Saturday, March 2, 2019

March Writing Challenge - The Microscopic Television

(This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.)

The Microscopic Television


Word count: 200 ✔
Genre: Romance 
Character: A fanatic 
Material: A very small television 
Sentence: "I can't see you." 
Bonus: Your character is fearless to the point of stupidity. ?

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I can't see you.” said Rodriguez Rottlemeyer.

Our zealous protagonist was bent over a microscope. His wife was in front of a camera on the opposite side of the room. A cord wound it's way from the camera to the computer to the very small television in which she was being projected onto. He had been working on this project for months. He wanted to submit it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the “World's Smallest Television”.

Oops!” she shifted in the chair to line back up with the camera.
Perfect!” he said with some giddiness. “I think I finally perfected it!”

He tweaked a few things with his tweezers. Peering back into the microscope, he noticed something was unaligned once again.

Did you move?”
No?”

He sighed and fiddled with it some more.

Zap!

An electric current overloaded a circuit board in the television.
I give up.” he said sadly.
His wife came over, and hugged him. “It's okay, darling.” she said smooching him on the cheek. “Let me go make you your favorite dinner, and you can keep trying.”
A grateful smile spread across his face. He kissed her back.

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