Unbalance

He’d been preparing for long for that testing. The last month had been intense in training. Mind and body responded coordinately. The Iaido testing day arrived. He knew how and what to do. In the test a slight mistake unbalanced his confidence. When he heard the verdict he breathed gratefully.

Room 71

Her doctor made a mistake and the old woman died. She shouldn’t have died that afternoon. At night, at the nurse desk, the bell of room 71 rang once and again. A nurse opened the door of room 71, but the old woman had been taken to the hospital morgue.