50wordstories.ca » fighting http://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Reading Between the Lines http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=251 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=251#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:28:21 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=251 He was never one to read between the lines. Until now, that is.

Fighting his way through some badly-written medieval sword-and-sorcery tale and barely surviving, his mind kept thinking up synonyms to the expression “cruel and unusual punishment.”

He never expected anything like this, when the judge said, “Book him.”

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Nobody knows why.

They fought for their main resource: live humans.

Eventually, none were left.  The zombies and vampires stopped fighting, with nothing left to fight for.

Gradually, with no “food” left, both groups faded away.

Guess that’s a happy ending, right?

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