You happen to take a trip to Australia for a vacation trip and as you walk along you see a lion coming at you. You turn and run as fast as you can yelling as loud as you can and then you run into some people and yell to them what happen and you all get going then you find out that it is just two kids in a lion suit and you die from embarrassment.
You were getting to get hiyou do a staring competition with a girl and lose. later you come to know she is going to be living with you in your home as she is your relative's best friend and then she tells about you losing to all your brothers and when they come to know they tease you for a long time and at last you wish for a hole to come out of no where and suck you down and unfortunately your wish comes true and you die.
“The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.”
“It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is better still to sit with the good than alone.”
You die because you were the girl who one and I happen not to have died I only wished to sucked in to a hole anyway I come back and kill you for starting the whole thing.
^^ That girls Xth best friend happens to get annoyed at you killing his Xth best friend and makes you the 100000000000000000000xth ghost to walk the fields of asphodel.
For I who am poor have only my dreams I spread my dreams under your feet . . .
. . . tread softly for you tread on my dreams.
We are masters of our silences, and slaves of our words
You jump in after him to see if he is dead and it happens that mermaids do exist. They aren't the good and nice kinds like Ariel(who is a mermaid by the way, if you are thinking) and they kill you because you found their secret location.
If Novels are a bucket of imagination, Short story is a bucket of imagination made to fit a mug.
You were on your way to work on your bike when a meteor crashed a mile away, causing a cop to misfire a bullet he was aiming at a criminal that flew a mile away and went through your head. Immediate death.