Maud Casey didn't take a delicate approach to her first 100-word story. In fact, she says she crashed around, confident that such a contained form could take the bashing.
As with several of our featured authors, Casey had never written a 100-word story before—and hadn't written a story this short, in fact. She's pondered economy in fiction, though, and knows how the material of a story tends to find its form—because of, not despite, of the crashing around.