2017 brings 52 challenges over 52 weeks.
Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.
Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.
Reena Saxena says
https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/invisible/
Tim Seabrook says
Hard seen from the perspective of the lens, here it used to be filled with knowledge accumulated through a lifetime of experiences, lining every wall and every nook and cranny but now reflecting that of its owners’ mind, hollowed out, crumbling and ruinous, light entering through empty eyes of a blank mind.
Sacha Black says
ooooh that is deep, I love the last couple of lines looking at it through the owners mind. Cracking entry as usual thanks Tim 😀
Jane Dougherty says
Don’t feel too brill today…
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/microfiction-writespiration-all-gone/
TanGental says
Aside from its 30 seconds after Sacha discovered that someone had cheated at the bloggers bash
Sacha Black says
lol am I that bad?
TanGental says
Hmmmm give me a moment…
Sacha Black says
hahahahaha
ladyleemanila says
with whirligig words, too 🙂
https://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/an-empty-room-now/
pensitivity101 says
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/writespiration-117-52-weeks-in-52-words-week-21/
A little bit of a house hunting ‘horror story’ for you Sacha
denmaniacs4 says
Okay, there is a title that I trust does not count. If it does, ignore it. My tale may not answer the question posed. Rather it might give context. I am in shock, anyways as we anticipate in days a room renovation much like the photo portrays.
Dan the Demolition Guy
Dan’s a hard-working guy. Even as a child, you could tell.
His first word was ‘trash,’ though his weed-blitzed Uncle Charlie offered a minority report that he thought he heard ‘grass.’
Charlie’s opinion was frequently suspect.
Dan loved destroying stuff.
“Kids a natural,” folks said. “Outta go into demolition.”
And he did.
http://www.engleson.ca
denmaniacs4 says
Also meant to write “Oughta go into demolition.” In the same way that I oughta proofread a tad more efficiently.
Sacha Black says
HA! well there’s some synchronicity for you!! I love it when stuff like that happens. I hope the demolition/renovation has gone well. And nope the title doesn’t count! 😀
D. Wallace Peach says
Water trickled through a tiny leak in the eave, soaked insulation, and stained the plastered walls. The bones of the old mansion weakened with rot, and mildew sprouted in the dank interior until the air thickened with the musty stench of corruption. Its battle with decay lost, beauty awaits the wrecking ball.
Sacha Black says
ahhhh the wrecking ball – now I can’t help but think of Miley Cyrus and her song when I hear that phrase. Beautiful flash, proper full of imagery.
D. Wallace Peach says
Thanks, Sacha. 🙂 It was an fun prompt. I always do better with the visuals. 🙂
Christian McCulloch says
A nice piece. Well done
D. Wallace Peach says
Thanks 🙂 I like the visual prompts, and 52 words doesn’t take me all day. 😀
gonegirl says
At times these walls cry…they are neglected and lonely. Their loved ones abandoned them.
Sacha Black says
powerful one liner, I love it.
willowdot21 says
My Pingback didn’t work so here is my link.
https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/writespiration117-52-weeks-in-52-words-week21/
Ritu says
Here you go hun!
https://butismileanyway.com/2017/05/24/writespiration-117-52-weeks-in-52-words-week-21-bare-walls/
rivrvlogr says
A sequel (of sorts) to the response from Jane Dougherty.
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/optical-illusion-writespiration/
dianadevlinblog says
I wish I could unwrite history…
For Eilidh MacLeod
and all victims of hatred and ignorance
A room lies empty,
the bed neatly made up.
Her teenage diary, brimful of hope,
words sizzling with excitement,
anticipation:
May 22nd –
Manchester! Ariana!
Now Barra weeps.
O will this senseless striking out
of innocence never end?
Rest in peace, my lovely,
you are not forgotten.
Barra, the world weeps with you!
Bryan says
I think I’ve lived there before =D
http://www.bryanaiello.com/home2/bryanaie/wp-admin/post.php?post=3226&action=edit
Sacha Black says
Bryan, I don’t know what’s going on, but I cannot get to your website at all. Can you just give me the URL for your homepage, please?
Bryan says
http://www.bryanaiello.com didnt you leave a comment? still not working?
Sacha Black says
That was from my phone – and yep I did! but now I’m on my comp and I have no idea what’s going on!! lol
Bryan says
but wait is it still giving you a hard time? technology is so painful!
oneta hayes says
Thanks for the opportunity to join you. My post https://onetahayes.com/2017/05/26/how-to-deal-with-a-louse/
Sacha Black says
apparently so! muhahaha :p
Kat Myrman says
Hi Sacha! I’m back! Love this challenge. Here’s my tale…https://katmyrman.com/2017/06/29/forever-bound/