Happily...

on Posted by Rajesh J Advani
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People have complained that there's been too much morbidity in my stories recently, and that it shows that there's something wrong with my head. Well, in my defense I've been reading Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors, and the stories in it are hardly cheerful, if you know what I mean.

Anyway. Here's the next installment of the 55-word story.

Ever After?

They met. They fell in love. They courted.

Soon he got a job, and they got married. They fought a little, but mostly it was a good marriage. They had two children - a boy and a girl.

They lived happily together till he died at the age of seventy-nine. She died a year later.

The End

Now don't tell me that dying of old age is also too morbid.

10 comments:

Kiran said...

A simple tale told again and again.

This is not good :(

Others are good :-)

anwinj said...

yeah, I agree. now you are demented dude. How can there be a story when it has a "happy" ending...you cheat..lol

Naveen Roy said...

Yeah I add to that......the morbid ones are the fun ones......the story u had just written was kinda sick... ;).....

Jade said...

Just a random thought that popped into my head on reading the first para:

Shouldn't the second and third sentences be exchanged?

Rads said...

Swear something's wrong with ur head!
Why do people hafta die man?
Not asking for love stories or happily everafters also..
but why do you hafta explicityly keep killing people at the final line always ? :P!

Megamind said...

There you go! I was waiting for something on love from the one who wrote one of the best love stories I ever read. But this ones too simple. I am waiting for the next 55.

Kiran said...

Helloooooooooo.. Knock Knock!!! Any one available? Hows the life there in US with the new Tornado?

Waiting to listen from you.....

Archster said...

So im guessin this is not a weekly affair then?

Maru Marauder said...

What happened? Post please...

oxy_moron said...

hahaha! i like the last line the best:D
good one!