3000. Shredded © Bruce Goodman 20 February 2024

Bruce looked at the pile of paper. The equivalent of six reams of paper lay in a heap, each sheet with a story. Three thousand stories! Goodness me! What a waste of paper! Many of the characters in the stories had been callously murdered. Some had survived. There was little reason for any to survive. Bruce fed Story Number 1 into the shredder. Then Story Number 2. One by one the stories were shredded. There goes Dorothy! No one know how she survived in the first place. There goes Story Number 1743! And Freddie! Goodness! Shred! Shred! And Lizzie! Finally there was only one story left: Story Number 3000. It was about a fellow called Bruce. With a smile the final story was fed into the shredder. THE END Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story