Trying to make something decipherable but ambiguous in 60 characters was a challenge within the challenge.

Inspired by (in form not content) a telegram sent by Samuel Beckett:

“When, in 1984, The Times asked Samuel Beckett for his New Year’s resolutions and hopes, he responded with a brief telegram: “resolutions colon zero stop period hopes colon zero stop beckett”.

Good article on Beckett, which that quote is from, here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4838107/The-first-stirrings-of-a-writers-voice.html

I like how you can read such a short story in a multitude of ways depending on function you attribute the various “stops.” It gives it a greater feeling of scope/length