Exit this survey 100 Character Micro Challenge // Group 16: stand Question Title * 1. Choose your favorite stories below (choose as many as you like): We stand side by side, wishing the other would jump first; knowing it's hopeless, and hoping anyway. // by Chris Tom His wife had started to hit. Alzheimer's you know. The music stand fell as he left. So it goes. // by Elisa Jay "I'll stand guard." She knew he would, that she could count on him. It was the impostor she detested // by Jennifer Heller Struck by fear, Tom could feel his knees weaken. As the figure approached, he could barely stand. // by Howard Fung He placed his flag down and said, “I am the first man to stand on Mars,” and then his head exploded. // by Brice Maiurro He didn’t lie. But his handkerchief wiped fingerprints from the witness stand as Ben was excused. // by Meg Turecek First rope, then beam, followed by ladder too short. “I never know where to stand,” she apologized. // by Casey Callahan Smokes pot in bed with his boots on. Can't stand - the pulse in his feet beat like blacksmiths. // by Kylie Dalton Remembering every bruise,Ava took the stand to give her testimony in presence of her handcuffed dad. // by Shynee Christian The smell of blood, sweat and leather. His descent was slow motion. Oh how he wanted to stand. // by Tom Erdman You promised me the world. Now I have the TV without its stand. // by Cpathy Earnest Your son was suspended from school because he took a stand for gay rights and won’t give it back. // by Chris Tom He left his wheelchair and took the gold. As he did stand and walk, he was immediately disqualified. // by Brice Maiurro Lucy’s Lemonade Stand. Today only: Cups 10 cents. (Lemonade available upon FDA approval.) // by Meg Turecek Their first warning signal should have been the small market stand set up right outside the morgue. // by Marissa Doszkocs Last stand of trees, ruined hill. Engine grunt, branch snap, bird shriek. What can, flees. // by Anna Scotti “The trick is to stand perfectly still and let life pass you by. That way, you get a better view.” // by Chris Tom Poor Di just wanted a one night stand. 25 years later, she was still too polite to ask him to leave. // by Caroline Hood Tears in his eyes, pain of dying wasn't so bad. Missing his baby stand to take her first steps was. // by Howard Fung The old lady sells vegetables at the stand on the corner every morning. No one knows her name. // by Kara Frantzich To my son, I leave my father’s coffin. It is very important that he keeps it in the silver stand. // by Marissa Doszkocs “I can’t stand winter”, she told the taxi driver. She never got to the airport. The snow was red. // by Nuri Rosegg “I will not stand for this stuff on the radio you call music!” my metal-head father said // by Patrick McGowan Brer Rabbit done bundled some stocks & is jumpin’ round the financial briar patch. Stand and shoot. // by Tami Tirgrath He couldn’t stand to stand for nothing and needed to stand for something. He gave her his seat. // by Tom Erdman Done