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by Obg
Rated: E · Short Story · Contest Entry · #1859942
55 word short story. Round 232 Winner!
The landed gentry enslaved me.

My labor’s exchanged for accommodation. I’ve none with which to afford food.

I toil sixteen hours a day. My child pilfers.

He’s naïve to the reality that birthright decides fate.

“I’ll be king one day,” he said.

“Hail ‘King Arthur’,” said I. I’m not Ector, but I let him dream.
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