 Short Stories: February 19, 2025 Issue [#12995] |
This week: If only they could talk to me... Edited by: Quilli ☕  
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Random wordplay from unknown sources:
"My three favorite things are eating my family and not using commas."
"I wanted to marry my English teacher after she got out of jail but, alas, you can’t end a sentence with a proposition."
"When I was a kid, my teacher looked at me and said, “Name two pronouns.” I shrank, “Who, me?”"
"i before e… except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor."
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Punctuation and what they are for - in their own words!
"I think I'm going to stop right here."
~ (.) Period/Full Stop
"This is either really exciting or really terrible! Ack!"
~ (!) Exclamation Mark
"I'm sorry. I don't understand and need more information."
~ (?) Question Mark
"Phew, out of breath. Must stop for a moment."
~ (,) Comma
"Okay, I'm listening. No wait. Let's keep going."
~ (;) Semi-colon
"Well, just to clarify, I'll give you a list."
~ (:) Colon
"That's exactly what I said."
~ (")Quotation Marks
"Hey, that belongs to me. Or belongs to you. Well, it belongs to someone."
~ (') Apostrophe
"I just want to clarify what was said with a bit more information."
~ ([ ]) Brackets
"Oh wait, just had an afterthought."
~ ( ) Parenthesis
"We're going to start here and finish there."
~ (-) Dash
"So, this could go on for a while."
~ (...) Ellipsis
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