25-Word Stories

[pacman000]

Through the jungle, running, running, running, chased by hostile natives, the chasm before him, nowhere else to turn, Alan leaped, & reached for a vine.

[pacman000]

"Where are we going?" The child asked his mom.
"To the stars," she answered, "to the stars."
The countdown ended, & the rocket shot upwards.

[indianasmith]

He should not have read the words from the ancient tome without knowing what they meant, the professor thought as the world around him crumbled.

[ER]

Rich Man Last Dinner
“I gathered you kids here to report I’m dying, leaving it all to charity, and I’ve peed in your wine. Cheerio!”

Party Crasher
Gazing down, she thought her smiling Grandpa Jones very noticeable in the new family Christmas pictures, since he had died back in August.

This Horror
While he lay in shadows, fevered and semi-conscious, the door to the empty closet across the room slid open amid the faint scratching.

Last Walk
“Time to go,” said the warden. In any other cell block such welcome words.

Can I Help You, Ma’am?
Yes! I need a Hallmark card to cheer up a hangman who just lost his job to an electric chair.

New Friend
Screen door shuts. “Mommy, my new friend Jerry’s staying for dinner, OK?” Standing next to her young son is the armed fugitive from the news.

Hypocrite
Though they disdained her, the town whore knew the ladies always accepted her donations to the missionary fund from which Chairwoman Haynes so cheerfully embezzled.

Missing Teenager
At the class reunion he saw his old friend and wondered how he ever got the blood off his back seat in 1985.

Woven Miracles
On the second morning of seeing angel’s faces traced in the dewy spiderwebs outside her window, she understood she was either crazy or holy.

It Came To Her
The last time Monica had seen the smiling car salesman was inside the bank, where he’d been holding a gun to her late son’s head.

Classified
For sale, ivory wedding dress, size 8. Never worn. Smells of smoke. Slight burn mark on left sleeve.

The Bright Side
"Cheer up, it only hurts the first time," he said, as he pulled the trigger on the revolver pressed against my skull.

[pacman000]

The laser bolts flashed across the ship’s bow, & Drake turned towards the black hole. Anything was better than being caught by the Empire’s thugs.

[pacman000]

Cursed to wander nightly till doomsday, the ghost ship moaned as it crossed the still dark waters. How much longer? Shall this go on forever?

[indianasmith]

"No!  I will not do that disgusting thing with you!"
"What if I were President?"
"You? President? Ha, sure, OK!"
Thus a candidacy is born.

[pacman000]

Betsy from Pike crossed the mountains with Ike. Got lost in the desert, then started to fight. In town she got drunk, then they parted.

[pacman000]

King the German shepherd had just turned two, had a girlfriend, & they were planning a family. His owners & vet, however, had another idea.

[pacman000]

It flew, burning everything within miles. The knight journeyed to its cave. The dark dragon growled; the knight prepared his weapon: a bottle of Tums.

[pacman000]

As the cloud on the horizon grew, the fisherman knew this would not be the day he hoped for. Soon he fought for his life.