50 Words of Mad Science!
A short-short story challenge
With our latest anthology recently released, we thought it might be fun with a bit of Mad Science!
Using the picture prompt below, write a story in fifty words, no more, no less.
Working on a such a short bit of fiction can help develop concise storytelling, and focuses on essential elements of story like plot, character, and setting. Exercise your skills in succinctness, clarity, and creativity!
Submit your fifty word story in the comments below. Have fun!
Professor Blint hung upside down, muttering equations into the fizzing flask. “Gravity is subjective!” he declared.
Dr. Vree, squinting through bifocals, tapped his pen. “Or your boots are stuck.”
A hiss, a glow—then silence.
The beakers trembled.
“Blint?” Vree whispered.
From above: “I think I’ve inverted the laws of common sense.”
TITLE: Enantiomerica
Never really fitting in as an egg-headed scientist, I’d show ‘em! My microbots intravenously perfected the human genome map. Like everyone’s DNA, mine was D-DNA—right-oriented enantiomers in a right-oriented world. So, I had fit in!
Alas, my CRISPRbots mirror-imaged me into an L-DNA creature. I’d never really fit in.