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A Man in the Crowd

October 1, 2009
By prose42 BRONZE, Dallas, Texas
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How could anyone be so threatening? He was over six foot four dressed in all black with a huge hat making him impose more. He had the beard of a terrorist.
Luckily, one man decided to take action.
John Wilkes Booth knew the audience would praise him for what he was about to do.

The author's comments:
It is intentionally exactly 55 words. Somehow I ended up at the microfiction article on Wikipedia, and I decided to write, well, a lot. It is intended to be shocking and ironic, not to applaud John Wilkes Booth.
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