They still sit down to eat, but their chairs are attached to floors with wheels. They talk to each other all day and see each other for only a few minutes. Every year, they promise that next year they’ll take that vacation. Someday, they’ll retire and have time: total strangers.
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50 Word Short Story: Successful People
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6 Word Short Story: To the Polls!
Culmination of intensive research: voting day!
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50 Word Short Story: Facebook
The clicking of mice echoes through the vast room of cubicles accompanied by muffled laughter. As the scents of myriad coffee drinks echo through the taupe, solid footsteps warn of the manager’s approach. As one, the mice click to a different window, and chairs creak upright – clearly, hard at work.
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50 Word Short Story: A Promise
It took months of planning. They made lists, wrote invitations, designed centerpieces, found clothing, and dealt with interfering relatives and friends. It took two: whether making decisions or dealing with stress. Through fights, tears, insomnia, and growing nerves, they worked together. Both swore they would never go through it again.
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50 Word Short Story: Easy Pickings
Half drunk, the lords gathered merrily at the door. They didn’t see the blown-out candle in the window or the winding trail of smoke it left behind. The rich fabrics of their clothes glinted with gold and jewels as they stumbled laughing to the carriage, never noticing the approaching footsteps.
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He was swimming through a sea of winds that spun and whirled without moving as they shouted, calling out to each other in panicked voices. Their cries buffeted him and sent him reeling from one to the other. Each burst burned, and although Matt tried to right himself, his body wouldn’t obey. Tossing and turning helplessly, […]
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