Welcome to a new week of the Fifty-Word Short Story challenge. If you’re unfamiliar with us, we are a small community of writers who enjoy…
Leaving Against a silken, fog-feathered landscape, depleted by wind and Autumn decay, we flew. It was time. Winter threatened, biting our wings with an arctic…
Hello Fifty Worders and friends. Come on in and enjoy our fresh collection of 50-word short stories. In addition to the past week in review, you…
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?…
Rider on the Storm The probate decision came. Mother’s beach house would go to Aunt Beatrice, Mother’s tormentor. Dire visions came to mind — murderous…
Welcome to the 50-word short story challenge! In this weekly challenge, Fifty Worders write micro-fiction stories in just 50 words. I encourage you to read their…
Frogs croaked in a rhythm as if timed to a metronome, and fireflies flickered in the rushes. On the deck, a glass of wine in…
Selena in Sepia When Frankie left, the color drained away from the world, taking with it all meaning, and Selena lived in a chocolate brown…
Welcome to the 50-word short story challenge! If you’re new here, you are in for some fun. Each week, Fifty Worders accept the challenge to write…
Appellation Rainy sat at the water’s edge. Why had they named her that? The teasing hurt. Lily and Star skipped down the grassy hill to…