Hello, World! This is my "Hairy Truth".

This is me. Hi.

I joined the inaugural 2020 NYC Microfiction Contest and this was my humble submission. In the first round, I was assigned the "comedy" genre, required to use the phrase "looking through garbage", and include the word "artificial". Other than the 100-word limit, I was free to write what I wanted.

This was what I submitted.

The Hairy Truth

A short time ago, in a country far far away, there lived a man and a dog during disastrous times of homework, school, and the most dread thing of all: grammar. One day, John and Chewie went out for a walk. Suddenly, Chewie scented something, something artificial! He leaped forward looking through the garbage and finding a mirror. As he approached it, he forgot all about that artificial something because here was a naked truth: Chewie wasn't wearing pants! All this time, he thought he was the man but being named second in the story made him the dog! Oh! The humanity!

I received some really helpful comments from the writers who reviewed my work and I hope to improve on my writing as I continue. At first it was a mind-boggling task. A task I had never done before. So of course I thought the best course of action was to sleep on it. Confused? Here is the system behind it: when you sleep, your body and mind work themselves to the absolute limit. And during that time period your sub-conscious mind kicks in. Fundamentally, how a subconscious mind works, depends on what your final thoughts were before you drifted off into sleep. And so in the morning, of course, I had completely NO idea. It was only later in the day when my mind started to function the way it should. I then improved on my ideas and eventually came up with the "most fantastic" idea ever to be thought of in the history of mankind. Which is basically about a man and a dog, journeying out in to the wilderness of a walk, and finding a truth never before revealed: Chewie realizes he is not human, but a dog. That was a basic overview of what happened, the rest of it is me attempting to discover the best way to write it.