Assorted 55-Word Short Pieces
Blast From The Past
by MrMarkus
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The Sixty-Ninth Women's Auxiliary Company reported to the main auditorium for a "unit cohesion exercise".
The room darkened as the presentation began. "The elite Theban Sacred Band was bound together by homosexuality. This technique has never been applied to an all-female unit..."
The screen lit up in hypnotic swirls as subliminal sonics played.
"...until now."
Copyright 2025 by MrMarkus
I tweaked the story slightly; apparently the ROM word counter treats hyphenated words as one word, so in the interests of having the 55-word stories consistently show up as "55 Words" I switched to that standard for this anthology.