Fifty-word flash fiction pieces

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Should anyone feel like joining me in this thread, I'd be more than happy.
The only rule is as simple as this:
Not a single word less or more than fifty, the title doesn't count, and contracted forms (I've, hasn't, would've, etc.)
are counted as one word :-)

Farewell to Omniscience

A second ago I knew the answers to all questions a human mind might frame.
I knew the true reason for everything in the Universe.
I was omniscient, like God. But I am not anymore.
With my first gulp of air I forgot everything I’d known before I was born.
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VictorB,
almost like the beginning of the film 'Mr Nobody' :)
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Juliemiracle пишет: 14 май 2022, 13:13 almost like the beginning of the film 'Mr Nobody'
Juliemiracle, thanks for the comment :)
In the long run, any creative idea may prove to have been borrowed (in one way or another)
from somewhere, may it not?

A Gift

Flowers were everywhere, smelling delicious in the newlyweds’ apartment.
It was from there that they’d planned to set out on their honeymoon journey early that morning.
They had not and would never go anywhere in their life, having been poisoned by the wine from
one of the bridesmaids’ gift bottles.
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VictorB пишет: 14 май 2022, 14:17 In the long run, any creative idea may prove to have been borrowed (in one way or another)
from somewhere, may it not?
But it's always inetersting to find those connections. It's like intertextuality of the world.
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Juliemiracle пишет: 14 май 2022, 15:02 But it's always inetersting to find those connections.
LOL! Here goes yet another one to try and find any connections)))

A Flight to Mars (a mini-play)

-Hey, mama's back home! And where's your little brother?
-He's taking a flight to Mars.
-And where's his space craft? Can I see it flying?
-Why, you can hear it, too, if you open the door to the basement.
Mother opens the door, hears the washing machine working, and faints.
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VictorB,
some of your stories are pretty dark at their cores. Why is that so?
VictorB пишет: 14 май 2022, 15:06 A Flight to Mars (a mini-play)
This reminds me (a bit) of another sad film which pretends to be a supernatural horror be turns out to be a social drama. It's called 'My Soul to Keep'.
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Juliemiracle пишет: 14 май 2022, 15:10 some of your stories are pretty dark at their cores.
The key word here is "some", for some are not that dark, and some are much darker, whereas my darkest one is yet to be written.
Anyway, you'd be dead right saying that the humorous story is not my forte, even if there are a couple or so of those, too, in my small collection of amateurish literary work :-)
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The Only Wish

A woman's sitting slouched on an upturned tin bucket set by the road.
Some apples are piled below upon a crumpled paper. It's dusk. The rare cars are rushing by.
No one pays attention to her sack-like figure, whose only wish is never to stand up from that uncomfortable seat.
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Juliemiracle пишет: 14 май 2022, 15:10 some of your stories are pretty dark at their cores
A Requirement (a mini-dialogue short)

- Hi, love! Sorry for coming tipsy last night?
- Tipsy! You were barely able to stand upright!
- But I did make it home. Joe zonked out after...don't remember which shot glass, and...
- Oh, what absurd requirements for boss there're in your firm! I wonder what it'll be next.
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