Into the Lion's Mouth
Fifties by the Fire
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 is about—or includes—an open mouth.
Here are the other guidelines:
Make sure your piece is exactly fifty words. Feel free to use Word Counter or your preferred word processor.
Write a title with the genre in the first line.
The title does not factor into the word count.
Good luck and have fun. Happy writing!
Special thanks to
for providing “Into the Lion’s Mouth” for our writing prompt.Below is my contribution.
Summer Son, a narrative poem
My son is all grown up now—a married man.
But he’ll always be my little boy
And I’ll forever see him as he was on that summer night:
Red-cheeked, wide-eyed, open-mouthed—
Jumping and pointing at fireflies
As they lit up the farmer’s alfalfa field.
Who says magic isn’t real?
The dental clinic-
The interpol agent felt safe in the posh dental chair and opened his mouth while letting down his guard.
The anesthesia numbed his pain.
Too late he recognized the tattoo of the terrorist group he was hunting on the dental assistant.
She smiled wickedly while she plunged in the cyanide.
Travel for Dummies/Fiction
Ed’s only essentials for flying were earbuds. They didn’t need to be pricey AirPods. They were plugged into his empty pocket. But they did the trick. He attracted talkers like fleas to a hound, so he took no chances. Even a seatmate without an open mouth might be a ventriloquist.