50wordstories.ca » use 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 Gun in the Drawer https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=195 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=195#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:20:17 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=195 The gun was left in the drawer.

Everyone knew it was there, but no one dared use it.

Each one of them died, one after the other, while the detective tried in vain to puzzle things out.

In the end, he died, too.

And the gun remained in the drawer.

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