Does anyone remember the UK Daily Telegraph 50-word sagas? Each story had to be exactly 50 words... here's a wonderful example called Targets by Gaynor Derbishire. Every night he pretended to shoot himself in front of her. He enjoyed her pleas and screams of terror as the blanks went off.
Time for change, she decided wearily, swapping live bullets for the blanks.
Time for change, he decided jauntily; tonight I will pretend to shoot the baby.
Classic or what?
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