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    Cool Write A Short Story With 50 Words Or Less

    "A Man And His Career"


    He looked down at his new shoes,shined for the
    first day of his career.His father's words
    of hard work rung true.He was determined to be
    as professional.He looked through the window
    and said the following,"Would like fries with that?"


    WRITE YOUR OWN SHORT STORY WITH ONLY 50 WORDS OR LESS..
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    Edgar Allan Poe

    "Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant..."

    Walt Whitman

    "Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? "

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    Marian gazed at the sky and knew all was lost, the twin men through themselves from their bounds into a rubbly grave. It was all gone, because the firey planes came down and took it away. All was gone, and it would never come back, except in dreams.

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    Inamorata

    "Meet me now," he begged.
    "You're crazy! It's midnight!" she answered incredulously, but with enough question in her voice that he pushed her.
    "Then why did you answer my email? I know you're interested. Please. Now."
    He waited, eyes closed, not breathing.
    Then finally, "Okay, I'll be right there."
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

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    Below are the fifty words. The story might come later!

    The a he she said retorted laughing late venomously catch and tell know me you I late night morning incredulous prompt serendipity calamity love truth perceptive thighs maybe if never after before narrow eyed lucid barometer search 1984 Boston Porsche Boxster possibility exit window Peeping-Tom telepathy trembling hot danger could

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    Her eyes gleamed in curiousity, wondering what goes where and who does what. She saw boxes on boxes on boxes. Wondering what little stories she could find and how many different lives created in peoples imaginations. Boxes full of books.

    Sweet little story ^^
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    Jupiter

    The director tapped his baton on the edge of his music stand. "The music coming around is taken from a favorite of mine, The Planets, by Gustav Holst."
    As the piano began with the introduction we watched him disappear into space as our voices followed him to Jupiter.
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    This is simply a response to ampoule's interesting short short story, and does not represent my attempt at writing my own short short story.

    The only motivation I have for posting this is that a) ampoule's story concerns a musical director, and b) I recently read a book that included an anecdote about another musical director. Here's the anecdote, and I don't claim authorship in any way:

    One of the many incidents described in the book, which covers just the summer months of 1911, involved the British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Apparently he was having trouble getting his lead female cellist to produce whatever sound he thought would be appropriate for a particular piece of music.

    In front of the entire symphony orchestra, he said in a rage, “Madam, you hold between your legs an instrument that could give great pleasure to thousands, but all you can do is scratch it.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anza View Post
    One day, a kitten took a walk. The End. (Sorry, I love sarcasm)
    Ha ha ha ha, sorry I found that really funny...

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    “I love you.”
    Guilt’s load did fall upon my heart like an iron weight.
    I turned away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DickZ View Post
    This is simply a response to ampoule's interesting short short story, and does not represent my attempt at writing my own short short story.

    The only motivation I have for posting this is that a) ampoule's story concerns a musical director, and b) I recently read a book that included an anecdote about another musical director. Here's the anecdote, and I don't claim authorship in any way:

    One of the many incidents described in the book, which covers just the summer months of 1911, involved the British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Apparently he was having trouble getting his lead female cellist to produce whatever sound he thought would be appropriate for a particular piece of music.

    In front of the entire symphony orchestra, he said in a rage, “Madam, you hold between your legs an instrument that could give great pleasure to thousands, but all you can do is scratch it.”
    You absolutely tickle me!
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

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    Gordon Lish watched me write this story.
    All that was left was death and stoic faces.
    Told by a fool, signifying nothing.

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    (excluding the title, that is 50 words )

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    Careful What You Say...

    The old man caught a fish for a meagre supper. When he arrived home, bent and tired from the day's labours, his angry wife taunted him, and challenged him to throw it back into the lake. So together they went to the lake and he tossed the old woman in.
    Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
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