Round and Round

A 50-word story

Thank you to

Justin Deming

at

Along the Hudson

for the writing prompt for a 50-word story: “ending / beginning”. View all the results HERE

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ROUND AND ROUND

We were so careless, and in the end, nothing remained on the Earth. We destroyed everything.

After many millennia, we arose again from the bog, starting over, with nothing to sustain us but a bed of leaves, a bubbling stream, and wild goose plums.

We’ve been given one more chance.

And here, on the same subject, Eric Idle gives us a slightly less complicated angle:

“You come from nuffing, you’re going back to nuffing. What have you lost? Nuffing! “

Click three times and sing out, you old buggers!

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Sharron Bassano