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The short story

I was tagged to write a 55-word story, and so, here’s one. Rather unconventional, though. Seven paragraphs, seven sentences each, and exactly fifty-five words. Might seem random to you, though it does have an intended meaning.

Hunger. Safety. No control. Strength. Peripheral. Unpredictable. Survive.

God. Prosperity. Patterns. Cognition. Society. Vindictive. Settle.

Randomness. Power. Rule of law. Manipulation. Competition. Science. Conquer.

Routine. Discovery. Questions. Looking beyond. Riddles. Unknown. Search.

Separation. Merging. Artistic. Knowledge. Asleep. Essence. Create.

Potential. Awakening. Aware. Thoughts made manifest. Family. Me. Save.

None. Fulfilled. Embracing. Universe. Myself. Infinite. Be.

Let me know what you think the story’s about, if you could get through it, even :) I’ll decode it in the next post.

For those interested in extremely short story arts, I think you’ll find better ones at Story Bytes – where they only publish stories of counts in powers of 2, i.e. 2 words, 4 words, 8 words and so on.

4 Comments

  1. Casablanca wrote:

    Beautiful, awesome.
    Now… can we have the decoded one please? :)

    Friday, September 30, 2005 at 5:30 pm | Permalink
  2. Anonymous wrote:

    Could be summarized as the story of humanity.
    :)
    -
    Percept.

    Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 1:07 am | Permalink
  3. sherene wrote:

    I think I’ll wait for the decoded version :P

    Sunday, October 2, 2005 at 2:08 am | Permalink
  4. esu wrote:

    dude had to read ur decoded version man!! But really nice!

    Friday, October 14, 2005 at 7:18 am | Permalink

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