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) about a horse, or horses.
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: To Vera, a Horse I Knew, CNF)
The title does not factor into the word count.
Good luck and have fun. Happy writing!
Breakthrough, fiction
Josie attacked others, picked at her skin, and howled at the world. “Morning, noon, and night,” her father used to say.
Not anymore.
When she arrives at the barn, the world instantly brightens. The universe aligns. Horse and rider become one.
And, with a click of her tongue, they’re off.
MUSTANG - fiction
Under the cover of night, I fling open the gate and set them all free. A rumble of thunder rattles the rocky ground, hooves ignite sparks of lightning.
Their freedom’s found within the folded and fractured hills. These wild creatures weren’t meant to be corralled or tamed.
Neither was I.