'Why do some women have short hair?' asked the explorer.
'They have husbands,' said the Elder.
'And long loose hair means single?'
The Elder nodded.
'And that girl with the braid?'
'She seeks one of her own kind. Are you married?'
The explorer laughed and shook her head.
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Flash Fiction
Short StoryTwitter has a daily prompt using the hashtag #vss365. This thread will be for pulling those stories, plus other very short stories, into one place. There are a mixture of genres, the occasional sequence with repeated characters, and a mix of serious...