STAR-CROSSED BABYLONIANS (a 55-word story)
Their families forbid them to meet.
They fell in love whispering through a hole in a wall.
And planned to meet under a tree to elope.
Pyramus came late, finding Thysbe’s bloodstained scarf.
Believing her dead, he killed himself.
Discovering Pyramus’ corpse, Thysbe took her life.
Their blood turned the Mulberry tree’s berries red.
Forever.
Alberico Collina
Their families forbid them to meet.
They fell in love whispering through a hole in a wall.
And planned to meet under a tree to elope.
Pyramus came late, finding Thysbe’s bloodstained scarf.
Believing her dead, he killed himself.
Discovering Pyramus’ corpse, Thysbe took her life.
Their blood turned the Mulberry tree’s berries red.
Forever.
Alberico Collina
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