50wordstories.ca » show https://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 With Apologies to Chris de Burgh https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=424 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=424#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:55:18 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=424 Patricia had been plagued by that song all her life.  It undermined her reputation at every turn.  No one took her seriously.

One day, she decided she’d show them.  “Now they’ll have to take me seriously.”

By the time her top came off, everyone was taking her very seriously indeed.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=424 0 Encore https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=19 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=19#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:00:28 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=19 The band left the stage.

The crowd yelled out for more.

The band went back on stage, plugged into their amps.

The face-melting encore had the crowd convulsing with glee.

The cleaning crews took three days to clean up all the melted faces left on the floor after the show.

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