55 Word
Challenge
Week
Forty-Seven
Welcome back to
#55WordChallenge!
For those that are
uninitiated, the 55 Word Challenge is a contest to write a story in 55 words or
less. Not an easy task, but fun and I have been blown away by some of the
entries. See for yourself, all the past contests can be found here. The challenge begins
at noon Eastern time every Wednesday and ends at noon Thursday. The story is
based on one of three photo prompts and can
be written in any genre you choose. My only request is
no porn. I don't want to hear graphic details. If it is erotic, make it
titillating, not obscene. I know that can be done and done well.
The story is to be posted in the comment section below, along with your twitter handle or email address, so I can contact you if you are the winner. If you don't want to list your email address, send it to me at jezri@writing.com. I promise I won't distribute it, but if you are the winner I need a way to notify you and to send you your prize.
The story is to be posted in the comment section below, along with your twitter handle or email address, so I can contact you if you are the winner. If you don't want to list your email address, send it to me at jezri@writing.com. I promise I won't distribute it, but if you are the winner I need a way to notify you and to send you your prize.
If anyone is
interested in contributing a prize, a book, cover art, whatever you want, let me
know and we will work something out. If you are an artist
that would like to have your work featured, let me know!
Photo
Prompt:
The photos being used today are mine.
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"It is probably just your heart beat moving him."
ReplyDelete"But he looks so alive."
"I know this is hard but without a heartbeat he couldn’t be alive I am sorry."
"But his arms are moving I swear that is not me."
"Oh hold on, this thing was just switched off, there’s the heartbeat."
"What? Christ!"
55 words @antonioangelo21
I watched my family die.
DeleteWatched them fall at the hands of the metal beasts ravaging their precious land.
I heard them cry out in terror and pain, saw them reaching for me in anguish. Calling for me. Pleading for help.
But I did not save them.
No.
I ran.
Like a coward.....I ran.
55 Words @bookwormattack
Foreign And Domestic
ReplyDeleteIn big cities and small towns alike, troops deployed, defending the nation against an enemy previously unrecognized as such…those who engaged in unlicensed and unsanctioned procreation.
Within the abandoned warehouse, Cecily stared at the ultrasound image in despair. Realizing she could hide, but most definitely not run with her forbidden child still unborn…she wept.
55 words @klingorengi
Janet shoulders her bookbag. “Gloomy day, huh?”
ReplyDeleteHall windows flicker by. “Mhm.”
She points to a brick structure mirroring our school. “Did you know that’s an old TB ward?”
“Fun,” I remark. “If that was a tuberculosis ward, what was this place?”
“I guess… the mortuary.” Janet frowns. “Now I’ll never pay attention in class.”
55 Words
@SareeseFeet
She Gave Her All
ReplyDelete“That’s where the murders happened.”
“I can feel them.” Annalise’s voice is soft. “Souls that need to be put to rest.” She walks across the dying grass.
“Let me go with you!”
“No.”
She vanishes inside the building on the left. Six hours later, she stumbles out, her hair turned white and voice silenced forever.
55 words {without title}
@Angelique_Rider
The sky is gray as the tanks roll out on the train. Every month it comes bringin’ supplies and goes with the six tanks we built. Maybe the tanks just fuel wars that darken the sky, leavin’ our fields barren, but k-rations are better ‘n empty bellies and buildin’ tanks is better ‘n using ‘em.
ReplyDelete55 words
@awrenwriting
A standard guardian base of two brick buildings was on the village’s southern end. The buildings’ windows were broken. Something was wrong. I searched each building. Eight dead guardians were inside. Their guns had been fired. They died fighting something. Outside, I found tracks through the grass. I drew my gun, and followed them.
ReplyDeleteOops...
Delete55 words
@LurchMunster
CHILD
ReplyDeleteThe child conceived in darkness will come with the next dark of the moon.
Is this crone the nurse or something? Next dark… That better mean tonight.
All the world shall be made silent in the wake of the machines of war come to herald the terrible birth.
Is it a boy or a girl?
55 words
@DavidALudwig
I kinda combined photo prompts? Um, title not included in the word count.
ReplyDelete"Something more than war."
The pick up was at 2AM. The dark still clung to the trees, but the moon was too bright, a spotlight on every moving creature. I made it between the buildings, anyway. Made the drop.
I just hoped the intel was good, that the first human mongrel in 50 years meant something. Something more than war.
@j_m_blackman
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