[Here’s another attempt at a short story of exact 100 words. This one’s technical and only Unix users will be able to understand it]
My colleague in office across the aisle pings me on communicator
He: Bro, y r u moving ur finger across the monitor?
Me: Counting the number of words in my text file.
He: Really! why?
Me: There is this short story competition where I need to write a story of exactly 100 words. Am checking to see if I am overshooting or undershooting
He: Dude, u have a Mac!
Me: (irritated) Thx for telling me what I already know.
He: u r wc
A whole minute of shocked silence follows.
Red with embarrassment, I open terminal and type man wc