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The Encore

A 55-word microfiction story

Mark Stuart Farrar in Twisted Flash Fiction · 2025-10-05 16:47 · 0 claps · 0.4 min read paywalled
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The Encore

A 55-word microfiction story

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash

The singer returned to perform the encore his audience demanded.

Two lines into his cover of “My Way”, the huge curtain came crashing down on him.

By the time the stagehands had cleared it away, he was dead.

Everyone was panicking, except for one man who calmly put the remote detonator back in his pocket.


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