Mini Sagas

50 word stories

He Loves Me Not

“He loves me” I pause.
          I watched every individual petal that delicately fluttered to the ground. Each time one landed, my heart skipped a beat because I was scared of losing him. I looked at the last petal before I pulled it away from the sepal, “He loves me not.”

Days Later

I can still feel his warmth; the radiance of his smile when we met, 426 days ago. My love for him was uncontrollable. Now, I feel the same emptiness I did 427 days ago, when the bus slowly pulled him away from me for the last time, 348 days later.

Sunburn

His smile is the one thing that gets me through the day. I love the way his lips curve at both corners. The way his one dimple crinkles as his face lifts upwards. The warm glow his happiness gives. His smile is a ray of sunshine, and I am sunburnt.

My Everything

I looked at him as a friend, until I realised I loved him. His smile, his laugh, his eyes, his everything, I loved everything about him. But he didn’t feel the same way. So he got up and left and never turned back around. Every atom of me missed him.

When You’re Gone

Every time I visit her my knees get weak. She always brings out the better side of me, one I never knew existed. It feels like such a blessing just to be in her presence. However, each time I leave the cemetery, heavy-hearted and lonely; I wish we’d never met. 

Are you serious? Put down that doughnut!

Are you lazy? Do you sit around at home eating junk food because you’re bored? Well put down that doughnut, because doughnuts are bad for you.

So is loud music, no exercise and lie-ins. However, doughnuts contain a lot of sugar, and when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. One Chocolate Dreamcake in Krispy Kreme has 389kcal (calories). If you take that out from your daily intake you have, 2,111kcal left if you're male, and if you’re female you have 1,611kcal intake. That’s almost a whole chicken korma, WITH naan bread! A lot of the time people can't be bothered to go to Tesco or Asda, so they just rummage around in their freezer, looking for that fatter, yet perfect meal – and I’m one of those people.
                Today however, I had the two greatest meals of my life. Firstly... Grilled cheese. Since you weren't there to enjoy it with me, let me describe it to you in all of its cheesy goodness. Picture this, two perfectly brown toasted slices of thick hovis bread (most likely drenched in butter, or at least one can hope), stuffed with melting cheddar cheese, 2 slices of thick bacon, an egg and some freshly ground pepper. The sandwich is served alongside fruit chutney and tangy dijon mustard.

                Secondly, I had Chinese sausage carbonara. Here, the Chinese sausage basically stands in for the bacon. They have quite a few similarities; salty, porky, fatty. Salty crisp meat, creamy eggy sauce, and noodles –this is comfort food at its best.
                So next time you pick up that frozen bag of chips, look in the fridge and cook something worth looking for. Now both of these meals will be cooked every week. It’s quick, simple, easy to make, and bonus: I didn't even go to the grocery store.

In the style of "Want to silence a two-year-old? Try teaching it to ride a motorbike" by Charlie Brooker.

-02.10.14-