For once I have nothing to say about a story. It’s only a hundred words long, it’s on Neil Gaiman’s website, go and check it out.
As for me, tomorrow I’m off to what I can legitimately call my ancestral home in Scotland. Have a merry Christmas and a super Solstice, and I’ll be back in a week or so.
Nicholas Was by Neil Gaiman
Availability: free online, print, e-book, free audio
Word count: 100
First published: a Christmas card in 1989
Where to find it: The text is on Gaiman’s website here, and a reading of the story can be downloaded here.
Smoke and Mirrors, collection, 1999, Avon BooksThe audio can also be found on Warning: Contains Language CD
Ten to Infinity 
This is one of my favorite short stories (actually, I guess it’s more accurately called flash fiction.)