an inch wide.
He contemplated wistfully.
He was six feet. If he were only two inches tall, he would be one thirty-sixth his current size. Each square would be thirty-six times its current size-- or three feet by three feet. To stay on the black squares from the toilet to the wall meant going twelve feet out of the way.
"The next time," he thought, "I'm bringing a newspaper."
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99 Words is a pet project I started in 2011 when at college. The idea was that I didn't have time for writing, but still had passing fancies, visions, plot ideas, and the like. Instead of tossing them to the wayside, I came up with a plan to turn those notes into little chunkules of text, each 99 words long. This is section is still updated.