55 fiction is an attempt to tell an entire story in just 55 words (excluding the title).

More details about this literary form can be found here, where it all began.
 

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Friends Reunited

I trust they’re happy, together again after all these years.

We were rivals for her hand, you see. After he ‘disappeared’ (he’d had to go – I knew where!) she was soon mine… but when she found the box, it was over, and I sent her to join him. They’re sleeping together now.

Requiescat in pace.

October 2004

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How I became responsible

”Don’t worry, it won’t rain if you take the umbrella,” a prediction that always proved true.

So I carried it always, enjoying the sunshine, until drought shriveled crops and withered dreams. Then I stopped, staying indoors to watch TV instead.

One day, I switched on the news: ”Floods kill 32. When will the deluge end?”

May 2004