escape
How much longer? he wondered. It wasn’t the dark so much, (he’d gotten
used to that a long time ago) but the not knowing what was happening outside,
where he was being taken, whose voices disturbed his sleep. He’d had enough.
Struggling he forced his way out and then screamed. They screamed back.
"It’s a boy!!"
N.B. This one was written after reading the book, "The World’s Shortest Stories". I wanted to try my hand at writing a story in only 55 words.
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