Under the A in ‘Atlantic Ocean’ on a map, there is a tiny island with tiny people. Everybody speaks in tiny sentences and has tiny attention spans. They have tiny coffee mugs and tiny toothbrushes for their tiny teeth. One day Tiny Tim, the head leader of the tiny colony, went on a tiny boat to go to the Big Apple, New York City. Astonishingly his tiny boat survived the harsh waves and winds of the Atlantic Ocean. Tiny Tim went to New York to tell people about his tiny culture. He warned everybody that trash was piling up near his island and it was quadruple the size of his island, which inhabited one million tiny people. He urged that everyone should live with smaller ideations and inclinations. He warned about the dangers of big business. The Bigs did not agree with his statements and said he “could not make a difference because he was so tiny.” Tiny Tim proclaimed, “A person’s a person no matter how small!” In the end he and his tiny town created the shrinkafier which saved planet earth by shrinking all the garbage. Government officials commended Tiny Tim, and he became known around the world as our Big Tiny Hero. He was then given a tiny sum of one million dollars, which he shredded up and used as confetti for his reunion back home where he gave the most grand and eloquent speech: “We must unite together to be the best we can possibly be, for our planet and for our souls. Sometimes the tiniest of changes create the most impactful solutions.”

Andrew Dahlke is a Century student enrolled in the Business Pathway Transfer program, who stumbled upon the Creative Writing Club in the spring of 2025. He is hoping to gain admission into Saint Cloud St. University to pursue a Finance major.  His favorite genre of writing is horror/mystery and his favorite author is Stephen King.  His hobbies include playing the drums, snowboarding & ice skating, basketball, and going to the cinema.