One.
Tom was surprised by your skin color when you came out, but that never affected his steadfast love for you. You were always his.
Two.
Grandma held a two-year vigil in the cemetery while waiting for the bell above your grave to ring. Next time we’re going with cremation.
Robert Carlberg is a retired technical writer and magazine columnist.
beautiful and soulful as ever
Dear Robert. I was reading here in school. Then i decided to count how many words where in you story. I realised that you have written 51 words NOT 50 so i belive that you need to be banned for life on this website
Dear Aksel, “two-year” is a compound word. Despite being composed of two words that can each stand alone, it is counted as a single word because it functions as a single syntactic unit. Thank you for your engagement with the story and the site!
Hello there Robert. Im a student who absolutely LOVES to read. But then i came across a problem with your text. Its 51 words and NOT 50 words. Which it supposed to be. I dont think you know how many young readers you have dissapointed now. This is so not cool Rob. I really hope that the next time you are going to write a 50 words story. NOT 51, but 50 words story. Your actually going to be using 50 and NOT 51. Thats all.
Hi Agatha. See my reply to Aksel, above!