Fiction Tiny Stories
The Barber Who Kept the Book of First Haircuts
Behind the till of a small barber shop sits a fat green ledger holding forty years of first haircuts, and one Saturday a man came in asking to see his own page.
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Fiction Made-Up Words
Doorlapse
(n.) The complete wipe of purpose that happens somewhere between leaving one room and arriving in the next, leaving you standing in the kitchen with no idea why.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Shed With the Visitors Book
It holds a kettle, three mismatched mugs, a folding chair and a notebook on a nail that nobody started on purpose and nobody has ever stopped.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Pagedrift
(n.) The quiet exit of your attention from a page your eyes keep reading anyway, noticed four paragraphs later when you have to go back and find the last sentence you can honestly claim.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Why Is the Way Back Always Shorter?
The journey home takes exactly as long as the journey out, and it is over noticeably sooner, which is a strange thing for an hour to do.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Namefog
(n.) The total blank that arrives at the exact moment you begin to introduce two people, one of whom you have known for eleven years.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Letterbox at the End of the Lane
It was decommissioned in 1998 and sealed with a metal plate, and people have been posting letters into it ever since.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Tortoise Who Outlasted Three Sofas
He arrived in 1974 as a present for a nine-year-old boy, and has since watched the living room around him be redecorated four times without appearing to notice.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Why Does a Room Look Different in a Photograph?
A photo records everything from one fixed point, while your eyes see only a small area sharply and your attention picks out what matters, so the picture rarely matches what you saw.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Findable Keyring
A keyring that beeps, flashes and vibrates so you can locate it, and does all three only while it is already in your hand.