Chapter 4

They walked outside.

“Smart,” he said.

“What?”

“That second policy.”

“What second policy?”

“This one, Mrs. Dietrichson.”

He pushed.

She fell. (55 words)

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A Cry for Help by Paul Alan Fahey

Early in the morning, Elwood found the note slipped under his door:

“Come tonite before he gets home. My life may depend on it. Susan.”

Such careless penmanship, the vulgarized “tonite.” What were they teaching these days? Elwood crumpled the paper, tossed it in the wastebasket.

Later, dressing for work, he wondered who Susan was. (55 words)

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Expand your 55 Fiction to a 100-Word Summary

Here’s one of my 55ers that I expanded to a 100-word summary, then to a 3,000 word short story and later, with the advent of the e-age, to a 5,000 word e-book titled Garden Reach

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Artistic License by Paul Alan Fahey