“I did it! I wrote a story in exactly 50 words!”

“Really?” Maxwell snatched the slip of paper from my hand. Crumpling it up, he shoved it into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed.

“You… You ate my story!”

Maxwell burped. “Your writing’s very tasteful,” he said, and left the room.

Bill Waters, a lifelong poet and writer, lives in Pennington, New Jersey, USA, with his wonderful wife and their three amazing cats.