When they heard of the nurse that injected five patients with cyanide, they immediately had her put to death. ¶ She was, they said, a monster, and the people cheered at her execution. ¶ “What a waste,” said the Nazi doctor, shaking his head. “Those experiments could’ve been used for live dismemberment tests before they were killed.
55 Fiction: A Story in 55 Words, May 3, 2009 (via velvetrobots)
The World’s Shortest Stories: Murder, Love, Horror, Suspense, All This and Much More in the Most Amazing Short Stories Ever Written, Each One Just 55 Words Long is a book collecting some of the best works of 55 Fiction. (And yes, I just copied the ironically long title directly off the 55 Fiction Wikipedia page.) I chanced upon a copy during my recent days of gallivanting at countless bookstores. I would have bought the book, all 224 pages of it, had I not finished it right then and there. (And yes, I just got the total number of pages from the book’s Amazon page.)
