50wordstories.ca » suddenly 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 The Quest, part 4 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=374 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=374#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:52:18 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=374 She knew she had to get to The Other Side, but had no idea what she would find there.

This was, literally, Nowhere.  It even said so on the sign.

Even the ground seemed immaterial.  People she’d meet weren’t quite there.

Suddenly, something immaterial hit her and knocked her out.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=374 0 This is Your Life https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=95 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=95#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:00:11 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=95 He was going to die.

It was all happening very suddenly, but there was this infinitesimally short instant of calm, where he got the chance to reflect on the past, and watch a rerun of his entire life.

He didn’t expect it to fit within a fifty word story, though.

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