“This is the ultimate. I can hardly believe it myself. Mankind will never need to go beyond my creation.”

Leaning back in his deck chair, the now famous ship designer puffed cigar smoke into the cold sea air and called for another Martini.

“With ice?” asked the head waiter, timidly.

Robin Upton is an economic dissident turned English teacher. He remembered 50 word stories from his youth and is trying them out as an English teaching tool in an international school in Dhaka. Visit him at RobinUpton.com and unwelcomeguests.net/Robin_Upton.