He stopped, looking at the green grass beside a gently flowing stream, wanting to stop, to rest, but the words in his head said, “Keep going,” and he staggered on.
Tag: In one sentence
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In One Sentence: Not Quite Patient Enough
Five minutes before the inspector arrived, Connor decided that he had waited long enough and went to bed and fell sound asleep.
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In One Sentence: Fear
Clinging to the branch he’d grabbed, fighting for breath and focus, and looking at the blackness below him, Jack realized he really should have been afraid to walk through the mountain pass at night, with a storm brewing, after a night of drinking at the bar.
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In One Sentence: Nothing to Be Thankful For
“I don’t see where I have anything to be thankful for,” said the 95 year old man grumpily as he trimmed roses in the garden of his suburban home, and looked across the yard at his wife.
(Featured image generated by Jetpack AI.)
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In One Sentence: In Your Nanotech
“Your body maintenance nanotech package has been infected by a virus,” said the laughing voice via my virtual reality streaming implant, as I gasped for breath and felt my consciousness slip away.
(In a possibly ironic twist, the featured image was generated with AI.)
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In One Sentence: Meeting in Heaven
The moment Andrew laid eyes on Jake’s smiling face he knew that life in heaven would be hell for him, knowing that depraved sinner was there as well.
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In One Sentence: An Improbable Asteroid
As Ferdinand looked at the calculated path of the approaching asteroid, he suddenly was convinced that “improbable” and “impossible” were truly not the same thing.
(Featured image by Alexander Antropov from Pixabay, with help from clipart by (monsterbraingames on openclipart.org.)
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In One Sentence: The Day after the Election
The day after the election, 99,643 supporters of That Other Guy who didn’t have time to make it to the polls breathed a sigh of relief and said to themselves, “It’s OK since my one vote wouldn’t have mattered anyhow!”
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In One Sentence: Saved?
Licensed from Adobe Stock As Arnold hiked joyfully away along the trail, the child he had just pulled from the water and revived reached out a hand to touch the intriguing water moccasin.
(Ref: 1 Peter 5:2)