Write short! 50 Words of Noir
A 50-Word Story Challenge
With Moggie Noir: Dames, Derringers, & Detectives coming out next week, we figured it would be fun to kick it all off with a 50 word story challenge.
Using the prompt below, write a story in 50 words, no more, no less.
Working on a 50 word story 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!
The fat man’s story taught me how far a slug could take you. From my knuckles? Back of the alley. Bottom of a bottle? To the county lockup. From the barrel of my friends Smith and Wesson? Down to the county morgue…
The city was damp as the inside of a tomato. A rotten one. Misty as a rude sneeze. Soon it would awaken for another breakfast of lonely pain. As rainwater pooled on the P.I.’s soggy snap-brim all he could think was, “Would an umbrella be so fatal to my image?”