These are all "stories" created for an online challenge in which the object is to create a story in exactly 50 words.
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They came as the night rolled in. Most people believed them to be myths, these creatures with no distinguishable features. As they emerged from where they lived while the sun was up, a young girl watched and smiled, knowing there would be a hell of a chase that night.
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He threw the empty bottle at random passerby, wishing he had one more. He watched it fly past its mark and smash in the middle of the street. Empty and broken like his bottle, the man passed out on his streetcorner somewhat purposefully ending any and all thoughts of tomorrow.
One Day
If you'ld only go away, I'd be alright. If I could have one day, I would be fine. I need some time alone. I need to hide, to run, to dissapear. Take the phone off the hook, close the door, turn the lock, and the world will have to wait.
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We walked together, so close that we were nearly touching and yet so far away, he lost in his thoughts and I in my own, the wind that whistled and rushed through the graveyard sending wildflowers tumbling, and it seemed as though nothing in my world would be right again
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Who would ever have known words on a page could break the heart, could shatter it so completely that it felt as though nothing were left? She certainly hadn’t. The letter simply read “he’s been captured”, but from those three words she had made a thousand tales in her mind.
In Tears
She imagined a scene in which she was alone behind tightly shut eyes. Tears cascaded down her cheeks. Her father had chosen to use the belt on her. She felt it strike, again and again. He continued to beat her, even as the child’s cries became more animal than human.
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It was dark and it was lonely, but she didn’t mind. Finally, she was alone, blessedly free. There was no one here, no one close at all. And it relieved her. People wanted too much, too often. Here, she could give only what she was able. Here, she was herself.
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