very short short stories
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A collection of 50-word stories written by my Advanced 1 students.TRANSCRIPT
Last year, when
Arancha and I were
in my house, we
went for a stroll,
and, as we were
walking, it started
raining suddenly.
But, worst of all, a
lightning hit a tree.
We ran fearfully.
Apparently, we lost
our way, but fortu-
nately, our mobile
phone worked and
we returned.
Years ago, I was
travelling with a
friend by plane. Af-
ter ten minutes fly-
ing, the plane was
hit by turbulence.
My friend went ab-
solutely hysterical,
so he started drink-
ing and shouting.
Then, most passen-
gers were freaking
out as well. Finally,
the aircraft had to
return to the air-
port. I thought,
“Never again”.
She had been
incredibly forgetful
lately, so she decided
to go shopping for
food to the same
market.
When she was cook-
ing, she noticed that
the food was smelling
slightly bad, but, in
the end, she ate it.
“Oh no, I’ll never go
shopping without my
glasses, this is the
hottest pepper I’ve
ever tried!”.
Volumen 1, nº 1
NEVER AGAIN
January 2015
VERY S
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A DAY TO FORGET
Unfortunately, I had a lie-in a day with an important meeting.
When I was driving, I had a car crash. Apparently, the crash was
caused by an animal that suddenly had appeared from the right
side of the road. Eventually, it hit my car. It goes without saying
I didn’t make it.
Liza started to
shout when she re-
alized that the han-
dle didn’t work. For-
tunately, she wasn’t
alone.
Her mum phoned
fast to ask for help:
“my little girl is
trapped in the bath-
room”. That’s why
two fire trucks ap-
peared there within
minutes.
When they opened
the door, they saw
a 27-year-old “girl”.
Her mum had to
apologize. “She will
always be my little
girl”.
She can clearly remember it was a good day.
She was walking across the park with her dog when suddenly it started
raining. The dog ran away. She tried to find it in vain.
But, fortunately, at that moment, a boy arrived near her with her dog.
Eventually, itt was love at first sight.
A HOLIDAY ROMANCE
Last summer, Sally and Mary went on holiday to the Dominical Republic. The first night
they went straight to the nightclub. When they were dancing, two incredibly handsome
Italian boys bought them a drink. The following days, they had a good time enjoying
the scenery and one another’s company. They spent one amazing week among mojitos,
music and happiness.
They fell in love deeply but, unfortunately, holidays ended, and eventually all of them
returned home. It was only a brief affair.
UNTITLED STORIES
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THE LIE
Two years ago, I
went to a job in-
terview at a fa-
mous company, so
I changed my CV a
little. In fact, I
wrote in it that I
spoke Chinese
very well.
I had been waiting
for an hour when
the secretary
called me, and,
unfortunately the
interviewer was
Chinese.
A DAY TO
FORGET
I was the bes-
tman, so, to
be on time, I
drove fast to
the chapel.
Unfortunately,
I was fined
twice, first for
speeding, se-
condly for
crashing into a
traffic sign.
At the chapel
the guests
were waiting
angrily. But
s o m e t h i n g
worst happe-
ned when I
realised I had
lost the rings!
Last year I was best
man to a wedding. I
was late, so I was
fined twice for
speeding on my
way to church.
I was asked to
bring the wedding
rings, but I had for-
gotten them… For-
tunately, I had been
fixing the car that
morning, therefore
I had two big nuts
in my pocket…They
would do…
James was a guy look-
ing forward to working.
And that day finally ar-
rived.
Yes, that day did finally
arrive, but unfortunate-
ly he did not wake up
on time. He overslept.
He ran to the bus stop,
but incredibly, he
missed it. Eventually,
he arrived at the com-
pany for the interview…
however, his interview
was not that day. It was
the following day .
This happened in
a bathroom with a win-
dow overlooking a
courtyard. Suddenly, a
28-year-old woman
couldn’t open the door:
it was locked.
Her mother just called
999, asking for help for
her little girl.
In 15 minutes’ time,
there was a firefighter
at the bath window.
When the firefighter
saw the woman, he
yelled: “apparently, is
this the so called little
girl?”
Unfortunately, yesterday I had my worst
day. Incredibly, my alarm clock didn’t
work, so I was late. On top of that, I
missed the bus. My boss was very an-
noyed with me and so I was sacked. Even-
tually, I decided to go back home and,
suddenly, I noticed that I had lost my wal-
let.
An unexpected sunny December Sunday, to-
tally cloudless. Our favourite play was on at
the Jofre theatre. So, we finally decided to
walk to the theatre.
On our way there, lots of completely back
clouds appeared unexpectedly. The tickets had
sold out and, with no umbrella, we finally got
absolutely soaking wet that evening.
A DAY TO FORGET
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It was an incredibly
sunny day for
January. We deci-
ded to go to the ci-
nema walking be-
cause there was a
funny comedy that
we were looking
forward to seeing .
Unfortunately, the
tickets had been
sold out when we
arrived.
Finally, it began to
pour down with
rain. We had to wait
for long….