Chastened

Fire raged as Joscelin’s brothers battled the knights. She hid. Elric had run for safety with the baby. Would she ever see them again?

Radomir fell. Then Velimir fought alone. Crawling toward the woods, she begged forgiveness of her family. If only she hadn’t told her friend their terrible secret.

Thank you for reading! This is my story for this week’s 50-word short story challenge. The prompt word is “if.”

I love how one word can spark imagination. Sometimes I do a word association to see what a word makes me think of, and then I do image searches on those word ideas. Eventually, a picture turns up that sparks the actual story, and I’m off and running.

Writers, what do you use to spark your ideas?