One of my first writing assignments as a grad student in an MFA creative writing program was to write five love stories, no more than 20 words each. Here's a sample. The rest follow...
1) She contemplated running over, or perhaps swerving around her husband kneeling in her headlights but unlocked the door instead.
2) Jill liked Albert until he woke her parents at 3a.m. honking and screaming that she should have kept the baby.
3) She swept his hair and ziplocked it, wondering if it would be weird to weave a bracelet out of it someday.
4) After sampling many couches and commenting on the comfort of each, Adam was relieved to have chosen Lila’s favorite.
5) She noticed that the legs of his chair had worn dents into the linoleum as she dabbed up the crumbs around them.
6) The couch could stay but the glass-topped tables and gold-trimmed settee would have to go when they moved in together.
7) I knew I’d never leave Janet when she described her friends as the only people she knew more miserable than herself.
8) She opted for a cramped neck rather than tell him that her head was a bad fit for his shoulder.
