Al was on holiday and bored so an old man shouting in real time, 'Christ was the saviour,' was an earthsave. He cast Pel, his best cyber friend, 'It was like he talked Martian.'
Pel, in his second year of Solar Languages, laughed and said, 'No, he's talking archaic Amerikon.
Visit Mr.Knowitall to post your own Friday Flash 55 word story or poem! 
I watched him wake up - the anger in the cover thrown back, and the stabbing hand trying to find spectacles - before he even spoke.
‘You again?’
‘Your family are waiting for you.‘
‘Baloney, they’re a bunch of losers.’
I rested my scythe on the bed and sat down. The morning ritual had begun.
Random word: awake
I picked a poppy once,
a different red
and knew death
is what breaks
so many men
because it can't be fixed
or talked away.
So I won’t be brave,
for a victory
but for the smell of a rose
she once brought me
as it droops
in the water.
Random Word: Grief
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When she walked in, it wasn’t the laughter at him, in her pink thong that hurt but the look of disgust, when he asked, ‘Any other colours?’
Random Word: Risible
This is a 50-word story where E = Evil baffled! written for the ABC Wednesday meme that is hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt
As soon as Miss Jenkins saw the sweetshop door open, and heard from nowhere the wailing woman music, she knew it was trouble. That song always heralded a struggle with Evil.
Lucifer, took off his glasses, stopped, and looked round cautiously, he’d only popped in for a quarter of humbugs
The slayer
Random Word: Dog Person
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These are the Twitter (#vss) stories that caught my eye mainly over the past 7 days. Click on the image or name if you want to visit the story site. Or on the date stamp to go direct to the story.
She'd always admired fine craftsmen, like old-school tailors and luthiers. That's why she preferred knives; guns felt like a chain store.
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murderballads
She wanted to talk about things that mattered. He was hesitant but horny. I'm all ears, he said. She paused and said, That might be problem.
Arjun Basu
arjunbasu
She tore the last chapters from his books and seeded his cereal with kitty litter. He would never call her merely passive aggressive again.
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3tdoanVSS
It helped ease her heartbreak when she thought that if her life was made a movie years from now, he'd be credited as "man in red car". #vss
WJ Shaib
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