55 word stories

Everyone is writing a 55 word story. It is good timepass except that I am not very good at counting beyond seventeen.

There are many questions that bother me, though:
Why a 55 word story? Why not a 54 word story? Or a 291 word story?

But I have two such stories, myself.
Three maybe.

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He sat in class gazing out of the window at the playground.

Teacher Mohan caught him and said, 'Say sorry ten times'.
So he stood up and said ' Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry '

Teacher Mohan was part psychotic and hit him over the head harshly, screaming ' Can't you count, you idiot??!!! '


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He walked towards the edge of the cliff, but slipped and fell screaming " help help help help help help help help help help help help help help help help help help help help ".

It was a long way down.

He sounded like a barking dog in a comic strip, with a typo in the baloon.

Le plus ca change, le plus c’est meme chose

eh?!!

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