The 300 is just one of my 2025 writing projects. Planned out in December 2024, during a brief Dec '24 / Jan '25 return to the social media platform Bluesky, The 300 is a series of very short stories (VSS) whose series/project name is inspired by the film of the same name. Each individual VSS is three hundred characters or less, with each VSS targeting three hundred words precisely. Each is an exploration of either an act or an act of defiance.
Examples:
The 300: 01292025 by Geoffrey Allison
Nearing a bakery with a slogan that can be read twice, I scrunch my face. Shut my eyes, strangle my brain. It's an amazing distance, traveled swiftly, the depth between curb & street. I struggle now to compose this using A.I. from a hospital bed located in the unit administering to the self-injured.
The 300: 01232025 by Geoffrey Allison
Again the dream. We're partners? Or friends? Stranded on an island, not feeling lost. My job is simple. I say it's more difficult than it is. In secret I stretch the task. Climb trees for coconuts. Watch her scratch her poems into wet sand. A breath, a beat for every wave devouring granules of time.
The 300: 01132025 by Geoffrey Allison
The novelist scrubs away grime. Revealing spartan Truth through QT. Shared hypocrisies. QTing to followers—strangers in the majority—the comic book writer cautioning their followers—strangers in the majority—against listening to advice offered up by strangers and 'randos.' Blessed be The Resistance.
Examples:
The 300: 01292025 by Geoffrey Allison
Nearing a bakery with a slogan that can be read twice, I scrunch my face. Shut my eyes, strangle my brain. It's an amazing distance, traveled swiftly, the depth between curb & street. I struggle now to compose this using A.I. from a hospital bed located in the unit administering to the self-injured.
The 300: 01232025 by Geoffrey Allison
Again the dream. We're partners? Or friends? Stranded on an island, not feeling lost. My job is simple. I say it's more difficult than it is. In secret I stretch the task. Climb trees for coconuts. Watch her scratch her poems into wet sand. A breath, a beat for every wave devouring granules of time.
The 300: 01132025 by Geoffrey Allison
The novelist scrubs away grime. Revealing spartan Truth through QT. Shared hypocrisies. QTing to followers—strangers in the majority—the comic book writer cautioning their followers—strangers in the majority—against listening to advice offered up by strangers and 'randos.' Blessed be The Resistance.