Five 25 Word Stories About Love, Sex and Life | Fiction
Though they only took me thirty minutes to write I love all four out of five of the little stories I submitted to "5x5 Fiction." I ran into their site (5x5fiction) during a late night search for journals to submit a short story to, and though it is very independent, with a very small audience, the criteria looked like fun:
"Complete stories... must be exactly 25 words long, told in exactly 5 sentences, with each sentence comprised of exactly 5 words."
I wrote them quickly enough, submitted them, watched "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths," then went to sleep. The result? My second least favorite one got included in the online collection, which made my day. Below are all five:
A Love Story
He said "I love you." Her response was very different. Years later she married another. He also found someone else. For both, life moved on.
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The Eighty Percent
His second job started soon. His alarm clock was waiting. 6:30 was a minute away. He thought about his children. He got up, quietly weeping.
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Structural Adjustments
He wanted the gadget badly. It was shinny and expensive. Daddy bought the pretty thing. He was still unhappy though. Somewhere else a child starved.
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Sex is Not Love
She wanted it to last. Forever would have been nice. She wanted to be loved. To know she wasn't alone. Eventually he came, then left.
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Bytes and Pieces
He twittered where he was. He facebooked what he wanted. He linkedin for a job. He made verbs from nouns. Eventually he died, entirely friendless.