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away with me
"Come away with me, my darling!"

"Oh, my dear, I thought you'd never ask! Where shall we go?"

"It doesn't matter where we go, does it, my dove?" (more)
50 words | fiction | love
lighthouse
Atop the lighthouse he gazed to sea, proud, lonely, his pitted face protected from wind-whipped raindrops by a knotted, salt-caked beard.

The barber had offered a free shave, but who'd ever heard of a beardless lighthouse keeper?

He didn't realize... It was his own lighthouse, broadcasting to(more)
50 words | fiction | lighthou...
headphones
He couldn't hear his wife because of his headphones. Just the way he wanted it. He nodded; pretended he could hear; looked contrite, apologetic, regretful...

She smiled, mouthed "Thank you," and left to run errands. He had escaped the encounter unchastised.

Thirty minutes later, he smelled his(more)
50 words | fiction | nagging
wellspring
"Today I'm a veritable wellspring of joy and enthusiasm! Let's go make the world a better place!"

"It's raining."

"Doesn't matter." (more)
50 words | fiction | surrende...
this fire
"No, sir," said she, sincere as can be, "I never did ignite this fire!"

"Listen well, girl," answered Inspector Earl, "I half suspect you are a liar!"
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50 words | poem | arson
waterfall
In a movie I saw as a boy, there was a mystical cave hidden behind a waterfall. I remember how eagerly I quested that summer, how I found nothing but slippery rock faces.

Lying here, cold and tired, I sometimes wonder... What would I have found behind the(more)
50 words | fiction | youth
hunting cap
Vee wore a flimsy veil from a costume store, and Mommy's 15-year-old prom dress.

Scottie wore 80s sunglasses and a plaid hunting cap.

As they struggled through their "vows", my wife and I held hands behind our backs.

I smiled almost as much at that "wedding"(more)
50 words | fiction | playing ...
last night I
Last night I went to bed early, which was a shame, really, because when I woke up (late), I found muddy dinosaur footprints all throughout the kitchen and dining room, and the big pot of soup in the fridge was empty.
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50 words | fiction | dinosaur...
forgotten crime
I stared blankly at my prison's dull, featureless walls.

This wasn't fair. I'd been locked away for a crime I hadn't committed. I think. Actually, the details are a bit hazy.

My probing tongue found a morsel of chocolate chip behind my tooth.

Oh, yeah... I(more)
50 words | fiction | cookie t...
scraps of paper
Her desk was littered with scraps of paper, each scrawled with its own collection of words, representing a thousand grasped-at memories.

It wasn't working. They wouldn't come back.
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50 words | fiction | amnesia
side effects
"Any questions, sir?" says the clerk.

"What are this medication's side effects?" asks the customer.

"There are none." (more)
50 words | fiction | medicati...
wilted
He gave her a wilted flower on February 15, just to see how she would react.

His friends thought it was hilarious.

She slapped him so hard she drew blood. (more)
50 words | fiction | love
noiseless
What can I do with this hunger?

Feed it, when I must: satiate it, if I can, though it seems I'm never satisfied.

Ignore it, when I'm able, but it consumes me incessantly.

Surrender to it, when I can't help but be overcome. Dance to it.(more)
50 words | fiction | Phil Col...
you understand?
You think you understand me? What a joke. No one understands me. No one even tries.

You write me off, dismiss me. You try to diagnose me, apply your useless labels.
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50 words | fiction | gibberis...
bummed out
"Man, you're SUCH a bummer."

"I am? I didn't realize... I thought you invited me on this live animal capturing expedition because you enjoyed my company."
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fiction | 50 words | super la...