55-word+Stories

Please post your 55-word story on this page.

"Immiscible" by Koreana Pak ( Do contractions count as one or two words? ) She shakes the bottle —thin liquid slides around bubbly globs of milk. They don't mix. Respiratory problems, the news said.... She hesitates, looking at the Favorite. She'd get in trouble. She'd get //attention.// He reaches clumsily; hurt confusion shines through his tears. So she pops it into his mouth— sucking happily, bright-eyed, innocent. --- "Eyes" by Koreana Pak He has beautiful eyes—polished gray, white veins like marble. She leans close, palming his smooth, alabaster cheeks, presses her lips to his. He's unresponsive, but the girl just smiles—it wasn't a kiss of love— (She places the pads of her fingers on cold lids, she closes those beautiful eyes). —but of victory.

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"Paint" by Ashley Walter (with much-appreciated editing advice . . . . ) I sit, a viscous mass, waiting reluctantly to taint the // white purity //with my footprints. Then, sliding between plastic bristles, my fated journey begins. Stroke. Strike. // No! // So much begrimed behind my boldly blazed path, leaving more and more vivid scars! But then the brush pulls away, and I realize what I have become. Art.

“They Warned You Not to Go Hiking” by Marybeth O’Mara Scream. Her back arched, as if she could fly away from him, from the pain, from the blood. She was his wife. His wife! And now… Scream. A desperate babble stopped abruptly. And now! He laughed. She laid back in relief, and he began to swaddle his newborn son. And now, she was a mother.

"And Free Will" by Ryan Bonner

“Fate,” Jack said, “there’s no other explanation.” Cindy leaned against the cabinet. “So now what?” “There’s only one thing I can do.” “What, are you just gonna wait it until it takes you?!” Jack walked out as Cindy stood crying. She later followed him to their room; the shadow of swinging feet greeted her.