To celebrate an anniversary of her blog, Jenny Rappaport of Lit Soup is having a contest. The main idea of the contest is to create a story of microfiction that can be up to 140 characters. If you aren’t aware (I wasn’t) that is the number of characters you can post on Twitter.

140 characters and the word “banana,” those are the only requirements. You can post it on her blog as a comment on this thread. If you decided to do it, come back and tell me your entry. There will be three winners, and they will receive some books. I believe they are books by authors she represents. (I can only assume so…)

I tried a few, but finally agreed on this one. It ended up 139 characters  (according to my wife’s Twitter account, she tested about a dozen for me).

“That’s a banana.”

“No, it’s a telephone!”

As sure as it sounded, he looked at his brother doubtfully. “Well, I guess bring me a banana?”