At In Your Write Mind 2025, I led a writing exercise focused on microfiction, challenging attendees to write a story in 100 words to 1000 words tops.

I decided I was going to do 100 words because writing small is a fun challenge. I asked my friend Trisha to give me a genre. She laughed and said “romance,” knowing full well that’s a hard genre for me. I once tried to write a romance short story and it accidentally became a horror story and also inadvertently offended a chunk of my critique workshop. My bad.

So I did the thing. Wrote a tiny story, ruthlessly pared it down to 100 words. Then, because I was leading this exercise and feeling wild surrounded by my fellow writers, I searched for a place to send my drabble. I hit send on the thing before I could doubt myself.

Today, that 100 word microfiction is live on Micromance Magazine, a fabulous corner of the internet filled with daily romance of the micro variety. Please read my little tale, and I hope you enjoy it. You can get Micromance in your email inbox daily, so please check them out for other wonderful romance genre fiction.