Fifties by the Fire — a fifty-word, prompt-based writing exercise. Feel free to share your response below, or read and comment to join the fun.
Prompt: Write a fifty-word story (fiction, CNF, or poetry) that involves a dirt road.
Here are the other guidelines:
Make sure your piece is exactly fifty words. Feel free to use Word Counter or the word processor you use.
Write a title with the genre in the first line. (Example: Cold Morning, Quiet Night, Fiction)
The title does not factor into the word count.
Good luck and have fun. Happy writing!
Special thanks to John Lightle for providing “Antelope Jeep Ride” for our writing prompt.
Distracted, fiction
When Daniel comes to, he blinks blood from his eyes. The teen unbuckles his seatbelt and crawls out the driver’s side window. He staggers up the embankment and sits on the dirt road, gazing at his father’s mauled Camaro.
Still in shock, he can’t recall what the text message said.
The Road Home - prose poem
The incessant drone of cicadas, a pebble in my shoe, stickle-burrs in my socks, wild mustard growing in the ditches.
The live oaks wave their tassels, covering the landscape with a fine golden pollen. Down this hot summer-dusty road, it’s only two miles and forty sneezes to my little home.