By Marla Krauss

Don’t raise short hands in short anger towards short gods who don’t give a flying short about short lives with short ambitions to stake claims on short worlds that grow shorter and shorter as days get longer and leaner. 

Go take a large number. Someone won’t be with you shortly.

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Marla Krauss is a writer who lives in Massachusetts. Her work can also be found in 50-Word Stories.