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I'm enamored of short-form writing - micropoetry, flash fiction, etc. For this challenge, write an ultrashort story (150 words or fewer). It must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. I will do one, too. Tag me @ruffmiriam
Ended March 15, 2017 • 35 Entries • Created by ruffmiriam
Challenge
I'm enamored of short-form writing - micropoetry, flash fiction, etc. For this challenge, write an ultrashort story (150 words or fewer). It must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. I will do one, too. Tag me @ruffmiriam
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Trousers in Flash Fiction
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Code Blue

"Code Blue ER, Code Blue ER" the overhead wailed Monday morning. I had the top drawer of the crash cart passing medications and I'd better get it right. The tiny girl of eight had been ran over by a driver near the school. This one was especially tough because of her age and trauma as we adjusted lung capacity, IV fluids and the depth of CPR. We tried our best to be cool and save this child's life as we shook inside. She was so white, unconscious and limp as her pupils began to dilate. Tearful cries and shear panic could be heard outside "trauma one" all the way to the waiting area. Tears and prayers flowed.

Forty minutes passed.

 "OK, get her to ICU"

She sits up in bed finishing off a Snickers bar brought by her loving visitors. She's allergic to peanuts. "Code Blue! Pediatrics! Code Blue!"

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Trousers 
@ruffmiriam thanks for the challenge!
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ruffmiriam 
@DellaMetcalf - you're welcome. Didn't see that one coming ...
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ruffmiriam 
@DellaMetcalf - a comment, if I may. The timeline seems a bit skewed. The girl's been run over by a car, she's been through all the trauma of the trauma room, and only forty minutes later she's sitting up eating a Snickers? I wouldn't expect her to be conscious, let alone able to eat. Just a thought ...
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Trousers 
I hoped the reader would assume time had passed, ran out of word count! You're right.
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Trousers 
@ruffmiriam
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ruffmiriam 
@DellaMetcalf - yeah, the word count's the thing. That's why I love the short form so much, it forces me to be really creative with how I word things :-)
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sandflea68 
A very good twist!